Mini-Cassette
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- Mini-Cassettes are Transformers from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Mini-Cassettes (also known as Cassette Warriors or simply Cassettes) are Transformers whose alternate mode is an audio cassette. They can fit into the chest compartments of Blaster or Soundwave (while the toys can fit into either, in fiction they stick to the communicator of their own faction).
Many of the characters have communication or espionage roles. Also, many of them are redecos.
- Japanese name: Cassettebot (Autobots) / Cassettron (Decepticons)
Autobot cassettes
Combiners
- Dial and Saur combine to form Legout (They are members of the W Cassettebot subgroup.)
- Grand Slam and Raindance combine to form Slamdance
- Graphy and Noise combine to form Decibel (They are members of the W Cassettebot subgroup.)
Eject/Rewind mold
- Eject
- Flip Sides (The same character as listed under Decepticon cassettes, below.)
- Rewind
- Rosanna (A member of the Kiss Players singing group.)
Others
- Ramhorn
- Steeljaw
- Sundor (Redeco of Laserbeak, below. A member of the Kiss Players singing group.)
Decepticon cassettes
Combiners
- Beastbox and Squawktalk combine to form Squawkbox
Frenzy/Rumble mold
- Enemy (Enemy's only transformable toy was permanently attached to a radio bigger than he was.)
- Frenzy
- Rumble
Laserbeak mold
- Buzzsaw
- Garboil (Member of the Cobalt Sentries.)
- Laserbeak
- (See also Sundor under Autobot cassettes, above.)
G1 Ravage mold
- Glit (A member of the Kiss Players singing group.)
- Howlback (Member of the Cobalt Sentries.)
- Ravage
Others
- Flip Sides (The same character as listed under Autobot cassettes, above.)
- Overkill
- Ratbat
- Slugfest
- Ravage, Universe (2008). This is an entirely new-mold version of the character, still transforming from jaguar to a cassette compatible with G1 Soundwave / Blaster. However, since Hasbro no longer assumes modern children will know what a cassette is, this mode will be interpreted as a manner of prisoner transport used by Hound.
Trivia
- In a Toys R Us Transformers: The Movie sticker book released in 1986, Laserbeak is referred to as a "Recordicon". This would seem to be the only sub-team name for the Decepticon cassettes ever mentioned in official US materials.
