Ironhide (Movie)

The name or term "Ironhide" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Ironhide (disambiguation).

Ironhide is an Autobot from the Movie continuity family.

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Cybertron has heard of hands, but not feet.

Ironhide is the Autobot's resident weapons specialist and Optimus Prime's old friend. He has more guns than a smaller third-world country.

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Fiction

Transformers (2007) movie

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Shouldn't have eaten those beans.

Transformers The Game

Voice actor: Mark Ryan

Toys

Transformers (2007)

Ironhide (Voyager, 2007)

Japanese ID Number: MA-09

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Ironhide transforms into a black 2006 GMC Topkick four-wheel drive pickup truck. The two exhaust smokestacks behind the rear cabin have been shortened from the real scaled length and the prototype due to safety and durability reasons, but otherwise the vehicle mode is very accurate to the real truck... well, aside from the fact Ironhide's massive missile launchers are quite visible underneath the vehicle.

Ironhide features an Automorph gimmick in his legs during transformation: As the user swings down his feet, all of the panels that make up his legs automaticaly shift and fold into place. This gimmick does not effect Ironhide's articulation.

In robot mode, Ironhide is quite accurate to his CGI design, though obviously simplified for toy practicality. Contrary to appearances, he features full standard up-down and lateral shoulder articulation, as well as articulation in his elbows, hips and knees. His arm-mounted cannons are inactive while mounted on both arms. However, detaching the left arm cannon and combining it with the right arm creates a huge functional missile launcher that is almost as big as Ironhide himself. The missile launching mechanism itself isn't the typical spring-loaded button design, instead relying on a pressure-launch system to fire the missiles from the four barrels.

Fast Action Battlers

Cannon Blast Ironhide (2007)

Trivia

• In the initial draft of the movie, Ironhide was not present among the Autobot cast. However, due to fan input, he replaced female Autobot Arcee in later drafts and the subsequent final script.
  
  
  From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.