Title:
Rumble Robot Mode Wal-Mart
Description:
Decepticon Rumble (Alternator, 2006)
ID number: 24 (misprint, should be 25)
Accessories: Left & right blasters
For Alternators, "Decepticon Rumble” (named so for trademark reasons) transforms into a 1:24-scale licensed 2006 Honda Civic Si, with opening doors, hood, etc. Additionally, instead of traditional hands, Rumble features spring-loaded piledrivers that release from his arms. Accessories include two back-mounted weapons, one of which doubles as his engine in car mode and the other which fits into his trunk.
Rumble’s seats are misassembled, keeping them from reclining completely in car mode. Fortunately, this is fixed relatively easily; one must simply unscrew each seat from the bottom of the car, swap them, and then rescrew.
Rumble and his wave-mate Ravage are notable for being the first and only Decepticon Alternators to be entirely new sculpts actually designed as those characters from the get-go, rather than an Autobot sculpt reworked to be someone else. They are also notable for being the final Alternators toys to be sold at retail. Originally intended for normal retail release in the US, the two of them wre ultimately relegated to being Wal-Mart exclusives, released in late March of 2007.
Ironically, despite being first revealed at the UK Toy Fair (in the form of early concept art for a design that was ultimately never used, depicted on the left), Rumble was never released in Europe at all.
ID number: 24 (misprint, should be 25)
Accessories: Left & right blasters
For Alternators, "Decepticon Rumble” (named so for trademark reasons) transforms into a 1:24-scale licensed 2006 Honda Civic Si, with opening doors, hood, etc. Additionally, instead of traditional hands, Rumble features spring-loaded piledrivers that release from his arms. Accessories include two back-mounted weapons, one of which doubles as his engine in car mode and the other which fits into his trunk.
Rumble’s seats are misassembled, keeping them from reclining completely in car mode. Fortunately, this is fixed relatively easily; one must simply unscrew each seat from the bottom of the car, swap them, and then rescrew.
Rumble and his wave-mate Ravage are notable for being the first and only Decepticon Alternators to be entirely new sculpts actually designed as those characters from the get-go, rather than an Autobot sculpt reworked to be someone else. They are also notable for being the final Alternators toys to be sold at retail. Originally intended for normal retail release in the US, the two of them wre ultimately relegated to being Wal-Mart exclusives, released in late March of 2007.
Ironically, despite being first revealed at the UK Toy Fair (in the form of early concept art for a design that was ultimately never used, depicted on the left), Rumble was never released in Europe at all.
Theme:
Alternators
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2006
Country:
United States
Series:
Alternators
Date Added:
2022-07-12 12:52:59
Date Added:
2022-07-12 12:52:59
