Crane
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- The crane is an Autobot Micromaster vehicle from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Erector's crane trailer expands his construction capabilities, allowing him to indulge in his first love, construction. When he must turn his talents to combat, the crane trailer can transform to a battle platform equipped with paired antennae, machine guns and photon cannons. Even in its trailer mode, the crane's armor-piercing hook can serve as a weapon... though Erector would rather it didn't.
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Fiction
Zone story pages
Erector used his crane in the construction of the Zone Base. He also rode it into battle against Trypticon and Piranacon on the water planet, assisting Victory Saber in his fight. Zone
Regeneration One
Erector used his crane to help the Construction Patrol and Quickmix in building the Nebulan end of the space bridge network in the Clar Macro-jungle. The War to End All Wars, Part 1
Commercial appearances
The crane, in its base mode, advanced on an attacking Zarak Maximus, alongside dozens of Micromasters.
Later, it was seen among the bases and transports sitting in an unfathomably tiny Micromaster city. Micromaster transports commercial
Toys
The Transformers
- Erector (Micromaster Transport, 1989/1990)
- Takara name: Cragun
- Takara ID number: C-339
- Released in the sixth year of Hasbro's US The Transformers toyline (fifth in European markets), Micromaster Erector comes with his crane trailer "transport". The trailer crane rotates, the arm pivots up and down, and it has a flip-out hook that imitates a crane's cable.
- The crane trailer transforms into a battle station, with flip-out stabilizers, communications antennas, a double-barrel gun that Erector can man (though he can't grasp the handles), and a large cannon formed out of the crane itself. Both the double gun and the main cannon can pivot up and down, and the latter retains its ability to rotate. As the other Micromaster Transports turn into planes, this base mode makes Erector unique among his sub-group.
- Erector was sold in Japan a year later as Zone "Cragun"; this release is physically identical to the Hasbro one.
- As with most Micromaster accessories, the name "crane" comes from the toy's instruction booklet. The instructions at various times refer to the trailer and its modes as an "attack crane", a "tank", and a "battle station".