Sawback

Sawback is an Autobot Mini-Con from the Robots in Disguise portion of the Aligned continuity family.

His feelings toward Fetch are unknown.

Sawback loves fetch, and he can track his target from miles away. Sometimes this target is a stick; more often, this target is a Decepticon. But once his target is acquired, this noble beast often lets him go, trusting that his brush with the law will set him back on the straight and narrow. And if it doesn't, there's nowhere he can hide.

Most of that is not true when the target is a stick.

Games

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

Robots in Disguise (mobile game)

Toys

Robots in Disguise (2015)

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• Sawback (Mini-Con, 2015)
  • Accessories: Armor sprue (muzzle-guard, left & right shoulder-blades, left & right axe/cannons)

Part of the first wave of Mini-cons, Sawback transforms from a robotic wolf into a Cybertronian buzzsaw in a single step. He is designed to attach to and launch from Deployer Drift's grill-mounted launcher. He comes with a number of clear-plastic accessories attached to an Autobot-insignia-shaped sprue, which can be attached to him in both beast and buzzsaw modes (though the muzzle-guard really doesn't want to allow him to close all the way into buzzsaw mode). His leg-mounted axes/cannons can combine with armor parts from his wavemates Divebomb, Dragonus and Slipstream to form a robotic lion.

Sawback was later released by TakaraTomy in November of 2015, as part of the Transformers Adventure Limited Micron Gift Campaign. He was given away free with the purchase of 3000 yen worth of Transformers Adventure products at Yamada Denki and Yodobashi Camera stores, plus AEON "Cybertron Satellite" stores in Lake Town, Mito Uchihara, and Sapporo Hiraokanishi. This release of Sawback has a Transformers Chronicle mobile app-compatible scan-badge, but is otherwise identical to the Hasbro release.

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Sawback (ソウバック Sōbakku)
• Mandarin: Jùquǎn (Taiwan, 鉅犬, "Giant Dog")