Toraizer

Toraizer is an Autobot Master Warrior from the Generation 1 continuity family.

...we hardly knew 'er!

Toraizer (トライザー Toraizā) is one of the Autobot Master Warriors, the group of diminutive young robots training on the planet Master to become fully-fledged Headmasters. This nimble feline transfers his speedy skills to any Transtector he attaches to.

Sometimes his name is spelled Trizer.

Fiction

The Headmasters cartoon

The evil twin gets what he deserves.

Several robots using Toraizer’s body design appeared on planet Master during the efforts of the resistance force formed to combat the Decepticons. A yellow and red version was a member of the resistance force who appeared to thank the Autobot Headmasters for their aid in a battle, Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 2) while a green and blue version was among the Master civilians shot by the Decepticon Targetmasters during their attack on a city. Operation: Destroy the Decepticons

Given the lack of resemblance between the Kirk toy and cartoon model, it is unclear if any of these Toraizer-based robots is intended to be Toraizer himself or not, afflicted with a similar case of color-blindness.

TV Magazine Super-God Masterforce prologue

Some time later, after the Decepticons had been forced off of Earth and a larger war began based around use of advanced technology from Planet Master, Chromedome and the other Headmasters took it upon themselves to train Toraizer and the other Master Warriors in the use of their powers. Master File No, 1

Ask Vector Prime

Trizer was somehow connected to the development of Brainmaster technology. When the Decepticons learned of the technique, he, Kirk, and Shuffler destroyed the laboratory rather than let them get their hands on it. Ask Vector Prime, 23/6/2015

Toys

The Headmasters

'Scuse me a moment, my head needs to find a litter box.

• Toraizer (Autobot Master Warrior, 1987)

Available exclusively in Japan in a tiny individual box, Toraizer transforms from a purple and dark blue robotic tiger into a humanoid head, in which mode he can connect to any of the larger Headmaster toys, activating their built-in Tech Specs meter. Toraizer grants his host body a Speed rating of 10, Strength of 7, and Intelligence of 7. Toraizer and his fellow Autobot Master Warriors go for ludicrous sums of money on the secondary market.

What go for even more ludicrous sums of money are the super-rare, entirely white versions of the figures. These were only available as part of the "Throttlebot Promotional Sales Campaign", where a bagged all-white Headmaster was given away with the purchase of any Throttlebot at select Japanese retailers (sadly, we do not know which retailers these were).

• More information on Toraizer at TFU.info

Notes

Three necks are better than one!

• "Tora" is the Japanese word for "tiger".
• The pre-final photography for Toraizer shows a split-up Tech Specs trigger, rather than the solid block of the final.
• Toraizer's name provides part of the inspiration for Alpha Trizer's name.