Road Rage (G1)

This article is about the Generation 1 Autobot. For the Animated Autobot, see Road Rage (Animated).

Road Rage is an Autobot from the Collector's Edition portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Horn broken, watch for magnabomb. Oh, and finger.

Road Rage (ロードレイジ Rōdo Reiji) is the bodyguard/advisor of Cybertron ambassador Crosscut. She is well-versed in alien cultures and generally cheerful, making her a very good diplomat. However, a chronic short-out in her vehicle mode causes her to live up to her name; in car mode, she is a snarling, swerving speed machine with little regard—if not utter contempt—for anyone else on the road with her. This is pretty embarrassing for her once she reverts to robot mode.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Wings Universe

Wings Universe is based on the Generation 1 cartoon, but deviates from it in cosmetic ways and continuity points.

Of course she's missing her mouthplate—how else is she gonna drink?

Near the dawn of the Great War, Road Rage sat in a bar, listening intently to a bot who claimed he was the lone survivor of the recent siege against the Elite Guard. She appeared to be interested in him until it was revealed to her that the bot was just some lying schmuck named Side Burn, and not the hero named Dion. As Side Burn was dragged away by Prowl, she and her waitress shot furious looks at the impostor. Battle Lines, Part 1

Bee in the City 2: Electric Boogaloo

Voice actor: Abby Collins

Bee in the City 2: Electric Boogaloo

Transformers Legends comic

Road Rage was among the heroic female Transformers who appeared in one of Tigatron's dreams to protect him from the evil female Transformers. Legends Business Trip Edition #11

Toys

Collector's Edition

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• Road Rage (Autobot, October 2002)
  • Japanese ID number: 94
  • Accessories: Left & right "magnabomb launchers", launcher base, "plasma discharger" rifle, 4 "magnabomb" missiles

Road Rage is a redeco of the original Tracks toy, transforming into a Corvette Stingray sports car. She also has a third "flight" mode with swing-out wings and add-on thruster-pack/missile launchers. (her rifle can mount on her undercarriage in this mode, but it's really awkward when she's grounded.) As a Japanese release, her spring-loaded missile launchers are fully-functional.

She was available only as an e-HOBBY exclusive, sold in a set with Crosscut. Pre-orders ended on July 31 of 2002, and the toys were sent out in October.

• More info on Road Rage at TFU.info

Masterpiece

• Road Rage (2015)
  • Japanese ID number: MP-26
  • Accessories: Gun

Masterpiece Road Rage is a retool of MP-25 Tracks, possessing a new weapon, head, biceps, hands, crotch, and thighs. She is the first female transformer in the Masterpiece line.

Notes

• Road Rage and Crosscut are notable for being the first additions to the Generation 1-era cast of characters after the original line ended since the short-lived Machine Wars series. This also started the general trend toward e-Hobby releases being new characters rather than old characters in new colors.

• Her coloration is based on the original pre-Transformers Diaclone version of the sculpt. This sculpt in these colors was also available as Tracks under the Transformers brand in some European markets in 1985, distributed by Milton Bradley. A convincing theory suggests that red Tracks, like most of the second wave of MB-branded Transformers, was actually originally a Diaclone toy by European Takara licensee Joustra, which was acquired by MB together with the rest of Joustra's Diaclone stock and put into Transformers packaging.

• e-Hobby's web page for the BotCon 2012 set notes that Shattered Glass Tracks can be used as Classics Road Rage.

External links

• Road Rage toy article at TF-1.com