Title:
Scrapmetal Red 1st
Description:
Scrapmetal / Ramble (Scout, 2005)
Takara ID number: GD-13
Takara release date: July 28, 2005
Accessories: Blade, Cybertron Decepticon Cyber Key
Cyber Key Code: sf2x (red), s1j5 (yellow)
Part of the "Scout"-class price-point, Scrapmetal transforms into a four-legged "spider tank” with a rear-mounted cannon. Inserting a Cyber Planet Key into the back end of the cannon releases a spring-loaded, clear-plastic sawblade-sword from the main chamber of the cannon. This blade can be removed from the assembly and hand-held thanks to its 5 mm post base (indented to prevent it from being placed back into the cannon incorrectly). In robot mode, Scrapmetal’s fists can be covered with the tank-mode spikes, or with immobile "pile drivers”. The crane-arm can be oriented on either shoulder thanks to the 360-degree swivel of the "shoulderpads” assembly; the default position is on its right shoulder.
This toy was first released in the twelfth wave of the Takara Galaxy Force line. "Ramble” (an almost certain mis-romanization of "Rumble”) came in three different decos, all released at the same time: red, yellow, and blue, released in equal numbers of all three decos. The packaging is identical for all three versions, with the included bio card showing all three (as seen at the top of this page).
Hasbro released the red "Scrapmetal” in the sixth wave of Cybertron Scout-class toys. This version has numerous slight deco differences from the Takara red version: most immediately noticeable is the Cyber Key Code printed on the back of its Cyber Key, but it is also missing the red paint on its head and the backs of its arms, most of its red paint detailing is darker, the gray plastic is a metallic gunmetal rather than the Takara version’s semi-matte off-gray, while all of the rest of its plastic is just slightly different, being slightly darker and having a more noticeable metal-flake sheen to the dark-gray plastics. (The Hasbro version can also represent the one semi-sentient Scrapmetal as described in the toy’s cardback bio.)
Then, Hasbro released the yellow version in the ninth wave of Scouts. This release is almost identical to the original Takara version, with the lighter gray plastic of all three colors and all the same number of paint operations; of course there is the addition of a new Key Code to the back of its Cyber Key, but the Hasbro version also has darker yellow paint on the head and limbs, plus a darker Decepticon symbol.
Hasbro never released a blue Scrapmetal at all, thus driving up demand for Takara’s blue version in the West among people keen on army-building.
The two Hasbro Scrapmetal releases, despite sporting the same name with no modifiers (such as prefixes or suffixes), came on individual cardbacks not only depicting the correct colors, but also sporting individual product code numbers.
A slight retool and redeco of the toy was used to make the Coby Sen’yō Ramble. For BotCon 2006, attendees who signed up for the custom-painting class received unpainted, unassembled red Scrapmetal, with their parts still on the manufacturing sprues (including the Coby head), to be made into Universe incarnations of Rumble and Inferno.
Takara ID number: GD-13
Takara release date: July 28, 2005
Accessories: Blade, Cybertron Decepticon Cyber Key
Cyber Key Code: sf2x (red), s1j5 (yellow)
Part of the "Scout"-class price-point, Scrapmetal transforms into a four-legged "spider tank” with a rear-mounted cannon. Inserting a Cyber Planet Key into the back end of the cannon releases a spring-loaded, clear-plastic sawblade-sword from the main chamber of the cannon. This blade can be removed from the assembly and hand-held thanks to its 5 mm post base (indented to prevent it from being placed back into the cannon incorrectly). In robot mode, Scrapmetal’s fists can be covered with the tank-mode spikes, or with immobile "pile drivers”. The crane-arm can be oriented on either shoulder thanks to the 360-degree swivel of the "shoulderpads” assembly; the default position is on its right shoulder.
This toy was first released in the twelfth wave of the Takara Galaxy Force line. "Ramble” (an almost certain mis-romanization of "Rumble”) came in three different decos, all released at the same time: red, yellow, and blue, released in equal numbers of all three decos. The packaging is identical for all three versions, with the included bio card showing all three (as seen at the top of this page).
Hasbro released the red "Scrapmetal” in the sixth wave of Cybertron Scout-class toys. This version has numerous slight deco differences from the Takara red version: most immediately noticeable is the Cyber Key Code printed on the back of its Cyber Key, but it is also missing the red paint on its head and the backs of its arms, most of its red paint detailing is darker, the gray plastic is a metallic gunmetal rather than the Takara version’s semi-matte off-gray, while all of the rest of its plastic is just slightly different, being slightly darker and having a more noticeable metal-flake sheen to the dark-gray plastics. (The Hasbro version can also represent the one semi-sentient Scrapmetal as described in the toy’s cardback bio.)
Then, Hasbro released the yellow version in the ninth wave of Scouts. This release is almost identical to the original Takara version, with the lighter gray plastic of all three colors and all the same number of paint operations; of course there is the addition of a new Key Code to the back of its Cyber Key, but the Hasbro version also has darker yellow paint on the head and limbs, plus a darker Decepticon symbol.
Hasbro never released a blue Scrapmetal at all, thus driving up demand for Takara’s blue version in the West among people keen on army-building.
The two Hasbro Scrapmetal releases, despite sporting the same name with no modifiers (such as prefixes or suffixes), came on individual cardbacks not only depicting the correct colors, but also sporting individual product code numbers.
A slight retool and redeco of the toy was used to make the Coby Sen’yō Ramble. For BotCon 2006, attendees who signed up for the custom-painting class received unpainted, unassembled red Scrapmetal, with their parts still on the manufacturing sprues (including the Coby head), to be made into Universe incarnations of Rumble and Inferno.
Theme:
Cybertron
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2005
Date Added:
2023-01-15 15:45:07
Date Added:
2023-01-15 15:45:07
