Double Pretender
- The Double Pretenders were to be Transformers from the Generation 1 continuity family.
A Double Pretender is a type of Pretender that has two robots occupying one Pretender shell. The two robots are capable of combining into one robot outside the shell.
Fiction
Shattered Glass
The two Double Pretender shells were among the first Pretender shells that the Decepticons developed. Shattered Expectations
Badlands
The Pretender Oilmaster operated as a bounty hunter, tracking the Decepticon outcast known as Magnificus. He was defeated by Hawk when the flying Decepticon arrived to make Magnificus an offer on behalf of Scrash. Badlands
Toys
Unreleased
Hasbro at one point had plans to release a Pretender subgroup consisting of a combiner pair inside one shell. There are two prototype shells known to exist, one of a spider creature and the other of an armored gorilla. Whether the Transformers that were to go in them were ever given prototypes is unknown, and any artwork on them has yet to surface. The two shells, meanwhile, each have been spotted in two color schemes. The spider creature has a black and a brown deco, and the armored gorilla a brown and a grey deco. The black spider creature and grey armored gorilla were first and last seen at a display at BotCon 1996.
The shells are of the same size as the 1989 normal Pretenders. Unlike most other Pretenders, it seems the Double Pretenders were to be opened at the back to insert or remove the inner robots, rather than down the middle.
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Timelines
- Cybertron's Most Wanted (BotCon 2015 box set)
- Accessories: gun, sword, friggin' Pretender shell
Oilmaster is a redeco of Generations Legends Class Swerve and Flanker which fit into a newly-sculpted Pretender shell designed by Boss Fight Studio after the original unreleased Oilmaster toy, with the Swerve redeco colored in homage to Oilmaster's inner robot from Badlands. The shell has shoulder and neck rotational joints, 5mm pegholes in its wrists, plus two 5mm pegholes on its back for storage.
Oilmaster comes with Battletrap, Packrat, Megatron, and Stepper.
Notes
- In an interview, Vinnie D'Alleva referred to these Pretenders as the "Monster Pretenders". Whether that was actually supposed to be their name or if D'Alleva got them confused with the other Pretender combiner group is not clear.
- Speaking of that other group, there's a number of similarities between the Pretender Monsters and the Double Pretenders that makes it seem the concept of the Double Pretenders was turned into the Pretender Monsters. Both groups have combiners as the inner robots, have monsters as shells and split open at the back.
