Autobot Mini-Cassette
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The Autobot Mini-Cassettes (also known as Recordabots) are Autobots who, on Earth, transform into analog audio cassettes. They can fit into Blaster's chest compartment, though their apparent relationship to Blaster varies depending on continuity.
Their counterparts amongst the Decepticons are the Decepticon Mini-Cassettes.
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Known Autobot Mini-Cassettes
Generation 1
- Eject
- Flip Sides
- Grand Slam and Raindance combine to form Slamdance
- Nightstalker
- Playback The Big Shutdown!
- Ramhorn
- Rewind
- Rosanna
- Stripes
- Steeljaw
- Sundor
- The W Cassettebots
- Possibly Blackcat (A character based on Ravage) Transformers Comic-Magazin #18
Shattered Glass
Live-action film series
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Transformers cartoon
During the attack on Autobot City, Blaster attempted to radio Prime for reinforcements on Moonbase One. Megatron detected the transmission and ordered Soundwave to send his Cassettes to prevent the broadcast. Once Rumble and the others breached the communications tower, Blaster ejected Ramhorn, Steeljaw, Rewind and Eject to match the Decepticon punks mano a mano. The Transformers: The Movie
After Perceptor detected chronal energy emanating from an asteroid near Cybertron, Rodimus Prime sent a squad of Autobots with him to investigate, including Blaster with Ramhorn and Rewind. They encountered a Quintesson expedition and a school of Sharkticons, which Ramhorn relished in ramming repeatedly. During the fight, however, the Autobots accidentally passed through the Quintessons' Time Window, arriving 11 million years in the past. They met Beta, and took up arms in the original Cybertronian revolution against the Quintessons. They held the line against the Dark Guardians long enough for the Autobots of 2006 to return the revolution's leader A-3 from the future. As A-3 turned the Coder Remote on the Guardians, the Autobots returned to the present through the time window. Forever Is a Long Time Coming
Madman's Paradise The Quintesson Journal
During a Decepticon outbreak in Europe, Ramhorn and Steeljaw fought alongside Ultra Magnus and the other Autobots against Galvatron's forces. The Ultimate Weapon Ramhorn and Steeljaw were among the Primitives called to stop Primacron's latest experiment. Call of the Primitives
Scramble City
The Headmasters cartoon
The Mystery of Planet Master
The Great Cassette Operation
Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1
The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts
Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears
Head Formation of Friendship
The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an IcebergMiraculous Warriors, _targetmasters (Part 1)
The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
Hundreds of years ago, a troop of Autobot astronomers on Cybertron detected the legendary Underbase making its way towards Earth. In order to alert their Autobot colleagues on that world, they encoded the information onto Raindance and Grand Slam. On their way to Earth, their ship was damaged and the two Autobots crashed into the sea. They were found locked in their cassette modes by a band of 18th century pirates, who stashed them away in a treasure chest just before a storm destroyed their ship, sinking it in the ocean.
In the present era, Decepticon Imperial Headquarters stumbled across this long-lost information and commanded Ratbat's Decepticons on Earth to find the lost tapes. They moved their disguised desert island starship to the rough coordinates of the shipwreck and opened a Club Con vacation resort for fleshlings to disguise their true purposes there. The Seacons successfully retrieved Raindance and Grand Slam from the treasure chest, despite a brief altercation with Blaster. Club Con! Ratbat and his communications expert Soundwave were able to learn from the cassettes that the Underbase was set to pass by Earth in less than a week's time. The Flames of Boltax! Their fate after that is unknown.
Playback was a prisoner of the Decepticons on Cybertron. Along with Hosehead and Horsepower, he was released into the wild on Earth to be hunted down by Thunderwing as part of his initiation as a new Decepticon leader. He was the first of the trio Thunderwing tracked down and executed, leaving his corpse to rust on a shallow beach. The Big Shutdown!
Marvel UK future timelines
By 2008, Eject was stationed at Autobase on Cybertron, working communications for Ultra Magnus.
Meanwhile, on Earth, the Quintessons invaded Autobot City, devastating most of the base's population. Rewind, Steeljaw, and Ramhorn were stationed there, but got trapped inside Blaster's chest when he was blasted off-line and hung on the ramparts. A quick-thinking Hot Rod realized where they'd be and managed to free them. The Mini-Cassettes joined Hot Rod and Arcee in retaking Autobot City from the Quints. Space Pirates!
Marvel Generation 2 comic
Steeljaw was part of a squad of Autobots dispatched to Earth when Optimus Prime learned Megatron was still alive and active. He was killed in battle by Megatron's hyper-velocity rail gun, a deadly weapon created by Cobra. Final Transformations
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
During the Age of Internment, Blaster and his Mini-Cassettes were allied with Perceptor and the remaining free Autobots against Megatron. Their twin goals were to bring down the legions of the Aerospace Extermination Squadron, and somehow locate the long-missing Optimus Prime. The Age of Wrath Pt.2
Millions of years later, the Mini-Cassettes joined Blaster as part of another rebellion, this time against Shockwave and the corrupt Unified Cybertronian government. Countdown to Extinction
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers
Black Horizon Part 1 Black Horizon Part 2
Fun Publications Shattered Glass continuity
Steeljaw's Shattered Glass profile
Steeljaw was so vigorously dedicated to his napping that he couldn't spare the energy to swat away the annoying Decepticon, Ravage. Recordicons #1 Steeljaw once asked Ravage why he thought they were friends. Ravage apparently misunderstood an old saying after hearing Steeljaw eviscerated Enemy. Recordicons #4
IDW Shattered Glass continuity
Toys
The Transformers Eject/Rewind mold
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The Transformers Steeljaw mold
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| The Transformers Ramhorn mold |  |
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| War for Cybertron: Kingdom Eject mold |  |
Studio Series '86 Steeljaw mold
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