Road Rage (G1)
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| This article is about the Generation 1 Autobot. For the Animated Autobot, see Road Rage (Animated). |
- Road Rage is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Road Rage (ロードレイジ Rōdo Reiji) is the bodyguard/advisor of Cybertron ambassador Crosscut. She is well-versed in alien cultures and generally cheerful, making her a very good diplomat. However, a chronic short-out in her vehicle mode causes her to live up to her name; in car mode, she is a snarling, swerving speed machine with little regard—if not utter contempt—for anyone else on the road with her. This is pretty embarrassing for her once she reverts to robot mode.
Fiction
Wings Universe
Near the dawn of the Great War, Road Rage sat in a bar, listening intently to a bot who claimed he was the lone survivor of the recent siege against the Elite Guard. She appeared to be interested in him until it was revealed to her that the bot was just some lying schmuck named Side Burn, and not the hero named Dion. As Side Burn was dragged away by Prowl, she and her waitress shot furious looks at the impostor. Battle Lines, Part 1
TransTech
- Voice actor: Abby Collins (English)
Transformers Legends comic
Road Rage was among the heroic female Transformers who appeared in one of Tigatron's dreams to protect him from the evil female Transformers. Bonus Edition Vol. 11
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe
It is currently unknown if Road Rage actually appears in this story; the panel she seems to be in depicts a flying, Tracks-esque Corvette entering Trypticon with the rest of the party; as the entire panel is tinted red, the identity of this Corvette is currently unknown. For the sake of our sanity until further clarification, the Corvette's appearance will be considered as being both Tracks and Road Rage for the moment.
Road Rage was seemingly among the Autobots that penetrated Trypticon, alongside Gears and Warpath.Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12
Toys
Collector's Edition
- Road Rage (Autobot, October 2002)
- Japanese ID number: 94
- Accessories: Left & right "magnabomb launchers", launcher base, "plasma discharger" rifle, 4 "magnabomb" missiles
- Road Rage is a redeco of the original Tracks toy, transforming into a Corvette Stingray sports car. She also has a third "flight" mode with swing-out wings and add-on thruster-pack/missile launchers. (her rifle can mount on her undercarriage in this mode, but it's really awkward when she's grounded.) As a Japanese release, her spring-loaded missile launchers are fully-functional.
- She was available only as an e-HOBBY exclusive, sold in a set with Crosscut. Pre-orders ended on July 31 of 2002, and the toys were sent out in October.
Timelines
- Invasion (BotCon 2012 box set)
- Accessories: 2 clip-on missile launchers, 1 gun/clip-on launcher
Road Rage was officially repurposed from Timelines Shattered Glass Turbo Tracks via the e-HOBBY website.
- A redeco of Transformers: Reveal the Shield Turbo Tracks, Timelines/Shattered Glass "Turbo Tracks" transforms from a red sports car into a winged robot. He comes with three C joint weapons, one of which can be hand-held, while the missile launchers clip behind his head. He can also assume a flying car mode by folding out the wings in car mode and moving the missile launchers from under the doors to tabs on a rotatable flip-out panel just behind the rear window. This configuration frees up the launchers' clips, allowing Cyberverse accessories to be attached. His main gun can then attach to his underside. Tracks was released in an BotCon 2012-exclusive box set with Soundwave, Ultra Magnus, Treadshot, Gigatron, and Metalhawk.
- According to Pete Sinclair, SG Tracks's deco is based on the Diaclone version of the original Tracks toy and the red Tracks pictured on the back of 1985 toy packages. Despite not being an intentional reference, this makes the toy look similar to Road Rage, and the e-HOBBY web page for the BotCon set would later note that this Tracks can be used as such.
- Tracks was retooled into Generations Wheeljack, as well as Timelines Runamuck and Over-Run.
Masterpiece
- Road Rage (12-26-2015)
- Japanese ID number: MP-26
- Accessories: "Plasma Discharger" rifle, "Laser Ram" grill-gun, "Twincast" boombox
- Masterpiece Road Rage is a fairly extensive retooling of MP-25 Tracks, transforming into a licensed reproduction of a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray C3, complete with pop-up hood (revealing Cybertronian machinery underneath, as seen in the original cartoon episode "Make Tracks"). She also has a third "flight mode" which can use Tracks's flight stand; sadly she does not come with one of her own. She comes with redecoes of two of Tracks's accessories: a small plug-in "Laser Ram" gun for her vehicle-mode front grille, and a non-transforming boombox version of Twincast that stores (very, very loosely) in her driver's compartment in vehicle mode.
- Her retooling gives her a new head (based on the Animated version of the character), collar, biceps, hands, hips, and thighs to give her a more feminine appearance. She also has a new-mold "Plasma Discharger" rifle, a large gun based on the original toy's rather than Tracks's considerably-dinkier animation-model pistol. The rifle can also plug into the underside of her flight mode.
- She is the first female Transformer to be made in the Masterpiece line.
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Notes
- Road Rage and Crosscut are notable for being the first additions to the Generation 1-era cast of characters after the original line ended since the short-lived Machine Wars series. This also started the general trend toward e-Hobby releases being new characters rather than old characters in new colors.
- Her coloration is based on the original pre-Transformers Diaclone Corvette Stingray toy. The red Stingray was also available as Tracks under the Transformers brand in some European markets in 1985, distributed by Milton Bradley.[1] A convincing theory suggests that red Tracks, like most of the second wave of MB-branded Transformers, was actually originally a Diaclone toy by European Takara licensee Joustra, which was acquired by MB together with the rest of Joustra's Diaclone stock and put into Transformers packaging.[2]
- As mentioned above, the red Diaclone version of Tracks appears on Hasbro's 1985 packaging mural (along with several other toys in early or unused color schemes). What makes this particular appearance stranger than the rest is the red Tracks's depiction – apparently confronting Grimlock and shooting at Jetfire – which implies the artist thought proto-Tracks was a Decepticon. Whatever that intended implication was, Road Rage was characterized as an Autobot.
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ "Milton Bradley and the Transformers Red Tracks" at TF-1.com
- ↑ "MB Transformers: Part 4" at 20th Century Toy Collector.
