Crush-Bull
- Crush-Bull is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Crush-Bull (クラッシュブル Kurasshu Buru) is the leader of the Build Team. He's strong and deeply committed to following routine when on the job. Combine this with his deep-rooted emotional side, and he can be tricked a little too easily.
He also has an evil counterpart running around.
Fiction
Micromaster
Crush-Bull was one of several Cyberdroids in stasis at the Autobot Micromasters' Earth base. During a particularly pitched battle with the Decepticon Sixwing in Berserker Mode, the capsules containing the Build Team took a shock, activating them. A little while later, Micromasters resembling the Build Team were spotted wrecking human construction sites. The Build Team soon confronted them in Sixbuilder mode... only for the impostors to do the same! The green Decepticon Sixbuilder announced that the two teams were actually halves of the original whole, and that he would rejoin with Sixbuilder only after all the other Autobots had been destroyed. Sixbuilder the Ill-Fated Warrior!?
Later, after Sixtrain beat back the Decepticons at an excavation site by a dormant volcano, the Build Team began their own investigation, wondering what the Decepticons were digging up. When Raise discovered two pieces of metal, one of which bore a strange purple insignia, Crush-Bull's quick analysis revealed that both were Cybertronian in origin. Realizing something incredibly important was buried there, but not sure what, the Autobots begin to defend the site from Decepticon attacks. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!
The Autobots established a new headquarters, Metrobase, at the foot of Mount St. Hillary to protect the ruins from Decepticon attacks. During another excavation of the site, Joe, Crush-Bull, and Converter unearthed a strange pod from the ruins, which emitted a mysterious radiation that tore open a rift in space and time. The radiation knocked the Micromasters offline, so they didn't see the six shapes which emerged through the tear... The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!
Operation Combination
Years later, Crush-Bull and the rest of the Six-team Micromasters joined Guard City and the Road Corps in defending Earth from the forces of the Decepticon High Regent Scrash. Operation Combination
Beast Wars: Uprising
Gran Arm and Crush Bull were lost after the deaths of their Micromaster squad. They found sanctuary with Sunstorm, a minister at the First Church of Primus in Dodecahex. For years, they served as his attendants and became as close as family. When the Vehicon Apocalypse came to Dodecahex, the Micromasters got the congregation to safety while Sunstorm sacrificed himself to cover their escape. Derailment
Toys
Operation Combination
- Sixbuilder (Micromaster, 1992)
- Japanese ID number: TF-01
- The original version of Crush-Bull was available only as part of a Sixbuilder gift set in Japan. Aside from the bulldozer mode, Crush-Bull can form the chest or back of any of the similar-build Six-Teams (Sixturbo, Sixbuilder, or Sixwing), though his nominal placement is as Sixbuilder's back. The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find.
- This mold was also used to make Universe Micromaster Bonecrusher and the evil half of Crush-Bull.
Micromaster
- Crush-Bull (Micromaster, 2003)
- Sixbuilder ID number: 1
- Accessories: Sixbuilder legs
- In 2003, the entire Sixbuilder team was re-released as the fourth wave of The Transformers: Micromaster, in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. For this release, the team was extensively redecoed; Crush-Bull went from light green to a deep aqua-green. All decals were also replaced with paint applications.
Notes
- Crush-Bull's name could also be romanized as "Crash-Bull".
- Crush-Bull, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Operation Combination release.
- According to Hasbro designer Joe Kyde's design notes on Hasbro's Transformers website, the original Crush-Bull was the inspiration for the Walmart exclusive movie-verse Transformer Grindcore.
