#quillfire

Saberhorn’s not just a rhinoceros beetle, he’s a European Rhinoceros Beetle. He also has a pair of little insect arms that he can’t really use—one is missing a hand.

What the fuck is Shadowraker? Raspy Cricket.

Clampdown’s a fiddler crab. It just fits.

Grimlock’s a giganotosaurus now

Razorpaw’s a fossa (and swelter and glacius are lemurs)

Logically Psuedo would be a cuttlefish or orchid mantis… but like… Earwig…

Quillfire is a North American Porcupine (no design changes)

Scatterspike is a Crested Porcupine (quills make a mohawk on her head and back)

Crazybolt is a bearded dragon

Slicedice is a monitor

Flamesnort is an armadillo girdled lizard

I’m making Drift a triplechanging beetle. Deadlock was a beetle. Drift avoids transforming into his original alt mode at all costs. The tip of his horn is the same as his crest.

New Vertebreak design! (More snake-like features. Same body type. Slit pupils, forked tongue, more distinguished fangs rather than a mouthful of sharp teeth. Actual hands/arms! Has a built-in backpack-type thing that opens and has his original arms, letting him have more hands to work with.

The RID15 toyline is great, actually? The show is mediocre as fuck and is somewhat deservedly dogged on (no matter how much you separate it from Prime it is still just “okay” and its public perception is also irreversibly tied to prime. And I like the show), but a lot of the toys are genuine bangers, the Decepticons especially. So many weird dudes and fucked up freaks, with Quillfire here being a good example. He initially seems a little standard, until you get to his stumpy stature and hunchback look, not to mention his face. His titular quills do a lot for his profile. So much of his character comes through in the sculpt. He’s a bizarre little creature and I rather love him for it.

He’s got more articulation than you’d might expect from such a design, that mostly being that he can look side to side. You think he’d be locked to looking straight forward given the entire lack of a neck, but the whole head assembly is on a ball joint, giving it even a tiny bit of wiggle room that does a lot. His face is really expressive, too. I wasn’t expecting thigh swivels, I will say.

Pilot: Derek Steele (later takes the name 'Steeljaw')

AC: STEELJAW

Classification: Human (later becomes Augmented Human/Human Plus)

Affiliation: The Pack (rogue gang)

Occupation: AC Pilot/Leader

Rank: No.2 S-Rank

Pilot: Tyson Giovenco (later takes the name 'Thunderhoof')

AC: THUNDERHOOF

Classification: Human (later becomes Augmented Human/Human Plus)

Affiliation: The Pack (rogue gang)

Occupation: AC Pilot/Mobster

Rank: No.13 C-Rank

Pilot: Frank Scovill (later takes the name 'Fracture')

AC: FRACTURE

Classification: Human (later becomes Augmented Human/Human Plus)

Affiliation: The Pack (rogue gang)

Occupation: AC Pilot/Bounty Hunter

Rank: No.7 A-Rank

Pilot: Urbane Maltese (later takes the name 'Underbite')

AC: UNDERBITE

Classification: Human (later becomes Augmented Human/Human Plus)

Affiliation: The Pack (rogue gang)

Occupation: AC Pilot/Brute

Rank: No.18 D-Rank

Pilot: Quin Price (later takes the name 'Quillfire')

AC: QUILLFIRE

Classification: Human (later becomes Augmented Human/Human Plus)

Affiliation: The Pack (rogue gang)

Occupation: AC Pilot/Revolutionist

Rank: No.15 C-Rank

Pilot: Chris Mckray (later takes the name 'Clampdown')

AC: CLAMPDOWN

Classification: Human (later becomes Augmented Human/Human Plus)

Affiliation: The Pack (rogue gang)

Occupation: AC Pilot/Spy

Rank: No.30 F-Rank