Spin-Out (G1)

Spin-Out is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family and a Diaclone vehicle from the Diaclone continuity family.

"You fragged up a perfectly good Diaclone is what you did. Look at it, it's got anxiety."

Once a lifeless, human-piloted mech of the Diaclone force, Spin-Out (aka Spinout) was reborn as a true robotic lifeform after falling through a dimension portal to the world of the Transformers. He still remembers his previous existence, which has given him a fierce loyalty to humankind, but has also left him with lingering worries that he may not be able to fight as effectively without a pilot. Despite this, he remains a hot-blooded warrior who will leap to the rescue without a second thought.^[1][2]

Fiction

Of Masters and Mayhem

Spin-Out was the cook in a five hundred strong Autobot force but being the 49th highest ranking officer means you still become the commanding officer when forty eight other 'bots are dead! After a destructive, 17-cycle "holding action", the Autobots technically won but Spin-Out was left depressed by the wreckage, the amount dead, and the fact that people like Outback thought he should feel proud he "stepped up". And he couldn't even sit down in case it was on a corpse!

Things couldn't get worse.

Then his remaining men took a Decepticon called Toxitron prisoner... who turned out to be a walking acid spill who had intentionally been "captured". Everybody died, including Spin-Out, and the cook's rotting head was later used to let Toxitron falsely register as having an Autobot transponder.

So that's worse. The Toxic Transformer

Masterpiece toy bios

"Spinout" began life as Car Robot No. 1, or CR-01, of the Earth Defense Force, Diaclone, one of the piloted mechs used in the battle against their Waruder enemies, and capable of transforming into a Lamborghini Countach LP500S. On one occasion, CR-01 was deployed as part of a mission to capture an enemy battleship equipped with space-time technology, and during the ensuing conflict, the craft fired missiles which opened a singularity.

A wrecked Diaclone spacecraft, with CR-01 aboard, was pulled through time and space to a different universe, where it was recovered by the Cybetronian space facility Diadem. The installation's artificial intelligence, Anterior Zeta, learned of Diaclone and the Waruders from the ship's computers, and having identified CR-01 as the least damaged occupant, used programming derived from Vector Sigma to give life to the robot, encoding his body with CNA. The computer also replaced CR-01's multifunctional arm launcher with a heavy laser cannon that had originally been mounted on the robot's spacecraft. The "newborn" Spinout was subsequently placed into stasis within Diadem, while Anterior Zeta set about making contingency plans for the day the Waruders might threaten this universe.

More than ten million years later, Spinout found himself awoken from stasis by a party of Autobots who had recently rediscovered Diadem. Initially baffled by how a Transformer with an Earth vehicle mode could have existed millions of years ago, the Autobots soon discovered the nature of Spinout from Anterior Zeta's records, and inducted him into their faction. While his unusual history warranted close supervision at first—carried out by Tigertrack, a 'bot who Spinout came to consider a brother—he quickly proved himself a likeable and dependable Autobot.

To symbolize their trust in him, the Autobots presented Spinout with a "Spinizer" gun to wield, capable of cancelling friction (and thus potentially highly potent against ground-bound Autobot vehicle modes). Additionally, as a keepsake of his former life, Spinout held onto a beam rifle once wielded by a "New Countach" Car Robot he fought alongside. He also developed a particular fondness for those Autobots who look very similar to his former comrades from the ranks of Diaclone. Masterpiece Spinout bio

When a mass of liquid metal fell to Earth from a rift in space, Spinout was part of the team to investigate, and found that it registered as an ally to his internal systems. The object was, in fact, another Diaclone Car Robot from the same dimension as Spinout, and the Autobots proceeded to use G2 technology Masterpiece Dia Burnout bio recovered from Foreston Masterpiece Crosscut profile to restore it to its original converting robot form. However, following the procedure, it was discovered that the Car Robot, which had adopted the name Burnout after being given an artificial personality, had been quantum-mechanically fused with its pilot Dia Cinders in the dimensional accident that had brought them there.

Spinout and the other Autobots promised to help separate "Dia Burnout" and return the two to their home dimension, and launched a mission to Epsilon Ariadne to track down this dimension's version of Dia Cinders. "Mirror Dia" was a prolific interplanetary criminal, but her genetic code could serve as a template to reconstitute the fused Dia's original form. While a sample was successfully obtained from the other Dia's hotel room, Dia Burnout ultimately resolved to track down the criminal Dia before proceeding with the separation, unwilling to let her name continue be tarnished in this dimension. Spinout immediately agreed to accompany her to the planet Velocitron, leading Tigertrack to join them too. Masterpiece Dia Burnout bio

Toys

Masterpiece

Apparently not Tigertrack's twin brother.

• Spinout (November 28, 2020)
  • ID number: MP-39+
  • Accessories: N.C. Beam Rifle, Heavy Laser Cannon, "Spinizer" Gun

Masterpiece MP-39+ Spinout is a red redeco of MP-42 Cordon, which itself is a retooling of MP-39 Sunstreaker, transforming into a licensed Lamborghini Countach LP500S mode, only without Cordon's police light-bar. The toy is an homage to the original Diaclone iteration of the original Sunstreaker toy; his license plates reading "CR-01" in reference the original mold being the first Diaclone Car Robot toy.

The rear electronic propulsion engine cover can be folded into the rear of the car for a more realistic alternate mode, and the rear combination tail-lights can be switched between realistic and cartoon modes. The doors and hood open, and the front headlights can be popped up. His rear spoiler can also V-wing to reveal a rear-mounted (non-firing) blaster.

To preserve cartoon accuracy, the windows on the chest are fake, with the main panel of the chest being formed by turning the roof of the car mode inside out, with the extra windows folding out from inside.^[3]

Also included with Spinout is a sticker sheet including two separate sets of stickers: one set for Spinout himself to reproduce his livery in the Diaclone toyline, and another to convert Sunstreaker from cartoon to Generation 1 toyline style.

Spinout was initially offered for pre-order as a TakaraTomy Mall online exclusive and a little later at other online retailers.

• Masterpiece Spin-Out bio translation at the TFwiki Community blog

Generations Selects

The Red Luigi to Tigertrack's Green Mario.

• Cordon & Autobot Spin-Out (2-pack, 2020)

• Series: War for Cybertron: Earthrise
• ID number: WFC-GS20
• Accessories: Rocket boosters/gun

A Generations Selects add-on to Earthrise, Spin-Out is a redeco of Sunstreaker, transforming from a robot into an unlicensed approximation of a Lamborghini Countach LP500S (most conspicuously missing the spoilers, but also having 5mm holes back there just in case). His engine block can be used as a pair of rocket boosters or as a gun.

Spin-Out's chest is actually darker translucent plastic painted red on top, and silver underneath. Due to the pegs on the chest underside being painted, it can be very difficult to slot in place for car mode. This can be resolved by lightly sanding the front portions of the pegs until the gap can be cleanly closed.

Though this mold shares much of its engineering and transformation scheme with Earthrise Wheeljack, it is not a retool of that mold.

He was only available in a two-pack with mold-mate Cordon. They share a single instruction sheet, which nonetheless shows both individual toys' transformations in full... and swaps their names around. Oops.

Merchandise

Jada Toys

• Transformers Series 2 18-pack (4cm Die Cast Figure Multipack, 2022)

Released by Jada Toys, Nano Metalfigs Series 2 Spin-Out is a redeco of Series 1 Sunstreaker, an incredibly small die-cast figurine molded doing an action pose. He has a little base attached to his feet for balancing reasons.

He comes in an impressive multipack with seventeen other figurines.

Notes

Narrowly avoided the name "DK-1 Streaker".
(pre-Spin-Out pictured left.)

• Spin-Out got his start in Japan in 1982 as the Diaclone "Countach LP500S Super Tuning", the first figure in the "Car Robots" portion of the toyline. As the first ever "real-world-thing" toy to transform into a humanoid robot, it is in a very real sense the design ancestor of pretty much everything this wiki features. The later Masterpiece bio would indicate that Spin-Out is indeed this same Diaclone mecha, but given life as a Transformer after having crossed over to the Generation 1 cartoon universe.
• Before the debut of Transformers, Takara released the Countach LP500S toy stateside in the short-lived Diakron line, using the same colors as the Japanese original. This mold was later released in yellow as Sunstreaker for the original Transformers toyline.
• Luke Thompson chose Spin-Out's name to homage the development history of the original Sunstreaker who, in the early days of the Transformers toyline, held it as a pre-production name^[4] (also spelled "Spinout").^[5] However, as an updated version of the red "No. 1 Countach LP500S", the modern Spin-Out looks more like what the original Sideswipe was meant to be, before the two Lamborghini brothers swapped molds. As initially planned, the Spinout/Sunstreaker figure would have bore more of a resemblance to Tigertrack.
• Separately, Spin-Out's coloration was also used in the 2005 IDW comics for some of the Machination's Sunstreaker clones.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Spinout (スピンアウト Supin'auto)

References

External links

• Blog posts by Plastic Missile and Kapow Toys about Diaclone "Red Sunstreaker"