Roller (G1)

2006-04-24T04:15:03Z

216.23.53.185: Corrected typo

''Roller is a component of [[Autobot]] leader [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in [[Generation 1]] continuity.''

[[Image:Roller deploy.jpg|thumb|Roller's one tough little autobot]]
In robot mode, Optimus Prime splits into three components:
*A sentient robot module.
*A whelled drone module known as Roller.
*A [[Combat Deck]].

Although Optimus Prime can function as three independent modules, injury to any one module is felt by the other two.

Prime's original character description, as seen in the [[Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)|''Transformers Universe'']] comic and the series bible named the robot module "Optimus" and the drone module "Prime", noting that the Prime module is also known as Roller. However, in practice, these names were never used as such. The robot module was always treated as if named "Optimus Prime", with "Prime" even being the robot module's most common nick name.

'''Voice actors:''' [[R2-D2]]

==Capabilities==

Roller is a small cart-shaped device that Optimus Prime uses to unobtrusively slip behind enemy lines. He can maintain radio control over Roller at distances up to 1200 miles. Having Roller present somewhere is like being there himself.

Roller is a droid, able to function autonomously without Optimus's active oversight. But without Optimus, by far the most important of the three modules, Roller would not survive. Optimus shows great attachment and concern for Roller, who is left particularly vulnerable by the behind-the-scenes situations in which he specializes.

Roller is able to speak in a series of beeps and whistles.

==Origin==
[[Image:Barrelroller_g1.jpg|thumb|100px|Barrelroller]]
The bio information in the [[E-Hobby]] exclusive toy of [[Orion Pax (G1)|Orion Pax]] established a pre-Earth history for Roller. Orion Pax was a transport and delivery worker on Cybertron. His body was composed to two autonomous units, Orion (the robot) and an industrial droid Barrelroller, who transformed into an electromagnetic lift handle.

The name "Barrelroller" only appears in the official English-language translations of Orion Pax's bio on Takara's E-Hobby site. In the Japanese-language version of the bio -both online and on the pack-in bio card from the toy- Barrelroller is called simply "Roller". This more or less cements the idea that Barrelroller was rebuilt into Roller as we know him when Alpha Trion rebuilt Orion Pax into Optimus Prime.

==Roller's Excellent Adventures==
Roller has played a critical role in may of the Autobots' most exciting adventures!

===More than Meets the Eye===
When Bumblebee and Sparkplug are caught by Decepticons, and with the clock ticking on the bomb they planted, Optimus Prime sends Roller into the mine. When the bomb explodes, Optimus is nearly destroyed, but Roller emerges cheekily unscathed, prompting Jazz to observe "Roller's one tough little Autobot!"

[[Image:Roller outsmart.jpg|left|thumb|left|Roller exploits a tactical opening]]
===The Autobot Run===
The Autobots are stuck in automotive mode by the evil [[Transfixatron]]. With [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] in the claws of Megatron's car-crushing machine, only Roller can save the day! Roller leads the Decepticons on a merry chase, allowing Optimus to rescue Ironhide from the jaws of undignified death! ('''Note:''' Megatron would later succeed in killing Ironhide in an undignified manner during [[Transformers: The Movie|the movie]], when Roller was not around.)

[[Image:Roller delivers.jpg|thumb|Speedy Delivery!]]
===Megatron's Fight for Power===
Spike's sally to sneakily sabotage the Solar Station is stymied by a sealed storage-door. Roller to the Rescue! Sent scuttling through the sage, secreted from Soundwave's sight, to supply a Cybertronian sonic multi-tool. Roller has saved the day! (Spikes's subsequent sabotage of the solar station and ensuing explosion of [[energon cube]]s could be construed (in some small way) to save the day as well.)

==Toys==

[[Image:Roller g1 toy.jpg|thumb|left|<SPAN TITLE="There are even whispered rumors of a GIANT Orange Korean Roller that haunts eBay...">'''Many colors:''' Roller has been released in Dark Blue ''(shown,)'' Light Blue, Purple, Dark Purple, Gray and Black.</SPAN>]]

[[Image:Roller.jpg|thumb|left|Roller's [[Battlestars]] toy features moterized tank treads, he becomes a conveyer belt in [[Star Convoy (G1)|Star Convoy]]'s base mode.]]

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[[Category: Generation 2]]
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Talk:Dinobot (BW)

2006-04-22T22:42:30Z

216.23.53.185:

So, do we call the clone a seperate character? But for Rampage's death, he would have... remaiend so, but it becoems complicated with DB posessing his own clone, and the two never really... existed side-by-side enough to require seperate pages... And yet- by Wiki standards we seem to consider clones seperate dudes. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 08:01, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

TM2 Dinobot ''is'' a separate character. I don't think it's complicated at all, regardless of his totally unexplained personality change in the finale. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 08:16, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

<nowiki>*lick*</nowiki> -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 09:17, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

For Dinobot's TM2 entry, notarize that it's a Predacon clone created by Megatron, and decidedly not the original. In it's story background, simply say that 'Originally, an episode was planned which showed Rattrap uploading the original Dinobot's memories into the clone. This episode was not made, however, leaving a serious plot hole for the final season of Beast Wars, and the handling of the Dinobot TM2 character.' --[[User:Vanguard|Vanguard]]

:<nowiki>*scratches head*</nowiki> Soo... if you make a new body for Dinobot and load his memories into it off a data backup, it's a new character. But if you make a new body for '''Optimus Prime'''... -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:40, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

:: Point being is that we never actually SEE Dinobot II's memory implant (aside from a very well done fan-comic), so he's still a completely seperate being (a literal twin brother), as far as the cartoon's involved. --[[User:Vanguard|Vanguard]]

:: No one ever "made a new body ''for'' Dinobot," Megatron created a clone of the original that would be loyal to him, and gave it life with half of someone else's spark. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 19:08, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
::: What he said. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:12, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

::::Oh! Liek prowl and Chip! Why didn't you jsut say so? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:04, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

How would the *other* Dinobot clone fit in? You know, the one that he ate?<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

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