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**''Accessories:'' Left & right missile launchers, 2 missiles | **''Accessories:'' Left & right missile launchers, 2 missiles | ||
[[Image:Universe_AcidStorm_toy.jpg|thumb|left|]] | [[Image:Universe_AcidStorm_toy.jpg|thumb|left|The Seeker repaint you ''weren't'' expecting.]] | ||
: Acid Storm is a redeco of the ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' [[Starscream_%28G1%29_toys#Classics|Starscream]] mold, transforming into an [[wikipedia:F-15 Eagle|F-15 Eagle]] fighter jet, though with a canopy like that of an [[wikipedia:F-14 Tomcat|F-14 Tomcat]]. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode, and are attached under his wings in vehicle mode. | : Acid Storm is a redeco of the ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' [[Starscream_%28G1%29_toys#Classics|Starscream]] mold, transforming into an [[wikipedia:F-15 Eagle|F-15 Eagle]] fighter jet, though with a canopy like that of an [[wikipedia:F-14 Tomcat|F-14 Tomcat]]. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode, and are attached under his wings in vehicle mode. | ||
Revision as of 15:04, 17 May 2008
- Acid Storm is a Decepticon from the Universe portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Despite his intelligence, data gathering skills, and potential charisma, Acid Storm prefers to wallow in anonymity as just one of the Rainmakers, a cadre of specialized Seekers who have the capability to manipulate localized weather patterns to create acid rain. He is a part of Shockwave's forces on Cybertron.
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon
When a group of Autobots (and Chip Chase) journeyed to Cybertron to fetch a cosmotron for a wounded Optimus Prime, Megatron sent the Rainmaker trio, including Acid Storm, to make things difficult for our heroes with some acid rain.
Guess what? They lost. Divide and Conquer
Toys
Universe (2008)
- Acid Storm (Deluxe, 2008)
- Accessories: Left & right missile launchers, 2 missiles
- Acid Storm is a redeco of the Classics Starscream mold, transforming into an F-15 Eagle fighter jet, though with a canopy like that of an F-14 Tomcat. He comes with a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers that can be mounted on his biceps or used as hand-held weapons in robot mode, and are attached under his wings in vehicle mode.
- This toy was also used to make Classics Skywarp and Timelines Thundercracker, and retooled to make Classics Ramjet, and Timelines Dirge and Thrust.
Trivia
- According to Hasbro's BotCon 2008 panel, Acid Storm was originally to be named "Rainmaker", then "Acid Rain", but those names didn't clear Legal.
- Acid Storm's Universe deco was designed by Aaron Archer, a relative rarity for the time given Archer's high hierarchical status within Hasbro.
- Although explicitly based on the green Rainmaker from "Divide and Conquer", Acid Storm's near-fluorescent green in the cartoon was specifically toned down to fit better into the quasi-realism of the 2008 Universe toyline.
- Acid Storm's "hyperion3 cannon" is based on one of User:Monzo's e-mail addresses, much as Acid Storm's bio itself is based in part on Monzo.
