Dragstrip (WFC)
| The name or term "Drag Strip" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Drag Strip (disambiguation). |
- Dragstrip is a Decepticon from the Aligned continuity family.
Dragstrip (or Drag Strip) is always looking for a way to get ahead. Vicious and opportunistic, it doesn't take much for him to set his sights on higher and higher prizes... even if it means selling out his fellow Stunticons. He's not the brightest or the strongest Decepticon around, but he's just bright enough and just strong enough to be a major pain in the rear axle. And with a nitro-powered booster-rocket available in both vehicle and robot mode, chasing him is a risky prospect.
Often he finds himself paired with the considerably weaker-strutted Wildbreak, who he has to browbeat and threaten on a regular basis to get their job done. When the two combine into "Dragbreak", Dragstrip is the one in command of the combiner mode's motor functions. The two of them can combine further with their fellow Stunticons to form Menasor.
Fiction
2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon
- Voice actor: Maurice LaMarche (English)
Drag Strip borrowed Motormaster's Cybertron tech detector, intending to use it to find something to get himself in his boss's good graces. He and Wildbreak headed to the human city of West Rock and broke into a cache of Cybertronian loot. Despite a few minor setbacks involving Drag Strip being frozen solid, they were packing to leave when Bumblebee's team turned up. The two Cons eventually managed to give them the slip, but discovered that the Autobots had shut off the only bridge accessing the city. The pair merged into Dragbreak to fight the Autobots atop a parking building — though initially successful, they were ultimately defeated when Bumblebee dropped the roof on them, but escaped after the damaged parking structure partially collapsed. Bee Cool
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for The Great Divide follow. |
Having gotten his hands on a Cybertronian relic, Drag Strip was pursued by the Autobots until he caught them in a methane explosion. He returned to Motormaster with the relic, which turned out to be a Gravitic Adjuster when he tried it out on Wildbreak. Sent to cause some havoc with the device, Drag Strip attacked a State Trooper station, successfully drawing out the Bee Team. Though the Adjuster gave him an edge, he was eventually defeated by the two Sideswipes (long story) and the Autobots relieved him of his new weapon. The Great Divide
Games
Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)
- Voice actor: Eric Artell
War for Cybertron - Autobots/Decepticons
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
Rise of the Dark Spark (console)
Toys
Robots in Disguise (2015)
- Menasor (Team Combiner, 2017)
- Released as part of the Team Combiner set along with Motormaster, Wildbreak, Heatseeker, and Slashmark, "Decepticon Dragstrip" is a Scout-sized figure that transforms from vehicle to robot in just a few simple steps. In robot mode, he has very limited articulation. He can convert into an arm for any Team Combiner set, although he usually forms Menasor's right arm.
- Decepticon Dragstrip & Wildbreak (Crash Combiners, 2017)
Notes
- Drag Strip's portrayal in Robots in Disguise owes something to legendary actor and comedian Jackie Gleason, in particular his character of Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners. Thus Drag Strip's frequent utterance of Ralph's threatening catchphrase "One of these days..."
- Dragstrip's parts are available in Fall of Cybertron multiplayer, classified as Slayer-type components for the Infiltrator class (although his wheels can also be used by Destroyers).
Foreign names
- Russian: Gonki (Fall of Cybertron, Гонки, "Race"), Ruchnik (Rise of the Dark Spark, Ручник, "Hand-Brake")
