Crustation rifle

Crustation rifles are weapons from the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Seacon Skalor wields dual crustation rifles. One rifle fires a gooey, nasty adhesive, while the second one sprays metal shards. Combined, the target is covered in a sticky, crunching coat of slime and shrapnel that can quickly lock up joints and immobilize a foe.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

In creature and robot modes Skalor was armed with two crustation rifles, which encased and immobilised anything they hit with a stream of hard, sticky scales. Skalor's Universe profile

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

In both modes Skalor used two weapons he dubbed "crustation rifles"; one fired a powerful adhesive while the other shot shrapnel scales, covering a target until they were immobilised. Skalor's More than Meets the Eye profile

Toys

The Transformers

• Skalor (Seacon, 1988)

• Accessories: left & right dual crustation rifles, tripod rifle, connector, weapon stand base

The Transformers Skalor came with two weapons, identified as dual crustation rifles in his instructions and packaging bio, which he could hold in robot mode, or which can be mounted on his fish mode back on opposite sides of his dorsal fin. Skalor could also combine with his weapons to form a corrosive slime-shooter.

This toy was also available in a Piranacon giftset and was released concurrently in Japan as Super-God Masterforce Gulf. The mold was redecoed and released without accessories as Terrormander in 1998 as part of Japan's Beast Wars II toyline and was further redecoed to make Timelines Skalor in 2008, whose bio changed up his Targetmaster mode to a slimespray rifle. Skalor was reissued in 2010 in (more or less) his original colours.

Notes

• The name of this weapon seems like a misfired pun, as Skalor has a teammate who transforms into a crustacean.