Title:
Ro-Tor 2nd Robot Mode
Description:
Hepter (July 2000) / Ro-Tor (Basic Class, 2001)
Takara ID number: D-009
Accessories: Left & right vehicle cannons, pistol
A redeco of the "Generation 1" Vortex toy, Robots in Disguise Ro-Tor transforms into a Kaman Aerospace SH-2 Seasprite helicopter. He has a pair of large, non-firing cannons that clip onto the back end of his copter mode, plus a pistol that becomes a nose-mounted gun. While his rotor blade assembly is removable, there’s not really much of anything he can do with it once popped off. As the toy uses the "Scramble City” style of connection, he can form any limb to any combination of similar robots, though naturally, he normally forms a limb to the combined robot Ruination; as the left arm in the more-common "Flight Mission” mode, or the right leg for "Land Mission” mode.He was first released in the fifth assortment of Takara’s Car Robots line in 2000 as "Hepter”.In 2001, Hasbro released the toy in the third wave of Robots in Disguise "Basic” toys as "Ro-Tor”, with a host of deco changes. The Takara Hepter’s metallic blue plastic was replaced with a flatter, richer dark-blue. Ro-Tor lost Hepter’s white "underbelly” paint spray, added red arrow-markings to the vehicle sides, and replaced the "Anti-Cybertron” symbol with the Decepticon emblem. Hasbro’s stock photography shows red paint on the ends of the large rotor blades, but these were ultimately lacking in the final product.
Takara ID number: D-009
Accessories: Left & right vehicle cannons, pistol
A redeco of the "Generation 1" Vortex toy, Robots in Disguise Ro-Tor transforms into a Kaman Aerospace SH-2 Seasprite helicopter. He has a pair of large, non-firing cannons that clip onto the back end of his copter mode, plus a pistol that becomes a nose-mounted gun. While his rotor blade assembly is removable, there’s not really much of anything he can do with it once popped off. As the toy uses the "Scramble City” style of connection, he can form any limb to any combination of similar robots, though naturally, he normally forms a limb to the combined robot Ruination; as the left arm in the more-common "Flight Mission” mode, or the right leg for "Land Mission” mode.He was first released in the fifth assortment of Takara’s Car Robots line in 2000 as "Hepter”.In 2001, Hasbro released the toy in the third wave of Robots in Disguise "Basic” toys as "Ro-Tor”, with a host of deco changes. The Takara Hepter’s metallic blue plastic was replaced with a flatter, richer dark-blue. Ro-Tor lost Hepter’s white "underbelly” paint spray, added red arrow-markings to the vehicle sides, and replaced the "Anti-Cybertron” symbol with the Decepticon emblem. Hasbro’s stock photography shows red paint on the ends of the large rotor blades, but these were ultimately lacking in the final product.
Theme:
Robots In Disguise RID
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2001
Country:
United States
Series:
Robots In Disguise RID
Date Added:
2022-03-01 23:07:29
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2022-03-01 23:07:29
