Elita-1 (ROTF)

This article is about the Arcee component from Revenge of the Fallen. For the non-screen character from the 2007 movie franchise, see Elita-One (Movie). For a list of other meanings, see Elita One (disambiguation).

Elita-1 is an Autobot from the Revenge of the Fallen franchise in the live-action film continuity family.

"You're not still waiting for those combination instructions, are you?"

Elita-1 has better things to do than hang out with her sister Arcee; she'd rather ditch her and go hook up with Sideswipe. He's super-cute and he has a is a car and he totally cut a guy in half this one time. They're not really heading out for dinner and a movie, though—they're hunting Decepticons, the more dangerous, the better. So when they run into the deadly bounty hunter Axor, it'll be a night to remember...and dismember.

Fiction

Live-action film continuity

Elita-1? Flareup? Call me anything but Sweetie.

Though the Elita-1 toy has her own name and personality, in the film itself, all three motorcycles are simply components of Arcee. For information on Arcee's exploits, check out her article.

Transformers (2010) toy bios

Arcee and her sisters Chromia and Elita-1 had hunted Sideways in the past, but he always got away. After begging Optimus Prime, the three of them got another shot at bringing him down. Sideways Sneak Attack

Toys

Transformers (2010)

• Sideways Sneak Attack (Multi-pack, 2011)

This Target-exclusive multi-pack contains redecos of the Revenge of the Fallen Legends class Arcee mold as Chromia and Elita-1, plus an Arcee who may or may not be different from the single ROTF release. The set furthermore includes a redeco of Deluxe class Sideways, whose painted battle damage evokes the scene in the film where he's been cut in half. Ouchies.

Clear a path, Prime. Your girl's just been swiped!

• Elita-1 (Deluxe, 2010)
  • Accessories: Missile, display stand

Elita-1 is a black, white and pink redeco of Chromia and is part of the Hunt for the Decepticons promotion. She transforms from a unicycle-robot into a Suzuki B-King motorcycle. Her vehicle mode weapon can attach as a display stand for either mode, ironically making a unicyclebot one of the most stable robot-modes. In robot mode, there is a spring-loaded missile between the tailpipes on Chromia's left hand in addition to the aforementioned non-firing blaster-stand.

Elita-1 features a small Mech Alive gimmick: swinging her left forearm towards and away from her body makes a blue piston slide back and forth inside the large gun. Her stand has sculpted tank threads on the bottom, most likely to make it look that she's still mobile while using it. Her license plate has 3L 174 written on it as an stylish way of spelling her own name. A certain fellow would approve of that.

Her figure has been slightly remolded from Chromia, giving her an extra tab to hold her two chest pieces together more tightly.

Though this toy's deco doesn't resemble at all the one Elita had in the movie, she sort of makes up for it by sharing the same basic colors with a previous namesake.

• Elita-1 (Deluxe, 2010)
  • Japanese ID number: AA-08
  • Accessories: Missile, display stand

TakaraTomy's version of Deluxe class Elita-1 is also a redeco of Chromia, but has a more screen accurate deco that uses more purple paint.

TakaraTomy seemingly mistakenly used a Hasbro Arcee redeco from the "Rotorwash Rumble" pack for solicitation photos of this figure.

Notes

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Give us a kiss?

~"Wheeere did he go? / That Invisi-bo! / He's a menace to the town and to property / He wants to be in charge of you and me!"

• Elita-1's name was originally announced as "Flareup" at Hasbro's panel during San Diego Comic-Con 2009.
• Whether or not Elita-1 is a unique individual or just an extension of Arcee is a matter of debate.
• Robot Heroes Chromia is actually Elita-1's model in Chromia's colors.
• The three bike girls were originally going to combine into a larger robot-form, but this was cut from the final movie. Instructions for combining the toys were to appear online.
• In pre-production artwork, the non-pink components of the proposed combined Arcee were variously shown to be gold, green or silver. Which portions of these monstrosities may have originally been Elita-1 is anyone's guess. Meanwhile, in the "Lamborghini Jump" animatic featured on the "Deconstructing Visual Bayhem" segment of the ROTF special features disk, the third member of the Arcee combiner is yellow.
• A piece of (adorable!) TakaraTomy website art shows Chromia with her finalized design, but the other two bike girls as pink and red versions of Arcee. As Arcee's toy is red, this would ostensibly make the pink one Elita-1... despite her film design being entirely different and her toy being a redeco of Chromia.
• At BotCon 2009 Elita-1 was said to be an Arcee redeco. This change may have occurred due to the similarity between Arcee's and Elita-1's color schemes.