Pteraxadon

Pteraxadon is an Autobot Battle Master from the Siege portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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An aerial powerhouse, Air Command Artillery Private Pteraxadon makes everyone aware of his presence whether by beast mode screeching or axe mode attack.^[1]

Sometimes, he is a mass-produced creation of the sadistic Terrorcon Cutthroat with the help of a stolen Energon Matrix and Angolmois Energy.

Fiction

Generations Selects Special Comic

When the Terrorcons struck during the Selector revolt, Cutthroat abducted a wall of Doublecrossers protecting Inferno and fed them to his Pteraxadons. They then went on to provide aerial support for the Terrorcons. Abominus comic 1 Pteraxadons harassed human settlements around the world as the Cybertron Alliance tried to protect humanity from the Quintessons' beasts. Abominus comic 2

Games

Transformers: Earth Wars

Pteraxadon can cause an earthquake dealing a percentage of the bots damage per second value in a small radius around the target. A small percentage of the damage you inflict in turn heals you. Transformers: Earth Wars

Toys

War for Cybertron: Siege

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• Pteraxadon (Battle Master, 2019)
  • Hasbro ID number: WFC-S16
  • TakaraTomy ID number: SG-20
  • TakaraTomy release date: May 31, 2019
  • Accessories: Impact "Fire Blast effect"

Part of the second wave of Siege Battle Masters, Pteraxadon transforms from robotic Pteranodon to a "Binary Edgewing Scythe". The weapon mode can be held by or mounted on other figures via 5 mm posts. Though not shown in the instructions, an extra post on the body of the weapon (attached to his head) allows this mode to be held like a blaster, with the handle forming the barrel; the tip of the handle/barrel has a small peg for attaching blast effects. By folding the handle up, the peg can also be used to mount him to the forearm of a compatible figure as a shield.

Pteraxadon includes an effect piece to simulate his axe mode impacting another object that clips onto the blade-edge. It can also be mounted on the small blast-effect pegs of figures by the hole in the "impactee" side of the effect.

Pteraxadon was redecoed into Terror-Daxtyl, War for Cybertron Trilogy Enerax, Kingdom Autobot Sights, and Shattered Glass Collection Fireglide.

Merchandise

Transformers Trading Card Game

• Private Pteraxadon, Air Command-Artillery/Binary Edgewing Scythe (2019)
  • Wave 3: War for Cybertron: Siege I
  • Rarity: UT
  • Card Number: T17/T48
  • Stars: 6

Private Pteraxadon, Air Command-Artillery is one of forty-eight double-sided character cards available in Wave 3 of the Transformers Trading Card Game, War for Cybertron: Siege I. As a Battle Master, Private Pteraxadon, Air Command-Artillery begins the game in Bot Mode. Instead of being sent to the KO Area once his Health drops to zero, the card is flipped to the Upgrade side, becoming the Binary Edgewing Scythe, and equipped in the Weapons slot of another character on the player's side of the battlefield. In order to represent Pteraxadon's size as a Battle Master, the card is the size of a battle card, about half the size of a normal character card.

The artwork for Bot Mode is reused from the Siege Pteraxadon toy's packaging art. The Binary Edgewing Scythe received original artwork, with line-art by Dan Khanna and colors by Caravan.

Notes

• The Flyt, an organic animal species featured in the 2019 Transformers comic series, bear a loose resemblance to Pteraxadon, and Brian Ruckley has stated that the inclusion of the Flyt and other organic life on Cybertron was intended as a possible indicator for how bots like Pteraxadon might come about.^[2][3]

Foreign names

• Japanese: Pteraxadon (テラクサドン Terakusadon)

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