Salt-Man Z
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- Salt-Man Z is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Salt-Man Z hits hard and fast, using his drills and beta-ray gun to destroy anything he can't knock down. He has yet to meet the thing he couldn't break.[1]
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Fiction
TransTech
Salt-Man Z was seen among the inhabitants of the multiversal hub city of Axiom Nexus. Transcendent: Part 4
Toys
Transformers
- Salt-Man Z (Salt-Man, 1985)
- Accessories: "Beta-ray gun"
- Transformers Salt-Man Z is a redeco of Jumpstarter Twin Twist, transforming into a Cybertronic twin-drill tank via a very simple, one-step process. His vehicle mode features a pull-back motor which propels him forward; after a short distance, a latch on his body releases his spring-loaded legs, and the weight and momentum flips Salt-Man Z up onto his robot-mode feet. A small lever on the back of his head adjusts the timing of when his head hits the floor, and thus his kickoff angle, hopefully making this gimmick work better.
- Like most South American Transformers of the era, he was available in several color schemes. Brazilian company Estrela released him in black limbs/yellow torso (as seen on his box art) and blue limbs/orange torso. Antex released him in Argentina in both blue limbs/yellow torso and black limbs/white torso (the latter of which seems considerably rarer than the former)... despite showing the Estrela decos on the box.
- Some Argentinean versions of the Salt-Men have unchromed silver-plastic rifles rather than the normal chromed version, presumably this was a late-run change, one that would carry forward to the later Antex Robot-Man X and Robot-Man Z releases of these toys.
- Also like most of the South American Transformers, Salt-Man Z has poor-quality paper decals that are prone to losing their adhesiveness in short order.
- This mold was also used to make Robot-Man Z.
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Notes
- Salt-Man X and Salt-Man Z's names are based on "jump" in Portuguese and Spanish, saltar being the verb and salto being the noun.
References
- ↑ Salt-Man Z packaging bio
