Leatherhide (Universe)

This article is about the Generation 1 Autobot. For the Transcendent Technomorph, see Leatherhide (TransTech).

Leatherhide is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family (via the 2003 Universe series).

You don't exist and I still miss you, buddy.

Leatherhide is a renegade Autobot.

Fiction

The AllSpark Almanac

The Ulchtar of Aurex 603.0 Kappa broke into Primax 388.0 Gamma Zone's Satellite Penitentiary. There, he retrieved the personality components of the renegade Autobots Screechwing, Spiketail, Nightprowler, Albitron, and Leatherhide. The five formed the Combatibots that could merge to form Toxitron. The AllSpark Almanac II Subsequently, as part of Toxitron, Leatherhide joined the Thirteen Great Demon Generals. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/27

Toys

Universe (2003)

For a brief time, Hasbro's official website checklist featured listings for two "Halloween Horrorcon Value Packs" that were to be Wal-Mart exclusives… which also likely explains why they were canceled. (Wal-Mart had taken a good half-dozen exclusives and released them more-or-less simultaneously, leading to a huge glut. A lot of other Transformers exclusives were canceled during the Universe era.)

In 2004, several test-shots appeared on eBay in a group, among them a stony-blue redeco of the Beast Wars Mutant Soundwave. This, presumably, was to have been Leatherhide, as the other toys in the group line up with the names given for the two Halloween sets. The toy would have transformed from organic alligator to organic bat with no true humanoid robot mode, only glimpses of a lost robot mode, particularly a twisted robot face visible inside the bat mode's mouth. As he was to come in a "vs" two-pack with the then-Decepticon character Blackarachnia, it is presumed that he was to be an Autobot.

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

External links

• Gallery of Leatherhide vs. Blackarachnia test-shots