Rapido
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- Rapido is an Autobot from the Generation 2 section of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Rapido is a tactical genius. He believes a sharp mind is the most powerful weapon and proves it by masterminding horribly complex battle plans that come off flawlessly down to the last detail. Probably the most respected platoon commander the Autobots have, Rapido holds the highest rank possible in the Autobot Army; at one point in he even out-ranked Optimus Prime!
Rapido's platoon is sometimes known as the Axelerators.
- Japanese name: Rapid Engine
- Italian name: Sirius
Fiction
Dreamwave comics continuity
Rapido (or somebody that looked like him) was among a crowd of unhappy Autobots who made Prowl look really stupid when the latter tried to make a speech. Skyfire
Toys
Generation 1 & 2
- Rapido (Axelerator, 1993/1994)
- Accessories: Engine-block rifle
- Rapido transforms into a sports car of undetermined model. (It's possible he is an unproduced "concept" car.) His chrome-silver, rear-mounted engine block becomes his robot-mode blaster weapon.
- He was initially released in the European market in 1993, during the "transitional" time when the Transformers toys took on the new Generation 2 sigils, but the packaging lacked the "Generation 2" line-name. He was slightly recolored for American release the same year, with the transparent pink plastic of his windows and lightpipe being replaced with a smokey grey plastic that was much harder to see through. He was released again in the UK in 1994 in Generation 2 packaging, but the toy was identical to the original European-market release.
- Rapido's toy is primarily distinguished by his head being too recessed actually to see over his robot mode chest.
Block Town
- Gasoline Station Set (Block Town, 1996)
- Rapido's mold was one of several intended to be used in the post-Generation 2 Takara Block Town line. To be redecoed in black with blue robot parts, he was to come with the "Gasoline Station Set", a building-block gas pump that could be rebuilt into a battle station of some form. This set ultimately never came to release (Note: Dammit!!!).
- In 2005, a supposed Takara "release" schedule listed the Block Town sets among several other future items coming out. Only the Galaxy Force items on that list saw release, however (and some only as store exclusives to boot).
- Since very little information exists on the line's more fictional aspects, it is unknown if this toy was to be the same general character Rapido, or a new character altogether.
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Trivia
- Rapido is a Spanish word meaning "rapid" or "fast".
- Though Rapido was never released in Japan, he did gain a Japanese name via a BotCon Japan 1997 exclusive poster, which featured bios for all of the new Generation 2 characters released in the US who weren't part of the Japanese line: the Axelerators, the Skyscorchers, Rotor Force, four of the Go-Bots and the Color Changers.
