Tackle
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- Tackle is an Autobot from the Victory portion of Generation 1 continuity family.
Tackle (タックル Takkuru), Multiforce's "Warrior of the Earth", lives up to his title. A rugged outdoorsbot, Tackle is the team's survivalist, taking on the elements with a smile. He loves the wilds of Earth and takes every opportunity to explore them, climbing the mountains and traveling the deserts. He's even taken up fishing as a hobby. He can also turn the environment against his foes, channeling energy into earthquake-like attacks.
Though he's often alone in the wild, he shares a very close bond with his teammate Mach, who often finds himself alone in orbit above the planet. Despite the vast distances, the two still coordinate to bring down their foes, and spend most of their time together combined into Machtackle.
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Fiction
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Victory cartoon
- Voice actor: Shinobu Satouchi (Japanese), John Culkin (English, Omni Productions dub)
Tackle defeated the Breastforce member Killbison without having to fire a single shot by making him so dizzy the Decepticon simply collapsed. Considering the usual combat effectiveness of the Breastforce members, this is an accomplishment on par with Davidbot versus Goliathtron. Later he trounced Jallguar, teaching him how to impersonate an ostrich. Pretty impressive work for a pair of pants. Mach and Tackle
Micromaster
While testing out stealth technology, Tackle and the rest of the Multiforce stumbled through a dimensional rift that brought them years into the past. There, Micromasters battled over Mount St. Hillary, where Optimus Prime, Megatron, and their troops slumbered within the Ark. Before Wing could introduce him to the local Autobots, the Multiforce had to head out to meet a Decepticon threat. He combined with Mach to form Machtackle and helped taking on the Decepticon Sixbuilders. Tackle then combined with the rest of the Multiforce into Landcross to send Berserker Sixwing packing. The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!
Ask Vector Prime
The Multiforce followed the normal flow of time to return to their native period, making sure to not interfere with events they knew had to transpire. To this end, they avoided the other Transformers and explored the Skomiloch Territories and clashed with the Predators. Their journey enabled them to be able to stop the Praetorian from using the corrupted Reconfiguration Matrix to rewrite all robotic life in the Vega Sector into loyal Scrapmetal. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/01
Victory comic
The Multiforce was summoned to Earth by Star Saber and battled Dinoking as Landcross. After defeating Dinoking, Landcross separated in order to swarm Deathsaurus with superior numbers. So Cool! Our Ally, Star Saber!
After having lost a battle to Deathsaurus as Landcross, and being subsequently rescued by Star Saber, Tackle helped rescue the animals hurt by the forest fire caused by the Decepticon Emperor. Great Reversal! Star Saber
Tackle once enjoyed a communal bath with the other Autobots. Star Saber, Warrior of Love!
Tackle also fought against the Decepticons inside their space base as it was raining down meteors onto the Earth. The war ended peacefully with a truce between both factions. The Grand Victory War
Toys
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
- Machtackle (Multiforce, 1989)
- ID number: C-318
- Accessories: "Multi-Tackle Gun", Landcross footplate
- Known designers: Kōjin Ōno (TakaraTomy)
- Sold in a two-pack with his partner Mach in the Victory portion of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, Tackle transforms into a pickup truck of indeterminate model with a camper bed-attachment. In vehicle mode, he can mount Landcross's footplate on his roof as a double-cannon.
- He can also transform into either the upper or lower half of a two-robot combiner, though his nominal combination is with his pack-in partner Mach , forming the bottom half of Machtackle.
- He can also also form any limb to Landcross, with his default placement as the left leg. If used as a leg, Tacker needs to be used as the other leg, otherwise the two legs will be very different lengths. In theory he can also form part of the super robot torso (as the entire team shares the same general engineering and transformation scheme), but he lacks the proper connections to attach limb-bots or super robot armor.
- In 1995, the three Multiforce two-packs were released in mainland China as part of the severely-delayed Hasbro-distributed Chinese Transformers toyline. They came in slightly-modified versions of their original packaging, with the characters' names now written in Chinese, and the Japanese Transformers logo replaced with a similarly styled Chinese language logo saying "Battles of Victory" (胜利之斗争). They toys themselves are also slightly modified, with their molded-on legal/manufacturing information blotted out and modified to remove Takara's name.
- Landcross (Gift set, 1989)
- ID number: C-319
- Accessories: "Multi-Tackle Gun", Landcross footplate
- Known designers: Kōjin Ōno (TakaraTomy)
- Tacker was also available in a gift set containing the entire Multiforce team. All of the toys in this set are physically identical to their individual releases.
- However, this set does not include the bio/trading cards for any of the component duos, only the combined Landcross mode.
Micromaster
- Tackle (DX Micromaster, 2002)
- Micromaster ID number: 6
- Accessories: "Multi-Tackle Gun", Landcross footplate
- Released in the final wave of Micromaster as a "DX Micromaster", this reissue of Tackle was sold in a single-bot box. The box has a small hole in the front to show a number printed on the instructions, revealing which toy is inside.
- Tackle has undergone the most significant color changes of the team: aside from the black joints changing to dark gunmetal (a change made to the entire team), his orange plastic is now significantly lighter and paler. His robot mode faces have changed to silver with red optics. The yellow "vent" stickers on his chest also have much thinner black borders, meaning a lot more yellow inside. In truck mode, he has lost the window deco on his camper cover, and an Autobot symbol has been added to the passenger-side hood.
- Tackle Stealth Mode (DX Micromaster, 2002)
- Micromaster ID number: 6
- Accessories: "Multi-Tackle Gun", Landcross footplate
- A special "chase" version of Tackle was also available, in mostly black plastic and minimal paint operations.
- All six members were available in "stealth mode", but only two out of every twelve toys in a case were black versions, and which two the case had was randomized. And no, you can't peek in through the hole in the box to see if it's a chase or not, as the instructions block it off.
Notes
- The animation model for Tackle's vehicle mode looks strikingly like a less-chibified version of Gears.
- Hasbro evidently planned a U.S. release of the Multiforce long enough for Tacker, Tackle, and Mach to receive dedicated packaging art (at right), which was eventually uncovered and published by Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster in Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging.
