Impactor (Cloud)

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

Impactor is an Autobot from the Cloud continuity.

Impactor is a member of Cloud World's Wreckers.

Fiction

Cloud

Impactor participated in Wreckers missions throughout the Spacetime World, fighting against threats like the Blentrons, Unicron, and the Questors. TFC-A04 With other Wreckers, he also fought against the newly reborn Hellwarp, but was easily defeated. TFC-D04

Toys

Generations

• Impactor (Deluxe, 2013)
  • Series / Number: 01 / #014
  • PART 1 OF 5!
  • Accessories: Dual cannon, harpoon launcher, harpoon missile

• Known designers: Aaron Archer, Andrew Franks and Lenny Panzica (Hasbro), Takashi Kunihiro (TakaraTomy)

Cloud Impactor was repurposed from Generations Impactor.

Part of the fourth wave of 2012-onwards Generations Deluxe Class toys, Fall of Cybertron Impactor is an orange and purple redeco and retool of Fall of Cybertron Onslaught, with a new robot head sculpt based on Nick Roche's rendition of Generation 1 Impactor in IDW's Last Stand of the Wreckers, and a new combiner head based on Emirate Xaaron. He transforms into a Cybertronian "missile carrier" truck.

Impactor comes with a twin-barreled cannon that can be attached to two small pegs on top of the vehicle mode, completing his "missile carrier" mode, and a brand new spring-loaded missile launcher accessory (with the missile shaped to resemble a harpoon) that can be attached on top of the twin-barreled cannon. Both weapons can be held via 5mm post, and feature additional pegs and peg-holes for mounting/storage.

In addition to his robot and vehicle modes, Impactor can also combine with his fellow Wreckers into Ruination, serving as the gestalt torso. The twin-barreled cannon can either be combined with the other Wreckers' weapons into a huge "phase cannon" for Ruination to wield, or the twin-barreled cannon can be attached to Ruination's back. As the result of a design flaw, two small tabs that are used to attach the cannon more securely are very prone to showing stress marks, and eventually breaking.

In addition to a tampographed orange regular Autobot insignia on his lower chest, Impactor also sports a tampographed light blue version of the "Wreckers" insignia from 3H's Wreckers and Universe comics. Oddly, even though both the official Hasbro stock photos that depict a hand-painted prototype (which are also featured on the back of the packaging) and the ones that depict a (pre)-production sample show the Wreckers insignia, at least one specimen from Asia sports a light blue regular Autobot insignia instead, thus matching the one on display at Toy Fair 2013.

This version of the mold was considered for The Fallen, but this Transformers Generations 2014 Volume 2 mail-away exclusive did not come to fruition. The original version of this mold was also used to make Generation 2 Onslaught.

• More information on Impactor on TFU.info

Notes

• Impactor is a bit of an oddity among Cloud Wreckers in that he is not a virtual redeco nor included in the prose chapters.