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“Blowout: Defective Model”



Over the years, Hasbro has used several Megatron toys as the basis for new characters (with varying degrees of redecoing). The most well-known of these is Megaplex, the winged robot in the upper left. He was released in the Machine Wars line, and his packaging bio explained that he was Megatron's "decoy." This idea actually goes back to the heyday of Generation 1, when small monochrome rubber figures of various Transformers were included with the standard toys as a promotion. They were also called "decoys," and naturally there was one of Megatron.

Rounding out the group is Archforce from Generation 2, who looks nearly identical to Hero Megatron because he was simply the European release of that toy. His packaging bio was basically Megatron-ish, but no acknowledgement was given for his uncanny resemblance. G2 also gave us Blowout, whose toy is just Go-Bot Megatron cast in translucent plastic. This resemblance was likewise left unexplained, though his gun's ability to "draw energy from distant stars" sounds a bit like Megatron's ability to "connect [his] cannon interdimensionally with a black hole, where it can draw on anti-matter as its power source." Thing is... Blowout is an Autobot!

My own explanation for all this is that these characters are indeed Megatron clones, but for some reason Blowout's programming went awry, and he wants to switch sides. Now... knowing all that, bonus points to anyone who can name the three Autobots he's headed towards!

Comments/crits?

- Jackpot
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[Omega Prime]

This art is very pretty. I like the sort of water-colory rugged-bursh feel to it.

And I think the Autobots are Blurr, Perceptor, and Rodimus.
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[Jackpot]

[skids]

Ok the one in the middle is Sureshot the European Exclusive version of Hero Prime

Blue arms at the top.Is he Gobot Sideswipe although the guns the wrong colour hmm

Nearest one could be Firecracker which would kind of hint that it's not Sideswipe as that would be 2 of the same mould

So I'm going for


Thunderclash
Sureshot
Firecracker