Dump-kun
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- Dump-kun is a Cybertron Jr from the First Transformers continuity.
Dump-kun (ダンプくん Danpu-kun) is a tough bot who is always ready to lend a helping hand. He wishes to be your friend!
Toys
First Transformers
- Dump Truck (First Transformer, 1986/1987/1993)
- Takara name: Dump-kun
- Takara ID number: C-002
- One of three Playskool First Transformers toys released in 1986, the "Dump Truck" transforms from an adorable stubby dump truck with shovel-buckets on its front end into an adorable robot just a few short steps. The dump-bed is fully functional, rotating on a ratcheting joint.
- There is a minor sticker variant to this release: some have a red-grilled sticker for the truck front (top of the robot head), while others have a gray black-outlined sticker. It appears that the red-sticker one may be an earlier, less common release.
- Takara released all three in Japan without changes the following year, giving the Dump Truck the moniker "Dump-kun" (and using the silver/black-sticker iteration of the toy).
- Playskool re-released the three in new packaging (a generic box for all three types) in 1993. While the other two only had sticker differences (and fairly minor ones at that), the Dump Truck got some more involved changes. The biggest is that the robot mode face is now painted blue instead of silver (despite what the box photo shows), with white-and-black eye stickers. The grill sticker is now yellow with four simple black vent-slots, the right-side chest sticker has altered colors, and the hip-plate sticker has been completely redesigned with monitors and buttons.
