Title:
Tankor Octane Truck Mode
Description:
Tankor (Deluxe Class, 2008)
Series: Classic Series
Accessories: Two blasters/"Quad laser”, "melee blade"
Part of the first wave of Universe Deluxe Class toys, "Tankor” (trademark issues) transforms from either a heavy cargo plane (possibly a Lockheed C-130 Hercules) or an M978 Fueler truck, into a robot. He is armed with a serrated "melee blade” weapon, which forms the top of his tanker mode and the base of his plane mode, and a pair of double-barreled blasters, which mount under his wings in plane mode and can combine in Double Targetmaster-style into a "Quad Laser”. For truck mode, the instructions and stock photography place the blasters facing forward in the exposed robot mode 5mm fist holes at the rear of the vehicle, but the intended location for them seems to be the two otherwise-pointless holes on either side of the cab, facing upwards, to serve as smokestacks for the truck.
As shown on Hasbro’s website, Tankor’s prototype was designed to have transparent plastic windows in his tanker truck mode, but for reasons unknown (possibly due to part of the windshield forming his feet) the windows were opaque plastic with paint operations on the final production versions of the toy. Furthermore, the sculpt was designed for light-piped eyes (and presumably clear truck windows), but the relevant areas have been cast in opaque blue and the eyes are painted red. The Decepticon logo on his chest, unusually enough, has small triangular pupils in its eyes, although they can be applied rather messily.
Slyly, his bio mentions that he delivers "high octane fuel” to his fellow Decepticons.
Series: Classic Series
Accessories: Two blasters/"Quad laser”, "melee blade"
Part of the first wave of Universe Deluxe Class toys, "Tankor” (trademark issues) transforms from either a heavy cargo plane (possibly a Lockheed C-130 Hercules) or an M978 Fueler truck, into a robot. He is armed with a serrated "melee blade” weapon, which forms the top of his tanker mode and the base of his plane mode, and a pair of double-barreled blasters, which mount under his wings in plane mode and can combine in Double Targetmaster-style into a "Quad Laser”. For truck mode, the instructions and stock photography place the blasters facing forward in the exposed robot mode 5mm fist holes at the rear of the vehicle, but the intended location for them seems to be the two otherwise-pointless holes on either side of the cab, facing upwards, to serve as smokestacks for the truck.
As shown on Hasbro’s website, Tankor’s prototype was designed to have transparent plastic windows in his tanker truck mode, but for reasons unknown (possibly due to part of the windshield forming his feet) the windows were opaque plastic with paint operations on the final production versions of the toy. Furthermore, the sculpt was designed for light-piped eyes (and presumably clear truck windows), but the relevant areas have been cast in opaque blue and the eyes are painted red. The Decepticon logo on his chest, unusually enough, has small triangular pupils in its eyes, although they can be applied rather messily.
Slyly, his bio mentions that he delivers "high octane fuel” to his fellow Decepticons.
Theme:
Universe 2.0
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2008
Date Added:
2022-10-01 23:38:12
Date Added:
2022-10-01 23:38:12
