The Technobots are a subgroup of five Autobots that transform into futuristic vehicles in the Transformers universe. Their counterparts are the Terrorcons. The Autobots (also known as Cybertrons in Japan) are the heroes in the Transformers toyline and related spin-off comics and cartoons. ... Various Transformers toys. ... The name Terrorcons refers to several different groups in the Transformers toyline. ...
The toys were first released in 1987 and continued to be sold in 1988. They were sold separately but also available together as a gift set. They are red, orange or brown with white highlights. The five combine into Computron(Computicon). 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Scattershot(spaceship/battlestation) the leader, forms torso. Motto: Decepticons are like rust spots - they're ugly and can pop up anywhere.
Afterburner(motorcycle) forms left arm. Motto: Following leaders leads nowhere.
Strafe(space fighter) forms right arm. Motto: Shoot everywhere - because that's where your enemies are.
Lightspeed(car) forms left leg. Motto: Interstellar travel is the only way to freedom.
Nosecone(drill vehicle) forms right leg. Motto: It's not who's the fastest, it's who reaches the finish line first.
US Cartoon
The Technobots first appeared in the season 3 episode "Grimlock's New Brain". After being exposed to anti-electron particles inside Unicron's head, Grimlock became super-intelligent, and created the Technobots to combat the Terrorcons. The Terrorocons combined into Abominus and to combat him Grimlock transferred his vast intellect into Computron, the Technobots' combined form, leaving him in the same mental state as before. Unicron, in the movie Planet Mode, devouring a moon of Cybertron Unicron is a planet-sized transformer who devours worlds and played the primary antagonist in his first appearance, Transformers: The Movie, in which he is voiced by Orson Welles - this was actually his final film role before his death... Grimlock is the name of two characters in the Transformers Universes. ...
The Technobots also appeared in the Season 4 episode "The Rebirth Part 1". They were on Earth when the Decepticons attacked Autobot City. The Decepticons (also known as Destrons in Japan) are the enemies of the Autobots, and the villains in the Transformers toyline and related spin-off comics and cartoons. ... Autobot City is a city in the fictional Transformers Universe. ...
Marvel comics
The Technobots first appeared in the July 1987 Headmasters comic mini-series issue 1. Computron appeared in issue 3. Headmasters are a sub-group of characters from the Transformers meta-series, distinguished by their ability to detatch their heads when transforming into their alternate modes, with the heads then transforming themselves into a humanoid form. ...
The result was not what anyone expected: Computron was created, but as he was programmed to thoroughly and exhaustively analyze the input of each of the five who comprise him, he takes several minutes to form a consensus opinion and make a decision.
Powers: Computron is probably the most advanced of all gestalt special teams, truly combining the abilities of all his component members into a single being.
Computron also has access to an amazing amount of secondary weaponry, provided by his component robots.
This is due to that the bound computrons either are radiated away or disintegrated due to the entropic bogons in the heat.
Pulsars are quite obvious computron sources due to their extreme regularity (and their "glitches" are experimental verification of catastrophic breaches of the equilibrium between the bound computrons and surrounding bogons).
Computrons are elusive, and easier to detect as fluctuations in the bogon fields.
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