Gulf

Gulf is a Decepticon Seacon from the Masterforce portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

He's Brimming with exitement.

Gulfs (ガルフ, ga-ru-fu) are mindless drone warriors commanded by the villainous Turtler. Their primary function is to be mass-produced, disposable cannon-fodder to keep the Autobot rank-and-file occupied while the big baddies are doing more sinister things.

The Gulfs can combine with their fellow Seacons to form King Poseidon.

Toys

Masterforce

• Gulf (Seacon, 1988)
  • Japanese ID number: D-316
  • Accessories: Left & right rifles, large rifle, connector, weapon stand base

Identical to the Hasbro Seacon Skalor, Gulf transforms into a robotic coelacanth-monster. Its rifles can be mounted on its beast-mode back around its dorsal fin. These rifles also connect to form the double-barreled business end of the Gulf's artillery mode.

As a Scramble City style combiner, Gulf can form any limb to any combination of similar-construction super robots (or be used in its cannon mode as a hand-weapon provided the super robot uses the King Poseidon fists), but its nominal placement is as the right leg of King Poseidon.

This mold was also used to make Coelagon.

• King Poseidon (Gift set, 1988)
  • Japanese ID number: D-318

In Japan, all six Seacons were available both as individuals, and in a complete boxed set.

Trivia

• Gulf's packaging uses the off-kilter Romanization "Galph".

• None of the Masterforce Seacons were ever depicted in robot mode in the cartoon or manga. They went from critter to super-robot-part and that's it. (Well, okay, the limb-bots often went to "smoldering pile of scrap metal" too.) The packaging art is basically the only "fictional" depiction of a Gulf in robot mode.

External links

• Gulf (well, Skalor) at TFU.info
  
  
  From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.