Character discussion: the Jumpstarters

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:38 pm

TwinSpin and TopTwist, or Salt Man X and Salt Man Y if you like that kind of thing. In the UK they were Wreckers, in the US they were entirely absent and in DW they were Wreckers for a bit and later became Magnus's crew (and possibly still Wreckers, I think it's mentioned in MTMTE). Their lack of Earth alt-modes will probably bar them from IDW at least for the time being. And of course in real life they are probably the most ubiquitous Transformers toys ever. I seemingly have hundreds of the buggers.

Thoughts? Observations? Marks out of ten?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:06 pm

I'd like to see them fleshed out a bit more. They just seemed to come as a pair and weren't that dissimilar character-wise.

Shame they both lost their heads in the end... literally.

I'm more a Roadbuster and Rack 'n' Ruin kinda guy. I want to read R&R's origin story!

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:37 pm

We never really got any proper character development did we? But in my mind they were always the Autobot equvelent (character wise) of Runabout and Runamuck........wiseass punks. And the Autobots needed that IMO

EmVee wrote:And of course in real life they are probably the most ubiquitous Transformers toys ever. I seemingly have hundreds of the buggers.

Y'know, I thought I was in a minority who actually liked the toys....I was the only person I knew who had them when I was a kid. I just assumed that would mean they were rarer now.......

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:24 pm

Well, they were treated mostly as background wreckers in Marvel. Heck, the only Wreckers to get decent character development were Impy and Springer.

I quite liked the gimmick on the toy as well. I didn't have one, but my cousins did. In those days there wasn't the stupdity in gimmicks that came later on.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:02 pm

i quite liked the toys, they were total bricks with a somewhat suspect 'gimmick' but they were niely detailed. if only they had _some/- articulation, they'd have been awesome. i guess the plus side of being bricks is that they were bloody hard to break, sure the springs went in both of mine, but they're actually intact... a rarity for many of my original G1s!

Comic wise, they didn't really get much character development, the wrecker issue of t:2006 gave them a bit, but after that, they didn't get a lot of page time, save as just being members of the wreckers... a shame really.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:24 pm

Funny, for you they are common, we in Middle Europe hardly ever see one.

Though, they remain the most commonly bootlegged TFs of all time. Some bootlegs are quite ingenious...

Character-wise, Topspin was an action-junkie punk, Twin Twist never really got any spotlight, except wasting Fang in the first Wrecker story.

They were done quite good in DW's G1 Vol.2., I give Mick the credit for that.