Diaclone (faction)

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

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Diaclone (ダイアクロン Daiakuron) is a human fighting force that utilizes mode-changing mechs to fend off the ravenous Waruder invaders from devouring their planet. Its intrepid pilots are frequently referred to as dianuats.

Known members of the team include:

• Dia Cinders, pilot of the Burn Out mech
• Darius Cline, pilot of the Lift-Ticket mech
• Chifumi Takahashi, a dimension-tossed Diaclone scientist

Toys

Synergenex

• Shield-D-Prime (シールドディープライム)

• Release date: February 2026
• Accessories: "FZ ion cannon," "CRP type" bullet core cockpit, "triple shock cannon," "twin FZ blaster," backpack, tail, "Road Viper" motorcycle
• Known designers: Yūya Ōnishi, Amane Katayama and Tomoyuki Tanaka (TakaraTomy)

Announced as the flagship release in TakaraTomy's Collaborative-adjacent licensed crossover line Synergenex (though not the first to come out), "Shield-D-Prime" combines T-SPARK's three pillar brands of Transformers, Zoids, and Diaclone. This exotic variant of Optimus Prime turns into a 1/60 scale iteration of Zoids mascot Shield Liger, and includes two dianaut pilots along with two working cockpits (one in the head of the beast mode and a secondary "bullet core" modular cockpit cross-compatible with swathes of the revived 2016 incarnation of the Diaclone toyline as well as a adorable teeny tiny "Road Viper" motorcycle for the dianauts that can store in the chest cavity of the liger via an opening ramp.

• Official TakaraTomy website of Synergenex Shield-D-Prime

Notes

• The Diaclone faction is, of course, derived from the thinly-sketched fiction of the original toyline of the same name from which many original of the original Transformers toys where sourced.
• The Autobot Titan Master Diac is a riff on Diaclone members' pilot suits but has no fictional connection.
• The Missing Link toyline features a variety of the Transformers' Generation 1 human companions done up in the style of the original 1980s dianauts.