Exo-suit (Action Masters)
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| This article is about the Action Master UK vehicles. For the suits worn by humans in the Generation 1 cartoon, see Exosuit. |
- Exo-suits are vehicles from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Exo-suits are transforming vehicles utilized by some Action Masters. Constructed using Magmatrynon alloy, each one has distinct armaments and capabilities.
- Circuit's Supersonic Racing Car is able to turn on a dime thanks to its extendible wheelbase. An invisibility screen allows for close range covert operations. In exo-suit mode, its spring suspension enhances Circuit's agility. Offensively, it packs a decelerator cannon able to slow any enemy to a crawl, and a powerful Gatling machine gun.
- Rumbler's exo-armour is massive, with ten inches of pure titanium protecting the operator from even repeated Decepticon photon blasts. Its rotating defence pounders allow it to smash through anything in its path.
- Slicer's 4WD Assault Vehicle can traverse extremely rugged terrain. As armour, it is designed to instantly rend enemies with its rotating cutters.
- Thundercracker's Solo Mission Jet Plane is able to withstand enormous G-forces, thanks to its flexible duraflex metal construction. It is able to fly at very high speeds, even when brushing by treetops at low altitudes. When transformed into its exo-suit configuration, its high-density construction makes it impervious to most armaments. In both modes, its primary weapon is a sonic boom cannon.
Toys
The Transformers
- Circuit (Action Master Exo-suit, 1991)
- The Supersonic Racing Car is a wheeled vehicle resembling a Formula 1 car that can transform into an exo-suit for any standard-sized Action Master. IE: Anyone but the Action Master elites.
- In exo-suit mode it has a gun made of the front axel (which sits at the Circuit's crotch as phallic as you please), the barrel of which can be removed and replaced by any standardised first year Action Master gun, thanks to the post on the back of these guns. Too bad Circuit is a second year Action Master and none of them came with the guns with posts on the back. Due to standardised post-holing you can also plug an AM gun in above the head of the AM riding in the exosuit, or use that hole to plug in the barrel from the exo-suit.
- It was sold with Circuit, but isn't known for losing its paint like him. Mostly because it barely has any paint to begin with.
- Rumbler (Action Master Exo-suit, 1991)
- The 4WD All-Terrain Vehicle is a motorized wheeled vehicle that can transform into an exo-suit. It was sold with Rumbler.
- Slicer (Action Master Exo-suit, 1991)
- Sold with Slicer, the 4WD Assault Vehicle is a motorized (requiring two AA batteries — not included) wheeled vehicle that can transform into an exo-suit. It uses a simple switch on the front (or top in suit mode) of the vehicle to make it roll either forwards or backwards. It is completely damned insane. It rolls incredibly fast and incredibly uncontrollably. It can roll in either exo-suit or assault vehicle modes.
- For an added element of insanity it's possible to unfold the blades on its front wheels when in assault vehicle mode. This makes the thing's movements even more erratic and can allow Slicer to climb some obstacles that Rumbler can't.
- The exo-suit also features articulated cannons which fold down in vehicle mode. (Or they're supposed to. No one ever did fold them down — even the wiki picture to the left doesn't have them folded down for vehicle mode. At least they're folded down in his instructions.)
- Thundercracker (Action Master Exo-suit, 1991)
- The Solo Mission Jet Plane is a jet that can transform into an exo-suit. It was sold with Action Master Thundercracker.
- ??? (Action Master Exo-suit, Unreleased)
- At BotCon 1996, a hard copy of an unproduced exo-Suit that could be transformed into a tank was on display. It is unknown what Action Master was supposed to go with it.
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Shattered Glass Collection
- Decepticon Slicer with Exo-Suit (Deluxe Class, 2022)
- Released as part of the Shattered Glass Collection subline, Roritchi, referred to in product copy solely as Exo-Suit, is a redeco of Generations Selects Black Roritchi, itself a retool of Earthrise Decepticon Fasttrack, packed alongside fellow Deluxe figure "Decepticon Slicer".
- As a Weaponizer-styled figure, Roritchi transforms via part-forming into a six-wheeled Cybertronian buggy-tank with twin blasters. The dagger accessory can be attached to the back of their head in vehicle mode to form a "seat" that can accommodate either a Titan Master or a Prime Master. Concealed within their chest is an A.I.R. Lock System connection point, which allows them to link up with other toys in the line to form larger fortifications. As on the original toy, their blasters can also peg onto their robot-mode shoulders.
- Roritchi can form weapon suits for other figures (nominally Slicer), with three "official" configurations:
- 1. Attaching Roritchi's torso and leg pieces to Slicer's right shoulder and feet respectively, and using their blasters to form shoulder cannons for Slicer,
- 2. A "club" configuration similar to Fasttrack and Black Roritchi's spear weapon modes but without the long handle,
- 3. A goofy sledge mode which Slicer can ride in, homaging Generation 1 Slicer's above 4WD Assault Vehicle. Unlike the former two modes, this was only shown off within the Pulse livestream.
Notes
- The exo-suits, along with the Elite, are the earliest experiments with textured plastics in the line, a practice that wouldn't resurface until Transformers Animated and is widely used on Nerf products.
