Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity
In the Generation 1 cartoon continuity, Blaster is one happenin' dude! Looking for more information? Then keep your dial tuned to this station! Yow!
The Transformers cartoon
- Voice actor: Buster Jones (English), Keiichi Nanba (Japanese), Leonardo Araujo (American Spanish), Thomas Rau (German), Werner Abrolat (German, "Auto-Bop"), Holger Schwiers (German, "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1–5"), Peter Musäus (German, "Forever Is a Long Time Coming"), Gernot Duda (German, "The Big Broadcast of 2006"), Reinhard Brock (German, "Call of the Primitives"), Willy Schäfer (German, The Movie, Generation 2), Christoph Jablonka (German, Generation 2 "Kreemzeek!")
Blaster was a fun-loving, hip and happening robot. Loud and energetic, he was happy to share his choice of rockin' tunes with anyone, whether they really wanted to hear them or not.
Blaster appeared out of nowhere one day during Wheeljack's demonstration of the modifications he'd made to the Dinobots. To aid him in his presentation, Wheeljack requested that Blaster play something "nice", and the communicator responded by transforming and queueing up some rock 'n' roll/big band fusion music that Grimlock then started playing with a finely-placed laser-breath blast to Blaster's buttons. While the other Autobots were less than appreciative of Blaster's musical choice, Grimlock danced to the music to demonstrate his new levels of finesse. Dinobot Island, Part 1
At a not-so-secret EJK testing facility for the new Ultra Plane, Blaster was sitting in the back of Ironhide's vehicle mode and didn't seem to notice the fact that Soundwave was sitting right next to him—at least until the Decepticon tape deck launched Ravage, whom Blaster quickly transformed to grab. The cat turned to attack the Autobot while his master escaped to report to Megatron. Blaster continued to tussle until Ironhide transformed into robot mode and threw them both out of his caboose. After being initially distracted by the Ultraplane's destruction, the Autobots returned to EJK's lab to confront the Decepticons. Blaster greatly appreciated Jazz's taste in music to confound the hapless villains. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1
While attending a concert with Spike and Carly, Blaster decided to share the show with the other Autobots by flooding their communications channels with the music, though only Cosmos and Jazz seemed to appreciate it. Unfortunately, his broadcast also disrupted an emergency communique from the Haley Observatory, meaning the Autobots were unable to respond and stop the Decepticons stealing the Voltronic Galaxer. Searching for the Decepticons, Blaster and Cosmos were captured and brought to the villains' moonbase, where Blaster was welded into place to be used as a trans-scrambler for Megatron's scheme to use the Voltronic Galaxer to ransom energy from the Earth by disrupting the planet's communications. Blaster tipped the Autobots off to his location by broadcasting his music over the system, and once the Decepticons were thwarted, Blaster was assigned to the abandoned moonbase with Cosmos, but quickly got into trouble with Prime again for his music. Blaster Blues
Later, Blaster and Tracks helped the New York police crack a car theft ring by posing as an attractive target for punks to steal. After Blaster teamed up with car thief Raoul, they learned that Megatron was behind the criminal operation, stealing cars to rebuild them into transforming drones. Blaster defended the Washington Bridge from the Decepticon drones alongside the other Autobots, but they were nearly overwhelmed by sheer numbers. After Ratchet realized the cars were remote-controlled, Blaster jammed the frequency, allowing the Autobots to attack and defeat the Decepticons. Make Tracks
Blaster proved pivotal in saving Cosmos and some robotic insecticide from the Morphobots, when, with no options left, he randomly tried exposing the alien plants to a blast of music, that caused them to recoil away from the Autobots. Quest for Survival Soon afterward, the Autobots were attacked by the malevolent Kremzeek, an energy life form created by Megatron.
Blaster and a small number of other Autobots were the only ones to stay functional long enough to be sprayed with an insulating foam that protected them from the creature's attacks. The Autobot team chased it to Japan, where it wreaked havoc with the massive electronics industry there. Managing to trap Kremzeek inside his chest compartment, Blaster thought he could short the electrical imp out with his own energy, but this only made the situation worse, as Kremzeek absorbed all the juice Blaster pumped into it and split into dozens of copies of itself. One of the copies managed to slip inside Blaster, and after the other Kremzeeks were seemingly destroyed, it jumped out of his chest and the pursuit began again. Kremzeek!
Blaster was watching "As the Kitchen Sinks" with his Auto-buddies when Prime informed them that Tracks and Bumblebee were late returning from their supply run. Suspecting foul play, the Autobots took off to search for their missing comrades. While on the search, Blaster was forcibly transformed by a Creamy Cream billboard then carted away by the big game hunter Lord Chumley and his butler Dinsmoore as bait to lure Optimus Prime into a hunt. Chumley apparently couldn't think of a suitably dastardly device in which to store Blaster, though, as he was totally absent from Chumley's prisoner showcase later on. Prime Target
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Tracks and Blaster were reunited with Raoul when they saved their human friend and his Bop Crew from a bunch of hoodlums in the employ of the Dancitron nightclub. The pair investigated the club, but Blaster did not share Tracks's suspicion that something unsavoury was going on inside its walls, enjoying the atmosphere and dancing with the human clubbers. After saving Raoul again when a mind-controlled train driver sent the train Raoul was in hurtling out of control, Blaster was forced to re-evaluate his opinion, and used with Teletraan I to deduce that the club was controlling its patrons with hypnotic signals. Thinking he could counter them his own sonic powers, Blaster returned to the club, where he discovered the culprit was his Decepticon counterpart Soundwave, who he engaged in a fierce sonic duel. Soundwave proved the more powerful of the two, but Blaster won the day by using Dancitron's own sound system to boost his powers. Auto-Bop
Blaster joined in Optimus Prime in travelling to Cybertron to stop Megatron from using Vector Sigma to bring his new Stunticons to life. They failed thanks to a cadre of Centurion droids Megatron sent to delay them, The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1 so as a counter-measure, Blaster and the other Autobots created the Aerialbots from five Cybertronian shuttles as Earth vehicles. With the Key to Vector Sigma in Megatron's grasp, Alpha Trion was forced to sacrifice himself to activate Vector Sigma and bring the Aerialbots to life, a decision Blaster loudly, if vainly, opposed. Returning to Earth to confront the Stunticons, Blaster impressively used his sound system to generate a miniature earthquake using sonic vibrations, but Wildrider just sailed over the cracks and smashed into Blaster's face. On a second encounter, Blaster used his sonics to collapse a tree into Breakdown's path, but the Stunticon just used it as a ramp while Wildrider casually drove by and ran Blaster over. Ouch. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2
Blaster and Cosmos were sent on an inter-galactic shopping trip to pick up more Ingredient X for Perceptor's protective chemical spray, Corrostop, only to find there was none left in the entire universe. Cosmic Rust Soon after, when the Stunticons returned performing a series of heists for Megatron, Blaster joined Prime and Bumblebee in hunting down Motormaster. He didn't do much, but he did get to witness the most awesome game of chicken ever, when Prime totalled Motormaster. Masquerade
In the year 2005, Blaster was assigned to the communications hub at Autobot City on Earth. When the fortress was attacked by the Decepticons, Blaster used the advantageous height of his broadcast tower to fire upon the enemy before being urged by Perceptor to send a distress signal to Optimus Prime's forces on Moonbase One. His transmission equipment was destroyed by Soundwave's cassettes, who proceeded to break into the tower and attack the pair, Blaster countered with his own cassette army, and his efforts were soon revealed to have succeeded when Optimus Prime arrived with reinforcements to rout the Decepticons. After the Decepticons retreated, Blaster was helping to rebuild the city when he received a faint signal from Jazz and Cliffjumper on Moonbase One, which was being munched by a ginormous, weird-looking planet. Several of the Autobots soon departed to investigate this new threat, but Blaster remained behind on Earth. The Transformers: The Movie
Perhaps it was this dedication to Earth that saw Blaster appointed city commander once Autobot City was successfully rebuilt later in 2005. Believing the Decepticons responsible for an attack on the Galactic Olympics which saw Ultra Magnus, Kup and Spike kidnapped, Blaster and Outback were sent to the North African nation of Carbombya on the suspicion that the militant leader Abdul Fakkadi was harbouring Decepticon fugitives that they could interrogate for information. Despite Fakkadi's assurances that there were no Decepticons on his soil, Outback managed to psyche out Dirge and Ramjet, whose escape was also quickly put down by the Australian-accented Autobot. Blaster then threatened the two coneheads to spill the beans, for Outback was trigger-happy. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1
While Rodimus Prime followed up on the info they obtained, Blaster returned to Autobot City to keep tabs on the impending delivery of the city's new transforming cog, replacing the original that was destroyed in the great battle. Unfortunately, Blurr and Wheelie's delivery shuttle was destroyed by Galvatron, forcing Blaster to call upon Commander Marissa Faireborn of the Earth Defense Command for help. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3 Faireborn and the Autobot delivery team were stranded when Io's native lipoles destroyed the EDC ship, so the long-suffering Blaster sent rescue in the form of the magnificent Sky Lynx, whom Blaster remarked was difficult to describe. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 After Sky Lynx effortlessly saved their friends and delivered the cog to Earth, Pipes installed the cog, allowing the giant Autobot Metroplex, who formed part of the city, to transform to robot mode. Once the Autobot city defeated the Decepticon giant Trypticon, Blaster declared that Metroplex was his kind of town. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5
In 2006, Blaster was briefly seen aboard the Autobot flagship when Optimus Prime returned from the dead to rally the troops against the Quintessons. He fled the ship with the rest of the crew before Prime's suicidal assault on the Quintessons' central planet. Dark Awakening
After Perceptor uncovered a source of chronal energy emanating from an asteroid belt, Blaster accompanied him on a survey mission, along with his cassettes Rewind and Ramhorn. Though prompted to radio for reinforcements when they were attacked by Sharkticons on approach, Blaster made short work of their opponents with the help of Blurr and Wreck-Gar. The source of the chronal energy proved to be a Quintesson Time Window, through which Blaster and the other Autobots were accidentally chased by the tentacled aliens, catapulting them 11 million years back through time, to Cybertron's distant past. Immediately attacked by Dark Guardian robots, Blaster and his comrades were saved by the intervention of Beta, second-in-command of the slave rebellion against the Quintessons. With the rebels' leader A3 missing, Blaster and the Autobots stepped into his place to lead the rebellion, but the sheer number of Dark Guardians seemed insurmountable. Just as the Autobots were about to be overwhelmed, A3 returned through the time window and turned his Coda Remote device against the Guardians, shutting them down. With the natural flow of history ensured, Blaster and the future Autobots took the window back to the present. Forever Is a Long Time Coming
When Daniel Witwicky and Wheelie were taken hostage by the Decepticons, Blaster fielded the ransom call for Spike and Ultra Magnus, but his skill as a communication officer failed him and he lost Cyclonus's signal at a critical point in the monologing. Surprise Party Daniel was saved, but it wasn't long before he got into more trouble, disappearing with Grimlock during a reception on Cybertron. Blaster had Steeljaw track the boy's scent, following it to an ancient Quintesson chamber beneath Cybertron's surface, where he then called upon Rewind to translate the ancient text on the walls. Discovering that the chamber was a method of banishing criminals to other dimensions, Blaster and the others reactivated the portal and followed them to the sorcerous world of Menonia. There, they got involved in a local skirmish against Mara-Al-Utha, the banished Quintesson who had usurped power from the benevolent Golden One. In order to defeat the Quintesson, Blaster lent his sound system to the Golden One, amplifying his voice as he invoked the proper counter-spells. Madman's Paradise
When Kup visited Autobot City for a security inspection, Blaster passed with flying colors and nearly succeeded in convincing Kup how seriously they took the job... until he happened to lean against a control panel and set off some 20 year old tunes on the sound speakers. Things turned serious immediately thereafter, though, as Metroplex was invaded by Scourge and the ghost of Starscream, who stole Metroplex's eyes and set off a bomb in his brain. Ghost in the Machine
While helping Ultra Magnus and the other Autobots fight the Decepticons on a renegade comet, Blaster experienced first-hand the power of the planet Eurythma's musical weapon, the harmony was blasted out of space by a musical harmony. With Galvatron now seeking to acquire the harmony's power, Blaster joined Ultra Magnus and Broadside in travelling to Eurythma to stop him. Discovering that the entire planet's civilization was based on music, Blaster immediately became enamored with the world, and served as translator for the Eurythman's lyrical language. The hunt for the harmony turned into a bizarre scavenger hunt, as Blaster and Soundwave attempted to recover the three thirds of the harmony produced by Basso Profundo, Zebop Skandana and Allegra. The Decepticons assembled the harmony first, and Soundwave turned its united power against the Autobots, but Blaster stopped him by erasing his recording of it. Carnage in C-Minor
Blaster joined Kup, Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime aboard Omega Supreme to check out some strange reports from the planet of Junk, which turned out to be a full-fledged war between half the galaxy raging over the Junkions' heads. Blaster's receivers pinpointed the source of the sudden intergalactic aggression: a hypnotic signal being broadcast somehow from the Junkions' TV antenna, which he was able to counteract by broadcasting his own counter-frequency. In the course of the chaos, a Quintesson Journal was lost in space, The Big Broadcast of 2006 eventually coming to rest on an uninhabited planet. The journal's signal was detected by the Perceptor some time later, who contacted Blaster, Outback, Steeljaw, Ramhorn and Sky Lynx while they were returning from another mission and had them investigate. Navigating the planet's dangers, they recovered the journal, finding that it detailed centuries of manipulating the planets Xetaxxis and Lanarq into ever-escalating warfare. Despite Quintesson and Decepticon interference, Blaster and his comrades managed to bring the journal to the attention of the warring aliens, ending their conflicts... at least for the moment. The Quintesson Journal
Blaster was manning Autobot City when Victor Drath's men drove the empty shells of Ultra Magnus, Arcee, Springer and Rodimus Prime towards the city for a Trojan horse ploy. When the real Magnus and Springer hijacked the latter's helicopter mode and started taking potshots at the city, however, Blaster quickly caught on and transformed the city into battle station mode, cutting off their entry. Only Human Later, when Sky Lynx and Cosmos crashed on Power Platform Alpha, Blaster raced out to help with his fellow Autobots. Upon trying to radio for assistance, however, Blaster found himself unable to properly transmit any signals. The Autobots eventually uncovered anti-electron sabotage in the new power generator, and cleaned out the disruptive influence. Grimlock's New Brain Later still, Blaster began self-ejecting when the Oracle's transmission convinced Ramhorn and Steeljaw to force their way out of Blaster's chest to answer the call of the Primitives. Call of the Primitives
Although he wasn't on the initial casualty list, Blaster was revived alongside the Autobots who fell before the crazed Superion, during the outbreak of the Hate Plague. He travelled with the resurrected Optimus Prime and the other survivors of the plague to planet Chaar to recover a heat-resistant alloy that would shield Prime from the plague's effect, but succumbed to the disease while battling infected Decepticons. He and all other sufferers were cured when Prime used the wisdom of the Matrix of Leadership to eradicate the plague. The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2
Japanese cartoon continuity
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story pages
Blaster battled Soundwave in what seemed to be the foothills of the Alps, while Perceptor kept the Decepticon communicator's cassettes busy. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story page #5
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers comic
Blaster was vacationing on a utopian island when he was captured by the Constructicons. He was eventually freed by Kenji, Superion and several other Autobots. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #6
Scramble City cartoon
In the late 1980s, as the Autobots neared the completion of their "Scramble City" project to construct a transforming battle fortress, Blaster and his new cassette troops were assigned the task of guarding the entrance to the subterranean cavern where the construction was taking place against incursion by Decepticon spies. When Ravage, Laserbeak and Ratbat came sniffing around, Blaster deployed Steeljaw and Ramhorn to take care of the former two, while he himself dealt with Ratbat. Unfortunately, the tiny Decepticon was able to avoid his blasts and returned fire, which forced Blaster to dodge away from the cavern opening, allowing Ratbat to swiftly fly inside. Although Blaster gave chase, he lost track of Ratbat, who escaped with all the data he could scan from Scramble City. Scramble City: Mobilization
Full Throttle Scramble Power!
When Toru, Jenny and Hound were captured while searching for the Decepticon Omega Whip device, Blaster came to their rescue, blowing several large holes in Ravage with his electro-scrambler gun. He then grappled with Soundwave until the entire Autobot army arrived with Metroplex to drive off the Decepticons. Full Throttle Scramble Power!
The Battle of the Star Gate
In the 1990s, Blaster was among the assembled forces of the Autobots who travelled into Earth orbit to save the human space station known as the Trigger from the Decepticons. When Starscream seized control of the station, he used its warp gate to bombard the Autobots with asteroids he teleported from across space, which Blaster helped blast to bits so they wouldn't rain down on Earth. The battle was ended when Megatron and Optimus Prime combined their powers to stop the treacherous Starscream, resulting in an explosion so powerful that Blaster and all the other Autobots were hurled into Earth's atmosphere, where they were badly damaged by re-entry and disappeared for some time. The Battle of the Star Gate
Asterisk Story
In the early 21st century, Blaster's love of human culture made him a logical choice for participation the Interplanetary Personnel Exchange Program, an initiative designed to promote goodwill and cooperation between humans and Transformers that saw one member of each race partnered with another. Blaster was paired up with TV Announcer Lumina Hoshi, and was reconfigured with a new Toyota Scion alternate mode, prompting him to take on the new name "Broadblast".
While covering an auto show where Broadblast was operating undercover, Lumina Hoshi was unfortunately present when a large section of lighting broke free from the ceiling and came hurtling down upon a crowd of people. Luckily, Broadblast was able to transform in time and catch the lights before they could squash everyone. Broadblast was then left to nervously explain his presence to the onlookers as Lumina apologized for the technical difficulties to her viewers. The World's First Disaster Relief Car!?
15 Go! Go!
While travelling through time and space to gather up information to replace data lost when Teletraan I was damaged, the human computer Teletraan 15 was damaged by Galvatron. While recuperating from her injuries (presumably back in her home year of 2005), she was watched over by Blaster in his boombox mode, who grew determined to cheer up the perpetually downcast girl. Telling her that "the song in her heart sounded lonely" and that she deserved better, Blaster transformed to robot mode to listen to her problems, and advised her to not to worry, and to focus on doing what she loved best. Likening human begins to individual notes who become music when they work together, Blaster advocated listening to music when depressed, and gave Teletraan 15 a cassette. The perked-up 15 thanked him and he departed... but she soon discovered that, despite his best intentions, the tape was fully of really depressing music. Blaster Volume It also turned out to be Steeljaw! Steeljaw Volume
Kiss Players Position
While continuing to build his cassette army into a force that could rival Soundwave's, Blaster hand-picked the Autobot songstress Rosanna to join his team, feeling that she was the only Autobot who properly understood his love of music. Rosanna's bio He was also so happy to add the avian Sundor to his cassette ranks, finally giving his forces some air support, that he didn't suspect Sundor was actually an undercover Decepticon. Sundor's bio
In 2007, when the Autobots were able to return to Earth after being forced to withdraw when Transformer/human relations had been heavily damaged the previous year, Ultra Magnus hit upon the idea of a joint Transformer/human singing group to help improve public relations. Blaster was assigned the role of producer for this group, the "Kiss Players", of which Rosanna became a founding member. Kiss Players radio drama #39
The Headmasters cartoon
- Voice actor: Keiichi Nanba (Japanese), Jesús Brock (American Spanish)
Some time before the Transformers' war left Cybertron, Blaster briefly engaged the Decepticons with his comrades.
In 2011, Blaster and his Mini-Cassettes were on Earth under Ultra Magnus's command when the Decepticons attacked Cybertron. While making their way to the space bridge to join their comrades, Blaster and Ultra Magnus were attacked by the new Decepticon ninja consultant, Sixshot and were unable to help in the battle on their homeworld. Four Warriors Come out of the Sky Fortunately, the arrival of the Autobot Headmasters helped shift the fight in the Autobots' favour, allowing Blaster and a group of other high-rankers to convene at the Autobots' secondary command post on the planet Athenia to discuss the situation. Realizing the Decepticons had been able to invade the planet thanks to the destabilization of Vector Sigma, the Autobots realized that in order to bring the computer back under control, they would have to locate the missing Matrix of Leadership, hidden somewhere on Earth by Optimus Prime. Before returning to Earth to outline their plan, Blaster gave the ill-tempered Wheelie a tape of music to relax him.
Upon the group's return to Autobot City, Blaster immediately detected Ratbat spying on their conversation. Sending Steeljaw to pursue the bat, Blaster found Soundwave lurking nearby, and a brief battle between the two old enemies ended with both combatants vowed to rid the universe of one another some day. The day came sooner than either expected, as Blaster joined Hot Rod in searching for the Matrix in the Arctic, and found Soundwave waiting for him. Blaster engaged his opposite number in battle to cover Hot Rod's retreat, with the clash quickly moving from a firefight to a physical brawl that saw Blaster rip off one of Soundwave's arms.
After both combatants caved in each other's chests, it appeared Blaster had won when Soundwave's injuries consumed him and he exploded, but Blaster quickly succumbed to his wounds as well, urging Hot Rod to find the Matrix with his last words. When the news of his death reached Athenia, Wheelie played the tape Blaster had given him to commemorate his passing, finding to be full of soft, beautiful violin music. The Mystery of Planet Master
Knowing the super-science of planet Master could potentially be used to restore Blaster to life, Autobot Headmaster commander Fortress set about rebuilding the communications officer on his spaceship, the Maximus. Unaware of the secret project, Blaster's cassettes grew increasingly despondent over the loss of their commander and became unable to perform their duties, so Rodimus Prime elected to reveal Blaster's impending resurrection, putting a spring back in their step. When Blaster's reconstruction as Twincast was complete, he was teleported from the Maximus to Athenia, reunited with his cassettes, and was then immediately charged with investigating the Decepticons' newest weapon, the Madmachine. Infiltrating Trypticon on Earth, Twincast learned that the Madmachine was being controlled remotely from Chaar by Soundwave, who had also been resurrected as "Soundblaster". Twincast single-handedly overpowered the Constructicons to access the Decepticon space bridge, and made his way to Chaar, where he faced off with Soundblaster and destroyed the sonic controller he had been using to command the Madmachine, then escaped. The Great Cassette Operation
Later on, Twincast reported to Rodimus Prime that the Decepticons were gathering on Earth, in preparation for a raid on Cybertron that tragically led to the planet's destruction. Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1 Soon after, he attended a party on Athena to commemorate the launch of the Sol 1 satellite, where he was badgered into serving as a karaoke machine for Hardhead. The Sol 1 was stolen by the Decepticons to power a mysterious plot, The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok so Twincast was charged with finding out what the villains were up to. He sent Ramhorn and Steeljaw to Chaar on a reconnaissance mission, and they returned with information on Scorponok's scheme to harness plasma energy, like that which was released by Cybertron's destruction. The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts Soon after, Twincast followed Sixshot to Chaar over the space bridge, and witnessed the activation of Scorponok's MegaZarak transtector. Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears
Presumably because of his role as a communications officer, Twincast was aware of Punch's undercover duties with the Decepticons as Counterpunch. After the Headmasters clashed with Scorponok near Chaar, he alerted Fortress that Punch had arrived to make his latest report. Return of the Immortal Emperor Later, Twincast learned that the Decepticons planned to raid the energy supplies Ultra Magnus was sending to the destitute planet Sandra. His warning only arrived a few short moments before the Decepticons did. SOS from Planet Sandra
When Fortress and the Headmasters pursued the Decepticons out into space, Twincast joined them on the expedition. Fight to the Death on Planet Hive!! He was with the Headmasters when they investigated an SOS call from the planet Daros. Find MegaZarak's Weak Spot!! On Paradise, Twincast used his Mini-Cassettes to scout the countryside and locate the Decepticons. Head Formation of Friendship He was also active when the Autobots came to the Pirate Planet, watching for Decepticon activity. His scouting patrol came by a sealed pyramid in time to pull Highbrow to safety when Galvatron arrived looking for energy. Mystery of the Space Pirate Ship
After the Autobots returned to Earth, Twincast helped investigate the sudden flurry of Decepticon attacks. He released his collection of Mini-Cassettes to seek out information, and personally accompanied Steeljaw on an investigation to an Autobot outpost in Alaska. Upon arriving, they discovered Scorponok had wiped out the outpost. Twincast and Steeljaw were spotted by Sixshot, who opened fire on them. Twincast demanded Steeljaw return to Autobot City with the information they had uncovered, while he stayed behind to cover the retreat. Steeljaw reluctantly left his commander to his fate, and Twincast was ultimately blasted into a ravine by Sixshot's winged wolf mode. Steeljaw eventually returned with reinforcements, and Twincast was taken in for repairs. The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg
Twincast reported to a series of caves where the Headmasters were searching for plasma energy bombs left behind by Scorponok and the Decepticons when they departed Earth. He joined the Headmasters aboard the Battleship Maximus as they tried to get the massively powerful explosives a safe distance away from Earth. When they came across a group of six refugees fleeing the planet Master, Twincast used his interpretive skills to translate their strange language. Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1) On the planet Master, Twincast was among the Autobots when the kidnapped scientist, Jack, suddenly returned to their midst. Prompted by the suspicious Pointblank, Twincast scanned Jack and discovered the Decepticons had installed a time bomb inside him. Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 2) Twincast was also among the Autobots debating whether Wheelie's life was worth the secret of the Master Sword. The Master Sword Is in Danger!!
Twincast joined the entire Autobot army in journeying to the North Pole. There they battled Scorponok and his minions to stop the crysmagnetal towers from destroying the planet Earth. Twincast saved Chromedome and Hardhead from Mindwipe's hypnotic spell by dumping his entire chest full of Mini-Cassettes on the evil Headmaster. The Death Towers created a field of energy that was threatening to tear the Earth apart At the request of Daniel and Wheelie all the Autobots assembled to assist the Autobot Headmasters, thus combined in "Final Formation", they provided Fortress with the energy he needed, and the Earth was saved. The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)
Transformers Generations 2013
Twincast commanded Scramble City while it was under reconstruction after an attack from Metrotitan. When Metrotitan and the Decepticons attacked again, Pipes pleaded with Twincast to have Metroplex transform, but an ongoing energy crisis made Twincast reluctant to use up so much. Nevertheless, Metroplex pressed the need and Twincast allowed his transformation. After the Decepticons retreated, Twincast received and showed a message from Optimus Prime about the discovery of nucleon. Metrowars
G-2 story pages
After Optimus Prime and Megatron forged the Cybertron Alliance, Twincast returned to his original form as Blaster for reasons unknown, adopting a new Action Master body in the process. G-2 Part 3
Notes
- As part of his hip and happening personality in the Generation 1 cartoon, Blaster's speech patterns were initially modelled on those of a radio DJ. While he would drop the occasional rhyme as a matter of lyrical cadence, slowly but surely, this aspect of his language began to override all others, really kicking in with the late season 2 episodes "Cosmic Rust" and "Masquerade", which featured more rhyming lines than not, and carrying on through his brief but memorable role in The Transformers: The Movie. With the advent of season three, any sense of gradual progression went out the window as Blaster suddenly became a cut-rate Wheelie, with nearly every line he spoke being an often-lengthy rhyming couplet. While his DJ-like speech patterns never really returned, "Ghost in the Machine" and "Carnage in C-Minor" did provide some notable instances of him talking normally as a result of the gravity of a situation.
- Blaster's absence from the second half of The Transformers: The Movie is often a talking point among fans. It stems from a deleted plotline from early drafts of the movie, in which he would have led several other 1984 and '85 Autobots as a team of guerrilla fighters, defending Earth against the Decepticons while Ultra Magnus and the other Autobots went into space to stop Unicron from feeding on the energy of the planet. While this plot had been excised by the time of dialogue recording, the shooting script for the film does include another pair of deleted lines that explain Blaster's absence, as he and Inferno tell Magnus's Autobots that they will cover them as they escape on the shuttles.
- The script for "Fight or Flee" noted the Communication Autobot of Paradron as a "primative [sic] Blaster". The intended family resemblance didn't really make it on-screen, unfortunately.
