Slammer

Slammer is an Autobot drone from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Slammer at left, with his alliterative domestic partners

For a drone controlled by Metroplex, Slammer does not do much. He is usually seen in the form of Metroplex's left rear tower, though he is rarely seen in tank form.

Sometimes, Slammer is a sentient Transformer armed with the power of the C.O.M.B.A.T. technology.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Metroplex can maintain control of Slammer over a maximum range of 40 miles. Slammer's cannon shoots explosive rocket-propelled mortar shells with a range of 1.5 miles. Metroplex's Universe profile

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Chris Latta (English; Slammer never spoke, but Latta was cast for the part.)

Slammer was often seen when Autobot City looked like Metroplex's city mode, which was usually right before or after Metroplex transformed. When in tank mode, Slammer was accompanied by his partners Scamper and Six-Gun.

Slammer appeared alongside Scamper and Six-Gun when the latter interrogated the Dinobots and Sky Lynx over the recent theft of famous monuments. Thief in the Night

Later, Slammer and Scamper responded to Swindle's intrusion of Metroplex, but were disabled when the Decepticon blew a hole in the floor, causing them to crash. The Ultimate Weapon

Legends comic

When Metroplex was rebuilt in a new body, Slammer was incorporated as a stationary cannon normally hidden inside his right arm. Metroplex used his firepower to defeat Metrotitan, then took him with him to the Legends World where Slammer and his other components assured him they'd always be together. Bonus Edition Vol. EX

War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material

Finally, Hasbro remembered I exist!

Closer than ever to reaching the AllSpark, the Autobots awakened after crash-landing on pre-Ice Age Earth. While battling the Decepticons, both sides were joined by the Maximals and Predacons, their epic battle changing their combined destinies.

Slammer's function was a combat drone, and he trans-scanned into a tank/tower. His Weaponizer ability and heavy artillery were his powers and weapons, and his core traits were his obedience, passiveness, and formidableness. Slammer's message from the future was that he is part of something larger. Kingdom webpage

Toys

The Transformers

He still has nightmares about being thrown at stacks of Pogs back in the '90s.

• Metroplex (1986)
  • Takara ID number: C-70

The Transformers Slammer is a small tank unit composed of one of Metroplex's city-mode towers with a cannon turret added on. Due to the peg used to let him become a tower, he can replace one of Metroplex's fists to act as an arm cannon of sorts. Naturally, he was only available with Metroplex.

The original mold is also used by Metrotank.

• More information on Slammer at TFU.info

Encore

• Metroflex (September 2008)
  • Encore number: 12

In 2008, Slammer was re-released alongside the Metroplex in the Encore line with a minor retool that allowed his gun turret to become the top of a building in city mode.

Legends

• Metroflex (Metroplex) (January 27, 2018)
  • ID number: LG-EX
  • Accessories: Scamper figure, Scamper's blaster, 2 guns & missiles, 2 shoulder cannons, repair claw

The Takara Generations release of "Metroflex" was reissued as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive under the Legends line, to commemorate the release of Legends Dinosaurer. The Generations incarnation of Metroplex only includes Scamper as a companion figure, but in the accompanying mini-comic, the flip-out turret on Metroplex's left arm is repurposed as actually being Slammer.

War for Cybertron: Kingdom

• Slammer (Deluxe Class, 2021)
  • Hasbro ID number: TBA
  • Accessories: Gun

A part of the fourth wave of the Kingdom toyline, Slammer is a deluxe figure. This figure is the first distinct 'mold' of Slammer that can transform. Being a Weaponizer, Slammer can come apart into different parts that can be used as weapons.

Merchandise

Transformers Trading Card Game

• Slammer, Combat Drone (2018)
  • Wave 1A: Metroplex Deck
  • Rarity: RT
  • Card Number: T04/T04
  • Stars: 4

Slammer, Combat Drone is one of three standard sized character cards included with the Metroplex Deck. Unlike most cards included in the Transformers Trading Card Game, Slammer, Combat Drone only has art on one side in order to reflect the character's status as a non-transforming drone. The card was included in a ready to play box set, along with Metroplex, Autobot City, Scamper, City Patrol, Six-Gun, Heavy Weapons Expert, and a 40 card battle deck.

Notes

• Slammer's redeco Metrotank appeared in the Legends manga as a "virtual redeco" of Siege Deluxe Class Brunt, himself partly inspired by the IDW Centurion droid.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Slammer (スレマー Suremā)