Cyclone Magnum

* Original
* TRF
* Premium
* Memorial

Super TZ-X Chassis (21st Century/21st Century Ver. II/Fully Cowled Mini 4WD 25th Anniversary)
AR Chassis (Premium)

### **Release Date**

**Regular releases**
September 18, 1996 (Normal)
February 22, 1997 (TRF)
November 21, 2014 (Premium)
**Limited editions**September 25, 2003 (Limited Blue Plated/TRF Limited Purple Plated)
October 27, 2007 (Special Kit)
December 2013 (21st Century)
December 2016 (21st Century II)
May 2017 (Graha Tamiya 1st Anniversary SP)
June 2018 (Blue Metallic ver.)
November 2, 2019 (Memorial)

## In Fictional Media

### **Owner**

Go Seiba

The **Cyclone Magnum** (Japanese: サイクロンマグナム, **Saikuron Magunamu**) is a Fully Cowled Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on September 18, 1996. The TRF version, as well as the Premium variant of the car, were also released in 1997 and 2014 respectively.

It was featured in the manga and anime *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!* and *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP* as Go Seiba's 4th machine, preceded by the Victory Magnum and suceeded by the Beat-Magnum. The TRF version was also appears in various *Let's & Go!* video games. Later on, Go also owns a blue metallic version of the Cyclone Magnum as a substitute as his Great Magnum Revolver was still under repair in *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers!**.*

## General info

The Cyclone Magnum featuring the fully-cowled body design that has been redesigned from the ground up.

The front nose tip of the car became thinner and sharper, with the entire front became more diamond-shaped. The front cowls were separated from the nose and were more square-shaped, with the rear half of it were removed, exposing the half of the front wheels and tires. The rear fenders were became more blocky and were placed at the same height as the black canopy. There's a wider large rear spoiler attached to the bodyshell via 2-point attachments and is extended toward the rear of the car.

### Cyclone Magnum and Premium

The standard variant and Premium variant featuring the very same color scheme as its predecessors, with the white base body with blue flame-styled highlight with red trims. Above the 'Go' emblem on the front and on the winglets is the 'C Magnum' decals.

The original variant was equipped with the fluorescent green, small-diameter 6-spoke TZ-type wheels paired with the black high profile slick tires, while the Premium variant was equipped with the the fluorescent green, small diameter 5-spoke Saber-type low-profile wheels paired with the black low profile slick tires. The original variant's chassis frame and A parts were molded in black, while the Premium variant's were molded in metallic gray and blue respectively.

Only the Premium variant comes with a standard motor.

### TRF variant

The TRF version includes the holes in certain parts of the bodyshell, including the canopy, similar to those used in Fighter Magnum VFX and Beat-Magnum TRF, as well as change in the wheel color (white instead of fluorescent green). In addition, the rear wing has been redesigned. It is mainly in white, with blue/yellow highlights.

Instead of the normal 14 mm front rollers, it comes with the 16 mm front rollers. It doesn't comes with a standard motor.

### Blue Plated and TRF Purple Plated

The limited Blue Plated and TRF Purple Plated variants comes with the bodyshells painted in blue plate and purple plate color respectively. In addition, the chassis frame and A parts were molded in black smoke and white respectively.

Unlike the original variant and the TRF variant, both plated variants comes with the standard motors.

### 21st Century I and II

The Charatoru-limited special variants were released in two different versions with two sets of colors. All variants were equipped with the Super TZ-X Chassis.

### Graha Tamiya 1st Anniversary Special variant

The Indonesia-exclusive, limited edition Graha Tamiya 1st Anniversary Special variant was based on the TRF variant. It features the orange body color with white and yellow highlights.

It was equipped with the yellow, small-diameter 3-spoke VS-type wheels and the white X-type narrow slick tires. It has the polycarbonate-mixed ABS reinforced chassis frame and A parts molded in white and orange respectively.

### Blue Metallic Version variant

The Blue Metallic Version variant, first released as a *CoroCoro Aniki*-exclusive item and later sold at the Tamiya events, features the blue plated bodyshell and green plated wheels. The kit also comes with a original body decals designed by Tetsuhiro Koshita, which also appeared in the manga.

Most of the specs, however, are the same as the standard Premium variant.

### Memorial variant

The Memorial variant, which was created to celebrate 25 years of Fully Cowled Mini 4WD lineup, features the polycarbonate bodyshell with plastic attachments. Like the 21st Century variants, it was equipped with the Super TZ-X Chassis.

It was equipped with the fluorescent green, 6-spoke spiral type wheels paired with the black low-profile tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in white. It comes with the blue, 13mm plastic rollers on the front.

## In media

### *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!* series

In both media, the Cyclone Magnum was made by Go Seiba himself. In the anime, it has the superior downforce, which allows it have most of the grips all the time.

In the manga, shortly after his Victory Magnum was completely crushed by Gen's Brocken Gigant, Go, with the small help from his brother Retsu, rebuilt the car inside Professor Ogami's underground lab with the ZMC putty and the tools provided by Professor Tsuchiya.

In the anime, days after the disaster that is having Rei Hijikata's Ray Stinger destroyed his Victory Magnum, Go was brought to Professor Tsuchiya's lab by Retsu as J found the design of Victory Magnum and intend to rebuilt it using the V-Project building machine. However, as J explained, the Magnum will not be the same Magnum as Go wanted, so he suggest that they should design the new Magnum with the experiential virtual simulator inside the lab.

However, as Go is using the simulator, Kai Okita, one of the Ogami trios, managed to hack into the lab, and find out that there's a on-going simulation race. Although Kai injected the scorpion-like virtual car (visualizing a computer virus) into the simulation race and destroying the data inside the lab's computers, Go managed to reform the car into something new, and overtakes the scorpion car. When the hope seems lost as the design data is gone, Go claimed that he remembered the car design. Go and J continuously refines the Cyclone Magnum design with only one week left before the Grand Japan Cup autumn event. The car was finally completed minutes before the event race began due to Go's mistake.

It was only days after the GJC autumn event (where Go finished at 4th place due to having the front of the bodyshell suddenly open up during the race), it was revealed that despite Cyclone Magnum's superior downforce, the bodyshell's material was not strong enough to holds the intense pressure built inside the bodyshell during running, causing it to breaks. They only managed to fix this problem when Professor Tsuchiya gives J a special spray that hardens the bodyshell's plastic.

During a race against the Rosso Strada team in *WGP*, the Cyclone Magnum was temporarily repaired with parts from Go's teammates' cars after it was damaged due to Rosso Strada's dirty battle racing tactics. The Cyclone Magnum was upgraded into Beat-Magnum following that race.

In *Return Racers!*, in order to race against Retsu and Chiiko and their Great BlastSonic on the beach, the teenage Go created a customized blue metallic version of the Cyclone Magnum Premium kit (sporting the thunder-pattern body decal) as his Great Magnum Revolver was still under repair following his race against Haruto and his Haru 100 at the Japan Cup race in the last chapter.

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

In the game, the Cyclone Magnum bodyshell was introduced on March 25, 2020, and was obtainable in multiple time-limited gacha even since. Its skill is the "Flying Machine", which increase the top speed even further than the Speed Up+ skill. There's also a game-exclusive blue plated bodyshell, but the difference is purely aesthetic.

A Soramaru Christmas Special variant of the Cyclone Magnum was introduced in December 2020 as a reward for beating the voice actress Sora Tokui in a time-limited event that was held from December 16 to 26, 2020. This variant has the Power Up+ skill.

The TRF variant was later introduced in January 2021. Unlike the rest of the bodyshells, the TRF variant is lighter, weighted at only 10 grams in unmodified state. Its special skill is Efficiency Up+.

The Premium variant was introduced on March 9, 2022, sporting the different "Magnum Driving" skill, which increases speed, tire friction by 10 percent and 15 percent, but decreases corner stability by 50 percent. It is also has the special "Go's High Speed Modification" mod, which increase speed, reduce weight at the expense of reduced corner stability.

With the introduction of the Magnum Tornado gimmick on January 11, 2023, a special Tornado Special variant was introduced. The Tornado Special has the "Magnum Tornado the 3rd" skill which, in addition to the ability to perform the Magnum Tornado in specific sections of the track, increase bounce absorption, tire friction and speed by 400 percent, 15 percent and 7 percent respectively. Just like the Premium variant, the "Go's High Speed Modification" mod can be applied to the Tornado Special body.

## Gallery

### Boxarts

Boxart of the original Cyclone Magnum.Boxart of the TRF.Boxart of the Limited Special Blue Plated Version.Boxart of the Special Kit.Boxart of the Premium variant.Boxart of Graha Tamiya 1st Anniversary Special variant.Boxart of Memorial variant.
### Images

Magnum series Mini 4WD cars.Cyclone Magnum Premium and Z Wing Magnum.Cyclone Magnum Premium and Hurricane Sonic Premium.

## Trivia

* The original Cyclone Magnum was chosen to be the cover car for the 1996 season of Tamiya Japan Cup.
* The Fast Attack Puppet Magnum card that included in the DMX-22 Super Black Box Pack of the *Duel Masters* TCG has the artwork depicting Go Seiba riding on his (up-scaled) Cyclone Magnum while in the wild west outfit and holding a pair of pistols.
* In one scene of the chapter 15 of the manga series *Assassination Classroom*, one of the items that Koro-Sensei put into his (overstuffed) backpack is a Cyclone Magnum Mini 4WD car.
* According to Koshita in a series of interviews on *CoroCoro* official website, the design of Cyclone Magnum's front fenders were inspired by the sports bike's front fender.
	+ Koshita also revealed that as soon as he heard that the Super TZ Chassis was completed, he began to design the Cyclone Magnum for the new chassis. He also added that the bodyshell was designed to be more lightweight to make it and the Super TZ Chassis a perfect pair.
* In *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's and Go!! Eternal Wings*, using the battery-draining special boost with a custom player character for both the standard or the TRF variant during a race results in a silence for several seconds before the move begins, as the player character has no voice clips.
* The Cyclone Magnum is one of Mini 4WD cars that was later made as a 1/12 Quick Drive R/C car by Tamiya, the others being Dash-0 Horizon, Dash-1 Emperor, and Hurricane Sonic (the former two are 1/14 scale).

## See also

* Magnum Saber
* Victory Magnum
* Beat-Magnum
* Lightning-Magnum
* BisonMagnum
* Z Wing Magnum
* Dual Hybrid G Magnum
* Great Magnum Type-Zero
* Great Magnum R

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Cyclone Magnum at Tamiya Japan (Japanese)
* Cyclone Magnum TRF at Tamiya Japan (Japanese)
* Cyclone Magnum Special Kit at Tamiya Japan (archived)
* Cyclone Magnum Premium at Tamiya Japan
* Cyclone Magnum Memorial at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Cyclone Magnum Special Kit at Tamiya America
* Cyclone Magnum Premium at Tamiya America
* Cyclone Magnum Memorial at Tamiya America

### Charatoru

* Cyclone Magnum 21st Century Edition at Charatoru (Japanese)
* Cyclone Magnum 21st Century Edition 2 at Charatoru (Japanese)