Attack Cruiser

The Attack Cruiser is an Autobot Action Master vehicle from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Blurring the line between attacking and cruising.

The Attack Cruiser is an Action Master vehicle. The weapon systems were rebuilt by Sprocket, its primary driver. As an all-terrain car, it boasts an impressive arsenal including two photon rifles, magnetic rockets able to immobilize metallic targets, and defensive bumper energy shields. When it converts to its vector-thrust hovercopter mode, it's armed with twin front-mounted plasma-pulse machine guns.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

When cruising on the ground just isn't enough.

Commercial appearances

Sprocket emerged from the caves of Fraggle Rock to find that time had passed differently in the depths.

The Attack Cruiser showed up briefly next to Wheeljack's Turbo Racer. They emerged from a tunnel in time to get strafed by Gutcruncher's Stratotronic Jet. Action Master vehicles commercial

Toys

The Transformers

YOU tell him he's holding the missiles the wrong way.

• Sprocket (Action Master Autobot Vehicle, 1990)

The Attack Cruiser is a car that can transform into an aerodynamically-impossible attack helicopter, with seats for two Action Masters in either mode. When in car mode, the missiles sort of get tacked on to the back assembly; the parts they connect to become the wings in helicopter mode. The missiles can also be detached and used as weapons by any Action Master, namely the included Sprocket.

While there hasn't been any mentioning of the Attack Cruiser suffering from Gold Plastic Syndrome among the fandom, the toy does feature a fair bit of gold plastic; the same kind in fact, that is featured on most GPS-ridden toys from the same era. So let this be a warning if you're ever in the market to find one for your collection.

• More information on the Attack Cruiser at TFU.info

Notes

• The box for the Attack Cruiser shows its front gun with separate grey pieces for its "barrels". These look to pull out and extend from the body of the gun, or conceivably even fire like missiles. On the finished toy they are not separate but molded as a solid part of the main gun.

Foreign names

• French: Vehicule Blinde (Europe)
• Dutch: Gevechtsvoertuig