Tailwind (Transformers)
Tailwind is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers series. .
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Transformers: Generation 1
Tailwind is a Decepticon Micromaster who turns into a jet.
Toys
- Hasbro Transformers Micromaster Air Strike Patrol (1988)
- Includes Nightflight, Storm Cloud, Tailwind and Whisper.
Shattered Glass Generation 1
Tailwind is one of the Micromaster partners to Astrotrain. He is a heroic Decepticon.
Fun Publications
Tailwind appeared in the fiction Dungeons & Dinobots, a text based story from Fun Publications. Astrotrain and his Micromasters were used to transport supplies and energon rods from the Arch-Ayr fuel depot to the Deception base at Darkmount.[1]
Tailwind appeared in the story Do Over by Fun Publications. He among the crew of the Nemesis, which followed the Autobot's Ark to Earth. When the Nemesis was unable to close in on the Ark Astrotrain and his partners were sent to disable its weapons.[2]
In Eye in the Sky the Decepticons lamented the fact that they did not know where Astrotrain and his Mircomaster partners had gone down on Earth. The Decepticons could use their help in defeating a human military satellite the Autobots had gained control of and were using to take over the Earth.
In Blitzwing Bop the Decepticons recover Astrotrain and his Micromasters after he is found frozen in the Antarctic.
IDW Publishing
Tailwind participated in a scouting mission by the Decepticon Micromaster Air Strike Patrol to investigate the Autobots' operation inside Metroplex only to be shot down by Slicer.[3]
Toys
- Timelines Ultra Astrotrain with Astro-Hook, Astro-Line, Astro-Sinker and Starcatcher (2007)
- A recolor of Armada Jetfire.
- This toy was repurposed into Shattered Glass Astrotrain with Fasttrack, Stonecruncher, Submarauder and Tailwind.[4]
References
- ↑ S. Trent Troop and Greg Sepelak (2008). Dungeons & Dinobots. Illustrator Evan Gauntt. Fun Publications.
- ↑ S. Trent Troop and Greg Sepelak (2009). Do Over. Illustrator Yuki Oshima. Fun Publications.
- ↑ Shattered Glass II issue 3.
- ↑ http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/exclusives/astrosinker/1135/
