Rosanna (KP)
| This article is about the Kiss Players cassette-bot. For the Animated bot, see Rosanna (Animated). |
- Rosanna is an Autobot Mini-Cassette from the Kiss Players portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Hand-picked by Blaster to join his team of cassettes, Rosanna is one of the few Autobots who can both sing and dance, and the only one who fully understands Blaster's love of music. As a pop idol, her songs soothe, comfort and embolden her fellow warriors, aided by fully-automatic microphones that can pick up her voice from hundreds of miles away in the middle of a battlefield. Her experiences as a cassette-bot have transformed her from sensitive and shy into an exuberant positive thinker. She tends to butt in on disagreements between other Transformers, but generally makes things worse with her awkward attempts to mediate. She constantly examines herself with a hand mirror to make sure she looks her best. She is probably very annoying in person.
Rosanna transforms into a micro-cassette. Her recording capacity in this mode is barely-used, and what little has been encoded is mostly memories of favorite moments with friends.
She likes to dance the Robot Monkey.
Fiction
Kiss Players Position
After the EDC's anti-electron field was removed in 2007, Transformers were once again able to visit the planet Earth. Rosanna, who had waited impatiently on Earth's Moonbase, could at last realize her dream: forming a singing idol group to entertain humanity!
Together with the cassette Transformers Glit and Sundor and the humans Marissa Faireborn, Shaoshao Li and Atari Hitotonari, Rosanna performed in a world tour as a member of the group "Kiss Players". At their Brave Maximus Fortress concert, a trio of mysterious Sparkbots suddenly appeared, claiming to be servants of Primus, and told the three humans to kiss them. When they did, the humans and Brave were transported away through time, leaving the three cassettes behind...
15 Go! Go!
Rosanna and her cassette companions appeared on the orbiting base Nana, much to the delight of Teletraan 15, though Teletraan 10 was less than thrilled at the noise they made. But until the Earth's anti-electron field was removed, they were there to stay.
After the disappearance of their human allies, the trio returned to Metroplex in Scramble City. Rosanna wasn't taking the disappearance well, until Ultra Magnus gave the three a new assignment. Somehow, the trio stowed away inside Teletraan 15's uniform, and when she was imprisoned by the "Black Panther Man" for destroying sensitive data, they revealed themselves and freed her. As 15 destroyed the disk containing the data she'd collected on her journeys through time and space, the cassettes fought off the panther, Rosanna trying a flying tackle to the cat's midsection. It didn't go too well for them.
With all the data collected destroyed, the Black Panther Man's plans were ruined, though he had a grudging respect for his subordinates for having stopped him. To that end, rather than destroying them all, he simply dumped the Teletraans and cassettes out of his ship, back on Nana, and left. 15 Go! Go!
Toys
Kiss Players
- Cassettron Set Kiss Players Position (Multi-pack, 2006)
- Accessories: 2 "Fully automatic microphone" rifles
- A redeco of the Eject/Rewind mold, Rosanna transforms from a humanoid robot to a microcassette that can fit into the tape door of the Soundwave and Blaster toys. She was available only in an e-Hobby exclusive set with Glit and Sundor, which also came with a bonus music CD, released during the second week of March 2007.
- Like her fellow Kiss Player cassettes, her faction symbol is yellow instead of the customary red.
- This mold was also used to make Flip Sides.
Notes
- Rosanna's deco was created by Lyrian, the voice actress for Kiss Players character Marissa Faireborn and for Rosanna herself. Lyrian also deco'd and named the Sparkbot Angela, in case you couldn't guess from the pink, the heart and the name. Quite a creative lady, that Lyrian.
- Only, not really.
