Electron blaster

The Dinobot Slag sometimes carries an electron blaster, while the Autobot Skids is armed with a (no doubt much fancier) twin electron blaster.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Skids carried an electron blaster, which fired a burst of 20,000 volts and could short-circuit virtually any mechanical foe. Skids's Universe profile

Dinobots Strike Back

While Skids and Bumblebee were investigating Dolphin's Bay in Wheeljack's new mini-submarine they were attacked by Frenzy, whose high-frequency assault sent the sub haywire. Skids considered shorting out the sub with his electron blaster. Dinobots Strike Back

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Skids carried a 20,000 volt twin electron blaster. Skids's More than Meets the Eye profile

Toys

The Transformers

• Skids (Autobot Car, 1984)
  • Accessories: liquid nitrogen rifle, twin electron blaster, rocket pod launcher, 3 rockets

The Transformers Skids came with a chromed sliver double-barrelled gun, identified in his instructions and packaging bio as a twin electron blaster.

This mold was reissued many times. It is itself a retool of an earlier Diaclone mold which was used to make Crosscut and Screech.

• Slag (Dinobot, 1985/1986/1992)
  • Accessories: energo sword, electron blaster, rocket pod launcher, 3 rockets

Slag came with a silver electron blaster alongside his other weapons.

Generation 2

• Slag (Dinobot, 1994)
  • Accessories: kinetic sword, blaster gun

Although Generation 2 Slag's chromed silver weapon is described generically in his instructions as a "blaster gun", his packaging bio confirms that it is still an electron blaster.

Masterpiece

• Skids (November 20, 2021)
  • Accessories: liquid nitrogen rifle, twin electron blaster

When Skids received the Masterpiece treatment, his twin electron blaster was similarly upscaled.

This mold was also used to make Reboost and Crosscut.

Legacy

• Autobot Skids (Deluxe Class, 2022)

• Accessories: Energon axe/rifle, liquid nitrogen rifle, twin electron blaster

Legacy Autobot Skids came with his liquid nitrogen rifle and twin electron blaster, as well as a translucent-blue Energon rifle that doubles as an axe. The three weapons can combine to form a super weapon.

Notes

• While Slag's instructions and packaging bio call his weapon an electron blaster, his Marvel Universe profile instead says that he is armed with a laser rifle. His Dreamwave More than Meets the Eye profile further muddies the waters, claiming that he is armed with an electron gun, like Brawl.
• Blurr's character model describes him having turbo electron blasters mounted in his shoulders.^[1]

See also

• Neutron blaster
• Proton blaster

References