Raindance
- Raindance is an Autobot Mini-Cassette from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Raindance is a daredevil photojournalist who'll risk anything to capture a great picture. Witty and likable, he has seen thousands of battles and has thousands of war stories that he's more than happy to share. His lively and exciting narratives never fail to entertain his listeners.
He can combine with Grand Slam to form Slamdance.
Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
Hundreds of years ago, a troop of Autobot astronomers on Cybertron detected the legendary Underbase making its way towards Earth. In order to alert their Autobot colleagues on that world, they encoded the information (along with several bonus features and "Making of the Underbase Legend" documentaries) onto two Mini-Cassette warriors, Raindance and Grand Slam. Their ship was damaged on the way, however, and the two Autobots crashed into the sea. The impact apparently left them insensate and mode-locked, for they never again demonstrated sentience or transforming capability.
The inert Autobots were found in their cassette modes by a band of 18th century pirates, who locked them away in a treasure chest just before a storm destroyed their ship, sinking it in the ocean. In the present era, Decepticon leaders on Cybertron stumbled across this long-lost information, and commanded Ratbat and his Decepticons of Earth to find the lost tapes. They moved their disguised desert island starship to the rough coordinates of the shipwreck, and opened a Club Con vacation resort for fleshlings to disguise their true purposes there. The Seacons successfully retrieved Raindance and Grand Slam from the treasure chest, despite a brief altercation with the Autobot known as Blaster. Club Con! Ratbat and his communications expert Soundwave were able to learn from the cassettes that the Underbase was set to pass by Earth in less than a week's time. The Flames of Boltax!
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
Merged as Slamdance, Raindance and Grand Slam served as a correspondent overseeing the Pax Cybertronia between the Autobots, Decepticons, and Ultracons. Engineered by Ultra Magnus and accepted by Shockwave and Ratbat as a means for pooling their dwindling energy resources, the Pax was to be an ending of the Dark Ages. Unfortunately, a bombing run followed by an all-out assault by Starscream and his Predacons ended all hopes of an easy truce, and the dramatic return of Megatron with his cloned Aerospace Extermination Squadron ended any ideas of truce at all. The Age of Wrath Slamdance avoided the termination sweeps only by falling deep underground. The Age of Wrath Pt.3 He eventually linked up with the resistance movement organizated by Blaster and Perceptor. The Age of Wrath Pt.2
Toys
The Transformers
- Raindance / Grand Slam (Cassette 2-pack, 1988)
- Accessories: 2 "Proton Missiles"
- The Transformers Raindance transforms from a blue microcassette into a Cybertronian hover plane. He has two 'proton missiles' to add to his plane mode. He was sold with Grand Slam, and he combines with him to form Slamdance.
Generations
- Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce (Multi-pack, 2019)
- ID number: WFC-S26
- Accessories: 2 guns (combine to form a launcher)
- Siege "Autobot Raindance" is a redeco of Skytread's jet component, which combines with Grand Slam to form the Deluxe-sized Slamdance. He includes two guns compatible with the C.O.M.B.A.T. System, which can combine to form a launcher, form Grand Slam's tank barrels in vehicle mode or be added to Raindance.
- As a redeco of Skytread's jet component, Raindance uses the same connection port and plug system as Power of the Primes Battletrap, allowing for mixing and matching between the six components. He features multiple hardpoints all over himself and his weapons to accommodate "Fire Blasts" from the Battle Masters assortment, which can be used to simulate blaster fire or explosions. Unfortunately, due to the nature of Skytread's mold, Raindance ends up forming the upper half of Slamdance instead of the lower half.
Notes
- Raindance's Dreamwave profile artwork incorrectly shows Squawktalk's guns mounted on top of his jet form instead of his own missiles mounted correctly below. This was likely a mistake made due to those two being archenemies, toyetically. Not only is it possible to attach both sets of weapons at once, but Slamdance can easily accommodate them in addition to all of his own weapons, so if you happen to have extra cassette weapons, there's no reason not to make your Raindance Dreamwave-accurate. Besides, this error is just an extension of the proud tradition of Slamdance never having a published photograph with his weapons in their proper configuration.
