Title:
Dirt Boss Vehicle Mode
Description:
Dirt Boss (Deluxe, 2005)
Takara ID number: GD-06
Takara release date: February 10, 2005
Accessories: Speed Planet Key
Cyber Key Code: d3h7
Part of the Speed Planet theme, Dirt Boss transforms into a Velocitronian pickup truck with oversized clear-plastic tires. Plugging a Cyber Key into his tailgate causes his wheel assembly to open up and expand outward, making him a little lower and wider in truck mode. Wow. This gimmick needs to be activated to get him properly into robot mode, as the wheels do not really allow clearance for his backpack when locked back in "high rise” position. In robot mode, the same Cyber Key jack swings a pair of non-firing exhaust pipe "blasters” over his shoulders.
He was first released in the third wave of Takara Galaxy Force product as "Inch Up”. This version lacks a faction symbol of any kind, and has a number of paint applications that the Hasbro version lacks (detailed below).
The later Hasbro Cybertron release of Dirt Boss, released in the first wave of Delxue toys, gives him a Decepticon sigil on his chest/truck roof. The details on the insides of his lower legs are unpainted, as while the sculpt is a mirror of the painted detailing on the outside of his legs, they end up on the underside of his truck-mode front and aren’t easily visible. The flip-out clips on his forearms that go over his blaster-pipes in truck mode are also unpainted gray plastic, where Inch Up inexplicably paints them purple. And of course, like all Cybertron toys, his Cyber Key has a Cyber Key Code on its back.
Takara ID number: GD-06
Takara release date: February 10, 2005
Accessories: Speed Planet Key
Cyber Key Code: d3h7
Part of the Speed Planet theme, Dirt Boss transforms into a Velocitronian pickup truck with oversized clear-plastic tires. Plugging a Cyber Key into his tailgate causes his wheel assembly to open up and expand outward, making him a little lower and wider in truck mode. Wow. This gimmick needs to be activated to get him properly into robot mode, as the wheels do not really allow clearance for his backpack when locked back in "high rise” position. In robot mode, the same Cyber Key jack swings a pair of non-firing exhaust pipe "blasters” over his shoulders.
He was first released in the third wave of Takara Galaxy Force product as "Inch Up”. This version lacks a faction symbol of any kind, and has a number of paint applications that the Hasbro version lacks (detailed below).
The later Hasbro Cybertron release of Dirt Boss, released in the first wave of Delxue toys, gives him a Decepticon sigil on his chest/truck roof. The details on the insides of his lower legs are unpainted, as while the sculpt is a mirror of the painted detailing on the outside of his legs, they end up on the underside of his truck-mode front and aren’t easily visible. The flip-out clips on his forearms that go over his blaster-pipes in truck mode are also unpainted gray plastic, where Inch Up inexplicably paints them purple. And of course, like all Cybertron toys, his Cyber Key has a Cyber Key Code on its back.
Theme:
Cybertron
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2005
Date Added:
2022-09-10 16:40:25
Date Added:
2022-09-10 16:40:25
