#brushguard

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, has there ever been a group of Cybertronians who have taken the alt modes of agricultural equipment? If so, can you please tell me more about them? Thank you very much.

Dear Farmer Friendly,

Certain versions of Cybertron, particularly during peacetime, are home to the Agricultural Guild. This organization oversees the farming and cultivation of fuel sources such as energon crystals, and as such many of their members take on the form of farming machinery. In one reality, an energon farmer named Megatron bristled against the Agricultural Guild, who enforced what he saw as archaic inefficiencies while refusing to offer any support to the lunar colonies. In another, the Guild was led by Brushguard, a talented but arrogant agriscientist; though Alpha Trion, head of the Guilds Domesticus, valued his advice, Supreme Commander Ultra Magnus never entirely trusted him, believing that his ambition might lead him to turn against the Autobots some cycle.

I assume, however, that you are asking about Cybertronians who have taken part in the Great War. Farming equipment is, I admit, much rarer amongst the Autobot and Decepticon armies; lacking either obvious military function or the practicality of common road vehicles as disguise, most farmers choose to undergo reformatting into a different alternate mode once they join up as soldiers.

The one major exception I can think of is the Decepticon Thresh. A hulking brute of a soldier, Thresh scanned a combine harvester upon arrival to Earth, and stubbornly refused to reformat away from it—he found it too much fun to menace humans, chasing them down as they tried desperately to escape his whirling blades. This bullheaded attitude eventually paid off for Thresh, as he was tasked with sabotaging Earth's defenders by destroying their farms and other sources of food. To aid him in this task, he was assigned the Agricons, a quartet of drones that transformed into agricultural machinery: a Tractor Drone, Grain Truck Drone, Loader Drone and Baler Drone, the last of which could be towed by the Tractor Drone. Thresh himself was also upgraded with Power Core Combiner technology, allowing him to combine with his drones to form a super mode, letting him take his love of destruction to a new level.

[seraphlovesratchet]

Purrr request we have more cats!

We have fluffguard (brushguard) and Tarn (no cat pun for him)

I have another one of Chet and its…not good…but I am leaning to draw cats so its ok!

I'll hopefully be drawing more to add to my collection tomorrow 🩵

[nekkyousagiart]

2nd round finished!!!!

[bmogtoys]

That Saturday morning feeling without the sugar crash! Various Print-to-Order Accessories Compatible with Transformers Figures and others (5mm/3mm accessories/kits) and a host of figurines and small scaled action figures.

New Items on the Shapeways Store:

Cybertron Overhaul and Brushguard heads for Titans Return Brawn/Power of the Primes Outback, also available as Titans Returns/Power of the Primes Titan Master/Prime Master faceplates.

5mm Overhaul/Brushguard claws for Brawn/Outback.

Testing 5mm-peg Cyber Planet Keys with the lost colony Combatron/Apocalypse Planet Key

Combiner Rifle - A 4″ long rifle with multiple 5mm ports (two on each side, one on the top and bottom, and the barrel-tip) designed to give Transformers Combiners appropriately-scaled weapons that can combine with the individual members’ guns. 

And for the gamer-types, a Law/Chaos Coin, designed to work as a d2 or as an advantage/disadvantage marker for characters with a law or chaos alignment. About the size of a quarter, but thicker, and available in real metal!

[autoacafiles]

[speedfreak01]

so @sg-roadbuster set me a digibash challenge- to do up a star seeker-themed titans return boxset. i set him the same challenge, so it’ll be interesting to see how our sets differ

 with this set, i thought i’d shake things up a bit- rather than just borrow from one iteration of the star seekers, i’d mix and match from them all, and use some wacky obscure decos too. along with cannonball, we have brushguard (from cannonball’s crew on the kalis’ lament), star dasher (from beast wars uprising’s version of the crew), sandstorm (who combines two different sandstorms and is from the aligned version of the crew) and the hunter (who is from the wings universe version of the crew)

LET’S SEE WHAT YOU GOT WALTER

[askvectorprime]

Can you tell us about the Malgus Brushguard?

Dear Animated Agrarian,

Brushguard came online for the first time not long after the Great War. Where his cousin Overhaul was content to find a reliable job in the Transportation Guild, Brushguard felt he was destined for better things; he enrolled in the Cybertron Science Academy, where he quickly found a passion for the study of mechano-botany and Cybertronian geology. His research led him to a position in the Agricultural Guild, where he swiftly rose through the ranks, but Brushguard found the work much less glamorous than he had expected; much of his time was spent listening to the complaints of "yokel farmers" like Trac-Tor, something that Brushguard felt was beneath him.

Frustrated, Brushguard turned his talents to developing new botanical specimens with unique properties, which he presented to Ultra Magnus as part of a pitch for a new program of experimental weapons—but when Ultra Magnus refused to sign off on funding their development, Brushguard was left furious and disillusioned. Over the following orbital cycle, he could be heard complaining that the Autobots didn't recognise true genius, and suggesting he might take his talents to somewhere that would… and though I wouldn't care to speculate, the creeper bombs that Straxus deployed against dissidents on Lucifer only a few stellar cycles later did bear a close resemblance to the prototypes that Brushguard had created.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, is Rung a Minicon in the Aurex cluster?

Dear Rung Responder,

Rung is indeed a Mini-Con in some such universes, and a member of the Urban Intervention Mini-Con Team along with his teammates Tire, the utility vehicle, and Shunt, the payloader. Depending on the universe, Rung is sometimes called Hightower—in either case, taking his name from the ladder of the miniature tiller truck that he transformed into—with Tire and Shunt going by Brushguard and Sledge respectively.

Rung was known for his sensitivity and insight into the psyche of other bots, which contrasted with Shunt's bold offense and Tire’s protective nature. Mini-Cons of other teams would often seek him out for personal advice, especially when it came to the issue of being bonded to a Decepticon through a servility program. In fact, one of his most famous "patients" was Barrel, after the Mini-Con’s association with Megatron ended.