Airraptor
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| Transformers character | |
 Dinobot Airraptor from Beast Machines |
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| Airraptor | |
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| Affiliation | Maximal  |
| Sub-Group | Dinobots |
| Function | Surveillance, Sharpshooter |
| Motto | "When the enemy is in my sights, the target is still perfection." |
| Alternate Modes | Archaeopteryx |
| Series | Beast Machines |
A pinpointing perfectionist, Airraptor is the most meticulous member of the Dinobot team. His attention to detail and eagle eye precision is a result of his former work as an interplanetary surveyor and navigator aboard the Axalon. Incredibly fast, capable of soaring up to 250 mph. Characteristically dive-bombs or strafes a Vehicon detachment, usually flying past his target before his ammunition makes impact. Though extremely dexterous, Airraptor's fragile wings are vulnerable to enemy firepower. Packs a quick-deploying energy destabilizer pistol.
[edit] Beast Machines
In a desperate attempt to combat Megatron's techno-organic virus on Cybertron, the Oracle Supercomputer reformats a group of surviving Transformers, rendering them immune to the plague and extremely powerful. Using the DNA schematics of former Maximal Dinobot, each warrior emerges as a hybrid of savage prehistoric power and advanced Cybertronian robotics...the result, the fearsome Dinobots are born!
Airraptor was one of the original five founding members of the Beast Machines Dinobots group. Unlike other Dinobots, Airraptor was not a former Predacon nor was he ever reprogrammed as one. He is the only "pure blooded" Maximal of the team. This bio indicates he may have known the original crew of the Beast Wars Maximals.
The Airraptor toy was part of the Dinobots faction of ‘‘Beast Machines’’ which featured no new molds but did release some molds previously unseen in America. He was a recolor of Beast Wars Neo Archadis.
Although the Dinobots' intro states that the Dinobots received their beast modes through the slicing of Dinobot's DNA, it is likely that the Oracle also used the fossil chamber (seen in the Beast Machine series) to utilize Archaeopteryx DNA.
Airraptor is a homage to the original Dinobot Swoop only in that he is the flyer of the original five group. It is unknown why Hasbro went with an Archaeopteryx instead of a Pterodactyl, possibly because there was no non-TransMetal deluxe size Pterodactyl available at the time to recolor as all the Dinobots of the Beast Machine line were repaints.
