Path Finder
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- Path Finder is a Guardian posing as an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Path Finder is one of six explorers from an alternate dimension, come to Cybertron and Earth to seek out a solution to a threat against their home. She has joined the Autobots, keeping their origins a secret, and communicates with Treds, the leader of the trio who have infiltrated the Decepticons. She is a high-ranking Guardian in her home dimension, a calm and rational leader with great wisdom.
Fiction
Fun Publications comic
Path Finder, along with other displaced GoBots, somehow ends up at Axiom Nexus and is "processed". Transcendent: Part 1 Withered Hope
Toys
Generation 1
- G1 GoBots (Multi-pack, 2004)
- Japanese ID number: 84
- Path Finder is a redeco of the Mini Vehicle Cosmos toy, transforming into a flying saucer based on George Adamski's "eyewitness" designs of "real" flying saucers. She was only available in the Japanese e-Hobby exclusive "G1 GoBots" six-pack with Bad Boy, Bug Bite, Road Ranger, Small Foot, and Treds.
Notes
- Path Finder is clearly intended to be the character from the Hanna-Barberra cartoon based on the Tonka GoBots toy line. Her name does not appear on any of the final product materials; the name was only given in an early Photoshopped promotional image from the e-Hobby website. The individual toys' names (and any overtly-explicit ties to the Tonka GoBots fiction) were dropped when Takara's legal department became concerned at how Bandai—the company that made the toys that would become the Tonka GoBots—would react to the names being used, despite the minimal chance of provable trademark infringement on Takara's part. The group bio retained numerous references to technology portrayed within the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon, however.
- This became moot when Fun Publications took the ball and ran with it, however, restoring those explicit ties.
- Path Finder's coloration comes from an early Japanese Transformers catalogue picture (shown at right), which shows different colors for all of the 1985 Mini Vehicles than the final retail versions.
- Unlike the Transformers, the GoBots were originally a race of organic alien humans who replaced much, but not all, of their bodies with machinery. Thus, Path Finder is actually a cyborg, not a true robot.
