Title:
Superion Maximus
Description:
Superion Maximus (2004, 2005)
Takara ID Number: SC-26
Superion Maximus is composed of his five team members, with Storm Jet forming his central body component. His limbs’ energon weapons form his hands and feet. Similarly to Generation 1’s Scramble City-style combiner teams, Superion Maximus (as well as Bruticus Maximus and Constructicon Maximus) feature universal connection points for the limbs, allowing many different combinations and even swapping of limbs from different teams. Any limb-combination is Superion Maximus, so long as Storm Jet is the torso.
Only Storm Jet, Sky Shadow and Treadshot were initially released in 2004 for the North American, Asian and Australasian markets, with Terradive and Windrazor released later in 2005. This unfortunately led to many consumers having an incomplete Superion Maximus for many months.
In Japan, the five components were only made available as a single gift set, never as individuals.
Superion Maximus was later redecoed into Universe (2008) Superion, as well as the identical Target exclusive Revenge of the Fallen Superion.
The picture to the right has Sky Shadow backwards (Superion’s right leg).
In Super Link, there was a running gag involving the Autobots being unable to remember Superion’s name, requiring him to reintroduce himself over and over, to hopefully comedic effect. Needless to say, this was fumbled in the English translation and in the delivery of the lines, which resulted in some seemingly random yet obnoxious name-dropping from Superion Maximus.
Like the other two Energon "Maximus” combiners, the five component robots of Superion Maximus are made from only three molds: a central Deluxe torso, and two Basic limbs with two color schemes each. According to Hasbro representatives at BotCon 2005, this was done because the budget for the tail-end of Energon allowed for only nine-to-ten new molds, so they had the choice of two groups of five, or three groups of three. They went with the latter.
While the show uses the official configuration for Terradive’s arm mode with the blue piece attached to the gun barrel, the product catalogue at the top as well as Superion Maximus’ stock photo instead opts to unfold and attach that piece into the peghole on top of the plane, thus simulating two fingers and thumb (the gunbarrel).
Takara ID Number: SC-26
Superion Maximus is composed of his five team members, with Storm Jet forming his central body component. His limbs’ energon weapons form his hands and feet. Similarly to Generation 1’s Scramble City-style combiner teams, Superion Maximus (as well as Bruticus Maximus and Constructicon Maximus) feature universal connection points for the limbs, allowing many different combinations and even swapping of limbs from different teams. Any limb-combination is Superion Maximus, so long as Storm Jet is the torso.
Only Storm Jet, Sky Shadow and Treadshot were initially released in 2004 for the North American, Asian and Australasian markets, with Terradive and Windrazor released later in 2005. This unfortunately led to many consumers having an incomplete Superion Maximus for many months.
In Japan, the five components were only made available as a single gift set, never as individuals.
Superion Maximus was later redecoed into Universe (2008) Superion, as well as the identical Target exclusive Revenge of the Fallen Superion.
The picture to the right has Sky Shadow backwards (Superion’s right leg).
In Super Link, there was a running gag involving the Autobots being unable to remember Superion’s name, requiring him to reintroduce himself over and over, to hopefully comedic effect. Needless to say, this was fumbled in the English translation and in the delivery of the lines, which resulted in some seemingly random yet obnoxious name-dropping from Superion Maximus.
Like the other two Energon "Maximus” combiners, the five component robots of Superion Maximus are made from only three molds: a central Deluxe torso, and two Basic limbs with two color schemes each. According to Hasbro representatives at BotCon 2005, this was done because the budget for the tail-end of Energon allowed for only nine-to-ten new molds, so they had the choice of two groups of five, or three groups of three. They went with the latter.
While the show uses the official configuration for Terradive’s arm mode with the blue piece attached to the gun barrel, the product catalogue at the top as well as Superion Maximus’ stock photo instead opts to unfold and attach that piece into the peghole on top of the plane, thus simulating two fingers and thumb (the gunbarrel).
Theme:
Energon
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2004
Date Added:
2022-11-18 18:47:53
