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"The flipper of Firestorm has made it one of the most feared robots in Robot Wars. This replica pullback comes with a flamethrower accessory to keep the action hot and manic!"
— Official description from the Robot Wars Online Shop[1]

The pullback toy of Firestorm was made in the image of its real life Robot Wars counterpart. The toy is based upon Firestorm 3, as seen in the first series of Robot Wars Extreme.

Features[]

MiniFirestormFlip

Firestorm with its flipper open

It is armed with its powerful front-hinged flipper, activated by pulling the Firestorm logo back with one's finger. Strangely, Firestorm has a large ground clearance (mostly due to the toy having two small wheels and screws at the front that aren't present on the real machine) which means it cannot get under many pullbacks without outside help. The pullback also has two red aerials on its top, which can easily be snapped off, and secondhand Firestorm pullbacks typically lack the aerials.

Accessories[]

MiniFlamthrowers

The dual-flamethrowers

Firestorm was part of the second phase of Robot Wars pullbacks and did not come with a piece of Gauntlet or Trial equipment, instead coming with a dual-flame thrower turret which resembles the arena wall flamethrowers. The turrets would launch the flames by flicking switches on the arms of the turret.

Differences from real life[]

  • Much like the Wheely Big Cheese pullback, the Firestorm pullback features small black wheels at the front which significantly increase the ground clearance.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • The action toy was released along with Stinger and Wheely Big Cheese after the Refbot toy.
  • Firestorm was one of the few pullbacks whose name panel was not included with the battleboard packaged alongside the Refbot pullback as a result.

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