Scorch (G1)
| This article is about the Autobot Turbomaster from Generation 1. For the Autobot from Animated, see Scorch (Animated). |
| The name or term "Turbomaster" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Turbomaster (disambiguation). |
- Scorch is an Autobot Turbomaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Scorch is the Turbomasters' rear guard and has proven himself one of Optimus Prime's most trusted soldiers. An old soul, he's a loyal and self-sacrificing sort; brave to the point of recklessness, but tough enough to take the resulting knocks. He's not terribly familiar with Earth, and begrudges having to depend on the planet's relatively younger Transformers to help him acclimate.
Sometimes he himself is known as the Turbomaster.
Fiction
Predator Air Attack!
Scorch defended the Autobot Turbomaster base when it was attacked by the Predators. Predator Air Attack!
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
After the conquest of Cybertron by Megatron and the Aerospace Extermination Squadron, Scorch and the rest of the Turbomasters evaded capture and participated in the Autobot underground resistance. The Age of Wrath Pt.2 Perceptor briefed the Turbomasters in the Think-Tank about the attempt to locate the missing Optimus Prime. When Perceptor left them alone, however, the Turbomasters partook in a game of tear'n'chase. Flash evaded his pursuing team-mates, but accidentally drove into the Dimensional Interface Assembly, sending him somewhere very far from home... The Age of Wrath Pt.3
Following Flash's sudden disappearance, Scorch and the other Turbomasters learned from Perceptor that their teammate had been drawn through the Interfacer, but the scientist was unable to deal with the situation at the moment. The Age of Wrath Pt.4 They set about mucking around with Perceptor's Assembly by themselves, and inadvertently returned Optimus Prime to Cybertron in their efforts to retrieve Flash. The Age of Wrath Pt.5 Flash returned as well, but was damaged beyond repair by the time his team found him. Before he died, he gave the other Turbomasters evidence that Megatron had been in cahoots with the Quintesson, which was used to pit the Decepticon's allies against him. The Age of Wrath Pt.6
Wings Universe
Alongside Streetwise, Scorch was assigned to Earth to supervise over the new "second generation" of Autobots. He didn't much like it when the youngsters mouthed off at him and acted like they were charge, like Rapido did after a lost battle with Clench's Decepticon Syndicate at the Large Hadron Collider. They planned a counterattack on the Decepticon-held facility, during which Scorch and Aquafend led most of the forces in a frontal assault while Streetwise, Rapido, and Meanstreak infiltrated the building. They didn't do well, causing Scorch to consider a retreat, but he regained his spirit once Go-Bot reinforcements arrived and helped him fight Double Punch. He had to be bailed out of that battle by Pyro, but in the end the Decepticons fled and the Autobots liberated the LHC. Generation 2: Redux
Toys
Generation 1
- Scorch (Small Turbomaster, 1992)
- Accessories: Engine/missile launcher, 3 missiles
- Scorch transforms into a yellow Cybertronian pickup truck with a large jet engine mounted on the back. As with the other other carded Turbomasters, this engine becomes a powerful spring-loaded missile launcher, capable of firing one of three included small yellow missiles quite far.
- This figure was also released in Japan as the character Fire Road.
Timelines
- Double Punch and Turbomaster (BotCon 2010 souvenir set)
- Accessories: Turbine gun
- "Turbomaster" is a redeco of Universe Hound, available exclusively at BotCon 2010 with Double Punch and Shattered Glass Ravage. His vehicle mode resembles a Jeep Hurricane concept car, with a modified front section that avoids the trademark Jeep look with round headlights and vertical grille vents. He includes a (non-firing) rocket launcher that can be wielded in both vehicle and robot modes. Ravage can fit (in tape form) on the back of Turbomaster's vehicle mode. Other Mini-Cassette Transformers can fit there too, though not as well as the Ravage.
- The polybag packaging for this figure reads "Scorch w/Ravage", but the profile card uses the name "Turbomaster".
- Compared to the original Scorch, this version has its flames pointing the wrong way. All right.
Kre-O
- Singe (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2012)
- Collection: 1
- Bag number: 22851 47
- Accessories: Logo brick, 2 "torch" pieces, 2 flames
- Part of the first normal wave of Micro-Changer Kreons, Singe is a blindpacked-bagged mini-figure, though a stamped ID number can be found on the back of the bag, top-right corner. He comes with extra parts which turn him into a kinda-sorta-off-road vehicle with rear-mounted thrusters.
- He uses Starscream's helmet.
- Singe (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2016)
- Collection: 1
- Accessories: Logo plate, 2 "torch" pieces, 2 flames
- In 2016, Collection 1 was re-released in a whole new production run for Dollar General stores in the US as part of a large collection of re-released Kre-O sets. But where most of these releases are nigh-identical to the originals, the re-released Micro-Changer blind-bags use the almost-entirely-retooled 2015 Kreon, with slightly-differently-hued plastics than the originals. (It is possible for some of the add-on pieces to be in the older hues.) Singe's torso and face tampographs have also been reworked to be slightly more detailed, and the formerly-bare legs now have extra detail tampographing on them.
- Sadly, this release has no individual-identification code on the bag, requiring you to use the feel-through-the-bag method or just buy blind and hope.
Notes
Foreign names
- French/Dutch: Dragon (France, the Netherlands, Belgium)
- Italian: Fury (Italy)
