Neutro
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- Neutro is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Neutro (also Groundbuster) is the hardest-working member of the Construction Patrol. He accepts the destruction of war with stoicism. He secretly longs for the fighting to be over so he can return to his true vocation: interpretive sculpture.[1]
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Fiction
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Zone toy bio
Neutro led the Build Patrol Team. Build Patrol Team bio
Legends comic
When Unicron Neo attacked the Z Planet with Violengiguar, some of the planet's Micromasters, including Neutro, send out to defend their home by crawling all over Violengiguar. LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One
2005 IDW continuity
Neutro was one of the legions of Dead Universe Micromasters who pursued Hardhead and Nightbeat on Gorlam Prime. He survived to pursue the Autobots into the planet's subterranean caverns, and helped the Jhiaxus-possessed Nightbeat dig out after Hardhead triggered a cave-in. Spotlight: Hardhead
Regeneration One
Neutro was part of a team along with Groundpounder, Takedown, Crumble, and Erector, under the command of Quickmix, that constructed the Nebulan end of the space bridge network in the Clar Macro-jungle. As the freshly-woken Fortress Maximus fell under the influence of the Dark Matrix creature and took control of the space bridge network shortly afterwards, Neutro and his team probably perished. The War to End All Wars, Part 1
2019 IDW continuity
Groundbuster was working with Hot Spot's search-and-rescue clean-up crew at the devastated site of the memorial crater. The Change In Your Nature Part Five
Commercial appearances
The Construction Patrol and the Hot Rod Patrol were faced by Scorponok advancing menacingly upon them. As the Decepticon began to cross a suspension bridge, they destroyed it, sending Scorponok tumbling down. Hot Rod and Construction Patrol commercial
Toys
The Transformers
- Construction Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1990)
- Takara name: Build Patrol Team
- Takara ID number: C-351
- Released in the seventh (and final) year of Hasbro's US Transformers toyline (sixth and not-final year in European markets), Neutro transforms into a mainly yellow bulldozer of udetermined, possibly-made-up model. He is gang-molded with his teammate Crumble, sharing the same plastic colors.
- He was only available in a four-pack with his teammates Crumble, Groundpounder, and Takedown.
- In Takara's markets, the Team was released as the "Build Patrol Team" in the Zone portion of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline. They are physically identical to their Hasbro counterparts.
Generations
- Autobot Tailgate & Groundbuster (Legends Class, 2014)
- Series / Number: 02 / #008
- Known designers: Joe Kyde (Hasbro)
- Part of the sixth wave of 2012-onwards Generations Legends Class toys, Thrilling 30 "Autobot Tailgate" comes with "Groundbuster" (name changed due to trademark unavailability). He transforms into a robot, a bomb disposal skid loader,[2][3] and an extended claw for Tailgate to wield via its 5 mm post, or mount onto the peg-hole on Tailgate's hood in vehicle mode.
- In a nod to his original toy, he has (non-functional) wheels sculpted on his tread-arms.
- This mold was redecoed into Legends Groundshaker and Timelines Shakar.
Notes
- "Groundpounder" was also considered as a trademark-friendly name for the Thrilling 30 incarnation of Neutro before Hasbro settled on "Groundbuster".[4] The 2015 Robots in Disguise Decepticon Groundpounder also suffers from this disconnect, being named "Groundpounder" in fiction and "Groundbuster" for his toy.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Neutro (ニュートロ Nyūtoro)
- Italian: Neutron
