Hurricane

Hurricane is an Autobot Turbomaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

"Here I am, rock you like a me!"

Hurricane is the Turbomasters' Defense Tactics Specialist. He's responsible for formulating their defensive strategies, and uses his intense attention to detail, and his near-clairvoyant forward-thinking, to plan for any eventuality.

Fiction

Predator Air Attack!

When the Predators attacked the Turbomaster base, Hurricane sounded the alarm. Predator Air Attack!

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

"Life is also like me, here in the 'burg."

After the conquest of Cybertron by Megatron and the Aerospace Extermination Squadron, Hurricane and the rest of the Turbomasters evaded capture and participated in the Autobot underground resistance. The Age of Wrath Pt.2 Perceptor briefed the Turbomasters in the Think-Tank about the attempt to locate the missing Optimus Prime. When Perceptor left them alone, however, the Turbomasters partook in a game of tear'n'chase. Flash evaded his pursuing team-mates, but accidentally drove into the

Following Flash's sudden disappearance, Hurricane and the other Turbomasters learned from Perceptor that their teammate had been drawn through the Interfacer, but the scientist was unable to deal with the situation at the moment. The Age of Wrath Pt.4 They set about mucking around with Perceptor's Assembly by themselves, and inadvertently returned Optimus Prime to Cybertron in their efforts to retrieve Flash. The Age of Wrath Pt.5 Flash returned as well, but was damaged beyond repair by the time his team found him. Before he died, he gave the other Turbomasters evidence that Megatron had been in cahoots with the Quintesson, which was used to pit the Decepticon's allies against him. The Age of Wrath Pt.6

Wings Universe

During the five stellar cycles prior to the rise of the "second generation" of Transformers on Earth, Hurricane worked with Scorch, Flash, and Boss in clearing out Decepticon nests all across the galaxy. Wings Universe Scorch profile

2005 IDW continuity

Hurricane was among the Transformers who defended Cybertron from Shockwave's army of Ammonites. Black Planet

Toys

The Transformers

Are his legs not yellowing, or is it photoshop? Hmm!

• Hurricane (Turbomaster, 1992)

• Accessories: Missile launcher, 3 missiles
• Known designers: Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Hurricane transforms into a "Le Mans"-style racer loosely based on a Porsche 917. His engine in vehicle mode is a spring-loaded missile-launching cannon usable in both vehicle and robot modes.

Hurricane's sticker instructions are slightly misleading; they suggest placing the rectangular sticker in the middle of his launcher, rather than in the space right next to the white rim where it actually fits (as seen on the Japanese packaging). They also don't specify where the tail light stickers should go—on the raised sculpting, with the orange indicators on the outsides.^[1]

The figure was also released in Japan as the character Checker Road.

• More information on Hurricane at TFU.info

Notes

• A proposed Fun Publications BotCon exclusive was a redeco of Prime Smokescreen into Hurricane.^[2]
• Weirdly, despite his Tech Spec calling out his status as a superintelligent wunderkind and strategist, Hurricane's Tech Spec claims his Intelligence to be 5, the lowest in the Turbomasters--Flash is the next lowest, at 7, and the others all have a 10.

Foreign names

• French: Tempête ("Tempest")
• Italian: Vortex

References

1. ↑ "Now, if you place that sticker BETWEEN the slightly raised rectangular section and the white rim of the launcher, it fits absolutely perfectly within that space! Also, if you take a look at the stock photography on the above Takara packaging, that's where that Checker Road has the sticker on the launcher too!"—"Hasbro G1 Turbomaster Hurricane", 2018/09/19
2. ↑ BotCon 2014 attendee report