Roadbuster (Prime)

The name or term "Roadbuster" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Roadbuster (disambiguation).

Roadbuster is an Autobot from the Aligned continuity family.

Thought I'd try shooting my way out. Mix things up a little.

At first glance, Roadbuster seems a lot like his fellow Wrecker Twintwist. On the battlefield, he is always in the front ranks, leading his comrades into action. No one fights more furiously. Back at base, though, all that aggression goes away. Rather than arguing or roughhousing with the others, Roadbuster retreats into himself, becoming terse and restive. All his energy is redirected into the constant maintenance of his weapons and revision of his combat strategies. War is all Roadbuster knows, and seems to be all he has ever known. It is an open question what would become of him without it.

Fiction

Prime cartoon

Roadbuster died during the war. His death was later brought up by Wheeljack. Loose Cannons

Toys

Generations

• Roadbuster (Deluxe, 2013)
  • Series / Number: 01 / #017
  • PART 4 OF 5!
  • Accessories: Gun, Energon Harvester

Part of the fourth wave of 2012-onwards Generations Deluxe Class toys, Fall of Cybertron Roadbuster is a green and gunmetal redeco and retool of Fall of Cybertron Swindle, with a new head sculpt based on Generation 1 Roadbuster. He transforms into a large-wheeled SUV-like Cybertronian Assault Transport vehicle.

Roadbuster comes with a small gun, as well as a brand new weapon accessory based on the Energon Harvester shotgun from the Fall of Cybertron game, which opens and closes when its housing is slid. Both weapons can peg via 5mm post onto his hands and roof, and the small gun can mount onto the peg-hole on top of the Harvester.

In addition to his robot and vehicle modes, Roadbuster can also combine with his fellow Wreckers into Ruination and serve as any of the gestalt robot's four limbs, though his official configuration is either the left arm (shown in the instructions) or the right arm (shown in stock photos.) His arm mode has 5mm-compatible hands, and the small gun can be combined with the other Wreckers' weapons into a "phase cannon" for Ruination to wield.

Like Swindle, Roadbuster suffers from a design flaw: The small tabs used to attach the robot mode's chest section to the legs in vehicle or gestalt limb mode (using different slots for the tabs) are prone to showing stress marks, and eventually breaking.

The original version of this mold was also used to make Generation 2 Swindle.