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<ul class="bp">{{bp-a1|'''Origin Wheeljack''' (Voyager, 2024)}}</ul> | <ul class="bp">{{bp-a1|'''Origin Wheeljack''' (Voyager, 2024)}}</ul> | ||
:''[[Transformers: Legacy]]'' [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Legacy|Origin Wheeljack]] comes with two "fan blade" accessories that plug into his front bumper, recreating the scene from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" in which Wheeljack deploys rotors. However, the fans are not especially show-accurate, as designer [[Mark Maher]] also intended them to double as dominator disks. In accordance with this intent, the toy's instructions illustrate how the disks can be pegged onto the end of Wheeljack's shoulder cannon, recreating the moment from "The Core" in which Wheeljack attaches a disk to his cannon and fires it at [[Hook (G1)|Hook]]. | :''[[Transformers: Legacy]]'' [[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Legacy|Origin Wheeljack]] comes with two "fan blade" accessories that plug into his front bumper, recreating the scene from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" in which Wheeljack deploys rotors. However, the fans are not especially show-accurate, as designer [[Mark Maher]] also intended them to double as dominator disks. In accordance with this intent, the toy's instructions illustrate how the disks can be pegged onto the end of Wheeljack's shoulder cannon, recreating the moment from "The Core" in which Wheeljack attaches a disk to his cannon and fires it at [[Hook (G1)|Hook]]. | ||
Revision as of 14:04, 27 March 2024
The Autobots invented and used dominator disks to override a Transformer's circuitry and bring them under the command of another being. This, uh... doesn't sound very heroic, but we totally swear that it is.
Fiction
The Transformers cartoon
The Autobots made use of the disks and tagged them covertly to the Constructicons, which would have allowed the Autobots to control them once they merged into Devastator. Megatron counteracted the technology with an electronic disruptor bringing the combined Transformer back under Decepticon control. The Core
3H comics
Toys
Legacy
- Origin Wheeljack (Voyager, 2024)
- Transformers: Legacy Origin Wheeljack comes with two "fan blade" accessories that plug into his front bumper, recreating the scene from "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1" in which Wheeljack deploys rotors. However, the fans are not especially show-accurate, as designer Mark Maher also intended them to double as dominator disks. In accordance with this intent, the toy's instructions illustrate how the disks can be pegged onto the end of Wheeljack's shoulder cannon, recreating the moment from "The Core" in which Wheeljack attaches a disk to his cannon and fires it at Hook.
Notes
Foreign names
- Japanese: Dominator disk (ドミネーター・ディスク dominētā disuku)
