Pyro (G1)

Pyro is an Autobot Obliterator from the Generation 1 continuity family. He is also known as Spark.

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For 17 years, this was the only art of me.

Young Pyro is another in a proud tradition of selfless Autobot heroes. He is invariably on the front lines protecting the weak and helpless, and is so brave and steadfast as to be virtually immovable. He commands a powerful multi-functional battlestation. And he's polite!

Basically, Pyro acts like a wide-eyed Optimus Prime, and he has the looks to match. These similarities are not lost on his peers.

By the sacred spires! A human! Optimus Prime's data was right! They're so delicate and in need of our protection...Last Stand of the Wreckers #1

Fiction

IDW comics continuity

In his head, Pyro likes to call them Ironhide, Warpath, Powerglide and Spike.

Due to heroic actions, Pyro was given a promotion to Wrecker status. Along with Guzzle, Ironfist, and Rotorstorm, he waited for pick-up at the Igue-Moor Fuel Depot; unlike them, he was extremely embarrassed when their bored target practice trashed the place, hurriedly putting fires out and trying to apologise to the irate foreman Dipstick. Upon pick-up, he was stunned to find one of those fragile humans was a Wrecker, and bemused Verity with a stunned speech about how Optimus was right about the need to protect her species. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1

Toys

Generation 1

Captain Carrot reporting for duty.

• Pyro (Obliterator, 1993)
  • Accessories: Rifle, 6 missiles

Pyro transforms from a Carmichael Cobra airport crash truck into a robot (front half) and a gun emplacement featuring a six-barrel missile launcher which actually fires as one rotates the knob on the back. His sticker sheet notably includes several different windshield decals, each with the word "FIRE" in a different language. In robot mode he has fairly limited articulation as well as an Optimus Prime-looking headsculpt, which was the trend with Autobot leaders at the time.

He was first released as part of the "transitional" period of Transformers in the European market, bearing the new Generation 2 Autobot symbol.

Pyro notably suffers from Gold Plastic Syndrome, as his feet, lower arms, wheel rims, missile launcher and his gun are made of this brittle plastic.

• More information on Pyro at TFU.info

Generation 2

• Spark (Obliterator, 1994)
  • Accessories: Rifle, 6 missiles

Pyro was re-released without changes in Generation 2 proper under the name "Spark."