Circuit (OC)
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- Circuit is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Circuit (サーキット Sākitto), being a formula race car, is naturally the fastest member of the Turbo Team, and acts as a scout and a messenger. He's also dangerous on the road—he's not bad at driving, just really excitable. This drives his chief Road Police crazy.
Also, he says he can talk to the wind. Nobody's quite sure what to make of this.
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Fiction
Micromaster
Circuit was infected with the mind changer virus, which turned him into a Decepticon, and he went about causing random destruction with his similarly altered Turbo Teammates. Circuit was apparently the last of the five to be infected. The sixth team member Sireen had escaped infection, and tricked Circuit and the others into combining with him to form Sixturbo. This connection allowed him to spread a specially prepared antivirus program throughout the team, restoring them all to normal. Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!
Circuit was present as part of Sixturbo when the Autobots first confronted Sixwing's berserker mode. Enter the Decepticon Sixwing!!
Later, Circuit felt a strange wind coming from the dimensional tear that brought the Multiforce into the six-teams' era. The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!
Operation Combination
Decades later, Circuit and the rest of the Six-team Micromasters joined Guard City and the Road Corps in defending Earth from the forces of the Decepticon High Regent Scrash. Operation Combination
Legends comic
In 2038, Circuit was on Zone when it was invaded by the forces of Violengiguar and Dark Nova. Along with a number of fellow Micromasters, he swarmed the possessed body of Dai Atlas, distracting the Decepticon spirit inside until heavier weaponry could be brought to the battlefield. LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One
Toys
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
- Sixturbo (Micromaster Six-Team, 1992)
- ID number: TF-03
- Released in the Operation Combination portion of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, Circuit transforms into a Formula 1 race car. He can also form the arm to any Six-Team super robot, though his nominal placement is as the left arm of Sixturbo. In arm mode, he's "enhanced" by a radar scanner/missile pod that doesn't work with either of his other modes, and doesn't go anywhere in general but onto the combiner kibble's combined jet mode.
- The toy's larger connector socket is approximately 5mm wide, making Circuit compatible with a lot of accessories and other toys.
- He was only available as part of a complete Sixturbo gift set, packed with his teammates Discharge, Glide, Neo-Wheel, Road Police, and Sireen.
- The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find, due to their final-year release well after Transformers had faded from relevance in Japan, and thus command some hefty prices even with the molds' later re-releases.
- This mold was also used to make Universe Streetwise.
Micromaster
- Circuit (Micromaster, 2002)
- ID number: 3
- Accessories: Left Sixturbo fist, radar/missile pod
- In 2002, the entire Sixturbo team was re-released in the second wave of The Transformers: Micromaster, in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. For this release, all of the decals from the original version were removed, and mostly replaced with paint applications, including several new bits of deco. Circuit loses his all of the silver-backed sponsor/number text from the original version (none of the Micromaster Six-Teams use tampographs for more complex deco), but gains red stripes on his front wing, silver paint on his midriff... and his face is now silver instead of blue, bleh. His gray plastics are also now a lighter shade.
- On top of this, two out of every twelve toys in the shipping/display case were all-black-plastic, nigh-unpainted "Reverse Evolution"-mode chase figures with white Decepticon sigils. Even the combiner kibble was cast in black, albeit a little more dark-gunmetal.
Notes
- Circuit's spoiler-mounted sticker went through an interesting change between pre-production and final release: as shown by the September 1992 issue of TV Magazine, he was originally sponsored by Citanes, the same barely-altered-to-avoid-infringement cigarette company that appeared on the original Mirage!
- Like all of the six-team Micromasters, Circuit had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Operation Combination release.
