Hightail (Cybertron)

Hightail is an Autobot from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy.

Hightail cares little for orders or missions or Decepticons. Or other Autobots, for that matter. Though he is by faction an Autobot, he's utterly disinterested in fighting a war. He'd much rather spend his life cruising the roads of whatever world he happens to be on at the time.

He's hardly a pacifist, since he'll fight when threatened and is frankly kind of a jerk whenever Autobot command tries to give him assignments. He's just very bull-headed and independent.

Fiction

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After the Omega Lock was retrieved and Galvatron finally defeated, Hightail requested he stay on Earth rather than join an exploration team on one of the four world-ships. He got his wish, but with a mission attached: He and Signal Lancer were to team up and map every road on the planet. They're making good time.

Toys

Cybertron

The Boneman.

• Hightail (Scout Class, 2006)

• Accessories: Blaster rifle/exhaust pipe, Earth Cyber Key
• Cyber Key Code: s7n5
• Known designers: Marcelo Matere (packaging artist)

Part of the tenth and final wave of Cybertron Scouts, Hightail is a redeco of the Decepticon Lugnutz, transforming into a motorcycle resembling a Harley-Davidson touring bike. Plugging a Cyber Key into his left saddlebag in either mode flips up a portion of his right tailpipe to reveal a (non-firing) blaster and missile rack from his right saddlebag. His left tailpipe assembly becomes a rifle. The motorcycle features a peg on the left rear of the vehicle that serves no known purpose. While undocumented, the pipe assembly on his left leg is removable, so... enjoy that.

Hightail's license plate ("B-CAT 1" from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) and coloration are references to the University of Cincinnati's Bearcats, included as a tip of the hat by (and/or for) Hasbro Transformers staff who used to work at Hasbro's now-closed Ohio offices.

This mold would also have been used to make 2007 movie toyline Backtrack, but that release was canceled.

• More information on Hightail at TFU.info

Notes

• When the toy was first revealed, many fans anticipated that it was a toy-version of the motorcycle refugee seen in the Cybertron cartoon. This was not meant to be, though.