Real Gear Robot
- Real Gear Robots are a type of Transformer in the live-action movie continuity family.
Real Gear Robot is a catchall term for Earth machinery brought to life as Transformers by the Allspark. The term originates with the "Real Gear Robots" sub-line of Movie toys, which features Transformers created from real earthen consumer electronics brought to life in this manner. The Real Gear Robot title can also (for lack of an alternative) be applied to the numerous other non-toyline robots created in this manner.
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Though the Real Gear Rrobots toys were created to expand on the (brief) appearance of similar robots in the movie, many Real Gear Robots appear to predate the March 16 2006 cessation of experiments on the Allspark.[1] It is unclear if they were deliberately created by Sector Seven before this and escaped, or perhaps were an unintended result of the Allspark's "area-effect."
When first brought to life Real Gear robots appear to be almost mindless; alive but without concept of the world- and often feral. Time apparently remedies this weakness.
List of Real Gear Robots
Known Real Gear Robots
- AX9-8946-09SU-1
- "Samuraï" Nokia cellphone
- Xbox 360
- Mountain Dew vending machine (different design than Dewbot, but possibly one of the Elite Mountain Dew Robots)
- Steering wheel face-hugger
Real Gear Robots (Toyline)
- Autobots
- High Score 100 (video game controller)
- Longview (binoculars)
- Night Beat 7 (MP3 player)
- Speed Dial 800 (cell phone)
- Spy Shot 6 (digital camera)
- Decepticons
- Booster X10 (MP3 player)
- Meantime (digital wrist watch)
- Power Up VT6 (portable video-game system)
- Wire Tap V20 (cell phone)
- Zoom Out 25X (video camera)
Possible Real Gear Robots
(Transformers that seem to be likely candidates, but whose actual origins remain unknown.)
Trivia
- The Real Gear Robots toyline is the long-in-comming return of "mechanical device" transformers along the lines of the original Perceptor and Reflector, whose alt modes are all common hand-held electric devices.
- All the Real Gear Robots in the 2007 film appear to be evil little beasts. One screenwriter explanation for this statistical bias, reported from Botcon 2007, was that since modern Earth technology was derived from Megatron all robots created from it take after their evil "papa." However, the existence of many Autobot Real Gear Robots in other media and the toyline would seem to effectively negate this "genetic" explanation. Another explanation, given by Orici on the movie's official message board, is that the Allspark was meant to be in the heart of Cybertron powering the planet, and that Megatron wanted to use it incorrectly to bring an army to life, this misuse hence created souless violent beings. (This explanation falters somewhat in the fact that Megatron and the Decepticons were not the ones to use the Allspark to create the RGR in the film, it seemed to do that all by itself, and again it fails to explain the heroic ones in the periferal media.)
- The Real Gear Robots toys were created at Hasbro in line with the designs of the Cybertron franchise that ran through 2005 into the first half of 2006, they were held back. This resulted in serendipity with the Movie marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film.[3]
References
- ↑ Spy Shot 6 has spent years spying on the Decepticons in 2007, from his toy bio. Experimentation on the Allspark ceased on March 16 2006 after the death of researcher James Farr.
- ↑ Bumblebee's mission on Earth was to recruit the pre-existent Chevy Autobots.
- ↑ Hasbro representative, BotCon 2007.
