Slash (POTP)

This article is about the Generation 1 Dinobot. For the movieverse Dinobot, see Slash (AOE).

Slash is an Autobot Dinobot from Generation 1 continuity family.

Clever girl.

Slash is the newest member of the Dinobots, an elite tracker who always finds her target. When paired with a Prime Master, she tends to use her newfound power to further hone her tracking abilities.

Toys

Generations

They show extreme intelligence–even problem-solving intelligence. Especially the Big One. We bred eight originally, but when she came in she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one... when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out.

• Dinobot Slash (Legends Class, 2017)

• Japanese ID number: PP-04
• Japanese release date: 05-25-2018

Part of the first wave of Power of the Primes Legends Class toys, Slash can transform into a rough, robotic approximation of a Velociraptor. Her beast mode jaw can open and close, and a Prime Master can fit inside the compartment on her beast mode back once it is opened. Though she was released alongside her five teammates who combine into Volcanicus, Slash does not form any part of the Dinobot combiner. In both modes, she is fairly small for a Legends Class figure. Due to her extensively-long dino body, getting her to stand on her feet in dino mode can often prove difficult, limiting her to a raised head position.

There is a variant of this toy sporting the slightly-different movie-style Autobot insignia on her robot-mode chest.

The Prime Master cards that come with Slash are not multilingual like the others. Instead, each of them repeats the same English phrase four times. However, a multilingual Quintus Slash card was found...inside a Power of the Primes Dinobot Slug package.

This mold was retooled with a new robot mode head to make Cindersaur.

Notes

Generisaurus.

• Slash is inspired by the Age of Extinction character of the same name.
• Concept art of Slash depicts her as transforming into a different kind of dinosaur and reverse-gripping a pair of knives.
• While Slash was advertised as the first female Dinobot, this isn't quite correct. Slash is the first female Dinobot to receive a toy, as well as the first female Dinobot with an actual dinosaur mode, but she was preceded in fiction by the female Dinobot Strafe, who appeared in the IDW Generation 1 continuity and transforms into a draconic Orthrus-like creature. (Incidentally, Age of Extinction Slash was also intended by designers to be female, but this did not make it into published bios.)

Foreign names

• Japanese: Slash (スラッシュ Surasshu)