Scraphook is an Autobot-allied Junkion Weaponizer from the Legacy: Evolution portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

And there… at the end of the scrap… was a HOOK.

The toughened and fearless new Junkion cadet Scraphook is built like a particularly heavy truck.^[1] This bruiser is of average intelligence and isn't terribly fast, but his powerful dual phaser blasters unleash disabling electromagnetic energy pulses. Scraphook can also lend parts of himself to other Junkions to serve as armor, or even combine with other Junkions to form combiners!^[2] And if everyone else is busy, he's proficient in delivering his own "elbow hook drop" and his patented "junkpile driver." Wait, how did he lose the eye?^[3]

Fiction

Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic

Scraphook was a spectator for the second week of the Speedia 500 on Velocitron. Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 3

Toys

Legacy

Whatever you do, DO NOT EAT the free pistachio ice cream! It has TURNED.

• Scraphook (Deluxe Class, 2023)

• TakaraTomy ID number: TL-30
• TakaraTomy release date: May 27, 2023
• Accessories: Tow-arm, tow hook, left & right exhaust pipes, wheel shield, 2 engine-blower "dual phaser blasters"
• Known designers: Mark Maher (Hasbro), Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy), Marcelo Matere and Dan Khanna (concept art)^[4]

Part of the first wave of Deluxes in Legacy: Evolution, Scraphook transforms into a junky, post-apocalyptic, weirdly-symmetrical-damage-having tow truck. He is outfitted with seven different accessories, which can all be integrated into his truck mode. His wheels are separated from his hubcaps, meaning any accessories plugged into the rims' 5 mm holes similarly don't spin. His lower elbow joints are made of unpaintable softer plastic, which often causes his arms to pop off when attempting to rotate or transform them, but they're just as easily reattached. Again, due to said softer plastic, it's generally impossible for him to wield medium-to-larger weapons unless the arms are raised horizontally to the front.

Scraphook's Evo-Fusion function is analogous to the Weaponizer gimmick from the War for Cybertron Trilogy toylines: his body splits apart to form armor and weapon enhancements for his allies. Unlike previous figures of this nature, however, Scraphook does not need to be disassembled to change from robot to truck and back.

As per designer Mark Maher, Scraphook is color-matched to Junkion leader Studio Series 86-09 Voyager Class Wreck-Gar.^[4]

Scraphook was later retooled with a new head into Buzzworthy Bumblebee Tow-Line and more heavily retooled into fellow (well… not so fellow) Junkion Axlegrease as well as Legacy: United Star Raider Lockdown.

• Mark Maher's designer commentary on Legacy Evolution Scraphook
• Mark Maher's "behind the scenes" on Legacy Evolution Scraphook

Notes

I'm also Scraphook.

• Scraphook appears on the Legacy: Evolution packaging mural drawn in an earlier design^[3] in which he transforms backwards in contrast to how the finalized toy is configured.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Scraphook (スクラップフック Sukurappufukku)

References