Toxitron is aDecepticon from theGeneration 1continuity family (via the 2003Universe series).

Let me tell you a story about a 'bot with a strange complexion
He killed a lot of 'bots and made a love connection
By day, he had a girl who baked him Energon breads
By night, he roamed the streets and ripped off robot's heads
This is the legend
He’s the legend
The legend of the Toxic Transformer

Long ago, theDecepticons attempted to turn a helpless test subject into the ultimate warrior. What theygot, however, wasToxitron, a monstrous abomination of science who wears the face of the heroicOptimus Prime. A twisted, mangled mockery of the Autobot leader, Toxitron would be more than a match for even the strongest Autobot... and that'swithout factoring in the noxious cocktail of corrosive slime that oozes from every seam in his armor. A walking vat of toxic sludge, this unusual mutation grants him tremendous strength, immense durability, the ability to heal away even the most grievous damage—and the power to fatally melt any Autobot who strays too close. The indiscriminate danger he poses to allies and enemies alike means that even the Decepticons are wary of authorizing his deployment on the battlefield, where he becomes a roaring, bellowing tornado of blightful chemical destruction.

Toxitron is all too aware that he is a failed experiment. He stumbles and bumbles his way through life, speaking only to offer violent threats or grim proclamations of doom and gloom, and is happiest in deadly wastelands like theRust Sea or theToxic Sludge Swamps. However, this bizarre, almost morbidly comical facade conceals a deep well of primal, volcanic anger. Used, abused, and cast aside by his creators, Toxitron has vowed messy, indiscriminate revenge on the "perfect" 'bots who've never suffered the way he has.

In those realities where Toxitron throws his lot in with theWreckers, he forms the torso ofWreckage. In this state, a system of internalforce fields prevent him from accidentally melting his fellowcombiner components.

Fiction

Kre-O online comic

"Goodbye, everyone!"

Toxitron was shocked whenJazz used blocks from theRed Bucket to build a giant Mega-Jazz robot and thus fled with the other Decepticons.Treasure Competition! Defeat with Block Power!

Shell Game

InViron 704.31 Epsilon,Megazarak arrived fromCybertron after the death ofMegatron and declared for leadership of thePredacon/Decepticon forces.Scourge challenged him, and Megazarak seemed to back down, only to poison his rival withTox-En. Megazarak then recycled Scourge's chassis to make Toxitron, who served Megazarak loyally if incompetently.Ask Vector Prime, 30 July 2015

Of Masters and Mayhem

Right in the robonads!

Loudpedal andOil Slick weretrying to create a combiner when instead they made a subject that constantly produced noxious, toxic acid and could heal most wounds. Like the bastards they were, they implanted astasis implant that would leave "Toxitron" paralysed and stewing in hate when they didn't want him used; this meant that when he was let off the leash, he would be many times morevicious. The icing on the cake was giving him Optimus Prime's face.

His first known attack was on the remnants of an Autobot force led bySpin-Out, where Toxitron was 'taken prisoner' and then wiped out the soldiers. His second was attacking a factory making theArk engines, where he used the transponder from Spin-Out's rotting head to sneak in and went on to throw down withJetfire. In each place he was used, he would especially loathe any Autobot whose armor was "too shiny".The Toxic Transformer At some point during all this, Shockwave or one of his subordinates used Toxitron to "grow" a Matrix shell, which later became part ofThunder Mayhem.Deadly Aim

The mad scientists got complacent and when the primary stasis implant melted, they assumed Toxitron was too conditioned to have realized it. Instead, the mutant was just waiting until a resupply ship arrived at the lab and then he broke free, butchered his tormentors in a very nasty way, and almost reached the ship to escape before the secondary implant kicked in. After that, the lab was abandoned. Toxitron stood immobile and alone until, afterThunder Mayhem had destroyed Cybertron, theWreckers came to recruit him for a revenge mission. He'd been tortured into being a monster and nowImpactor, who openly said he didn't care what Toxie had done as long as he helped fight, was offering him a chance to belong but only to a group of monsters. Toxitron found that bloody funny and agreed to join.The Toxic Transformer Unbeknownst to them, Toxitron was also swayed by the idea of being part of a team, though he wasn't about to let them know that.

After the team recruited two new members,Alpha Bravo andOffroad, Toxitron was recruited by Fractyl as a guinea-pig, hoping his resemblance to Optimus Prime would assist the scientist in an experimental mix of greenergon and a sample of Toxitron's fluids. Toxitron's animated ranting about Thunder Mayhem, and the cruelties of life, caused an accident in the lab.

Later on, after being knocked out with some assistance from Offroad, Toxitron had a special orb installed in him that would allow him to combine with others, along with an otherspecial device of Impactor's. Afterward, the Wrecker took the motley crew on a daytrip to a Mechcannibal hive. Toxitron, for his part, was overjoyed to see such hideous creatures... at least until they took an interest in the "spicy" mechanoid, proving immune to his deteriorating touch. Before he could be devoured, the team formed the mighty Wreckage for the first time. However, the mesh of psyches proved uncontrollable, and the creation was soon split apart.

After recovering, Toxitron stumbled upon Alpha Bravo, the Autobot having fatally wounded Offroad in an attempt to prevent Wreckage ever forming again. Angered at this, though also impressed by the consequences of the Autobot's actions, Toxitron promptly ran Alpha Bravo through with his sword. In the aftermath, Impactor indicated he'd devised a means of dealing with their combined form if the situation went too far. Outraged at being lied toagain, Toxitron went on a rampage through the ship.Deadly Aim

The Wreckers followed a signal back to Cybertron, where they met the Autobot gunner known asBluestreak. The chatterbox impressed Toxitron, both with his kill record and his penchant not to brag about it, especially after Thunder Mayhem. Bluestreak had met alien terraformers known as theTeklaans who offered to restore Cybertron, but betrayed him and placed him in captivity along with the Wreckers. They learned the rejuvenation effect was something of a slow invasion, designed to destroy the planet again within a generation, allowing the Teklaans to claim it according to their programming.

When the Wreckers broke out, Toxitron, Fractyl, and Counterpunch made their way to the planetary rejuvenation emitter in the Teklaan ship. They came up with an idea to absorb and contain the rejuvenation radiation within the crystalline lattice of Toxitron's Greenergon matrix, but it seemed like the energy would be more than Toxitron could handle. Impactor and Bluestreak arrived, having modified themselves for Combination, and it was decided Wreckage might be able to absorb more power than Toxitron alone. The Wreckers combiner was reformed and successfully stopped the terraforming process and destroyed the Teklaan ship. Wreckage also pointedly located and removed Impactor's failsafe device from within the portion of him that was Toxitron.Lively Pursuit

Toxitron and the Wreckers received a signal tracking Thunder Mayhem to the planetEarth. Toxitron used his sludge to ruin the pretty features of the Minion of Unicron known asRamjet (Thunder Mayhem's partner), unaware the dimensional hopper may have actually preferred his old, unstable physical condition.Pandora's Gift There they teamed up withOptimus Prime,Megatron, and the humans andMega Pretenders of another reality to battle Thunder Mayhem. The humanElizabeth used her power to channel Wreckage's energies and shatter theMatrix of Malice, forcing the evil combiner apart. Toxitron and the Wreckers took the Mayhem Attack Squad into custody following that exchange.Finale

Legacy marketing material

Toxitron and his radioactive warriors rose from theToxic Sludge Swamps to unleash mayhem on Cybertron.Toxitron marketing material^[1]

Toys

Universe (2003)

Melvin was a 98lb. weakling until nuclear waste transformed him into...

• Toxitron (Super Class,200?)

• Accessories: Presumably sword, gun, 5 discs, 10 small missiles, 2 large rockets

Universe Toxitron was to have been aredeco of theGeneration 2Laser Optimus Prime toy, with "pea soup" green, silver, and purple as colors. Toxitron was presumably canceled due to theUniverse line's flagging sales and relocation of many of its larger-priced items from normal retail to storeexclusives.

Toxitron was first shown (without photography) atBotCon 2005's "TF Rarities" panel byRik Alvarez, with people describing it as "amazingly ugly" and "f***ing awesome". Later, it was on display (photography allowed) at the "Things you've never seen before (and will never get)" booth at theHasbro tour atBotCon 2007.

Fun Publications discussed reviving this toy as aTransformers Collectors' Club exclusive. This was shot down by Hasbro due to the size of the toolset.^[2]

• Toxitron gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Combiner Wars

I woke to turnthis man to cinder
Circuits afire as I remember
Again I hear a promise spoken
My rage repairs what once was broken

• Wrecker Toxitron (TFSS 5.0, 2017)

• Accessories: Distortion Rifle,Agonizer Sword

Part of theFigure Subscription Service 5.0,Combiner Wars "Wrecker Toxitron" is aredeco ofCombiner Wars Voyager ClassMotormaster with the mold's previously unused alternate head. Meanwhile, the larger head for Combiner mode was spliced from theOptimus Prime tooling. Like allCombiner Wars-style Voyager Class figures, Toxitron can combine with any compatible Deluxe Class figures, although he is intended to form the torso ofWreckage. His two accessories can combine into a larger sword for his combined mode.

Toxitron uses the revised version of the hip joints. Despite the ratchet fix however, the other design failures of the original mold related to combining still remain. As an unadvertised feature,Blackjack (and any of his redecoes) can plug onto the pegs of Toxitron's gestalt chest, though the tension is weak.

He was released along withWrecker Counterpunch andShattered Glass Starscream.

Toxitron partly came about whenFun Publications scrapped tentative plans to do aCombiner WarsNemesis Prime toy because e-HOBBY did the similarUnite Warriors Grand Scourge. Thus Fun Publications' use ofCombiner WarsMotormaster's pretooled alternate head went to Toxitron instead.^[3] An alternative proposal for Toxitron would have been to retain the Menasor-style large head for a Combiner named "Toxo-Zombie" (concept sketch at right), a trademark recycled fromG.I. Joe.

Legacy

Oil and grime, poison sludge
Diesel clouds and noxious muck
Slime beneath me, slime up above
Ooh, you'll love my (ah-ah-ah) toxic love

• G2 Universe Toxitron (Leader Class,2023)

• Accessories: Energon axe, Energon sword, Matrix, blaster, trailer/battle station

The headliner of theLegacy: EvolutionToxitron Collection, "G2 Universe Toxitron" is aredeco ofLegacyLaser Optimus Prime, transforming into a mid-1990s Western Star 4964EX tanker truck in Toxitron's acid green and purple color scheme. In robot mode, he has a flip-up chest panel that reveals a removable clear-orange Matrix with a5 mm post hole on its back, plus his gigantic (sadly nigh-immobile) shoulder pylons have flip-up panels to reveal (non-firing) multi-missile launchers. His sword and axe accessories can combine into one gigantic weapon, and you can even slot the Matrix onto it to boot thanks to the 5 mm-long connector tab on the axe. The axe can also fold up to serve as a trailer-hitch cover in truck mode

His tanker trailer can convert into a battle station, complete with an adjustable front claw, and a twin-barreled turret which can be unpegged and used elsewhere. The base mode has a whopping eight 5 mm holes on its side panels and two on the tanker end that houses the claw, plus the spot where the twin gun normally goes, meaning you can load it up with guns.

He sports a Generation 2-style Decepticon symbol, to fit in with everyone else in the assortment, as they are all styled on unreleasedGeneration 2 toys... despite Toxitron not being fromGeneration 2. Oh well, we'll allow it as it makes the overall theming pretty awesome.

As the sword accessory is designed for this mold's open hands, it cannot be wielded by other figures with closed 5mm hands due to the protruding tab on the handle.

TheToxitron Collection was exclusive toWalmart in the US, withHasbro Pulse receiving limited quantities of the figure. Toxitron was one of only three toys in the series to go up for pre-order onMarch 16, 2023, all three shipped in mid-July. The rest of the assortment was put up for pre-order on Pulse onJuly 22, just as the toys started to eke out to brick-and-mortar Walmart stores; as of this writing, Walmart has yet to put the rest of the series up for online order.

This mold was also used to make fellow Walmart exclusiveVelocitron Speedia 500 CollectionRobots in Disguise 2000 Universe Scourge.

Notes

• Kre-O Toxitron is made from existing Kre-O parts, like all non-toy robot Kreons in the online Kre-O comics. In this case, he uses theOptimus Prime helmet with many additional details. His design contains a nod towards theAnimated version of the character, especially in the green detailing and the toxic sludge leaking from the mouth.
• The Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime implicitly gives Toxitron the same characterization as hisAnimated counterpart—that ofDC Comics'Bizarro.

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