Cradon

Cradon is an Autobot-allied Mini-Con from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

He's always on coffee break.

Cradon (クレイドン Kureidon) is eye-searingly yellow and a member of the Land / Sea / Air Mini-Con Team along with Seawave and Blue Max.

Fiction

Transformers Legends comic

Cradon was among the Mini-Cons stolen by Megatron in the Legends Universe. Bonus Edition Vol. EX

Ask Vector Prime

In Aurex 105.08 Alpha, Seawave and Cradon had a falling out after they oppositely blamed the Autobots or Decepticons for the demise of Blue Max in a battle between Galaxy Convoy and Master Megatron. Ask Vector Prime

Toys

Generation 1

• Cradon (Micron, 2008)

Cradon is a redeco of the Cybertron Giant Planet Team Mini-Con Longarm, transforming into a double-armed crane truck of undetermined model. He was only available in exclusive 2-packs of Boss Coffee drink in Japan for a limited time, along with Seawave and "metallic" PVC mini-figurines of Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Starscream. The two-pack caps had decals indicating what toy was inside.

This mold was also used to make Astro-Hook, who was repurposed to be Shattered Glass Stonecruncher, and Reachout.

• More information on Cradon at TFU.info
• Cradon at www.shmax.com

Notes

• Seawave and Cradon being Generation 1 characters ws largely speculative for a long time. There was nothing directly identifying them as belonging to a specific timeline, but as all of the other pack-ins were straight-up Generation 1 characters, well.
  • In 2015, the Facebook version of Ask Vector Prime identified them as Unicron Trilogy characters.
• Despite the three toys in the Giant Planet Team set being gang-molded (and thus the parts were cast for it), TakaraTomy never released the third mold from the set, the plane. Whether they were ever going to in the first place or not is unknown. Going by Seawave and Cradon's colors, the final toy would have been almost wholly bright blue. This was later referenced in the Ask Vector Prime entry about them.