Junkheap (AOE)

This article is about the live-action film series human-built Decepticon from Age of Extinction. For other uses of "Junkheap", see Junkheap (disambiguation)

Junkheap is a Decepticon from the live-action film series continuity family.

Junkheap is only good for one thing.

Built by KSI, Junkheap is a Waste Management garbage truck composed of three robots, mostly-mindless drones built by humans using the element Transformium.

Well, except for when he's one robot.

Fiction

Age of Extinction film

Junkheap lay dormant in KSI's Beijing branch factory when Galvatron staged a rebellion and brought all of KSI's creations under his control. Along with the other drones, Junkheap stormed Hong Kong to track down the Seed, splitting into his three components to cover more ground. In the ensuing fight, Hound destroyed several of the individual robots. Age of Extinction

Toys

Age of Extinction

• Junkheap (Power Battler, 2014)

Junkheap is based on his green component robot, but transforms into an entire garbage truck. He includes a chomping claw action feature which can be activated in both modes.

The figure sports the logo of Waste Management, Inc, and was initially heavily promoted as the result of a cooperation, with the toy's alternate mode revealed on the official Transformers Facebook page as part of a celebration of Earth Day.

However, as a tail-ender for the Power Battlers assortment, Junkheap eventually fell victim to "tail end of the line" syndrome, and wasn't officially released until much later than initially planned, not helped by a massive slowdown at US West Coast docks caused by union action. Thus far, Junkheap has only been available from online retailers; and to make matters even worse, he is only included in one wave alongside the other two new Power Battlers figures, Vehicon and High Octane Bumblebee, while a revision of said wave that includes Vehicon and Bumblebee but lacks Junkheap was actually stocked by online retailers first, with some never even bothering to list the wave that includes Junkheap.

This sculpt was also used to make Adventure Junkion.

Notes

• According to Hasbro's brand panel at BotCon 2014, 'stinky plastic' was briefly considered for Junkheap's toy, but the notion was vetoed for cost reasons.