Drag Strip (Animated)
| The name or term "Drag Strip" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Drag Strip (disambiguation). |
- Drag Strip is a Decepticon from a Timelines addition to the Animated continuity family.
Drag Strip is a Stunticon.
Fiction
- Voice actor: Morgan Lofting
Drag Strip was sent, along with the other Stunticons and Toxitron, on a mission to break Megatron and other Decepticons out of Trypticon Prison. In the guise of entertainers, they planned to rig the former Decepticon Gladiatorial Arena in Kaon with explosives, blasting the prison walls open and killing the audience in the process.
All was going well until the Stunticons were abruptly assaulted in mid-rehearsal by Cheetor, who opened fire on the disguised Decepticons. Once the Autobot cop settled down, the rehearsal continued.
On the night of the plan's execution, Sideswipe and Cheetor returned in the middle of the show, having worked out the Stunticons' plan. As the other Stunticons fought back, with Dead End and Drag Strip cornering Cheetor. But when Toxitron turned out to actually be a disguised Optimus Prime, their plan was exposed to everyone watching. Dead End was incarcerated in Trypticon Prison, alongside the very Decepticons he and his teammates had sought to free. The Stunti-Con Job
Toys
Timelines
- The Stunti-Con-Job (BotCon 2011 box set)
- Accessories: 2 swords, left & right wings
- A redeco of Deluxe Class Animated Arcee, Drag Strip transforms from a yellow and black robot to a Cybertronic "rocket car." She comes with two wings, which can be attached at the rear of her vehicle mode (or her robot mode back), and two swords, which can be held in her hands or stored securely in shafts in the rear of her vehicle mode (or atop her shoulder kibble). Some have reported, with the Arcee figure, the swords fit loosely, though they are designed to click into place—albeit with a certain amount of fiddling in some cases.
- This mold was also the basis for the Japanese-card-reader-game-only Chromia, and was retooled into Animated Minerva.
- She is only available as part of the BotCon 2011 box set, which also includes Motormaster, Wildrider, Breakdown, and Dead End.
Notes
- Drag Strip was the third character to be revealed for the BotCon 2011 set, on February 10, 2011. Her selection for unveiling as the third Stunticon was determined by a fan vote on multiple Transformers fansites, in which respondents had a choice between Drag Strip or Wildrider. Almost every site that ran a poll voted for Drag Strip over Wildrider, with the estimated total votes favoring Drag Strip nearly 2 to 1[1].
- Shortly before unveiling Drag Strip, BotCon's Twitter feed published a link to YouTube for the trailer of Kill Bill, which is a movie featuring a kick-ass sword-wielding woman wearing a yellow jumpsuit, and a yellow truck with purple/red detailing known as "The Pussy Wagon".[2]
- While Arcee's character model had already been updated for the third season of the cartoon to look more like her toy, Drag Strip's model goes even further, adding the toy's clip-on wings and the vehicle kibble on her forearms.
