Noise
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- Noise is an Autobot Mini-Cassette from the Headmasters portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Noise (ノイズ Noizu) is one of the Autobot Cassettebots. A "forest investigation" bot, he is their most violent member (worse than Ramhorn? Yikes), and his fangs and claws are the strongest out of all of them. Noise idolizes his fellow dinosaur, Grimlock.[1]
As a member of the W Cassettebot sub-sub-group, he can combine with his partner Graphy to form the robot Decibel.
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Toys
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
- ID number: C-122
- Accessories: Left & right "Fire Blasters"
- Released in the third year of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers line, Noise is a mini-cassette that transforms into what appears to be a blue Allosaurus. In tape mode, he fits into the chest compartment of Blaster or Soundwave (and their various retooled reincarnations). Two silver "Fire Blaster" guns plug into the faux cassette tape holes by his arms. Oddly for a toy from this era, he lacks a rubsign, mainly due to his design leaving not enough flat space to place one.
- Noise combines with Graphy to form the top half of the humanoid(-ish) robot Decibel. Noise's cannons become over-shoulder cannons for Decibel.
- As one of the few toys unique to the Japanese Headmasters toy line, and something of a tail-ender to boot, Noise and the other three "dino-cassettes" command ridiculous sums on the secondary market. Their actual rarity is questionable, though; similar "exclusive holy grails" Stepper, Artfire, Twincast, and Soundblaster were uncommon, but not vanishingly rare, yet still commanded top dollar due to overseas perception (until they got reissued, at any rate). Speaking of...
Vintage G1
- Mini-Cassettes 3-Pack (Multi-pack, 2019)
- Release date: September 16, 2019
- Accessories: Left & right "Fire Blasters"
- In a surprise move, "Noizu" (really?) was reissued as part of the Vintage G1 series alongside "Gurafi" and an inexplicable, just-different-enough-to-make-you-mad version of Vintage G1 "Decepticon Frenzy". This version of the pair comes on a retro-styled two-pack card which is actually the left half of a giant three-pack card, shared with Frenzy on the right half all alone. Bizarrely, this right/left arrangement is retained for the back of the set, with Graphy and Noise's instructions and bios on the left behind Frenzy, and Frenzy's instructions/bio (and the other necessary branding) on the right behind the dinos.
- This version of Noise has many small but notable differences from the original, primarily in his stickering. His tape-mode stickers are generally larger, extending all the way to the edges of his parts, most visibly the silver line on his foot under "METAL POSITION" is extended all the way the the edge. Also, the "POSITION" sticker is inexplicably missing the silver lines above the text and tape-spool, but adds one to the right of the tape spool that does not resume on the other side. Basically, his tape mode detailing is all sorts of janked up. And of course, he also uses the new Vintage G1 style rubsign, with a red-only symbol and mirror-like silver border.
- This set was revealed when it went up for preorder on Hasbro Pulse on the first day of San Diego Comic-Con 2019... despite not being announced at the show at all. This set was also available at general retail in Hong Kong. It was originally intended to be a HasCon 2019 exclusive, but was shuffled to Pulse following the convention's indefinite hiatus.
References
- ↑ Generation 1 Noise toy bio
