Loafer

Loafer is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Goldbrick.

Loafer (ローファー Rōfā) is one of the Autobot Master Warriors, the group of diminutive young robots training on the planet Master to become fully-fledged Headmasters. A pretty clever bot, he grants any Transtector he's attached to incredible strength and speed, despite his name.

Fiction

The Headmasters cartoon

Lollygaggers.

Several robots using Loafer’s body design appeared as members of the resistance force formed to force the Decepticons off of planet Master, including a green version who thanked the Autobot Headmasters for their aid in a battle, Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 2) and two grey and black versions that flanked Kirk when he met with Chromedome to plan strategy. Operation: Destroy the Decepticons

Given the lack of color resemblance between the Kirk toy and cartoon model, it is unclear if any of these Loafer-based crowd-fillers are intended to be Loafer himself or not, afflicted with a similar case of color-blindness.

TV Magazine Super-God Masterforce prologue

Some time later, after the Decepticons had been forced off of Earth and a larger war began based around use of advanced technology from Planet Master, Chromedome and the other Headmasters took it upon themselves to train Loafer and the other Master Warriors in the use of their powers. Master File No, 1

Toys

The Headmasters

Slacker.

• Loafer (Cybertron Master Warrior, 1987)

Available exclusively in Japan in a tiny individual box, Loafer transforms from a maroon and dark blue humanoid robot into a humanoid head, in which mode he can connect to any of the larger Headmaster toys, activating their built-in Tech Specs meter. Loafer grants his host body a Speed rating of 9, Strength of 8, and Intelligence of 8. Loafer and his fellow Autobot Master Warriors go for ludicrous sums of money on the secondary market.

What go for even more ludicrous sums of money are the super-rare, entirely white versions of the figures. These were only available as part of the "Throttlebot Promotional Sales Campaign", where a bagged all-white Headmaster was given away with the purchase of any Throttlebot at select Japanese retailers (sadly, we do not know which retailers these were).

• More information on Loafer at TFU.info
• More information on white Loafer at Transformers Generation Fool (Japanese site)

Notes

Maybe he worked at a bakery before joining up?

• Early catalog photos show Loafer with a more orange body and near-black limbs.