Nautilator (Energon)

Nautilator was to have been a Decepticon in the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy.

Nautilator would have been an aquatic fighter for the Decepticons, and a member of the Piranhacons. He would have combined with his teammates to form the powerful Piranhaking.

Unreleased
Revealed at OTFCC 2004, Nautilator was to be a redeco of the Generation 1 Seacon Nautilator, transforming into a robotic lobster. Since he used the Scramble City style of combination, he could be used to form the arm or leg of any compatable super robot, though his apparent standard configuration would have been as the right arm to Piranhaking. He can also convert into a field artillery piece that Piranhaking can hold as a rifle (or any combiner, really, provided it uses the Piranhaking fist.)

He was to be available only in a Wal*Mart exclusive Piranhaking set for the Energon line. However, Wal*Mart ended up passing on the exclusive, likely to to low sales of previous exclusives to the chain. (Though in all fairness, Wal*Mart had almost a half-dozen different Universe exclusive toys come out in the span of a month.) This was one of several proposed exclusive toys that ended up in development limbo during that year.

At this time, there are no concrete plans to release the set, though at BotCon 2005 Hasbro representatives said they were still trying to find an outlet for it. It is possible that the set might see release through the Fun Publications Transformers Collectors' Club, as that venue had saved Spacewarp from limbo.

This mold was also used to make Lobclaw.