Dear Vector Prime, Have you ever encountered a version of the Build Team - Wedge, Hightower, Grimlock, and Heavy Load - that also included Quickmix and Scoop?
The multiverse is infinite; if you can think of a collection of names, I can guarantee that there is a period in some reality where they fought alongside or against each other. However, I believe I understand which version of the Build Team you are referring to.
In their reality, the Autobots made two key victories early in their battle with the Predacons: the rescue of Dr. Onishi, and the recovery of an additional two Autobot protoforms. Dr. Onishi volunteered his expertise in their birth, creating the twins, Quickmix and Scoop. Equipped with a powerful Cement Shot and Payload Pulveriser respectively, their marksmanship was matched only by their immaturity. Between them, the pair developed a dangerous superiority complex. The team’s young leader, Wedge, was forced to take on the pair in a one-on-two duel for command of the Build Team. Encouraged by his original teammates, he won the day, and X-Landfill ultimately became a true rival to Ruination. In certain other versions of this conflict, the twins were named Build Whirlpool and Build Dustdevil, and formed new weapons for Super Build King; Dr. Onishi later used what he learned during their construction while developing the Trainbots.
I do know of another universe where this team almost came to be, only for—as was so often the case in that timeline—things to end in tragedy. In that world, the Constructobots were re-engineered to be able to combine—but before the process could be completed, the Autobot base they were stationed at came under assault from Thunder Mayhem, who surely recognised the nascent potential for a worthy foe in the Constructobots. Scoop and Quickmix were midway through the procedure, and were felled quickly, but the members who had already been retrofitted were able to hold out longer, attempting to form that world's incarnation of Landfill by themselves.
Unfortunately, without the stability of the full team to hold their psyche together, a second monster was born that day: the Build Thing, an amorphous mass of construction vehicle parts and claws and teeth, scrambling only for survival—and, in the end, failing even that. It was a truly terrible sight, but one that I am happy to say is far-removed from most iterations of the Build Team across the multiverse.
