Cliffjumper (Yolopark)

The name or term "Cliffjumper" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Cliffjumper (disambiguation).

"Cliffjumper" is a Decepticon Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

THEME SONG WITHDRAWN

Ladybug Cliffjumper is a red Volkswagen Beetle. You wanted a red one, right?

Fiction

Yolopark comics

Born in a universe full of generic Cliffjumpers, this Transformer became so frustrated with being regarded as one of them that she finally had it and decided to commit to being the Cliffjumper. Abandoning her original name and taking care of her "fellow" Cliffjumpers via a Hate Plague tailored to affect only Cliffjumpers, "Cliffjumper" was content till she found Caretaker XII in Antex and discovered the existence of a multiverse with countless iterations of Cliffjumper. When Pick-Up pointed out to her that 99.98% of recorded Cliffjumpers were already dead, "Cliffjumper" realized that her actions were in actuality part of a multiverse-wide joke and took her revenge on being "used" by resolving to rescue all Cliffjumpers across universes.

After saving more than 12 million Cliffjumpers, "Cliffjumper" found one that actually lived to see the end of his universe 18 billion years later. Realizing what an ideal existence this was for a Cliffjumper, the rouge rogue travelled through time to Cliffjumper's manufacture and took his place in history, ensuring she would become the Cliffjumper. A Cliffjumper(s) Tale

Merchandise

Yolopark

• Cliffjumper (AMK Mini Series, 2025)

• Accessories: 2 additional pairs of hands (Splayed, Pointing), gun

Released exclusively for the Agabyss-organized BotCon 2025 convention, this Yolopark AMK Mini Series kit of "Cliffjumper" is a redeco and retool of the same line's Bumblebee with a new head more accurate to Bumblebee's original toy. As with all AMK Mini model kits, Cliffjumper must be completed by snapping the pre-painted pieces together, and comes with two additional pairs of hands. She also comes with a gun accessory.

Originally marketed at Toy Fair 2025 as a new Decepticon character named "Ladybug", it was decided that the toy would be sold as a new version of Cliffjumper, as Yolopark's Hasbro contact saw an earlier edit of this very page and thought the mention of "unofficial" referred not to BotCon 2025 but to the character, which led them to prefer the use of an established character instead.

This version of the mold was also used to make Glyph at the same convention.

Notes

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• "Cliffjumper" is based on the red variant of the 1983 Micro Change MC-04 Mini Car Robo 03 Volkswagen, sold in the original Transformers toyline as Bumblebee. In the years since, Bumblebee has near-universally been represented by the yellow variant of the same toy, but in 2015, Masterpiece paid homage to the red version by releasing "Bumble Red Body".
• Cliffjumper's Yolopark toy was conceived out of a desire for a second use of the new headsculpt created for Glyph. The color red was chosen as an obvious homage to the aforementioned red variant of Bumblebee, which then led to the name "Ladybug" being picked as the most obvious choice for a "red bug". Once the color and name were selected, then came the decision to make the toy a Decepticon and female. Those plans were derailed when MediaWiki accordingly created an article on Ladybug based on the initial announcement and it was subsequently read by Yolopark's Hasbro contact, who misread the adjective "unofficial" describing BotCon 2025 as instead an indictment of Ladybug herself as a character. Unable to persuade Hasbro otherwise, Yolopark and their creative partners at BotCon acceded to the demand to regard the toy as the Autobot Cliffjumper, but crafted a comic story to explain the discrepancy and act as a meta joke on the situation and how red Bumblebees throughout the franchise usually get branded as "Cliffjumper". Tidbits of her initial conception still linger in the story, with a sly reference to her former name as "Ladybug" and her behavior being more characteristic of Decepticons than Autobots—no traces of faction alignment appear on "Cliffjumper" in the comic, with her potential Autobot or Decepticon insignia being replaced by a rubsign.