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Trailer

2012-01-18T15:00:41Z

12.34.246.31: /* Live-action film series */

{{disambig2|the thing that trucks pull|cinema advertisements for theatrical films|commercial}}
A '''trailer''' is a cargo carrier used to transport heavy or large amounts of cargo from one point to another. Although such a purpose is useful in and of itself to a [[Transformer]], many other Transformers find ways to alter or modify them if their [[alternate mode]] is capable of pulling a trailer.

If you're the [[Prime (rank)|leader]] of the [[Autobot|Autobots]], it's pretty much a rule that you have [[Optimus Prime (G1)|to]] [[Hot Rod (G1)|have]] [[Sentinel Prime (G1)#IDW comics continuity|a]] [[Nova Prime|trailer]]. However, there [[Supreme Commander|are]] [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|a]] [[Star Saber (Victory)|few]] [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|exceptions]].

==Generation 1==
[[Image:PowermasterOptimusPrime toy.jpg|150px|right|thumb]]
[[Image:Pepsiconvoytoy.jpg|150px|thumb|right]]
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] has a trailer in many, but not all of his configurations.
**His original form had a trailer that stored [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] and transforms into the [[Combat Deck]].
**His [[Powermaster]] trailer became a battle station or Optimus was able to combine with it to form a [[Super Mode]] for himself.
***Powermaster Prime later had a second trailer, [[Apex Bomber]]. This was a [[Drone|drone]] with a robot mode of its own and also gave Prime's super mode additional [[Apex Armor (G1)|Apex Armor]].
**[[Action Master]] Optimus Prime didn't have a trailer, but his [[Action Master vehicle|vehicle]], [[Armored Convoy]], did.
**Laser Optimus Prime's trailer turned into a battle station.
**His [[Machine Wars]] trailer transforms into a assault tower.
**Both Pepsi Optimus Prime and [[Pepsi Convoy]] had trailers that hauled Pepsi around.
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime's]] trailer becomes his [[Mobile Defense Bay]].
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] combines with his car-carrier trailer to form a Super Mode.
*[[Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]] Ultra Magnus has a trailer that transforms into a battle station.
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] transforms into robot mode with his cab and trailer as a complete unit.
*[[Thunder Clash]] has a trailer that transforms into a battle station.

==''Classics''==
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] tow the [[Wave Crusher]] that transforms into their jetpacks.
*[[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] has a similar trailer, [[Tidal Wave (Classics)|Tidal Wave]], with slightly different abilities.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1===
Ultra Magnus's super mode was generally treated as his default robot mode to distinguish him from Optimus Prime.

=====Dreamwave comics continuity=====
As the exception to the rule, Ultra Magnus shed his super mode armor to survive a blast from [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|War and Peace}}

=====IDW Comics=====
Optimus Prime is [[Orbital jump|bounced]] down to Brasnya without his trailer. Several panels later, his trailer arrives via the bounce as well. Prime later downloaded his consciousness into secondary buffers in the trailer section when attacked by Megatron in Brasnya. From his description of the process, it appears that he may have done this before, but not at a distance or under combat conditions. His trailer stores [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] and transforms into the Combat Deck. {{storylink|The Transformers: Escalation|Escalation}}

====Generation 1 cartoon====
Optimus Prime stored [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] and his Combat Deck in his trailer, using them whenever the need arose. This included the battle to prevent the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] from leaving [[Earth]] and returning to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. However, during the battle, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] destroyed the trailer. Not to be outdone, Optimus Prime merely "pointed" at the [[Decepticon leader]], causing him to somehow receive heavy fire. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

Over the course of the war, Optimus Prime would use the trailer to contain extinct herbivores {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}, transport [[Elita One]] to [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]'s lab {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}} and carry the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] to [[Sub-Atlantica]], even though [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] has at least a few feet on Prime {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}}. If anything, the trailer is roomy.

====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon====
[[Ginrai]] was kidnapped by his own [[Transtector]], which drove him to the base of [[Mount Yatsugatake]] in [[Nagano]]. There, a group of workers drilling a tunnel through the mountain had encountered a strange black form, which eventually turned out to be a trailer for Ginrai's Transtector. {{Storylink|Friend or Foe!? The True Form of the Monster!!}} He later found that he could combine with the trailer to form Super Ginrai. {{Storylink|Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai}}

===Robots in Disguise===
[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]]'s trailer could transform into an independent battle station. {{storylink|Battle Protocol!}} He could also combine with it to form his [[Super Mode|Battle Mode]], giving him a larger array of weapons. {{storylink|An Explosive Situation}} [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] also possessed a trailer that could become a battle station. {{storylink|Sky-Byte Saves the Day}} [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]] combined with his trailer to form his, uh... legs. He could fire beams of energy from his trailer's tail lights to paralyze other Autobots and force them onto his trailer. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus (episode)|Ultra Magnus}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
====Armada====
[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] is capable of combining with his trailer to form a super mode, making him taller than [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] at least.

His Minicon [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] is able to drive the trailer, called the "container" by sitting atop of it in vehicle mode. {{storylink|Jungle}}

After being attacked by Decepticons, Optimus Prime fired his weapons from the trailer in defense. After retaliation by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] left Optimus dazed, [[Sparkplug (Armada)|a]] [[Longarm (Armada)|bunch]] [[Jolt (Armada)|of]] [[Street Action Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Mini-Cons]] manned the weaponry. They continued to fire against the Decepticons and were eventually successful in causing [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] to lose control and drop a Mini-Con panel. {{storylink|Prehistory}}
Sparkplug appeared out of nowhere at Optimus Prime's beckoning to help combine him into Super Mode to fight the Decepticons. {{storylink|Conspiracy}} Again in his super mode, Optimus un-combined with correct timing, causing his trailer to fall onto Megatron. {{storylink|Trust (Armada)|Trust}}

====Energon====
Optimus Prime's trailer contains the [[Prime Force]] drone units, which combine with the Autobot leader to form his super mode. The trailer itself just tilts onto its end, forming a garage/launch bay for the drones.

====Cybertron====
Optimus Prime used his trailer to combine with his body to form a super mode. Oddly enough, in vehicle mode, Prime's trailer held rather large cannons, despite the fact that it was a fire truck. [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] brought this up, but Prime merely replied that a fire truck was larger than a tank. {{storylink|Inferno (episode)|Inferno}} On the other hand, the cannons ''could'' spray water...

===Animated===
[[Image:TFA Headmaster Optimus trailer.JPG|right|175px|thumb|Note that his emergency light bar is also missing. When Optimus gets into character, he doesn't do it by halves.]]

This [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] is sometimes just a semi cab (an ''emergency'' semi cab, with a light bar), and sometimes an entire fire truck, with the rest of the truck just popping up with no explanation. His case is particularly unusual, since A) firetrucks aren't usually based on semi cabs, B) in full-firetruck mode, he appears to be all one piece, not articulated like a traditional tractor-trailer, and C) sometimes he pulls genuine semitrailers instead of his "firetruck trailer". {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} {{storylink|Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster}} {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}}

[[Daniel Witwicky (Animated)|A young boy]] once asked where Prime's trailer went when he transformed into robot mode. Optimus hemmed and hawed; history does not relate if he ever gave a coherent answer. {{storylink|Career Day}}

{{-}}

===Live-action film series===
Following the battle of [[Mission City]], the [[William Lennox|human]] [[Robert Epps|soldiers]] found a trailer for [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] to transport [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]]'s body. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1}} It became Jazz's coffin when the military dumped it into the ocean during his funeral. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3}}

Later, both Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] equipped themselves with trailers. It is possible that Optimus used the materials donated by [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]] as mass to create this new trailer; this is suggested by the fact that Optimus was able to transform his trailer into a jetpack as well as a weapons platform. They converted to the [[Armored Weapons Platform]] and [[Blastwave Weapons Base]], respectively. {{storylink|Cyberverse}}

===Prime===
[[Image:Convoy-Optimustrailer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|]]
[[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] had a trailer on hand to transport the [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System|DNGS]]. It was able to transform into a flatbed to allow the other Autobots to move the DNGS into a train. The pursuit by [[MECH]] agents and [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] fliers caused the trailer to detach and explode. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}}

Optimus got himself an identical replacement, which he used to haul around the prisoner [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Partners}}
{{-}}

==Notes==
*When Optimus Prime [[Transformation|transforms]] into [[robot mode]], his trailer usually disappears, only to reattach itself to Prime whenever he goes into vehicle mode. Many fan theories about this disappearance have arisen over the years, with the most popular being that Prime stores the trailer in [[subspace]]. ''IDW comics gives a nod to this, by having the trailer arrive at Prime's location using the orbital jump.''
**However, according to an early catalog, after Optimus Prime transforms into robot mode, the trailer is teleported to the base via a special signal.<ref>Page 69, ''[[Transformers Generations 2011]]''</ref>
**[[Flint Dille]]'s explanation for Prime's disappearing trailer is the substance [[Disappearium]].
**The Marvel G1 Comic generally kept better track of Prime's trailer. If he didn't bring it with him, he would transform without it. It seemed to pop in and out in the G2 comic, though.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Animated]]
[[Category:Classics]]
[[Category:Dark of the Moon]]
[[Category:Generation 1 technology]]
[[Category:Generation 1 vehicles]]
[[Category:Prime]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Transformer culture]]
[[Category:Unicron Trilogy]]

Trailer

2012-01-18T15:00:15Z

12.34.246.31: /* Live-action film series */

{{disambig2|the thing that trucks pull|cinema advertisements for theatrical films|commercial}}
A '''trailer''' is a cargo carrier used to transport heavy or large amounts of cargo from one point to another. Although such a purpose is useful in and of itself to a [[Transformer]], many other Transformers find ways to alter or modify them if their [[alternate mode]] is capable of pulling a trailer.

If you're the [[Prime (rank)|leader]] of the [[Autobot|Autobots]], it's pretty much a rule that you have [[Optimus Prime (G1)|to]] [[Hot Rod (G1)|have]] [[Sentinel Prime (G1)#IDW comics continuity|a]] [[Nova Prime|trailer]]. However, there [[Supreme Commander|are]] [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|a]] [[Star Saber (Victory)|few]] [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|exceptions]].

==Generation 1==
[[Image:PowermasterOptimusPrime toy.jpg|150px|right|thumb]]
[[Image:Pepsiconvoytoy.jpg|150px|thumb|right]]
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] has a trailer in many, but not all of his configurations.
**His original form had a trailer that stored [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] and transforms into the [[Combat Deck]].
**His [[Powermaster]] trailer became a battle station or Optimus was able to combine with it to form a [[Super Mode]] for himself.
***Powermaster Prime later had a second trailer, [[Apex Bomber]]. This was a [[Drone|drone]] with a robot mode of its own and also gave Prime's super mode additional [[Apex Armor (G1)|Apex Armor]].
**[[Action Master]] Optimus Prime didn't have a trailer, but his [[Action Master vehicle|vehicle]], [[Armored Convoy]], did.
**Laser Optimus Prime's trailer turned into a battle station.
**His [[Machine Wars]] trailer transforms into a assault tower.
**Both Pepsi Optimus Prime and [[Pepsi Convoy]] had trailers that hauled Pepsi around.
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime's]] trailer becomes his [[Mobile Defense Bay]].
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] combines with his car-carrier trailer to form a Super Mode.
*[[Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]] Ultra Magnus has a trailer that transforms into a battle station.
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] transforms into robot mode with his cab and trailer as a complete unit.
*[[Thunder Clash]] has a trailer that transforms into a battle station.

==''Classics''==
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] tow the [[Wave Crusher]] that transforms into their jetpacks.
*[[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] has a similar trailer, [[Tidal Wave (Classics)|Tidal Wave]], with slightly different abilities.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1===
Ultra Magnus's super mode was generally treated as his default robot mode to distinguish him from Optimus Prime.

=====Dreamwave comics continuity=====
As the exception to the rule, Ultra Magnus shed his super mode armor to survive a blast from [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|War and Peace}}

=====IDW Comics=====
Optimus Prime is [[Orbital jump|bounced]] down to Brasnya without his trailer. Several panels later, his trailer arrives via the bounce as well. Prime later downloaded his consciousness into secondary buffers in the trailer section when attacked by Megatron in Brasnya. From his description of the process, it appears that he may have done this before, but not at a distance or under combat conditions. His trailer stores [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] and transforms into the Combat Deck. {{storylink|The Transformers: Escalation|Escalation}}

====Generation 1 cartoon====
Optimus Prime stored [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] and his Combat Deck in his trailer, using them whenever the need arose. This included the battle to prevent the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] from leaving [[Earth]] and returning to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. However, during the battle, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] destroyed the trailer. Not to be outdone, Optimus Prime merely "pointed" at the [[Decepticon leader]], causing him to somehow receive heavy fire. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

Over the course of the war, Optimus Prime would use the trailer to contain extinct herbivores {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}, transport [[Elita One]] to [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]'s lab {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}} and carry the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] to [[Sub-Atlantica]], even though [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] has at least a few feet on Prime {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}}. If anything, the trailer is roomy.

====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon====
[[Ginrai]] was kidnapped by his own [[Transtector]], which drove him to the base of [[Mount Yatsugatake]] in [[Nagano]]. There, a group of workers drilling a tunnel through the mountain had encountered a strange black form, which eventually turned out to be a trailer for Ginrai's Transtector. {{Storylink|Friend or Foe!? The True Form of the Monster!!}} He later found that he could combine with the trailer to form Super Ginrai. {{Storylink|Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai}}

===Robots in Disguise===
[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]]'s trailer could transform into an independent battle station. {{storylink|Battle Protocol!}} He could also combine with it to form his [[Super Mode|Battle Mode]], giving him a larger array of weapons. {{storylink|An Explosive Situation}} [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] also possessed a trailer that could become a battle station. {{storylink|Sky-Byte Saves the Day}} [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]] combined with his trailer to form his, uh... legs. He could fire beams of energy from his trailer's tail lights to paralyze other Autobots and force them onto his trailer. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus (episode)|Ultra Magnus}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
====Armada====
[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] is capable of combining with his trailer to form a super mode, making him taller than [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] at least.

His Minicon [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] is able to drive the trailer, called the "container" by sitting atop of it in vehicle mode. {{storylink|Jungle}}

After being attacked by Decepticons, Optimus Prime fired his weapons from the trailer in defense. After retaliation by [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] left Optimus dazed, [[Sparkplug (Armada)|a]] [[Longarm (Armada)|bunch]] [[Jolt (Armada)|of]] [[Street Action Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Mini-Cons]] manned the weaponry. They continued to fire against the Decepticons and were eventually successful in causing [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] to lose control and drop a Mini-Con panel. {{storylink|Prehistory}}
Sparkplug appeared out of nowhere at Optimus Prime's beckoning to help combine him into Super Mode to fight the Decepticons. {{storylink|Conspiracy}} Again in his super mode, Optimus un-combined with correct timing, causing his trailer to fall onto Megatron. {{storylink|Trust (Armada)|Trust}}

====Energon====
Optimus Prime's trailer contains the [[Prime Force]] drone units, which combine with the Autobot leader to form his super mode. The trailer itself just tilts onto its end, forming a garage/launch bay for the drones.

====Cybertron====
Optimus Prime used his trailer to combine with his body to form a super mode. Oddly enough, in vehicle mode, Prime's trailer held rather large cannons, despite the fact that it was a fire truck. [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] brought this up, but Prime merely replied that a fire truck was larger than a tank. {{storylink|Inferno (episode)|Inferno}} On the other hand, the cannons ''could'' spray water...

===Animated===
[[Image:TFA Headmaster Optimus trailer.JPG|right|175px|thumb|Note that his emergency light bar is also missing. When Optimus gets into character, he doesn't do it by halves.]]

This [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] is sometimes just a semi cab (an ''emergency'' semi cab, with a light bar), and sometimes an entire fire truck, with the rest of the truck just popping up with no explanation. His case is particularly unusual, since A) firetrucks aren't usually based on semi cabs, B) in full-firetruck mode, he appears to be all one piece, not articulated like a traditional tractor-trailer, and C) sometimes he pulls genuine semitrailers instead of his "firetruck trailer". {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} {{storylink|Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster}} {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}}

[[Daniel Witwicky (Animated)|A young boy]] once asked where Prime's trailer went when he transformed into robot mode. Optimus hemmed and hawed; history does not relate if he ever gave a coherent answer. {{storylink|Career Day}}

{{-}}

===Live-action film series===
Following the battle of [[Mission City]], the [[William Lennox|human]] [[Robert Epps|soldiers]] found a trailer for [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] to transport [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]]'s body. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1}} It became Jazz's coffin when the military dumped it into the ocean during his funeral. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3}}

Later, both Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] equipped themselves with trailers. It is possible that Optimus used the materials donated by [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] as mass to create this new trailer; this is suggested by the fact that Optimus was able to transform his trailer into a jetpack as well as a weapons platform. They converted to the [[Armored Weapons Platform]] and [[Blastwave Weapons Base]], respectively. {{storylink|Cyberverse}}

===Prime===
[[Image:Convoy-Optimustrailer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|]]
[[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] had a trailer on hand to transport the [[Dynamic Nuclear Generation System|DNGS]]. It was able to transform into a flatbed to allow the other Autobots to move the DNGS into a train. The pursuit by [[MECH]] agents and [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] fliers caused the trailer to detach and explode. {{storylink|Convoy (episode)|Convoy}}

Optimus got himself an identical replacement, which he used to haul around the prisoner [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Partners}}
{{-}}

==Notes==
*When Optimus Prime [[Transformation|transforms]] into [[robot mode]], his trailer usually disappears, only to reattach itself to Prime whenever he goes into vehicle mode. Many fan theories about this disappearance have arisen over the years, with the most popular being that Prime stores the trailer in [[subspace]]. ''IDW comics gives a nod to this, by having the trailer arrive at Prime's location using the orbital jump.''
**However, according to an early catalog, after Optimus Prime transforms into robot mode, the trailer is teleported to the base via a special signal.<ref>Page 69, ''[[Transformers Generations 2011]]''</ref>
**[[Flint Dille]]'s explanation for Prime's disappearing trailer is the substance [[Disappearium]].
**The Marvel G1 Comic generally kept better track of Prime's trailer. If he didn't bring it with him, he would transform without it. It seemed to pop in and out in the G2 comic, though.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Animated]]
[[Category:Classics]]
[[Category:Dark of the Moon]]
[[Category:Generation 1 technology]]
[[Category:Generation 1 vehicles]]
[[Category:Prime]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Transformer culture]]
[[Category:Unicron Trilogy]]