Trip-Up

Trip-Up is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

All you want to do is ride around, Trip-Up. (Ride, Trip-Up, ride.)

All of the members of the Hot Rod Patrol are known as troublemakers, but Trip-Up is the one who starts the kind of trouble that gets someone's nose busted. Overly aggressive and always out to prove himself, Trip-up thinks only with his fists, starting fights when he gets bored with trying to start races. Team leader Big Daddy makes no attempt to discipline the rowdy bot, but does try to occasionally steer the impressionable Hubs away from him to keep the younger Autobot from emulating his violent behavior. One Trip-Up is more than enough.

French-Canadian name: Jambette

Japanese name: Vanishing

Toys

Generation 1

• Hot Rod Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1990)

Trip-Up transforms into a Ford Mustang hot rod, in contrast to his teammates who turn into much older cars. He was only available in the Hot Rod Patrol four-pack with his teammates Big Daddy, Greaser and Hubs.

• More information on Trip-Up at TFU.info

Return of Convoy

• Hot Rod Team (Micro Trailer Team, 1991)
  • Japanese ID number: C-362
  • Accessories: Micro Trailer #2

The Hot Rod Patrol was released in Japan during Return of Convoy with no notable changes. However, this version of the Team did come with Micro Trailer #2.

Trivia

• Most —if not all— of the toys pictured in the 1991 Hasbro Transformers catalog are unfinished prototypes or mock-ups, and a variety of differences from final product pop up. In Trip-Up's case, the main difference is that the catalog has him with a blue robot mode face rather than the final toy's white.