Magma Blade (BW)

The Magma Blade (マグマブレード Maguma Burēdo) is the personal weapon of Magmatron, the Predacon Emperor of Destruction.

The Dinobot combiner Volcanicus also wields a pair of identically-named swords.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Generations Selects Special Comic

Beast Wars Neo comic

After being chewed up and spat out by Unicron, Magmatron's still-living disembodied head gripped the Magma Blade with its teeth and asked Big Convoy to receive the sword as a "parting gift". Magmatron then repented of his wrongdoings and asked Big Convoy to give him an honorable "warrior's death" with his own sword, as Magmatron himself was a true warrior. Big Convoy honored the request and killed Magmatron with the Magma Blade. Double Cross

Later, Big Convoy returned to the planet Cybertron and used the Magma Blade to destroy Unicron's physical body. Return to Zero

3H comics

Magmatron had become part of the new Dinobots, and was sent on a mission, given to them by the Oracle, Departure to the planet Arkus. The mission was a trap, however, and Magmatron and his Dinobots were attacked by energy vampires and their master known as the Dweller. Betrayal Magmatron fought off the Dweller long enough for the Dinobots to escape. When they returned to rescue him, they found nothing but his Magma Blade. The Wreckers: Finale Part 1

Beast Wars: Uprising

Magmatron, chief engineer of the Dinosaur, nearly chopped his junior engineer Dead-End to ribbons with his Magmablade when she startled him by popping out of a coolant hatch after the ship's political officer Synapse began executing crewmen. He later used the sword to chop up some security cameras after the ship itself turned on them. Intersectionality

Much, much later he used his Magmablade to cut down a Copter Drone while fighting alongside his fellow Ex-Bots during the Vehicon Apocalypse. Derailment

Toys

Beast Wars

• Magmatron (Ultra, February 1999)
  • ID number: D-35
  • Accessories: Magma Blade hilt/launcher, Magma Blade, uh, blade, left & right Skysaur missiles, 2 Seasaur missiles

The original Ultra-sized Beast Wars Neo Magmatron figure came with the Magma Blade, with the Landsaur's launcher/throat forming the sword-hilt and a devoted missile forming the blade. The hilt can also be converted into a pistol by flipping out an extra handle from the side.

Sonokong also released this figure with no differences other than the packaging in Korean markets.

• More information on Magmatron at TFU.info

• Cosmic Showdown: Big Convoy VS Magmatron (Vs pack, February 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: VS-35
  • Accessories: Sword-hilt/launcher, sword blade, left & right Skysaur missiles, 2 Landsaur missiles

Magmatron was available in Japan both in an individual box, and in a massive "Cosmic Showdown" (大宇宙の対決 dai uchū no taiketsu) two-pack with Big Convoy. Both toys are identical to their individual releases.

This vs-pack was also released in new packaging in Korea.

• Gold Magmatron (Ultra, 1999)
  • Accessories: Sword-hilt/launcher, sword blade, left & right Skysaur missiles, 2 Landsaur missiles

This gold vacuum metallized Magmatron was featured as a Lucky Draw giveaway.

• Black Magmatron (Ultra, 1999)
  • Accessories: Sword-hilt/launcher, sword blade, left & right Skysaur missiles, 2 Landsaur missiles

This figure is a black redecoed Magmatron and is a Lucky Draw item.

Beast Machines

• Magmatron (Ultra, 2000)
  • Accessories: Sword-hilt/launcher, sword blade, left & right Skysaur missiles, 2 Seasaur missiles.

Released exclusively through Target stores in the USA as part of Hasbro's Beast Machines toyline, Magmatron was imported over in a box that reflected his Japanese origin, with Japanese text and other elements from the Beast Wars Neo packaging added. There are no notable differences between this version of the figure or the original Japanese release.

Generations

• Volcanicus (Gift set, February 27, 2021)
  • ID number: TT-GS11
  • Accessories: 2 guns, 2 swords, 2 Magma Blades, 2 arm-mounted cannons, twin 'stunner' laser rifle, 2 foot-plates, left & right fists

Generations Selects Volcanicus includes a huge, newly-tooled pair of Magma Blades based on the sword held by Fall of Cybertron Grimlock. They exceed Earthrise Optimus Prime in terms of height.

Volcanicus was released as a Takara Tomy Mall exclusive in Japan, and was also made available through Hasbro Pulse in the United States.

Notes

• Just like its master, the Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of the Magma Blade is a "virtual redeco" of the Crash Caliber longswords of the revived Diaclone line's Dia-Battles V2 toy.