Greasepit (G2 Go-Bot)
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- Greasepit is an Autobot Go-Bot from the Generation 2 portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Greasepit is a bold, showboating thrill-seeker and the brother of Gearhead. He drove around in a truck with a deploying ramp; he loved jumping off this ramp because it made the crowds cheer for him and gave him a chance to try landing on Decepticons and crushing them.[1]
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Fiction
TransTech
In Axiom Nexus, Greasepit was a judge for Cybertron's Got Talent. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 14 May 2015
Ask Vector Prime
In Primax 096.0 Beta, the Go-Bots Greasepit and Rumble duked it out underwater during the Battle of Sherman Dam. Ask Vector Prime, 6 September 2015
Toys
Generation 2
- Go-Bots Racing Rig (1995)
- Generation 2 Greasepit was going to be a redeco of Gearhead, transforming into a Ford Thunderbird NASCAR stock car with through-axle tires, making him largely compatible with "Hot Wheels" and "Matchbox" playsets and tracks. He would have been packaged with the "Road Rig" vehicle/playset.
- It appears both Greasepit and the Road Rig never made it to "mass-production-ready" state, as samples of Greasepit himself are just Gearheads painted over. It's quite possible his colors would have further changed (as well as that packaging mock-up art) had he actually been produced.
- This sculpt (the car, not the unmade giant truck) was also used to make Go-Bots Soundwave, Robots in Disguise W.A.R.S., and the Universe version of Camshaft.
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Notes
- At BotCon 1994, instead of a car in Greasepit's deco, the "Superspeedbot" shown with the Racing Rig was mostly transparent clear plastic. The presenters indicated this was intentional, suggesting that the idea for the Racing Rig's driver changed at some point between that pre-release showing and cancellation.
- For years—nay, at least a decade—it was unknown whether or not Greasepit had been given a character bio prior to the cancellation of his release. Eventually, internal Hasbro documentation containing his Bio and Tech Specs showed up on eBay, and the mystery was solved.
References
- ↑ Unreleased packaging bio for Generation 2 Greasepit
