Attack Copter

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The Attack Copter is an Autobot Action Master vehicle from the toyline portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Attack Copter is Over-Run's Action Master vehicle. This advanced model copter has a range of 1,200 miles and can operate continuously for up to 3.5 hours. In addition to its rotary photon cannon, it carries air-to-ground magnetic missiles and can transform into a double-barreled concussion cannon emplacement.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

The Attack Copter had a top speed of 340mph for a range of 1,200 miles and its air-to-ground magnetic missiles were capable of automatically targeting Decepticon armor plating. Over-Run could also carry its photon cannon and concussion cannons separately. Over-Run's More than Meets the Eye profile

Commercial appearances

Comin' in low out of the rising sun... Scares the hell out of the 'Cons!

Over-Run and the Attack Copter engaged Starscream and his Turbo Jet. Action Master vehicles commercial

Toys

The Transformers

Does it come in adult sizes? This is just a kiddie ride for Autobots…
  • Attack Copter with Over-Run (Action Blaster Vehicle, 1990)
Released in the seventh and final year of The Transformers in the US (sixth and not-final in Europe), the Attack Copter is a small green helicopter that can be "piloted" by a single Action Master figure. In its normal copter configuration, the two missiles attach to fins on the sides of the vehicle, and the "laser cannon" (actually a retooling of Vortex's left-side-cannon altered to be held by Action Master figures) plugs under the copter nose. The two side cannons form... engines, or something, as they're not really in a useful firing position in this mode.
The copter transforms via partial disassembly into a piece of field artillery. The back end flips over (once you remove the tail piece to get out of its way) to form a blast shield, plus brings the side cannons into a forward firing position. The two missiles can be plugged into the ends of the side cannons; while they can still do this in the normal copter mode, it's kind of awkward. The copter's engine cover can also detach to form a largish shield held by any Action Master figure.
This set came with the Action Master Over-Run.


Notes

  • Over-Run's instructions refer to the Attack Copter as simply "helicopter".
  • Although generically called a "laser cannon" in the instructions, the copter's main weapon is somewhat bizarrely described in the bio accompanying Over-Run's Tech Specs as a "rotary photon pulse button". This was updated in Over-Run's Dreamwave More than Meets the Eye profile to the more sensible "rotary photon cannon".
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