Roadfire

Roadfire is an Autobot Powered Master from the Zone portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Roadfire (ロードファイヤー Rōdofaiyā) is usually what one would call a "gentle giant". Despite his enormous size, strength and skill, he remains friendly and good-natured to all around him. Until the fighting starts. Once battle breaks out, so does a much more hardened Roadfire, willing to go all-out to defeat any enemy and fight to the bitter end. His special attack is the blazing Fire Kick, a leg-based inferno that can topple even the most gargantuan of foes.

Roadfire can combine with Dai Atlas to form Land Powered or with Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber to form Big Powered. His Micromaster partner is Drillbuster.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Zone story pages

YOUR HEAD ASPLODE

When Metrotitan attacked the Lunar Zone Base on Earth's moon with his Freeze Beam Gun, Roadfire appeared from nowhere and used his "Fire Kick" to negate the freezing effect and turn back the Decepticon warrior. Roadfire was then gleefully met by Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber. Zone Part 9

When Violengiguar later attacked the Earth in person, Roadfire and the other Powered Masters proved unable to stop him from absconding with both the Zodiac and the Galaxy Rocket (with Cain, Akira, Emusa, and Moonradar inside). Roadfire then combined with his fellow Powered Masters into Big Powered and gave chase. Zone Part 10 They pursued Violengiguar back to his base, the Tenth Planet, where the villain split apart into his three separate forms, Vion, Lenger, and Iguarn, for a final confrontation on the planet's surface. Roadfire was able to take down Lenger, while Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber destroyed the other two. Zone Part 11

Violengiguar was not through yet, however, revealing his final form: a hideous phoenix-like monster. Roadfire and the Powered Masters combined into Big Powered and, with the Zodiac multiplying their strength by thirty, destroyed Violengiguar for good with the "Powered Rainbow Attack". The Zodiac then reformatted the formerly desolate Tenth Planet into a lush and beautiful world where humans and robots could live in harmony. Zone Part 12

Legends comic

Four million years ago, Megatron created Dai Atlas, Sonic Bomber and Roadfire as the Poweredrons. Implanted with specially-engineered Powered Engines, they were designed as space pioneers, traveling to distant corners of the galaxy to engineer energon-producing colony worlds for the Decepticon cause. When the Poweredrons learned the energon they cultivated was being used to harm innocent life, they rebelled against Megatron. The Poweredrons evacuated much of the civilian population of Cybertron to a new colony, Paradron, which they hadn't informed Megatron about yet. Rechristening themselves the Powered Masters, the trio switched sides and joined the Autobots. Dai Atlas Chapter

In 2035, the Powered Masters returned to the Tenth Planet and were ambushed by Violengiguar. The spirit entity decapitated the Powered Masters and claimed their bodies as its own. Separating into his three aspects again, Iguarn possessed the body of Roadfire. The evil Powered Masters tried to take the Zodiac from Optimus Prime. However, Roadfire and his comrades lived on in new Headmaster bodies. Wheeljack and Perceptor used the resurrection power of Tenth Planet combined with their knowledge of the Cybertronian spark to bring back the trio. Roadfire and his friends found themselves outmatched against their old bodies because the Violengiguar Powered Masters still had access to their original Powered Engines, which the Headmaster version of the trio lacked. Still, two new Powered Masters named Topspin and Twin Twist arrived and used their Powered Engines to combine with Dai Atlas, allowing him to shut down Vion's attempt to wield the Zodiac. With the Zodiac temporarily depleted, Violengiguar fled to replenish it on planet Micro. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2

The Big Powered Combination flew to Micro to support the local Autobots against the Powered Master doppelgangers. Roadfire wielded the Micron Groundshaker, who had been given a powerful weapon mode thanks to plasma energy. Zone was threatened, however, by the arrival of Violengiguar's creator, the mysterious Unicron Neo. LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One The Powered Masters recognized that Unicron Neo was actually the Vok-based entity known as Dark Nova. They used the Big Powered Combination to fight against his empowered Decepticon soldiers, Dreadwing and Smokescreen. Dark Nova forcibly merged with Megatron again, however, becoming the Star Giant. LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part Two

With the Powered Engines still in the possession of Violengiguar, Roadfire vowed to get them back where they belonged. He and Topspin merged into a Wing Powered Combination while Dai Atlas and Twin Twist became the Drill Powered Combination. Together, their firepower destroyed Lenger in the Sonic Bomber frame. In base mode, Roadfire then drew upon the Zodiac energy in the atmosphere and transformed, using the accumulated power in his Z Powered Hammer to crush his doppelganger, driving Iguarn out of his old body. Roadfire retrieved the two Powered Engines from his fallen foes. Roadfire Chapter

Using the Big Powered Combination, the Powered Masters eliminated Vion, last of the Violengiguar doppelgangers, and reclaimed the final Powered Engine. Dai Atlas's hatred of Megatron was such that he would not hold back against the Star Giant, despite hearing that Megatron had changed. He even decapitated Topspin and Twin Twist when they tried to object, taking their bodies and Powered Engines to combine with Sonic Bomber and Roadfire, forming the Ultra Powered Combination. The Powered Masters destroyed the Star Giant, only realizing at the last moment that Megatron was internally holding Dark Nova back, preventing him from striking them. Dai Atlas Chapter Using their Powered Engines, the Zodiac, and many other resources, the Powered Masters restored the Legends World where Megatron had once found peace. Epiloge

Generations Selects Special Comic

In 2050, The Powered Masters reassembled all the fragments of the Zodiac, and were surprised when it was shaped in the familiar design of a Silver Matrix. Before they could ponder this further, they were attacked by Primus and his Golden Age from the Precursor World, who sought the Silver Matrix for their own ends. Abominus comic 2

Wings Universe

Roadfire was the leader of the Elite Guard Recon Team, and had to put up with Delta-Seeker trying to get transferred to the Stealth Team instead. He and his team were assigned to try and track down leads on the missing Combaticons. A Team Effort Roadfire was part of the Elite Guard forces defending headquarters against Bruticus, and fell before the Combiner's onslaught. The Coming Storm: Part 6

2019 IDW continuity

Roadfire, Sonic Bomber, and Dai Atlas intervened in the conflict between the Thraal and A'ovan on the third moon of Na'conda. The A'ovan refugees who relocated to Cybertron would go on to hold these "Three Saviors" in high regard. Escape Part One

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

You'll never own me.

• Roadfire (Powered Master, 1990)

• ID number: C-349
• Accessories: "Burst cannon", container/launcher
• Known designers: Motoki Takaya (TakaraTomy)

The final toy release in the Zone line, Roadfire transforms into a Cybertronic tank. His front-end "container" is a launching mechanism for Micromasters, opening wide on a spring then pushing them out via spring-loaded ramp. He has a partial auto-transform, a geared pressure-release mechanism that moves his thrusters/legs up to form his third "tower" mode, and from there it's a quick conversion to robot. He can combine with fellow Powered Masters Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber as a triple-base, or as the rear section of the Big Powered super-vehicle. He is also compatible with Micromaster base-ramps.

Roadfire was seemingly a late addition to the line not just in release but in development as well; the first image of him in the Zone catalogue is actually concept art that was significantly different from the final product. Since he was the last toy of Zone, a line put out at a time when interest in Transformers was severely waning in Japan, Roadfire is considerably harder to come across than Dai Atlas or Sonic Bomber, and commands a fair bit more on the secondary market than those two.

He came with his Micromaster partner Drillbuster.

• More information on Roadfire at TFU.info

You'll NEVER own this.

• Big Powered (Multi-pack, 1990)

• ID number: C-353
• Accessories: "Burst cannon", container/launcher

All three Powered Masters were also available in a huge giftset. The toys within are identical to their individual releases.

This set is particularly expensive on the secondary market today, being pretty late-run (thanks to Roadfire's late release) at a time when Transformers had already seriously started to wane in sales and popularity.

Legends

MAYBE you'll own this.

• Big Powered (Multi-pack, 2019)

• ID number: LG-EX
• Release date: March 30, 2019
• Accessories: Turret-cannon, Headmaster unit
• Known designers: Hisashi Yuki (TakaraTomy)

Legends Roadfire is a hefty retooling of Titans Return Twin Twist, with a new chestplate, kneecaps, and back-assembly-cockpit-thing, transforming into a Cybertronian tank. His robot-mode head separates into a small Headmaster robot, retooled from Twin Twist's Titan Master Flameout, with a new head-mode face and robot-mode head. His large blue turret-cannon (which completes his alternate mode) has an opening canopy to house his Headmaster component in vehicle mode, or any other little bot you feel like stufffing in there.

Roadfire can also transform into a "base" mode kinda-sorta-vaguely evocative of the original Roadfire toy's base mode, plus he can combine with Legends Sonic Bomber and Dai Atlas to form the Big Powered mega-vehicle.

He was available only in a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive "Big Powered" multi-pack with his fellow Powered Masters.

Naturally, he shares parts with Titans Return Topspin and Freezeout.

Merchandise

Transformers Gum

• Roadfire (2012)
  • Accessories: Cannon, Z Powered Cutter, Speeder

Released as part of the 6th wave of Kabaya's 2009 series of standard model kits, Roadfire is a snap-together model kit that can transform into a Cybertronian Tank. Like the full-sized Roadfire, this model kit can assume a battle station mode. Roadfire includes the Z Powered Cutter weapon and a tiny non-transforming car mode Speeder which are intended for the concurrently released Dai Atlas kit. Roadfire can combine with his fellow Powered Master Kabaya kits to form Big Powered.

Like most other Kabaya model kits, Roadfire has no paint applications and relies on stickers for added details. It also includes a substance that could be charitably referred to as gum.

• Big Powered (2016)

The Dai Atlas, Sonic Bomber, and Roadfire kits were re-released as a bundle under the DX Gattai label in 2016. They feature changes to plastic color compared to their initial separate releases, and foil stickers.

As with other DX Gattai toys featuring box art in homage to their original figures, God Ginrai's packaging mimics that of the original 1990 Big Powered gift set.