Vertebreak (Kingdom)

Vertebreak is a Predacon Fossilizer from the Kingdom portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

She'll vertebreak your heart. And your femurs. And your spine.

Vertebreak may be a fossil, but she's still brimming with primal beast power! Her slight, skeletal frame, uncoupled from the usual muscular might of other beasts, may make her appear to pose a lesser threat, but Vertebreak possesses every other trick in the book to compensate. Once you're in her jaws, she will never, ever let go.^[1]

Games

Transformers: Earth Wars

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Toys

War for Cybertron: Kingdom

Someday someone will dig up my dried up old bones; they'll say this poor man died of thirst in the desert alone.

• Vertebreak (Core Class, 2020)

• Hasbro ID number: WFC-K3
• TakaraTomy name: Vertebreak (ヴァータブレイク Vātabureiku)
• TakaraTomy ID number: KD EX-02
• TakaraTomy release date: 2021 April 24
• Accessories: Tail/"bone weapon"^[2]
• Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro)

Part of the first wave of Kingdom Core Class figures, Vertebreak transforms from a Dracorex skeleton (wrongly referred to as a "raptor fossil" in product description)^[2] to a 3.5-inch tall robot and back. Her tail can detach in robot mode to use as a weapon or store on the robot mode's back.

Unlike Deluxe Class Fossilizer characters in Kingdom, Vertebreak cannot disassemble into weapons and armor for other figures.

Vertebreak's tail is made of rubberized plastic similar to fire blast effects. As such, it can cause paint chipping (her hands, being painted, can fall issue to this) or potentially warped plastic. Similar to blast effects, it has also been reported that her tail can deteriorate and bond with the harder plastic used for most toy parts. This can lead it to stripping paint from the harder plastic on removal.^[3]

In Japan, Vertebreak was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive.

This mold was redecoed into Dracodon.

Notes

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• At Hasbro PulseCon 2020, Vertebreak was referred to using masculine pronouns.^[4] By contrast, Vertebreak was referred to with feminine pronouns at a November 2020 virtual unboxing event.^[5]
• Though Vertebreak doesn't disassemble as the properly labeled Fossilizer toys do, Dracodon was referred to as a Fossilizer at his unveiling at Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest 2021.^[6]
• In a piece of promotional artwork for the Kingdom line, a mostly purple Vertebreak is shown with a different chest design, possibly reflecting an earlier stage of the character's development.
• In real life, the status of Dracorex as a valid genus is controversial as the type specimen has been argued to actually just be a misclassified juvenile Pachycephalosaurus (a common issue in paleontology due to the frequency of immature animals looking quite different from their adult forms).

Foreign names

• Japanese: Vertebreak (ヴァータブレイク Vātabureiku)

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