Not Galactus, we swear.
Unicron is the eternal arch-enemy of his twin brother Primus. He is known as the Dark God, the Chaos Bringer, the Planet Eater, and he is dedicated to consuming the multiverse. His goal is to bring an end to the annoying creation boasting independence around him, and find peace by becoming the living center of a swirling, infinite torrent of nothingness at the end of all things.
To undertake this seemingly overwhelming task, Unicron is able to travel across realities at will, a meandering plague upon existence itself. [1] Integrated into his systems are incomprehensible quantum computers which calculate probabilities forward and backwards in time, in perpetuity, giving his processors an everchanging, evolving map of the multiverse.[2]
The only thing that he fears is Primus' essence, contained inside the Matrix of Leadership.
Frequently, Unicron will make deals with lesser beings, giving them vast new powers in exchange for their servitude. These minions are sometimes stripped entirely of their free will, but others follow him willingly. No matter their intent, Unicron's plans ultimately call for their consumption as well.
In the beginning
Unicron's original body.
Before the dawn of time, Order and Chaos existed within an extradimensional entity known as the One. He created twin astral beings to reign over the cosmos: Primus and Unicron. Their nature differed, as Primus' lifeforce (aka the Allspark) was a multiversal singularity; existing across all Transformers realities at once (see note below), whereas Unicron existed in only one dimension at a time but could travel relatively freely between them. Primus was the Lord of Light and Order, and Unicron, the Lord of Darkness and Chaos. Unicron sought to devour everything that exists and become one with The Void at the end of all things.
In combat, Primus was no match for Unicron. But Primus did manage to trap both his and Unicron's essences inside metallic planetoids. Over time, they learned to shape these prisons. Unicron formed his into a planet able to not only devour all in its path, but also capable of Transforming into a likeness of his old self. Primus, meanwhile became the mechanical planet of Cybertron. Knowing that his ancient enemy still lived, Primus created the 13 original Transformers from the material of the newly created planet. To the very first of these 13, named Prima, Primus bestowed the Matrix, containing his essence. These Transformers would, in time, grow strong in number, knowledge, and power, and be able to defeat Unicron.
War of the balance
The first conflict between Primus and Unicron occured shortly after the creation of the first 13 Transformers. One of the original 13, who would ever afterwards be known as the Fallen, betrayed Primus and became an alcolyte of Unicron. Many of the first 13 were destroyed in this great battle before Unicron and the Fallen were sucked into a black hole and sealed away in a extra-dimensional limbo.
The two brothers shared a mental link. So long as Primus hid himself in slumber, so did Unicron also sleep. Their war ended, for a time, in stalemate.
KHAAAAAN!
Eventually, in one version of Generation 1 continuity Grimlock, Jazz, and Bumblebee found themselves transported to the center of Cybertron. In a battle with Bludgeon's Pretenders, a laser blast ricocheted off Grimlock and struck the essence of the sleeping Primus, causing a multiverse-shaking Primal Scream that woke Unicron and alerted him to Primus' location.
The battle between Primus and Unicron began anew. Though Unicron would sometimes be defeated, this is always temporary, and there is a whole multiverse of realities to consume. When Unicron is destroyed in one reality, he will travel to another, ready to eat again. Primus will always be waiting, hoping to incapacitate Unicron and preserve existence.
It has been suggested that both of them are, in fact, necessary for the multiverse to exist in stability.
The Evolution of the Primus/Unicron Myth
The Primus/Unicron backstory has evolved and been rewritten a good number of times since it first originated in the Marvel Comics. The version above is the current iteration, which has slowly solidified across a wide swath of media beginning around the time of Armada) Before the Primus/Unicron mythos reached its present form it went through several distinct versions in the Marvel G1 Comics and elsewhere.
Unicron's Story
The first time we ever heard the Primus/Unicron backstory it in the UK comic continuity, from Unicron himself. After his destruction during the events of The Transformers: The Movie, his head floated through space and crashed on the planet Junk. There, he enslaved the inhabitants to recreate his old body from their world. When the bount-um... freelance peacekeeping agent Death's Head challenged him on the astral plane, Unicron shared the story of his origin thusly:
At the dawn of the universe, when Unicron was a primal force of evil, the only one who could stand against him and his Dark Armies was Primus, Lord of the Light Gods. (Note the plural.) Primus and his fellow Light Gods stood against Unicron and his Dark Armies. Events then played out roughly as described above.
(The role of the other Light Gods and Unicron's armies would diminish with each retelling of the story, until the current version where they are alone and have a unique origin. Only one of the other Light Gods was ever named: the Chronarchitect.)
The Keeper's Story
The second time the story was told was in the US book by the Keeper, an ancient mechanoid who guarded Primus's head at the center of Cybertron. This telling mentions that their battle was towards the end of the era of Gods and that Primus and Unicron were the last of their respective pantheons. But Primus had to defeat Unicron before he could take his place with the other gods in the "Omniversal Matrix".
Primus' Story
The third time the story was told was by Primus when he gathered all his children together to prepare for Unicron's coming. Here we learn for the first time that Unicron predated the current universe. Unicron had destroyed the previous universe and then slept peacefully, alone with the void. But he had not been thorough enough and some bits of the "old realms" survived. They reacted and caused The Big Bang. The sentient core of this new universe recognized the threat of Unicron and so created Primus to be his counterpart and guardian of the new creation.
DK's Story
The first modern retelling of their origin in the DK Transformers: Ultimate Guide (which tended to focus on the then current Dreamwave continuity) added a new twist with "The One" a self-contained being of balanced Order and Chaos. He was curious and so created Unicron to explore the new-born Universe for him. Then he sub-divided Unicron and created Primus out of him. As Primus achieved consciousness he realized Unicron had become corrupted and was now a force for Chaos. Primus thus took on the role of champion of Order and creation to balance things and protect existence from Unicron.
(Primus did not exist in the Generation 1 cartoon. There, Cybertron's oldest revealed status was as a factory world of the Quintessons who invented the Transformers, and Unicron was a product of the strange sad little alien Primacron. This causes some trouble with the later retcon that Primus is a "multiversal singularity" and part of all Transformers universes, though Wreckers #3 did attempt to retcon the Primus mythology into the Quintesson-creation backstory of the original cartoon. Simon Furman has also stated that he may specifically exclude Primus and Unicron from the IDW comic universe as well, which might be seen as retconning out the previous retcon and rendering Primus as being once again a feature of only "some" Transformer continuities.)
Fiction
Generation 1
Marvel Comics
(Note: The recent Primus/Unicron mythology push in the Fun Publications Cybertron comics places the Marvel Comics story first chronologically among Unicron's history of appearances.)
After the Primal Scream, Unicron headed directly towards Cybertron. He created three Heralds to send ahead of him and prepare the Transformers for his arrival: Hook, Line, and Sinker. He also borrowed a version of Galvatron from another dimension's future in which he was successful in devouring Cybertron.
A Unicron cultist with mask. Or a cosplayer.
Unicron placed a mental command in some Transformers, generating a cult of Autobots and Decepticons. His worshippers gathered to attack the leader of the two united factions, which had gathered on Cybertron when they sensed Unicron drawing near. Their assassination attempt was defeated with the help of Galvatron, Unicron's wayward herald.
Unicron was so unimaginably large that the sight of him froze both Transformer factions into inaction. Unicron, disappointed that victory was this simple, tore apart the planet's surface. It was only the actions of the kidnapped Galvatron that snapped the Transformers out of their collective terror. Even the united Transformers were unable to hold Unicron off. After being fazed by the Neo-Knight Rapture and temporarily shorted out by Circuit Breaker, it was Optimus Prime who flew towards Unicron and opened the Matrix. The life contained inside caused Unicron to explode. (That Circuit Breaker could affect Unicron at all suggests that despite the Dark God's nature and history, his body (at least this one) is ultimately 'standard' technology, albeit of a very powerful nature.)
In the timeline of Earth-120185, rather than attack Cybertron in 1990, Unicron made his appearance in 2006, in events similar to The Transformers: The Movie. Destroyed by the power of the Matrix, his head crash-landed on the planet Junkion, where he used mind control to force the native Junkions to build him a new body out of the planet of Junk. At the beginning of 2008, he pulled Cyclonus, Scourge and Death's Head into his thrall and used them to re-ignite the stalemated Cybertronian war in order to keep the Autobots distracted from his activities. Ultimately, however, he was defeated by Death's Head and the Autobots, his head was destroyed, and his mind was sealed within the Matrix. In 2010, he reached out from within the Matrix and took control of Rodimus Prime's body, only to be stopped when Kup ripped the talisman out of his chest, but later still, in 2020, he repeated the trick and succeeded in transforming Rodimus's body into a copy of his own before being forced back. In the far future of 2356, Unicron's essence still resides within the Matrix, steadily withering the struggling body of Rodimus.
In at least one further tangent timeline, Unicron actually succeeded in consuming Cybertron in 2006 and allowed Galvatron to rule Earth.
The Transformers: The Movie
- Voice actor: Orson Welles (US), Mizuho Suzuki (Japan)
I see you down there
In his first documented appearance, Unicron was known as a giant Transformer which devoured everything in his path. After the Battle of Autobot City, Megatron and several heavily damaged Decepticons (the Insecticons as well as Skywarp and Thundercracker) were dumped in space. Unicron reformatted Megatron into Galvatron and out of the damaged Decepticons, he created Cyclonus, Scourge, and Scourge's Sweeps. He ordered them to destroy the Matrix.
Galvatron returned with the Matrix, but intended to use it to make Unicron his slave. Unicron ate him. After eating two of Cybertron's moons, Unicron attacked Cybertron. Shockwave and the rest of the Decepticons, at the time in control of Cybertron, fought back, but this had little effect. Unicron swallowed many spaceships, one of which contained the young Autobot Hot Rod. Hot Rod and Galvatron battled deep inside Unicron. Ultimately, Hot Rod was able to retake the Matrix, change into Rodimus Prime, defeat Galvatron, and use the Matrix to destroy Unicron. Unicron's body exploded, though its head remained intact and orbited Cybertron.
Generation 1 animated series
- Voice actor: Roger C. Carmel (US), Toshirō Ishii (Japan)
Primacron, the one responsible for Unicron's construction. Thanks so much, Primacon.
Unicron had no explained origin in the movie, but later, in the third season episode "Call of the Primitives", his history in the animated continuity was revealed - Unicron was created near the beginning of time by an ancient genius called Primacron, to destroy the universe for him to remake in his own image. But Unicron decided that he would be the one to rule the universe, not Primacron, and rebelled against his creator, voyaging out into the vast expanse of space.
Do NOT mess with the Big Floating Head!
His destruction in the movie was not the last the Transformers saw of Unicron - the ghost of Starscream reactivated his severed head and entered into a bargain with Unicron, performing three labours in exchange for the restoration of his body. Starscream and Scourge gathered for Unicron Metroplex's eyes (breaking one and replacing it with one from Trypticon) and Trypticon's Transformation Cog, and then connected his head to Cybertron, which would become Unicron's new body. Starscream demanded that Unicron restore his body so that he could complete the connection; but once Unicron had done so, Starscream double-crossed him and refused to finish the job. Unicron's head was subsequently blown off into space by an explosion instigated by the Autobots.
Later, when searching for a new supply of anti-electrons, the Decepticons ventured to Unicron's head, where Cyclonus and Scourge accidentally awoke the slumbering demi-god. At the same time, Grimlock - who had gained super-intelligence through an infusion of anti-electrons - had constructed from pieces of Unicron's head the Technobots, and one of their number, Strafe, severed enough of Unicron's neural connections to shut him back down.
Unlike the comics portrayal, Unicron is shown to be a large transforming machine and not a godlike being.
Beast era
Omega Point
Beast Wars Megatron and time-traveler/Silverbolt repaint Windrazor fight above the Dark Essence.
Following his destruction in 2006, Unicron's severed lifeforce was displaced in time to Earth's distant past, prior to the Beast Wars. It rested in the pit caused by its own impact, quiescent for many millennia, until found by a Predacon known as the Hunter around the Machine Era.
Taking the name Shokaract, he used this Dark Essence to conquer, ruling over an apocalyptic 32nd Century future.
Due to severe time-travel mischief, the events leading up to Shokaracts's timeline were averted when the Dark Essence fled Earth from the Beast Wars.
Dark Essence
The Evil Galactic Starfish of Conquest served as a container for Unicron’s power.
The Dark Essence possessed only rudimentary intelligence, lacking the full force of Unicron's personality. It appears Unicron's Spark remained with his severed head (which has a back-up spark chamber) in 2005, while his power was displaced in time.
Is it unclear if this displacement was accidental, or represents an attemt by Unicron to preserve his power.
Shokaract contained the Dark Essence within a Matrix of Conquest from which he drew his powers. This is very similar to the relationship between Primus and the Matrix of Leadership, where The Matrix holds the majority of his power, leaving Primus himself weak. The Matrix of Conquest appears to be unique to Shokaract's timeline branch, and would not exist outside of it.
Beast Wars II and Neo
Voice actor: Tetsuo Komura (Japan)
Unicron's show apearance in Beast Wars Neo.
After the events of The Transformers: The Movie, Unicron's lifeforce (the green energy seen exploding from his body) raced across time and space until it landed on the distant world of Gaia, riddling itself into the planet's surface. His lifeforce caused many strange phenomenon all over the planet, and was eventually dubbed Angolmois energy.
It proved to be a powerful energy source, leaving Galvatron to attempt to harvest the energy for himself. Using his massive spacecraft, the Nemesis, he sucked all the the Angolmois energy out of the planet and into the craft. However, after the interference of Leo Prime and Lio Junior, all the Angolmois energy was sealed into capsules and ejected them from the Nemesis as it self-destructed.
Big Convoy and Magmatron then raced to collect the angolmois capsules, as their energy effects were wreaking havoc on planets all over the galaxy. They eventually collected all the capsules only to find themselves attacked by the mysterious, and freakish, Blentrons. The Blentrons proved nearly invincible and stole the capsules from each team. They released the Angolmois energy and allowed it to possess Galvatron's dead body. Unicron was reborn once more.
Unicron then absorbed the last remaining ounce of stray Angolmois energy, the Blentrons, and left to settle his score with Cybertron. The Maximal Elder, Great Convoy, attempted to hold Unicron off with the entire Maximal armada, but Unicron's fiery serpent mode proved too much and he effortlessly destroyed the armada and Great Convoy along with it. Unicron then possessed Vector Sigma, the mother computer of Cybertron, effectively possessing the planet. He then morphed the planet into his new body, fulfilling the goal he originally attempted back in 2006 (or 2010, since this is Japanese continuity).
Unicron briefly exited Vector Sigma to deal with the last remaining Cybertronian resistance. Big Convoy, his Maximal new recruits, Leo Prime and Magmatron all fought side-by-side against Unicron, but all they managed to do was stall him. Big Convoy then powered up his Big Cannon with his own Matrix, transforming it into the Matrix Buster. Big Convoy shot Unicron with the weapon, the powerful blast seemingly destroying the Chaos Bringer. Unicron's spirit was then evicted from Vector Sigma, returning Cybertron to normal.
Universe
Unicron's ruined body in Transformers: Universe. You can't take the Wreckers anywhere.
After being defeated by the Wreckers, Unicron floated in ruin. Using what energies he had left, he called Transformers from various corners of the multiverse inside him to do battle. He feasted upon the sparks of the losers, growing ever more powerful. Primus countered this by calling his own army from the multiverse, led by Optimus Primal. Primal was able to set free the captives inside Unicron and begin a new war between the Minions of Unicron and the Children of Primus.
(This war was ended abruptly when, during the final battle, Unicron disappeared from their reality underneath them, sucked away into the Unicron Singularity in another timestream. See Cybertron.)
Unicron Trilogy
The Unicron Trilogy, the series of Transformers franchises that includes Armada, Energon, and Cybertron, was so named by Hasbro designer Aaron Archer because of Unicron's importance in each story.
Dreamwave Comics continuity
Armada Unicron grasps at... nothing.
Armada
Unicron sent forth heralds to prepare the Armadaverse for his arrival after having devoured the Cybertron of a previously unseen dimension. His heralds included versions of Bludgeon, Dirge, Galvatron, Scourge, and Thunderwing.
He also sent the Autobots the near-death Optimus Prime of that other dimension as a forewarning.
Unicron was ultimately defeated by Jet Prime, the combined form of the Armadaverse's Optimus Prime and Jetfire, who were infused with extra Mini-Con power. However, he had managed to kidnap Airazor, Cheetor, Rhinox and Terrorsaur, and would see them forged into new heralds in the interim.
Energon
Alpha Quintesson and the Terrorcons try to revive Unicron.
(Note: Due to the sudden demise of Dreamwave, the results of this attempt remain unknown. Presumably, since you are alive and reading this, Unicron did not go on to consume the Omniverse.)
Animated continuity
Armada
- Voice Actor: Mark Acheson (US), Katsumi Chō (Japan)
Disguised as Cybertron's moon, Unicron created the race of small robots known as the Mini-Cons to increase the ferocity of the Autobot/Decepticon war. When conflict exists, Unicron can feed off the energies released.
When the Mini-Cons found their way to Earth, they were followed by the Autobots and Decepticons. Unicron dispatched an agent, Sideways, a mysterious agent that served as the vessel for Unicron's spark in this reality, to carry on his work. Sideways escalated the conflict by manipulating control of the three Mini-Cons weapons - the Star Saber, the Skyboom shield and the Requiem Blaster, the three keys that were then used to awaken Unicron.
The Power Cosmic gives you wrinkles.
As Unicron turned on Cybertron, the Mini-Cons broke free of his control, deactivating him - but when Galvatron then began his final battle with Optimus Prime, the hatred and ferocity of the fight awoke Unicron once more.
To end the circle of hate that gave Unicron life, Galvatron allowed himself to be consumed by the monster, and in a brilliant flash of light, Unicron apparently ceased to exist.
Energon
- Voice Actor: David Kaye, Mark Acheson(US), ??? (Japan)
Unicron sported awesome colors during Energon.
Unbeknownst to the Autobot heroes, Unicron's body had fallen into a state of decay. Operating at low, almost undetectable energy levels, Unicron was rotting away in what was called the "Graveyard of the Universe". A spark from the past would be enough to change all of this. Alpha-Q, a Terrorcon-related alien being from a far away world, Planet Q, would awaken within the dying giant and discover that Unicron's cells had the ability to restore life, just as it did to create the mini-cons eons before.
Alpha-Q, having had his own homeworld detonated and consumed by Unicron in the past sought to restore Unicron enough to manipulate his body into restoring the world and galaxy that he lost. Alpha-Q used the cells to restore himself to a suit of armor, as well as create Sparkless drones of his former race to carry out his deed: collect energon. As energon was collected, Unicron grew stronger.
However, Megatron's corpse and spark remained within Unicron, and slowly siphoned off some of the gathered Energon, allowing him to be reborn in his own new body. Alpha Q jettisoned Unicron's head and escaped in it, while Megatron took over Unicron's body, and continued to gather Energon in order to rebuild Unicron to use as his ultimate weapon. As the climax of this plan neared, a joint attack by Alpha Q, the Autobots and their human allies saw all of Earth's Energon channeled into Unicron's head, which Alpha Q then rammed into Unicron's body.
The positively-charged Energon of Earth reacted with the negatively-charged Energon running through Unicron, tearing open a fissure in reality leading to a new area of space where planets Unicron consumed were recreated, and sustained through the Energon radiated from Unicron's head, which had now become a glowing red sun.
Unicron should stop eating so many Blizzards.
Unicron's body, damaged once more, lay in the dark reaches near the fissure, and the Decepticons began to raid Alpha Q's new planets for the Energon necessary to revive Unicron again. This time, they succeeded, and Megatron directed Unicron's body to retrieve his head, extinguishing the Energon Sun and killing Alpha Q in the process. But the power of Unicron proved too much for Megatron to control, as Unicron began to take over Megatron's body. In the ensuing battle between Unicron and the super-powered Optimus Supreme, Unicron's body was successfully destroyed.
But unbeknownst to anyone, he lived on in two forms: his miniscule Spark, and his consciousness, which lay buried in Megatron's mind. With quiet, subconscious nudging, Unicron led Megatron to a massive reservoir of "Super Energon" beneath Cybertron's surface, which transformed him into Galvatron upon his first exposure.
After a series of failed battles, Galvatron proceeded to expose himself to the Super Energon once again, and this time grew to a gigantic height. Unicron seized control of his body again for a new vessel and set out to rejoin with his Spark, but a Primus-empowered Optimus Supreme engaged him in battle once more, and drew all of Unicron's consciousness out of Galvatron and sealed it within his own Spark.
Enraged, Galvatron prepared to destroy Unicron's Spark, but it merged with him, enlarging him again, leading to another battle with Optimus Supreme, this time bolstered by the combined energy of all his troops' Sparks. Meanwhile, Primus merged with the Super Energon, creating a foundling sun which arrived at the site of the battle. Taking control of his body for a brief moment, Galvatron made the decision to plunge himself into the infant sun to rid himself of Unicron's posession. The super energon mass, having now recieved Unicron's spark, ignited into a powerful red sun which gave new life to Alpha Q's worlds.
Cybertron
The Planet-Eater's back, and you're gonna be in trouble...
Primus' plan to trap Unicron in the heart of a new sun failed, and instead resulted in a black hole (or Unicron Singularity) that threatened the multiverse. His heralds Ramjet and Nemesis Prime travelled to Cybertron to unleash the Dead Matrix upon Primus' vulnerable essence.
Vector Prime was able to defeat Ramjet and send him into the black hole in which Unicron was trapped, while Sentinel Maximus with the help of Omega Prime was able to stop Nemesis Prime from unleashing the power of the Dead Matrix on Primus. However, Soundwave and Laserbeak were able to retrieve the Dead Matrix, and they brought it to Unicron Singularity's Event Horizon. With some adjustments, the Dead Matrix was able to extract Unicron's spark from the black hole, looking much the way it did when it took over Galvatron at the end of Energon, and, after the lifeforce consumed the planet Yst, the Dark God exploded from the remains reborn.
Toys
Armada
And the fandom rejoiced (and complained).
- Unicron with Mini-Con Dead End (Supreme, 2003)
- Japanese ID number: MX-00
- Unicron from the Armada toyline is an orange and transparent purple Supreme toy that transforms into a planet. It features many Mini-Con Powerlinx plugs on the planet's rings, and "chomping" jaws activated by moving the mandibles. The packed-in Mini-Con Dead End in moon-mode plugs into a specially-shaped socket on Unicron's planet form, just above his gaping maw. Powerlinx plugs on his sides activate the triple spring-loaded missile launchers, which end up on his robot mode legs. In robot mode, he has hidden compartments for Mini-Cons in his robot-mode legs and abdomen. One Powerlinx plug on the back of the robot mode activates blinking eye lights and a cannon that bursts from the chest and shoots a missile. A button on the top of the head also activates the blinking eye lights. Pushing his right hand back slightly into the cuff causes it to light up.
- This toy is notable for being the first "modern" Transformers release in the main line at the $50-price point. Due to his success, other releases like Energon Omega Supreme came into being.
- This mold was used to make the Mini-Con doppelganger of Unicron.
Energon
This is worth more to somebody outside of Japan if it was bought inside Japan.
- Unicron (Supreme, 2004)
- Unicron's Armada toy was redecoed for the Energon toyline, sporting black and transparent orange, with "Energon damage" patterns, representing his shattered and damaged form. All of the gimmicks from the previous versions are intact in this one.
- The Energon packaging shipped with either the orange Armada Unicron or the black Energon Unicron inside in early shipments.
- Unicron (Fast Food Premium, 2004)
Unicron will make an unhappy meal of you.
- Availble in one of two differnt European-market McDonald's Happy Meal promotions, this Unicron toy is based on Energon Unicron, being primarily black. It is very small, and the transformation consists of simply opening the planet mode to reveal the robot.
- When his Energon cube is clicked into position, and his button pressed, his body lights up.
Cybertron
Spawn More Overlords
- Unicron (Deluxe, 2006)
- Unicron in the Cybertron line is a Deluxe-class toy that transforms into a futuristic tank. In robot mode he sports a battle-damaged appearance, with his head featuring a skull-like design mimicking the Unicron head that comes with Cybertron Primus. In both tank and robot modes, he features a main cannon with spring-loaded missile launcher, plus plugging a Cyber Planet Key into his back end upons up a port on his front (which bears a striking similarity to his planet maw) that reveals a (non-firing) triple-barreled cannon. His side-spikes in tank mode can be removed to become hand-weapons in robot mode.
- Cybertron Primus (Supreme, 2006)
And you thought YOU had a bad day...
- Certain shipments of Cybertron's Cybertron Primus toy had a pack-in Unicron head. The head is based on Armada Unicron's and half of the face stripped away to reveal a robotic "skull". To provide the impression of locomotion, tentacles were added to the base of the head.
- The packaging for this variation of Primus was specifically changed with a callout for the Unicron head. this was supposed to originally be the first version of the Primus toy shipped, and only for a limited time, but both versions ended up shipping simultaneously, leading to some hunting to get the packed-in Uniskull.
Titanium Series
Tinycron
- Unicron (Robot Master, 2006)
- Unicron in the Titanium Series line is a 3-inch tall figurine made partially of die-cast metal, with movable arms. One hand holds what seems to be a moon (or he's going bowling). He comes with a Decepticon stand as well.
Unproduced Unicron toys
In crazy, backwards universe, we should've gotten this rather than Armada Unicron.
- Generation 1 Hasbro
- An unproduced toy for Unicron was to have been released in Generation 1. It was a blue and yellow robot about one foot tall and was able to transform into a planet. It was to have come with a voice chip, and a "planet microphone" to allow owners to speak through the toy. It is very fat. It was only shown on display at BotCon 1996.
- Generation 1 Takara
- Takara was to release a toy similiar to Hasbro's attempt, but it was green and yellow, possessing different paint applications and molding. It also was to come with a base that set up a "planetary system" with Unicron and a moon.
- Beast Wars Neo
- Takara tried again to produce a Unicron toy, only going as far as the resin stage. It was said to be around the size of Optimus Primal, and had several gimmicks, such as a laughing face when the horns were squeezed, and a claw and a drill that were stored in the planet "shell" in robot mode. One hardcopy was shown at the Tokyo Toy Fair.
Merchandise
Hard Hero
- Unicron (BotCon 2002)
- It was a huge-ass cold-cast porcelain statue based upon the cartoon design of Unicron.
- It was originally a Botcon 2002 exclusive.
Art Asylum
- Unicron Movie Statue (Diamond Select, 2007)
- It's not out yet!
- This statue of Unicron stands 8 ½” tall and is limited to 1,986 pieces (1986, the year the original Transformers movie was released). It also features a smaller statue of Hot Rod standing upon the centerpiece holding the Matrix aloft. Oddly enough, Hot Rod is in his toy colours.
Trivia
Eastercron.
- In early preproduction for The Transformers: The Movie, Unicron was referred to as the Entity.
- A model sheet from later in the movie's preproduction revealed that, at one point, the planet Unicron would turn into the robot Ingestor. This idea was, obviously, dropped before the film's release.