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D-Go

2011-08-21T20:54:30Z

96.244.128.214: /* Micromaster */

{{factions|autobot}}

:''D-Go is an [[Autobot]] [[Micromaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

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

[[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.

D-Go combines with his team to form [[Sixliner]].

==Fiction==
===''Micromaster''===
When five 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|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|Sixbuilder the Ill-Fated Warrior!?}} 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|Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!}}

===Return of Convoy===
Years later, D-Go and the rest of the Liner Team were recruited by [[Sky Garry (ROC)|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|The poor guy has the distinction of being the only steam locomotive on a team of bullet trains.]]
*'''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===
[[Image:MC-toy Sixliner-DGo.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Shot through the heart! And your too late!]]
*'''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 Transformers: Micromaster]]'', 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'' figures, D-Go's stickers were either replaced with [[tampograph]]s 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'' 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'' 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'' 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:Combiners]]
[[Category:Micromaster Autobots]]
[[Category:Return of Convoy Autobots]]

D-Go

2011-08-21T20:54:12Z

96.244.128.214: /* Micromaster */

{{factions|autobot}}

:''D-Go is an [[Autobot]] [[Micromaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

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

[[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.

D-Go combines with his team to form [[Sixliner]].

==Fiction==
===''Micromaster''===
When five 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|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|Sixbuilder the Ill-Fated Warrior!?}} 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|Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!}}

===Return of Convoy===
Years later, D-Go and the rest of the Liner Team were recruited by [[Sky Garry (ROC)|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|The poor guy has the distinction of being the only steam locomotive on a team of bullet trains.]]
*'''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===
[[Image:MC-toy Sixliner-DGo.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Shoot through the heart! And your too late!]]
*'''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 Transformers: Micromaster]]'', 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'' figures, D-Go's stickers were either replaced with [[tampograph]]s 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'' 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'' 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'' 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:Combiners]]
[[Category:Micromaster Autobots]]
[[Category:Return of Convoy Autobots]]