Spiral

Spiral is a Mini-Con from the Armada portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go 'round.

Spiral leads the Street Speed Mini-Con Team, which isn't an easy task considering her teammates' personalities. But she's a tough one, the fastest, smartest, and strongest of the Team, who won't hesitate to verbally—or physically—put someone in their place. She's garnered a bit of a reputation for having a short temper, but she's got the muscle to back up her aggression.^[1]

Fiction

Armada cartoon

Fat bottomed boys, you make the cars slump to the ground.

Spiral's Mini-Con storage panel was detected underground, near a major highway under construction. Both Autobot and Decepticon braved battle and heavy traffic to retrieve the panel. The Decepticons, thanks to the digging strength of Scavenger (who was in reality an Autobot agent undercover) came close to obtaining it, but the arrival of the mysterious Sideways tipped the battle in favor of the Autobots, and with Hot Shot's newfound skill with the Star Saber, the Decepticons were forced to retreat and Spiral was saved.

Back at the Autobot base, while Billy was getting dirt-bike rides on Sideways, Spiral offered to give a ride to Fred, who was moping about missing all the fun. Fred accepted, but quickly regretted his decision and commenced with the whining. Gale

Later, after the Decepticons got ahold of the Star Saber, Spiral was seen among the Mini-Cons recently captured by them. How they acquired possession of her from the Autobots is unknown. Conspiracy

Spiral, Backtrack and an unknown Mini-Con were assigned to repair "tune up" Megatron following a close encounter with the Requiem Blaster. Runaway

On the moon, Spiral and the other Mini-Cons were put to work by Megatron constructing a new space cruiser. When the Autobots lay siege to the Decepticon base, Perceptor sought out the Mini-Cons and tried to get them to accompany him to freedom. Their servility programming was too strong to overcome at first. After Spiral and the others saw Perceptor valiantly risking his life against Megatron, however, the Mini-Cons shrugged off the chains of their oppression, and fled to the warp gate chamber where the Autobots transported them to safety on Earth. Rescue

As the Autobots prepared their new spaceship to chase the Decepticons back to Cybertron, Spiral and the united Mini-Cons were seen helping with the construction work. Remorse Spiral and the Mini-Cons all chose to willingly follow the Autobots into space aboard the Axalon, fighting alongside them against the Decepticons. Depart

Spiral was among the Mini-Cons in space forming a protective shield to stop the Axalon from being harmed by the black hole that Unicron/Sideways had opened up. Uprising

Dreamwave Armada comic

Spiral was among the Mini-Cons who fled Cybertron millions of years ago, Armada Free Comic Book Day and along with the rest of the Street Speed Team she ended up living in a base on Earth's moon. Armada #9 Unfortunately, Dualor brought the Earth-based Mini-Cons there, which also brought the Decepticons. While the moonbase was under attack, Spiral and the others escaped in a rocket-pod. Armada #11 The pod crashed in northern Alaska, leaving the Street Speed Team, Inferno and Comettor deactivated. Fire & Ice Ultimately the Autobots were successful in retrieving the pod, and Spiral was reactivated and brought to the Autobot base. Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4

Spiral later returned to Cybertron and helped Over-Run activate the Mini-Con Matrix, which dealt a critical blow to Unicron. The End

Panini Armada comic

In the early stages of the war, Spiral was among the Mini-Cons who supported Dualor's plan to kill Megatron by luring him to the Autobot headquarters and blowing it up. Counter-Strike!

Cybertron toy bios

The Street Speed Team were sent to Velocitron as advance scouts for the Autobots. The planet's mass of winding high-speed tracks really appealed to them, to the point where they started having a hard time tearing themselves from the road to get their missions underway.

Games

Transformers: Battle Tactics

Spiral Armada participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of her! She first appeared in the "Armada Episode V: Requiem" event, and could be recruited by collecting 650 units of Cybermetal, 350 units of Transmetal, 150 exclusive cores, and 50 cores of this character. Transformers: Battle Tactics

Toys

Armada

More blue than water

• Street Speed Mini-Con Team (Mini-Con 3-pack, 2002 / 2003)

• Takara ID number: MM-06
• Takara release date: December 27, 2002
• Known designers: Joe Kyde (deco artist)

Armada Spiral transforms into a Mercedes E-Class luxury car. Like her fellow Street Speed Mini-Con Team members, her car mode wheels are designed to allow for much faster rolling on smooth surfaces.

She was only available in a Basic-sized three-pack with Backtrack and Oval.In the Hasbro line, the Street Speed team were released in the third assortment of Mini-Con teams. In Japan, it was part of the massive first wave of Legend of the Microns product, released in December 2002. Aside from packaging, there are no noteworthy differences between the two releases. The Armada release was also made available in a clamshelled two-pack at various retail outlets. So far, all samples of packs with the Street Speed Team known have come with the Adventure Mini-Con Team as their pack-in partners.

This mold was also used to make Servo, and Armada Skid-Z. It was planned to be used for Energon Clocker and packed with Ultra Magnus, but that release was changed late in the production run and given a different Mini-Con Team.

• More information on Spiral at TFU.info

• Silverbolt & Street Speed Micron (Multi-pack, 2003)

• ID number: MS-05
• Release date: May 15, 2003

In Japan, the Street Speed Team was available both on an individual card and in a multi-pack with "Silverbolt" (the Japanese version of Super-Con Blurr) and his partner "Turbo" (aka Incinerator), released concurrently with the individually-boxed Silverbolt as part of the third wave of Legend of the Microns product. All the toys in the set are identical to their individual releases.

Silver Sucka!

• Sieg Overdrive Edition (Promotional Micron, 2003)

• Release date: January 19, 2003

The "Overdrive Edition" redeco of the Team were given away as individual pieces (not as a complete Team!) to people who voted in the "Legends of the Microns Character Popularity Contest" at Takara's booth at the 17th Japanese "World Hobby Fair": the event was held in Osaka on January 19th, in Tokyo on January 25th and 26th, in Nagoya on February 2nd, and in Fukuoka on February 9th. Each Micron came in an opaque black baggie.

On April 1st that year, they were also available as random (individual) giveaways at Ito Yokaido stores with the purchase of any Legend of the Microns product, this time in clear bags.

This toy doubles as the Beast Wars: Uprising character Sieg.

• More information on Overdrive Edition "Sieg" at TFU.info

Spiraling away into Nothingness

• Street Speed Mini-Con Team (Mini-Con 3-pack, 2003)

Hasbro planned a red-and-tan redeco of Spiral as part of a "refresh" version of the Street Speed Team in The Unicron Battles subline imprint. The coloration of the Team was a "one-off" of the Takara Overdrive Edition version, with each toy's main color shifted over to another one.

While some pre-release carded samples have made it out, this version never hit retail.

Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Cybertron

Apple

• Street Speed Mini-Con Team (Scout Class, 2005)

• Takara name: Auto Microns
• Takara ID number: GC-08
• Takara release date: December 28, 2004

This version of Spiral is a retooling of the first Spiral mold, now transforming into a modified Mercedes C-Class. Once again she was only available in a three-pack with her similarly-altered teammates Oval and Backtrack.

The Team was part of the fourth wave of Cybertron Scout Class toys, where in Japan, they were part of the very first (large) wave of Galaxy Force. There are no apparent differences between the initial Takara "Auto Micron" release of "Gagenda" and the later Hasbro "Street Speed Mini-Con Team" release of "Spiral".

This version of the mold was used to make the Micron Booster Jack.

• More information on Cybertron Spiral at TFU.info

Notes

• For whatever reason, the Street Speed Team is the only Armada Mini-Con Team to not have an Exdimensions release.
• The Japanese Galaxy Force version of the Street Speed Team is one of the very few mass-retail "new"-mold Japanese Transformers toys to not show up in the accompanying cartoon.
• Spiral was referred to as male by Carlos in the Armada cartoon episode "Gale". It seems Dreamwave overlooked that scene when it gave her a bio that specified her as female. In-universe, it could be argued that the humans might not be able to tell Transformer gender apart—Sureshock is always referred to as male as well (although she's also referred to as Grindor just as often).

Foreign names

• Japanese: Sieg (ジーク Jīku),^[2] Gagenda (Galaxy Force, ガゼンダ Gazenda)^[3]
• Korean: Sieg (지크 Jikeu)

References