Clampdown (G1)

The name or term "Clampdown" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Clampdown (disambiguation).

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

The reason Red Alert is paranoid.

Assigned to an Earth police force as head of the Interplanetary Personnel Exchange Program along with his brother Deep Cover, Clamp Down (クランプダウン Kuranpu Daun) is a tough, dedicated cop who works tirelessly along with his human partners. Uncomplicated in his way of thinking, the straightforward, sometimes black-and-white view he has taken thanks to the Autobot/Decepticon war occasionally clashes with the views of his new co-workers, not to mention the legal system.

Fiction

Binaltech Asterisk

As leader of the Interplanetary Personnel Exchange Program, Clamp Down hoped to promote peaceful cooperation between humans and Transformers. To accomplish this, he paired several Autobots up with humans from different walks of life so that people could see how well the two races might interact. Binaltech Asterisk

Wings Universe

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

At the dawn of the Machine Wars, Clamp Down was a security officer operating on Cybertron. Dedicated to law and order, Clamp Down had no qualms about imprisoning fellow Autobots such as Gunrunner, Mirage, and Electro when they violated Cybertronian law. When generals Obsidian and Strika ordered all prisoners released who were willing and able to take up arms against Jhiaxus and his clones, Clamp Down VERY reluctantly did so. Even still, he tried to force a confession out of Mirage and Electro about their smuggling activities first, and refused to arm Electro with the sword he needed to focus his forestonite powers.

Despite his myopia in the face of open warfare, Clamp Down was named one of the city commanders of Cybertron in defense of the oncoming invasion force. Termination

Clamp Down was present at the signing of the Pax Cybertronia, where he shook Starscream’s hand. A Common Foe

Toys

Collector's Edition

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He probably wants to take down that criminal scum who took his name.

• Clamp Down (Autobot, March 2003)
  • ID number: 91
  • Accessories: Rifle, launcher, 3 missiles

An e-HOBBY exclusive available only in a set with Deep Cover, Clamp Down is a redeco of the original Red Alert toy, transforming into a Lamborghini Countach LP500S, using exactly the same base plastic colors, but with different paint and decal applications to make him into a police car. As he was released in Japan, his spring-loaded missile launcher is fully operational. Several factory-applied decals on the original version were replaced by painted tampographs, like his headlamps.

Pre-orders for the set closed on January 10, 2003, with the toys shipping out in March.

The base mold is also used for Sideswipe, Deep Cover and Tigertrack.

• More information on Clamp Down at TFU.info

Notes

• Clamp Down's deco is based on the pre-Transformers Diaclone toy that became Red Alert, the "New Countach LP500S Police Car Type".