Highjump (Transformers)
Highjump is the name of two fictional characters from the Transformers series. The original Mudslinger is an Autobot Micromaster who turns into a monster truck. The second is a Decepticon Power Core Combiner who turns into a truck and commands 4 Destructicon drones.
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Transformers: Generation 1
Highjump is an Autobot Micromaster who turns into a ??? and is a member of the Micromaster Off Road Patrol.
Biography: This quartet has an independence streak that runs as long as the Appalachian Trail. Experts at covert operations. Always work well together in any combat situation. Specialize in going where no one's ever gone and doing what no one's ever done. Continually caught up in some sort of enemy intrigue. Autobot Command trusts them to come up with brilliant counter-measures to be sprung on the Decepticons.
Marvel Comics
The Micromaster Off Road Patrol first appeared in issue #54 of the Marvel Transformers comic in a story called "King Con!" In this story Optimus Prime and Hi-Q receive reinforcements from Cybertron in the form of the Micromaster Race Car and Off Road Patrols. The Off Road Patrol is send to investigate a monster sighting in New Jersey and discover the Decepticon Pretenders Skullgrin and Iguanus. The two patrols eventually ruin the Decepticon's plans and decide to stay in New York City.
Dreamwave Productions
Mudslinger appeared in the Micromasters series. He was among the Micromasters created on Cybertron during the energon shortages of the last great war.
IDW Publishing
Mudslinger was among the Micromasters who appeared in Spotlight: Hardhead who attacked Nightbeat and Hardhead on the planet Gorlam Prime.[1]
Toys
- Generation 1 Micromaster Off Road Patrol (1989)
- Four original molds sold only as a set. Highjump was recolored into the Decepticon ???.
