Cratermaker

Cratermaker is a Decepticon Micromaster from the Siege portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

An extreme devotee of siege mentality, Ground Force Weapons Raider Cratermaker digs new defense facilities wherever he goes.

Games

Transformers: Earth Wars

• Ability: Shoots 5 rockets, each dealing a percentage of your DPS value.

Cratermaker at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki

Toys

War for Cybertron: Siege

• Autobots vs. Decepticons (Micromaster multi-pack, 2019)
  • ID number: WFC-S62

Cratermaker is a retool of Siege Flak, with a new head sculpt and colors in homage to the original Flak toy's Japanese release Powerbomb. He transforms into a self-propelled semi-Cybertronic missile system. As part of the C.O.M.B.A.T. System, he forms the barrel of the "Gravatronic Rubblemaker Cannon" when combined with his pack-in partner Fireline (or any other iteration of that mold). Do please note, though, that the peg can be absurdly loose, meaning that on some samples the gun mode simply refuses to hold together. Oh, well.

He was only available as part of a Target exclusive ten-pack of Micromasters, which includes the Autobots Ground Shaker, Irontread, Overair, Ricon, Road-Police, and Wheel Blaze, and the Decepticons Fireline, Nightflight, and Slyhopper.

Notes

• The Zone sub-franchise from which Powerbomb hails typically recast Hasbro's Decepticon Micromaster toys as Autobots, sometimes giving them new names in the process; Cratermaker's status as a renamed Decepticon version of the Autobot Powerbomb is perhaps an inverted homage to this practice.
• Stock photos on Target's website showed Cratermaker as a straightforward redeco of Flak, lacking the new head sculpt featured on both the back of the box and the final toy.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Cratermaker (クレーターメーカー Kurētāmēkā)