Scrapmetal (Cybertron individual)
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| The name or term "Scrapmetal" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Scrapmetal (disambiguation). |
- Scrapmetal is a Scrapmetal from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Scrapmetal is an aberration among his own kind, a mutant among mutants. Though he is physically identical to his formerly Terrorcon kin, of the thousands of near-mindless Scrapmetal that have chewed their way up from Cybertron's depths, this Scrapmetal is the only one to have developed intelligence. This only makes the swarm more dangerous.
Scrapmetal is just intelligent enough to be considered sentient, able to formulate simple plans and lead the swarm to specific targets. In theory he could be reasoned with, but good luck. All he wants is to feed and grow in power, and will stomp, blast, gouge and devour anything in his way to obtain it.
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Toys
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- Scrapmetal (Scout class, 2005)
- Part of the "Scout"-class price-point, Scrapmetal transforms into a four-legged "spider tank" with a rear-mounted cannon. Inserting a Cyber Planet Key into the back end of the cannon releases a spring-loaded, clear-plastic sawblade-sword from the main chamber of the cannon. This blade can be removed from the assembly and hand-held thanks to its 5 mm post base (indented to prevent it from being placed back into the cannon incorrectly). In robot mode, Scrapmetal's fists can be covered with the tank-mode spikes, or with immobile "pile drivers". The crane-arm can be oriented on either shoulder thanks to the 360-degree swivel of the "shoulderpads" assembly; the default position is on its right shoulder.
- In Japan, three different colors of "Ramble"[sic] were made available; red, blue and yellow, produced in equal numbers. For the Hasbro Cybertron line, Hasbro first released the red "Scrapmetal" in the sixth and the yellow in the ninth wave of Scout-class toys, either of which can represent either one of the countless mindless drones, or the single semi-sentient "Scrapmetal" described in the toy's cardback bio. This version has numerous slight deco differences from the Takara red version: most immediately noticeable is the Cyber Key Code printed on the back of its Cyber Key, but it is also missing the red paint on its head and the backs of its arms, most of its red paint detailing is darker, the gray plastic is a metallic gunmetal rather than the Takara version's semi-matte off-gray, while all of the rest of its plastic is just slightly different, being slightly darker and having a more noticeable metal-flake sheen to the dark-gray plastics.
- All Scrapmetal molds contain two heads. The head was retooled at the request of Hasbro as they felt the original Rumble-homage head was too heroic-looking. The alternate head was used on a redeco of the toy to make the Coby Sen'yō Rumble. For BotCon 2006, attendees who signed up for the custom-painting class received unpainted, unassembled red Scrapmetal, with their parts still on the manufacturing sprues (including the Coby head), to be made into Universe incarnations of Rumble and Inferno.
Notes
- According to the expanded bio unlocked with his Cyber Planet Key Code, Scrapmetal (or perhaps, just the drones) may have some variety of connection with the original Insecticons. The exact nature of this relationship is unrevealed, however.
