Spin-Out (G1)

This article is about the cannon fodder for Toxitron. For the cannon fodder for Overlord, see Spin-Out (IDW).

Spin-Out is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Spin-Out is a fuel preparation specialist—in other words, a cook—for the Autobot army. But even if it isn't a very high-ranking job, it still makes him an officer, and thus capable of taking command if his superiors are all incapacitated.

What are the chances of that, though?

Fiction

Of Masters and Mayhem

Spin-Out was the cook in a five hundred strong Autobot force but being the 49th highest ranking officer means you still become the commanding officer when forty eight other 'bots are dead! After a destructive, 17-cycle "holding action", the Autobots technically won but Spin-Out was left depressed by the wreckage, the amount dead, and the fact people like Outback think he should feel proud he "stepped up". And he can't even sit in case it's on a corpse!

Things couldn't get worse.

Then his remaining men took a Decepticon called Toxitron prisoner... who turned out to be a walking acid spill who had intentionally been "captured". Everybody died, including Spin-Out, and the cook's rotting head was later used to let Toxitron falsely register as having an Autobot transponder.

So that's worse. The Toxic Transformer

Masterpiece toy bios

Spin-Out was found inside a mysterious Diadem building following a battle against the combined forces of the Decepticons and the Quintessons, alongside Cordon's memories. Masterpiece Spin-out bio

Toys

Masterpiece

Apparently not Tigertrack's twin brother.

• Spin-Out (November 28, 2020)
  • ID number: MP-39+
  • Accessories: Rifle, handgun

Masterpiece MP-39+ Spin-Out is a red redeco of MP-42 Cordon, which itself is a retooling of MP-39 Sunstreaker, transforming into a licensed Lamborghini Countach LP500S mode, only without Cordon's police light-bar. The toy is an homage to the original Diaclone iteration of the original Sunstreaker toy; his license plates reading "CR-01" in reference the original mold being the first Diaclone: Car Robot toy.

The rear electronic propulsion engine cover can be folded into the rear of the car for a more realistic alt mode, and the rear combination tail-lights can be switched between realistic and cartoon modes. The doors and hood open, and the front headlights can be popped up. His rear spoiler can also V-wing to reval a rear-mounted (non-firing) blaster.

To preserve cartoon accuracy, the windows on the chest are fake, with the main panel of the chest being formed by turning the roof of the car mode inside out, with the extra windows folding out from inside.

Spin-Out was initially offered for pre-order as a TakaraTomy Mall online exclusive and a little later at other online retailers.

Generations

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The Red Luigi to Tigertrack's Green Mario.

• Spin-Out and Cordon (2-pack, 2020)
  • ID number: WFC-GS20
  • Accessories: Rocket boosters/gun

Generations Selects Spin-Out is a redeco of Earthrise Deluxe Class Sunstreaker, transforming from a robot into an unlicensed approximation of a Lamborghini Countach LP500S (most conspicuously missing the spoilers). His engine block can be used as a pair of rocket boosters or as a gun.

He is bundled with Cordon.

Notes

(The red mecha on the left.)

• Before the debut of Transformers, Takara released the Diaclone Countach LP500S toy stateside in the short-lived Diakron line, using the same colors as the Japanese original.
• When Hasbro decided to import the Diaclone cars to become the initial 1984 Autobots, "Spinout" was the working name of the Countach LP500S. Initially, Hasbro intended to release the toy in the same colors as its Diaclone predecessor. During development the name was changed to Sideswipe ... and was transferred to a different Diaclone mold (the New Countach LP500S mold). In the end, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were released with personalities, powers, and color schemes swapped from what had been originally intended. Decades on, however, Takara would separately revive the original colors for Tigertrack and Spin-Out.
• Separately, Spin-Out's coloration was also used in the 2005 IDW comics for some of the Machination's Sunstreaker clones.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Spin-Out (スピンアウト Supin Auto)