Small Foot

Small Foot is a Guardian posing as an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

May not be all that curvaceous, but sure plays up the glasses fetish.

Some would call Small Foot an idealist; others would prefer to call her naive. The answer lies somewhere in the middle. Relentlessly cheerful, she's predisposed to sweeping monologues about hope and friendship. This can annoy her relatively more jaded companions, not because it's annoying, but because she's usually right. She is an adventurous young mechanoid, but due to her small size and inexperience, she frequently gets in over her head.

Small Foot will need that optimism now that she's a traveler from another dimension, who has taken the form of an Autobot and infiltrated their ranks in the hopes of finding the solution to a problem that plagues her doomed universe-of-origin.

Fiction

TransTech

Withered Hope

Toys

Generation 1

The toy of an eternal pessimist becomes a toy of an eternal optimist.

• G1 GoBots (Multi-pack, 2004)
  • Japanese ID number: 84

Small Foot is a redeco of the Mini Vehicle Gears, transforming into a pickup truck of indeterminate model. She was only available in an e-Hobby-exclusive six-pack with Bad Boy, Bug Bite, Path Finder, Road Ranger, and Treds.

This mold is also used by the Malignus Pick-Up, and was the basis for the 1986 retool Swerve.

• More info on Small Foot at TFU.info

Notes

Nice rack.

• The e-Hobby Gears redeco was clearly intended to be the Small Foot character from Tonka's GoBots line. Her name does not appear in any of the final product material; it only appeared in an early Photoshopped promotional image on the e-Hobby website. The individual toys' names were dropped when Takara became concerned over how rival company Bandai might react to the names... even though Bandai had little to no legal standing on the matter, as the names were granted by Tonka—now a Hasbro-owned sub-company—and the GoBots fiction had never been used by Bandai. Apparently, Takara felt any trouble over the set was not worth it.
• Of course, any ambiguity over her identity was moot once Fun Publications took the concept and ran with it.

Now available in six fruity flavors!

• The Ladybird book Autobots' Lightning Strike features miscolored versions of Huffer and Gears that somewhat resemble the colorations given to Road Ranger and Small Foot. Whether the GoBots' similarities are intentional is debatable.
• Her name is a play on the famous monster truck Bigfoot, as her original GoBots toy was a pickup truck with oversized tires.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Small Foot (スモールフット Sumōru Futto)