Title:
Transformers G1 Afterburner Technobot Computron
Description:
• GEN133
• Afterburner (Technobot, 1987)
• Team ID number: TK1
• Takara ID number: C-90
• Accessories: Sonic blaster pistol, pulse cannon, (non-firing) incendiary missiles
Released as part of the fourth year of the original The Transformers line, Afterburner transforms into an orange and white Cybertronic motorcycle, with add-on (non-firing) missile launcher and cannon accessories. Like several combiner limb bots of the era, his ”fist holes” are horizontal rather than vertical, so his pistol has pegs both in the normal ”handle” spot and on one side, meaning that he can only hold it in his left ”hand” either sideways or upside-down.
As a ”Scramble City”-style combiner, he can form the limb to any similar-construction super robot, but his nominal placement is as the right arm of Computron. Undocumented in the instructions, a second square peg can flip out from the rear of his vehicle mode, while his vehicle mode’s ”headlight” is a 5 mm socket. Also undocumented in the instructions are the missile launcher having a 5 mm post on the back and the cannon having a 5 mm barrel. So if you want, Afterburner can have his missile launcher facing forwards mounted above his front tire, or Computron can have a missile launcher for a hand, or Computron can hold Afterburner’s cannon by the barrel and wield it like a club.
Early —and seemingly more common— releases of Afterburner have factory-applied D-shaped ”vent” stickers on the sides of his dark-gray hips (seen in the full vehicle mode image, right). Later releases altered these stickers to just the circle and moved them to the front wheel hub, presumably to prevent sticker rub from the robot-mode arms. And then, very late-run releases of Afterburner lack both the rubsign and the indent said rubsign was placed in. There is also a packaging variant for all four small Technobots, which included a random bonus Autobot ”Decoy” mini-figurine.
• Afterburner (Technobot, 1987)
• Team ID number: TK1
• Takara ID number: C-90
• Accessories: Sonic blaster pistol, pulse cannon, (non-firing) incendiary missiles
Released as part of the fourth year of the original The Transformers line, Afterburner transforms into an orange and white Cybertronic motorcycle, with add-on (non-firing) missile launcher and cannon accessories. Like several combiner limb bots of the era, his ”fist holes” are horizontal rather than vertical, so his pistol has pegs both in the normal ”handle” spot and on one side, meaning that he can only hold it in his left ”hand” either sideways or upside-down.
As a ”Scramble City”-style combiner, he can form the limb to any similar-construction super robot, but his nominal placement is as the right arm of Computron. Undocumented in the instructions, a second square peg can flip out from the rear of his vehicle mode, while his vehicle mode’s ”headlight” is a 5 mm socket. Also undocumented in the instructions are the missile launcher having a 5 mm post on the back and the cannon having a 5 mm barrel. So if you want, Afterburner can have his missile launcher facing forwards mounted above his front tire, or Computron can have a missile launcher for a hand, or Computron can hold Afterburner’s cannon by the barrel and wield it like a club.
Early —and seemingly more common— releases of Afterburner have factory-applied D-shaped ”vent” stickers on the sides of his dark-gray hips (seen in the full vehicle mode image, right). Later releases altered these stickers to just the circle and moved them to the front wheel hub, presumably to prevent sticker rub from the robot-mode arms. And then, very late-run releases of Afterburner lack both the rubsign and the indent said rubsign was placed in. There is also a packaging variant for all four small Technobots, which included a random bonus Autobot ”Decoy” mini-figurine.
Theme:
Technobots
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1987
Size:
4 in
Series:
Generation 1
Asst. Number:
GEN133
Date Added:
2018-06-08 15:37:56
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$10.97
Automatic Estimated Date:
2026-03-18
Date Added:
2018-06-08 15:37:56
