Title:
Red Alert Vehicle Mode
Description:
Red Alert (Deluxe Class, 2010)
Accessories: Pulse pistol/tailpipe, engine supercharger intakes
Known designers: Joe Kyde (Hasbro)
Generations Red Alert is a retool of Universe Sideswipe. To differentiate him from the Henkei! Henkei! Alert release of this character, he features a significantly different deco (including a black head like the Generation 1 toy, as opposed to the Henkei version’s show-accurate red head), the American-style lightbar previously used for Universe Prowl and Ratchet, and, as with all Hasbro releases of this sculpt, the engine supercharger intakes accessory that originally came with Sunstreaker.
Unlike Henkei! Henkei! Alert, whose lightbar is attached to the additional indents on the roof not used for attaching Sunstreaker or Sideswipe’s supercharger intake accessory in either mode, Generations Red Alert’s lightbar is instead attached to the indents used to attach the supercharger to Sideswipe’s roof/back in robot mode (possibly so Red Alert could still have his supercharger in vehicle mode), with the roof retooled so the lightbar is fixed with screws, thereby rendering the additional indents entirely pointless as far as Hasbro’s uses of the sculpt are concerned. Because this makes attaching the supercharger to the back in robot mode impossible, the instructions show how to attach the supercharger to the gun to create a larger gun by wrapping the intakes around it, which neither Sunstreaker nor Sideswipe’s instructions had shown. And while his instructions finally depict the correct transformation with the upper body rotation and the correct head sculpt (the lineart for Universe Sideswipe’s instructions was simply recycled from Sunstreaker’s), they do not depict the lightbar.
His license plate features the number "05” (Generation 1 Red Alert’s Japanese ID number) and the character’s Japanese name, "Alert”.
Accessories: Pulse pistol/tailpipe, engine supercharger intakes
Known designers: Joe Kyde (Hasbro)
Generations Red Alert is a retool of Universe Sideswipe. To differentiate him from the Henkei! Henkei! Alert release of this character, he features a significantly different deco (including a black head like the Generation 1 toy, as opposed to the Henkei version’s show-accurate red head), the American-style lightbar previously used for Universe Prowl and Ratchet, and, as with all Hasbro releases of this sculpt, the engine supercharger intakes accessory that originally came with Sunstreaker.
Unlike Henkei! Henkei! Alert, whose lightbar is attached to the additional indents on the roof not used for attaching Sunstreaker or Sideswipe’s supercharger intake accessory in either mode, Generations Red Alert’s lightbar is instead attached to the indents used to attach the supercharger to Sideswipe’s roof/back in robot mode (possibly so Red Alert could still have his supercharger in vehicle mode), with the roof retooled so the lightbar is fixed with screws, thereby rendering the additional indents entirely pointless as far as Hasbro’s uses of the sculpt are concerned. Because this makes attaching the supercharger to the back in robot mode impossible, the instructions show how to attach the supercharger to the gun to create a larger gun by wrapping the intakes around it, which neither Sunstreaker nor Sideswipe’s instructions had shown. And while his instructions finally depict the correct transformation with the upper body rotation and the correct head sculpt (the lineart for Universe Sideswipe’s instructions was simply recycled from Sunstreaker’s), they do not depict the lightbar.
His license plate features the number "05” (Generation 1 Red Alert’s Japanese ID number) and the character’s Japanese name, "Alert”.
Theme:
Generations
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2010
Date Added:
2023-02-11 16:38:02
Date Added:
2023-02-11 16:38:02
