Wideload (Classics)
| The name or term "Wideload" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Wideload (disambiguation). |
- Wideload is a Decepticon-allied Mini-Con from the Unicron Trilogy and Generation 1 continuity families.
Wideload is a member of the Demolition Team, a trio who use their engineering skills and raw strength to destroy Autobot installations with ease.
His name is sometimes spelled Wide Load.
Fiction
Classics
Wideload was one of the innumerable Mini-Cons entrusted by the Last Autobot to restore Cybertron in the Autobots' absence. He began his career on the Autobot-aligned Heavy Hauler Team, but soon fell in with the scheming Broadside. Broadside grew paranoid about the Mini-Cons eventual fate once the Bulks would return on-world, and along with Wideload and other followers, conspired to claim Cybertron as a Mini-Con-only planet. To this end, they met at Maccadam's Old Oil House and concocted a plan to assassinate the current Mini-Con leader, Modus Prime.
Wideload was placed as part of a team escorting Modus Prime and Broadside to Altihex’s abandoned Energon refinery. The conspirators then assassinated Modus Prime, covering their tracks with an explosion and using a cobbled-together Bulk carcass to blame the incident onto. Wideload and Sledge then destroyed the body before it could be properly examined, under the pretense that it might contain a contagious "madness-disease." Though the plan was to have Broadside assume command, Hacksaw took charge as Modus's second-in-command. Hacksaw was disposed of as well, but those loyal to him uncovered the full extent of Broadside's conspiracy.
Wideload acted as one of Broadside's body-guards while he made a planet-wide announcement. The broadcast was interrupted by members of Hacksaw’s cabinet, who revealed to the masses Broadside's plot. As the aggressors closed in, Wideload clashed with Firebot. Ultimately, many more Mini-Cons were swayed to Broadside's way of thinking, and the once peaceful Mini-Cons began fighting among one another. The New World
Ask Vector Prime
In Aurex 615.03 Epsilon, Wideload was one of several Decepticon-aligned Mini-Cons dispatched aboard the Doomsday to the Beast Wars. Ask Vector Prime, 23/9/2015
Toys
Classics
- Demolition Team (Mini-Con Team, 2006)
- Part of the first wave of Classics Mini-Cons, Wideload transforms into an "earth-mover" dump truck. He was only available with his teammates Broadside and Sledge.
- This mold was used to make Refuser, Universe Knockdown, Mighty Dozer, and Heavy-Liftor.
Notes
- Wideload, like all of the Classics Mini-Cons, was originally intended to be released in a Cybertron-series Mini-Con two-pack. It is currently unknown what his original name and affiliation was going to be.
- The hand-painted sample pictured on the back of the Demolition Team's card has different paint applications than the actual final product, most notably giving him a purple helmet (watch it) and painted vehicle-mode headlamps.
- The stock photo has also mis-transformed his lower half, showing the backs of his legs. Oopsie.
