#transformers micromasters

[churino]

Design for trip-up

The hot rod patrol are hot rod's biggest critics, they find fault in just about everything he does and have come to rescue the autobots stranded on earth really just to show they're better than him. And nobody exemplifies their distain towards hot rod better than trip-up, he'll never forgive him for insulting his mom one time (hes very touchy about that)

Trip-up is the most aggressive, contemptuous, and openly malicous member of the hot rod patrol. His own morality is something that deeply troubles him deep down. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to fight his urge to be petty.

His willingness to screw other people over to his own benefit is born from his past. He never wanted to be a mechanic, but his momma (bless her spark) died, and he had to take over the family business to stay afloat. His success in the field led to the wreckers taking note.

From their invitation, he met Big Daddy and joined the team. He hates the job, loathes it with a passion, and takes it out on pretty much everybody except hubs. something about her gets him really flustered. It's clear she likes him back in a playful bully kind of way

Even though big daddy and greaser run the team in a very unorthodox, "anything goes in the name of freedom" philosophy, they keep an eye on trip-up as they feel he could be a bad influence on hubs,

trip-up's personal beef with hot rod is that one time, they were testing those exhaust pipe flamethrowers hot rod likes to use so much and trip-up wanted to use a special family recipe as fuel but hot rod preferred a store bought alternative, the greatest insult trip-up ever had to endure

[whatwooshkai]

just finished the first issue of micromasters. going insane in general but seriously. was anyone going to tell me there's a canon transformer named BIG DADDY because WHY DID I HAVE TO FIGURE THAT OUT MYSELF BY TRACKING DOWN PHYSICAL COPIES OF AN OUT OF PRINT COMIC

[hasbr0mniverse]

HasbrOmniverse Comic Of The Day! Dreamwave Comics - Transformers Micromasters #03 - Cover Date September 2004 - Storylines/Events: Recipe For Hate

[mistermalaprop]

"Woah... you're beautiful!"

(based off this post)

[protagonistprime]

Reborn Eva-01 Convoy and Micromaster Pilot Shinjimus from Age of the Primes Star (Convoy) Optimus Prime and Rodimus ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Pilot the Convoy Shinji, or GinRei will have to do it again."

Ever since they revealed Age of the Primes Star Convoy and his "Pilot" gimmick, i knew this mold would fit this idea perfectly. ------------------------------------------------------------------

And here's the main reason i wanted to do this digibash:

Original image belongs to Mark Maher on Instagram.

Transformers, Evangelion, Eva-01, Star Convoy, Shinji, Rodimus belong to their rightful owners, These digibashes belong to me

[majachee]

sunrunner design for @emperor-kumquat

hehe play/read Mercy <3

[catbusdriver]

Micromaster Deployers

Synching with Minicons has always been viewed as a valuable skill. Having a Minico usually means having an incredibly powerful weapon ally at some bot's disposal. However, Synching is a VERY rare ability.

When it was still believed Micromasters and Cold Constructs were non sentient drones, an idea was proposed, modify certain drones to be able to be able to carry smaller units. On ANY OTHER KIND of Cybertronian, this would be very inhumane, as the mods necessary are invasive, painful, and EXTREMELY dangerous. On an unfeeling drone? Go nuts.

This attitude unfortunately returned when the Predacons did. Hundreds of CCs "inlisted" to get the Mod.

The Mod for the Deployer itself is simple. Just remove the part from wherever you want to store the Micromaster, then replace them with connectors, pseudo stasis field generators, and rewire fuel line so the Micromaster gets some of the Deployers energon.

The Mod for Micromasters however is much worse.most of them cant even transform without outside help anymore. And that's the least horrible side effect. Autoscout cant speak, ??? Can't move. The list goes on!

Is it any wonder why Galvatron rebelled?

[askvectorprime]

Dear, Vector Prime.

How did Astrotrain end up with such a small and skeletal body?

Dear Astrological Anatomist,

In the universe where one might encounter this particular Astrotrain, the Great War had been going on for so long that energon supplies were running dangerously low. Many Cybertronians on both sides were forced to undergo the Micromaster downsizing procedure, and Astrotrain was no exception, giving up his locomotive form to do so.

Having three modes was something which Astrotrain had always felt elevated him above his peers; with only two, he developed quite the inferiority complex. This led him to begin experimenting with strange and unorthodox materials to upgrade his new, smaller body, in the hopes of unlocking a new transformation. Eventually, through a combination of Skeletron and Forestonite, he was able to grant himself a new double-barreled blaster mode—although the formula did have some side effects.

[cybertronia-obscura]

Feature Character of March

Red Hot (or Red Heat) of the Rescue Patrol!

Toy bio:

"The hotter things get, the better I like it!" Note: The bio below is for the entire Micromaster Rescue Patrol. "True victory can only lie in the ability to locate and mend the injured." This fearless foursome braves the heaviest combat fire on land and sea to perform their assigned tasks. Fully equipped to administer emergency aid under the most adverse conditions: Seawatch has over-the-horizon radar and towing capability; Stakeout has a state-of-the-air communications dashboard; Fixit is outfitted with repair bay and life-function monitors; Red Hot contains fire-retardant chemical foam.

Red Hot and the rest of the Rescue Patrol were introduced in 1989 in the Marvel comics! Although he will never shirk his duty to save lives, Red Hot is a thrillseeker who loves to dive right into the action! However, his eagerness gets him into trouble when he runs out of fuel.

His largest role was in the Marvel comics. He's had cameos in Regeneration One, WFC marketing, the Earth Wars game, and appeared in a commercial.

[churino]

Design for Big Daddy (yes she's a real character)

She's the leader of the hot rod patrol, like the rest of the team, she's a younger bot, lacking real maturity, seen in her justified but frankly childish crusade against hot rod. Throughout hot rod's gradual rise, big daddy and her team criticized him at every step but with their constant pressure hot rod improved. He wouldn't be half the leader he eventually becomes without them.

Big Daddy was an early adopter of Greaser's sense of style, born on lower omega supreme on the ark, she was born tougher than tough and stronger than strong, but the other bots would often try to push her around, because of her small size, in time she would get sick of it and begin to test other people to see if they're worthy of her, which eventually formed into her unique ideology, all leadership must be tested if it is fit to lead,

A long time ago now, she picked up hot rod to join her team, gifted son of paradronian immigrants, who's seen life from every angle even at an early age. she saw potential in him for great things but his time on the team turned hot rod into an overconfident arrogant and self absorbed jerk, who thought the world was already promised to him, and when the time came it became clear he wanted to be some kind of authority, the hot rod patrol tested him as they would do to anybody else and he failed.

Big daddy was directly responsible for throwing hot rod to optimus' team, but was actually distraught when the team was thought to be dead. When Cosmo's message reached the ark, the hot rod patrol broke into the wreckers' workshop and stole an experimental ship to come to earth as fast as possible but the ship was so fast they were unable to land it properly, stranding them on earth with the other autobots.

While on earth they fell under prime's leadership where they became rivals to the throttlebots. They would constantly test hot rod's team's patience among other things, every step they take, every kilometer they rolled, the hot rod patrol would be one step ahead, one city block away, until hot rod just couldn't take it anymore, locked himself up in his room and passed his duties to bumblebee, (don't worry he'll get better)

So anyway. about that name.. within their culture, new transformers just pick their own names, and usually, it's the first thing they ever do. as a result, most names seem very immature operating on wordplay or references, Changing names does happen, but it's rare and meaningful to them big daddy is called that because of a character from a movie she liked

[palaciosworks]

Look! It's Gingham!

[siphersaysstuff]

THE GHOST OF PICS: MECHS PAST

And with THAT tortured pun, December's Patreon-backed @tfwiki picture batch is all stuff we've kinda needed forever, all stuff from the prior century, and all stuff from outside the US market!

We start with Takara's original DEATHSAURUS, Decepticon leader in 1989's Victory, who just had his Legacy Haslab toy start showing up on doorsteps. And of course, new separate pics for his Breast Animal partners EAGLEBREAST and TIGERBREAST (yes, get them giggles out, go ahead).

Let's jump back a year to 1988's Super-God Masterforce, and the Godmaster RANGER. This mold is the only one of the three Powermaster Autobot cars to get recolored for its Takara release. Sadly, the MIB copy I bought back in 1996 was missing its gun, thus my general reluctance to add a pic to the wiki. But lord, that tiny, crunchy book scan we were using suuuucked. Made Ranger look white when he's a very light stony blue. Still using the scan though, just now in an inset panel to show off the gun I don't have.

And now we bounce ahead to 1990's Zone, and the Micro Transformer base SKY HYPER, piloted by Deadwheeler. I took these pics forever ago at some BotCon, and have long lost the notes as to who owned this piece a few hard drives back. This sample was also missing the three ramps, thus both the length of time it took for me to get comfy going ahead and adding these to the wiki, and the new book-scan inset to show the missing ramps.

Let's shift over to the European market, with 1992's THUNDER CLASH, the leader of the Autobot Turbmasters. His gravity-feed missile launcher was, like all the Turbomaster and Predator launchers, very much not US choke-gate compliant.

Fun fact: Thunder actually did get a Japanese release! He and Skyquake were straight imported to Japanese stores in Hasbro packaging, with just some necessary legal info changed to Japanese on the boxes. This was the Operation: Combination year, where Takara released the small Turbomasters and Predators in 2-packs.

And now we're going much further back, and much further south. No, that's not Brawn, that's OUTBACK, the 1987 Mexican version by IGA. Apparently, IGA was unwilling or unable to pay for the new '86 Mini Vehicle molds, thus they made their own versions by simply recoloring the '84 originals and slapping them on new cards for the '86 characters. Sometimes with alternate decos to boot!

Sadly, I don't own this toy, and like Sky Hyper, this was a BotCon pic taken with original owner info lost to time. (I always try and credit the toy owner when they let me take pics.)

Now here's the ones I'm super-happy about. These are two of the three Eletrix, ESPORTE and PORSCHE, exclusive to Estrela's 1985 Brazilian Transformers line! These toys transform and walk/roll forward via remote control, attached by a wire over 4 feet long. I'm keeping an eye out for the third one, Jipe.

None of the '85 Brazilian toys have any faction markings, but the Autobot-style packaging leads one to assume "all good guys". As do the bios of many of the toys in the line... but the Eletrix lack bios, sadly. Which is weird, as Estrela made up new bios for some toys in the line, and just straight-translated others from their Hasbro bios.

These molds were released in the US, but as the "Pow-R-Bots" in Village Toys' TF-wannabe line Convert-A-Bots. Like Estrela, Village licensed them from Japan's Yonezawa Toys, where they were the Remote Change Robo Series. All of these releases use the same plastic colors, but give them new stickers for branding and language.

I bought these two MISB (cellophane still there!) earlier this year, but was a little gunshy about opening them, worried the electronics might have somehow rotted. Schrodinger's Electronics. But no, since they didn't come with batteries, no corrosion, and they work as well as a 1984-mold cheap electric gear-powered toy can (that is to say, loudly).

And of course, since I got the boxes, I took the opportunity to take 600dpi scans of the box art unique to Estrela's packaging!

Man, I love going through these older, not-US corners of TFdom, and hope you learned something new about the vast TF universe. And if you'd like to help make that just a little bit easier and get more pics out a month, consider joining my Patreon! "gregstfwikipics" there, every little bit helps, plus at higher pledge levels you can pick a theme for the month!

[elfdragon12]

Finally got all single pieces of the Astro Squad and Ettie! This time, inspired by the @cybertronia-obscura prompt "navigator"!

Missile Master enjoys when Ettie asks him questions because it helps him feel like a better leader.

[mistermalaprop]

Thanks to @tilly-tittle Sledge has been found!! My 1990s toy-exclusive goober has been screenshotted and saved from obscurity <3 not many micromasters get modern art or any representation so anything is something good!

The search for him is over so now let’s all thank Tilly for being the best >:D

[jdrider02]

Mini-showcase (earlier purchase from eBay)

Transformers (left to right of top left image):

-Armada Liftor

-Armada Sonar (Air Assault)

-Universe 2003 Rapid Run (AKA Takara Raise)

-Universe 2003 Skydive

4-8-2025

[bigangrytrev]

Age of Primes: Which Bots can be traced back to which Primes?

Which bots can be traced back to which Primes? The Original 13 Primes has been part of the Transformers mythos for quite a while now.  Be it in the Aligned Continuity, the Movieverse, the Power of The Primes Trilogy, or even retroactively into G1 via the IDW Comics, the idea that Primus originally created 13 Primes in order to battle Unicron has become an established part of Transformers…