Flattop (G1)

This article is about the Decepticon Micromaster. For the UK Autobot, see Flattop (Autobot).

Flattop is a Decepticon Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Did his legs get cut off?

Flattop's fantasies are of floating on a burning sea of fuel and charred Autobot remains. His days are spent flying sorties from his aircraft carrier, searching for targets (e.g., Autobots, fishing vessels, whales, fellow Decepticons he doesn't particularly like). When he finds one, he sets the carrier to attack on automatic, and then strafes from another direction. Ah, simple pleasures.

Toys

Generation 1

A jet that rides a jet... what?

• Flattop (Micromaster Transport, 1989)
  • Accessories: 2 laser cannons

Flattop transforms into a purple-and-gray F4 Phantom fighter jet. He has functional landing gear wheels in the rear, but has a peg in place of the front landing gear. Flattop is unusual for a Micromaster Transport in that he is not a "towing" vehicle with a large trailer accessory, but a fully-independent vehicle on his own with a fully-independent, non-towed aircraft carrier Transport.

The carrier vehicle transforms into an "interstellar jet"; Flattop can either clip into the cockpit area while standing or sit inside.

This toy was released in Japan without changes as the Autobot Skywave.

• More information on Flattop at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• French: Platonix (Canada)
• Italian: Turbojet