Stunticon (G1)

The Stunticons are a Decepticon subgroup from the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Stunticons are a group of 5 rebellious Decepticon automobiles that Megatron can barely control. They are the mortal enemies of the Autobot Aerialbots.

The Stunticons consist of:

• The merciless Motormaster (leader)
• The victory obsessed Drag Strip
• The gloom ridden Dead End
• The psychotic Wildrider
• The paranoid Breakdown

They can combine to form Menasor.

Japanese name: Stuntron

Hungarian name: Sztuntikon

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon

In envy of the Autobots' vehicular modes, Megatron stole various human vehicles and customized them so he could have his own car team, the Stunticons. Before they were given life, he brought them out for a test drive via remote control, forcing them to flip, somersault, fly off the road, drive up cliffs and bash through forests without a scratch. The Stunticons having satisfied Megatron's idea of normalcy, he headed to Cybertron to get Cybernetic personalities for them. On activation, they swore loyalty to Megatron... or at least agreed to do what he told them to.

Their first mission on was to steal the superfuel from the humans. As they smashed up the superfuel facility, the human guards immediately assumed that they were Autobots, since the Decepticons could not possibly transform into land vehicles. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1

The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2 Starscream's Brigade Trans-Europe Express Cosmic Rust Masquerade Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2 Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3 Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 The Ultimate Weapon The Burden Hardest to Bear

Dreamwave Comics continuity

At some point in Cybertron's recent history, the Stunticons were deemed psychotic and too dangerous to function in society, and as a result were placed into perpetual stasis lock inside of a prison facility. Later, in an attempt to create a diversion while he set his final plans in motion, Shockwave arranged for the release of the Stunticons. They formed into Menasor and ran amuck for awhile, until Ultra Magnus arrived and began insulting them. Unable to reconcile with this, the five Stunticons began to bicker with each other over whose fault it was that they were failing, temporarily stopping Menasor and allowing Ultra Magnus to ram the combiner in the chest, forcing him to separate into his component parts and disabling the Stunticons.

Toys

Generation 1

• Stunticons, 1985)

Japanese ID number: D-50 - D-54

If his feet are made out of a truck cab, he should be like, three times taller than Optimus Prime. But apparently it's just a tiny truck.

If you don't buy this toy, then the terrorists have... lost, I guess?

As a Scramble City combiner team, the Stunticons consist of four small "limbs", sold carded at the $5 price point, and a single larger leader toy that forms the combined robot's torso, sold boxed for roughly $12. They were available in 1986 and 1987.

The smaller Stunticons, like their Aerialbot counterparts, share a general transformation scheme involving pulling out the back of the vehicle to form legs, and flipping the hood out of the way to reveal the robot head. Dead End and Breakdown share an additional step, requiring rotating their legs at the knees and pushing the legs back in so they aren't incredibly tall and skinny. All four feature shoulder articulation and not much else.

The four smaller cars are fairly close in scale, but Motormaster throws the whole equation off. He's a tiny truck compared to his teammates, a point which becomes doubly obvious alongside the original Optimus Prime toy.

Alternators

• Dead End (Alternators, 2004)

Classics

• Menasor (Legends, 2006)

Titaniums

• Menasor (6" Cybertron Heroes, 2007)

Unreleased

• Generation 2 Stuncticons were originally planned to be released alongside the G2 Aerialbots, G2 Combaticons, and G2 Protectobots. Both the G2 Stunticons and G2 Protectobots were dropped from the lineup, but both came very far along in development before being dropped. In fact, several G2 Stunticon and Protectobot limbs have surfaced over the years in what appears to be finished packaging. (G2 Motormaster and G2 Hotspot have never appeared in finished packaging, but unpainted prototypes have surfaced.) The only G2 Stunticon that received a true release at all was G2 Breakdown, which was available in relatively small numbers as a Botcon exclusive.

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