Snipe

Snipe was to have been an Autobot from the Block Town portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

RADAR and POOPIE SUIT together at last.

Snipe (スナイプ Sunaipu) is an Autobot who uses radar...and that is all we know.

Toys

Block Town

• Radar Set (Block Town, 1996)
  • ID number: TFBT-1
  • Accessories: Radar array/rifle, radar brick set

The European-original Afterburner mold was one of several intended to be used in the post-G-2 Takara Block Town line, as an Autobot. To be redecoed in light blue with black, Snipe was to come with the "Radar Set", a building-block radar tower that could be rebuilt into a battle station of some form. Snipe would have been gang-molded with "Sky Tornado" as Afterburner and Windrazor were. However, this set ultimately never came to release.

In 2005, a supposed Takara "release" schedule listed the Block Town sets among several other future items coming out. Only the Galaxy Force items on that list saw release, however (and some only as store exclusives to boot).

Given that Afterburner's Japanese name was revealed on a BotCon Japan 1997-exclusive poster to be "Snipe"—a poster that also showed Windbreaker's Japanese name as being "Carzap", which was what the Block Town Windbreaker redeco showed up as in the Transformers Generations guidebook—it's likely that the Block Town Afterburner was going to be named "Snipe" as well. The whole "Autobot" thing makes the issue somewhat hazy, though.

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