Blight (Prime)
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| The name or term "Blight" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Blight (disambiguation). |
- Blight is a Predacon from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Blight. Stupid. Destructive. Controllable. Leg.
Perfect.
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Fiction
Full of Fire!
Blight joined five other Predacons in an attack on the Autobots. Unfortunately the Autobots had just built themselves new weapons, which proved to be more than effective against the Predacons. Blight and Hun-Gurr experienced Bulkhead's Rhino Blade, and that was enough to send them packing. The Predacons were beaten into a retreat, and withdrew back to the Nemesis. Full of Fire!
TransTech
When the Waruders caused a blackout in Axiom Nexus, a Blight within the offworlder maximum security prison fought it out with his fellow inmates. Cybertron's Most Wanted
Games
Hunt the Beasts online game
While you investigated Shockwave's lab, Blight could be seen sneaking around unsupervised. Along with several Predacons, he broke free of Shockwave's lab, causing the Decepticon scientist to flee. Information on him could be found via the lab's numerous data terminals. Hunt the Beasts
Transformers Prime: Beast Creator
When Shockwave left his technology unattended, you could use it to custom-create your own monstrous Predacon! Blight's CNA was accessible through the cloning machine, resulting in Predacons that shared component parts with him. Beast Creator
Toys
Prime
- Blight (Cyberverse Legion Class, 2013)
- Series / Number: 3 / 010
- Accessories: Affliction Hammer
- Known designers: Joe Kyde (Hasbro)
- Part of the third wave of Prime: Beast Hunters Series 3 Cyberverse Legion Class toys, Blight transforms into a bipedal dragon. His robot mode hands can hold the weapon via the latter's multiple 3 mm posts, and he and the weapon feature numerous 3 mm mounting points.
- Though not called out in the instructions, Blight combines with Cyberverse Twinstrike, Hun-Gurrr, Windrazor, and Predacon Rippersnapper, to form Abominus, with Blight forming the left leg.
- Blight was repurposed as the original Blot/Blight in the Legends game event "Unleash the Beasts". Blight's hammer accessory was also used, in varying colors, by Twinstrike, Prowl, and Rot Gut. This toy was redecoed into Rot Gut, Go! Burara, and The Last Knight Gorge.
- Abominus (Giftset, 2013)
- Accessories: Affliction Hammer
- Part of the Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising subline imprint, Abominus is a giftset of Cyberverse Hun-Gurrr, Windrazor, Predacon Rippersnapper, Twinstrike, and Blight, slightly redecoed by way of translucent plastic replacing a main color of each character, as well as translucent purple weapons. In Blight's case, the metallic blue plastic is now translucent, although it's hard to notice due to its dark color; in addition, the lavender plastic has lost much of its saturation, having become almost gray in the process, and the tampographed Predacon insignia on the right side of his chest has been changed from yellow to purple. Of note, Blight is the only one to have his own name on the back of the box - all the others had their names swapped around.
- This set was a Target exclusive in the United States and Canada, a Tesco exclusive in the United Kingdom, a Carrefour exclusive in France, a Ripley exclusive in Chile, and a Toys"R"Us exclusive in Australia much later, in late 2014.
- Despite consisting of nothing but redecoes of Cyberverse figures, this set features no Cyberverse logo on its packaging.
- Bumblebee & Blight (Legion Class 2-pack, 2013)
- Accessories: Affliction Hammer
- For the Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising subline imprint, Blight was recolored in deep red with gray and turquoise accents. This version of Blight was only available in a two-pack with a somewhat-more show-accurate Bumblebee. Amusingly, he is packaged with his robot mode head very visibly sticking out of his beast mode crotch.
- The color palette, along with his troll-like beast mode, make this redeco a likely homage to Generation 1 Icepick.
- He looks eerily similar to the aforementioned Go! Burara release of the sculpt, which only sports some very few color differences.
- As a second wave Predacons Rising release, this set was only available as a Target exclusive in the US (and not in Canada, Australia, or Europe), and on top of that was by far the rarest and hardest to find of all Predacons Rising products. For some reason, it was stocked by various Japan-based import stores, though, thus making this the easiest (though not cheapest) way to obtain the two-pack. Like the Abominus giftset, this two-pack features no Cyberverse logo on its packaging.
Kre-O
- Blight (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2013)
- Collection: 2
- Bag number: ***** 68
- Accessories: Logo brick, 2 hand-held claws
- Known designers: Ed Masiello (Hasbro)
- As part of the second wave of blindpacked Micro-Changers, Blight is a Kreon Micro-Changer that can be rebuilt into some sort of hunchbacked greebly monster thing. He reuses the beastie-helmet created for Razorclaw's team.
- This Collection was still in circulation at U.S. "dollar" stores and drug stores up through 2015. They eventually lost the individual-identifying bag codes, but other changes were hidden inside the bag. The 2015 releases replaced the 2x4 logo stand-brick with a new 3x4 logo plate. The Kreon was also given the slight retooling to the arm seen in the 2014 Kreons, making the "cuff" parts more sharp-cornered and better adapted to being used as studs. Some of the add-on pieces may also be slightly off-color, possibly due to a change in factories in mid-production.
- Blight was displayed at Toy Fair 2013 with a completely different configuration for his alternate mode.
- Blight (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2016)
- Collection: 2
- Accessories: Logo plate, 2 hand-held claws
- In 2016, Collection 2 was re-released in a whole new production run for Dollar General stores in the US as part of a large collection of re-released Kre-O sets. But where most of these releases are nigh-identical to the originals, the re-released Micro-Changer blind-bags use the almost-entirely-retooled 2015 Kreon, with slightly-differently-hued plastics than the originals. (It is possible for some of the add-on pieces to be in the older hues.) Bight's tampographs underwent some slight changes, turning the purple on his legs to a brighter lavender, adding lavender details to his chest, and changing his Decepticon symbol from light blue to yes, lavender. The light blue on his chest is also a slightly different hue, better matching his head color.
- Sadly, this release has no individual-identification code on the bag, requiring you to use the feel-through-the-bag method or just buy blind and hope.
Notes
- Blight is, of course, an homage to Generation 1 Blot, with an adjusted trademark-friendly name.
- The Transformers: Kre-O Character Encyclopedia labels Blight as "Bolt".