Noise

Noise is an Autobot Mini-Cassette from the Headmasters portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Noise (ノイズ Noizu) is one of the Autobot Cassettebots. A "forest investigation" bot, he is their most violent member (worse than Ramhorn? Yikes), and his fangs and claws are the strongest out of all of them. Noise idolizes his fellow dinosaur, Grimlock.

As a member of the W Cassettebot sub-sub-group, he can combine with his partner Graphy to form the robot Decibel.

Toys

The Headmasters

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• Noizu [sic] (W Cassettebot, 1987)
  • Japanese ID number: C-122
  • Accessories: Left & right "Fire Blasters"

Noise is a mini-cassette that transforms into what appears to be a blue Allosaurus. In tape mode, he fits into the chest compartment of Blaster or Soundwave (and their retooled reincarnations). Two silver "Fire Blaster" guns plug into the faux cassette tape holes by his arms.

Noise combines with Graphy to form the top half of the humanoid(-ish) robot Decibel. Noise's cannons become over-shoulder cannons for Decibel.

• More information on Noise at TFU.info

Vintage G1

• Mini-Cassettes 3-Pack (Multi-pack, September 16, 2019)
  • Accessories: Left and right "Fire Blasters"

In a surprise move, "Autobot Noizu" (really?) was reissued as part of the Vintage G1 series alongside "Gurafi" and an inexplicable, seemingly-identical version of Vintage G1 "Decepticon Frenzy". This version of the pair comes on a retro-styled two-pack card which is actually the left half of a giant three-pack card, shared with Frenzy on the right half all alone. Bizarrely, this right/left arrangement is retained for the back of the set, with Graphy and Noise's instructions and bios on the left behind Frenzy, and Frenzy's instructions/bio (and the other necessary branding) on the right behind the dinos.

Despite the ridiculously hyperliteral Romanization of his constituents' names, Decibel managed to keep his normal English spelling in the product descriptions.

This set was revealed when it went up for preorder on Hasbro Pulse on the first day of San Diego Comic-Con 2019... despite not being announced at the show at all. This set was also available at general retail in Hong Kong. It was originally intended to be a HasCon 2019 exclusive, but was shuffled to Pulse following the convention's indefinite hiatus.

Notes

• As one of the vanishingly few toys unique to the Headmasters toy line and something of a tail-ender within the line, Noise and the other three "dino-cassettes" command ridiculous sums on the secondary market. Their actual rarity is questionable, though; similar "exclusive holy grails" Stepper, Artfire, Twincast, and Soundblaster were uncommon, but not vanishingly rare, yet still commanded top dollar due to overseas perception (until they got reissued, at any rate).

External links

• W Cassettes toy article at TF-1.com