Hacker X-3

This article is about the Real Gear Robot. For the Synthoid, see Hacker X-9.

Hacker X-3 is an Autobot Real Gear Robot from the Transformers portion of the live-action film series continuity family.

Hewwo, X-3

Hacker X-3 just loves sharing information with the world, and finds the very notion of hiding information insulting. The harder the encryption, the keener he is to un-encrypt it. Luckily for the world, he mostly aims his talents at the Decepticons, since they try super hard to keep their secrets, well, secret. Exactly what those secrets might be is frankly irrelevant.

“	Seek. Crack. Share.	”
—Hacker X-3's packaging tagline

Toys

Transformers (2007)

• Hacker X-3 (Real Gear Robots, 2008)

• Known designers: Bill Rawley (Hasbro)

Part of the fifth wave of Transformers Real Gear Robots, Hacker X-3 is a redeco of Power Up VT6, transforming into a (non-functional) hand-held video game system. Although there isn't a single direct real-life equivalent model, his design seems to be an amalgamation of multiple different portable consoles from the mid-2000s: the overall design configuration is reminiscent of the first version of the Game Boy Advance, albeit featuring a somewhat more square-ish look that, coupled with the small size of the figure, also bears some semblance to the Game Boy Micro. Unlike Nintendo's Game Boy consoles, Hacker X-3 features four face buttons rather than two, making his controller configuration more similar to devices like the PlayStation Portable, and the large bordering around the screen also suggests some design cues from the WonderSwan. Like all Real Gear Robots toys, his robot mode is apparently at 1:1 scale.

Interestingly, the colors of the face buttons (blue, green, yellow and red) follow in the tradition of the Japanese and European releases of the Super Nintendo and the Sega Dreamcast, rather than what would be more common for a portable console within this toy's era.

He features a battle scene between Optimus Prime and a blue Swindle drone on his screen.

• More information on Hacker X-3 at TFU.info