Lift-Ticket (Diaclone)
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- Lift-Ticket is a Diaclone vehicle from Diaclone or an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Lift-Ticket is a salvage and mechanical repair specialist, appropriately equipped for rescue and repair operations with a tow cable that can pull several tons over vast distances, while his arms contain powerful servos and hydraulics that can lift twice as much. Highly alert and ever on-guard, Lift-Ticket's wariness helps to make up for the intense focus of his partner, the Diaclone project engineer Cline; more than once, Lift-Ticket has had to pull Cline's attention away from his repairs in order to evade a foe's attack.
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Fiction
TransTech
Lift-Ticket was a rescue and repair mech created as part of the Diaclone project and assigned to Cline, an accomplished mechanic who was nominated to the project's team of pilots in order to perform repairs and prevent breakdowns in the field. Unlike the duo of Burn Out and Dia, Lift-Ticket's artificial intelligence was not based on Cline's personality, instead being given a cautious and wary personality to complement the methodical and detail-oriented Cline. Timelines Lift-Ticket profile
Crossing dimensions in pursuit of the Waruders, Lift-Ticket/Cline and Burn Out/Dia found themselves stranded on Axiom Nexus. Following a Waruder signal underground, the team bumped into a group of Cybertron's most wanted criminals. Startled, they fled the scene. The groups reconvened as they both wound up within the Waruder hive. Joining forces with C-81's group, as well as General Optimus Prime and Sergeant Hound, they did their best to hold the insectoid invaders at bay. During the battle, the Lift-Ticket mech took a severe blow, disabling it. Thankfully, Cline escaped unharmed, and the Waruders were led off-planet thanks to the collaborative efforts of everyone involved. Cybertron's Most Wanted
Velocitron Speedia 500
Lift-Ticket was one of the spectators for the Speedia 500, Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 1 and cheered as the race neared its end. Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 2
Toys
Timelines
- Diaclone 2-pack (Souvenir set, 2015)
- Accessories: Towing hook/blaster
- Timelines Lift-Ticket is a redeco of Generations Thrilling 30 Deluxe Class Hoist, itself a retool of Generations Trailcutter. Lift-Ticket transforms into an off-road truck, and comes with a towing hook that can transform into a blaster and peg via 5 mm post onto any of his numerous ports. This figure was available only in an at-show "Diaclone 2-pack" souvenir set with Burn Out at BotCon 2015.
- In terms of assembly error, at least a small number of units have his towing hook assembled backwards. This seems most common in ones bought from the Transformers Collector's Club's web shop sales.
- The original tooling of this toy also served as the basis of the non-toy characters Generation 1 Flatline, Wings Universe Turbofire, and Shattered Glass Trailbreaker and Lockdown.
Generations Selects
- Lift-Ticket (Deluxe Class, 2022)
- Generations Selects Lift-Ticket is a redeco of Earthrise Hoist, and an add-on to the Legacy toyline. Much like the BotCon Timelines toy above, Selects Lift-Ticket is based on the red version of the Diaclone "No. 8 4WD Wrecker Type" toy that was imported by Hasbro and redecoed for Hoist's original Generation 1 toy. As a nod to the Diaclone toy, Lift-Ticket features the word "WRECKER" tampographed in bold on either side of his vehicle mode.
- Being a redeco of Hoist, Lift-Ticket's tow truck apparatus is compatible with the A.I.R. Lock System and can be connected to any of the figures from the War for Cybertron Trilogy lines that also feature this system.
- Though scheduled for 2022 release, the first copies reached fans in 2021 just before New Year's Day. In Japan, Lift-Ticket was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive. Lift-Ticket was also the first toy to be released with the Legacy logo on the packaging.
- This mold was also retooled to make Earthrise Trailbreaker and Legacy DK-3 Breaker.
MPG
- Lift-Ticket (2025)
- ID number: MPG-10
- Release date: 2025 February 22
- Accessories: Tractor Beam Gun, Dual Pulverizer x2, Stabilizer Wing (right), Stabilizer Wing (left), Lift Power Emission
Notes
- Lift-Ticket is based on 4WD Hi-Lux Wrecker Type (4
WD ハイラックスレッカータイプ), the Diaclone mecha whose toy mold was used to create Generation 1 Hoist. It goes unstated whether Lift-Ticket's home reality has multiple or only one Wrecker Type mecha. - Lift-Ticket's name is taken from a G.I. Joe character, as Fun Publications also held the G.I. Joe Club license at the time.
- Salvage was a preliminary name for the character in homage to the the similarly colored Autobot from the 2007 movie toyline,[1][2] and that name could still be found on BotCon Lift-Ticket's individual polybag.
- Legacy/Generations Selects Lift-Ticket has absolutely no bio information whatsoever. The notion that he's a Cybertronian with a spark is an assumption based pretty much entirely on him having an Autobot insignia emblazoned on his hood.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Lift-Ticket (リフトチケット Rifuto Chiketto)
Gallery
Timelines robot mode
References
- ↑ "Gen Selects Lift Ticket was just revealed by @Hasbro!! The BotCon 2015 toy came from one of my proposals, as did the name! (It's recycled from GI Joe, but I still love that it's stuck to the Diaclone color scheme!!!!) Burn Out next!! 🤣 https://t.co/SJzVoxdn5J"—Jesse Wittenrich, Twitter, 2021/10/27
- ↑ "A little misleading... the name for him on the proposal was Salvage. Named after the red truck in the movie line. Since Burn Out and the Waruders were getting recycled GI Joe names, it was switched during production to "Lift Ticket"."—Jesse Wittenrich, Twitter, 2021/10/27
