Scrapmetal (race)
The Scrapmetal drones are a type of Terrorcon from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy.
No-one is completely sure where the Scrapmetal drones came from or how they got to be in their current state. Most posit they're a breed of mechanical vermin from Cybertron's lower levels that have been mutated by the effects of the Unicron Singularity. Others think they're the results of ancient cloning experiments by insect-like warriors from a bygone era. Whatever their origin, their current state is painfully clear; there are thousands of Scrapmetal crawling in and on Cybertron, devouring any robot unfortunate enough to cross their path.
Individual Scrapmetal have only a base animal-level intelligence, and by Cybertron standards are small and weak, easily crushed. However, Scrapmetal are almost never witnessed as individuals; only in large swarms who can overwhelm robots far larger than they through sheer strength of numbers, no matter how many of their own dead they skitter over. They appear to follw the orders of a single (barely) sentient Scrapmetal, physically identical to his kin, but just bright enough to make the swarm really dangerous by giving them direction.
Japanese name: Rumble
Fiction
Cybertron Cartoon
Fun Publications Cybertron Fan Club Comic
Toys
Cybertron
Part of the Basic price-point, the Scrapmetal transforms into a four-legged "spider tank" with top-mounted cannon. Inserting a Cyber Planet Key into the back end of the turret swings a removable clear-plastic sawblade-sword from the main chamber of the cannon. It comes with a Decepticon-insignia Cyberton-syle Cyber Planet Key. The toy can represent either the mindless drone or Scrapmetal himself.
A slight retool and redeco of the toy is used for Coby's Scrapmetal.
In Japan, three different colors of Scrapmetal were made available; red, blue and yellow, produced in equal numbers. At this time, only the red version is available as part of the Hasbro Cybertron line, with a few minor paint application changes.
