Phil's
Armada Crumplezone & Powerlinx Crumplezone,
Micron Legend Cannon,
Energon Crumplezone
and
Micron Booster Trigger
Review

Crumplezone

A rather squat looking tank. Crumplezone's body and tank turret are dark blue, tank gun barrel & upper legs are bronzy gold. His tank tracks are a pale grey. The turret turns on the tank. By himself he's a great mini vehicle.

Crumplezone has one Minicon socket on him. Plugging him onto a larger toy adds a gun barrel which is always a good thing. However....

His second alt mode is an add on for Cyclonus: Turn the gun barrel round to face back, rotate the treads round on the sides so they're upside down, and turn the toy over revealing a light blue secondary cockpit for Cyclonus. If you raise the Cyclonus' flat front up you can clip Crumplezone in via 2 pegs on the chopper which fit on the insides of the tracks. This give Cyclonus a chin gun which moves along with the rotors when you squeeze the trigger on Cyclonus' tail.

TF to robot mode: Fold the cockpit out to form the legs and rotate at the waist so they are on the same side of the toy as the Minicon socket. Fold the tank treads out to become the arms.

Robot has turning arms at the shoulders, legs at the hip & knee. His waist also turns.

Decent tank and robot, great add on.

Crumplezone's Japanese name is Cannon and he appears in MD-04 with Sandstorm (Cyclonus). They both appear in MS-04 with the Destruction team.

Powerlinx Crumplezone

Sold with Powerlinx Cyclonus, Light blue becomes green, dark blue becomes black, bronze becomes dark burgundy, and pale grey becomes a more mid grey.

Energon Crumplezone

Light blue becomes grey, brassy gold becomes a pale grey, and the dark blue & pale grey become black on the Energon/Superlink release of this toy. A KB exclusive with Cyclonus in the US it was earlier sold in pack SD-03 with Snowstorm (Cyclonus)

Micron Booster Trigger

Buzzsaw does not come with a Minicon, a Crumplezone in his colours was later available as Trigger in Micron Booster V3.

Trigger swaps yellow for the blue, with purple for the brass colour, dark grey for the dark blue and a paler grey virtually white on the sides & tracks for the already pale grey .

Although Buzzsaw is substantially remoulded he can still used Trigger as a replacement cockpit.

Email Philip

Phil's TF Review Page