Scrapmetal

The Scrapmetal are characters in the fictional Transformers universe, appearing in the cartoon and toy series Transformers Cybertron.

Transformers: Cybertron

Transformers character
name =Scrapmetal
japanname =Ramble


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affiliation =Decepticon
subgroup =Scouts
rank =3 (Hasbro)
4 (Takara)
function =Search soldier
alternatemodes ="Beast Machine" (according to Hasbro)
partner =
motto ="I will bury and exhaust planet Seibertron."
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japanvoice =Their official Hasbro bio described them as a form of Terrorcon found on Cybertron and other worlds. They had been mutated by Unicron's power into a voracious swarm always on the lookout for new materials to use in the construction of yet more Scapmetal drones. They are a serious enough threat that the Autobots have to contain them in case they get out of control.

Interestingly, the Hasbro bio for the red variant of Scrapmetal painted it as a sentient leader of the horde of Scrapmetal drones, with the ability to plan and strategise. Unsurprisingly, he now wants to use the limitless numbers of drones to gain more power for itself. This Scrapmetal never appeared in the show.

Animated series

The Scrapmetal are an army of drone-like, mutant mechanical lifeforms. While they bear the Decepticon symbol, they serve neither Megatron nor Starscream, and act not unlike swarms of vicious insects. They come from worlds neighboring Cybertron, and swarmed to the planet when it was abandoned during the black hole crisis. They were faced down by the Cybertron Defense Team, who wiped out a large number of them. However, the Scrapmetal population survived, and during a later adventure attacked and nearly killed Crumplezone, although he was resurrected by Megatron as Dark Crumplezone. Later, a destroyed Scrapmetal was used by Coby to create his own pilotable Transformer, the "Cobybot". They all transform into "spider-tank" vehicles, and come in varieties of red, blue, and yellow. What happened to the remaining Scrapmetals were not shown in the series.

Transformers Cybertron: Balancing Act

The heralds of Unicron, Ramjet and Nemesis Prime used several Scrapmetals as henchmen. They were presumably killed by Sentinel Maximus, Omega Prime, Downshift and Vector Prime.

Toys

*Red Scrapmetal (2006):This toy was later remolded into Cobybot. [ [http://www.tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/Scrapmetal/scrapmetal.htm Scrapmetal (2006) - Decepticon - www.tfu.info ] ] :A Chinese made knockoff of this toy was released in 2008. It was slightly similified and recolored to be part of a combiner set called "Super Change to United". [ [http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~m-akao/GALLERY/gal1/gal11/MINITF-gattai2/MINITF2.html さらに合体！！ ] ]

*Yellow Scrapmetal (2006):A redeco of the red Scrapmetal toy.

*Blue Ramble (2005):Only released in Japan by Takara.

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