Ro-Tor (RID)


 * Ro-Tor is a Decepticon from the Robots in Disguise continuity family.

Sneering from his place in the sky, Ro-Tor bot literally and figuratively looks down on everyone else. Smarmy and arrogant, he enjoys sniping the largely ground-based Autobots with both words and plasma fire. He forms half of the Decepticon Commandos air force, though he'd probably say he's the only good part of it.


 * Japanese name: Hepter

Robots in Disguise Cartoon
Voice actor: Neil Kaplan (US)

Robots in Disguise

 * Ro-Tor (Basic, 2000, 2001)
 * Japanese ID number: D-009


 * A redeco of the Generation 1 Vortex toy, Ro-Tor transforms into a helicopter that is ambiguously a Kaman Aerospace SH-2G Super Seasprite. He has a pair of large non-firing cannons that clip onto the back end of his copter mode, plus a pistol that becomes a nose-mounted gun. As the toy uses the Scramble City style of connection, he can form any limb to any combination of similar robots, though naturally he normally forms a limb to the combined robot Ruination.


 * He was first released as part of the Takara Car Robots line in 2000. In 2001, Hasbro released the toy as part of the Robots in Disguise series. There are a couple of paint application differences between the two releases; the original Japanese version has a white "underbelly" wash and "Anti-Cybertron" sigils, while the Hasbro version drops the wash and replaces the sigils with Decepticon versions.


 * This mold was also used to make Target Hawk.


 * Valdigus (Multi-pack, 2000)
 * Japanese ID number: D-011


 * In Japan, ro-Tor/Hepter was also made available as part of a compete team multi-pack with his teammates Armorhide, Mega-Octane, Movor, and Rollbar. All toys were identical to their individual Japanese releases, but the set only came with a bio card for the combined form.


 * Ruination (Ultra, 2003)


 * The entire Commando team was redecoed in various shades of gray with "urban camo" patterns as part of a Wal-Mart exclusive gift set, oddly released well after the end of the Robots in Disguise line.

Universe

 * Ruination (Ultra, 2004)


 * The entire Ruination team was redecoed again to make another Wal-Mart exclusive set (why?), this time with a unified "desert camo" theme under the Universe banner. It came out at the same time as five other Wal-Mart Transformers exclusives, which lead to a glut. Ruination seemed a particularly slow mover in this batch.

Trivia

 * Ro-Tor has the most He-Manny name in Transformersdom.