Daytonus

Daytonus is an Autobot from the Robots in Disguise continuity family.

"If I'm named after one of the big races in NASCAR, why do I turn into a LeMans racer?"

Daytonus is one of many Autobots who guard planet Earth from the ambitions of Megatron. He's one of the heroic Spychangers!

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

When Sky-Byte accidentally poisoned all of Earth's energon on Viron 1103.12 Gamma, Daytonus and the other twelve Autobots had to downsize into Spychangers. Daytonus got the last laugh when he and X-Brawn blew up the Predacons' energon stash! Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/18

Toys

Robots in Disguise (2001)

• Side Burn / Daytonus (Basic Class 2-pack, 2001)

• Accessories: Rifle
• Known designers: Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Released in the second wave of Robots in Disguise "Basics", Daytonus transforms into a Porsche 962 Le Mans-style race car, specifically, a Kremer Racing 962CK6. His wheels use a "through-axle" style of construction, which lets him zip along very quickly on smooth surfaces, and his toy is scaled to be used on Hot Wheels and Matchbox style race tracks. He was only available in a two-pack with Side Burn.

This mold was later redecoed to make Universe Wheeljack.

• More information on Daytonus at TFU.info

Notes

He's like Four-Legged Man, but with wheels!

• Daytonus's name is based on the Daytona 500 stock car race held annually at Daytona Beach, Florida, USA. Which does not feature Le Mans-style racing cars of the type Daytonus is.
• Daytonus was the first official release of a mold originally intended to be released as part of the Generation 2 Go-Bots sub-line. Presently, the original identity of the mold is unknown, assuming Hasbro got that far along in ideas, but in 2016, the unused original deco became the basis of the character Crash Test.
• Though the toy shares its origins with and is packed like the Hasbro releases of the Spychangers, he was not labeled as a member of that team until a 2015 Ask Vector Prime entry declared him to be one.