Beacon (PCC)

Beacon is an Autobot-allied Mini-Con from the Power Core Combiners portion of the movie continuity family.

Mmmmmmmmmh. Crisp, delicious beacon.

Beacon acts as the spotter to the Autobot Steelshot when the latter is in his cannon form. Together they can hit targets up to 100 miles away. He has a multitude of alternate modes that enhance his larger partner's combat capabilities making him twice as powerful as before.

Toys

Power Core Combiners

• Steelshot with Beacon (Commander Class, 2010)

• Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), Andrew Scribner (deco artist)

Part of the third wave of Power Core Combiners Commander Class figures, Beacon is a redeco of Backwind, transforming from a small robot into a double-armed cannon/winch (amusingly with a slightly different configuration than Backwind), a hand-held blaster, and chest armor for compatible Power Core Combiner super robot forms. He comes packaged with his larger partner Steelshot, who lacks the chest-mounted Powerlinx plug needed for Beacon's chest armor mode, so he plugs onto Steelshot's back/gun turret.

Due to the fact that he has a screwhole in his chest instead of the standard Powerlinx port, Beacon is capable of pegging onto any 5 mm post. However, he is incapable of activating any Powerlinx gimmicks on previous Powerlinx compatible toys.

His arms have a tendency to develop stress marks and eventually break. Care should be taken when converting Beacon into any of his modes, which all require extensive use of his arms.

This mold was also used to United Caliburst and Firebug.

• More information on Beacon at TFU.info

• Power Core Combiners Special Value Offer (Value Pack, 2011)

Steelshot and Beacon were also made available as part of a Walmart-exclusive Black Friday "Value Pack", combining a 5-pack team with a Commander 2-pack via packaging tape and a couple of stickers, for the whopping price of ten bucks, merely a third of what the two toys would normally cost.

So far, Steelshot has been found attached to the Double Clutch/Rallybots and Over-Run/Stunticons sets.

Notes

And now he looks like syrup. Well, breakfast is the most important meal of the day...

• Beacon's stock photography shows him with transparent reddish-brown plastic rather than the final version's solid red.
• Speaking of, he is the only Power Core Combiners Mini-Con who doesn't use a transparent color as his primary plastic color.
• The stock photography also gives him a different "hand-held weapon" configuration than his instructions do (which is used in his main image at top). Pick for yourself which one you want to use. We can't make all your decisions for you.