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The Rainmakers are a Decepticon subgroup from the Generation 1 continuity family.
All the colors of the rainbow, except for one...

The Decepticons known colloquially as the Rainmakers are part of Shockwave's forces on Cybertron. Each one is a Seeker with a bright, single-color paint job. (The green member, Acid Storm, did find a more exciting palette.) They retain their original Cybertronic "tetrajet" alternate modes.

As their name implies, they can make rain. Acid rain.

The group consists of:

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

Just For Jets™ gets rid of grey in one easy shot change!

When a group of Autobots and Chip Chase journeyed to Cybertron to fetch a cosmitron for a wounded Optimus Prime, Megatron sent the trio to make things difficult for our heroes with a dose of acid rain.

Guess what? They failed. Divide and Conquer

Generations Selects Special Comic

The Rainmakers joined the other Decepticons in supporting the Selector revolt at Neo Scramble City. Volcanicus comic 2

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Prime noted that the Rainmakers were among the deadliest subordinates of Shockwave on Cybertron and Earth in many universal streams, including Primax 509.28 Epsilon. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/13

2019 IDW continuity

The Rainmakers were a military unit during the War of the Threefold Spark. To the dismay of Elita-1, their reunion in the Ascenticon Guard evoked the Ascenticons being on wartime footing. All Fall Down

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When the Ascenticons, now rebranded as the Decepticons, took over the Senate building, the Rainmakers killed Subsea before they shattered the ceiling, using their powers to prevent the Senators from escaping. We Have Deceived You

War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon

No, the earlier blue guys weren't me!

The Rainmakers were among the Seekers who showed up for Starscream's assault on the Ark. Siege episode 6

Toys

Generations

Destined to shelfwarm after the Earthrise reveal.
  • Seeker Acid Storm / Seeker Ion Storm / Seeker Nova Storm (Multi-pack, 2019)
    • ID number: WFC-S52 / WFC-S53 / WFC-S54
    • Accessories: 6 "HPI Null-Ray Laser Launchers"
Released as a three-pack, the Rainmakers are a trio of redecoes of the Siege Starscream mold from the same line, transforming from a heavily Generation 1-inspired robot to a Cybertronian 'tetrajet' based on the Seekers' appearance in "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1" and back; although the jet mode has the robot legs sticking out from the undercarriage. Each includes two "HPI Null-Ray Laser Launchers," which can mount on their upper arms or under the wings in jet mode. All three feature battle damage (with identical application patterns) and use the neutral frowning head sculpt used by Starscream.
The stock photos from Hasbro mistakenly feature the alt-mode of Thundercracker instead of Ion Storm.
This set was made available at general retail in US Target stores (where it would become a recurring shelfwarmer) without prior announcement from Hasbro. It was also released in Canada at general retail at Toys"R"Us stores.


Merchandise

The Loyal Subjects

Make it Rain.
  • Rainmakers (2013)
    • Accessories: Pegged wings, blasters
The Loyal Subjects Rainmakers are a set of three 3-inch non-transforming vinyl figures designed by Les Schetkoe. The set includes Acid Storm and the two then yet to be named Rainmakers, and comes in a retro box with a limited run of 500 pieces.

Notes

  • The term "rainmakers" (or perhaps "rain makers") was originally used by Bluestreak as a colloquial description of their actions. However, repeated fan usage turned this into a widely accepted name for the group, which was eventually made official as such by Hasbro's 2008 toy bio for Acid Storm.
  • Despite the many different designations thought up by fans, the yellow and the blue Rainmakers went officially unnamed for over 30 years until a 2015 entry of the Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime (contributed by Brandy Dixon, Betsy Blackie, and Jim Sorenson) named the yellow one Nova Storm and the blue one Ion Storm.
  • A common piece of fanon identified the all-yellow Rainmaker as the partially yellow Sunstorm. However, even taking into consideration the haphazard coloring typically given to generic Seekers, chances were in favour of their not being the same guy. After being asked the question during the August 2010 Q&A, Hasbro confirmed that the yellow Rainmaker was not Sunstorm, but did not give him a name at that time.<ref>August 2010 Q&A on ASMzine: "When the right opportunities arise, the other Seekers seen in the original television series such as Acid Storm have been named and given official backgrounds. Unfortunately, not every character that has appeared on screen has made the transition into other forms of media or even product. Because of this fact, there has been no official backgrounds created for these characters."</ref>
  • Further confusion arose during BotCon 2013, when figures of Sunstorm and his newly named companions from "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1", Bitstream and Hotlink, were released in an exclusive three pack titled "Rainmakers". However, Fun Publications employees subsequently confirmed that the pack's title was in error, and that there was no intention to link the "welcoming committee" to the trio from "Divide and Conquer".
  • The acid rain only affected the Autobots. Chip Chase was utterly unharmed. Make of that what you will.

Foreign names

  • Japanese: Rainmakers (レインメーカーズ Reinmēkāzu)

References

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