Vertebreak (Kingdom)
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- Vertebreak is a Predacon from the Kingdom portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Vertebreak may be a fossil, but she's[1] still brimming with primal beast power! Her slight, skeletal frame, uncoupled from the usual muscular might of other beasts, may make her appear to pose a lesser threat, but Vertebreak possesses every other trick in the book to compensate. Once you're in her jaws, she will never, ever let go.
Toys
Generations
- Vertebreak (Core Class, 2020)
- 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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". The character would not receive a bio under her 2021 addition to Transformers: Earth Wars, in which she was referred to with feminine pronouns.
- ↑ HasbroPulse description of Vertebreak states: "Pull off the tail in raptor mode and use in robot mode as a cool bone weapon!"
