Bludgeon (Prime)
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- Bludgeon is a Decepticon from the Aligned continuity family.
Bludgeon is a skilled samurai and master of the martial artist. One of the universe's most feared warriors, the dreaded spark hunter ambushes his Autobots enemies on the battlefield[1] with a sword handed down from legends.
Toys
Prime
- Decepticon Bludgeon (Cyberverse Commander Class, 2014)
- Series / number: 3 / 012
- Accessories: Sword, missile
- Known designers: Joe Kyde (Hasbro)
- Part of the fifth and final wave of Cyberverse Commanders in the Prime: Beast Hunters toyline, Bludgeon is a retool of Cyberverse Shockwave, transforming into a Cybertronian tank. He is retooled to have Bludgeon's distinctive skull-face. His chest is also retooled to look like a skull, evoking Revenge of the Fallen Bludgeon's skull-chest. As with Shockwave's Cyberverse toy, his left arm has a pressure-launching missile. His sword is a red version of Optimus Prime's Star Saber. The instructions show that the sword can be pegged onto the side of the cannon in tank mode, but the actual toy lacks the necessary hole to do so.
- Due to being released after the Christmas season and before the launching of the Age of Extinction toy line, Bludgeon and the other figures of his wave were skipped by US retailers, and ultimately only available in Hong Kong, Canada, and Europe.
Robots in Disguise (2015)
- Decepticon Bludgeon (Warrior Class, 2017)
- Acessories: Katana, twin-cannon
- Released in the twelfth and final wave of Robots in Disguise Warrior Class figures, under the 2017 Combiner Force branding, Bludgeon is a redeco of Blastwave, himself an extensive retooling of Warrior Class Megatronus, with pretty much all of the figure from the waist up being redesigned, plus new kneepads which still feature 5 mm pegholes. He transforms from a samurai-esque skull-faced robot into a double-barreled Cybertronian tank. The cannon barrels in tank mode are articulated, and can be removed from the figure's back to be used as a hand-held weapon. The figure also has a peg hole on the back of its head meant to "store" the sword in tank mode; but it can also be used in conjunction with the cannons to allow for the robot mode to be displayed in a more offense-focused configuration.
- Bludgeon uses extensive faux-parts. The treads on his shoulder do not form the tank treads of his tank mode, and his skull-designed chest is not used for the tank mode's base, which is not-so-subtly hidden as his posterior in robot mode.
- Bludgeon features a scannable badge on his left shoulder, accessible while in-package. Scanning this badge with the 2015 Robots in Disguise mobile game unlocks an amount of Energon Currencies and a ticket for Cryostase to unlock a random character.
