Hyperdrive (Turbomaster)
| The name or term "Hyperdrive" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Hyperdrive (disambiguation). |
- Hyperdrive was to have been an Autobot Turbomaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The rarely-seen Hyperdrive is supposedly the Supreme Commander of the Autobot army in the time of the Turbomasters, even out-ranking the "Commander-in-Chief" Thunder Clash.
He was probably really super-duper-heroic.
Fiction
Ask Vector Prime
In an unspecified Primax universe, Hyperdrive was the head of the Cybertron Elite Guard academy before the Great War, teaching hundreds of Autobots who would become some of their greatest warriors, including Grimlock, Ultra Magnus, and even Optimus Prime.
During the war, Hyperdrive helped thousands of neutrals flee from the town of Yuss. He also single-handedly defeated an entire batallion of Hunter-Seekers with a single shot from his Hyperion Cannon.
Hyperdrive chose to remain behind when the Ark departed from Cybertron. Knowing that the Decepticons would inevitably conquer their barren homeworld, he gathered an army of survivors and stormed Straxis' shipyards, successfully commandeering the Iron Hope and setting back the Decepticons from expanding their empire. With their new ship, Hyperdrive and his army set out across the galaxy to find a way to revitalize Cybertron. During their travels, they fought against Verminator and his army of petro-rabbits, rescued the S.S. Exton 9 from an infestation of space barnicles, and destroyed much of the navy of the Intruder Empire.
Millions of years later, Optimus Prime, after defeating a Nucleon-empowered Megatron, retired and passed the Matrix of Leadership on to Hyperdrive. As the Autobot leader, Hyperdrive took a less hands-on approach to the war and instead put Thunder Clash in charge of tactical decisions.
After Skyquake obtained Forestonite and nearly destroyed the Sol System, Hyperdrive, with his Apex Armor, and Rotorstorm faced off against him together and were able to defeat him.
Hyperdrive eventually passed on the Maxtrix to Pyro, though he still continued to fight regardless until the war finally ended. Some time after, he died of Corrodia Gravis. His death impacted many Autobots, and his legacy inspired many Maximals that would follow him. Ask Vector Prime
Toys
No toy of Hyperdrive was ever made, and no hardcopies are known to exist either. He only seems to exist in art form.
Hyperdrive can be seen in one of the Megavisor slides of the Decepticon commander Skyquake. For years, the actual identity of this character was unknown (often initially being mistaken for Star Convoy), until concept art of Hyperdrive was revealed in the Deluxe edition of the Japanese Transformers Generations book in 2004.
He clearly would have had the standard Turbomaster spring-loaded cannon gimmick... but what all else his toy would have done is unknown. The blurb in Generations states that he would have "stood above Thunder Clash".[1]
The prevailing theory on why he was never produced is simple "cost"; he was planned to be the "pinnacle" of the 1992 assortment, which likely means he'd have been huge... and the two big boys of the series, Thunder Clash and Skyquake, were already pretty hefty.
