Title:
Smokescreen with Liftor 2nd
Description:
Smokescreen with Liftor (Super-Con, 2002)
Takara ID number: MC-04
Takara release date: December 26, 2002
Accessories: Missile
Sold in the second wave of Armada Super-Cons, Smokescreen transforms into a heavy Cybertronic truck with a large crane boom and tow-cable. Flipping a switch on his back end connects the tow-cable spool to his rear axle, reeling in the cable as he rolls in vehicle mode. He also features an opening hatch on his roof (with an Autobot symbol on top) that reveals a molded gear underneath; it’s unknown what the actual intent of this was.Attaching a Mini-Con (such as his pack-in partner Liftor) to the Powerlinx plug on his crane boom allows it to extend and unfold to almost three times its original length, forming a huge spring-loaded missile launcher. This launcher becomes too large for the figure to stand balanced with it deployed while in robot mode. One can plug the Skyboom Shield onto the extended crane boom to replicate the various scenes from the cartoon where he’d launch it to his teammates.Unusually for this line, there are no obvious differences between the Hasbro Armada Smokescreen and Takara Legend of the Microns "Grap” toys, except the Takara version has clearer paint on his Autobot symbol .This toy proved to be one of the biggest shelfwarmers of the entire Armada line, with some lingering on pegs well into the follow-up Energon toyline’s run.
Takara ID number: MC-04
Takara release date: December 26, 2002
Accessories: Missile
Sold in the second wave of Armada Super-Cons, Smokescreen transforms into a heavy Cybertronic truck with a large crane boom and tow-cable. Flipping a switch on his back end connects the tow-cable spool to his rear axle, reeling in the cable as he rolls in vehicle mode. He also features an opening hatch on his roof (with an Autobot symbol on top) that reveals a molded gear underneath; it’s unknown what the actual intent of this was.Attaching a Mini-Con (such as his pack-in partner Liftor) to the Powerlinx plug on his crane boom allows it to extend and unfold to almost three times its original length, forming a huge spring-loaded missile launcher. This launcher becomes too large for the figure to stand balanced with it deployed while in robot mode. One can plug the Skyboom Shield onto the extended crane boom to replicate the various scenes from the cartoon where he’d launch it to his teammates.Unusually for this line, there are no obvious differences between the Hasbro Armada Smokescreen and Takara Legend of the Microns "Grap” toys, except the Takara version has clearer paint on his Autobot symbol .This toy proved to be one of the biggest shelfwarmers of the entire Armada line, with some lingering on pegs well into the follow-up Energon toyline’s run.
Theme:
Armada
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2002
Series:
Transformers Armada
Date Added:
2022-03-02 10:38:41
Date Added:
2022-03-02 10:38:41
