While their color schemes are somewhat different, they're obvious homages to Treds, Small Foot and Pathfinder from Tonka's Gobots. Fittingly, they retain similar alternate modes to their original ...

While labeled as a Decepticon, the character is actually derived from the evil Renegade from Tonka's Gobots-- a rival franchise to Transformers before Hasbro acquired it. Crasher's robot mode ...