Ratbat

Finally, the TFCon exclusive that we know, Don and I was waiting on G2 Protectobots.

But we have from Ocular Max, we have their Ratbat.

And what's this one called?

Ultio.

Ultio.

Ultio.

So Ratbat.

Which is a one-to-one cassette representation.

And he actually ends up benefiting from his next run-in with Trypticon in the Marvel comics.

In issue 27, King of the Hill, Ratbat, the fuel-obsessed Decepticon commander on Cybertron, yes, the little bat dude who lives inside Soundwave's chest, has decided to shut down the space bridge to save on, you guessed it, fuel.

Shockwave convinces him to use it one last time to send the deadliest Decepticon on Cybertron to attack the Ark on Earth.

And that's Trypticon.

Trypticon has a team of Autobots pinned down outside the Ark when Grimlock and the Dinobots decide to crash the party.

They don't quite defeat him, although Wipeout does get wiped out by Snarl.

But the brawl causes Trypticon to burn through so much fuel that Ratbat calls him off for going over budget.

So the space bridge opens up and Trypticon calmly walks off the battlefield mid-fight.

Lockdown in the foreground.

We got Blackarachnia, Ratbat, Sunstorm, Acid Storm, Thrust.

And-

Oh, there's Skyquake there, too

Okay.

So they're, they're doing the, the, the Soundwave thing all over again, where they gave Soundblaster Ratbat.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

But either that or you wait for, like, cassettes to hit AliExpress.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, 'cause, 'cause remember they did that with that Ratbat with Soundblaster, and there was a v-

That's what, that's literally what you just said.

There is definitely reason to think we'll get some of the more common ones, especially the ones that were in the movie series.

Ratbat did just get reissued relatively recently with the Target Perceptor exclusive pack, so I don't know that I expect to see Ratbat turn up again right away, but they can plumb six cassettes out of what they had to work with.

But yeah, there's... probably going to be some more esoteric choices in there than what we're used to seeing which i mean i'm cool all for it

they could they could do rat bat though because again with the autobot one it's rumored that ramhorn is in there again so okay i mean if the studio series is what gets me because i mean it really limits your options because like enemy was never in any animation that i know of but the mold exists Well,

Um, then there's a Studio Series 86 Decepticon cassette six-pack.

So that would probably be Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, and Ratbat.

So there you go, six, the six original cassettes.

Uh, and I think all of them showed up in the movie at some point except for Buzzsaw, so.