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Title:
Autobot: SPIN-OUT
Description:
Cordon & Autobot Spin-Out (2-pack, 2020)
Series: War for Cybertron: Earthrise
ID number: WFC-GS20
Accessories: Rocket boosters/gun
A Generations Selects add-on to Earthrise, Cordon is a redeco/retool of Sunstreaker, featuring a new chest/windshield with molded flashers. He transforms from a robot into an unlicensed approximation of a Lamborghini Countach LP500S (most conspicuously missing the spoilers, but also having 5 mm holes back there just in case). His engine block can be used as a pair of rocket boosters or as a gun.
Cordon’s translucent chest/windshield was originally supposed to be molded in smoke gray with the flashers painted metallic opaque red, but was changed into colorless clear with translucent red paint flashers for the final product. Despite the windshield’s underside not being painted like his mold-mates, it can still be difficult to slot his windshield/roof in place for car mode. This can be resolved by lightly sanding the front portions of the pegs until the gap can be cleanly closed.
A Generations Selects add-on to Earthrise, Spin-Out is a redeco of Sunstreaker, transforming from a robot into an unlicensed approximation of a Lamborghini Countach LP500S (most conspicuously missing the spoilers, but also having 5mm holes back there just in case). His engine block can be used as a pair of rocket boosters or as a gun.
Spin-Out’s chest is actually darker translucent plastic painted red on top, and silver underneath. Due to the pegs on the chest underside being painted, it can be very difficult to slot in place for car mode. This can be resolved by lightly sanding the front portions of the pegs until the gap can be cleanly closed.
Though these molds share much of their engineering and transformation scheme with Earthrise Wheeljack, they are not retools of that mold
They were only available in a two-pack and share a single instruction sheet, which nonetheless shows both individual toys’ transformations in full... and swaps their names around. Oops.
Notes:
Spin-Out got his start in Japan in 1982 as the Diaclone ”Countach LP500S Super Tuning,” the first figure in the ”Car Robots” portion of the toyline. As the first ever ”real-world-thing” toy to transform into a humanoid robot, it is in a very real sense the design ancestor of pretty much everything this wiki features. The later Masterpiece bio would indicate that Spin-Out is indeed this same Diaclone toy, but given life as a Transformer.
Before the debut of Transformers, Takara released the Countach LP500S toy stateside in the short-lived Diakron line, using the same colors as the Japanese original. This mold was later released in yellow as Sunstreaker for the original Transformers toyline.
Spin-Out’s name was chosen in homage to the development history of the original Sunstreaker who, in the early days of the Transformers toyline, held it as a pre-production name[4] (also spelled ”Spinout”. However, as an updated version of the red ”No. 1 Countach LP500S”, the modern Spin-Out looks more like what the original Sideswipe was meant to be, before the two Lamborghini brothers swapped molds. As initially planned, the Spinout/Sunstreaker figure would have bore more of a resemblance to Tigertrack.
Separately, Spin-Out’s coloration was also used in the 2005 IDW comics for some of the Machination’s Sunstreaker clones.
Notes:
Cordon began as the Diaclone No. 3 ”Countach LP500S Patrol Car Type” released in 1982. When Hasbro decided to use Diaclone molds for their Transformers toyline, No. 3 was skipped over, with only No. 1 being released in a new deco. No. 3’s likeness would later be considered for a potential exclusive toy (see below) and finally resurrected as a Masterpiece retool of Sunstreaker—who Masterpiece fiction would eventually imply to be the same entity as the original Diaclone mech.
Cordon’s coloration was used in the 2005 IDW comics for some of the Machination’s Sunstreaker clones.
A mock-up of a ”Sunstreaker Police Type” (presumably a placeholder name) redeco of the 2008 Universe Sunstreaker mold, an homage to the Diaclone toy, was shown in Transformers Generations 2014 Vol. 1 as one of ten potential exclusives for Vol. 2. The mock-up promised that the final product would feature a lightbar, presumably the one from the Henkei! Alert version of the mold. In the end it didn’t win the poll to determine which of the ten would be produced, receiving only 3.8% of the fan votes.
The Cobalt Sentries’ attempt to recruit him makes a pun on the name of the Cordon Bleu (”Blue Ribbon”) of the French Order of the Holy Spirit (which also inspired the name of the Swiss dish).
Series: War for Cybertron: Earthrise
ID number: WFC-GS20
Accessories: Rocket boosters/gun
A Generations Selects add-on to Earthrise, Cordon is a redeco/retool of Sunstreaker, featuring a new chest/windshield with molded flashers. He transforms from a robot into an unlicensed approximation of a Lamborghini Countach LP500S (most conspicuously missing the spoilers, but also having 5 mm holes back there just in case). His engine block can be used as a pair of rocket boosters or as a gun.
Cordon’s translucent chest/windshield was originally supposed to be molded in smoke gray with the flashers painted metallic opaque red, but was changed into colorless clear with translucent red paint flashers for the final product. Despite the windshield’s underside not being painted like his mold-mates, it can still be difficult to slot his windshield/roof in place for car mode. This can be resolved by lightly sanding the front portions of the pegs until the gap can be cleanly closed.
A Generations Selects add-on to Earthrise, Spin-Out is a redeco of Sunstreaker, transforming from a robot into an unlicensed approximation of a Lamborghini Countach LP500S (most conspicuously missing the spoilers, but also having 5mm holes back there just in case). His engine block can be used as a pair of rocket boosters or as a gun.
Spin-Out’s chest is actually darker translucent plastic painted red on top, and silver underneath. Due to the pegs on the chest underside being painted, it can be very difficult to slot in place for car mode. This can be resolved by lightly sanding the front portions of the pegs until the gap can be cleanly closed.
Though these molds share much of their engineering and transformation scheme with Earthrise Wheeljack, they are not retools of that mold
They were only available in a two-pack and share a single instruction sheet, which nonetheless shows both individual toys’ transformations in full... and swaps their names around. Oops.
Notes:
Spin-Out got his start in Japan in 1982 as the Diaclone ”Countach LP500S Super Tuning,” the first figure in the ”Car Robots” portion of the toyline. As the first ever ”real-world-thing” toy to transform into a humanoid robot, it is in a very real sense the design ancestor of pretty much everything this wiki features. The later Masterpiece bio would indicate that Spin-Out is indeed this same Diaclone toy, but given life as a Transformer.
Before the debut of Transformers, Takara released the Countach LP500S toy stateside in the short-lived Diakron line, using the same colors as the Japanese original. This mold was later released in yellow as Sunstreaker for the original Transformers toyline.
Spin-Out’s name was chosen in homage to the development history of the original Sunstreaker who, in the early days of the Transformers toyline, held it as a pre-production name[4] (also spelled ”Spinout”. However, as an updated version of the red ”No. 1 Countach LP500S”, the modern Spin-Out looks more like what the original Sideswipe was meant to be, before the two Lamborghini brothers swapped molds. As initially planned, the Spinout/Sunstreaker figure would have bore more of a resemblance to Tigertrack.
Separately, Spin-Out’s coloration was also used in the 2005 IDW comics for some of the Machination’s Sunstreaker clones.
Notes:
Cordon began as the Diaclone No. 3 ”Countach LP500S Patrol Car Type” released in 1982. When Hasbro decided to use Diaclone molds for their Transformers toyline, No. 3 was skipped over, with only No. 1 being released in a new deco. No. 3’s likeness would later be considered for a potential exclusive toy (see below) and finally resurrected as a Masterpiece retool of Sunstreaker—who Masterpiece fiction would eventually imply to be the same entity as the original Diaclone mech.
Cordon’s coloration was used in the 2005 IDW comics for some of the Machination’s Sunstreaker clones.
A mock-up of a ”Sunstreaker Police Type” (presumably a placeholder name) redeco of the 2008 Universe Sunstreaker mold, an homage to the Diaclone toy, was shown in Transformers Generations 2014 Vol. 1 as one of ten potential exclusives for Vol. 2. The mock-up promised that the final product would feature a lightbar, presumably the one from the Henkei! Alert version of the mold. In the end it didn’t win the poll to determine which of the ten would be produced, receiving only 3.8% of the fan votes.
The Cobalt Sentries’ attempt to recruit him makes a pun on the name of the Cordon Bleu (”Blue Ribbon”) of the French Order of the Holy Spirit (which also inspired the name of the Swiss dish).
Theme:
Generations Selects
Manufacturer:
Takara Tomy
Barcode:
5010993800452
Year:
2021
Country:
United States
Release Date:
2021-01-01
Series:
War for Cybertron
Model Number:
WFC-GS20
Date Added:
2021-03-02 17:57:14
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$115.77
Automatic Estimated Date:
2026-01-26
Date Added:
2021-03-02 17:57:14
