Sunstorm

Status: Released

Release Date: March 2009 (March 2009)

Wave: Target Exclusive Voyager/Activators Assortment

MSRP: $24.99

Size Class: Voyager

Suggested Age: 5+

Assortment Number: 92267

Product Number: 92268

DPCI Number: 087-06-0105

Recolors/Reuses: Animated Voyager Starscream , Animated Voyager Skywarp , Animated Voyager Thundercracker

Additional Toy Info: The Sunstorm/Activators Autobot Ratchet two-pack is a Target exclusive in the United States.

Voice Actor: Tom Kenny

Cartoon Overview
The yellow-orange Starscream clone is an unashamed suck-up. He sucks up to everyone, for example, on rescuing the Liar, he tells him what an honor it has been to rescue him.

He carries on in this strange way during the battle at Megatron's base, one moment blasting an enemy, the next sucking up to his next target. He even tried that trick on Omega Supreme, only to get smacked out of the way.

He next turned up in "Five Servos of Doom", where he was captured by (Lockdown on behalf of) Sentinel Prime. Along with the other Decepticon prisoners, he was shipped off to Cybertron at the end of "Predacons Rising".

The Suck-Up / Sunstorm was next seen in "Decepticon Air" where he escaped from the brig of the Elite Guard flagship when Swindle came back online. Swindle would go on to provide a new helmet to Sunstorm, since he could not tell clones apart.

Sunstorm would carry on and fight in the battle that followed when Optimus Prime came to the rescue, eventually getting caught up in a dogfight with Jetfire & Jetstorm in space outside the Elite Guard ship. Along with the Liar Clone / Ramjet and Blitzwing, he was frozen solid when Optimus and Jazz's plan to reconfigure the decontamination chamber to freeze everything outside the chamber paid off. He was later paraded through the streets of Cybertron as a part of Sentinel Prime's inauguration.

Powers and abilities

Like Starscream, his clones all possess incredible speed and firepower, enough to put even Megatron off balance. However, the incomplete personalities of most of the clones mean that they are generally less effective than Starscream (if even more entertaining to watch).

Notes
The Suck-Up is extremely proud to have been given the same color scheme as Sunstorm, a background character from the Generation 1 cartoon later released as a repaint of Generation 1 Starscream by E Hobby (and subsequently, many more repaints of Starscream).

Since I wrote that, a toy of the Suck-Up clone was made, and given the name Sunstorm! - Sol

Contributors: Sol Fury, Tim Formas, wasp819, silentrob, S250

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