Sub-Group: Dinobot

First seen in stores:
                   March 2000

Other appearances: None, other than the brief cameo in the BotCon '01 comic seen below.  But how much cooler would it have been if Striker were named: "Snarl!"   Perhaps this could still be thought of as the original slow-witted Dinobot Stegosaurus reborn!

Origin: "In a desparate attempt to combat Megatron's technorganic virus on Cybertron, the Oracle supercomputer reformats a group of surviving Transformers, rendering them immune to the plague and extremely powerful.  Using the DNA schematics of former Maximal Dinobot, each warrior emerges as a hybrid of savage prehistoric power and advanced Cybertronian robotics... the result, the fearsome Dinobots are born!"

STRIKER IN BOX