Stormshot

Stormshot is an Autobot from the Robots in Disguise portion of the Aligned continuity family.

That is one patriotic jet.

Stormshot's domain is the sky. From the air, he can observe and track his Decepticon enemies and formulate a plan to take them out. He puts his sneak attacks into action with his twin blasters, or maybe even an airstrike.^[1]

Toys

Robots in Disguise (2015)

Leader-1 kitbash in 3...2...

• Stormshot (Warrior Class, 2016)

• Accessories: Pistol, rifle

Part of the ninth wave of the 2015 Robots in Disguise toyline's Warrior Class assortment (now sporting the "Combiner Force" subline branding), Stormshot transforms from a robot into a fighter jet of fictional origin, seemingly based loosely on the MiG-29 "Fulcrum".

The two blasters included are designed to combine together to form a larger weapon, with the smaller of the two pegging into the back of the larger one. Not documented in the instructions, the second peg hole on the smaller blaster is meant to allow for an alternate means of storage for the weapons in vehicle mode. Turning the larger blaster upside-down and plugging it into the bottom peg hole allows for the combined weapon to be plugged under the nosecone of the jet, with the handle of the smaller blaster serving as landing gear, complete with half a tire sculpted on the bottom of said handle.

This figure was later repurposed as Shattered Glass Darkwing.

Notes

• At HasCon 2017, Robots in Disguise Senior Designer Sean Carmine Isabella remarked that Stormshot came about because of his love of the Generation 1 Aerialbots. He wanted to give the line an Aerialbot-y character that was not just a transplant/redesign of an existing Aerialbot.
• Stormshot's early working name was Skyfire.^[2]

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