Platonix

The Platonix is a Decepticon Micromaster Transport from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Look, it's got one of those safety bars like a roller coaster seat.

Flattop uses his aircraft carrier Platonix as a home away from home on his long, lonely missions into the ocean. Since he can fly on his own, he can use the vessel's jet mode in conjunction with his own to launch one-man two-pronged attacks on targets. The carrier is armed with torpedo launchers equipped with heat sensitive tracking devices, and adds X-ray laser cannons to the mix in its interstellar jet mode.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Flattop's aircraft carrier is armed with heat-seeking torpedoes and in interstellar jet mode is capable of travelling between planets in a solar system. Flattop's More than Meets the Eye profile

Beast Wars: Uprising

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Toys

The Transformers

A boat carrying a jet, that changes into a jet carrying a jet.

• Flattop (Micromaster Transport, 1989)

• Accessories: 2 "laser cannons"

Released in the sixth year of the The Transformers toyline (fifth year in the European line), Flattop was sold carded with his nameless aircraft carrier. As a carrier, its top deck is large enough to transport Flattop in his jet mode, though not much else. The carrier has two large laser cannons port and starboard, and has two holes for the front landing gear peg on Flattop to plug into, either ready for take off or taxiing to a runway. The bottom of the carrier has three small wheels, allowing it to roll along a smooth surface, as well as wheels on top of the landing deck.

The carrier transforms into an "interstellar jet", with the bow runways folding out as the wings. Flattop can either clip into the open cockpit area while standing or sit inside, with a "control bar" keeping him from flying out. The large laser cannons can be mounted on either the large wings or the smaller rear wings. The wheels that were once on the carrier deck now serve as the wheels for the jet mode.

This toy was sold in Japan without changes as the Autobot Skywave's "Micro TF DX" vehicle.

• More information on Flattop and the aircraft carrier at TFU.info

Notes

• While the instructions denote the craft's two weapons as generic "laser cannons", Flattop's Tech Specs bio specifies that they are indeed "X-ray laser cannons".
• Flattop's aircraft carrier did not have a name of its own until Beast Wars: Uprising gave it one in 2016, making use of the Canadian French name for Flattop.
• The Dreamwave More than Meets the Eye profile series makes the amusingly confused claim that the "jet" is "interstellar" and can travel "between planets in a solar system", which is a bit like saying that an automobile is capable of "international" travel and can therefore handle moving "between the neighborhoods in a city".
• Ordinarily, "jets" cannot operate in space because they require oxygen.