Junkheap (AOE)

This article is about the garbage truck Decepticon from Age of Extinction. For the garbage truck Decepticon from Dark of the Moon, see Garagebot. For a list of other meanings, see Junkheap (disambiguation).

Junkheap is a Decepticon or Autobot from the Age of Extinction portion of live-action film series continuity family.

Junkheap is only good for one thing. Wait...three things.

Built by KSI, Junkheap is a Waste Management garbage truck composed of three robots, mostly-mindless drones built by humans using the element Transformium.

Well, except for when he's one robot.

Fiction

Age of Extinction film

Junkheap's three components—a large green robot, a medium-sized white robot, and a small yellow robot—lay dormant in KSI's Beijing branch factory when Galvatron staged a rebellion and brought all of KSI's creations under his control. Along with the other drones, Junkheap stormed Hong Kong to track down the Seed, splitting into his components to cover more ground. In the ensuing fight, Hound used a K-Bar knife to stab the white Junkheap in the head. The green and yellow Junkheaps were also destroyed by Hound. Age of Extinction

The Last Knight film

In the years that followed after the battle of Hong Kong, multiple Decepticons of Junkheap's body-type apparently earned their freedom as a result of Galvatron's absence. As Transformers kept arriving on Earth, they were hunted by the TRF for being illegal immigrants. In Hong Kong, a yellow Junkheap unit got into a fight with a green Junkheap unit before they were joined by a white Junkheap unit.

Several Junkheap units sought to embrace their freedom and defected to the Autobots. At least two Junkheap units were seen playing a friendly game of volleyball in Cuba. At some later point, they presumably played with former Sector Seven Agent Seymour Simmons and the Wrecker Topspin. The Last Knight

Toys

Age of Extinction

Feed me, Seymour.

• Junkheap (Power Battler, 2014)

Junkheap is based on his largest, green component robot, but transforms into an entire garbage truck. His "Claw Crush!" action feature is a chomping claw which can be activated in both modes; embedded in his chest for robot, or in the back of the bin when in vehicle mode.

The figure (as well as the back of the packaging) sports the logo of Waste Management, and was initially heavily promoted as the result of a cooperation, with the toy's alternate mode revealed on the official Transformers Facebook page as part of a celebration of Earth Day.

However, as a tail-ender for the Power Battlers assortment, Junkheap eventually fell victim to "tail end of the line" syndrome, and wasn't officially released until much later than initially planned, not helped by a massive slowdown at US West Coast docks caused by union action. Junkheap was only available in Hasbro's Asian markets, and from US-based online retailers and discount stores like Ross, T.J.Maxx and Five Below. To make matters even worse, he was only included in one wave alongside the other two new Power Battlers figures, Vehicon and High Octane Bumblebee, while a revision of said wave that includes Vehicon and Bumblebee but lacks Junkheap was actually stocked by online retailers first, with some never even bothering to list the wave that includes Junkheap.

This sculpt was also used to make Adventure Junkion.

Notes

• According to Hasbro's brand panel at BotCon 2014, 'stinky plastic' was briefly considered for Junkheap's toy, but the notion was vetoed for cost reasons.
• The robot modes for Junkheap's components were revealed on Waste Management's Instagram account.
• Partially recolored versions of the Junkheap robot CGI models are used in The Last Knight to represent generic Autobots and Decepticons.