Needlenose (Transformers)
Spinister is a fictional character from the various Transformers series.
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Transformers: Generation 1
Needlenose is a Decepticon jet and double Targetmaster
Marvel Comics
Spinister appeared as one of Thunderwing's Decepticons during the "Matrix Quest" in issue #63-66. He wasn't referred as a Targetmaster.
He last appeared in issue #74, "The Void".
Animated series
Although the animated series ended in the US before Needlenose was released, he appeared in animated form along with the Double Targetmasters in commercials for the toys. While an animated Transformers series continued in Japan at the time, the Double Targetmasters were not released in Japan, and therefore didn't make it to television there.
Dreamwave Productions
Needlenose and his partners did receive a full page biography in Dreamwave's More Than Meets The Eye series.
Fun Publications
Crankcase, Ruckus and Needlenose were referenced in Around Cybertron by Fun Publications where they attacked a waste depot that they mistook for an energon refinery in Axion Nexus.[1]
Toys
- Generation 1 Needlenose with Sunbeam and (1988)
- Came with his two Targetmaster partners.
