Victorion



Victorion was created after the Torchbearers—a team of explorers who seek ancient Cybertronian artifacts—were accidentally exposed to the energies of the Enigma of Combination. As all six of her components are devout followers of the Mistress of Flame, the religious head of Caminus, Victorion gets a leeeeeeetle bit tetchy when someone threatens sacred relics. And by "tetchy" we mean "summons the wrath of god upon their heads". Between her whirling blade weapons, gravity-control powers, and the ability to fly under her own power, the collection of Rust Renegades is more than capable of some righteous smiting.

The strong discipline and sense of unity among the Torchbearers, combined with their natural deference to Pyra Magna, means Victorion is one of the most mentally stable combiners. In ways she is much like Pyra, with the others contributing numerous smaller personality tics to ensure the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts.

Toys
Part of the Combiner Wars series, Victorion is made up of Voyager-class Pyra Magna as the torso, with Rust Dust forming her chest, and Dust Up, Stormclash, Skyburst, and Jumpstream each forming a limb. Pyra Magna has been retooled to give Victorion a new head. Having the copter-twins Skyburst and Stormclash as legs puts her in "flight mode". Her broadsword is the combined mode of her components' weapons, with the base of the sword resembling the Lightning Bug from the original cartoon episode "Cosmic Rust". The final product features a more muted green compared to the early stock photos that depict hand-painted prototypes. Unlike earlier Combiner Wars gestalts, Victorion uses dedicated hand and foot parts, rather than the "can be either hand or a foot or a gun" parts that come with the rest of the limb-bots in the series. This is because her components aren't sold separately, resulting in a reduced need for flexibility in the hand/foot-part department. Every one of Victorion's components has Cybertronic tampographs in her vehicle mode, which read: IF CYBERTRON BE YOUR HOME (Pyra Magna) FAR AWAY NEVER ROAM (Rust Dust) HEAR MY MESSAGE LISTEN AND FEAR (Skyburst) DANGER COMES THE END IS NEAR (Stormclash) JUST LIKE US YOU SOON WILL RUST (Dust Up) ALL SHALL BE TURNED TO DUST (Jumpstream) This is another callback to "Cosmic Rust": the warning message left by victims of the titular plague on their colony world. Victorion was only available as a box set including a poster and a collector card based on her packaging art, one of several so-called "Collection Packs" that were "online exclusives" in the United States, available from online retailers such as Hasbro Toy Shop, Amazon, and BigBadToyStore as well as the online stores of "big box" retailers such as Toys"R"Us, Walmart, Target, and Kmart. In Hasbro's Asian markets such as Singapore and Taiwan, the set was available at general retail. In Australia, it was sold at Toys"R"Us stores, whereas in Canada, was both sold at Toys"R"Us stores and available via Amazon Canada. In The United Kingdom, it was available via the UK Toys"R"Us website (but never sold in stores), whereas in Spain, it was available via the Spanish subsidiaries of Amazon and Carrefour, as well as the department store chain El Corte Inglés, supposedly also only available online. This set (including the new individual head sculpts), without Rust Dust, was redecoed to make Unite Warriors Megatronia.