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Wingard

2009-09-22T20:39:38Z

206.255.214.21: /* Micromaster Collection */

:''The Wingard is an [[Autobot]] booster-vehicle from the [[Return of Convoy (franchise)|Return of Convoy]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ROC-toy Sixliner-Wingard.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Wingard" sounds like either a glass cleaner or somewhere [[Thor]] would go on vacation.]]

The '''Wingard''' booster allows the [[Sixliner|Liner Team's]] [[Night]] to traverse virtually any terrain, even sail over the seas or through the air.

==Toys==
===Return of Convoy===
*'''Sixliner''' (Micromaster Sixteam, 1991)
** ''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-370'''

: The Wingard is made up of Sixliner's torso, mounted on either of his footplates to form a towed booster-vehicle. It is technically supposed to attach to the left footplate, since that one has a socket-connector that works with its assigned carrier Night (and any other train-team mold with a peg-style hitch), but naturally it can also use the right footplate with its peg-connector as well.

: This mold set was also used to make the equivalent mini-vehicle/body parts of [[Sixtrain]] and ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Rail Racer (Universe)|Rail Racer]], though those have yet to be officially named.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1991/Cybertron/Sixliner/sixliner.htm More information on Sixliner at TFU.info]''

{{-}}
===Micromaster Collection===
[[Image:MC-toy Sixliner-Wingard.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Are you traveling? Try our new WINGARD, now in [[neon]].]]
*'''Leaf''' (Micromaster, 2002)
**''Sixliner ID number'': '''4'''
**''Accessories'': Left Sixliner footplate
*'''Night''' (Micromaster, 2002)
**''Sixliner ID number'': '''6'''
**''Accessories'': Sixliner torso

:For ''[[Micromaster Collection]]'', the Wingard lost its decals but gained quite a few new pieces of deco in the form of [[paint operation]]s. Since the team was split up into individual boxes for sale, so too were the combiner [[kibble]] pieces; the parts for the Wingard came with [[Leaf]] and (of course) Night.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Cybertron/Leaf/leaf.htm More information on Micromaster Collection Leaf at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Cybertron/Night/night.htm More information on Micromaster Collection Night at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
* The Wingard's name comes from the much later ''Micromaster Collection'' fiction; it was not named in the original ''Return of Convoy'' Sixliner [[instruction booklet]]. It was also shown to be used by [[Leaf]] there, though really only as an example, not a specific assignment. Also also, though the Wingard is mentioned in Night's ''Micromaster Collection'' bio, his instructions do not otherwise give any indication that the relevant pieces can be combined and used in that manner.

[[Category: Micromasters]]
[[Category: Micromaster Collection]]
[[Category: Return of Convoy]]
[[Category: Vehicles]]

D-Go

2009-09-22T20:31:03Z

206.255.214.21: /* Micromaster Collection */

{{factions|autobot}}

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

[[Image:Diego-packageart.jpg|right|250px|thumb|My backpack is an antique!]]

[[Sixliner|Liner Team]] leader '''D-Go''' (ディーゴ ''Dīgo'') looks dangerously powerful, and he is. He's an expert sniper, and should he lose his temper, even his teammates have a hard time keeping him in check. But beneath the fearsome strength is a mind that carefully studies the logic behind any situation. Good friends with the healer [[Sireen]], he works hard to develop strategies and find peaceful solutions to problems. This combination of strength and wisdom has made him the ''de facto'' leader of the [[Earth]]-based Autobot Micromasters.

==Fiction==
===''Micromaster Collection''===
When fix of the six [[Sixturbo|Turbo Team]] Autobots had been infected by the [[Reverse Evolution virus]], D-Go devised a plan to allow [[Sireen]] to upload an antivirus to the entire team at once by combining with them to form Sixturbo. The strategy worked, and Sixturbo was returned to normal. {{storylink|Micromaster Collection#Part 2: Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!|Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!}}

When mysterious [[Decepticon Sixbuilder|green doppelgangers of the Build Team]] appeared and started wrecking [[human]] cities, D-Go called all the Autobots together and showed them footage of the attacks. {{storylink|Micromaster Collection#Part 4: Sixbuilder – Warrior of Misfortune!?|Sixbuilder – Warrior of Misfortune!?}} Later, D-Go and Sireen analyzed the reports on the strange Cybertronian metal plates that were unearthed at the base of a [[Mount St. Hilary|dormant volcano]], and wondered if this discovery combined with the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] fragment within [[Desire]] would help them in their eventual goal in finding the lost [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and his troops. {{storylink|Micromaster Collection#Part 5: Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!|Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!}}

===Return of Convoy===
Years later, D-Go 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.}}

==Toys==
===Return of Convoy===
[[Image:ROC-toy Sixliner-DGo.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Go, D-Go, Go!]]
*'''Sixliner''' (Micro Transformer Six-Team, 1991)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-370'''

: Originally released in a giftset with his fellow Micromaster trains, D-Go transforms into a D51 steam locomotive. His rear pegged hitch allows him to connect end-to-end with any fellow train or combiner [[kibble]] weapon with a socket-hitch. He also has a small socket on the top of his train mode, allowing him to use the [[Giga-Techvolt]] weapon. He can form the back to any of the Six-team combiners, as well as the chest to any of the "kibble-jet" types, but his nominal placement is as the back of Sixliner.

: This mold was also used to make [[San D-Go]] and ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Overload (Railbot)|Overload]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1991/Cybertron/Dego/dego.htm More information on D-Go at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/778/Generation+1/Diego.html D-Go toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk]''
{{-}}

===Micromaster Collection===
[[Image:MC-toy Sixliner-DGo.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Transforms from noisy locomotive to expert sniper and back again!]]
*'''D-Go''' (Micromaster Sixtrain, 2002)
**''Sixtrain ID number'': '''1'''
**''Accessories'': Sixliner head, rifle

:D-Go and his teammates were re-released in Japan in 2002 as the first assortment of the ''[[Micromaster Collection]]'', this time in identical individual boxes, identifiable only by the number on his instruction sheet visible through a small hole in the box. Like the rest of the Micromaster Collection figures, D-Go's stickers were either replaced with [[Tampograph|tampographs]] or dropped entirely, though he gained several new pieces of deco in exchange, especially in train mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Cybertron/Dego/dego.htm More information on Micromaster Collection D-Go at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
* For a long time, it was thought that D-Go's name was "Diego". However, "Diego" is rendered in katakana as ディエゴ, ''Diego'', featuring an "e" that D-Go (ディーゴ ''Dīgo'') does not have. It was not until a connection was made between D-Go's name and alternate mode—a [[wikipedia:D51_steam_locomotive|'''D5'''1 steam locomotive]]—that the pun in his name was discovered: "go" is "five" in Japanese, effectively making his name "D-Five", and ergo a reference to that series of trains, which is extremely popular in Japan.

* D-Go, 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.

* The original ''Return of Convoy'' Sixliner [[instruction booklet]] shows D-Go carrying the (then-unnamed) [[Giga-Techvolt]] weapon in train mode; in fact, of the three kibble-weapons, it is the only one where the text specifically calls out "it goes to this one guy". ''Micromaster Collection'' later specifically assigned the weapon to [[Alan]] in his [[bio]].

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

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

D-Go

2009-09-22T20:29:36Z

206.255.214.21: /* Return of Convoy */

{{factions|autobot}}

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

[[Image:Diego-packageart.jpg|right|250px|thumb|My backpack is an antique!]]

[[Sixliner|Liner Team]] leader '''D-Go''' (ディーゴ ''Dīgo'') looks dangerously powerful, and he is. He's an expert sniper, and should he lose his temper, even his teammates have a hard time keeping him in check. But beneath the fearsome strength is a mind that carefully studies the logic behind any situation. Good friends with the healer [[Sireen]], he works hard to develop strategies and find peaceful solutions to problems. This combination of strength and wisdom has made him the ''de facto'' leader of the [[Earth]]-based Autobot Micromasters.

==Fiction==
===''Micromaster Collection''===
When fix of the six [[Sixturbo|Turbo Team]] Autobots had been infected by the [[Reverse Evolution virus]], D-Go devised a plan to allow [[Sireen]] to upload an antivirus to the entire team at once by combining with them to form Sixturbo. The strategy worked, and Sixturbo was returned to normal. {{storylink|Micromaster Collection#Part 2: Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!|Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!}}

When mysterious [[Decepticon Sixbuilder|green doppelgangers of the Build Team]] appeared and started wrecking [[human]] cities, D-Go called all the Autobots together and showed them footage of the attacks. {{storylink|Micromaster Collection#Part 4: Sixbuilder – Warrior of Misfortune!?|Sixbuilder – Warrior of Misfortune!?}} Later, D-Go and Sireen analyzed the reports on the strange Cybertronian metal plates that were unearthed at the base of a [[Mount St. Hilary|dormant volcano]], and wondered if this discovery combined with the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] fragment within [[Desire]] would help them in their eventual goal in finding the lost [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and his troops. {{storylink|Micromaster Collection#Part 5: Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!|Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!}}

===Return of Convoy===
Years later, D-Go 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.}}

==Toys==
===Return of Convoy===
[[Image:ROC-toy Sixliner-DGo.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Go, D-Go, Go!]]
*'''Sixliner''' (Micro Transformer Six-Team, 1991)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-370'''

: Originally released in a giftset with his fellow Micromaster trains, D-Go transforms into a D51 steam locomotive. His rear pegged hitch allows him to connect end-to-end with any fellow train or combiner [[kibble]] weapon with a socket-hitch. He also has a small socket on the top of his train mode, allowing him to use the [[Giga-Techvolt]] weapon. He can form the back to any of the Six-team combiners, as well as the chest to any of the "kibble-jet" types, but his nominal placement is as the back of Sixliner.

: This mold was also used to make [[San D-Go]] and ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Overload (Railbot)|Overload]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1991/Cybertron/Dego/dego.htm More information on D-Go at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/778/Generation+1/Diego.html D-Go toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk]''
{{-}}

===Micromaster Collection===
[[Image:MC-toy Sixliner-DGo.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
*'''D-Go''' (Micromaster Sixtrain, 2002)
**''Sixtrain ID number'': '''1'''
**''Accessories'': Sixliner head, rifle

:D-Go and his teammates were re-released in Japan in 2002 as the first assortment of the ''[[Micromaster Collection]]'', this time in identical individual boxes, identifiable only by the number on his instruction sheet visible through a small hole in the box. Like the rest of the Micromaster Collection figures, D-Go's stickers were either replaced with [[Tampograph|tampographs]] or dropped entirely, though he gained several new pieces of deco in exchange, especially in train mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Cybertron/Dego/dego.htm More information on Micromaster Collection D-Go at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
* For a long time, it was thought that D-Go's name was "Diego". However, "Diego" is rendered in katakana as ディエゴ, ''Diego'', featuring an "e" that D-Go (ディーゴ ''Dīgo'') does not have. It was not until a connection was made between D-Go's name and alternate mode—a [[wikipedia:D51_steam_locomotive|'''D5'''1 steam locomotive]]—that the pun in his name was discovered: "go" is "five" in Japanese, effectively making his name "D-Five", and ergo a reference to that series of trains, which is extremely popular in Japan.

* D-Go, 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.

* The original ''Return of Convoy'' Sixliner [[instruction booklet]] shows D-Go carrying the (then-unnamed) [[Giga-Techvolt]] weapon in train mode; in fact, of the three kibble-weapons, it is the only one where the text specifically calls out "it goes to this one guy". ''Micromaster Collection'' later specifically assigned the weapon to [[Alan]] in his [[bio]].

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

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