Rescue Force (individual)

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The Rescue Force jet is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Careless retouching or Shattered Glass character? You make the call.

The Rescue Force jet might be the leader of Rescue Force, a team of search-and-rescue Autobots.

Or he could be their teppanyaki chef, for all we know.

Toys

Generation 1

• Rescue Force (Rescue Force, 1992)
  • Accessories: Rifle

The Rescue Force jet is a redeco of the Breastforce member Leozack, transforming into a swing-wing fighter jet resembling a Grumman F-14 Tomcat. It lacks 'Zack's partner-beastie Lionbreast (as well as the skull to Liokaiser), but comes with its own double-barreled blaster accessory, which fits in the indent in its chest (or the now unused peg hole on the tail) in jet mode. It was available only in various European markets at the very end of the Generation 1 series.

The earlier versions of the jet have a red robot-mode face, but later releases use silver. In addition, the blaster was originally molded in silver as well, but later changed to red. The red-faced version only came with a silver weapon, while the silver-faced version could come with either the silver or red blaster.

• More information on the Rescue Force jet at TFU.info

Notes

• The jet has no official name, or even an individual identifier of any sort, due to its packaging. Like the concurrently released non-combining versions of the Constructicons, each member of the Rescue Force used the same cardback design, featuring all four members' art up front and directions for all four members on the back. While this is thrifty, it's also crowded, leaving no room whatsoever for anything else.

• The original Breastforce molds used to make the Rescue Force are (largely) self-contained combiners, able to form a super robot. The Rescue Force jet can still become the torso to a super robot using any combination of the molds. The toy packaging does not make any mention of this, largely because the Rescue Force team lacks both the two arm-robots and the only separate piece of combiner kibble, the super robot helmet.

• The card art for the jet is just Leozack's art retouched... which means it still has Lionbreast in chest armor configuration, and even still has a Decepticon symbol on him, albeit in red. Also, it's holding its rifle upside-down and way off-center.