SWINDLE

This toy came out in 1986 along with his fellow combaticons.he is G1/Generation one. He first appeared in season 2 in " Starscream's Brigade" Megatron exiled Starscream to an Island. where he found some wrecks of WW2 vehicles. He rebuilt them and went to Cybertron where he stole some brain components of the renegade Decepticons. he put this into the vehicles to bring them to life. He called them the Conbaticons. They were Blastoff, a fighter plane and space shuttle. Brawl, a tank. Onslaught, an assault vehicle, Vortex, a helicopter and swindle who was a jeep. He attacked the Autobots and took them prisoner. He attacked the Decepticons and took them prisoner. he then set his eyes on megatron. The Combaticons combined into Bruticus. They defeated Megatron. The Stunticons went to save Megatron and they combined into Menusaur defeating Bruticus. megatron banished the Combaticons and Starscream to an asteroid.

MOTTO: "Make deals, not war"

FUNCTION: Munitions expert

ALTERNATE MODE:  XR 311 combat support (4-WD) Vehicle

TECHSPEC: " easy going and good natured, but within him beats the fuel pump of the most greed-driven street hustler. Thrives on wheeling and dealing. works for his own personal material advancement. A one-robot "black market". Uses a scatter blaster that sprays explosive pellets. gyro gun that disrupts Transformers " balance centre ". Combines with fellow cobaticons to form "Bruticus". Prone to overturning on sharp turns"

STATS: Strength 5, Intelligence 9, Speed 5, Endurance 6, Rank 6, Courage 5, Firepower7, Skill 10

car with gyro gun

Robot with gyro gun and scatter blaster

car side without guns

car side with gyro gun fitted

robot mode gyro gun

His robot mode is quite short and boxy. He does not look like the figure in the series.

He has seats fitted in car mode but no steering wheel but buttons. This is to accommodate the windscreen

It id nice that the guns can combine to form one large one and can be used in robot and vehicle mode. He does not have fists to hold guns but square holes.

He is very easy to transform