Rescue Force 1
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| The name or term "Rescue Force" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Rescue Force (disambiguation). |
- Rescue Force 1 is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Rescue Force 1 is a member of Rescue Force, a team of search-and-rescue Autobots. As a "discovery robot", he has the ability to carry things. He believes all rocks are movable.
He combines with the rest of the Rescue Force to form Big Rescue Force.
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Fiction
Transformers Comic-Magazin
Rescue Force 1 and the rest of his team went to save Goldbug and several Targetmasters after they were captured by the Decepticons. Their efforts proved unnecessary, however, as the captives managed to escape on their own. Transformers in Action: Shockwave's Galactic Secret
Toys
The Transformers
- Rescue Force (Rescue Force, 1992)
- Accessories: 2 claw-arms, connector unit
- Released in the eighth year of the European-market Transformers toyline (the final one to use the original faction symbols), this unnamed-on-the-packaging member of the Rescue Force is a redeco of the Breastforce member Killbison, transforming into a KMW Gepard anti-aircraft tank... well, one without guns. He lacks Killbison's partner-beastie Bisonbreast, but comes with a pair of claw-arm accessories, which replace the cannon-barrels on the tank-mode turret. The connector piece they attach to can be removed and used as a hand-held weapon, with the extra pegs allowing for both alternate mounting options for the claws, and adding the blasters from the Rescue Force buggy to the mix.
- The earlier versions of the tank have a red robot-mode face, but later releases use silver. In addition, the claws were originally molded in silver as well, but later changed to red. The red-faced version only came with silver weapons, while the silver-faced version could come with either the silver or red claws (despite what the packaging art shows).
- Like his fellows, he was sold on a generic "Rescue Force" card that had no bio information and tiny instructions for all four members of the team on the back.
Notes
- Rescue Force 1's packaging gave him no official name, or even an individual identifier of any sort. Like the concurrently released non-combining versions of the Constructicons, each member of the Rescue Force used the same cardback design, featuring all four members' art up front and instructions for all four members on the back. While this is thrifty, it's also crowded, leaving no room whatsoever for anything else. His rather unimaginative name and muddled bio information come from a sticker book distributed in Europe by Kent in 1993.
- The original Breastforce molds used to make the Rescue Force are (largely) self-contained combiners, able to form a super robot. Rescue Force 1 can still become the right leg to a super robot using any combination of the molds. The toy packaging does not make any mention of this, largely because the Rescue Force team lacks both the two arm-robots and the only separate piece of combiner kibble, the super robot helmet.
- The 1992 European catalog that includes the Rescue Force (as well as the Turbomasters, Predators, and the non-combining Constructicons) refers to his vehicle form as a "grapple clawed vehicle". Meanwhile, the German 1992 catalog call it an "excavator" (Bagger).[1]
- As Rescue Force 1's art is simply a mirrored and retouched version of Killbison's (with a new weapon, of course), his artwork still shows Bisonbreast in its chestplate configuration.
