Steamhammer (Energon)
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- Steamhammer is a Decepticon combiner from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Steamhammer has the physique to be a dull-witted legbreaker, and to be sure, he's very good in a fight. With his powerful fist and his mighty shovel arm, he is a deadly pugilist, and only the stronger Autobots like Landmine can really oppose him properly. Stoic and not given to mercy, he could run over a harmless petrorabbit without hesitation. When combined with his Construction Team into the mighty Constructicon Maximus, he is dangerous indeed.
Brute strength, however, does not win wars alone. Steamhammer is no Perceptor, but he is a skilled communications specialist and code breaker, and this is his preferred occupation: jamming transmissions, intercepting messages, and ensuring that his side's information is good, and the other side's is not. One must wonder, however, how he operates radio equipment and computer terminals with a shovel for a hand --
Ow.
- Japanese name: Scavenger
Fiction
Animated continuity
Energon
Toys
Energon
- Steamhammer (Deluxe, 2005)
- Team ID number: C5
- Steamhammer transforms into a green steam shovel, of the super-sized quarry-mining variety. In robot mode, his left arm is made out of the steam shovel arm, and his spark crystal is located within the shovel. Like the other Energon combiner team leaders, he does not come with any weapons.
- He forms the central body component of Constructicon Maximus, with the rest of his team plugging into combiner Powerlinx ports located in his arms and legs. Constructicon Maximus' head is located inside the steam shovel's cabin.
Universe
- Steamhammer (Deluxe, 2005)
- Steamhammer was repackaged on a Universe-themed card and sold through discount chains in the US like Big Lots!. No mention of his combining ability is made on the cardback.
Trivia
- Steamhammer got his name indirectly from Generation 1 Steamhammer, by way of an abandoned OTFCC04 exclusive. At one point in time, the Railracer trains were offered to 3H as a possible set of exclusives. Due to a suggestion from Graham Weaver, one of them was planned to be named after the original Steamhammer, as it was a trainy kind of name. (Another of the three trains would be Astrotrain and the third was never decided on, though "Loco" or "Cowcatcher" was favored.) Hasbro changed their minds on the molds' availability, but they later used the "Steamhammer" name themselves, as they did similarly with "Vector Prime."
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