Joe (G1)

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:''Joe is an [[Autobot]] [[Micromaster]] from the ''[[Return of Convoy (franchise)|Return of Convoy]]'' portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Joe-packageart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Yooooooooooo ME!]]

'''Joe''' (ジョー, ''jō'') is a friendly, sociable type who is always willing to offer a fellow Autobot his counsel and ease their worries. This dovetails well with his job as the information analyst of the [[Sixliner|Liner Team]]. He uses his remote probe [[Gripper (ROC)|Gripper]] to gather data from afar, carefully analyze it and help the team formulate plans. Joe can also manipulate radio waves, which presumably aids him in his information gathering.

==Fiction==
Joe and [[Sireen]] developed a vaccine program to counter the [[Reverse Evolution virus]], a [[Decepticon]] weapon that had turned the rest fo the [[Sixturbo|Turbo Team]] into Decepticons. {{storylink|Micromaster Collection#Part 2: Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!|Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!}} He also assisted [[Convertor (OC)|Convertor]] with scans that revealed a special stratum below a [[Mount St. Hilary|dormant volcano]]. {{storylink|Micromaster Collection#Part 5: Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!|Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!}} After the creation of the [[Metrobase]] at the volcano, Joe, Convertor and [[Crush-Bull]] uncovered a mysterious life-pod in the middle of a pitched battle that released a pulse of tachyon energy, knocking all of the Micromasters temporarily offline. {{storylink|Micromaster Collection#Part 6: The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!|The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!}}

===Return of Convoy===
Years later, Joe and the rest of the Liner Team were recruited by [[Sky Garry (G1)|Sky Garry]] into the ranks of the [[Battlestars]]. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)#Part 2|Great Six Combination Warrior Sixliner!}}

{{note|None of the Liner Team ever actually show up as individuals, only as components of the combined robot Sixtrain.}}

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==Toys==
===Return of Convoy===
[[Image:ROC-toy Sixliner-Joe.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Flip out rear to form legs, pull arms from sides." Yup, just your average Joe.]]
*'''Sixliner''' (Micromaster Sixteam, 1991)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-370'''

: Originally released in a giftset with his fellow Micromaster trains, Joe transforms into a Super Hitachi bullet train engine. His rear socket-hitch allows him to connect end-to-end with any fellow train or combiner [[kibble]] weapon with a peg-hitch. He can form either leg to the two train-team combiners, but his nominal placement is as the right leg of Sixliner.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1991/Cybertron/Joe/joe.htm More information on Joe at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/779/Generation+1/Joe.html Joe toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk]''

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===Micromaster Collection===
[[Image:MC-toy Sixliner-Joe.jpg|right|thumb|300px|He's not "on-rails", he's a first-person guided transformation experience.]]
*'''Joe''' (Micromaster, 2002)
**''Sixliner ID number'': '''5'''
**''Accessories'': Sixliner right & left fists

:Joe and his teammates were re-released in Japan in 2002 as the first assortment of the ''[[Micromaster Collection]]'', this time sold in identical individual boxes, identifiable only by the number on their instruction sheets visible through a small hole in the box. Like the rest of the Micromaster Collection figures, Joe 's stickers were either replaced with [[Tampograph|tampographs]] or dropped entirely, though he did gain a few new spots of color.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Cybertron/Joe/joe.htm More information on Joe at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
* Joe, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual [[bio]] information whatsoever until his ''Micromaster Collection'' release a decade after his original ''Return of Convoy'' release.

* Joe is the only Sixliner mold to not be [[redeco]]ed or [[retool]]ed for the later [[Sixtrain]] toy; the robot in his place in that set is the entirely-new mold [[Windy]].

* Though his ''Micromaster Collection'' bio specifically assigns him the [[Gripper (ROC)|Gripper]] probe, the original ''Return of Convoy'' Sixliner [[instruction booklet]] shows [[Alan]] towing it.

==External links==
*[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/8481654a03096b1f?dmode=source&output=gplain Translation of Joe's bio by Doug Dlin]

[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Combiners]]
[[Category:Micromaster Collection]]
[[Category:Return of Convoy characters]]

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