Zapmaster (Armada)

This article is about the Armada Mini-Con. For the Beast Wars Micromaster, see Zapmaster (BW).

Zapmaster is a Mini-Con from the Armada portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

Zapmaster will attack just about anything head-on, no matter how big and overpowering it may be. "Fear" doesn't ever seem to register in his brain. He lived in the Wastelands of Cybertron for who-knows-how-long, which turned him into the vicious little bugger he is today. Zapmaster is the cousin of Swindle.

Fiction

Energon comics

Energon ceased publication before the story could conclude. The following would have taken place in unpublished issues.

Zapmaster was a Mini-Con hailing from the same alternate universe Cybertron as Over-Run. Their planet was attacked by Unicron, and the inhabitants were unable to fight him off. Recognizing that they were doomed, Zapmaster urged Over-Run to take the Mini-Con Matrix and use a null-reality pod to flee to another reality, where hopefully the planet eater could be defeated. Over-Run complied and disappeared into another dimension, reluctantly leaving Zapmaster and his homeworld to be devoured by Unicron. Armageddon Part 2

Toys

Armada

• Thundercracker with Zapmaster (Max-Con, 2003)

A redeco of Armada Swindle mold, Zapmaster transforms into an F-1 race car. He is designed to fit between Thundercracker's flip-out missile launchers, and can also be clipped on the underside of Thundercracker's jet-mode cockpit, deployed by pressing down on the canopy.

This mold is similar to, but not the same as, the mold used to make Armada Mirage and Top Gear.

• More information on Zapmaster at TFU.info
• Image gallery of Zapmaster at Seibertron.com

Built to Rule

• Thundercracker with Zap Master Mini-Con (Built To Rule, 2003)

For the Hasbro Built to Rule building block system, Zap Master[sic] was a simple redeco of the small, building-block-based version of Swindle. This toy can be rebuilt from robot mode into something kind of vaguely resembling a race car. Sort of.

• More information on Built to Rule Zapmaster at TFU.info

Energon

• Prowl with Longarm & Starscream with Zapmaster (Multi-pack, 2004)

Zapmaster got redecoed again, as sort of a reverse-Swindle, as part of the Sam's Club exclusive Energon multi-pack. This time he was partnered with Starscream, who also came with Prowl and his "reassigned" Mini-Con partner Longarm.

• More information on Sam's Club exclusive Zapmaster at TFU.info

Notes

• In Japan, the Armada Thundercracker/Zapmaster set was actually used (with ever-so-slight plastic tweaks) as the powered-up versions of Starscream and Swindle rather than new characters.