Hey. Are you guys prepared? Because, I don't think that you were sufficiently warned. 'Cause, uh, today there is a, uh, high chance, probably about a 50 to 80% chance, OF CHAINSAAAAAAAAW! YA-HAHA!
Offroad is a new recruit to the Stunticons, and his teammates are being slow to trust him. He's confident and charismatic, unnervingly at ease in his new role, and worse, he's started using the colors of his predecessor. What's up with that, man? Conveniently, his experience operating in extreme conditions gives him the opportunity to gain his new comrades' trust, by taking on all the treacherous missions that they steer well clear of.
Normally, this distrust between Offroad and his teammates could be considered a hindrance to the combination process, but where Menasor is concerned, that's probably just a drop in the ocean...
In at least one universe, Offroad combines with the Wreckers to form Wreckage.
After a particularly humiliating defeat resulted in Wildrider leaving the Stunticons, Offroad was brought in to replace him. As the Stunticons were explaining to him how they operated, they were approached by Swindle, who piqued their interest by showing them that he had with him the Enigma of Combination.
After using the Enigma to upgrade Menasor, the Stunticons combined, and accompanied Swindle to the colony world of Caminus, preparing to bring destruction down upon its people. First Contact
Things quickly went downhill for the Stunticons and Menasor was summarily trounced by the similarly rebuilt Superion. The Stunticons were disassembled, sent back to Cybertron, and imprisoned. The Sum and Its Parts Swindle sprang the Stunticons as part of a diversion; they formed Menasor and incited a Decepticon riot at Metroplex's space bridge. You, Me, and the Universe The Stunticons fared poorly in their second fight against the Autobot combiners, and after Menasor fell the Stunticons were put away for good. All That Remains
Offroad was among the Decepticon troops who bore witness to a pivotal duel between Optimus Prime and Megatron, one meant to end the war before the never-ending arms race between the two factions spiralled further out of control. Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Optimus Prime
Games
Transformers Legends
Offroad and the rest of the Stunticons were created in response to the failure of a Decepticon campaign to acquire Autobot superfuel. Realizing they needed a strong ground force, Offroad and his kin were created by modifying Earth vehicles with Cybertronian technology, and then bringing them before Vector Sigma to be imbued with the spark of life. The Autobots brought the Aerialbots to life at the same time, and the Decepticons found themselves on the losing side until the Stunticons merged into Menasor. The Decepticons lost nonetheless, though they acquired the key to Vector Sigma as a consolation prize. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1 Later, Offroad participated in a fight on Earth as the Decepticons attempted to use the power of the key to transform Earth into a new Cybertron. Even though he and his fellow Stunticons merged into Menasor, the battle was still lost to the Autobots, and the Decepticons fled. Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2
Transformers: Battle Tactics
That's it, I'm here to stay!
Offroad participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Uncommon character available as a reward in the "Menasor's Might" event. Transformers: Battle Tactics
Transformers: Devastation
The Game Full of Death and Suffering...!
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Part of the second wave of GenerationsCombiner Wars Deluxe class toys, Offroad is a new-sculpt figure which transforms from a 4x4 double-cab pickup truck to robot and back! As a Combiner Wars Deluxe figure he can form a combined-mode limb for any Voyager Class toy from the same subline but is, of course, intended to be combined with Motormaster, Breakdown, Drag Strip, Dead End, and Blackjack to create Menasor. He includes a 5mm handle axe weapon, and a larger accessory that can form a hand or foot in limb mode, a gun for robot mode, and can be mounted on a tab in the vehicle mode's truck bed to form a giant engine block.
Holey truck bed, Batman!An earlier prototype of Offroad depicted in official Hasbro stock photos featured a 5mm peg hole on the truck bed. This was replaced with the aforementioned tab the final toy has.
In the U.S., Hasbro's Asian markets, and Australia, Offroad is packed in with a variant cover edition of IDW's Robots in Disguise #14, labelled in its indicia as Combiner Wars #6. In other regions (mainly Canada and Latin America, since Offroad's wave was never officially distributed in Europe), he instead includes a collector card featuring his packaging art.
Offroad's toy began life as an update of the TriggerconRuckus,[1] and as such features a head and sculpted detail drawing inspiration from the character. Early design sketches for the toy's alternate mode also suggest that buggy-type vehicles, closer to Ruckus's Baja buggy mode, were initially considered. The decision to make the toy into a new character instead was reportedly due to a combination of name unavailability and Hasbro concluding that Ruckus didn't make that much sense as a Stunticon anyway.
Despite his initial release, Offroad has been replaced by Wildrider/Brake-Neck in every gift-set release of Menasor from the Combiner Wars line, and will (likely) not receive a Generation 2-style redeco.
Offroad did receive a Generation 2 style deco in a roundabout way, thanks to the official Transformers Facebook account, which, uh, "borrowed" somebody's digital mockup of what a Generation 2 Menasor Combiner Wars team would look like. Is this a whoops or a hooray or what?
