You can roll him along a flat surface and the gun moves from side to side if the gun is facing forward - odd things happen if the gun points off to the side. Alternately clip him to the underside of Armada Cyclonus and Cyclonus' rotor spinning action powers the gun moving gimmick.
TF: Fold the front of the car down to form the legs, Spin the block round to show the face. Raise the arms up on the rear wheel axles.
Tiny robot has neck, shoulder, hip and knee joints. I've owned much less articulated larger toys.
In addition to being packed with the rest of the Adventure team Dune Runner also appears in the TRU Bonus Minicon packs with either Powerlinx Cyclonus with Crumplezone or Powerlinx Hot Shot with Jolt. These were a Black Friday exclusive to TRU in 2003. The entire Adventure team and the Sea team are then packaged together in Energon as a Minicon six pack.
In Japan Dune Runner is known as Spike and appears with the rest of the Adventure team in MM-16 and also with Super Mode Grapple in giftset MS-07
My original Dune Runner review reads: "More geared gimmicks here, and some nicely hidden ports.
Here's the star of this set. Here the gun moves from side to side as it roles. Turret rotates, though the gimmick only really works when the turret is facing forward. Flip the roll cage up at the start of the tf, and it's standard MM stuff from there, except that by rotating the head round you hide the minicon port. Hips, Knees and Shoulders here. Like him a lot. "
A nice addition to the Terrorsaur, though perhaps one of the combining teams would have been better to encourage people to buy all the beasts - collect them all and build 2 extra weapons.
Like the other two Wave 3 Minicon Teams (Street Speed and Space) there is an unreleased Armada version of the Adventure team. The same base colours of grey and black are used but the main part of Dune Runners's vehicle mode now becomes blue, with some olive paint covering the robot arms and green painted seats. It's possible at this point the arms have been moved from one parts tree to another - see bellow. Looks nice.
Kobushi is packed with an Autobot Minicon Landslide (Buzzsaw from Destruction). Both Adventure and Destruction teams are referred to as Exploration Team on their members Bio sheets - I'll call them Decepticon Exploration team ( for the Adventure team repaints) and Autobot Exploration Team (for the Destruction team repaints). Kobushi in Japanese means either Fist or Old Warrior according to the brief research I've made.
I can't make my mind up which side of the taste divide Kobushi's Purple and Neon green colour scheme falls on - yes it's Cybertron Dirtboss' colours again. The purple looks good but the green.....awful.