Vertebreak (Kingdom)

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The name or term "Vertebreak" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Vertebreak (disambiguation).
Vertebreak is a Predacon from the Kingdom portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Dragon King of Hogwarts-uh, I mean, Cybertron.

Vertebreak may be a fossil, but she's[1] still brimming with primal beast power!

Toys

Generations

Someday someone will dig up my dried up old bones; they'll say this poor man died of thirst in the desert alone.
  • Vertebreak (Core Class, 2020)
    • Hasbro ID number: WFC-K3
    • TakaraTomy ID number: KD EX-02
    • TakaraTomy release date: April 24, 2021
    • Accessories: Tail/"bone weapon"[2]
Part of the first wave of Kingdom Core Class figures, Vertebreak transforms from a Dracorex skeleton to a 3.5-inch tall robot and back. Her tail can detach in robot mode to use as a weapon or store on the robot mode's back.
Unlike Deluxe Class dino-skeleton characters in Kingdom, she cannot disassemble into weapons and armor for other figures.
In Japan, Vertebreak was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive.
She was redecoed into Dracodon.

Notes

  • In real life, the status of Dracorex as a valid genus is controversial as the type specimen has been argued to actually just be a misclassified juvenile Pachycephalosaurus (a common issue in paleontology due to the frequency of immature animals looking quite different from their adult forms).
  • Product descriptions by Hasbro used on various online retailing websites, such as Amazon, refer to her alternate form being a "raptor fossil". This was later corrected in statements by Hasbro, presumably mentioned at the Kingdom unboxing event.[1]

Foreign names

  • Japanese: Vertebreak (ヴァータブレイク Vātabureiku)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 The character has no bio. At Hasbro PulseCon 2020, John Warden referred to the toy with masculine pronouns. By contrast, Vertebreak was referred to with feminine pronouns at a November 2020 virtual unboxing event, as attested by Ben Yee in his Vertebreak review: "yes, she according to Hasbro at the Kingdom unboxing event"
  2. HasbroPulse description of Vertebreak states: "Pull off the tail in raptor mode and use in robot mode as a cool bone weapon!"