by Bumblevivisector » Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:04 pm
My current top three are supposed to be a gestalt team, as I based them on those Big Lots KOs of the Max Team from the Braves before I had any idea who they were copies of. I did know that the jet and tank seemed to be extensive remolds of LeoZack and KillBison, so I called their trio the CoreMasters and gave them awkward compound names based on their chest weapon gimmick, and personalities based on their appearances.
STRIKE-EAGLE: CoreMaster leader (second in command on team behind Storm Front) Philosopher-Swordsman with disturbed view of cosmos; subconsciously senses that they're all just toys, and that the reason the three of them can't combine in HMW is that their manufacturer was too cheap to throw instructions on their packaging.
FLASH-TURBINE: Looks like an Autobot, specifically Getaway, who always looked to me like a descendant of Wheeljack, which is reinforced by the Marlboro sticker on his windshield. I based the rest of his personality off of this, concluding that he got kicked out of the Autobots for being an irresponsible, happy-go-lucky nutcase who doesn't give a crap about anything.
KILL-VULCAN: The toy I found has a red paint defect that makes it look like someone ran up and kicked him in the face so hard it cracked his visor and broke his nose, spraying blood all over. I know that doesn't make sense for a TF, but that is what it looks like, and thus the basis for his personality.
Their Gestalt would be called STRATA-KAISER, since they're arranged from top to bottom as air, land, and underground. The name also implies that he has the power to stabilize the integrity of planets seriously damaged by the likes of Unicron, Galactus, or the Cybertronian Empire, in order to assign an impressive function to his goofy composite melee weapon. Since Storm Front hails from that last group, it may explain how they met, I haven't decided.
