Roadfire
- Road Fire is an Autobot Powered Master from the Zone portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Road Fire is usually what one would call a "gentle giant". Despite his enormous size, strength and skill, he remains friendly and good-natured to all around him. Until the fighting starts. Once battle breaks out, so does a much more hardened Road Fire, willing to go all-out to defeat any enemy and fight to the bitter end.
He can combine with Dai Atlas to form Land Powered or with Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber to form Big Powered.
Fiction
Zone story pages
When Metrotitan attacked the Lunar Zone Base on Earth's moon with his Freeze Beam Gun, Road Fire appeared from nowhere and used his "Fire Kick" to negate the freezing effect and turn back the Decepticon warrior. Road Fire was then gleefully met by Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber. Zone Part 9
Violen Jiger later attacked the Earth in person. Road Fire and the other Powered Masters proved unable to stop him and he stole not only the Zodiac, but Galaxy Rocket (with Cain, Akira, Emusa and Moon Radar inside). Road Fire then combined with his fellow Powered Masters into Big Powered and gave chase. Zone Part 10
They chased Violen Jiger to his base, the Tenth Planet, and engaged him for the final time. Violen Jiger split apart into his three separate forms: Vion, Lenja and Igern. On the surface of the Tenth Planet, Road Fire took on Lenja and defeated him, while Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber destroyed Vion and Igern. Zone Part 11
Violen Jiger was not through yet, however, revealing his final form: a hideous phoenix-like monster. Road Fire and the Powered Masters combined into Big Powered and, with the Zodiac multiplying their strength by thirty, destroyed Violen Jiger for good with the "Powered Rainbow Attack". The Zodiac then reformatted the formerly desolate Tenth Planet into a lush and beautiful world where humans and robots could live in harmony. Zone Part 12
Toys
Zone
- Road Fire (Powered Master, 1990)
- Japanese ID number: C-349
- Accessories: "Burst cannon", container/launcher
- Road Fire transforms into a Cybertronic tank. His front-end "container" is a launching mechanism for Micromasters, opening wide on a spring then pushing them out via spring-loaded ramp. He has a partial auto-transform, a geared pressure-release mechanism that moves his thrusters/legs up to form his third "tower" mode, and from there it's a quick conversion to robot. He can combine with fellow Powered Masters Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber as a triple-base, or as the rear section of the Big Powered super-vehicle. He is also compatible with Micromaster base-ramps.
- He came with his Micromaster partner Drillbuster.
- Big Powered (Multi-pack, 1990)
- Japanese ID number: C-353
- All three Powered Masters were also available in a huge multi-pack.
Trivia
- Road Fire was seemingly a late addition to the line; the first image of him in the Zone catalogue is actually concept art that was significantly different from the final product. Since he was the last toy of Zone, a line put out at a time when interest in Transformers was severely waning in Japan, Road Fire is considerably harder to come across than Dai Atlas or Sonic Bomber, and commands a fair bit more on the secondary market than those two.
- The Big Powered multi-pack with Road Fire? Oh yeah, that goes for beaucoup bucks.
