Boulder (RB)

Boulder the Construction-Bot is an Autobot from the Rescue Bots portion of the Aligned continuity family.

Finally, Scavenger is remembered.

The Construction-Bot Boulder is a huge fan of Earth, human culture, and his partner Graham Burns. He is also partners with Walker Cleveland.

Fiction

Rescue Bots cartoon

Voice actor: Imari Williams (English), Gerald Paradies (German), Andrzej Chudy (Polish), Salvador Reyes (Latin American-Spanish)

Boulder was part of a team of Rescue Bots drifting through space when their spaceship received a transmission from Optimus Prime and landed on Earth. After dropping the bombshell that Cybertron was no more, Optimus assigned the team to Griffin Rock to work with the Burns family. The four Rescue Bots were presented to the public by Chief Burns at a ceremony, following which Boulder and his new partner, Graham Burns, drove to the museum to attend to a fire. To Boulder's dismay, he had to ruin the aesthetics of the plaza outside the museum by moving planters. He was impressed by the humans' culture, admiring their paintings. That night, Cody Burns discovered the Rescue Bots' secret, and after they helped stop a rogue robot Tyrannosaurus rex, Chief Burns revealed the truth to the rest of the team. Family of Heroes

Boulder and Graham had trouble working together, as Graham assumed a robot from space wouldn't need help from a primitive human. After Mount Magma started spewing lava and threatening the island, Cody managed to get the pair communicating so they could locate the artificial mountain's release control. Boulder was also able to map the underground cave system when the lava started pouring into it, threatening the bunker under the fire station. Under Pressure

During an attempt to rescue Doc Greene from his out-of-control car, Boulder and Graham improvised a spike strip, which turned out to be ineffective. When Dani and Blades later started hogging the limelight with a new scoop claw, Boulder didn't seem as put out at the other Rescue Bots and even thanked Blades. He and the others rescued Blades after the copter-bot was hit by lightning. Hotshots Boulder was happy enough to take part in the technology parade during the Lobster and Technology Festival, despite his problems in maintaining the guise of an ordinary robot, and later helped stop the flobsters from destroying the town. Flobsters on Parade

After saving a truck from falling off a cliff, Boulder and the other Rescue Bots were subjected to a movie entitled The Natives of Tatui, which he didn't enjoy very much. After Huxley Prescott caused a massive panic, Boulder and Graham visited Mr Perkins's farm to check for aliens, only to find cows instead. The Rescue Bots had to destroy Prescott's SETI dish when it threatened to destroy the island. The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock After a callout to rescue Mrs. Neederlander's cat, Boulder was inspired to adopt his own pet. He and Blades visited the zoo, where they tried to adopt the lion which Boulder dubbed Whiskers. After chasing Whiskers around the town all night, Boulder helped lure some lemurs back to the zoo. Cody gave him a potted plant as a more suitable pet. Walk on the Wild Side

Boulder tried unsuccessfully to catch Mr Harrison in his scoop. After executing a daring plan to stop a nanite-controlled Scrapmaster, Boulder himself was taken over and rampaged through the park, knocking down trees. Cody's plan to use the power plant to get rid of the nanites worked, and Boulder set about replanting the trees. Cody on Patrol Boulder was working to repair a bridge when a motorist drove off it. Cody roped the Rescue Bots into helping look after a Robo-Baby. When the baby escaped during a call-out, Cody and the bots tracked it to a wind farm, where Boulder tried to scale a windmill to save it, but missed catching it when it fell. Luckily Heatwave caught it. Four Bots and a Baby

During a heatwave, Boulder read up on seasons but was confused by the concept. His questions prompted Cody to get Doc Greene to set up a weather machine, and Boulder got to experience snow, though he proved inept at aiming snowballs. When one of his snowballs sent the machine out of control, he and the other Rescue Bots swung into action. Boulder helped Doc Greene get the weather machine back to his lab and saved city hall's roof. He later used a well-aimed snowball to save Frankie from going over a waterfall. Christmas in July Boulder and the other Rescue Bots were invited on the Burns' annual fishing trip on the Darby Ava, during which they encountered and fought a mechanical shark. Deep Trouble

The Rescue Bots had to help stop out-of-control technology one foggy day, when the Griffin Rock mainframe was hacked into. Boulder mistook a street sweeper for an elephant and trashed it. Return of the Dino Bot When Doctor Morocco turned up with his MorBot and threatened to overshadow the Rescue Bots, the team was forced to compete with the doctor's invention to prove themselves worthy. Thanks to Morocco's machinations, they failed and were stood down from service. The Other Doctor Boulder maintained his optimism, and used the space time he now had to practice his painting. After being called out to a fire at the lab, the Rescue Bots got the chance to exact some payback on the MorBot. The team was subsequently reinstated as Griffin Rock's rescue service. The Reign of Morocco

Boulder joined Cody and Graham in visiting the Hall of Inspiration and watched Doc Greene demonstrate the Minimizer. When the team later turned up to a break-in at the Hall, he, Blades, and Heatwave were shrunk to the size of ants by the device and ended up in the sewer. Though Boulder was fascinated by the experience, they had to brave huge rats and a torrent of water before making it to the Griffin Rock dam, where they rescued Kade and alerted the rest of the team to the fact that the dam was near bursting. Cody later used the Minimizer to return them to their normal sizes. Small Blessings Boulder helped save Captain Wild's ship and search for "tunnel 15" in the tunnels below Griffin Rock. This led the team to discover Professor Baranova's Midgard at the bottom of an ocean trench, and they helped her seal the methane vent causing the Griffin Rock Triangle. The Griffin Rock Triangle

We're just leaving out all those Beast Wars episodes where he fell on Tarantulas.

After the daring rescue of Huxley Prescott by the four bots, Chief left them with strict orders not to go to Griffin Crest. After receiving an apparent SOS from Cody, Boulder and the others went there anyway and ended up immobilized by an EMP field, leaving them in need of a rescue. Rules and Regulations Boulder and the other three Bots were washed out to sea with Cody and ended up on an inhabited island. Their attempts to build him shelter and gather food were less than successful, but they did manage to find traces of the Oaken Crow, which led to them finding the ship and getting off the island. The Lost Bell Chasing a crashed meteorite on Wayward Island, the team ran into Bumblebee. Boulder, Heatwave and Chase checked out the meteorite and were unwittingly exposed to an alien virus. They slowly became to lose the ability to move or speak, and it was only through the work of Bumblebee, Blades and the humans that a cure was found. Bumblebee to the Rescue

Boulder was concerned by the news that Graham had been accepted to the Gremsky Technical Institute, but was supportive of his partner. While they pursued a giant blob of Squilsh, they discussed Graham's decision. The pair cooperated in an attempt to stop the space slime and eventually worked out that they had to shock it with alternating current. After Boulder and Graham did so, saving those it had swallowed, Graham decided not to go to Gremsky Tech after all. You've Been Squilshed After tracer bugs teleported most of the townfolk to parts unknown, Boulder discovered the bugs were sensitive to sound, and devised a way to use his sonar to disable them all. He and the other three bots then tracked down the cavern where the townspeople had been sent and mounted a rescue. Countdown

Ping!

When an infestation of what appeared to be ghosts hit Griffin Rock, Boulder was fascinated by this new form of life and attempted unsuccessfully to make contact. As it turned out, they were just holograms anyway. The Haunting of Griffin Rock During a Kade-initiated race, Boulder accidentally knocked down the statue of Horace Burns. When Chase and the Chief went missing, Boulder and the rest of the team searched all night, and were eventually led to the lead mine. Boulder used his sonar to track movement in the mine, eventually finding Chase and helping him break out. Little White Lies

The Rescue Bots were forced to be extra attentive to their cover as robots when Frankie started filming them for a school project. It made Boulder's rescues during an earthquake harder. The team tracked the source of the quakes to the tunnels under the town, but while looking for Frankie and Heatwave, Boulder almost caused a huge cave-in with his sonar. Shake Up After Boulder took part in a rescue at a pyrotechnics factory, Cody got a repulsor badge that gave him superhero powers. Boulder was helping with a tire change when the truck's load came loose—he stopped two of the concrete pipes and Cody stopped the third. The Rescue Bots were relegated to cleanup until Cody's badge overloaded, trapping him in a bubble of energy until Boulder managed to extract the badge. Rescue Boy

Boulder helped Graham with his engineering homework. He, the other Rescue Bots, Cody and Frankie were sent back in time to 1939 in a time travel accident. There they fell into the hands of a team of scientists headed by Doctor Morocco who performed experiments on them. Morocco was getting to the point of dissecting the four Bots when Optimus and Bumblebee came to their rescue. On returning to the present, they found that Morocco had taken over the town with the aid of his MorBots. It's a Bot Time The four bots managed to elude the MorBots and soon established that leaving Dither in the past had resulted in the changed. After an encounter with an alternate version of the Burns family, the Rescue Bots returned to 1939 and retrieved Dither, returning the timeline to normal. Bot to the Future

With Doc Greene now in on the Rescue Bots' secret, Boulder teamed up with him to work on inventions using Cybertronian technology. The Vacuum Accelerator they developed proved erratic, transporting the Mobile Headquarters to the top of Mount Griffin with Cody, Heatwave, Chase and Boulder along for the ride. Road Trip The Rescue Bots helped construct Frankie Greene's sky forest, only to have to rescue the town's citizens when the plant life grew out of control. Sky Forest When Chief Burns was ill, the four bots had to contend with Kade appointing himself new team leader, and Cody being aged into an adult in a lab experiment. One for the Ages

When an iceberg was discovered that was actually a frozen ship carrying a dangerous Sub-Zero Expander, Boulder took part in an attempt to get rid of the device by blowing it up, which was aborted when it turned out Doctor Morocco had claimed the vessel as salvage. The team had to deal with the fallout when the device exploded and froze a five-mile section of ocean. Tip of the Iceberg Boulder along with the rest of the team was mesmerized by a cellphone and sent to mine Blossom Vale. He snapped out of it when his cellphone was broken, and was able to help Cody evade the hypnotized townsfolk. The pair freed everyone from the influence of the cellphones by toppling the island's cell tower, and Boulder believed the vale could be restored with the aid of a painting of it he'd done earlier. Spellbound

Plot details for A Virtual Disaster follow. Spoilers have expired, you may remove this tag

When Griffin Rock was hit by a major snow storm, Boulder took part in rescuing a trapped skier from Mount Griffin. He also assisted in helping Graham when Blades and Cody were trapped in a virtual reality game. A Virtual Disaster

Commercial appearances

Boulder attended a pool party with Optimus Prime and Bumblebee (as seen in Prime), as well as various other multiversal entities. Hub Network Summer Pool Party

Toys

Rescue Bots

• Boulder the Construction-Bot (2011)

Boulder transforms into a bright green construction vehicle of a likely fictitious design. Like the rest of the Rescue Bots, Boulder features a partially automated transformation: pulling his treads out to form his arms also causes his head to pop up and causes the bucket blade front section to push forward and separate into the legs. Although not readily obvious, Boulder has a silver Autobot symbol on his torso / the top of his cab.

Rescue Bots: Energize

• Boulder the Construction-Bot (2013)
  • Accessories: Rescue drill

A redeco of the original mold, Boulder now has his arms and hands in translucent blue plastic. His scoop feet have been retooled to have pegholes on either side to accommodate the new "rescue drill" accessory, though the stock photography does not show this off very well.

Notes

Foreign names

• Hungarian: Szikla (Boulder)