Ransack (Cybertron)
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Ransack is a Decepticon from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy.
Ransack is the brains of the Decepticon front on Velocitron... but that's not saying very much at all, since Crumplezone is dumb as a bag of hammers and Dirt Boss is so fixated on grinding Override into the dirt he doesn't care about anything else. In fact, Rasack is pretty dumb in his own way, but his gift for motormouthed, sneaky weaseling borders on genius.
He's a coward, a sneak, a small-time chiseler who's had his optics opened to a far greater form of evil and power previously unimagined, yet completely lacks the intelligence to attain it. Sometimes it seems Megatron only tolerates him because his antics keep the Autobots distracted. If he has a good point to him, it's that he and Crimplezone seem to actually be friends, even though Ransack clearly takes advantage of his huge partner's bulk to lend muscle to his schemes, or as cover when said schemes almost invariably end up in the gutter.
Japanese name: Gasket
Fiction
Cybertron Cartoon
Toys
Cybertron
Ransack transforms into a Cybertronic motorcycle. By inserting a Cyber Planet Key into the cycle mode's back end, a pair of non-firing guns flip out to form thrusters. This assembly becomes his blaster-weapon in robot mode. He was redecoed for the Primus Unleashed portion of the Cybertron line as "Ransack GTS", supposedly a "stealth" paint job in primarily black and yellow. He comes with a Velocitron-style Cyber Planet Key; the original Hasbro version of this lacks the silver paint border of other versions.
(Note: As of this writing, Ransack GTS has not been released at retail.)
In Japan, a special police-deco version of Ransack was made available as a Toys 'R' Us exclusive on October 7th 2005, with the purchase of 4000 yen worth of Transformers product. (The idea of Ransack as a cop is pretty funny, really.)
All versions of the Ransack mold are actaully mis-assembled; the rear wheel struts are put on the wrong sides, raising his rear end up higher in cycle mode. The Hasbro version of the mold actually remolded his heel struts to adjust for the rear wheel rubbing against the back end due to this mis-assembly.
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