Landmine (Unicron Trilogy)

The name or term Landmine refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Landmine (disambiguation).

Landmine is an Autobot in the Energon and Cybertron portions of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

SUPAAAA RINKUUU

Landmine is a fighter. He lives by a soldier's code and thrives on honor and loyalty to his comrades and commanders. Unlike his brother Landquake, he thoroughly enjoys the life of a warrior. Landmine's rough around the edges and a little old-fashioned, but he's got a warm heart under that gruff exterior. Since he's so old, he bruises easily, but after some mechanical tinkering from Red Alert or Coby, he's always back up on his feet, anxious to re-enter the battle swingin'.

In his millennia of existence, he has trained a number of warriors, including Mudflap and Optimus Prime.

Japanese Galaxy Force name: Guardshell

Hungarian name: Taposóakna (Landmine) in Energon, Gránátfej (Grenade-head) in Cybertron -- Taposó ("Stomper") in Cybertrons intro (WTS?)

Fiction

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Animated continuity

Energon

Voice actor: Ward Perry (U.S.), Kenta Miyake (Japan)

When Rodimus left Cybertron eons ago, Landmine was one of the Transformers who chose to go with him. Serving as a traffic guard until the war escalated, Landmine boarded Rodimus' vessel along with his co-worker and partner, Prowl, a patrol officer. Landmine would become Rodimus' right-hand soldier and his personal bodyguard.

Landmine returned to Cybertron during the Powerlinx Battles to assist Rodimus in reviving Unicron and the Planet Q system. Although Landmine served his commander without question, he was sometimes unsure of their ultimate agenda. Landmine joined Team Optimus when Rodimus surrendered his leadership to Prime. Landmine is one of the oldest Autobots currently serving the armed forces of Cybertron.

Cybertron

Voice actor: Paul Dobson (U.S.), Tomoyuki Shimura (Japan)

It's clobberin' time!

Now under the command of Optimus Prime, Landmine opened up more to his new friends. No longer a stranger to Optimus Prime's men, he became a soldier and a mentor to the others due to his wisdom and experience. When the Unicron Singularity threatened Cybertron, Landmine was quick to aid his commander in trying to solve this enormous problem. During the evacuation of Cybertron, Landmine was attacked by Starscream and was nearly flung into the black hole, only to be saved by a warp-gate from Vector Prime's sword.

Landmine ended up crashing on Earth. Injured in the crash, Landmine would be found by Coby, Bud and Lori. After being patched up by Coby, Landmine took quite some time to recover, but remained eager to get back at Starscream. He also gained a second Decepticon "rival" in his former friend Mudflap, whose frustration with being forced to stay hidden on Earth led to his defection.

Landmine ultimately got the chance to get back at Starscream when he tapped into Gigantion's Cyber Planet Key and grew to a gigantic size. With this power, he was able to finaly defeat Starscream before returning to his normal stature.

After the closing of the Unicron Singularity and the death of Galvatron, Landmine and the reformed Mudflap left Earth to meet up with Wing Saber in deep space, who had discovered that Starscream apparently hadn't perished on Gigantion as originally thought.

Toys

Energon

• Landmine (Ultra, 2004)

Japanese ID number: SC-15

These hands are made fer hurtin'.

Landmine transforms into an orange, blue, and grey Cybertronic half-track battlefield recovery vehicle. Front of the vehicle features a large plow while the rear has a rotating crane that with a working winch, accompanied by a spring-loaded missile launcher. The front half of the vehicle can separate from the tracked portion as a smaller truck cab. The tracked portion can then be reconfigured into mini battle station that Landmine's robot mode can man.

In robot mode Landmine has no weapons, but his standard 5mm fists can hold any Energon weapons or other weapons sporting a compatable peg system. In the dead center of his chest is his spark crystal, over which an Energon Star can be attached. As a red Powerlinx Autobot, Landmine cannot combine with any other Autobot except for the 'trailer' rear half of his vehicle, forming his Brute Mode. The tracks with their flip-out digger claws mount on his arms while the remaining portion forms a weapons backpack. Connecting the backpack to Landmine will depress a button which activates the classic Generation 1 transformation sound effect.

The Japanese Superlink release removed the electronics from his brute mode backpack and uses a different shade of blue plastic.

The mold was later redecoed as Landquake.

Cybertron

• Landmine (Deluxe, 2005)

Japanese ID number: GC-09

Cyber Key activates BLADES OF FURY.

Cybertron Landmine transforms into a yellow wheeled front loader, with a rear mounted pile driver. His bucket shovel can be raised up and down, while his gimmick is unusual in that the Cyber Planet Key slot is in his rear wheels. To configure him into attack mode, one flip's the rear wheels up (there are smaller wheels to support the rear end of the vehicle to compensate) and insert the Cyber Key into the slots and twist, deploying blades down the center of each tire.

In robot mode, Landmine has a relatively high level articulation, typical of the Cybertron toyline. He is armed with his spring-loaded pile driver rifle, which can fire the driver projectile. His Cyber Key gimmick can still be activated in robot mode, with the rear mounting of the vehicle having the articulation to flip up to a position just behild his head. A thumb dial turns spins the wheels (and thus creating the illusion of powered circular saws).

Landmine comes with an silver-bordered Earth Cyber Key, with the code dr94 printed on the back. Entering this code into Transformers.com's Cybertron website will reveals a screen capture from an episode of the Cybertron television series of Coby (mislabeled Bud) and Landmine as well as a short paragraph about how Landmine is one of the oldest Autobots, and that he taught Optimus Prime how to fight.

This mold was redecoed to make BotCon 2006 Dawn of Future's Past Rhinox.

Attacktix

• Landmine (Booster, 2006)

Attacktix ID number: TF12

When you got a condition, it's bad to ferget yer pills.

Faction: Autobot

Class: Warrior

Special: Shootback - 12/26 (46%) success ratio

Point Cost: 30

Base Speed: 10

Attack Type: Prodder (Punch)

The Landmine Attacktix figure represents the character's Energon Brute mode, and is subsequently one of the bulkier Transformers Attacktix figures. He has four points of articulation (head, shoulders and waist), though his head articulation is difficult to access because of his crane.

Landmine's special power allows an immediate free attack for up to three in-play Mini-Con figures. This makes him especially effective when teamed with hordes of well-placed Mini-Cons.

External links

• Landmine at TFU.info