Rapid Run (Energon)
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- Rapid Run is a Decepticon from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
The mercenary Rapid Run is among the legions of Decepticons that struck a deal with Unicron to supply him with Energon in exchange for hyper-power.[1]
Powerlinxing with the Decepticon Mini-Con Nightscream enables Rapid Run to "disguise" himself as an Autobot. Rapid Run retains his Decepticon allegiance when Powerlinxed to his Autobot Mini-Con partner Nightcruz. However, both are in on his scheme to accumulate wealth and personal power. Rapid Run downloads their datatrax when combined with them so they can calculate the best tactics for their profit-chasing ventures.[2]
Fiction
[edit]Ask Sideways
[edit]According to the known liar, Sideways, he met Rapid Run, destroyed Rapid Run, and got a free t-shirt. Ask Sideways, 2015/06/30
Toys
[edit]Energon
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- Rapid Run (Combat Class, 2004)
- Accessories: 2 tailpipe-missiles
- A redeco of Armada Sideways, Rapid Run transforms into a Cybertronic motorcycle. In this mode, he can be ridden by his pack-in Mini-Con partners Nightscream and Nightcruz simultaneously, be they separate or in their combined Nightcreeper robot mode. In robot mode, each Mini-Con can plug into the top of his torso (once you slide his head down) to form a new head; pushing their arms through holes in the top slides panels revealing the appropriate faction symbol beneath his chest/windscreen. Plugging a Mini-Con onto the Powerlinx plugs on each of his arms allows his pressure-launch missile tailpipes to be fired.
- On top of blatantly not matching the toy itself (see Notes), the stock photos are mistransformed, with the head not pushed into the chest in vehicle mode.
Notes
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- Rapid Run was an "eleventh-hour" addition to the early Energon line, originally intended to be a "Unicron Battles" "Powerlinx" redeco of Sideways in Armada, with a highly accelerated production cycle. Along with Ultra Magnus and Treadbolt, who were similar repurposed additions, he was reportedly produced at only 10,000 pieces, low for a normal mass-retail release.[3][4][5] As such, photography for the toy in its proper colors could not be done in time, so stock photos of an early prototype of Armada Sideways were used for the cardback, with most of them being directly recycled from Sideways's own cardback.
- Possibly for the same reason, the details of the deco depicted in Rapid Run's package art also do not match that of the final figure.
References
[edit]- ↑ Energon Decepticon packaging write-up.
- ↑ Micro-Sized Mini-Con Profile Feature, Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #14
- ↑ OTFCC 2004 Hasbro panel
- ↑ "In his answer found here, Orson provides us with the information that three PowerLinx figures are expected beyond PowerLinx Demolishor and PowerLinx Blurr."—Tim Formas, TFW2005, 2003/05/13
- ↑ "Not really, they are not a large part of Energon if part at all."—Aaron Archer, TFW2005, 2003/09/10
