Dile
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- Dile is an Autobot Mini-Cassette from the Headmasters portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Dile (ダイル Dairu) is the Autobots' energy resource scout and a Mini-Cassette. His thumbs contain high-powered energy sensors. Unfortunately, Dile has a keen curiosity, bringing him to major system failures when investigating sources of energy.
As a member of the W Cassettebot sub-sub-group, he can combine with his partner Saur to form the humanoid robot Legout.
Fiction
Wars manga
Dile was presumably present as part of Legout when Legout was stationed at Scramble City. Metrowars
IDW Generation 1 continuity
In the era of Zeta Prime, Dile was seen among the crowd of protesters rallying against the Autobot cop who reportedly killed an unarmed Decepticon agitator. To Walk Among the Chosen
Toys
The Headmasters
- Dairu [sic] (W Cassettebot, 1987)
- ID number: C-123
- Accessories: Left and right "Wave Blasters"
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers Dile is a mini-cassette that transforms into what appears to be a green Iguanodon. He has a good range of articulation with movement at the neck, arms, hips, knees and tail. Two silver chromed "Wave Blasters" plug into the faux cassette tape holes near his hips (not his neck as in the picture to the right). In tape mode, he fits into the chest compartment of Blaster or Soundwave (and their retooled reincarnations).
- Dile combines with Saur to form the upper body of their combined mode Legout. In this form, Dile's guns form over-the-shoulder artillery.
- Dile was recreated and reissued as Studio Series Dairu and Uriad.
Notes
- As one of the vanishingly few toys unique to the Headmasters toy line and something of a tail-ender within the line, Dile and the other three "dino-cassettes" command ridiculous sums on the secondary market. ($1,000 for the pair is not unknown.) Their actual rarity is questionable, though; similar "exclusive holy grails" Stepper, Artfire, Twincast, and Soundblaster were uncommon, but not vanishingly rare, yet still commanded top dollar due to overseas perception (until they got reissued, at any rate). After some decades of this, their high price status may at last change after their rerelease in the Studio Series line—except, perhaps, for MISB collectors.
- A common romanization of Dile's name is "Dial". However, "Dial" is rendered in Japanese as ダイヤル daiyaru or ダイアル daiaru, not ダイル dairu. Dile may be a shortening of "crocodile" (クロコダイル kurokodairu) or a shortening and modification of "reptile" (レプタイル reputairu, with the "ta" (タ) changed to "da" (ダ) in a fairly common form of Japanese word play). His partner, Saur, has a name that is a shortened form of "dinosaur", so either would be a parallel to that.
