Autobot Mini-Cassette
- The Autobot cassettes are a sub-group of Autobots from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Autobot Mini-Cassettes are Autobots who, on Earth, transform into analog audio cassettes. They can fit into Blaster's chest compartment, though their apparent relationship to Blaster varies depending on continuity.
- Japanese name: Cassettbot
Known Autobot Mini-Cassettes
Generation 1
- Eject
- Flip Sides
- Grand Slam and Raindance combine to form Slamdance
- Playback (A comic-only character) The Big Shutdown!
- Ramhorn
- Rewind
- Rosanna
- Steeljaw
- Sundor
- The W Cassettebots
- Possibly Nightstalker (A prose-only character) State Games
- Possibly Blackcat (A character based on Ravage) Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 18
Shattered Glass
Fiction
Cartoon continuity
The Transformers cartoon
The Transformers: The Movie Madman's Paradise Forever Is a Long Time Coming The Quintesson Journal The Ultimate Weapon Call of the Primitives
Japanese cartoon continuity
Scramble City
'The Headmasters cartoon
The Mystery of Planet Master The Great Cassette Operation Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1 The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears Head Formation of Friendship The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an IcebergMiraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1) The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)
Marvel Comics continuity
Generation 1
Playback was a prisoner of the Decepticons on Cybertron. Along with Hosehead and Horsepower, he was released into the wild on Earth to be hunted down by Thunderwing as part of his initiation as a new Decepticon leader. He was the first of the trio Thunderwing tracked down and executed, leaving his corpse to rust on a shallow beach. The Big Shutdown!
Marvel UK future timelines
By 2008, Eject was stationed at Autobase on Cybertron, working communications for Ultra Magnus.
Meanwhile on Earth, the Quintessons invaded Autobot City, devastating most of the base's population. Rewind, Steeljaw, and Ramhorn were stationed there, but got trapped inside Blaster's chest when he was blasted off-line and hung on the ramparts. A quick-thinking Hot Rod realized where they'd be and managed to free them. The Mini-Cassettes joined Hot Rod and Arcee in retaking Autobot City from the Quints. Space Pirates!
Generation 2
Steeljaw was part of a squad of Autobots dispatched to Earth when Optimus Prime learned Megatron was still alive and active. He was killed in battle by Megatron's hyper-velocity rail gun, a deadly weapon created by Cobra. Final Transformations
Dreamwave comics continuity
During the Age of Internment, Blaster and his Mini-Cassettes were allied with Perceptor and the remaining free Autobots against Megatron. Their twin goals were to bring down the legions of the Aerospace Extermination Squadron, and somehow locate the long-missing Optimus Prime. The Age of Wrath issue 2
Millions of years later, the Mini-Cassettes joined Blaster as part of another rebellion, this time against Shockwave and the corrupt Unified Cybertronian government. Countdown to Extinction
G.I. Joe vs the Transformers
Black Horizon Part 1 Black Horizon Part 2
Shattered Glass
Steeljaw's Shattered Glass profile
Steeljaw was so vigorously dedicated to his napping that he couldn't spare the energy to swat away the annoying Decepticon, Ravage. Recordicons #1
Toys
Generation 1
Eject/Rewind mold
- Eject (1986)
- Flip Sides (2006)
- Rewind (1986)
- Rosanna (2006)
Combiners
Others
Notes
- For the original draft of The Transformers: The Movie, it was intended that the Autobot Mini-Cassettes would be "CUBBIE, a lion, STRIPES, a tiger, STINGER, a scorpion and BOLTS, a small, tough robot."[1] This plan was maintained for a few revisions,[2] until eventually Stinger and Stripes were scrapped, Cubbie was renamed to Steeljaw, Bolts was split into Eject and Rewind, and the rhinoceros Ramhorn was added to the mix.
