Cliffjumper (G1)/toys
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Cliffjumper has a lot of toys, with none of them traitors!
Toys
Generation 1
- Cliffjumper (Mini Vehicle, 1984/1985)
- Japanese ID number: 13
- Part of the original 1984 range of Autobot Mini Vehicles, Cliffjumper began life as a Microchange "MC-04 #01 Porsche 924 Turbo", a super deformed "Penny Racer"-style representation of the real car. Though broadly similar in construction to Bumblebee and commonly called a redeco/retool of him by fans, Cliffjumper is actually an entirely different mold that just uses the same transformation scheme. This confusion was not helped by the fact that both Cliffjumper and Bumblebee were released in both red and yellow during the first two years of the Generation 1 toyline; a move designed to "make the line look bigger" according to former Hasbro R&D Vice President George Dunsay.[1]
- In 1984, Cliffjumper and the other Mini Vehicles came packaged in vehicle mode; in 1985, they were switched to come in robot mode, a change preceded by the addition of a picture of their vehicle modes to the front of their cards. The same year, the Autobot insignia on Cliffjumper's roof/chest was replaced with a heat-activated rubsign. Later in 1985, Cliffjumper and the Mini-Vehicles came packaged with Mini-spies.
- A yellow version of the Microchange "MC-04 Mini CAR Robo 02 Familia 1500XG" mold was also available packaged on Cliffjumper cards. As an entirely different mold, this toy was not regarded as a variant of Cliffjumper, but rather as a separate character that the fandom christened "Bumper".
- Cliffjumper (Listen 'n Fun, 1985)
- Cliffjumper was packaged with an audio cassette featuring the story "Sun Raid" as part of Hasbro's multi-brand Listen 'n Fun subline. Most of the toys packaged with this cassette were the yellow variant mentioned above, but exceptions do exist (see photo at right). As the other known Listen 'n Fun releases—including Tripwire for G.I. Joe and "Ember" for My Little Pony—had intentional deco changes from their original releases, it is likely that Cliffjumper becoming yellow was intentional as well.
- Carrera (Robocar, 1985)
- Cliffjumper was released in Brazil by Estrela in 1985 as the Robocar, "Carrera", and was initially available in two color schemes: his original red and black, and metallic gold and black, both decorated with a new thin tech-detailing sticker on their chests. Later, Estrela released blue and white versions of Carrera sporting the new "Optimus" faction insignia; given this new factional alignment, for the purposes of this wiki, the Optimus-aligned Carrera is considered to be a separate character from Cliffjumper. As such, whether or not the earlier red and gold Carrera toys should then be considered versions of Cliffjumper, or versions of this different character, could be debated endlessly.
- Carrera (Robocar, 1985)
- The aforementioned white version of Carrera was released in Argentina by Antex in 1985, along with a new green redeco; the toys' cardback depicts the original golden version as well, but it is believed this was merely photography of an Estrela toy, and that the golden figure was never sold in Argentina. As these releases of Carrera are not "Optimus"-aligned, bearing the earlier thin tech-detail decal, the question can be again raised over whether or not they represent Cliffjumper, or the separate character of Carrera. Whatever the case, these versions have much higher availability on the secondary market over their Estrela predecessors.
- Cliffjumper (Keychain Mini-Vehicle, 2001/2003/2007)
- Released in the US by Fun4All at the same time as "keychain" Bumblebee, this is a slight retooling of the first Cliffjumper toy, with an added loop to the back bumper for a keychain attachment.
- In 2003, Takara released all four of the keychain Minibots (Cliffjumper, Bumblebee, Windcharger, and Brawn) for the Japanese market in both their original decos, and in an exclusive all-black coloration. As the boxes are blind-packed boxes, you don't know if you've got a black variant until you open 'er up.
- Early in 2007, Hasbro re-released the "keychain" Mini-Vehicles for the US under the "Heroes of Cybertron" sub-line, which popped up in stores like Walmart, as well as smaller chains like the original releases.
Alternators/Binaltech
- Cliffjumper
- One of the earliest proposals in the Alternators/Binaltech line was for Bumblebee as a Volkswagen New Beetle, with Cliffjumper as the redeco. Unfortunately, VW evidently did not want to be associated with "war toys" at that time, and therefore the design never made it past the control drawing stage. Control drawings for both Bumblebee and Cliffjumper have been published in the Japanese book, The Transformers: Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide.
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Titanium Series
- War Within Bumblebee (Cybertron Hero, unreleased)
- Accessories: Unknown, likely display stand
- Prior to the line's cancellation, a 6-inch resin copy depicting a transformable Titanium Series Bumblebee was seen at BotCon 2006. His alternate mode was the saucer-like car seen in Dreamwave's The War Within series, which was based on Bumblebee's Cybetronian vehicle mode in the original cartoon. An alternate head of Cliffjumper was seen as well, indicating a retool. Unfortunately, these never made it into production.
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Classics
- Cliffjumper (Deluxe, 2006/2007)
- Accessories: "Wave Crusher" trailer
- Classics Cliffjumper is a red, silver, gray and black redeco of the Classics Bumblebee toy, transforming into a small sports coupe of made-up model and towing a small trailer with a non-removable jet-ski. This "Wave Crusher" trailer/jet-ski transforms into a flight-pack that clips onto Cliffjumper's back.
Henkei! Henkei!
- Minibot Attack Team (Multi-pack, 2009)
- Japanese ID number: C-18
- Henkei! Henkei! Cliffjumper is a redeco of Universe (2008) Legends Class Bumblebee, transforming into a modern hatchback of indeterminate (likely made-up) design.
- He was only available in a three-piece set with Brawn and the inappropriately-included Beachcomber.
Alternity
- Cliff (2009)
- Japanese ID number: A-03
- Accessories: 2 "wave-functional pointer guns"
- Avoiding the straight redeco theme the first time, Alternity Cliffjumper is a retool of Bumblebee with a new head, transforming into a 1:32 scale Suzuki Swift, featuring die-cast metal parts and rubber tires, as well as an opening hood, trunk and doors. In robot mode, the figure can hold twin pistols that are normally stored in the legs, and features light-piped eyes.
United
- Cliffjumper Cybertron Mode (Deluxe, 2010)
- ID number: UN03
- Accessories: "Energy gun"
- Part of the first wave of United product, Cliffjumper is a redeco of the Generations War for Cybertron Cliffjumper toy, transforming into a round and compact "Cybertronian courier mode". He comes with a handgun and features two wrist-mounted flip-out blades. The handgun can be stored inside his rear bumper in either mode.
- This release features an extensive metallic red paint job (which almost looks magenta under certain lighting conditions) on the car mode panels, and on some of the robot mode's parts (such as the head and forearms), replaces the dark gray plastic of the Hasbro release with a lighter tone, and switches the transparent red paint on the wheels with a more opaque, metallic red. The rear portion of his roof features a more separated paint layout than the black paint of the Generations release, and the base panel his head is on features additional black paint, with both of these giving him a paint layout almost similar to Bumblebee's. In contrast to the final product, early photos of Cliffjumper showed him with pink flip out blades and details rather than yellow, while his packaging stock photography depicts the wheel coverings beside his feet as red instead of light gray.
- This mold was retooled from Generations Cybertronian Bumblebee, which was redecoed into United Bumblebee Cybertron Mode.
Generations
- Cliffjumper (Deluxe, 2012)
- Generations Cliffjumper is a retool and minor redeco of Prime: First Edition Cliffjumper, having a new G1-styled head, replacing his red plastic and paint with a darker, metallic shade, and with lighter translucent blue plastic. He transforms into a muscle car that crossbreeds the rear of a Plymouth Barracuda with the front of a Dodge Challenger, and features flip-out triple-barreled blasters in each of his arms that can be swung out to replace his hands. He does have wrist articulation, but the plastic panels on the outer sides of his arms tend to get in the way, meaning his wrists can only easily rotate up to 90 degrees.
- Cliffjumper was originally only to be released as part of a big block of toys developed exclusively for release in China and other Hasbro Asia markets. However, ToysЯUs picked up Cliffjumper as part of a massive group of Transformers exclusives for US market release, just in time for the 2012 holiday shopping season.
- Cliffjumper & Suppressor (Legends Class, 2014)
- Series / Number:
- Accessories: Suppressor Mini-Con, ion blaster
- Legends Class Cliffjumper is a redeco of Generations Thrilling 30 Legends Class Bumblebee. He comes with Suppressor, a redeco of Generations Thrilling 30 Legends Class Optimus Prime's partner Autobot Roller, and an unchanged version of the ion blaster originally available with the aforementioned Optimus Prime figure.
- Hasbro's original stock photo for the figure depicting a hand-painted prototype shows Cliffjumper lacking the weapon that was originally Generations Thrilling 30 Legends Class Optimus Prime's ion cannon. Instead, the weapon was depicted in the concurrently published stock photo for Cliffjumper's wave-mate Nemesis Prime/Spinister two-pack, which doesn't actually include the weapon. Both two-packs have the versions of these photos featured on the back of their respective packaging edited, with the weapon moved from Nemesis Prime's hand to Cliffjumper's.
Bot Shots
- Cliffjumper (2013)
- Series: 2
- Number: Super Bot 002
- Fist strength: 960
- Blaster strength: 430
- Sword strength: 255
- Part of the first wave of Bot Shots Series 2 single-packs, Super Bot Cliffjumper is a retool/redeco of Jump Shot Launcher Bumblebee, with a new robot mode. He springs up and automatically transforms from a sports car into a robot armed with a pistol when his front bumper is pressed, and has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels. As a "Super Bot", he has more lopsided stats, and is cast in translucent red plastic.
- This version of the mold was later redecoed back into another version of Jump Shot Bumblebee.
- Cliffjumper / Decepticon Brawl / Dirt Boss (Multi-pack, 2013)
- Series: 2
- Number: BP001
- Fist strength: 575
- Blaster strength: 605
- Sword strength: 430
- Part of the first wave of Bot Shots Series 2 three-packs, Flip Shot Cliffjumper is a redeco of Flip Shot Bumblebee, transforming into a different sports car alternate mode, this time without a rear spoiler. As a Flip Shot, an impact to the front of his vehicle mode causes him to flip up when autotransforming. He comes in a three-pack with Flip Shot Decepticon Brawl and Super Bot Dirt Boss.
Construct-Bots
- Cliffjumper (Scout, 2013)
- Pieces: 45
- Part of Wave 3 of Construct-Bots Scouts, Cliffjumper can transform into a car. Per usual with Cliffjumpers, he uses mostly Bumblebee parts. His face is remolded to be a little more surly than Bumblebee's. He includes a recolor of Smokescreen's rifle.
Hero Mashers
- Bulkhead (Battle Upgrade, 2014)
- Pieces: 13
- Part of the first wave of Battle Upgrade Hero Mashers toys, Bulkhead is a non-transforming robot with a rotund and rugged body based on Prime Bulkhead, but with the gentle and caring mug of Animated Bulkhead. He includes a back mounted set of rocket packs, a mjolnir-like hammer, a large white piledriver (cannon?), and an arm mounted gun which fires a spring-loaded projectile. His parts, much like all other Hero Mashers, can be removed and swapped out with any other figure from the same line.
- He includes Cliffjumper's arm which is a repaint of Hero Mashers Bumblebee's.
Transformers (2014)
- Cliffjumper (Legion Class, 2015)
- Legion Class Cliffjumper is another redeco of Universe Legends Class Bumblebee, sporting the minor retool with additional pegs to secure the arms more tightly in vehicle mode first used for the 2012 Transformers "Dollar Store" release of the sculpt. Unusually for contemporary figures released as part of this assortment, the figure's deco is notably different from the Henkei! Henkei! version listed above: The gray plastic used for the legs, the crotch and the wheels is replaced with black, the paint operations on the insides of the arms are also changed from gray to black and expanded to cover a section left unpainted on the Henkei version, the front grille is left unpainted, and the windows are tampographed in a slightly different shade.[2]
- Cliffjumper comes in packaging that is based on the packaging design for the concurrently released Combiner Wars-era Generations figures, but replaces the name Generations with "Authentic Transformers". Since Cliffjumper and his wave-mates ship with three figures previously released under what we consider a generic Transformers (2014) toy line, all of them now in the new packaging style, we consider Cliffjumper to be part of that line as well. The package art used for Cliffjumper is recolored from the package art of Generations Thrilling 30 Legends Class Bumblebee, an entirely different sculpt, and was previously also used (in its original colors) for the previous release of the Bumblebee figure this Cliffjumper is redecoed from.
- The wave that contains Cliffjumper has thus far been found at Fred's, Gordmans, Dollar General and Family Dollar stores in the United States, but was available at general retail in Hong Kong and from Australian Target stores.
Q-Transformers
- Cliff (8-29-2015)
- ID number: QT-28
- A retool of QT-08 Bumble with a new head, Q-Transformers Cliff transforms from a super deformed Daihatsu Copen to a cute little robot. As a Bumblebee retool, molded detail on his feet evoke a Volkswagen Beetle's hood.
Merchandise
Happy Meal Toy
- Cliffjumper (1985)
- Non-poseable, non-transforming figurines of Cliffjumper and three of his Mini-Vehicle chums (Bumblebee, Gears and Brawn) made up the very first line of Transformers Happy Meal toys. Alas, the figures did not see a full release, and were only test-marketed in St. Louis, Missouri. The two-tone figures were available in a variety of colour variations, with at least six different combinations for each of the four characters: in addition to his traditional red and black, Cliffjumper is known to have been available in green and black, blue and black, blue and red, black and red, and cyan and black.
Transformers Milk Caramel
- Cliff (1985)
- A soft rubber figurine—known in Japan as a keshigomu— of Cliffjumper was released as part of the first wave of Kabaya's earliest candy toy line, Transformers Milk Caramel. Based more on his toy than his animation model, Cliffjumper came packaged with chocolate-covered caramel candies, and was available in various colours, including white, blue, sky blue, yellow, green and orange.
Transformers Choco
- Cliff (1985)
- A small solid-color, transforming snap-together model kit of Cliffjumper was released as part of Kabaya's Transformers Choco line of candy toys.
Decoy
- Cybertron Hero Collection 9 (multi-pack, 1986)
- Defeat Dinosaurer Strategy Game (board game, 1986)
- Cliffjumper was among the many characters rendered by Takara as part of their series of 1.5" keshigomu figurines. Like all the Autobots in the series, Cliffjumper was molded in soft red rubber, and featured a number sculpted into his back that was the sum total of his Tech Specs, for use in the various games that could be played with the figurines. Cliffjumper was available as part of a 9-piece box set of Autobot figures, as a playing piece in the Defeat Dinosauruer Strategy Game and later, in a peach coloration randomly packed as part of various other box sets.
- Cliffjumper (1987)
- Decoy number: 28
- The Cliffjumper figurine was later brought over to Hasbro markets as part of the Decoy promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number (28, in Cliffjumper's case). Like all Autobot Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded Throttlebots, Aerialbots, Protectobots and Technobots.
Titanium Series
- Cliffjumper (Robot Master, 2006)
- Accessories: Gun, display stand
- Titanium Series Cliffjumper was to be a redeco of "Robot Masters" Bumblebee, a 3-inch mostly-die-cast-metal statue. He would have had joints at the waist, neck and shoulders, plus a removable pistol and an Autobot-sigil display stand. Due to the cancelation of the Titanium line, this product never saw release.
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Robot Heroes
- Decepticon Sneak Attack (Figure Multi-pack, 2007)
- Cliffjumper is a red, gray and black redeco of the Robot Heroes Bumblebee toy. He was initially only available in the Wal-Mart exclusive "Decepticon Sneak Attack" five-pack along with "Supermetal" versions of Optimus Prime and Megatron, a clear-plastic Mirage, and Skywarp. He could later be purchased as part of the blind-packed series of single Robot Heroes figures available in the United Kingdom and Malaysia.
Mini-Bust
- Cliffjumper Mini Bust (Diamond Select, 2008)
- Released by Diamond Select Toys in 2008, Cliffjumper was sculpted by Mark Wong of Art Asylum and limited to 1,000 pieces. The sculpt features Cliffjumper holding the gun he was seen using in "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1". However, this version omits the stabilizing struts that were present in the episode. This bust is also notable for being the first new mold G1 Cliffjumper has received since his Decoy in 1987, a period of over twenty years!
Tiny Titans
- Cliffjumper (Tiny Titans, 2015)
- Series: 1
- Number: 12/12
Notes
- The Microman Micro Change toy that would become Cliffjumper was also available in light blue. To date, this deco has never been used in Transformers.
- Though often a straight redeco of Bumblebee in non-Japanese countries, there has yet to be a Cliffjumper produced by TakaraTomy that is a straight redeco of the same line's Bumblebee.
References
- ↑ Interview with George Dunsay at TFArchive.com
- ↑ Review of 2014 Legion Class Cliffjumper at TFW2005, including a comparison with Henkei Cliff.
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