Scourge (G1)/toys
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Can you match Scourge's tracking skills to track down all his toys?
Toys
Generation 1
- Scourge (Decepticon Jet, 1986)
- Japanese ID number: D-71
- Accessories: "Disintegrator Ray", "Laser Blaster"
- Scourge has a beard and a mustache and transforms into a Cybertronic hovercraft. On early releases, the blue on the center of Scourge's alt mode was paint. This was changed to two stickers for later releases. The stickers on his ankles tend to get damaged through normal transformation.
- Scourge's design has some oddities to it other than just him being a beardo. His head mounted gun (the "Disintegrator Ray") is on a standardised 5mm post hole, but his fist holes are smaller — so his Laser Blaster and Disintegrator ray aren't interchangeable. Scourge also has knees. He's got no reason to have knees, they're not part of his transformation or really useful for anything, but he still has them. Maybe he could use them for flying poses in robot mode. Maybe.
- Some releases of Scourge came with a piece of a four-part The Transformers: The Movie poster with glow-in-the-dark elements.
- Scourge (Targetmaster, 1987)
- Accessories: "Fracas" Targetmaster "Incendiary Cannon", "Rocket Booster"
- A retool of the original Scourge toy, Targetmaster Scourge's hand-holes were widened, to accommodate a new Targetmaster weapon. His handgun was replaced with Fracas. This retooling made his weapons interchangeable, allowing Scourge to wear Fracas on his head and to hold his "Rocket Booster" (the new name for the "Disintegrator ray") in his hand.
- Yay, progress! Still don't know why he's got knees, though.
- Targetmaster Scourge's packaging originally contained the erroneous blurb "Fracas transforms into Misfire's weapon!"[1] Supposedly, this was fixed by a running change, but the corrected version is said to be much rarer than the fixed box for Targetmaster Hot Rod, who originally suffered the same problem.
- Like Targetmaster Cyclonus & unlike most of the 1987 Decepticon Targetmasters, This version of the toy was not released in Japan.
Titanium Series
- Scourge (6-inch Cybertron Heroes, 2006)
- Scourge once again transforms into a retro-futuristic hovercraft, this time with a more accurate sculpt to his animation model (well, minus the head) and significantly improved articulation. While not 100% accurate, the wings in particular are now hinged in the middle to allow them to open wider, and the legs have a much more closely detailed design. But man does he have a big forehead.
Timelines
- Wings of Honor (multipack, 2009)
- Accessories: Left & right wings/blades (left and right), Planet X-style Cyber Key
- A retool of Cybertron Sideways, Scourge is a blue and white alien spacefighter with Cyber Planet Key-activated pop-out blades built into his battle shield. He comes with a red Planet X style Cyber Key with blue deco. His wings can also detach from his ankles and be used as blades, with both pegging into his hands, either with one blade in each hand, or with both blades pegging into the top and bottom of a single hand, forming a double-bladed weapon. Sadly, the faction symbol-swapping gimmick has been neglected. Scourge was only available as part of a multi-pack at BotCon 2009.
- This toy was redecoed to make Sweeps Two, Six, and Seven for the same convention. The original version of this mold was also used for the Japanese DVD-exclusive Noisemaze Mass Production Type Version and Universe Ratbat.
Generations
- Scourge (Deluxe, 2010/2011)
- Accessories: 2 handguns
- Part of the sixth wave of 2010-2011 Generations Deluxe Class toys, Scourge transforms into a jet loosely based on the Boeing X-48 blended wing body concept aircraft. He comes with two weapons that are both held via 5mm post, and can combine (via C joint) into a weapon that looks like Fracas. These weapons can store inside each of his cape halves/aircraft wings, which can unfold to create Scourge's cape-like batwings in robot mode (though this is not suggested in the instructions). The weapon with the clip can also attach to the 3mm bar of his head-mounted laser. His head can also rise up an extra click farther than usual so that you can reenact hilarious character model mishaps in vehicle mode. It's not mentioned in the instructions either, but there's no other reason for that jointing to exist.
- Like many, many aircraft-based Transformers, Scourge possesses landing gear in his alternate mode. There is a pair of flaps near the middle of his underside that can unfold to display six wheels, and underneath his robot mode head is a seventh landing gear wheel that can be flipped out. However, this third section is unusable while his head is extended, which causes him to tip backwards even with the other two stabilizing sections out.
- His packaging stock photography shows Scourge with red light-piped eyes, but the production version changes that to blue, which is odd considering this is clear plastic painted blue. His instructions also depict him with an alternate head sculpt.
- There have been reports of instances of Scourge being shipped with two right hands, however this does not impact his transformation negatively.
- He was later redecoed with the mold's alternate head into TakaraTomy Generations Ratbat and Timelines Serpent O.R., and retooled into BotCon 2014 Devcon and the Platinum Edition Decepticon Sweeps.
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"It's funny you think you can dictate that."
- Fracas & Scourge (Deluxe, 2016)
- Accessories: Fracas, 2 handguns
- Part of the first wave of Titans Return Deluxe Class toys, Scourge transforms from a robot to spaceship and back.
- Scourge's head can transform into the Titan Master Fracas, who can either drive Scourge in vehicle mode, pilot Scourge's larger weapon, or plug into the vehicle mode's tower for a Flory Dery-inspired mode; this mount point is specially sculpted for Titan Master heads. As a result of the toy's construction, Scourge can be transformed into vehicle mode without removing his head, leaving it somewhat hidden on the vehicle's backside.
- Scourge comes with two hand-held weapons—a handgun based on his original toy's headpiece, and a double-barreled weapon. They can also combine into a larger three-barreled gun. The double-barreled weapon can be piloted by a Titan Master. Two pegs for standing Titan Master figures are located on the nose section, though the detailing in those spots limits them to facing either forward or backward at a specific angle. His vehicle mode also has four sculpted blasters on its underside, formed from his shin panels. Behind these are two 3mm peg holes, which can mount some Legion class weapons. He has two 5mm peg holes to mount his weapons in vehicle mode.
- Because many of the tabs in the legs plug into slots with one open side in the legs, Scourge's vehicle mode can end up with a gap in the nose section.
- There is an error in his stock photo due to being a rendered 3D model instead of the actual toy; the shin pieces colored blue in robot mode but white in vehicle mode. The model also has smaller eyes than the final toy, and shows the swivels in his knees being clear. The toy also features a minimal amount of paint apps in robot mode, resulting in a nearly monochromatic color scheme.
- Despite the available premise of army-building for Sweeps, Scourge was a commonly-found shelfwarmer of the Titans Return Toyline, often found among entire rows of Blurrs.
- Armada of Cyclonus (Platinum Edition 3-pack, 2016)
- Accessories: 2 Guns
- This Platinum Edition Scourge is a redeco of the Generations toy, featuring transparent plastic on his several parts to evoke his reformation in The Transformers: The Movie.
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United
- Decepticon Scourge (Deluxe, 2011)
- Japanese ID number: UN-21
- Accessories: "Laser rifle" & "twin blaster"
- United Scourge's redeco of the Generations version includes metallic blue paint on his chest, shoulders, waist, and forearms. He also has extended wing stripes and red windows for the cockpit. The blue on his legs is now a lighter, more purple blue. Silver paint replaces the white paint on his forearms, and he has silver paint on his hands (retaining the metallic red fingers). His facial hair is now dark blue instead of gray, and he has dark blue and silver paint on his torso (instead of gray). The Decepticon insignia is now smaller and towards the center of his torso. His eyes are now painted a clear red.
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- Decepticon Set (3-pack, 2011)
- Accessories: 2 handguns
- Dubbed "Decepticon Scourge Blue Purple Clear Version", this redeco of the 2010 Scourge mold (see above) is cast in transparent purple-ish blue, translucent light blue, and opaque purple-blue plastics, emulating the scene in The Transformers: The Movie where Scourge is created from Thundercracker. He's something of an odd man out in the set, being significantly bluer than his very purple comrades.
- This version was only available in an e-HOBBY exclusive 3-pack with clear-plastic versions of Galvatron, Nightstick, and Cyclonus. Preorders for the set were opened on December 13, 2010, and closed on January 11, 2011, and shipped in April.
- This figure was available with a Galvatron pin and Macrocosmic Seekers booklet directly from e-HOBBY, he was also released in Asian countries outside of Japan without said pin and booklet.
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Kre-O
- Scourge (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2013)
- Collection: 2
- Bag number: ***** 72
- Accessories: Stand-brick (or plate, 2015 releases only), small pistol, 2 clip-on rifles
- As part of the second wave of blindpacked Micro-Changers, Scourge is a Kreon resembling Generation 1 Scourge and the craft he can be rebuilt into is presumably the same spaceship/hovercraft thing that Scourge turns into. He reuses Mirage's helmet, Starscream's arm guns, and Bumblebee's pistol.
- This Collection was still in circulation at "dollar" stores and drug stores up through 2015. They eventually lost the individual-identifying bag codes, but other changes were hidden inside the bag. The 2015 releases replaced the 2x4 logo stand-brick with a new 3x4 logo plate. The Kreon was also given the slight retooling to the arm seen in the 2014 Kreons, making the "cuff" parts more sharp-cornered and better adapted to being used as studs. Some of the add-on pieces may also be slightly off-color, possibly due to a change in factories in mid-production.
- Scourge (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2016)
- Collection: 2
- Accessories: Stand-plate, small pistol, 2 clip-on rifles
- In 2016, Collection 2 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.) Scourge's paint operations have also been altered to replace the flat light gray paint with shiny silver, as well as changing his faction symbol from solid black to a white-outlined purple.
- 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.
Legends
- Scourge (2016-08-27)
- ID number: LG26
- Legends Scourge is a redeco of Titans Return Scourge in a color scheme more accurate to the G1 cartoon.
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Notes
- As Sweeps are physically identical to Scourge in most continuities, any enterprising fan can just buy multiples of a Scourge toy and repurpose them as Sweeps, as demonstrated by the army-building photo to the right.
- ↑ Targetmaster Scourge MISB at Super Toy Archive.
