Title:
Smokescreen Missing Cyber Key
Description:
Smokescreen (Deluxe Class, 2006)
Accessories: Thruster-cannon, flame-missile, Earth Cyber Key
Cyber Key Code: d4v6
Known designers: Joe Kyde (deco artist)
Part of the ninth and final wave of Cybertron Deluxe Class figures, Smokescreen is a redeco of Cybertron Crosswise, transforming into a Bugatti EB 16.4 Veyron sports car (a very, very expensive limited-production, built-to-order series of cars). Plugging a Cyber Key into the back end of his bumper flips up a pair of non-firing rocket launchers, a feature also usable in robot mode where the launchers flip up over his shoulders. His rear spoiler also contains a spring-loaded missile launcher which becomes a hand-held weapon in robot mode. The rear side-panels can flip around to the front to form non-firing hip-mounted guns as well.
This mold was also used to make 2007 movie Jolt, and was retooled to make BotCon 2008’s Shattered Glass Jazz and Ricochet.
Notes
Though Cybertron Smokescreen is obviously an homage to Generation 1 Smokescreen, according to Joe Kyde, his deco artist, his robot mode is also an homage to the Action Master Rad, taking various color elements, particularly the helmet.
It’s possible the reason "Smokescreen” was chosen as the theme of the Cybertron redeco was because "Smokescreen” was an early name for the base mold, Crosswise. Crosswise was also called "Smokescreen” in his early appearances on the Cybertron cartoon, but these episodes were subsequently edited to give him his correct name.
The original Hasbro stock photos and test shots of Cybertron Smokescreen gave him colorless clear plastic windows and flame-missile. In the final version, they have a blue tint.
Accessories: Thruster-cannon, flame-missile, Earth Cyber Key
Cyber Key Code: d4v6
Known designers: Joe Kyde (deco artist)
Part of the ninth and final wave of Cybertron Deluxe Class figures, Smokescreen is a redeco of Cybertron Crosswise, transforming into a Bugatti EB 16.4 Veyron sports car (a very, very expensive limited-production, built-to-order series of cars). Plugging a Cyber Key into the back end of his bumper flips up a pair of non-firing rocket launchers, a feature also usable in robot mode where the launchers flip up over his shoulders. His rear spoiler also contains a spring-loaded missile launcher which becomes a hand-held weapon in robot mode. The rear side-panels can flip around to the front to form non-firing hip-mounted guns as well.
This mold was also used to make 2007 movie Jolt, and was retooled to make BotCon 2008’s Shattered Glass Jazz and Ricochet.
Notes
Though Cybertron Smokescreen is obviously an homage to Generation 1 Smokescreen, according to Joe Kyde, his deco artist, his robot mode is also an homage to the Action Master Rad, taking various color elements, particularly the helmet.
It’s possible the reason "Smokescreen” was chosen as the theme of the Cybertron redeco was because "Smokescreen” was an early name for the base mold, Crosswise. Crosswise was also called "Smokescreen” in his early appearances on the Cybertron cartoon, but these episodes were subsequently edited to give him his correct name.
The original Hasbro stock photos and test shots of Cybertron Smokescreen gave him colorless clear plastic windows and flame-missile. In the final version, they have a blue tint.
Theme:
Cybertron
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2006
Country:
United States
Series:
Cybertron
Model Number:
Red Car
Date Added:
2023-01-22 15:16:10
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2023-01-22 15:16:10
