Searchlight (Transformers)

Searchlight is the name of two fictional character in the Transformers toy line, comics and cartoon series.

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Transformers: Generation 1

Searchlight

The car Searchlight is based on
Autobot
Sub-group Throttlebots
Function Surveillance
Rank 6
Motto "Seeing is, by itself, not enough for believing."
Alternate Modes Ford RS200
Series Transformers: Generation 1

A creature of the night. Cruises the Earth with the curiosity of a cat. Nothing is too insignificant or irrelevant to escape his notice. Quiet, serious; a loner. Top row of headlights equipped with stereoscopic digital video cameras, spectroscopic chemical analyzer, and radiation detector. Bottom lights can produce strobe effect, full color spectrum with blinding 10,000 watt power.[1]

Marvel Comics

Searchlight appears in the Marvel Comics Transformers series.

Animated series

The Throttlebots are among the troops commanded by Rodimus Prime in their attempt to rescue the body of Optimus Prime from the lab of Doctor Mark Morgan. They are infected with the hate plague.[2]

IDW Publishing

Searchlight served under Optimus Prime in the Autobot hub.[3]

Toy

A new mold. Like all Throttlebots he came with a pullback motor which could be used in either mode.[4] The Throttlebots were among the first Transformers released in 1987 and featured pullback motors that worked in both car and robot modes.[5][6]


Transformers: Power Core Combiners

Searchlight

Searchlight toy
Autobot
Sub-group Power Core Combiners, Scouts
Partner Backwind and Skyburst
Alternate Modes Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight
Series Transformers: Power Core Combiners

Searchlight is the most skilled at search and rescue among the Autobots.

Toys

Searchlight is an Autobot helicopter partnered with the Mini-Con Backwind. As a Power Core Combiner Scout, he can become the torso of a combined form by using four drone limbs (sold separately). His partner Backwind transforms into a gun that can mount under the front end of his helicopter mode.
Searchlight and Backwind were also repainted; Searchlight as the Decepticon Windburn, and Backwind as Beacon, Steelshot´s Mini-Con partner.


References

  1. ^ Lee's Guide to Loose 1987 Transformers: Autobots. Lee's Toy Review magazine, issue #205, December 2009
  2. ^ Transformers episode #94, The Return of Optimus Prime Part 1
  3. ^ Transformers: Stormbringer #1-2
  4. ^ http://www.tfu.info/1987/Autobot/Searchlight/searchlight.htm
  5. ^ Alvarez, J.E. (2001). The Unofficial Guide to Transformers 1980s Through 1990s (Revised & Expanded 2nd Edition ed.). Schiffer Publishing Ltd.. p. 54. ISBN 0764313649. 
  6. ^ Alvarez, J.E. (2001). The Unofficial Guide to Japanese and International Transformers. Schiffer Publishing Ltd.. p. 30. ISBN 0764312820.