Loudpedal

Loudpedal is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

LOUD KIDDINGTON

To look at the Tech Specs of Loudpedal (ラウドペダル Raudopedaru), one would think him a useless coward. Suffering from intercranial autocomposition, his brain constantly generates intricate melodies, leaving him constantly distracted. In truth, however, he is a genius without peer: he is one of the galaxy's foremost musicians. Unfortunately, that's not a skill the Decepticons recognize the value of, so they rate him very low, and employ his sonic talents offensively instead. If he concentrates enough, Loudpedal can deploy sound blasts as offensive weapons, or perfectly track down Autobots, or even sculpt solid matter into new shapes and functions.^[1][2]

Fiction

Of Masters and Mayhem

Oh bugger. Is it too late to ask Vivisector if he wants his old job back?

Loudpedal and his research partner Oil Slick operated under the remote direction of Shockwave and Knock Out in a hidden Decepticon bunker. One of their research subjects had been used to test new Combiner technology, as well as growing a Matrix "shell" for Shockwave's exploitation. Deadly Aim An unexpected side effect of the various experiments was the test subject producing toxic sludge from its body, like a universal solvent. At the same time, the subject's own super-structure and internal working adapted to the sludge, by necessity becoming hyper-regenerative and self-repairing.

Loudpedal saw the opportunity to impress his superiors with this creation, and so he and Oil Slick arranged to use the test subject as a weapon. Induced cognizant stasis kept the subject inert between missions, after which it could be unleashed into the field to destroy selected targets before reverting to stasis for safe recovery and storage. Loudpedal made several successful deployments of the subject, and hoped his work (plus stunning good finish) would net him a fellowship with Knock Out himself.

However, Loudpedal allowed his ego and enthusiasm to get the better of him. The stasis-lock implant inside the subject eventually corroded beyond repair. This seemed to be a moot point, for the subject was quite tractable and did not seem to require punishment or restraint any longer to be obedient. Only when reporting to Shockwave and Knock Out did his superiors point out the obvious—the test subject wasn't submissive, he was merely biding his time until the station's resupply schedule provided him an escape ship. Sure enough, the alarms were triggered mere moments after Shockwave ended the video call.

Loudpedal and Oil Slick suffered greatly at the hands of their escaped test subject, who had chosen to call himself...Toxitron. The Toxic Transformer

Noise & Smoke

Loudpedal had once been resigned to a life lacking recognition due to being held back by intercranial autocomposition, a disorder where his brain module constantly generated music, leaving him tetchy and unable to focus. He eventually came upon a solution: connecting to the interplanetary file-sharing system GalacShare and exporting the melodies to free up space. Under the stage name of C Shadow (short for Cymond Shadow), and a holomatter avatar based on the human Raoul, Loudpedal quickly became the galaxy's most popular musician. However, he saw his music as nothing more than buzzing in his head, turning down offers from both the Galactic Olympics and the Interplanetary Royal Family.

One day he was approached by Exhaust, who had deduced his identity by looking at GalacShare's user data in his role of Marlboor Dynamic's corporate espionage agent. Exhaust had a proposition for Loudpedal: in exchange for co-operating with Marlboor's Cyber-Psychology Research Division, Marlboor would support both of his careers as a Decepticon soldier and a musician, with Exhaust acting as his manager and the corporation providing him with new powers and weaponry. Loudpedal initially was wary of this incredibly generous offer, but his concerns were given pause when he realized that Exhaust might be a fan of his. Noise & Smoke

Beast Wars: Uprising

Vivisector the Loudpedal was an early Decepticon researcher into the Point One Percenter phenomenon and what made them come into being. His efforts later served as a basis for Deluge's experiments. The Inexorable March

Toys

Masterpiece

The sound of violence.

• Loudpedal (June 11, 2016)

• ID number: MP-25L
• Accessories: Gun, grill gun, flight stand, holomatter avatar minifigure, Soundwarrior, rear-view mirrors

Masterpiece Loudpedal is a redeco and retool of Masterpiece Tracks, featuring a toy-accurate headsculpt. His deco is based on the black Diaclone Corvette Stingray variant released in 1984 only in Finland (and not the later "Black Tracks" that has its unique deco). He comes with the gun from the Road Rage release of the mold; a redeco of the Raoul minifigure from the original Tracks release, now in his "Auto-Bop" color scheme, representing Loudpedal's holomatter avatar; and a redeco of the Blaster boombox in the colors of his original Micro Change "RadiCasse Robo" toy, now representing Loudpedal's pocket "Soundwarrior" media player. He also comes with a sticker sheet, allowing the owner to replace the Decepticon symbol in the middle of the flame pattern on the hood with the "CS" logo featured on the original Diaclone release of the Corvette Stingray mold; for the purposes of this toy, however, the "CS" stands for "Cymond Shadow". A short story about Loudpedal called "Noise & Smoke" is printed on his instruction sheet.

Loudpedal exclusively debuted at Tokyo Toy Show 2016, with remaining stock sold at TakaraTomy Mall.

• Translation of Noise & Smoke

Notes

• "Loud pedal" is another name for the sustain pedal found on pianos. It's also a slang term for the accelerator pedal on a car.
• The prose story "The Toxic Transformer" established a character named Vivisector that was based on the black Diaclone Stingray; the story was released less than a day before the announcement of Masterpiece Loudpedal, which was based on the same Diaclone origin. Fun Publications author Luke Thompson had no idea about plans for a Masterpiece version of "black Tracks", so that's quite a coincidence! He would subsequently rewrite the story to replace "Vivisector" with "Loudpedal".

See also

• Black Tracks

References

External links

• TFSquareOne article on the history of Black Tracks