Flattop (G1)

This article is about the Decepticon Micromaster. For the UK Autobot, see Flattop (Autobot).

Flattop is a Decepticon Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Did his legs get cut off?

Flattop's fantasies are of floating on a burning sea of fuel and charred Autobot remains. His days are spent flying sorties from his aircraft carrier, searching for targets (e.g., Autobots, fishing vessels, whales, fellow Decepticons he doesn't particularly like). When he finds one, he sets the carrier to attack on automatic, and then strafes from another direction. Ah, simple pleasures.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Flattop was clearly notorious, as the Autobots built their own copy, also called Flattop! It's not a gaffe! #255's Dread Tidings

Beast Wars: Uprising

Flattop command the carrier Platonix on behalf of Banzai-Tron and the Builders' Navy in the battle of the Great Rust Sea at the Yuss Straits. When the subsea element of the Navy was overwhelmed by the Resistance due to their Beast Upgrades, one of the surviving Micromasters tried to clamor aboard the Platonix, but Flattop accidentally shot him before realizing friend from foe. Caught between a Resistance battleship above, and unknown dangers below, Flattop chose to abandon his post rather than remain, and converted his carrier to aerial mode to flee. Derailment

Toys

Generation 1

A jet that rides a jet... what?

• Flattop (Micromaster Transport, 1989)
  • Accessories: 2 laser cannons

Flattop transforms into a purple-and-gray F4 Phantom fighter jet. He has functional landing gear wheels in the rear, but has a peg in place of the front landing gear. Flattop is unusual for a Micromaster Transport in that he is not a "towing" vehicle with a large trailer accessory, but a fully-independent vehicle on his own with a fully-independent, non-towed aircraft carrier Transport.

The carrier vehicle transforms into an "interstellar jet"; Flattop can either clip into the cockpit area while standing or sit inside.

This toy was released in Japan without changes as the Autobot Skywave.

• More information on Flattop at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• French: Platonix (Canada)
• Italian: Turbojet