Nightprowler

Nightprowler is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Is that actual neon?

Nightprowler is a renegade Autobot.

Fiction

The AllSpark Almanac

The Ulchtar of Aurex 603.0 Kappa broke into Primax 388.0 Gamma Zone's Satellite Penitentiary. There, he retrieved the personality components of the renegade Autobots Screechwing, Spiketail, Nightprowler, Albitron, and Leatherhide. The five formed the Combatibots that could merge to form Toxitron. The AllSpark Almanac II

Recordicons

And you don't feel the steel til it's hanging out your back!

Nightprowler came to the aid of Batbot when the latter was attacked by Howlback. When Howlback protested that they were ganging up on her, Nightprowler asserted that it was just called "teamwork" when the heroes did it. Recordicons #21

Toys

Universe

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

For a brief time, Hasbro's official website checklist featured listings for two "Halloween Horrorcon Value Packs" that were to be Wal-Mart exclusives... which also likely explains why they were canceled. (Wal-Mart had taken a good half-dozen exclusives and released them more-or-less simultaneously, leading to a huge glut. A lot of other Transformers exclusives were canceled during the Universe era.)

In 2004, several test-shots appeared on Ebay in a group, among them a snow leopard redeco of the original Beast Wars Cheetor toy. This, presumably, was to have been Nightprowler, as the other toys in the group line up with the names given for the two Halloween sets. The toy would have transformed from snow leopard to robot, with two guns, one being a water squirter. As he was to come in a "Vs." two-pack with the Predacon character Waspinator, it is presumed that he was to be an Autobot.

In 2014, Nightprowler randomly turned up in a display at Hasbro's Transformers 30th Anniversary San Diego Comic-Con Press Breakfast.

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Generation 1

Shouldn't he be an AC/DC special edition instead?

• Transformers Linkin Park Soundwave: Special Edition (September 23, 2013)
  • Accessories: Left and right missiles, tape case

Linkin Park Ravage (with Buzzsaw or Laserbeak's weapons) was repurposed as Nightprowler. He is a gold and ... also gold redeco of Ravage. He's packaged with Linkin Park gold redecoes of Soundwave, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, and Ratbat on a flocked-purple plastic tray inside a special commemorative box. He has no stickers, factory-applied or otherwise. Linkin Park Soundwave: Special Edition is limited to 2000 pieces.

External links

• Halloween Horrorcon test-shot gallery