Side Swipe (RID 2001)

This article is about the Autobot Spychanger from the 2001 Robots in Disguise toyline. For the Autobot rebel from the 2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon, see Sideswipe (RID 2015). For a list of other meanings, see Sideswipe (disambiguation).

Side Swipe is an Autobot from the Robots in Disguise continuity family.

"In brightest day, in blackest night..."

Side Swipe is part of the Autobots' Spychanger team. He wears goggles.

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

When Sky-Byte accidentally poisoned all of Earth's energon on Viron 1103.12 Gamma, Side Swipe and the other twelve Autobots had to downsize into Spychangers. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/18

Toys

Robots in Disguise (2001)

• Prowl 2 / Side Swipe (Basic Class 2-pack, 2001)

• Accessories: Rifle
• Known designers: Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Available in the second wave of Robots in Disguise "Basics", Side Swipe transforms into a modified Chevrolet Camaro with exposed engine block. He has through-axle construction to allow for super-fast rolling in car mode. Like his fellow "new"-mold teammates, his rifle stores under his car mode. He was available in a two-pack with Prowl 2.

The copyright information printed on the joint connecting the chest to the body prevents the former from swinging down all the way.

This mold was used to make the 2003 Universe version of Silverstreak.

• More information on Side Swipe at TFU.info

• Side Swipe (Tiny Tins, 2001)

• Accessories: Rifle, storage tin

Side Swipe was one of several Robots in Disguise toys to be released as an individual in a Tiny Tins release, with a pocket-sized carrying case. The actual toy is unchanged from the two-pack version.

Notes

• Side Swipe was the first official release of a mold originally intended to be released as part of the Generation 2 Go-Bots sub-line. Owing to the name printed on the front bumper, the original identity of the mold appears to have been Rumble.