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Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (manga)

2025-01-26T08:53:07Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* Kodansha */

{{nav-bwii}}

{{Comicstory
|seriesissue = ''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars II''
|title =
|image = BWIITradeCover2.jpg
|caption = Volume 2 cover, because all the pics of Volume 1 were too small!
|publisher = [[Kodansha]] [[fukkan.com]]
|written by = [[Shōji Imaki]]
|art by = [[Shōji Imaki]]
|date = [[November]], [[1998]] (Vol. 1) [[March]], [[1999]] (Vol. 2)
|continuity = ''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers|Beast Wars]]'' manga
|pagecount = 196 (Vol. 1) 194 (Vol. 2) 352 (reprint)
|ISBN = ISBN 978-4063238525 (Vol. 1) ISBN 978-4063238648 ISBN 9784835458984
}}

The '''''Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' (ビーストウォーズII 超生命体トランスフォーマー ''Beast Wars II: Chō Seimeitai Transformer'') [[manga]] ran in the pages of [[Comic BomBom]] from June [[1998]] to February [[1999]] reaching a total of nine issues. The series was both written and drawn by [[Shōji Imaki]]. The manga follows its own continuity, separate from the ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' cartoon.

All nine issues were collected in two volumes with a later reprint in one volume.

{{chapters|title=''Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers'' issues:|next=Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (manga)|content=
*[[Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank!|#1]]
*[[Infiltrate the Mystery Island!|#2]]
*[[Free the Captured Matrix!|#3]]
*[[Realize the Forbidden Love!|#4]]
*[[Make a Surprise Attack on the Super Weapon Base!|#5]]
*[[Recover the Bonds Lost!|#6]]
*[[All Hands, Make a Special Attack on the Evil Planet!|#7]]
*[[Win the Battle of Light and Darkness!|#8]]
*[[The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!|#9]]}}

==Collections==
===Kodansha===
* '''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars II 1''''' ([[November 6]], [[1998]]) ISBN 978-4063238525
** {{w|Tankōbon}} format.
* '''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars II 2''''' ([[March 5]], [[1999]]) ISBN 978-4063238648
** Tankōbon format.

===fukkan.com===
* '''''Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' ([[September 25]], [[2023]]) ISBN 9784835458984
** Collects issues #1-#9. This 25th anniversary reprint is in a larger A5 format than the tankōbon editions.
** Bonus material includes a special interview with Shōji Imaki and two new pages with art detailing his thoughts on when he first started working on the series.
<gallery>
File:Fukkan_BWII_Cover.jpg|'''''Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' cover by [[Shōji Imaki]]
</gallery>

==Other manga==
An additional 16-page manga story, "[[The Maximal Brainwashing Operation]]", was printed as a bonus in the pages of ''[[Beast Wars II Strongest Playing Book]]''. Having not been written or drawn by Imaki, and having an art style altogether different from his, it does not take place in the continuity of the ''Comic BomBom'' series.

==External links==
* [http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/Japan/manga.html BWII manga summaries] — Dave's Transformers Page
* [https://www.fukkan.com/fk/CartSearchDetail?i_no=68334134 fukkan.com edition]

[[Category:Beast Wars II media]]
[[Category:Manga]]

Pepsi

2024-07-18T08:42:57Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* External links */ This bit is kind of in poor taste.

'''Pepsi''' is a [[Soft drink]] produced by PepsiCo.

[[File:PepsiConvoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Pepsi Convoy|He]]'s such a sellout.]]

==Fiction==
===''Kiss Players''===

After [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] crashlanded in [[Tokyo]], devastating the city, Japanese opinion of all Transformers (even [[Autobot]]s) began to become violently negative. To help the people of Tokyo, and to improve Autobot publicity, an unknown Autobot took on the form of [[Pepsi Convoy]]. With his new Pepsi-related powers, Pepsi Convoy made it his goal to soothe the thirst of the disheveled people of Tokyo. {{storylink|Japanese Generation 1 cartoon timeline#2005|Kiss Players timeline}}

===''Transformers'' film===
Pepsi advertisements could be seen in [[Mission City]]. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

==Promotions==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1-toy OptimusPepsi.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Canadians get the best things]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Optimus Prime''' (Autobot Commander, 1985)}}</ul>
:* ''Accessories'': "Laser Blaster", left & right fists, trailer/Combat Deck, Roller (dark blue), 4 rockets, hose, nozzle, fuel pump

: A limited-edition release of the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Optimus Prime toy]] sold as a mail-away exclusive by PepsiCo was made available in North America in 1985. This version of the figure came with a small fold-out leaflet glued to the top-right of the packaging, which contained two Pepsi logo stickers for the buyer to attach to Prime, mid-way through the traditional silver-and-blue stripe on his trailer.

: [[Canada]] also got a version of this promotional figure, but with much larger stickers that were the full length and height of the trailer.

{{-}}
[[File:G1-toy PepsiConvoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|No, wait, Japanese people do.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Pepsi Convoy''' (Autobot, [[2005]])}}</ul>
:* ''Accessories'': Left & right fists, "CO2 soda gun", "Bottle Station" trailer, cardboard Pepsi Twist bottle

: Pepsi Convoy is a new-trailer [[redeco]] of the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|original Optimus Prime toy]], inspired by the 1985 special version of Optimus that came with bonus Pepsi decals for his trailer in the North American market. He transforms into a White Freightliner WFT-8664T cabover semi-trailer truck. The windscreen section can open to reveal ultimately-unused chairs that were originally designed for ''[[Diaclone]]'' driver figures. This release has several new Pepsi-themed paint masks and decals, including a Pepsi logo on his left shoulder. Both it and the Autobot insignia on his right shoulder are [[tampograph]]ed rather than stickers like on previous releases of the original Optimus Prime toy, which would be later carried over to subsequent reissues of the figure.

: Instead of the regular trailer that came with all previous releases of the origina Optimus Prime toy, Pepsi Convoy is equipped with an entirely new "Bottle Station" (get it?) trailer unit, specially designed to carry a single 500ml-size bottle (a common size in Japan), three 350ml cans, or 12 bottle caps (bottle cap figurines being a common and popular collectible item in Japan). Pepsi Convoy's fists and rifle store on the Station's underside when he's in vehicle mode.

: Despite being a Japanese product, the packaging for Pepsi Convoy features "''The Transformers''" branding, which is the branding used for the English-speaking Generation 1 toylines.
{{-}}

===Classics===
[[File:PepsiOptimusPrime.JPG|thumb|upright=1.66|Not quite as nice, but we'll take it.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Pepsi Optimus Prime''' (Autobot, 2007)}}</ul>
:* ''Accessories'': Left & right fists, ion blaster, trailer, cardboard Pepsi bottle

: Inspired by the [[#The Transformers|1985 promotional version]] of Optimus Prime that featured Pepsi stickers on his trailer, this outlandish incarnation of Prime is a slightly altered version of Takara's 2005 [[Pepsi Convoy]] figure (which represented a different character to Prime). The figure was only sold by [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] at various conventions, and given away as a promotional prize by Pepsi, via their [[Mountain Dew]] brand.

: A redeco of the original Generation 1 Optimus Prime cab robot sporting an egregious number of Pepsi-themed paint masks and details, Pepsi Prime's differences from Pepsi Convoy are minimal: he features the shortened smokestacks previously seen on the ''[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Commemorative Series|Commemorative Series]]'' release of the mold, the blue pattern on his decals are different (matching the American Pepsi can/bottle look at the time rather than the one used in Japan), and also has a different layout for the Pepsi logo on his left shoulder. Like Pepsi Convoy, he comes with an entirely new trailer unit, specially designed to carry either a single 500ml (16.9 oz) size [[soft drink]] bottle, three 350ml cans, or 12 bottle caps (bottle cap figurines being a common and popular collectible item in Japan). In a first for the Prime mold, the figure's fists store in holes on the underside of the trailer while he is in vehicle mode. His ion blaster (which also stores under the trailer) is the first Hasbro reissue to feature the original, thick-barrel sculpt, which was reinstated to the mold by the ''[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers Collection|Transformers Collection]]'' release of Prime a few years prior.

::* ''[https://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/PepsiPrime/optimusprime.htm More information on Pepsi Optimus Prime at TFU.info]''
{{-}}

===''Transformers'' (2007)===
* Transform Your Summer sweepstakes on specially marked Pepsi, [[Mountain Dew]], and Sierra Mist packages.
* [[Capture the Cube]] online game.

In 2008, Hasbro released a ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' figure of [[Dispensor]], a Mountain Dew vending machine Transformer seen in the [[Transformers (film)|film]]. However, the figure is adorned with no Mountain Dew logos, so it's apparently not an official PepsiCo promotion product

==Notes==
[[File:TFTG Unused Pepsi Payload Model.jpg|right|thumb|The most important cut content from this entire game.]]
* A variant of [[Payload (Movie)|Payload]], crudely textured with a shoddily compressed Pepsi livery, can be found in the internal files for ''[[Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game]]''. It was most likely cut early in development.

==External links==
* {{w|Pepsi}} at Wikipedia

[[Category:Drink]]
[[Category:Movie]]

Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (manga)

2024-07-08T05:43:25Z

Chuckwagoneer: fukkan.com reprint

{{nav-bwii}}

{{Comicstory
|seriesissue = ''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars II''
|title =
|image = BWIITradeCover2.jpg
|caption = Volume 2 cover, because all the pics of Volume 1 were too small!
|publisher = [[Kodansha]] [[fukkan.com]]
|written by = [[Shōji Imaki]]
|art by = [[Shōji Imaki]]
|date = [[November]], [[1998]] (Vol. 1) [[March]], [[1999]] (Vol. 2)
|continuity = ''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers|Beast Wars]]'' manga
|pagecount = 196 (Vol. 1) 194 (Vol. 2) 352 (reprint)
|ISBN = ISBN 978-4063238525 (Vol. 1) ISBN 978-4063238648 ISBN 9784835458984
}}

The '''''Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' (ビーストウォーズII 超生命体トランスフォーマー ''Beast Wars II: Chō Seimeitai Transformer'') [[manga]] ran in the pages of [[Comic Bom Bom]] from June [[1998]] to February [[1999]] reaching a total of nine issues. The series was both written and drawn by [[Shōji Imaki]]. The manga follows its own continuity, separate from the ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' cartoon.

All nine issues were collected in two volumes with a later reprint in one volume.

{{chapters|title=''Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers'' issues:|next=Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (manga)|content=
*[[Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank!|#1]]
*[[Infiltrate the Mystery Island!|#2]]
*[[Free the Captured Matrix!|#3]]
*[[Realize the Forbidden Love!|#4]]
*[[Make a Surprise Attack on the Super Weapon Base!|#5]]
*[[Recover the Bonds Lost!|#6]]
*[[All Hands, Make a Special Attack on the Evil Planet!|#7]]
*[[Win the Battle of Light and Darkness!|#8]]
*[[The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!|#9]]}}

==Collections==
===Kodansha===
* '''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars II 1''''' ([[November]], [[1998]]) ISBN 978-4063238525
** {{w|Tankōbon}} format.
* '''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars II 2''''' ([[March]], [[1999]]) ISBN 978-4063238648
** Tankōbon format.

===fukkan.com===
* '''''Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' ([[September 25]], [[2023]]) ISBN 9784835458984
** Collects issues #1-#9. This 25th anniversary reprint is in a larger A5 format than the tankōbon editions.
** Bonus material includes a special interview with Shōji Imaki and two new pages with art detailing his thoughts on when he first started working on the series.
<gallery>
File:Fukkan_BWII_Cover.jpg|'''''Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' cover by [[Shōji Imaki]]
</gallery>

==Other manga==
An additional 16-page manga story, "[[The Maximal Brainwashing Operation]]", was printed as a bonus in the pages of ''[[Beast Wars II Strongest Playing Book]]''. Having not been written or drawn by Imaki, and having an art style altogether different from his, it does not take place in the continuity of the ''Comic Bom Bom'' series.

==External Links==
* [http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/Japan/manga.html BWII manga summaries] — Dave's Transformers Page
* [https://www.fukkan.com/fk/CartSearchDetail?i_no=68334134 fukkan.com edition]

[[Category:Beast Wars II media]]
[[Category:Manga]]

File:Fukkan BWII Cover.jpg

2024-07-08T05:37:58Z

Chuckwagoneer: Cover to a ''Beast Wars II'' collected edition. Art by Shōji Imaki. {{C}} 2023 Shōji Imaki, fukkan.com, TakaraTomy {{comiccover|1= the collected edition of|source=''[[Beast W...

Cover to a ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (manga)|Beast Wars II]]'' collected edition. Art by [[Shōji Imaki]].

{{C}} [[2023]] [[Shōji Imaki]], [[fukkan.com]], [[TakaraTomy]]
{{comiccover|1= the collected edition of|source=''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (manga)|Beast Wars II]]''|owner=[[Shōji Imaki]], [[fukkan.com]] and [[TakaraTomy]]}}

[[Category:Images by Shōji Imaki]]
[[Category:Beast Wars II manga images]]

DNAVI (BW)

2024-04-20T18:26:33Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* Notes */

{{faction|predacon}}
:''DNAVI is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] computer AI from the [[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:DNaviNeo1.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"I'm making a note here; 'Huge Success'."]]

'''DNAVI''' (short for '''Devil NAVI'''), the self appointed [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] princess, is arrogant, sassy, and generally frustrating—there's just no two ways about it. She always talks down to her teammates, hassling them over their losses and acting as if, if she was in their shoes, she'd be performing leagues better. The issue with this conceited artificial intelligence is that she's absolutely necessary to keeping the Predacon operation running. Without her, the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'' couldn't run, [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois Capsules]] couldn't be found, and [[Magmatron]] and his troops wouldn't be able to be teleported away from danger. So, although she's certainly a thorn in everyone’s side, she has an equally powerful bite to back up her immense bark.

She has a modicum of respect for Magmatron, who unleashes his wrath upon her if she disobeys his command, but she still isn't afraid to make jabs about his losses to the [[Maximal]]s on occasion. She also obeys [[Guiledart]], who she has an affinity for. Besides that, the other Predacons have it pretty rough. Poor [[Sling (BW)|Sling]] especially is the brunt of DNAVI's malicious pranks, with the artificial intelligence taking glee in leaving him on alien planets, only teleporting him back once he bends to her will.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Maki Miyamae]] (Japanese)|[[Yeong-seon Eun]] (Korean)}}

When the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] called for teleportation off [[Gaia]], DNAVI attempted to leave Sling behind "accidentally", beaming him up only when he raised a fuss. She then saw to the dressing-down of Magmatron's troops, castigating their failure to capture even a single [[Maximal]]. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

When Magmatron requested the transportation of the Predacons off of the planet of [[Godbless]], DNAVI obliged, but once more "forgot" Sling, until he complained loudly enough to bother her. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

After [[Saberback]] and Sling noticed the icy planet [[Solid]] melting around them, they demanded that DNAVI take them back to their ship. She agreed, but only on the basis that the pair called her "Anastasia". Sling was furious, exclaiming that she had never been called by that name before, but Saberback forced him, and the two were teleported. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

When the Predacons spotted the planet [[Maderan]], DNAVI was able to tell them that there was an [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois Capsule]] on the planet, but not the exact coordinates of it, due to heavy cloud cover. Later on, when Magmatron requested they all be teleported off planet due to the arrival of Big Convoy, DNAVI criticized him on his over-confidence during their mission, but transported them regardless. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

When the Predacons approached the planet of [[Donovan]], DNAVI told them that the Maximals were in the vicinity. Guiledart then delegated responsibility of finding the Angolmois capsule located there to Sling, DNAVI scoffed, saying that a monkey was just as skilled as Sling. Later, when things got messy and the brunt of Predacon forces had to land on Donovan to recover the Angolmois, they requested that DNAVI teleport them back to the ''Dinosaur'' with the capsule. She responded by telling them that she could only teleport them or the Angolmois, not both, and that they'd have to fly back themselves. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|Fight! Maximals}} {{storylink|End of the Maximals!?}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}

===''Beast Wars Neo'' manga===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}}}

===''Legends'' comic===
DNAVI of the [[Legends World]] was the school nurse at Magmatron's high school. She diagnosed [[Big Convoy|Big]] with [[Transformers sickness]] and prescribed him medicine, but to her shock he refused to be cured and threw it out a window. {{Storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei#When I Awoke One Morning...|When I Awoke One Morning...}}

==Notes==
*A running gag throughout the series is DNAVI changing her name from episode to episode. Some include Anastasia, Catherine, and Audrey.
*Her design may be based on damselflies like [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aciagrion? Slims] and other members of [https://www.odonata.jp/00english/02odonatology/index.html Odonata].
===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''DNAVI''' (디나비 ''Dinabi'')

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dnavi}}
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Predacons]]
[[Category:Computers]]
[[Category:Fiction-only characters]]
[[Category:Japanese-original characters]]
[[Category:Legends Predacons]]
[[Category:Technology]]

DNAVI (BW)

2024-04-20T18:19:01Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* Notes */ Ok , name part redacted, but design does highly resemble existing damselflies.

{{faction|predacon}}
:''DNAVI is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] computer AI from the [[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:DNaviNeo1.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"I'm making a note here; 'Huge Success'."]]

'''DNAVI''' (short for '''Devil NAVI'''), the self appointed [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] princess, is arrogant, sassy, and generally frustrating—there's just no two ways about it. She always talks down to her teammates, hassling them over their losses and acting as if, if she was in their shoes, she'd be performing leagues better. The issue with this conceited artificial intelligence is that she's absolutely necessary to keeping the Predacon operation running. Without her, the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'' couldn't run, [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois Capsules]] couldn't be found, and [[Magmatron]] and his troops wouldn't be able to be teleported away from danger. So, although she's certainly a thorn in everyone’s side, she has an equally powerful bite to back up her immense bark.

She has a modicum of respect for Magmatron, who unleashes his wrath upon her if she disobeys his command, but she still isn't afraid to make jabs about his losses to the [[Maximal]]s on occasion. She also obeys [[Guiledart]], who she has an affinity for. Besides that, the other Predacons have it pretty rough. Poor [[Sling (BW)|Sling]] especially is the brunt of DNAVI's malicious pranks, with the artificial intelligence taking glee in leaving him on alien planets, only teleporting him back once he bends to her will.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Maki Miyamae]] (Japanese)|[[Yeong-seon Eun]] (Korean)}}

When the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] called for teleportation off [[Gaia]], DNAVI attempted to leave Sling behind "accidentally", beaming him up only when he raised a fuss. She then saw to the dressing-down of Magmatron's troops, castigating their failure to capture even a single [[Maximal]]. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

When Magmatron requested the transportation of the Predacons off of the planet of [[Godbless]], DNAVI obliged, but once more "forgot" Sling, until he complained loudly enough to bother her. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

After [[Saberback]] and Sling noticed the icy planet [[Solid]] melting around them, they demanded that DNAVI take them back to their ship. She agreed, but only on the basis that the pair called her "Anastasia". Sling was furious, exclaiming that she had never been called by that name before, but Saberback forced him, and the two were teleported. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

When the Predacons spotted the planet [[Maderan]], DNAVI was able to tell them that there was an [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois Capsule]] on the planet, but not the exact coordinates of it, due to heavy cloud cover. Later on, when Magmatron requested they all be teleported off planet due to the arrival of Big Convoy, DNAVI criticized him on his over-confidence during their mission, but transported them regardless. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

When the Predacons approached the planet of [[Donovan]], DNAVI told them that the Maximals were in the vicinity. Guiledart then delegated responsibility of finding the Angolmois capsule located there to Sling, DNAVI scoffed, saying that a monkey was just as skilled as Sling. Later, when things got messy and the brunt of Predacon forces had to land on Donovan to recover the Angolmois, they requested that DNAVI teleport them back to the ''Dinosaur'' with the capsule. She responded by telling them that she could only teleport them or the Angolmois, not both, and that they'd have to fly back themselves. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|Fight! Maximals}} {{storylink|End of the Maximals!?}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}

===''Beast Wars Neo'' manga===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}}}

===''Legends'' comic===
DNAVI of the [[Legends World]] was the school nurse at Magmatron's high school. She diagnosed [[Big Convoy|Big]] with [[Transformers sickness]] and prescribed him medicine, but to her shock he refused to be cured and threw it out a window. {{Storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei#When I Awoke One Morning...|When I Awoke One Morning...}}

==Notes==
*A running gag throughout the series is DNAVI changing her name from episode to episode. Some include Anastasia, Catherine, and Audrey.
*Her design may be based on damselflies like Slims
===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''DNAVI''' (디나비 ''Dinabi'')

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dnavi}}
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Predacons]]
[[Category:Computers]]
[[Category:Fiction-only characters]]
[[Category:Japanese-original characters]]
[[Category:Legends Predacons]]
[[Category:Technology]]

DNAVI (BW)

2024-04-19T08:44:41Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* Notes */

{{faction|predacon}}
:''DNAVI is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] computer AI from the [[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:DNaviNeo1.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"I'm making a note here; 'Huge Success'."]]

'''DNAVI''' (short for '''Devil NAVI'''), the self appointed [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] princess, is arrogant, sassy, and generally frustrating—there's just no two ways about it. She always talks down to her teammates, hassling them over their losses and acting as if, if she was in their shoes, she'd be performing leagues better. The issue with this conceited artificial intelligence is that she's absolutely necessary to keeping the Predacon operation running. Without her, the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'' couldn't run, [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois Capsules]] couldn't be found, and [[Magmatron]] and his troops wouldn't be able to be teleported away from danger. So, although she's certainly a thorn in everyone’s side, she has an equally powerful bite to back up her immense bark.

She has a modicum of respect for Magmatron, who unleashes his wrath upon her if she disobeys his command, but she still isn't afraid to make jabs about his losses to the [[Maximal]]s on occasion. She also obeys [[Guiledart]], who she has an affinity for. Besides that, the other Predacons have it pretty rough. Poor [[Sling (BW)|Sling]] especially is the brunt of DNAVI's malicious pranks, with the artificial intelligence taking glee in leaving him on alien planets, only teleporting him back once he bends to her will.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Maki Miyamae]] (Japanese)|[[Yeong-seon Eun]] (Korean)}}

When the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] called for teleportation off [[Gaia]], DNAVI attempted to leave Sling behind "accidentally", beaming him up only when he raised a fuss. She then saw to the dressing-down of Magmatron's troops, castigating their failure to capture even a single [[Maximal]]. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

When Magmatron requested the transportation of the Predacons off of the planet of [[Godbless]], DNAVI obliged, but once more "forgot" Sling, until he complained loudly enough to bother her. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

After [[Saberback]] and Sling noticed the icy planet [[Solid]] melting around them, they demanded that DNAVI take them back to their ship. She agreed, but only on the basis that the pair called her "Anastasia". Sling was furious, exclaiming that she had never been called by that name before, but Saberback forced him, and the two were teleported. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

When the Predacons spotted the planet [[Maderan]], DNAVI was able to tell them that there was an [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois Capsule]] on the planet, but not the exact coordinates of it, due to heavy cloud cover. Later on, when Magmatron requested they all be teleported off planet due to the arrival of Big Convoy, DNAVI criticized him on his over-confidence during their mission, but transported them regardless. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

When the Predacons approached the planet of [[Donovan]], DNAVI told them that the Maximals were in the vicinity. Guiledart then delegated responsibility of finding the Angolmois capsule located there to Sling, DNAVI scoffed, saying that a monkey was just as skilled as Sling. Later, when things got messy and the brunt of Predacon forces had to land on Donovan to recover the Angolmois, they requested that DNAVI teleport them back to the ''Dinosaur'' with the capsule. She responded by telling them that she could only teleport them or the Angolmois, not both, and that they'd have to fly back themselves. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|Fight! Maximals}} {{storylink|End of the Maximals!?}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}

===''Beast Wars Neo'' manga===
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}}}

===''Legends'' comic===
DNAVI of the [[Legends World]] was the school nurse at Magmatron's high school. She diagnosed [[Big Convoy|Big]] with [[Transformers sickness]] and prescribed him medicine, but to her shock he refused to be cured and threw it out a window. {{Storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei#When I Awoke One Morning...|When I Awoke One Morning...}}

==Notes==
*A running gag throughout the series is DNAVI changing her name from episode to episode. Some include Anastasia, Catherine, and Audrey.
*The "Devil" part of DNAVI's name may be a nod to the types of dragonfly her design is based on. "Devil's darning needles" is an archaic name for darner dragonflies and damselflies.
===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''DNAVI''' (디나비 ''Dinabi'')

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Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (manga)

2024-04-14T12:21:45Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* fukkan.com */

{{nav-bwneo}}
{{Comicstory
|seriesissue = ''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo''
|title =
|image = Bwneo manga collection.jpg
|caption = Volume 1 of 1. Complete the set, kids!
|publisher = [[Kodansha]] [[fukkan.com]]
|written by = [[Shōji Imaki]]
|art by = [[Shōji Imaki]]
|date = [[December 6]], [[1999]]
|continuity = ''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers|Beast Wars]]'' manga
|pagecount = 254
|ISBN = ISBN 4063342697 ISBN 978-4063342697
}}
'''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo''''' (超生命体トランスフォーマービーストウォーズネオ ''Chō Seimeitai Transformer Beast Wars Neo'') is a [[manga]] series that ran in ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'' in [[Japan]] from March [[1999]] to September 1999. It directly follows the ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (manga)|Beast Wars II]]'' manga, but diverges rather more radically from the animated series, chiefly in its delightfully bizarre depiction of the ''Neo'' cast as real animals who were evolved into Transformers by [[Angolmois Energy]]. Like the ''Beast Wars II'' manga, it was both written and drawn by [[Shōji Imaki]].

{{chapters|title=''Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo'' issues:|prev=Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (manga)|next=Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals (manga)|content=
* [[The 5 Rookies|#1]]
* [[There Are 7 Capsules|#2]]
* [[100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!|#3]]
* [[Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky|#4]]
* [[A Battle Fought Alone|#5]]
* [[Double Cross|#6]]
* [[Return to Zero|#7]]}}

The collected editions include four supplemental text stories, three taking place during #6 and the last taking place after #7. They are:
*"[[Break Through! The Polar Bear Raging Claw Fist!]]"
*"[[To Jellyfish with Love! Cry Out, Stampy Blade]]"
*"[[The Great Escape! Graviton Prison!]]"
*"[[What Became of the Five....]]"

==Collections==
===Kodansha===
* '''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo''''' ([[December 6]], [[1999]]) ISBN 4063342697/ ISBN 978-4063342697
** Collects issues #1-7 and four text stories.
** {{w|Tankōbon}} format.

===fukkan.com===
* '''''Beast Wars Neo: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' ([[October 25]], [[2023]]) ISBN 9784835458991
** Collects issues #1-7 and four text stories. This reprint is in a larger A5 format than the tankōbon edition. The text story pages have a new design.
** Bonus material includes a special interview with Shōji Imaki and two new pages with art detailing struggles with when he worked on the series.
<gallery>
File:Fukkan BWN Cover.jpg|'''''Beast Wars Neo: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' cover by [[Shōji Imaki]]
</gallery>

==External links==
* [http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/Japan/manga.html Neo manga summaries]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20081120075621/https://www.allspark.com/content/view/529/37/ Text adventure translations] (archived)
* [https://www.fukkan.com/fk/CartSearchDetail?i_no=68334135 fukkan.com edition]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beast Wars Neo (manga)}}
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo media]]
[[Category:Manga]]

Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (manga)

2024-04-14T12:21:01Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* fukkan.com */

{{nav-bwneo}}
{{Comicstory
|seriesissue = ''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo''
|title =
|image = Bwneo manga collection.jpg
|caption = Volume 1 of 1. Complete the set, kids!
|publisher = [[Kodansha]] [[fukkan.com]]
|written by = [[Shōji Imaki]]
|art by = [[Shōji Imaki]]
|date = [[December 6]], [[1999]]
|continuity = ''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers|Beast Wars]]'' manga
|pagecount = 254
|ISBN = ISBN 4063342697 ISBN 978-4063342697
}}
'''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo''''' (超生命体トランスフォーマービーストウォーズネオ ''Chō Seimeitai Transformer Beast Wars Neo'') is a [[manga]] series that ran in ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'' in [[Japan]] from March [[1999]] to September 1999. It directly follows the ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (manga)|Beast Wars II]]'' manga, but diverges rather more radically from the animated series, chiefly in its delightfully bizarre depiction of the ''Neo'' cast as real animals who were evolved into Transformers by [[Angolmois Energy]]. Like the ''Beast Wars II'' manga, it was both written and drawn by [[Shōji Imaki]].

{{chapters|title=''Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo'' issues:|prev=Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (manga)|next=Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals (manga)|content=
* [[The 5 Rookies|#1]]
* [[There Are 7 Capsules|#2]]
* [[100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!|#3]]
* [[Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky|#4]]
* [[A Battle Fought Alone|#5]]
* [[Double Cross|#6]]
* [[Return to Zero|#7]]}}

The collected editions include four supplemental text stories, three taking place during #6 and the last taking place after #7. They are:
*"[[Break Through! The Polar Bear Raging Claw Fist!]]"
*"[[To Jellyfish with Love! Cry Out, Stampy Blade]]"
*"[[The Great Escape! Graviton Prison!]]"
*"[[What Became of the Five....]]"

==Collections==
===Kodansha===
* '''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo''''' ([[December 6]], [[1999]]) ISBN 4063342697/ ISBN 978-4063342697
** Collects issues #1-7 and four text stories.
** {{w|Tankōbon}} format.

===fukkan.com===
* '''''Beast Wars Neo: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' ([[October 25]], [[2023]]) ISBN 9784835458991
** Collects issues #1-7 and four text stories. This reprint is in a larger A5 format than the tankōbon edition. The text story pages have a new design.
** Bonus material includes a special interview with Shōji Imaki and two new pages with art detailing struggles with when he worked on the series.
<gallery>
File:Fukkan BWN Cover.jpg|'''''Beast Wars Neo: Super Lifeform Transformers!''''' cover by [[Shōji Imaki]]
</gallery>

==External links==
* [http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/Japan/manga.html Neo manga summaries]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20081120075621/https://www.allspark.com/content/view/529/37/ Text adventure translations] (archived)
* [https://www.fukkan.com/fk/CartSearchDetail?i_no=68334135 fukkan.com edition]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beast Wars Neo (manga)}}
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo media]]
[[Category:Manga]]

File:Fukkan BWN Cover.jpg

2024-04-14T12:13:30Z

Chuckwagoneer: Cover to a ''Beast Wars Neo'' collected edition. Art by Shōji Imaki. {{C}} 2023 Shōji Imaki, fukkan.com, TakaraTomy {{comiccover|1= the collected edition of|source=''[[Super...

Cover to a ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (manga)|Beast Wars Neo]]'' collected edition. Art by [[Shōji Imaki]].

{{C}} [[2023]] [[Shōji Imaki]], [[fukkan.com]], [[TakaraTomy]]
{{comiccover|1= the collected edition of|source=''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (manga)|Beast Wars Neo]]''|owner=[[Shōji Imaki]], [[fukkan.com]] and [[TakaraTomy]]}}

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Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (manga)

2024-04-14T11:34:59Z

Chuckwagoneer: Adding fukkan reprint

{{nav-bwneo}}
{{Comicstory
|seriesissue = ''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo''
|title =
|image = Bwneo manga collection.jpg
|caption = Volume 1 of 1. Complete the set, kids!
|publisher = [[Kodansha]] [[fukkan.com]]
|written by = [[Shōji Imaki]]
|art by = [[Shōji Imaki]]
|date = [[December 6]], [[1999]]
|continuity = ''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers|Beast Wars]]'' manga
|pagecount = 254
|ISBN = ISBN 4063342697 ISBN 978-4063342697
}}
'''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo''''' (超生命体トランスフォーマービーストウォーズネオ ''Chō Seimeitai Transformer Beast Wars Neo'') is a [[manga]] series that ran in ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'' in [[Japan]] from March [[1999]] to September 1999. It directly follows the ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (manga)|Beast Wars II]]'' manga, but diverges rather more radically from the animated series, chiefly in its delightfully bizarre depiction of the ''Neo'' cast as real animals who were evolved into Transformers by [[Angolmois Energy]]. Like the ''Beast Wars II'' manga, it was both written and drawn by [[Shōji Imaki]].

{{chapters|title=''Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo'' issues:|prev=Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (manga)|next=Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals (manga)|content=
* [[The 5 Rookies|#1]]
* [[There Are 7 Capsules|#2]]
* [[100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!|#3]]
* [[Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky|#4]]
* [[A Battle Fought Alone|#5]]
* [[Double Cross|#6]]
* [[Return to Zero|#7]]}}

The collected editions include four supplemental text stories, three taking place during #6 and the last taking place after #7. They are:
*"[[Break Through! The Polar Bear Raging Claw Fist!]]"
*"[[To Jellyfish with Love! Cry Out, Stampy Blade]]"
*"[[The Great Escape! Graviton Prison!]]"
*"[[What Became of the Five....]]"

==Collections==
===Kodansha===
* '''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo''''' ([[December 6]], [[1999]]) ISBN 4063342697/ ISBN 978-4063342697
** Collects issues #1-7 and four text stories.
** {{w|Tankōbon}} format.

===fukkan.com===
* '''''Beast Wars Neo: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' ([[October 25]], [[2023]]) ISBN 9784835458991
** Collects issues #1-7 and four text stories. This reprint is in a larger A5 format than the tankōbon edition. The text story pages have a new design.
** Bonus material includes a special interview with Shōji Imaki and two new pages with art detailing struggles with when he worked on the series.

==External links==
* [http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/Japan/manga.html Neo manga summaries]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20081120075621/https://www.allspark.com/content/view/529/37/ Text adventure translations] (archived)
* [https://www.fukkan.com/fk/CartSearchDetail?i_no=68334135 fukkan.com edition]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beast Wars Neo (manga)}}
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo media]]
[[Category:Manga]]

File:RealFigureKit Longrack.jpg

2024-02-06T08:06:47Z

Chuckwagoneer:

Assembled Real Figure Kit of [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]]. Photo by [[User:Chuckwagoneer|Chuckwagoneer]].
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo merchandise images]]

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2024-02-06T06:31:51Z

Chuckwagoneer: Created page with "merchandise images Category:Merchandise images"

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Guiledart (BW)

2024-02-06T06:25:23Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* Beast Wars Real Figure Kit */ Photo addition

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:''Guiledart is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:GuiledartModel.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|No, despite what some people would tell you, ''[[Backstop (Cybertron)|Rhinoceros]]'' is not really descended from ''Triceratops''.]]

A scheming, nasty bunch of ‘bots, the Predacons aren’t typically renowned for being loyal–except for '''Guiledart''' (ガイルダート ''Gairudāto''). See, this triceratops field commander is incredibly committed to the Predacon cause, and is always at the beck and call of his leader, [[Magmatron]]. Don’t let this fool you into thinking that Guiledart isn’t a free thinker, however–he’s always looking to climb the chain of command. Like his peers, Guiledart is ambitious, ''unlike'' his peers, he makes sure that he advances in rank honorably. Whether that means performing a job superbly instead of critically damaging his superiors, or using his flawless battle tactics to lead the Predacons to victory instead of using political loopholes, Guiledart takes every opportunity to prove himself as worthy of a promotion within the bounds of integrity.

Even though, professionally, Guiledart cares about honor, that gets thrown out the window when dealing with [[Maximal|Maximals]]. He’s more than willing to play dirty to get the outcome he wants on the battlefield, and when push comes to shove, he’s a ferocious warrior. Armed with his electricity-releasing Thunder Horn blast and the cripplingly destructive Tail Shooter, woe be to any Maximal that encounters the brutal Guiledart on the field.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
[[File:Guiledart1.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Go home and be a family man.]]

{{voiceactor|[[Holly Kaneko]] (Japanese)|[[Jong-deok An]] (Korean)}}
Guiledart was among the Predacons stationed on [[Gaia]], along with his commander Magmatron. When they noticed five new [[Maximal]] recruits landing on the planet’s surface, he was ordered, along with the others, to deal with them. They immediately began to fire on the inbound Maximals, destroying their transport vessels and sending them crashing down. He then rendezvoused with the other Predacons, surrounding their hostage, [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]]. When the Maximals tried to rescue their teammate, Guiledart, along with his teammates, confronted them, but were suddenly frozen in place by [[Heinrad (BW)|Heinrad]]’s freezing of time. Held still for long enough for Heinrad to take back Stampy, once things returned to normal, he proclaimed that the Maximals must have used magic on them. Once Magmatron and [[Big Convoy]] began to duke it out, Guiledart took precautionary measures and demanded that DNAVI teleport them back to HQ before things got messy, taking all Predacons away from combat. Guiledart, along with the other Predacons, was lectured by DNAVI for their failure in combat. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

Guiledart was with the other Predacons when they listened to [[Saberback]], via transmission, describe his “magical” powers that he had used to disable the Maximals. [[Sling]] was shocked by the prospect of wizardry, while Guiledart saw through Saberback’s ''actual'' illusion, claiming that the only real special power the charlatan had was to transform into a flower. Later on, when Saberback called for reinforcements against [[Colada]] and [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]], Guiledart and the others answered the call. He lauded Saberback for his efforts in retrieving the [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]] capsule, before telling him to hand it over so that he could be the one to give it to Magmatron-- for safety, of course. Saberback wasn’t buying it, and called him out on just wanting to be the one who looked successful. In the middle of their bickering, Maximal reinforcements arrived, and the Predacons had the snot beaten out of them by Big Convoy. Like their last encounter with the Maximals, DNAVI had to teleport them away so that they weren’t harmed any further. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

Guiledart was on the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'', and proposed to Magmatron that the group teleport to [[Solid]] to retrieve the Angolmois capsule located there. When [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]] pushed back, thinking that it wasn’t honorable to pursue the Maximals in such a way, Guiledart fired back that he best shut his mouth. Magmatron took Guiledart’s side in the affair, and had DNAVI teleport them to Solid. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

When DNAVI was unable to give the Predacons the exact location of the Angolmois capsule located on the planet of [[Maderan]], Guiledart suggested waiting for the Maximals to arrive, then outright attacking them so that they had more time to search for the capsule on their own. Magmatron agreed, thinking it to be a good plan, and gave Guiledart control of the mission to Maderan. While Dead End and Saberback went to take care of Heinrad and Colada, Sling and Guiledart set an electric trap for [[Break]], Longrack, and Stampy. Though the trap was successful on the latter two, Stampy managed to escape. Guiledart wasn't too concerned, though-- he noted that cowardly 'bots like Stampy could manage to run away for a time, but would end up destroyed all the same. He later found himself eating his words when Stampy disabled the traps and freed the Maximals... for a time. Magmatron then showed up and recaptured them once more, dressing down Guiledart for taking too long on a supposedly simple mission. Stampy escaped again, but came back to attack Magmatron, with the Predacon leader swiping him away. Guiledart was enraged at the attacking of his commander, and then blasted Stampy with electricity, critically injuring him. When Big Convoy arrived, Guiledart was teleported away from the battlefield by DNAVI. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

When the Predacons were in orbit of [[Donovan]], Guiledart immediately placed responsibilities regarding finding the Angolmois capsule located there on Saberback. Saberback then shifted it to Dead End, who shifted it to Sling, who was upset at having to do the work. Guiledart asked what was bothering him, to which Sling responded that he felt like he was always bossed around, but Guiledart assured him that there was a ''reason'' the Predacons had him do so much. According to the triceratops 'bot, Sling was an invaluable "trump card", and that's why he was chosen to go to Donovan. Once Sling bought into it and left, it was revealed that Guiledart really had little faith in him and just wanted to get him to do the job. Later on, Guiledart had to beam down with the other Predacons to find the capsule themselves, as Sling was preoccupied with fighting Colada. When he and Saberback discovered it, they tried to ask DNAVI to teleport them back to the ship, but the AI was unable to transport the capsule and the pair at once. Upon hearing this news, the Maximals attacked, trying to take the Angolmois for themselves, causing a brawl to break out. When it just seemed like Guiledart and Saberback had gained the upper hand against the group, Big Convoy showed up and blew them all away with his "Big Cannon", resulting in a Maximal victory. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Ship's Log}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|The Stolen Gung Ho}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|Fight! Maximals}} {{storylink|End of the Maximals!?}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}
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===''Bom Bom'' comic continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' comic====
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!}}}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' comic====
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The 5 Rookies}} {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} {{storylink|100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!}}{{storylink|Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky}} {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}}}
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===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:BWAscendGuiledartPunch.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[M. Bison|Bison's]] ass is mine!]]
He's not loyal, he's a distrustful schemer! Shun him! {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #2}}

During one of Magmatron's astral journeys to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] apocalyptic future, Guiledart was seen crushing [[Halfshell]]'s eye socket, before being choked by the larger Predacon. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}}
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[File:Guiledart-BWU-Intersectionality.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb]]
The weapons and senior security specialist aboard the ''[[Trypticon (G1)|Dinosaur]]'', Guiledart was borderline-insubordinate at the best of times, not appreciating the [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]]' command structure of Maximal officers overseeing enlisted Predacons. He frequently disrespected the first officer, [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]].

When half the crew was dispatched in a shuttle to recover some missing prisoners from planet [[Metascan Omega|LGC-8803]], the ''Dinosaur'' came under attack from an unknown ship. Guiledart commanded the tactical weapons array long enough to drive the attackers off, but the ship suffered serious damage in the process.

Worse, internal strife overtook the ship as well. Word of the [[Grand Uprising]] back home had reached the ''Dinosaur'', and the Builder political officer [[Synapse (BWU)|Synapse]] killed two of the crew trying to contain the information. When Chief Engineer [[Magmatron]] reported the circumstances to the bridge, Guiledart immediately signed up for the mutiny against the Builders. Magmatron and Guiledart made their way to the captain's quarters, hoping to disable the living ship's efforts to fight back.

Once they met the captain, however, the Predacons learned he wasn't the problem. Captain [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]] had refused to kill his crew, and so Synapse severed his link to the ''Dinosaur'', really the war criminal Trypticon, so the Megamaster could eliminate the others without interference. Magmatron hooked Full-Tilt back up to the ship, and left Guiledart to protect the captain while the chief engineer tried to salvage the ship and disable the ship's consciousness at the same time.

Guiledart was confronted by [[Medusa]], one of the Destructons who lured them to the planet in the first place. He killed her, but lost an arm in the process and Full-Tilt's life support tubing was severed in the fight. Guiledart was forced to hook himself into the exchange to get the captain back on line and save the tumbling ship.

The ''Dinosaur'' would never fly again, but it managed to land with the best of them. Dinosaur City became a new, stable colony on the planet. Once the troops had settled in, Guiledart chose to accompany Magmatron back to Cybertron aboard the shuttle, in order to lend their arms to the Grand Uprising. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

Magmatron was welcomed into the Resistance and given command of his comrades as an independent unit, although Lio Convoy named one of his own troops [[Archadis]] as Magmatron's second-in-command over Guiledart. During a mission to eliminate the traitor Snapper in Builder custody, Rampage drew Magmatron's unit into a separate struggle between the Terrans and the alien [[Monster GoBot|Antares Eight]]. Afterwards, both the Builders and Resistance forces involved decided to stay together as the [[Ex-Bot (BWU)|Ex-Bots]], protectors of [[Proximax]]. Archadis refused to abandon the Resistance and departed, restoring Guiledart as Magmatron's official right hand 'bot. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

Guiledart remained Magmatron's right hand as the former chief engineer led the Ex-Bots in Proximax. When the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]] began, they joined the march on the [[Grand Mal]] to bring an end to the infectious entities. Afterwards, Magmatron received a prestigious appointment to the [[Tripredacus Council]], ruling body of the [[Independent Predacus States]]. Guiledart remained at his side as bodyguard and personal security for his "chief". {{storylink|Derailment}}

===Legends World===
Guiledart of the [[Legends World]] was a teacher at the school where [[Magmatron]] was the principal. He attended a staff meeting where [[Big Convoy|Big]] suggested changing the "HR" for "home room" to "TF" for "''Transformers''". {{Storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei#Very Strange|Very Strange}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:Unicron1-JavelinVsGuiledart.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6|Are you 'bot enough to fight with me?]]
Guiledart was one of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]]'s Maximals who fell under the command of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] led a force against Unicron to prevent him from eating [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Guiledart was sent out to attack, engaging [[Javelin]]. {{storylink|Last Stand (Unicron)|Last Stand}}
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==Games==
===''Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars''===
When the super-powerful [[Energon Quartz]] was discovered on [[Gaia]], Guiledart was one of the several combatants to join the brawl to take possession of it.

Guiledart could also partake in various other tasks, such as a mission to break a boulder to reveal an energon crystal hidden within before sundown, using a block in a mission to defend himself against various incoming projectiles, and missions to run across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.

After defeating every opponent that stood in his way, the last of which being [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], Guiledart gained possession of the Quartz. He decided not to use it immediately; such a powerful object could be used later during the war as a trump card. {{storylink|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars}}

{{BW fighter ending|Guiledart|GBC}}

====Move list====
{{note|This move list presumes the player is facing right; when facing left, reverse the left and right inputs.}}
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan=2|'''Robot Mode'''
!colspan=2|'''Beast Mode'''
|-
|Erstknock<ref name="german">Attacks take their name from the first four German ordinals: ''erste'', ''zweite'', ''dritte'', and ''vierte''.</ref>||←↓→B
|Prôton Wave<ref name="greek">Attacks take their name from the first four Ancient Greek ordinals in their neuter nominative forms: ''prôton'' (πρῶτον), ''deúteron'' (δεύτερον), ''tríton'' (τρῐ́τον), and ''tétarton'' (τέτᾰρτον).</ref>||↓→B
|-
|Zweitpress<ref name="german"/>||←↓→A
|Deúteron Tackle<ref name="greek"/>||↓→A
|-
|Drittblow<ref name="german"/>||→↓→B
|Tríton Threw<ref name="greek"/>||→↓→B
|-
|Viertreflector<ref name="german"/>||↓←B
|Tétarton Press<ref name="greek"/>||→↓→A
|-
|Megatic Black Hole (super)||↓→↓← B (grapple)
|Black Hole Cluster (super)||↓→↓← B
|-
|Changing Drain (desperation)||↓←↓→ A
|Changing Drain (desperation)||↓←↓→ A
|}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWNeo Guiledart toy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|I said go home to your wife and daughter!]]
*'''Guiledart''' (January [[1999]])
**''ID number'': '''D-29'''
**''Accessories'': "Tail Shooter" launcher, 2 missiles
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Part of the first wave of ''Beast Wars Neo'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWN|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Guiledart is a Deluxe-sized figure that transforms into a mustard-yellow/gold organic ''Triceratops''. As with most of the ''Beast Wars Neo'' Destron dinosaurs, he can assume a "Fake Death Mode" configuration in which he looks like a dead, decomposing ''Triceratops'', complete with rolled-up eyes and tongue sticking out. To activate the eyes and tongue, one simply pushes back on his nose-horn. To complete the dead dinosaur mode, his side panels fold down to reveal his beast mode ribs, and his robot feet and "Tail Shooter" can be pulled out to reveal more torn flesh and musculature details.

:In robot mode he's a stocky yet heavily armed little dude. He is armed with his spring-loaded "Tail Shooter" missile launcher (which also features his [[spark crystal]]), with the projectiles stored underneath his giant left shoulderpad. His dinosaur forelegs (also located on his left shoulderpad) feature flip-out, non-firing lasers.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Destron/Guiledart/guiledart.htm More information on Guiledart at TFU.info]''
{{BWGuiledartMold}}

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{{Twoimages|File:BWN-toy VS-29-box.jpg|w1=200
|File:DX-01 Giraffot VS Trikero Sonokong.jpg|w2=150|caption='''Left:''' ''Takara packaging pictured'' '''Right:''' ''Sonokong packaging pictured''|float=right}}
*'''Savannah Showdown: Longrack VS Guiledart''' (Vs pack, January 1999)
**''Takara ID number'': '''VS-29'''
**''Sonokong ID number'': '''DX-01'''
**''Accessories'': "Tail Shooter" launcher, 2 missiles

:Guiledart was also available in a "Savannah Showdown" (サバンナの対決 ''saban'na no taiketsu'') two-pack with his Maximal adversary [[Longrack (BW)#VS29|Longrack]].

:[[Sonokong]] also released this vs-pack in [[South Korea|Korea]]n ''Beast-War Neo'' markets. "Trikero" features no differences with the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] releases of Guiledart other than the packaging and [[Tech Spec]] cards.

:Both toys are identical to their individual-box releases.
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==Merchandise==
===''Beast Wars Gum''===
[[File:Bwgum_guiledart.jpg|thumb|right|250px|See kids, I'm not really dead!]]
*'''Guiledart''' (candy toy, 1999)
:A snap together model kit of Guiledart was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars Gum]]'', sculpted from blue and yellow plastic. He could transform from robot to beast mode by being broken down into its component parts, then rebuilt into a new mode. It came with a stick of gum.
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===''Beast Wars Real Figure Kit''===
[[File:RealFigureKit Guiledart.jpg|thumb|right]]
*'''Guiledart''' (1999)
**''Accessories'': Stand

:A non-transforming PVC prize figure kit of Guiledart. It comes packaged with the unassembled figure and a stand. The stand has two attachment points for other Real Figure Kit stands to connect.
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==Notes==
* The ''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle Complete Manual]]'', the official strategy guide for the ''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle]]'' video game, [[Japanese language|Romanizes]] Guiledart's name as "'''Gayle Dirt'''".
*The ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' incarnation of Guiledart is a "virtual redeco" of the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#T30|Generations: Thrilling 30]]'' Voyager Class [[Roadbuster (G1)#Generations|Roadbuster]] toy.

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Trikero''' (트리케로 ''Teurikero'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars II Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Predacons]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Maximals]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Legends World natives]]
[[Category:Resistance]]
[[Category:Strategists]]
[[Category:Teachers]]
[[Category:Transformers with three modes]]

File:RealFigureKit Guiledart.jpg

2024-02-06T06:23:21Z

Chuckwagoneer: Assembled Real Figure Kit of Guiledart. Photo by Chuckwagoneer. Category:Beast Wars Neo merchandise images

Assembled Real Figure Kit of [[Guiledart]]. Photo by [[User:Chuckwagoneer|Chuckwagoneer]].
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo merchandise images]]

Longrack (BW)

2024-02-06T06:21:50Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* Beast Wars Real Figure Kit */ Photo addition

{{factions|maximal|jungleplanet}}
{{disambig3|Longrack}}
{{excessivesarcasm|Intro paragraph has yet to receive a once-over since we got full cartoon translations.}}
:''Longrack is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:LongrackBWN1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|"The pole up that man's ass must have a pole up its ass!"]]
The best way to describe '''Longrack''' (ロングラック ''Rongurakku'') is that he's the kind of cadet who runs for Student Council President because he believes that the job really matters, ''darn it all''. A stickler for rules and protocol, expect to see him issuing demerits to other Maximals while delivering "you'll thank me for this, someday" rhetoric. Longrack is talky, annoying, over-serious, and has a stick up his tailpipe as long as his [[beast mode]]'s neck. The "Brainy Smurf" of [[Big Convoy]]'s crew, Longrack means well, but that doesn't stop him from being a major tool, or getting into spats with the less-serious-minded among the crew. Everyone from [[Break]] to [[Colada]] to [[Mach Kick]] gives him a hard time and he ''just can't stand it''.

But Big Convoy appointed him sub-commander for a reason and it's because he gets the job done. By giving his teammates an authority figure to uniformly despise or mock, he actually brings them together as a cohesive unit. In his spare time, he likes to tinker with machines and is something of an accomplished inventor, revealing a creative side that's typically hidden by his protocol-minded demeanor.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jun Uemoto]] (Japanese)|[[Lee Yu Wa]] (Korean)}}
[[File:Break Longrack.jpg|left|thumb]]
Longrack was among the group of new Maximals chosen to serve under Big Convoy as trainees. When Colada began to mouth off about his superiority to the others, Longrack told him to knock it off, getting in his face about the matter. Later, when Break suggested testing their new instructor’s strength, Longrack was at first hesitant, but then conceded that it was necessary to determine if he was competent or not. Thus, when Big Convoy eventually entered the training room, they sprung a surprise attack on the legendary Maximal, but were all quickly disabled by his immense skill. Convoy appreciated the gesture, but insisted that their real training needed to begin, which involved traveling to the planet [[Gaia]] to discover the mystery behind [[Lio Convoy]]’s disappearance. When they made it into the planet’s orbit, Longrack was informed that he would be in charge of leading the Maximals on the surface, as Convoy himself would be remaining on the ship. As the recruits touched down on the planet, they were confronted by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s [[Guiledart]], [[Saberback]], and [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]]. Longrack then made his first move as acting lieutenant… which was telling every man to act for themselves and try to survive. In the chaos, the team lost [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]], and attempted to retreat back to the main vessel, only to be fired on by Big Convoy, who told them that none left until Stampy was recovered. [[Magmatron]] then arrived, using the hostage Stampy as a guide, and confronted Convoy, seeking revenge for his previous defeat. While the Predacon leader was sermonizing, Longrack then suggested to his teammates that they should all attack him as a group to take back their teammate. As they charged him, they were once more met by the Predacons, but this time, Heinrad froze time, petrifying the Predacons for long enough to recover their rabbit comrade unscathed. Before anything progressed further, Guiledart demanded [[DNAVI]] teleport the Predacons to HQ, leaving only the Maximals on Gaia. The group of trainees, including Longrack, then took what they had come for: a black box recording detailing Lio Convoy’s disappearance. Back on their vessel, the Maximals had a new goal: to recover the [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]] capsules lost in Lio Convoy’s battle with the Predacons, before the latter could use them for evil. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

Longrack was with Big Convoy and the other Maximal recruits when they saw a volcano floating in orbit of the planet [[Godbless]]. While some of the other recruits seemed less than enthused about investigating the phenomena, Longrack asserted that it was important, much to the chagrin of Colada. When they tried to approach Godbless, however, they were disabled by a “[[God of the Maximals]]”, who fried their ship’s systems and caused them to crash to the surface. After landing, Longrack was chosen with Colada to survey the Maximals’ surroundings. The entire time, the arrogant snake ‘bot teased Longrack and his tendencies to act like “the class president” of the trainees, but he kept a level head. During their expedition, they learned from a local that the [[Mikesu|natives]] were seeing a god of their own, that demanded their natural resources, even though giving them away crippled their society. Longrack reported the information back to Big Convoy, before making his way to the volcano to explore some more. Colada continued to mock him there, but Longrack kept a vigilant eye, spotting the “Maximal God” once more. Colada attempted to attack it, but Longrack held him back, telling him to keep his patience, no matter how frightened. When the “god” was revealed to be nothing more than an apparition, Longrack took a moment to gloat to Colada, even though he, too, was frightened by the affair. The pair then spotted a strange flower, which attempted to attack them, and revealed itself as the Predacon Saberback. Saberback had a capsule of Angolmois behind him, which he had been using to create illusions to stall the Maximals and bend the locals to his will, and Longrack demanded that he return it. Saberback, in response, tried to run away, and called upon his teammates to help him. Guiledart, Dead End, and [[Sling]] responded, and attacked Longrack and Colada, keeping them from the Angolmois. The Maximal pair then had reinforcements of their own arrive, causing an all out brawl that resulted in a Maximal victory and their subsequent possession of the Angolmois. Before they departed from the planet, Big Convoy spoke to the locals, and during his speech, Longrack had to stop Colada from taking some of their oil. Colada retorted that Longrack was always looking down on people, and in response Longrack looked down on the snake... physically, from his giraffe mode. The Maximals then left Godbless, jetting off to find more Angolmois. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

Longrack was among the Maximal recruits who ended up traveling to the supposedly warm, paradise-like planet of [[Solid]], to recover an Angolmois capsule. He was shocked, along with the others, to learn that the planet was actually frigid and frozen over. As he prepared to assemble a ground team to explore the surface, Big Convoy stopped him and insisted that the entire team should participate for better training. It became immediately apparent that this plan wouldn’t work, however, and thus Longrack remained behind with Big Convoy and the others while Break searched Solid for the capsule. Later, Longrack and the other Maximals were assaulted by Sling and Saberback, and were buried underneath mounds of snow. Colada was able to thaw them out and create a path, but the team was rapidly being chipped away at by the weather. To this end, Big Convoy suggested a more efficient means of transport: using a slab of ice to slide across the planet and meet with Break. Longrack used his claw to break off a piece of ice from a nearby mountain, and the group was able to rendezvous with Break, and secure the capsule after defeating Dead End. Longrack reprimanded Break for his erratic behavior on the mission back on the ''[[Gung Ho]]'', but [[Vector Sigma]] came to the penguin 'bot's defense. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

Longrack was among the Maximal recruits when they touched down on [[Maderan]] to find the Angolmois capsule located on the planet. He was a part of the survey team consisting of Break and Stampy. When the group thought that they had found the capsule, Stampy was hesitant, feeling that it was suspicious, but Longrack asserted that they would look foolish to Big Convoy if they looked over it. Stampy was proven right, however, when Longrack and Break were shocked by an electrical trap after touching the capsule, which was rigged by Guiledart and Sling. The two Predacons tortured the Maximals, but Stampy was able to free them, for a time. They were recaptured swiftly after Magmatron arrived on the scene, but after Stampy alerted Big Convoy via signal flare of the trouble on Maderan, they were freed once more by the Maximal leader. Longrack took time to apologize to Stampy along with the other recruits for poking fun at his cowardice, when in reality he had been the bravest of them all during their mission. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

When the Maximals were in the orbit of the planet [[Donovan]], Break and Colada began to bicker between one another, to the chagrin of Longrack and the others. In an effort to curb the arguing, Big Convoy decided that the two would be sent to Donovan to scout it and retrieve the Angolmois there together. When Break began to talk back, Longrack told him to quit it and listen to orders. Later, when Break called Big Convoy for assistance, Longrack, Stampy, and Heinrad went to search for the capsule themselves, while Convoy attended to the two directly. They eventually found the Angolmois, but also found Saberback and Guiledart. During their brawl, the canyon they were fighting on began to collapse, resulting in the Angolmois flying away and the Maximals sinking into sand. Eventually Longrack and the others regrouped with Big Convoy, who had secured the capsule, and they listened to Vector Sigma speak through him on the values of teamwork. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Ship's Log}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|The Stolen Gung Ho}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|Fight! Maximals}} {{storylink|End of the Maximals!?}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|
The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}

===''Beast Wars Neo'' manga===
[[File:Longrack beast.jpg|left|100px|thumb|A pipe and a smoking jacket, and this picture would be complete.]]
Longrack came from a distinguished and proud family of giraffe [[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]]s. {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The 5 Rookies}} {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} {{storylink|100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!}}{{storylink|Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky}} {{storylink|Double Cross}} {{storylink|Return to Zero}}}}
After his adventures serving under Big Convoy, Longrack continued to study in order to gain admission into the Convoy Council. In the meantime, he worked personnel affairs and supply management. {{storylink|What Became of the Five....}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:CybertronianLongrack.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Oh good, a hall monitor with a big fist.]]
[[File:BWAscendLongrackBeastMode.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|[[Erector]] ain't got nothin' on me!]]
Longrack was part of Lio Convoy's elite special operations unit, the [[Pack]]. He traveled with them to prehistoric Earth to rescue [[Razorbeast]] and company. On the way there, [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]]'s "bounding" exuberance, quite predictably, got on Longrack's nerves. Once their team landed in the middle of a battle with the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], he used his long giraffe neck to take a bite out of [[Buzz Saw (BW)|Buzz Saw]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}
Later, Longrack identified a creature running rampant and attacking other Maximals to be [[Razorbeast]], reporting such to his commander, Lio Convoy. Once the Pack was brought up-to-date on the situation, both on Earth and Cybertron, Longrack was tasked with gathering as many Maximals as he could fit into the Pack's shuttle. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}}
Travelling back to their home planet to combat the threat there, Longrack wielded Stampy in his weapon configuration, and blasted away at Shokaract. He made it through the final battle between the herald of Unicron and the combined Maximal and Predacon forces relatively unscathed. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Longrack was the stick-up-the-aft Maximal first officer of the ''[[Trypticon (G1)|Dinosaur]]'', in charge of a Predacon enlisted crew. Although nominally in command for day-to-day duties and assignment (since their [[Builder of Cybertron|Builder]] captain was too large to sit on the bridge), Longrack was frequently overshadowed or overruled by the captain's holographic presence or the Micromaster political officer, [[Synapse (BWU)|Synapse]]. This made the already uptight first officer short-tempered and impotent in his command.

One day, the ''Dinosaur'' picked up an apparent distress call from prisoners of the lost ship ''[[Claustrum]]'' on the planet [[Metascan Omega|LGC-8803]]. Longrack eagerly prepared to lead a landing party, only to be passive-aggressively overridden by Synapse, claiming to represent the captain. Longrack was forced to name his fellow Maximal officer [[Apelinq (BM)|Apelinq]] in charge of the party instead. The ''Dinosaur'' came under fire from an [[Intruder]] ship while the shuttle was launching planetside, taking serious damage before blasting their attacker.

As Longrack tried to maintain control of his ship, internal strife wracked his crew. A transmission from Cybertron alerted the protoformers on board to an Uprising back home, and Synapse was desperate to keep them from following suit. He killed [[Hydra (BW)|Hydra]] and [[Killer Punch]] in an attempt to prevent word from spreading, but failed. Chief Engineer [[Magmatron]] made it to the bridge and recruited Longrack and [[Guiledart]] in a mutiny to take the ship. Longrack was again left behind to hold the bridge while the Predacons sought to sever the captain's control of the ship, souring him to the situation. He briefly realigned himself with Synapse and the Builders, but the Micromaster's complete disregard for the lives of the crew snapped him back to his senses, and Longrack helped disable Synapse.

The damage to the ''Dinosaur'' was too severe to fix, and the starship began to crash onto LGC-8803 below. Fortunately, Captain [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]] was not on board with Synapse's murderous ways, and he aided Magmatron in saving the ship. It did crash, but transformed as it do so, arresting momentum and opening up into Dinosaur City, becoming a new colony. Magmatron and several members of the crew chose to take the shuttle and return to fight in the Grand Uprising, while Longrack remained behind and proclaimed himself mayor of the new city. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

A decade after the Uprising ended, Governor Longrack oversaw the developing colony as it became a boom town for immigrants, scientists, and philosophers eager to visit the lost works of the [[Logicon]]s on Metascan Omega. He received two rather disconcerting interruptions. First, Wraiths of the [[Vok]] arrived to declare mortals unworthy of the knowledge of Metascan Omega. They challenged Longrack and his colonists to prove their worth, or face sterilization. Second was the arrival of [[Lio Convoy]], Architect of the Grand Uprising... {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

===Legends World===
In the [[Legends World]], Longrack was an earnest high school student and the class president. When he heard they were getting a new teacher, he hoped it would be a person of discipline, {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Year 3, Class B Big-sensei}} but was instead met with the nerdy [[Big Convoy]] who began teaching them about ''Transformers'' instead of regular subjects. Longrack took this in stride and merely asked him if there would be tests on the subject. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|First Lesson First}} During sports day, Longrack attempted ice skating and got crushed under Big's weight during the cavalry battle. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Hot-blooded Break}} Over time, Big's enthusiasm for ''Transformers'' infected Longrack's love for studying and he began learning about ''Transformers'' to the point of neglecting other subjects. This caused Big to realize he was being a bad influence on his students and start teaching normally. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Preparatory Reviewer Longrack}} One day, Longrack found Big asleep during class. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 59|Bonus Edition Vol. 59}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:TimeWillRust-Eukaris.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.7]]
Longrack was a fellow [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukarian]] friend of [[Tasmania Kid]], [[Gimlet]], and [[Bump]]. {{Storylink|Time Will Rust}}
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==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWN-toy Longrack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|One of the few toys caught in a permanent raspberry.]]
*'''Longrack''' (January 1999)
**''ID number'': '''C-29'''
**''Accessories'': "Hand Dagger," 2 "Double Missiles"
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Part of the first wave of ''Beast Wars Neo'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWN|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Longrack is a Mega-sized figure that transforms into an organic giraffe. In his [[beast mode]], his head features a spring-loaded tongue—when pressed—rolls his white pupils into the back of his head.

:In his [[robot mode]], his beast mode forelegs (now located on his back) each hide his spring-loaded "Double Missile" launchers. His giraffe neck becomes his right arm and contains his spring-loaded "Arm Shoot" [[gimmick]] with his "Crush Arm" located at the very end of it. Much like his left hand, his Crush Arm also features a 5mm-wide "clip", allowing him to hold other accessories or his comrades [[Stampy (BW)#Toys|Stampy]] and [[Break#Toys|Break]] in their weapon modes. His left arm's gauntlet includes his flip-out and removable "Hand Dagger" which can be placed in either of his hands. Also in robot mode, his [[Maximal]] [[spark crystal]] is located behind a grate-like detail on his chest panel.

:He also features a third "Arm Vehicle Mode", which locates his Double Missile launchers in a suitable forward-facing position, while allowing for his Crush Arm to be utilized by any Basic-sized figure.

:An undocumented feature that was used in the cartoon, has his beast mode forelegs folded down in robot mode and used as supports, while wielding Break in his "Buster Mode".

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Cybertron/Longrack/longrack.htm More information on Longrack at TFU.info]''

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{{Twoimages|File:BWN-toy VS-29-box.jpg|w1=200
|File:DX-01 Giraffot VS Trikero Sonokong.jpg|w2=150|caption='''Left:''' ''Takara packaging pictured'' '''Right:''' ''Sonokong packaging pictured''|float=right}}
*'''Savannah Showdown: Longrack VS Guiledart''' (Vs pack, January 1999)
**''Takara ID number'': '''VS-29'''
**''Sonokong ID number'': '''DX-01'''
**''Accessories'': "Hand Dagger," 2 "Double Missiles"

:Longrack was available both separately and in a "Savannah Showdown" (サバンナの対決 ''Sabanna no Taiketsu'') vs-pack with the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Guiledart#VS29|Guiledart]]. Both toys were identical to their individual releases.

:[[Sonokong]] also released this vs-pack in [[South Korea|Korea]]n ''Beast-War Neo'' markets. "Giraffot" features no differences with the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] releases of Longrack, other than the packaging and [[Tech Spec]] cards.

:Due to the shape of the pastic mold that the Korean version of the figure sits in inside the box, the robot legs at the hip joints are assembled on the wrong sides, meaning one will have to pop both legs off at the ball-joints and swap them.
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===''Cybertron''===
[[File:Cyb Longrack toy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hey kids! Remember that toy that never got released over here?]]
*'''Runabout VS Longrack''' (VS pack, 2005)
*'''Longrack''' (Deluxe Class, 2005)
**''Accessories'': Cybertron Autobot Cyber Key

{{note|''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' [[Longrack (Cybertron)#Toys|Longrack]] was [[repurposing|repurposed]] as ''Beast Wars Neo'' Longrack in ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending|The Ascending]]'' and "[[Intersectionality]]".}}

: ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Galaxy Force / Cybertron]]'' Longrack is a [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'' [[Smokescreen (Armada)#Hoist|Hoist]] made up to resemble ''Beast Wars Neo'' Longrack, transforming into a Cybertronic excavator. Plugging a [[Cyber Planet Key]] into his right arm unlocks his shovel-arm, which can punch forward by pressing in the plunger mechanism. He came with a silver-bordered Cybertron-Autobot style Cyber Planet Key; the Hasbro release has the [[Cyber Key Codes|Cyber Key Code]] "'''d48m'''" [[tampograph]]ed on its back.

: This toy was first released in Takara markets as part of a two-pack with [[Runamuck (Cybertron)#Toys|Runabout]], then later in Hasbro markets on an individual card.

: This mold was used to make the [[BotCon 2006]] [[Dinobot (BW)/toys#Timelines|Darksyde Dinobot]]. The original version of the mold was also used to make 2003 [[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|''Universe'']] [[Ransack (Universe 2003)#Toys|Ransack]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2005/Autobot/Longrack/longrack.htm More info on Longrack at TFU.info]''
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==Merchandise==
===''Beast Wars Gum''===
*'''Longrack''' (candy toy, 1999)
:A snap together model kit of Longrack was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars Gum]]'', sculpted entirely from yellow plastic. The kit could transform from robot to beast mode by being broken down into its component parts, then rebuilt into a new mode. It came with a stick of gum.

===''Beast Wars Real Figure Kit''===
[[File:RealFigureKit Longrack.jpg|thumb|right]]
*'''Longrack''' (1999)
**''Accessories'': Stand

:A non-transforming PVC prize figure kit of Longrack. It comes packaged with the unassembled figure and a stand. The stand has two attachment points for other Real Figure Kit stands to connect.
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==Notes==
*In giraffe mode, Longrack's toy has a completely red tongue, without the dark blue (often described as black) tip that real giraffes have.
*''[[Transformers Vault]]'' erroneously calls him '''Longneck'''.
*Longrack is one of few Maximals/Predacons to keep a pre-existing vehicular design for ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'', in his case the ''Cybertron'' Longrack toy previously used in IDW's ''Beast Wars'' comics. Writer [[Jim Sorenson]] cited Longrack as one of his favorite characters to write for, comparing him to ''{{w|Red Dwarf}}'' character {{w|Arnold Rimmer}}.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Oooh, that's a toughie. There's one from the first part of the finale who was really difficult to write for but came out very nicely. Wolfang was a hoot, but Bish did most of the heavy lifting there. Longrack was a lotta fun; I love his officiousness. There's a little bit of Arnold J. Rimmer in there.|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052|name=Jim Sorenson|site=The Allspark forums|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA|year=2016|month=10|day=15}}</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Giraffot''' (지라포트 ''Jirapoteu'')

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Maximals]]
[[Category:Convoys]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Transformers]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Jungle Planet]]
[[Category:Legends World natives]]
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Chuckwagoneer: Assembled Real Figure Kit of Longrack (BW). Photo by Chuckwagoneer. Category:Beast Wars Neo merchandise images

Assembled Real Figure Kit of [[Longrack (BW)]]. Photo by [[User:Chuckwagoneer|Chuckwagoneer]].
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo merchandise images]]

Magmatron (BW)

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Chuckwagoneer: /* Beast Wars Real Figure Kit */ Photo addition

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:''Magmatron is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].

[[File:Magmatronbm.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Part robot, part 3 different prehistoric animals, and he can ''dance''.]]
'''Magmatron''' (マグマトロン ''Magumatoron'') seeks one thing: being crowned with the title of "[[Emperor of Destruction]]" after the failure of the insane [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]]. Almost nothing else matters. His chosen means to attain that, unfortunately for him, are a bumbling group of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] who do nothing but disappoint him and leave him grumpy after their repeated failures at acquiring [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois Capusles]]. Nevertheless, he's still content to sit on his throne aboard the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'' while his minions go out on missions—a tendency only broken by the chance to face down his nemesis, [[Big Convoy]]. But he's not interested in fighting fair, preferring to destroy his enemies through petty and underhanded tactics to assure complete victory. He's not without nuance, though, as [[Unicron/Generation 1|even greater evils]] can prompt him into an all-consuming vendetta against those who nearly destroyed [[Dinosaur (planet)|his ancestors]] and threaten the sanctity of the universe itself. For what is conquest worth if you have nothing to rule? Said vendetta can even call for the sacrifice of his subordinates, shaking even the ever-loyal [[Guiledart]]... One hopes, in the end, that Magmatron can learn to work with his enemies in taking down mutual threats and grow from it.

Magmatron possesses a [[mitotic spark|unique anatomy]] which allows him to separate into three dinosaur forms called '''Landsaurus''' (ランドサウルス ''Randosaurus''), '''Seasaurus''' (シーサウルス ''Shīsaurus''), and '''Skysaurus''' (スカイサウルス ''Sukaisaurus''),<ref>Referred to as "Landsaur", "Seasaur", and "Skysaur" in Magmatron's ''Beast Machines Dinobots'' bio.</ref> or merge them into a single monstrosity called '''Magmasaurus''' (マグマサウルス ''Magumasaurus'').

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Show Ryuzanji]] (Japanese)|[[Kwan-cheol Kim]] (Korean)}}
[[File:Magmatron cartoon.jpg|left|thumb|No, the toy isn't this cool.]]
Magmatron was fighting [[Big Convoy]] on a distant planet, up until he confronted him personally. Shocked by the legendary warrior's appearance, he attempted to stand against him, but was quickly disabled by Convoy's “Big Cannon”. Much later on, Magmatron and his troops were stationed on [[Gaia]], where they caught a glimpse of five new [[Maximal]] recruits touching down on the planet's surface. In response, he immediately ordered his soldiers to crush their opposition. He then rendezvoused with the other Predacons, surrounding their hostage, [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]], who told them where the Maximals were. Going off of this information, Magmatron found his way to Big Convoy and the other recruits, mocking the legendary Maximal warrior for being a teacher rather than a lone wolf like before. Convoy's students then formulated a plan to rescue Stampy, with [[Colada]], [[Break]], and [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]] taking on the other Predacons, and [[Heinrad (BW)|Heinrad]] freezing time for long enough to snatch the rabbit ‘bot away from Magmatron, and return back to his team unscathed. Enraged at having lost his hostage, Magmatron fired at Heinrad, who ducked, allowing the shot to instead hit Big Convoy in the chest. Demanding payback for his previous defeat, Magmatron prepared to launch another “Magma Rocket”, but was countered by Big Convoy's “Big Cannon” once more. Seeing how the battle was unfolding, [[Guiledart]] requested that [[DNAVI]] take them back to headquarters, which teleported all Predacons away from the combat. Back on his ship, Magmatron vowed to take the [[Angolmois Energy]] that rightfully belonged to the Predacons, before Big Convoy and his Maximals could. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

Magmatron received a transmission from [[Saberback]], who was stationed on the planet [[Godbless]], and had found a capsule of Angolmois energy. Saberback gloated to him about his abilities to create illusions, but Magmatron dismissed this, and was only concerned about the recovery of the capsule, and the plundering of the planet for natural resources. Later on, when Saberback asked to be teleported back to the ship with the capsule in tow, Magmatron told him that he couldn't teleport both at once, and that he'd have to make it back on his own. When Saberback told him that the Maximals were trailing him, and would complicate the situation, Magmatron ordered Guiledart, [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]], and [[Sling]], to assist their comrade. When the Predacons were defeated by Big Convoy, Magmatron had DNAVI teleport them off Godbless before they could be harmed any further. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

Magmatron was on the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'' when Guiledart suggested touching down on [[Solid]] to retrieve the Angolmois capsule located there. Although Dead End had his doubts, Magmatron insisted, and had DNAVI teleport them down to the planet. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

When Guiledart suggested outright attacking the Maximals on [[Maderan]] so that the Predacons could search for the Angolmois there unfettered, Magmatron agreed and gave him autonomy over the mission. He later had to come to the planet personally to recapture the Maximals when Guiledart was taking too long, dressing him down for failing at a supposedly simple mission. He did, however, allow his Predacons to torture their prisoners, himself taking great glee in seeing the Maximals in pain. Stampy was furious at the treatment of his friends and tried to attack Magmatron, but the Predacon leader swatted him away. When Big Convoy arrived soon after, Magmatron ordered a tactical retreat, and had DNAVI take the Predacons back to the ''Dinosaur''. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

[[File:Bwneo6 magmatron trisaur.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Sauroboros.]]

Magmatron was at the helm of the ''Dinosaur'' when the Predacons were in orbit of [[Donovan]]. He noted that the Maximals were likely there to find the Angolmois, just like them. When his troops managed to find the capsule located on the planet, he was there to listen to the transmission between them and DNAVI, during which they were told that both them ''and'' the capsule couldn't be teleported at once. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Ship's Log}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|The Stolen Gung Ho}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}

===''Bom Bom'' manga continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' manga====
Magmatron was a ''Giganotosaurus'' who led a gang of dinosaur rowdies on a primitive world in the [[7th Cosmos]]. After exposure to the Angolmois Capsule that crashed on the planet, the gang became more ferocious and killed [[Big Convoy#Beast Wars Neo comic|Big]]'s friends. The gang attacked [[Lio Convoy]], who had just arrived on the planet by accident, but failed because of Big's interruption. The gang followed Lio Convoy and Big's trails to the site where the capsule fell. Big pushed the gang into the valley, where the ''Giganotosaurus'' and its minions were caught in the explosion of the Angolmois Capsule and evolved into Transformers. The ''Giganotosaurus'' was fused with a ''Quetzalcoatlus'' and an ''Elasmosaurus'', becoming Magmasaurus. The Magmasaurus transformed into Magmatron, commanding his just-evolved minions to attack Lio Convoy and Big. Lio Convoy managed to defeat the henchmen with ease, but Magmatron took him out with one blast. With the power he now possessed, Magmatron claimed they would travel to various planets to kill every living thing. {{storylink|The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' manga====
[[File:bwn-bigconvoy&magmatron-manga-06-riding.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The 5 Rookies}} {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} {{storylink|100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!}}}}

Later, Magmatron again met Big, now the Maximal Big Convoy. During a fierce battle, Magmatron indicated they had a history but Big Convoy couldn't remember and was surprised by Magmatron's words. When Magmatron thought he gained the upper hand, he was surprised by multiple blasts from his foe's [[Big Cannon]]. {{storylink|Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky}}

The badly wounded Magmatron now had to separate himself into the three dinosaurs and stay in healing chambers. He ordered his henchmen to go to the planet [[Jörmungandr]] to retrieve an Angolmois Capsule. The group, however, failed and was sucked into space. The mysterious [[Unicron|Black Ball]], which had been retrieved by Big Convoy's crew, suddenly appeared in the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'', offering his troops, the [[Blentron]]s, to Magmatron. {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}

Magmatron and Big Convoy were tricked to an {{w|amphitheatre}} where the last capsule was located by the Black Ball. Magmatron commanded the Blentron to attack Big Convoy's crew. During the battle, Magmatron was attacked from behind by a Blentron. It was revealed that both Magmatron and Big Convoy were the last Angolmois Capsule, and thus the Black Ball, who was actually Unicron, desired to consume them to regain the energy. Magmatron saved his old rival, who was despairing upon regaining his memory,and convinced him to team up to fight Unicron and the Blentrons. Magmatron was eventually chewed up and spat out by Unicron. A dying Magmatron, now reduced to only a head, left his [[Magma Blade (BW)|Magma Blade]] to Big Convoy as a "parting gift" and asked Big Convoy to give him an honorable "warrior's death" with his own sword. Big Convoy conceded to the request. {{storylink|Double Cross}}

Big Convoy later struck the blow that finished off Unicron's physical body with Magmatron's sword, avenging his death. {{storylink|Return to Zero}}

===''Beast Machines'' toy bio===
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Magmatron was revered and reviled in equal measure as an "emperor of destruction". He had been on an intergalactic quest for [[Angolmois Energy|energy capsules]], but when he returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], he found it being overrun by [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] drones! There, he became part of the [[Dinobot (BM)|Dinobots]] led by [[T-Wrecks]].

He split into "Skysaur", "Landsaur", and "Seasaur", and their combined beast mode was a "tri-dinosaur [[Fuzor]]". {{storylink|#Beast Machines|Beast Machines bio}}

===3H comics===
Magmatron and the other Dinobots were sent on a mission, given to them by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], {{Storylink|Departure}} to the planet [[Arkus]]. The mission was a trap, however, and Magmatron and the others were attacked by [[energy vampire]]s and their master known as the [[Dweller (G1)|Dweller]]. {{storylink|Betrayal}} Magmatron fought off the Dweller long enough for the Dinobots to escape. When they returned to rescue him, they found nothing but his sword. {{storylink|The Wreckers: Finale Part 1}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
{{BW Shell Game}}
Magmatron made his way to prehistoric Earth, with the intention of raising an army out of the protoforms left behind by the Axalon's crew. He watched from afar as Optimus Primal's team launched from the planet aboard an Autobot shuttlecraft, with Megatron as their prisoner.
As one of his agents, Razorbeast, activated the stasis pods remotely, another one of his lackeys, Spittor, reported that one of the protoforms had been activated as a Maximal instead of a Predacon. Abandoning his cover as a Maximal double-agent, Razorbeast fled from Magmatron and into the wild. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:Magmatron speech TheGathering1.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb]]

According to one account, Magmatron was the result of one of many experiments conducted by the [[Tripredacus Council]] in the advent of protoform technology, after the signing of the Pax Cybertronia. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

Another account has it that, during the early days of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Magmatron endangered the fragile peace, being an indomitable general who would not accept defeat. When he was finally brought to heel by the [[Tripredacus Council]], he still chafed under the terms of the treaty and the council's apparent willingness to roll over for the Maximals. However, he accepted his change in status and maneuvered into a position on the [[Committee for State Affairs]] alongside his old enemy, [[Big Convoy]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #2}}

Frustrated by the Council's decision to bide its time, Magmatron recruited a small band of disenchanted warriors and fostered a professional relationship with the Tripredacus agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] to keep abreast of the situation on [[Earth]]. With this information, he formed an elegant and tightly knit plan to travel backwards in time to prehistoric Earth and reprogram all of the remaining [[protoform]] Maximals into Predacons. Keeping his plans secret until the last moment, he revealed to his forces that the Council had ordered him to pick up the task where their previous agent failed: capture the rogue [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]].

[[Chronal phase|Chronically displacing]] his crew so that they could not be detected by the beast warriors who are already there, they set to work. He ordered [[Razorbeast]] to begin activating the [[stasis pod]]s while [[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]], [[Manterror]], [[Transquito]], and [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] reported on their progress. They witnessed the birth of three Predacons, but Spittor was greeted by the Maximal, [[Polar Claw]]. More Maximals were spotted, revealing Razorbeast as a spy, but the warthog escaped into the wilderness. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

Once his new army was assembled, Magmatron ordered them to hunt down the Maximals. [[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]] and Spittor, however, accompanied Magmatron on his personal quest to find Razorbeast. He located the spy and quickly gained the upper hand with his three dinosaur modes, but Razorbeast pulled a fast one, and buried the Predacon leader beneath a mountainside. Magmatron soon recouped his losses by recovering the spark of the Tripredacus agent, Ravage. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 2|The Gathering #2}}

[[File:Gathering3-Megatron Magmatron.jpg|right|upright=1.5|thumb|Insert "Megatron not pleased a BWN character is stealing his role" joke here.]]

Iguanus, having located a [[blank]] protoform, assisted Magmatron with rebirthing Ravage in a new, [[Transmetal 2]] body. Magmatron ordered Ravage to hunt down and terminate Razorbeast's Maximals. Magmatron proceeded to set forth on his next mission; locating and capturing Megatron to ensure the Tripredacus Council didn't catch on to his real plans. He confronted Megatron, and the two engaged in battle. Megatron insisted that Magmatron was foolish for coming after him alone, as Ravage did, but Magmatron was not alone— Iguanus and Drill Bit ambushed Megatron and disabled him. The Predacons brought Megatron to a [[unspace|transwarp]] platform they had set up and prepared to send Megatron into the hands of the Council, but they were interrupted by the wandering [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 3|The Gathering #3}}

[[File:MagmatronVGrimlock TheGathering4.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb]]

Magmatron engaged Grimlock in a vicious [[beast mode]] battle, and despite the Maximal's resilence, Magmatron eventually overwhelmed him. Grimlock was enough of a distraction, however, to let Razorbeast and [[Optimus Minor]] enter the camp undetected and steal a [[chronal phase facilitator]]. When Razorbeast confronted Magmatron in the open, the Predacon general saw an opportunity to settle an old score. But with Razorbeast using the facilitator to shift out of his chronal phase, Magmatron was unable to land a single hit on his smaller opponent. Optimus Minor removed the facilitator attached to the unconscious Megatron, returning the rogue to his proper chronal state. Magmatron lunged to stop it, and ended up falling onto the transwarp platform just as it activated. Razorbeast blasted the device, causing it to malfunction and send Magmatron to parts unknown. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 4|The Gathering #4}}

Razorbeast's meddling in Magmatron's transwarp shunt caused the Predacon commander to be consigned to a temporal limbo, able to traverse the whole of history but unable to affect any of the events he witnessed. Through this, he saw the eventual end of Cybertron as its inhabitants set upon each other with beastly fury while [[Shokaract]] summoned [[Unicron]] to devour the planet. Knowing that the roots of this catastrophic event were already beginning in his time, Magmatron turned to the enemy who had consigned him to this fate. Exerting what little influence he could, he stabilized the Transwarp carrier signal sent by the Maximals weeks earlier, allowing the time-lost distress call to be received by [[Lio Convoy]] and the [[Pack]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}}

[[File:Magmatron Ravage TheAscending2.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb]]

Magmatron's meddling effect on the timestream was noticed by Unicron, who dispatched [[Latolata|Rartorata]] to Earth to deal with the assembling combatants there. His ability to change the future was increased further, however, when during the confusion of the battle on Earth between the Maximal and Predacon forces, a playing 'possum Ravage made contact with the chronal displacement bands. Magmatron was able to use his limited influence to hold Ravage inside chronospace, where he was able to make contact with the former [[Decepticon]]. Magmatron briefed him on the apocalypse that could yet come, urging him to call a truce with the Maximals in an effort to stop the end of all things. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}

From his chronal prison, Magmatron watched his rival Big Convoy die at Shokaract's hands in the future, knowing that it was only a prelude to the destruction to come. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}} A combined group of Maximals and Predacons returned with Ravage to present-day Cybertron to battle Shokaract, arriving before Big Convoy could be killed. Ravage again briefed with Magmatron, who instructed him to send a Maximal to attach a chronal-displacement device onto Shokaract's body. This was eventually accomplished at the cost of many lives and Shokaract was brought to Magmatron within chronospace. Magmatron showed him Cybertron's future and the realization that he was a pawn of Unicron caused a distraught Shokaract to commit suicide, causing a "time-lash" that freed Magmatron from limbo.

The restored Magmatron informed the assembled Maximals and Predacons that the threat had ended. He also reported that his old foe Razorbeast had died on Earth and respectfully declared the Maximal worthy of a momument. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
[[Vector Prime]] and his [[Time Warrior (AVP)|Time Warrior]]s prevented Magmatron from falling prey to the [[X-Dimension]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/12}}

===Waspscream continuity===
In [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], Magmatron and the [[Dinobot (BM)|Dinobot]]s were among the resistance groups against [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]]'s [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] rule of Cybertron. After the defeat of the Vehicons, Magmatron formed a new High Council with [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspscream]], [[Icebird]], and [[Rodimus Primal]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[File:BWU Magmatron.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.75]]

Magmatron was chief engineering specialist aboard the ''Dinosaur'', overseeing junior engineers [[Crazybolt (BW)|Crazybolt]] and [[Dead End (BW)|Dead-End]]. During the launch of an away mission to [[Metascan Omega|LGC-8803]], the ''Dinosaur'' was attacked by an [[Intruder]] craft, putting Magmatron to work maintaining the integrity of his ship.

He had little time to spare when [[Killer Punch]] came by with a tale of the hallways moving on him and [[Hydra (BW)|Hydra]] possibly being killed. Still, the intelligence specialist's sensor logs were compelling, so Magmatron arranged for a localized brown-out so that Killer Punch could reach the laboratory the ship seemed dedicated to keeping from him. It was only due to Killer Punch's paranoid comms channel that Magmatron saw what happened next. The Builder political officer [[Synapse (BWU)|Synapse]] bragged about killing Hydra before having Killer Punch killed as well. An uprising had begun on Cybertron, and Synapse couldn't have the proto-former crew getting any sympathetic ideas.

Magmatron rallied the remaining members of the crew on board in a plan to reach the captain's chambers and disable the ship's internal defenses. He and [[Guiledart]] made their way to the captain, only to find [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]] wasn't responsible for the attacks on the crew. He had been severed from control of the ''Dinosaur'', actually the [[Titan (group)|Megamaster]] war criminal once known as [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Additional damage done by the [[Destructon]] intruders only made the situation more perilous, forcing the chief back to engineering to keep the ship in the air long enough to seize control of it. Once Dead-End disabled Trypticon's higher consciousness, Magmatron and Full-Tilt were able to preserve the ship's integrity long enough to crash it on LGC-8803, opening the starship up into a new colony dubbed [[Trypticon (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Dinosaur City]].

Leaving Full-Tilt, first officer [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]], and others behind on Dinosaur City, Magmatron manned a shuttle with a contingent of his crew who wished to return to Cybertron and fight in the [[Grand Uprising]]. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

Magmatron's crew remained intact as a unit when they joined the Resistance. Guiledart, Bazooka, Crazybolt and Rampage were only joined by two additional resistance fighters named [[Archadis]] and [[Sling (BW)|Sling]]. Archadis was an arrogant lout, but his prior loyalty to [[Lio Convoy]] led to him being named second-in-command of Magmatron's squad. During a mission to eliminate a traitor named [[Snapper]] in the midst of a prisoner transfer, Magmatron's unit was separated from Rampage and got into a protracted shoot-out with the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]] guards. Rampage returned, uncharacteristically asking for help. He had been drafted into the defense of Cybertron by the Oracle against the [[Monster GoBot|Antares Eight]], disguised aliens intent on exposing Cybertron to conflict with the [[Human Confederacy]]. Magmatron abandoned Lio Convoy's mission to help Rampage, even fighting alongside Snapper and the Constructicons in the process. Once the dust settled, these united Cybertronians mostly chose to remain together as the [[Ex-Bot (BWU)|Ex-Bots]], defending innocents in [[Proximax]] and beyond from the fallout of the Builders' war with the Resistance. Archadis and Sling left to return to Lio Convoy, but the others remained with Magmatron and Rampage. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

Magmatron and the Ex-Bots defended Proximax from the horrors of war over the next stellar cycle. Magmatron and the former MaxCop [[Stiletto (BW)|Stiletto]] rose to the top as co-leaders of the motley collection of bots from different factions. They captured a renegade Predacon scientist named [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] intent on using a [[Robosmasher|Robo-Smasher]] on the populace. The war between the Builders and the Resistance was soon overcome by the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], as the Builders latest weapon turned against them and the planet at large. The Ex-Bots joined the fight, and advanced with various armies on the [[Grand Mal]], center of Vehicon activity. Magmatron and Guiledart found themselves fighting alongside the Legion of the Inferno, army of the [[Independent Predacus States]]. When the Mal fell (thanks to Rampage), Magmatron's three forms coordinated the various forces in corralling and eliminating as many disoriented but functional Vehicons remained.

In the aftermath, Magmatron's battlefield activities had impressed [[Ram Horn]], last survivor of the previous [[Tripredacus Council]]. He was offered a place on the new council, joining Ram Horn and [[Ser-Ket (BWU)|Ser-Ket]], protege of the fallen founder of the Predacons, [[Preditron]]. Magmatron represented the Independent Predacus States at the Grand Summit orchestrated by Lio Convoy, as the [[Cybertronian Parliament]] was forged to lead Cybertron into the next millennium. {{storylink|Derailment}}

===Legends World===
[[File:Legends Epiloge Magmatron.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5]]
The Magmatron of the [[Legends World]] was the principal at a school. When [[Big Convoy|Big]] suggested changing the "HR" for "home room" to "TF" for "''Transformers''" during a staff meeting, Magmatron asked what he was going to do during "TF" period. When the teacher said he'd talk about ''Transformers'', Magmatron noted that was he already was doing that and considered firing him. {{Storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei#Very Strange|Very Strange}}

After the Legends World was destroyed, Magmatron ended up on [[Beast (planet)|Beast]], where he became a full-fledged Beast Warrior through [[Transformers sickness]] and helped fight against [[Galvatron II]] and his [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]]. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3}} When the Legends World was restored, Magmatron returned to it, and saw [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] announce he was leaving the universe. He later was present for the graduation ceremony of Big's class. {{Storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}
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==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:Beast Wars-Magmatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|My entire body is hinges!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Magmatron''' ([[February]], [[1999]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''D-35'''
:*''Sonokong ID number'': '''D-05'''
:*''Accessories'': "[[Magma Blade (BW)|Magma Blade]]" Sword-hilt/launcher, "Magma Blade" sword-blade/missile, left & right "Wing Missiles", 2 "Giga Missiles"
{{toydesigner|[[Takashi Kunihiro]] (Takara)}}

: Part of the second wave of ''Beast Wars Neo'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWN|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Magmatron is an Ultra-sized figure that transforms from a massive robot into three prehistoric reptiles—a ''{{w|Quetzalcoatlus}}'' ("Skysaurus"), a ''{{w|Giganotosaurus}}'' ("Landsaurus"), and an ''{{w|Elasmosaurus}}'' ("Seasaurus").

: Each of his individual [[beast mode]]s feature a [[spark crystal]] and a form of storage for all of his accessories: Skysaurus's wings house his "Wing Missiles"; Landsaurus stores his spring-loaded "Magma Blade" hilt in its throat and the blade itself inside the tail; and Seasaurus stores his two "Giga Missiles" inside its body. Each of the individual beast modes also feature a gimmick: Skysaurus's gimmick is activated by pulling on the tail to move the wings in a flapping action; Landsaurus's mouth can plug either of the Skysaurus's Wing Missiles, which are fired by pulling back on the top of the head; and for Seasaurus, pinching on the back flippers makes the front ones move in unison to simulate a swimming motion. All three components of Magmatron can combine to form his "Magmasaurus" mode.

: In [[robot mode]], Magmatron—like most Ultra-sized figures—features multiple gimmicks and weapons. Magmatron's Magma Blade can be used in two different configurations; the first is the standard sword configuration, however, a second handle can be flipped out, allowing him to hold it as a blaster. Activating the trigger allows for any of his five missiles to be fired as his "Magma Rocket" attack. The lower section of Seasaurus becomes his "Magma Shield", that mounts on his left arm, and features the swimming gimmick from beast mode, which can now be used as his "Shield Crusher" pincer. As Seasaurus's neck is made up of multiple ball joints, its head can be manuevered through the gap between his shoulder and his left wing to simulate the "Magma Attack" from the cartoon. Magmatron also features free-rolling wheels on his robot feet which don't serve much of a purpose, though, they can be flipped down on Landsaurus to somewhat replicate [[Transmetal]] [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s "third mode" if so desired.

: Pictured in the box just below Magmatron's Magmasaurus mode (in the image to the right), is a recommended configuration for Seasaurus's neck joints to be positioned that enables you to have its head pegged onto his left shoulder snuggly. It's not very appealing to look at from behind, but it reduces the amount of neck hanging from his back and cleans up his silhouette from the front. All of the curves of his back-[[kibble]] make everything sit nice and tight against each other too!

: [[Sonokong]] released Magmatron in the [[South Korea|Korean]] ''Beast-War Neo'' toyline. This release features no changes to the toy itself, with the only differences being [[:File:D-05 Magmatron Sonokong.jpg|the packaging]] and bio cards.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Destron/Magmatron/magmatron.htm More information on Magmatron at TFU.info]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Cosmic Showdown: Big Convoy VS Magmatron''' (Vs pack, February 1999)}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''VS-35'''
:*''Sonokong ID number'': '''DX-05'''
:*''Accessories'': "Magma Blade" Sword-hilt/launcher, "Magma Blade" sword-blade/missile, left & right "Wing Missiles", 2 "Giga Missiles"

: Magmatron was also available in the "Cosmic Showdown" (大宇宙の対決 ''Daiuchū no Taiketsu'') vs-pack with [[Big Convoy#VS35|Big Convoy]]. Both toys are identical to their individual releases.

:This vs-pack was also released in Korea by Sonokong. Much like the single release of Magmatron, both toys are identical to the Takara releases, the only differences being the packaging and bio cards.

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[[File:Gold_Big_Convoy_and_Magmatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Kinpika Big Convoy VS Magmatron''' (Vs set, 1999)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "Magma Blade" sword-hilt/launcher, "Magma Blade" sword-blade/missile, left & right "Wing Missiles", 2 "Giga Missiles"

: This gold [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum metallized]] Magmatron was featured as a [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] giveaway through ''[[TV Magazine]]'', in a two-pack with a similarly-gold-chromed Big Convoy, with an extremely limited run of 10 two-packs made and awarded.

: Regrettably, the actual details of the giveaway are currently unknown, including what issue the contest was in and the entry requirements.

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Black Magmatron''' (1999)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "Magma Blade" Sword-hilt/launcher, "Magma Blade" sword-blade/missile, left & right "Wing Missiles", 2 "Giga Missiles"

: This mostly-solid-black [[redeco]] of Magmatron was a Lucky Draw item through ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'', with only ten pieces made and awarded.

: Regrettably, the actual details of the giveaway are currently unknown, including what issue the contest was in and the entry requirements.
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===''Beast Machines''===
[[File:BM Magmatron Toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"HasLab Star Saber is the first Japanese Transformer to be introduced in the US? That's cute."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-bd|'''Magmatron''' (Ultra, [[2000]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "Magma Blade" Sword-hilt/launcher, "Magma Blade" sword-blade/missile, left & right "Wing Missiles", 2 "Giga Missiles"

: One year after his Japanese release, Hasbro made Magmatron available to customers in the United States. The toy itself was slightly changed from his original release, with his missiles and sword "rounded off" to better conform with [[For safety reasons|United States safety laws]], and overall has a less "metallic" sheen to his plastic. Another more prominent difference is a duller-mustard shade of yellow paint being present on the pelvis of the robot mode, whereas the original has bright yellow.

: Hasbro's version of Magmatron was available [[exclusive]]ly through [[Target]] stores in the USA, in a box branded as part of the ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' toyline. For the most part, the packaging bore little resemblance to its Takara counterpart; however, it ''did'' feature a few elements in Japanese, meant to emphasize the "exotic" origin of the figure, namely a small version of the official Japanese ''Transformers'' logo (トランスフォーマー), the names of the toy itself, its combined beast mode and its three individual components in katakana, as well as a promotional blurb advertising the toy's features in Japanese that was lifted verbatim from the packaging of Takara's original ''Beast Wars'' release.

: The [[instructions]] for Magmatron incorrectly name two of his individual beast modes: the ''Quetzalcoatlus'' is referred to as a "''{{w|Pteranodon}}''", and the ''Giganotosaurus'' is referred to as a "{{w|Dromaeosauridae|raptor}}" (that is one ''biiiiiig'' raptor). The ''Elasmosaurus'' is referred to as a "{{w|Plesiosaur}}", which is ''kinda'' correct, just not as specific. The instructions also label his combined beast mode as a "monster mode".

: His [[bio]] card describes him as a Maximal, and also places him on [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]-dominated Cybertron. However, his separate [[beast mode]]s still retain their Predacon [[spark crystal]]s. His bio card also knocks the "-us" suffix off of the end of each of the individual beast mode names, making them "'''Skysaur'''", "'''Landsaur'''" and "'''Seasaur'''", and calls his combined beast mode a "tri-dinosaur [[Fuzor]]".
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:LegacyMagmatron.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2.2|Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur (and pterosaur and sauropterygid)]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Beast Wars Universe Magmatron''' (Commander Class, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Magmatron''' (マグマトロン)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''TL-69'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' 2024 [[June 29]]
:*''Accessories'': Sword, shield, 2 blades, 7 [[Fire Blast effect]]s
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Mario Carreiro]] and [[Christina Murphy]] (packaging)}}<ref>[[October 27]], [[2023]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDGvr0oGqs 1027 Hasbro Pulse Premium Event] on YouTube, with [[Mark Maher]] and [[Ben MacCrae]].</ref>

: Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the ''Transformers'' brand, ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: United]]'' "Beast Wars Universe Magmatron" is a Commander Class figure that retains his central [[gimmick]] of splitting into three prehistoric creatures: "Beast Wars Universe Skysaurus" (''Quetzalcoatlus''), "Beast Wars Universe Landsaurus" (''Giganotosaurus''), and "Beast Wars Universe Seasaurus" (''Elasmosaurus''). All three components can combine to form his "Magmasaurus" mode, although it isn't advertised on the packaging or stock photography.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CzxSQVMrV2b/ Demonstration of ''Legacy'' Magmatron's Magmasaurus mode] from [[Hasbro]] designer [[Mark Maher]] on Instagram</ref> The toy's design is so faithful to the original that it includes three ''Beast Wars''-style [[spark crystal]]s—the first new ones created in over twenty years.

: Included with Magmatron are seven Fire Blast effects parts, which are [[redeco]]s of the set that came with ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' [[Omega Supreme (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Omega Supreme]]. The [[package art]] on the side of the box is also drawn to mimic the [[stock footage|animation style]] used in the cartoon when the three beasts start to combine.

: Magmatron was teased on the ''Legacy: United'' poster art and the toy proper was officially revealed in the [[Hasbro Pulse#1027 Premium Events|Hasbro Pulse 1027 Premium Event]] on [[October 27]]. The [[TakaraTomy]] release of Magmatron includes a sleeve for the package that harkens back to the original ''Beast Wars'' toyline.

::''[https://www.instagram.com/p/C1tFdyPMIHy/ Designer commentary on ''Legacy'' Magmatron from Mark Maher on Instagram]''
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==Merchandise==
===''Beast Wars Real Figure Kit''===
[[File:RealFigureKit Magmatron.jpg|thumb|right]]
*'''Magmatron''' (1999)
**''Accessories'': Stand

:A non-transforming PVC prize figure kit of Magmatron. It comes packaged with the unassembled figure and a stand. The stand has two attachment points for other Real Figure Kit stands to connect.
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==Notes==
[[File:Diaclone Reboot Illustration.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|He's pretty much every vehicle in this image.]]
* Magmatron's Magmasaurus mode was frequently shown to be his primary [[alternate mode]] throughout most of Magmatron's cartoon appearances and Japanese profiles, while the individual dinosaur modes were his secondary alternate modes. It also appears from the ''Beast Wars Neo'' production materials that have made it into the wild, that his individual dinosaur forms were never given full [[character model]]s, just [[:File:BWN-Magmatron-dino-models.jpg|rough outlines]] depicting what the individual dinosaur modes are supposed to be when separated, if the animators were to split them up, while the Magmasaurus mode was given a full, detailed model with front and rear views.
* Magmatron's Maximal on-package bio gives his quotation as "Til all is won", an obvious reference to a similar [['Til all are one|phrase]] that pops up in numerous other places in ''Transformers'' lore.
* The ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' incarnation of Magmatron is a "virtual redeco" of the revived ''[[Diaclone]]'' line's [http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/pictorial-review-of-diaclone-reboot-diabattles-v2/35531/ Dia-Battles V2] (ダイアバトルスV2) toy. You can thank [[Jesse Wittenrich]] for that idea. A transformation video of the 2016 toy can be [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOjNZI12uU seen here.]

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Magmatron''' (메그마트론 ''Megeumateuron'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Yán Chōng Tiān''' (炎冲天, "Soaring Flame")

==References==
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[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Beast Machines Dinobots]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars II Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Predacons]]
[[Category:Emperors of Destruction]]
[[Category:Fuzors]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Legends World natives]]
[[Category:Legacy Predacons]]
[[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]
[[Category:Predacon leaders]]
[[Category:Resistance]]
[[Category:Target exclusives]]
[[Category:Transformers with three modes]]
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File:RealFigureKit Magmatron.jpg

2024-02-06T06:14:38Z

Chuckwagoneer: Assembled Real Figure Kit of Magmatron. Photo by Chuckwagoneer. Category:Beast Wars Neo merchandise images

Assembled Real Figure Kit of [[Magmatron]]. Photo by [[User:Chuckwagoneer|Chuckwagoneer]].
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Big Convoy (BW)

2024-02-06T06:11:04Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* Beast Wars Real Figure Kit */ Photo addition

{{factions|maximal|autobot|decepticon}}
:''Big Convoy is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:BigConvoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Was the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|dark of the moon]] on the sixth of June, in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss Kenworth pullin' logs]...]]

You ''don't'' want to give '''Big Convoy''' (ビッグコンボイ ''Biggu Konboi'') a hard time. While most Maximal [[Supreme Commander]]s are known for their level-headed and friendly natures, Big Convoy breaks the mold by positively wrecking and ruining anyone who gives him lip. A gargantuan bruiser of a warrior, he tramples the opposition in his woolly mammoth [[beast mode]] and utterly obliterates them in robot mode with his [[Big Cannon]]. He is known throughout the Maximal ranks as "The One-Man Army", a solitary Supreme Commander who can do the work of a whole battalion all on his lonesome.

So of course the [[Great Convoy]]s felt he would make a perfect training instructor for a batch of new recruits freshly minted from the Maximal Military Academy. While it takes every ounce of restraint Big Convoy can muster not to completely throttle the green little twerps, deep down he kinda-sorta ''likes'' them. Or he's getting there, anyway. [[Vector Sigma]] has taken a special interest in Big Convoy and often speaks ''through'' him via the [[Energon Matrix]] in his chest. And with each lesson in warfare he imparts to his new recruits, Big Convoy in turn learns a lesson about friendship and teamwork.

{{quote|I never trust anyone—except for my Big Cannon.|Big Convoy|"[[A Battle Fought Alone]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Legends'' comic====
'''Big Junior''' (ビッグジュニア ''Biggu Junia'') was the son of [[Blue Big Convoy]], a radical estranged from the [[Great Convoy]]s because of his egalitarian opinions regarding the relationship between Convoys and other Transformers. The two fought at each other's side till one fateful day where they battled a [[Blentron|mysterious group]] who sought out [[Angolmois Energy]]. Blue Big Convoy sacrificed himself to destroy the villains and to save Big Junior. The elder mammoth used his last words to teach a weeping Big Junior the true meaning of being a "Convoy" and gave his arm to replace Big Junior's destroyed one. Henceforward, Big Junior was Big Convoy and he became a loner to protect himself from the pain of losing another comrade. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Blue Big Convoy)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Junichi Inoue]] (Japanese)|[[Jung Goo Lee]] (Korean)}}
[[Image:Bwneo1 bigconvoy dreamwave.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Big Convoy pulls a [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]].]]
[[Image:BigConvoyAnime1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|We've got a great big codpiece.]]
Big Convoy once operated as a duo with [[Rockbuster]] and the two fought [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s and adventured together. However, their solitary natures eventually drove them apart and both warriors decided to become solo acts in the war against the Predacons. {{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} Big Convoy's decision to go it alone brought him into conflict with the Maximal drill instructor [[Survive]], a stern believer in the value of teamwork. They parted on shaky ground, with Survive determined to someday teach Big Convoy how to work in a group. {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} As "the One Man Army" (the nickname he quickly earned), Big Convoy focused his energies on thwarting the machinations of [[Magmatron]], the new leader of the Predacon forces. After a particularly explosive assault on a stronghold, the two became arch-foes.

Hoping to curb Big Convoy's psychotically antisocial behavior, the [[Great Convoy]]s ordered him to train a crew of unruly new recruits. Big Convoy loathed the assignment at first, but being a loyal soldier, accepted the task. His first mission was to explore [[Gaia]] and investigate the disappearance of [[Lio Convoy]]. Little did he know, Magmatron and his Predacons were following close behind him. After finding a black box message from Lio Convoy, Big Convoy learned of the [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]] Capsules ejected after the destruction of [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]]. Big Convoy then headed off with his group of trainees to collect the capsules, battling Magmatron every step of the way. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

On their journey to recover the Angolmois capsules, Big Convoy and his group of trainees stumbled upon the planet of [[Godbless]]. There, he spotted a volcano floating in orbit, and questioned [[NAVI]] on whether the planet had any natural satellites or not. When the answer was no, he drove his ship closer, but was met with an apparition of a supposed “[[God of the Maximals]]”, in reality an illusion created by [[Saberback]], who told them to stay away from the planet, before shocking the vessel's systems and causing it to crash. When the group officially landed on the surface, Big Convoy ordered [[Colada]] and [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]] to scout their surroundings. Later on, when the two Maximals discovered Saberback and a capsule of Angolmois, Convoy came to their defenses and fired his “Big Cannon” on him and the other Predacons, allowing the Maximals to escape with the Angolmois. Before they departed from Godbless, [[Vector Sigma]], speaking through Convoy, told the people of the planet to put in their best efforts on their own before turning to the assistance of a god. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

Big Convoy led the Maximal recruits to the supposedly warm, paradise-like planet of [[Solid]], to recover an Angolmois capsule. He was shocked, along with the others, to learn that the planet was actually frigid and frozen over. When Longrack attempted to assemble a ground team to explore the surface, Convoy shut him down, claiming that it would be good training for everyone to go. He changed his mind, though, when he realized that [[Break]] was the only one adequately equipped for snow exploration. Instead, he and the rest of the recruits remained waiting in the snow, until Break was ready with the capsule. Unfortunately, [[Sling (BW)|Sling]] and Saberback attacked the group, burying them all underneath piles of snow. Thankfully, Colada was able to rescue them, Big Convoy included, with his flame breath. The attack, combined with the horrific weather, was enough to demoralize the team, leaving them unable to rendezvous with Break in their current condition to retrieve the capsule. To this end, Convoy suggested using a slab of ice to slide across the planet's surface and meet with the penguin Maximal, having Longrack break off a piece from a nearby mountain. The plan succeeded, and the group met with Break just in time to fend off [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]] and take the Angolmois for themselves. Later on, when Longrack dressed down Break for seemingly caring more about the [[Gōmya|locals]] than the mission at hand, Vector Sigma spoke through Convoy, defending Break and stating that it was the right thing to do. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

Big Convoy had the Maximal recruits touch down on [[Maderan]] to retrieve the Angolmois capsule located on the planet. When he was alerted through Stampy via signal flare of the Predacon presence on the surface, he took the ''[[Gung Ho]]'' down to solve the problem. After battling off Magmatron and freeing his recruits from the Predacons' clutches, he took wounded Stampy to the ship's sick bay so that he could recover. After the trainees apologizes to Stampy for poking fun at his cowardice, when he had in reality been the bravest of them all on Maderan, Vector Sigma spoke through Convoy once more, saying that, as a team, everyone had distinct, but important characteristics that made it run like clockwork. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

When Colada and Break began to argue, Big Convoy sent them to the planet [[Donovan]] to search for the Angolmois there, and to hopefully stop their bickering. Break later called for help, revealing that he had left Colada to fend for himself in order to teach him a lesson, to the fury of Convoy. Once he beamed down on the planet, he searched for the pair, but was stopped by Dead End, who wished to have a one-on-one duel with the Maximal leader. Convoy shrugged off his attacks, and beat the snot out of the Predacon, rushing to help Break and Colada. By the time he arrived, the two had weakened the Predacons significantly, giving Convoy room to unleash his "Big Cannon" upon them. Once the Angolmois was secured, Vector Sigma spoke through the Maximal leader, talking on the virtues of working as a team. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Ship's Log}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|The Stolen Gung Ho}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}}

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===''Bom Bom'' comic continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' comic====
[[Image:bwn-nanatunoko-manga-01-1.jpg|thumb|right|180px]]

Long before [[Lio Convoy]] and [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]]'s [[Gaia]]n battles took place, '''Big''' (ビッグ ''Biggu'') the [[mammoth]] lived on a cold, primitive world in the [[7th Cosmos]]. When an [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]] Capsule fell on the planet, it evolved Big and other beasts, who were then led by a [[Magmatron|''Giganotosaurus'']], and the capsule came to be known as the Divine Stone. The resulting gang turned violent and, when he wasn't around, murdered Big's friends.

When the time-lost [[Lio Convoy]] ended up on Big's planet, he came face to face with the dinosaurs, and was saved in the nick of time by Big. After some introductions, Big brought Lio Convoy to the Divine Stone, but they were confronted by the evil creatures. Big was wounded in the battle, but the mammoth managed to push them all into the crevasse containing the stone, which exploded, further evolving the dinosaurs into full-fledged Transformers with robot modes. Lio Convoy was able to take down the mooks, but was easily defeated by the union of the ''Giganotosaurus'' with a ''Quetzalcoatlus'' and a ''Elasmosaurus''—[[Magmatron]]. When the villains made their leave, Lio Convoy recovered and found the mammoth dying in the snow. Regretting his involvement, Lio Convoy used his [[Energon Matrix]] to cure the animal. The process evolved Big into the Maximal Big Convoy, but he was left alone and amnesiac in the raging snowstorm. {{storylink|The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' comic====
Big Convoy would join the Maximals, becoming the notorious "One Man Army". During one battle, he disregarded [[Crow Convoy]]'s orders by rushing into a Predacon space fortress and blowing it up; the resulting shockwave damaged the [[Maximal Army 7th Fleet]]. For his insubordination, [[Great Convoy]] punished Big Convoy by making him the instructor of five rookie Maximals on the planet Gaia. He took a lackadaisy approach, commanding his students from the ''[[Gung Ho]]'', but came to their rescue when they encountered lethal [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] on the abandoned ''[[Galvaburg II]]''. Inside, they found the mysterious [[Unicron/Generation 1|Black Ball]]. When it was brought aboard the Maximals' ship, it suddenly activated the warp engine. {{storylink|The 5 Rookies}} The Black Ball revealed itself to be capable of speech and told the story of the war between Lio Convoy and Galvatron, and the Maximal commander's name stirred something in Big Convoy.

When the warp dropped the ''Gung Ho'' in [[Luxor]]'s orbit, it was immediately attacked by the Predacon flagship ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]''. The ''Gung Ho'' crashed into an asteroid, but not before Big Convoy sent his subordinates on escape pods to Luxor. While repairing the ''Gung Ho'' with [[NAVI (Gung Ho)|NAVI]], Big Convoy investigated Lio Convoy's record, finding nothing that connected them two. When the rookies down on Luxor were attacked by the Predacons [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]] and [[Sling (BW)|Sling]], Big Convoy leapt to the planet to their rescue, managing to drive them away and prevent the planet's Angolmois Capsule from falling into the enemy's hands. {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} Their time on the planet was far from over, as the planet's sand was revealed to be actually made up of millimeter-long robots called [[Sandron]], who refused to allow the Maximals to leave the planet with the Capsule and threatened to eat them from the inside out. They attempted to sow confusion by assembling themselves into duplicates of the Maximals, but the ''Gung Ho'' was repaired in time to take the Maximals off the planet, and Big Convoy managed to use some deft gunfire to hold back the Sandron before they naturally dissipated thanks to the removal of the Angolmois Capsule from the planet. {{storylink|100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!}}

The Maximals next went to [[Greengard]] for its Angolmois Capsule. After appointing [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]] the leader of that particular retrieval mission, Big Convoy stayed behind on the ''Gung Ho'', where he awaited the arrival of the ''Dinosaur''. After burying it in an avalanche, Big Convoy came face-to-face with Magmatron himself, who taunted the Maximal about his knowledge of Big Convoy's origins. After a fierce battle, Big Convoy was able to blast away Magmatron with his [[Big Cannon]] and picked up his students, who had succeeded at their mission. {{storylink|Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky}} The next capsule was detected at [[Colada]]'s homeworld, [[Jörmungandr]]. Leaving [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]] to watch over the ''Gung Ho'', Big Convoy joined his other soldiers to the planet, where they ran into Sling, Dead End, and [[Saberback]]. Big Convoy entered a duel with Dead End, but it was eventually interrupted by Saberback, who tried to off Big Convoy on the recently arrived [[Guiledart]]'s orders. A retaliatory blast from Big Convoy disintegrated Guiledart and breached the world's shell, sucking everything out into space. The Predacons were doomed to the void, and Big Convoy was forced to let go of his Big Cannon to save [[Break]]'s life, losing it forever. {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}

Big Convoy and his troops later found themselves within the sanctuary of the [[Byakurēn]], where they found an Angolmois Capsule being worshiped as a holy vessel. The Maximals fought off the cult's evil priests before [[Kuma Kinkin]] engaged Big Convoy in one-on-one combat. Big Convoy managed to slice off one of Kuma Kinkin's arms in the ensuing battle, and used the missionary's own Bearnium gauntlet to kill him, stabbing him with it through the forehead. The cult vanquished, Big Convoy and his crew took possession of the capsule. {{storylink|Break Through! The Polar Bear Raging Claw Fist!}} Next, Big Convoy led his troops to the aquatic planet [[Wednesday]], where they retrieved the fifth Angolmois Capsule after a brief altercation against [[Rage (BW)|Rage]]. {{storylink|To Jellyfish with Love! Cry Out, Stampy Blade}}

[[Image:MangaBigConvoyVsBlentrons.jpg|left|upright=1.2|thumb|Who wants some?!]]
The sixth capsule was in the [[Graviton Prison]]. Though the Maximals were captured by the malfunctioning robot-guards, Big Convoy used his incredible kicking-strength to bust his crew out of their cell. With the capsule in their possession, the Maximals returned to their ship. The prison's guards attempted once more to stop the by pulling down on the ''Gung Ho'', but Big Convoy once more used his powerful legs to save the day, kicking the guards into a nearby black hole. {{storylink|The Great Escape! Graviton Prison!}}

For the final capsule, the Black Ball led the Maximals to a floating amphitheatre in proximity of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], where they encountered the surviving Magmatron, who revealed that the Black Ball had led him there and gave him the [[Blentron]]s as troops! As events unfolded, though, the Blentrons turned on Magmatron and fed the collected capsules to the Black Ball, from which the face of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] emerged. Unicron explained that the last Angolmois Capsule, the divine stone that fell on an icy planet so long ago, was absorbed into the bodies of Big Convoy and Magmatron, a revelation that broke Big Convoy's amnesia. Breaking down from his recovered memories, Big Convoy crouched in tears till Magmatron implored him to keep fighting, and the two joined forces against the Blentrons. Just as the two were about to swoop into Unicron's maw, [[Heinrad (BW)|Heinrad]], in actuality an agent of the [[Chronarchitect|Ruler of Time and Space]], froze time and explained to Big Convoy the threat of Unicron and the Ruler's plan to destroy the universe to remove the threat. After knocking some sense into the despondent Big Convoy, Heinrad was pulled out of the spacetime continuum for his violation of the dogma of noninterference. Away from Unicron, Big Convoy had to watch as the dark god chomped on Magmatron, spitting out his head and his [[Magma Blade (BW)|Magma Blade]]. After being entrusted the sword, Big Convoy used it to end his rival's life and swore to fight against Unicron, who had absorbed Cybertron to become his new body. {{storylink|Double Cross}}

With the Magma Blade in hand, Big Convoy had the ''Gung Ho'' lure Unicron to the clustered planetary system [[Georgian]], where the Maximal crew had Unicron attack planets, setting off explosions that destroyed his limbs. Limbless, Unicron tried to unleash a Blentron army, but it was of little effect to Big Convoy, who dove in and stabbed his eye with the Magma Blade. However, Unicron's dark essence emerged from its eye and plastered itself on Big Convoy's body to take it over. With no option, Big Convoy took the Matrix from his chest and unleashed its power, destroying himself and Unicron in the process. In his dying moments, Big Convoy saw Lio Convoy come to bring his soul to peace.

At Big Convoy's memorial, his former students, now graduated, paid homage to him when Heinrad appeared and took the four to an wintry planet. There, he revealed that Big Convoy's spark was "recycled" by his organization and the commander was reincarnated as an ordinary mammoth without memory or awareness of what came before. As the Maximals—now Convoys—saluted him, the mammoth walked off into the distance. {{storylink|Return to Zero}}

====''Beast Wars Metals'' comic====
The visage of Big Convoy appeared alongside those of Lio Convoy and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in a poetic montage overlooking the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] on [[Earth|Energoa]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 1|Beast Wars Metals #1}}
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===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
[[File:Big Convoy WorldsCollide Portal.jpg|thumb|150px]]
[[Blurr (Armada)|Blurr]], [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]], and [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] discovered that the [[Herald of Unicron|Heralds of Unicron]] had destabilized the Decepticon [[space bridge nexus]], causing the space bridges to become windows to other dimensions. One of these windows showed Big Convoy, who seemed to be looking right back at Jetfire. Jetfire, thinking he had seen the Optimus Prime he knew, tried to say so, but only stuttered, possibly in shock. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:Gathering1-BigConvoy.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Where everybody knows your name...]]
By one account, Big Convoy was known as the "one robot army" and was assigned by the [[Maximal Elder]]s to the ''Gung Ho'' and its crew of Maximal rookies in a time before the [[Pax Cybertronia]]. Together, they defeated Magmatron. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #1}}

In another account, Big Convoy had earned himself a place on the [[Autobot High Council]] by the tail-end of the Great War. He was away from their base of operation when news came in that both Optimus Prime and Galvatron had fallen in combat, and so attended a meeting via holographic-projection. After rebranding themselves the "[[Primal Council]]", the group discussed their intent to broker an armistice with their enemies, in the hopes of ending the war without further bloodshed. To this end, Big Convoy was sent to a front near the [[Rust Sea Peninsula]]. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

Big Convoy was part of Cybertron's [[Committee for State Affairs]] alongside [[Heinrad (BW)|Heinrad]] and [[Magmatron]]. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}} Because of his distinguished service, he was a high-ranking member of the joint committee. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #1}}

On Cybertron, Big Convoy, along with [[Tasmania Kid]], had been investigating recent disturbances and riots occurring with increasing frequency. He found that the riots had been set off by the use of Angolmois capsules—something which he thought he had seen the last of. Though the rulers of the [[Maximal Imperium]] sent their aide, [[Ikard]], to bring Big Convoy to them, he refused to come, citing the importance of getting some control in the field. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}

[[Image:CybertronianBigConvoy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|He doesn't attend to politicians when there's asses to kick.]]

Following the trail of the Angolmois incidents, he and his unit were able to locate a monolithic structure jutting from the Cybertronian skyline. [[Colada|Cohrada]] speculated that the new building was in fact quite ancient, a part of an older era of Cybertron that was thrust up through the substructure. [[Shokaract]] emerged from the structure, eager to demonstrate his newfound power. Big Convoy retaliated, transforming into a heavily armed spider-tank alt mode. Magmatron witnessed that unless the timestream was altered, the Maximal leader would also be killed by Shokaract. Thus, the chronally displaced Predacon chose that moment in time for the transwarp coordinates to give to [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. Therefore, the battle was interrupted by the appearance of [[Lio Convoy]]'s transwarp cruiser, sparing Big Convoy. However, this hope was in vain, as it was soon shot down by Shokaract. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}}

Big Convoy later met [[Bump]], a "specialist" sent by Lio Convoy. Soon afterwards, Big Convoy and his soldiers encountered the Pack, along with immigrants from Earth, including [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. He participated in the plan and battled with Shokaract's forces. After their enemies were defeated, Lio Convoy and Big Convoy hoped that no threat came up while they were focused on rebuilding Cybertron, which had fallen into a sorry state after Shokaract's distribution of Angolmois. Unfortunately, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] popped up just in time to dash that hope. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

===''Kre-O'' online comic===
[[File:KreO-webcomic-10-BigConvoy.jpg|thumb|left|75px]]

Big Convoy was at the newly constructed Autobot base, [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], enjoying the big turret at the top of the building. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}

===Legends World===
In the [[Legends World]], Big Convoy was a ''Transformers'' nerd who worked as a high school teacher. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 59|Bonus Edition Vol. 59}} He attended the [[Transformers Celebration 2014]], {{storylink|Legends Bonus Vol.}} and later was part of the crowd that cheered on the recently arrived [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] from the [[G1 World]]. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 23#Lord Megatron Goes to the Legends World|Lord Megatron Goes to the Legends World}}

Big Convoy took a job as a teacher at Magmatron's high school, initially scaring his students with his fierce appearance before showing his true self when he ran off to buy ''Transformers'' toys. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Year 3, Class B Big-sensei}} He found teaching regular subjects boring and instead began teaching the history of the ''Transformers'' brand, {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|First Lesson First}} and petitioned Magmatron to change the homeroom period to a period dedicated to talking about ''Transformers''. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Very Strange}} Upon catching Colada shaking Stampy down, Big reprimanded him but showed his gentle side by giving his student some "money"... in the form of [[Cyber Key]]s. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Delinquent Colada}} During sports day, he presented Break with a Cyber Key medal for his exemplary skating before crushing his students under his weight during the cavalry race. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Hot-blooded Break}} When Longrack began studying ''Transformers'' at the cost of neglecting other subjects, Big realized he was leading his students astray and began teaching properly. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Preparatory Reviewer Longrack}}

One day, Big Convoy awoke in the form of a robot mammoth who could turn himself into a tank and was, to his joy, diagnosed with [[Transformers sickness]]. [[DNAVI]] prescribed him some medicine, but he refused to be cured and threw it away. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|When I Awoke One Morning...}} On the way home, he was caught up in a [[Quintesson]] invasion and, finding [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] lamenting his uselessness, looked in vain for a [[football coach]] who could aid him. Realizing he himself qualified as a kind of coach, he then decided to disguise himself as a Decepticon and help Blitzwing. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|To Fight with...}} After he offered the beleaguered soldier his services as a strategist, he introduced himself as "'''Big Fight'''" (ビッグファイト ''Biggu Faito''). His strategy didn't amount to much, merely telling Blitzwing to forge his own destiny, but the [[Triple Changer]] was able to relay those ideas to an invading [[Overcharge (G1)|Overcharge]], who was actually Blitzwing from the past. After the invasion was ultimately repelled, Big Fight took his leave and Big Convoy was found the next day asleep during class. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 59|Bonus Edition Vol. 59}}

When [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s [[Majin Zarak]] threatened the Legends World, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s ''Encore'' Big Convoy toy leapt to the rescue and revealed that all ''Transformers'' toys in the Legends World were actually living beings. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two}}

Nevertheless, the Legends World was destroyed and the regular Big Convoy from that world was forced to evacuate the universe in the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and ended up on [[Beast (planet)|Beast]]. When that planet was attacked by [[Galvatron II]] and his [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], [[Lio Convoy|Leo Prime]] forced Transformers sickness onto the Legends World refugees and converted them into forms much like the G1 World's own Beast Warriors. With the other Convoys, Big Convoy destroyed Nemesis's core in a Triple Beast Convoy Matrix Attack. {{Storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
'''Slammoth''' was a member of the [[Cybertronian Navy]] who served aboard the ''[[Gung Ho|Gung-Ho]]'', patrolling the [[Allowed Zone]] of known space under the watchful eye of the [[Human Confederacy]]. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

During the [[Grand Uprising]], Slammoth seized control of ''Gung-Ho'' from the Builders. He became Supreme Commander of the space vessels controlled by the [[Resistance]] as the war went on. In addition to clashing with Builders, Slammoth had several encounters with [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razor-Claw]], an opportunist Predacon warlord who seized control of Cybertron's three moons, and was initially antagonistic with [[Lio Convoy]]'s movement.

When the war ended and the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]] was routed, Slammoth took part in the negotiations at [[Dragon's Bane Cathedral]] in [[Hyperious]] to establish a new government. Once the [[Cybertronian Parliament]] was hammered into shape, Slammoth became one of the three chosen representatives of the Resistance. {{storylink|Derailment}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWNtoy-BigConvoy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|I'm not fat, it's all this kibble. It makes me look...poofy.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Big Convoy''' (February, [[1999]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''C-35'''
:*''Sonokong ID number'': '''C-05'''
:*''Accessories:'' "[[Big Cannon#Beast Wars Neo|Big Cannon]]", 2 missiles, 2 "[[Mammoth Haken#Beast Wars Neo|Mammoth Haken]]" missiles, "[[Energon Matrix#BigConvoy|Energon Matrix]]"
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Part of the second wave of ''Beast Wars Neo'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWN|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Big Convoy transforms into an organic mammoth. His beast mode has a rubber trunk which can be controlled by pushing a lever on the top of his head to somewhat simulate his "Mammoth Dynamite" attack. In addition, the tusks can be moved by pulling back either of his ears.

:In robot mode, Big Convoy is absolutely chock-full of weapons and [[gimmick]]s:
:#The spring-loaded "Big Cannon" (formed out of the beast's head, back, and tail) can fire two missiles from two barrels in succession with a rotating dial. It is held in his hands via [[5 mm post]] and can be stored on his back.
:#His shoulder armor can be swung up to reveal sculpted, non-firing missile pods.
:#He has flip-out "{{w|tonfa|Mammoth Tonfa}}" melee weapons in both forearms.
:#The two beast panels on the sides of his legs feature two spring-loaded missile launchers that fire his anchor-shaped "Mammoth Haken" projectiles (similar to the original ''Beast Wars'' Ultra Class [[Megatron (BW)/toys#BWultra|Megatron]] toy); the missiles can also be loosely held as melee weapons.
:#His chest panel flips down, revealing the first-ever removable Matrix toy accessory, vacuum-metalized gold with a transparent red center. This accessory can be held by any figure with standard 5mm fist holes.

: Big Convoy technically has a third mode, known as "Mammoth Tank", which is basically just his beast mode with the Big Cannon folded out and his Mammoth Haken launchers deployed. Yay.

: This toy is somewhat infamous for being a [[shellformer]], as practically all of his beast mode components are shells that fit around the compressed robot to form this mode. Much of his [[kibble]] can be detached from the main figure to form the majority of his beast mode [[:File:Bigconvoy shell.jpg|on its own]].

: [[Sonokong]] released Big Convoy as "Mammolike" in the [[South Korea|Korean]] ''Beast-War Neo'' toyline. This release features no changes to the toy itself, with the only differences being [[:File:C-05 Mammolike Sonokong.jpg|the packaging]] and bio cards.

: Big Convoy was [[redeco]]ed as [[Black Big Convoy]], then redecoed and slightly [[retool]]ed into [[Nemesis Prime (Universe)#Universe .282003.29|Nemesis Prime]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Cybertron/BigConvoy/bigconvoy.htm More information on Big Convoy at TFU.info]''
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{{Twoimages|File:Big Convoy-VS-Magmatron-Boxset.jpg|w1=200
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Cosmic Showdown: Big Convoy VS Magmatron''' (Vs pack, February 1999)}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''VS-35'''
:*''Sonokong ID number'': '''DX-05
:*''Accessories:'' "Big Cannon", 2 missiles, two "Mammoth Haken" missiles, "Energon Matrix"

: Big Convoy was also available in the "Cosmic Showdown" (大宇宙の対決 ''dai uchū no taiketsu'') "versus" pack with his chief adversary, [[Magmatron#VS35|Magmatron]]. Both toys were identical to their individual releases.

:This vs-pack was also released in Korea by Sonokong. Much like the single release of "Mammolike", both toys are identical to the Takara releases, the only differences being the packaging and bio cards.

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[[File:Gold_Big_Convoy_and_Magmatron.jpg|thumb|250px]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Kinpika Big Convoy''' (1999)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-35'''
:*''Accessories:'' "Big Cannon", 2 missiles, two "Mammoth Haken" missiles, "Energon Matrix"

:This gold [[vacuum metallizing|vacuum metallized]] Big Convoy was featured as a [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] giveaway.

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[[File:1999_Blue_Big_Convoy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Please, Mr. Blue was [[Blue Big Convoy|my father]], call me Big.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Blue Big Convoy''' (1999)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-35'''
:*''Accessories:'' "Big Cannon", 2 missiles, two "Mammoth Haken" missiles, "Energon Matrix"

:A redeco of Big Convoy in blue, this figure is a Lucky Draw item.

:The ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]''-original character [[Blue Big Convoy#Legends|Blue Big Convoy]] is an homage to this release.
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===''Legends''===
[[File:TF-Legends-LG59-Bigfight.jpg|right|300px|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Blitzwing''' ([[January 27]], [[2018]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''LG59'''

:Available with the ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Voyager-sized [[Blitzwing (G1)/toys#Legends|Blitzwing]] figure, "Big Fight" is a redeco of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' [[Shuffler#Legends|Shuffler]]'s accessory. The [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] form of Blitzwing can ride Big Fight in robot mode. Big Fight can also transform into a 5 mm gun for larger ''Titans Return'' or any ''Legends'' Headmaster figures to wield.
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===''Encore''===
[[File:Encore-Big-Convoy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Guess this means we won't be seeing a ''Masterpiece'' Big Convoy anytime soon then...]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Big Convoy''' ([[January 26]], [[2019]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' "Big Cannon", 2 missiles, 2 "Mammoth Haken" missiles, "Energon Matrix"

:An ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' reissue, this release of Big Convoy has been extensively redecoed to be more anime-accurate. The most notable changes include his paint and plastic being much more matte overall, flat white replacing the pearlescent white and silver, his beast mode pelt being a darker brown, his gold parts swapped to yellow, and his beast eyes now white with pupils.

:This release of Big Convoy displays considerably well with the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' [[Lio Convoy]] and anime-colored [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#MP38|Optimus Primal]] toys. With all three figures being roughly the same height, it is highly accurate to the respective cartoon scales.
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[[File:TF-BWN-Encore-Big-Convoy-Matrix-Buster.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''Come on and Slammoth'' ''And welcome to the Jammoth'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Big Convoy (Matrix Buster Ver.)''' ([[February 28]], [[2020]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' "Big Cannon", 2 missiles, 2 "Mammoth Haken" missiles, "Energon Matrix", "Matrix Buster", "NAVI" figure, 2 leg attachments

:This ''Encore'' rerelease of Big Convoy has no deco changes from the original ''Beast Wars Neo'' version but does have a lot of new parts added to it.

: The centerpiece is the massive "Matrix Buster" cannon accessory (as used in the penultimate episode of the ''Neo'' anime), which can store the [[retool]]ed Energon Matrix with collapsible handles, and has two flexible tubes that plug into his waist-piece. Completing the cartoon-based configuration are two small turbine-like parts that extend his hip-mounted mammoth legs by plugging in between the legs and the removable feet, exploiting a facet of the toy's construction that was not considered a play "feature" prior.

: Finally, this set also includes a small [[NAVI (Gung Ho)#Toys|NAVI]] figurine. Yay!

: This figure was also released in [[Australia]] as a EB Games/Zing exclusive.
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==Merchandise==
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===''Beast Wars Real Figure Kit''===
[[File:RealFigureKit Big Convoy.jpg|thumb|right|Also included with base: sludge.]]
*'''Big Convoy''' (1999)
**''Accessories'': Stand

:A non-transforming PVC prize figure kit of Big Convoy. It comes packaged with the unassembled figure and a stand. The stand has two attachment points for other Real Figure Kit stands to connect.
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===Flame Toys===
====Furai Model====
*'''Big Convoy''' (20??)
{{toydesigner|[[Akira Amemiya]] (concept artist)}}
{{comingsoontoy}}

==Notes==
[[File:Mammothconvoy.jpg|thumb|right]]
*Concept art by Big Convoy's toy designer [[Hisashi Yuki]] lists his preliminary name as Mammoth Convoy.<ref>http://twitter.com/TOYROBOYUKI/status/1028923779949375488</ref>
*Like most comic-only Kreons, ''Kre-O'' Big Convoy is made up of existing ''Kre-O'' parts. He uses the [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] helmet, the bazooka gun (in reference to the [[Big Cannon]]), and some kind of spiky pieces attached to a backpack.
*Big Convoy was a candidate in [[TakaraTomy]]'s [[Fan polls#Masterpiece Fan's Choice|''Masterpiece'' Fan's Choice]] poll, which asked fans to determine which Autobot/Maximal leader from the franchise's then-30 year history should receive a new toy in the prestigious ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' line. Big placed eighth, with 2.1% of the vote.
*"Slammoth", Big Convoy's name in ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', originated as one of three possible names for the character eventually known as [[Victorion]] in the [[Fan polls#Combiner Wars Fan Built Combiner|Fan Built Combiner]] poll.

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Mammolike''' (맘모라이크 ''Mammoraikeu'')

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Beast Wars II Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Maximals]]
[[Category:Convoys]]
[[Category:Encore]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Kre-O Autobots]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Legends Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legends Maximals]]
[[Category:Legends World natives]]
[[Category:Matrix bearers]]
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File:RealFigureKit Big Convoy.jpg

2024-02-06T06:02:01Z

Chuckwagoneer: Assembled Real Figure Kit of Big Convoy. Photo by Chuckwagoneer. Category:Beast Wars Neo merchandise images

Assembled Real Figure Kit of [[Big Convoy]]. Photo by [[User:Chuckwagoneer|Chuckwagoneer]].
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo merchandise images]]

User:Chuckwagoneer

2024-02-06T05:59:32Z

Chuckwagoneer: Created page with "Hey, it's Chuck. Just poking around here and there."

Hey, it's Chuck. Just poking around here and there.

Longrack (BW)

2024-01-29T10:24:42Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* Merchandise */ Adding Real Figure Kit

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{{excessivesarcasm|Intro paragraph has yet to receive a once-over since we got full cartoon translations.}}
:''Longrack is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:LongrackBWN1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|"The pole up that man's ass must have a pole up its ass!"]]
The best way to describe '''Longrack''' (ロングラック ''Rongurakku'') is that he's the kind of cadet who runs for Student Council President because he believes that the job really matters, ''darn it all''. A stickler for rules and protocol, expect to see him issuing demerits to other Maximals while delivering "you'll thank me for this, someday" rhetoric. Longrack is talky, annoying, over-serious, and has a stick up his tailpipe as long as his [[beast mode]]'s neck. The "Brainy Smurf" of [[Big Convoy]]'s crew, Longrack means well, but that doesn't stop him from being a major tool, or getting into spats with the less-serious-minded among the crew. Everyone from [[Break]] to [[Colada]] to [[Mach Kick]] gives him a hard time and he ''just can't stand it''.

But Big Convoy appointed him sub-commander for a reason and it's because he gets the job done. By giving his teammates an authority figure to uniformly despise or mock, he actually brings them together as a cohesive unit. In his spare time, he likes to tinker with machines and is something of an accomplished inventor, revealing a creative side that's typically hidden by his protocol-minded demeanor.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jun Uemoto]] (Japanese)|[[Lee Yu Wa]] (Korean)}}
[[File:Break Longrack.jpg|left|thumb]]
Longrack was among the group of new Maximals chosen to serve under Big Convoy as trainees. When Colada began to mouth off about his superiority to the others, Longrack told him to knock it off, getting in his face about the matter. Later, when Break suggested testing their new instructor’s strength, Longrack was at first hesitant, but then conceded that it was necessary to determine if he was competent or not. Thus, when Big Convoy eventually entered the training room, they sprung a surprise attack on the legendary Maximal, but were all quickly disabled by his immense skill. Convoy appreciated the gesture, but insisted that their real training needed to begin, which involved traveling to the planet [[Gaia]] to discover the mystery behind [[Lio Convoy]]’s disappearance. When they made it into the planet’s orbit, Longrack was informed that he would be in charge of leading the Maximals on the surface, as Convoy himself would be remaining on the ship. As the recruits touched down on the planet, they were confronted by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s [[Guiledart]], [[Saberback]], and [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]]. Longrack then made his first move as acting lieutenant… which was telling every man to act for themselves and try to survive. In the chaos, the team lost [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]], and attempted to retreat back to the main vessel, only to be fired on by Big Convoy, who told them that none left until Stampy was recovered. [[Magmatron]] then arrived, using the hostage Stampy as a guide, and confronted Convoy, seeking revenge for his previous defeat. While the Predacon leader was sermonizing, Longrack then suggested to his teammates that they should all attack him as a group to take back their teammate. As they charged him, they were once more met by the Predacons, but this time, Heinrad froze time, petrifying the Predacons for long enough to recover their rabbit comrade unscathed. Before anything progressed further, Guiledart demanded [[DNAVI]] teleport the Predacons to HQ, leaving only the Maximals on Gaia. The group of trainees, including Longrack, then took what they had come for: a black box recording detailing Lio Convoy’s disappearance. Back on their vessel, the Maximals had a new goal: to recover the [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]] capsules lost in Lio Convoy’s battle with the Predacons, before the latter could use them for evil. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

Longrack was with Big Convoy and the other Maximal recruits when they saw a volcano floating in orbit of the planet [[Godbless]]. While some of the other recruits seemed less than enthused about investigating the phenomena, Longrack asserted that it was important, much to the chagrin of Colada. When they tried to approach Godbless, however, they were disabled by a “[[God of the Maximals]]”, who fried their ship’s systems and caused them to crash to the surface. After landing, Longrack was chosen with Colada to survey the Maximals’ surroundings. The entire time, the arrogant snake ‘bot teased Longrack and his tendencies to act like “the class president” of the trainees, but he kept a level head. During their expedition, they learned from a local that the [[Mikesu|natives]] were seeing a god of their own, that demanded their natural resources, even though giving them away crippled their society. Longrack reported the information back to Big Convoy, before making his way to the volcano to explore some more. Colada continued to mock him there, but Longrack kept a vigilant eye, spotting the “Maximal God” once more. Colada attempted to attack it, but Longrack held him back, telling him to keep his patience, no matter how frightened. When the “god” was revealed to be nothing more than an apparition, Longrack took a moment to gloat to Colada, even though he, too, was frightened by the affair. The pair then spotted a strange flower, which attempted to attack them, and revealed itself as the Predacon Saberback. Saberback had a capsule of Angolmois behind him, which he had been using to create illusions to stall the Maximals and bend the locals to his will, and Longrack demanded that he return it. Saberback, in response, tried to run away, and called upon his teammates to help him. Guiledart, Dead End, and [[Sling]] responded, and attacked Longrack and Colada, keeping them from the Angolmois. The Maximal pair then had reinforcements of their own arrive, causing an all out brawl that resulted in a Maximal victory and their subsequent possession of the Angolmois. Before they departed from the planet, Big Convoy spoke to the locals, and during his speech, Longrack had to stop Colada from taking some of their oil. Colada retorted that Longrack was always looking down on people, and in response Longrack looked down on the snake... physically, from his giraffe mode. The Maximals then left Godbless, jetting off to find more Angolmois. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

Longrack was among the Maximal recruits who ended up traveling to the supposedly warm, paradise-like planet of [[Solid]], to recover an Angolmois capsule. He was shocked, along with the others, to learn that the planet was actually frigid and frozen over. As he prepared to assemble a ground team to explore the surface, Big Convoy stopped him and insisted that the entire team should participate for better training. It became immediately apparent that this plan wouldn’t work, however, and thus Longrack remained behind with Big Convoy and the others while Break searched Solid for the capsule. Later, Longrack and the other Maximals were assaulted by Sling and Saberback, and were buried underneath mounds of snow. Colada was able to thaw them out and create a path, but the team was rapidly being chipped away at by the weather. To this end, Big Convoy suggested a more efficient means of transport: using a slab of ice to slide across the planet and meet with Break. Longrack used his claw to break off a piece of ice from a nearby mountain, and the group was able to rendezvous with Break, and secure the capsule after defeating Dead End. Longrack reprimanded Break for his erratic behavior on the mission back on the ''[[Gung Ho]]'', but [[Vector Sigma]] came to the penguin 'bot's defense. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

Longrack was among the Maximal recruits when they touched down on [[Maderan]] to find the Angolmois capsule located on the planet. He was a part of the survey team consisting of Break and Stampy. When the group thought that they had found the capsule, Stampy was hesitant, feeling that it was suspicious, but Longrack asserted that they would look foolish to Big Convoy if they looked over it. Stampy was proven right, however, when Longrack and Break were shocked by an electrical trap after touching the capsule, which was rigged by Guiledart and Sling. The two Predacons tortured the Maximals, but Stampy was able to free them, for a time. They were recaptured swiftly after Magmatron arrived on the scene, but after Stampy alerted Big Convoy via signal flare of the trouble on Maderan, they were freed once more by the Maximal leader. Longrack took time to apologize to Stampy along with the other recruits for poking fun at his cowardice, when in reality he had been the bravest of them all during their mission. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

When the Maximals were in the orbit of the planet [[Donovan]], Break and Colada began to bicker between one another, to the chagrin of Longrack and the others. In an effort to curb the arguing, Big Convoy decided that the two would be sent to Donovan to scout it and retrieve the Angolmois there together. When Break began to talk back, Longrack told him to quit it and listen to orders. Later, when Break called Big Convoy for assistance, Longrack, Stampy, and Heinrad went to search for the capsule themselves, while Convoy attended to the two directly. They eventually found the Angolmois, but also found Saberback and Guiledart. During their brawl, the canyon they were fighting on began to collapse, resulting in the Angolmois flying away and the Maximals sinking into sand. Eventually Longrack and the others regrouped with Big Convoy, who had secured the capsule, and they listened to Vector Sigma speak through him on the values of teamwork. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Ship's Log}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|The Stolen Gung Ho}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|Fight! Maximals}} {{storylink|End of the Maximals!?}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|
The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}

===''Beast Wars Neo'' manga===
[[File:Longrack beast.jpg|left|100px|thumb|A pipe and a smoking jacket, and this picture would be complete.]]
Longrack came from a distinguished and proud family of giraffe [[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]]s. {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The 5 Rookies}} {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} {{storylink|100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!}}{{storylink|Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky}} {{storylink|Double Cross}} {{storylink|Return to Zero}}}}
After his adventures serving under Big Convoy, Longrack continued to study in order to gain admission into the Convoy Council. In the meantime, he worked personnel affairs and supply management. {{storylink|What Became of the Five....}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:CybertronianLongrack.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Oh good, a hall monitor with a big fist.]]
[[File:BWAscendLongrackBeastMode.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|[[Erector]] ain't got nothin' on me!]]
Longrack was part of Lio Convoy's elite special operations unit, the [[Pack]]. He traveled with them to prehistoric Earth to rescue [[Razorbeast]] and company. On the way there, [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]]'s "bounding" exuberance, quite predictably, got on Longrack's nerves. Once their team landed in the middle of a battle with the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], he used his long giraffe neck to take a bite out of [[Buzz Saw (BW)|Buzz Saw]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}
Later, Longrack identified a creature running rampant and attacking other Maximals to be [[Razorbeast]], reporting such to his commander, Lio Convoy. Once the Pack was brought up-to-date on the situation, both on Earth and Cybertron, Longrack was tasked with gathering as many Maximals as he could fit into the Pack's shuttle. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}}
Travelling back to their home planet to combat the threat there, Longrack wielded Stampy in his weapon configuration, and blasted away at Shokaract. He made it through the final battle between the herald of Unicron and the combined Maximal and Predacon forces relatively unscathed. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Longrack was the stick-up-the-aft Maximal first officer of the ''[[Trypticon (G1)|Dinosaur]]'', in charge of a Predacon enlisted crew. Although nominally in command for day-to-day duties and assignment (since their [[Builder of Cybertron|Builder]] captain was too large to sit on the bridge), Longrack was frequently overshadowed or overruled by the captain's holographic presence or the Micromaster political officer, [[Synapse (BWU)|Synapse]]. This made the already uptight first officer short-tempered and impotent in his command.

One day, the ''Dinosaur'' picked up an apparent distress call from prisoners of the lost ship ''[[Claustrum]]'' on the planet [[Metascan Omega|LGC-8803]]. Longrack eagerly prepared to lead a landing party, only to be passive-aggressively overridden by Synapse, claiming to represent the captain. Longrack was forced to name his fellow Maximal officer [[Apelinq (BM)|Apelinq]] in charge of the party instead. The ''Dinosaur'' came under fire from an [[Intruder]] ship while the shuttle was launching planetside, taking serious damage before blasting their attacker.

As Longrack tried to maintain control of his ship, internal strife wracked his crew. A transmission from Cybertron alerted the protoformers on board to an Uprising back home, and Synapse was desperate to keep them from following suit. He killed [[Hydra (BW)|Hydra]] and [[Killer Punch]] in an attempt to prevent word from spreading, but failed. Chief Engineer [[Magmatron]] made it to the bridge and recruited Longrack and [[Guiledart]] in a mutiny to take the ship. Longrack was again left behind to hold the bridge while the Predacons sought to sever the captain's control of the ship, souring him to the situation. He briefly realigned himself with Synapse and the Builders, but the Micromaster's complete disregard for the lives of the crew snapped him back to his senses, and Longrack helped disable Synapse.

The damage to the ''Dinosaur'' was too severe to fix, and the starship began to crash onto LGC-8803 below. Fortunately, Captain [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]] was not on board with Synapse's murderous ways, and he aided Magmatron in saving the ship. It did crash, but transformed as it do so, arresting momentum and opening up into Dinosaur City, becoming a new colony. Magmatron and several members of the crew chose to take the shuttle and return to fight in the Grand Uprising, while Longrack remained behind and proclaimed himself mayor of the new city. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

A decade after the Uprising ended, Governor Longrack oversaw the developing colony as it became a boom town for immigrants, scientists, and philosophers eager to visit the lost works of the [[Logicon]]s on Metascan Omega. He received two rather disconcerting interruptions. First, Wraiths of the [[Vok]] arrived to declare mortals unworthy of the knowledge of Metascan Omega. They challenged Longrack and his colonists to prove their worth, or face sterilization. Second was the arrival of [[Lio Convoy]], Architect of the Grand Uprising... {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

===Legends World===
In the [[Legends World]], Longrack was an earnest high school student and the class president. When he heard they were getting a new teacher, he hoped it would be a person of discipline, {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Year 3, Class B Big-sensei}} but was instead met with the nerdy [[Big Convoy]] who began teaching them about ''Transformers'' instead of regular subjects. Longrack took this in stride and merely asked him if there would be tests on the subject. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|First Lesson First}} During sports day, Longrack attempted ice skating and got crushed under Big's weight during the cavalry battle. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Hot-blooded Break}} Over time, Big's enthusiasm for ''Transformers'' infected Longrack's love for studying and he began learning about ''Transformers'' to the point of neglecting other subjects. This caused Big to realize he was being a bad influence on his students and start teaching normally. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Preparatory Reviewer Longrack}} One day, Longrack found Big asleep during class. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 59|Bonus Edition Vol. 59}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:TimeWillRust-Eukaris.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.7]]
Longrack was a fellow [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukarian]] friend of [[Tasmania Kid]], [[Gimlet]], and [[Bump]]. {{Storylink|Time Will Rust}}
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==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWN-toy Longrack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|One of the few toys caught in a permanent raspberry.]]
*'''Longrack''' (January 1999)
**''ID number'': '''C-29'''
**''Accessories'': "Hand Dagger," 2 "Double Missiles"
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Part of the first wave of ''Beast Wars Neo'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWN|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Longrack is a Mega-sized figure that transforms into an organic giraffe. In his [[beast mode]], his head features a spring-loaded tongue—when pressed—rolls his white pupils into the back of his head.

:In his [[robot mode]], his beast mode forelegs (now located on his back) each hide his spring-loaded "Double Missile" launchers. His giraffe neck becomes his right arm and contains his spring-loaded "Arm Shoot" [[gimmick]] with his "Crush Arm" located at the very end of it. Much like his left hand, his Crush Arm also features a 5mm-wide "clip", allowing him to hold other accessories or his comrades [[Stampy (BW)#Toys|Stampy]] and [[Break#Toys|Break]] in their weapon modes. His left arm's gauntlet includes his flip-out and removable "Hand Dagger" which can be placed in either of his hands. Also in robot mode, his [[Maximal]] [[spark crystal]] is located behind a grate-like detail on his chest panel.

:He also features a third "Arm Vehicle Mode", which locates his Double Missile launchers in a suitable forward-facing position, while allowing for his Crush Arm to be utilized by any Basic-sized figure.

:An undocumented feature that was used in the cartoon, has his beast mode forelegs folded down in robot mode and used as supports, while wielding Break in his "Buster Mode".

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Cybertron/Longrack/longrack.htm More information on Longrack at TFU.info]''

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*'''Savannah Showdown: Longrack VS Guiledart''' (Vs pack, January 1999)
**''Takara ID number'': '''VS-29'''
**''Sonokong ID number'': '''DX-01'''
**''Accessories'': "Hand Dagger," 2 "Double Missiles"

:Longrack was available both separately and in a "Savannah Showdown" (サバンナの対決 ''Sabanna no Taiketsu'') vs-pack with the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Guiledart#VS29|Guiledart]]. Both toys were identical to their individual releases.

:[[Sonokong]] also released this vs-pack in [[South Korea|Korea]]n ''Beast-War Neo'' markets. "Giraffot" features no differences with the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] releases of Longrack, other than the packaging and [[Tech Spec]] cards.

:Due to the shape of the pastic mold that the Korean version of the figure sits in inside the box, the robot legs at the hip joints are assembled on the wrong sides, meaning one will have to pop both legs off at the ball-joints and swap them.
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===''Cybertron''===
[[File:Cyb Longrack toy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hey kids! Remember that toy that never got released over here?]]
*'''Runabout VS Longrack''' (VS pack, 2005)
*'''Longrack''' (Deluxe Class, 2005)
**''Accessories'': Cybertron Autobot Cyber Key

{{note|''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' [[Longrack (Cybertron)#Toys|Longrack]] was [[repurposing|repurposed]] as ''Beast Wars Neo'' Longrack in ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending|The Ascending]]'' and "[[Intersectionality]]".}}

: ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Galaxy Force / Cybertron]]'' Longrack is a [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'' [[Smokescreen (Armada)#Hoist|Hoist]] made up to resemble ''Beast Wars Neo'' Longrack, transforming into a Cybertronic excavator. Plugging a [[Cyber Planet Key]] into his right arm unlocks his shovel-arm, which can punch forward by pressing in the plunger mechanism. He came with a silver-bordered Cybertron-Autobot style Cyber Planet Key; the Hasbro release has the [[Cyber Key Codes|Cyber Key Code]] "'''d48m'''" [[tampograph]]ed on its back.

: This toy was first released in Takara markets as part of a two-pack with [[Runamuck (Cybertron)#Toys|Runabout]], then later in Hasbro markets on an individual card.

: This mold was used to make the [[BotCon 2006]] [[Dinobot (BW)/toys#Timelines|Darksyde Dinobot]]. The original version of the mold was also used to make 2003 [[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|''Universe'']] [[Ransack (Universe 2003)#Toys|Ransack]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2005/Autobot/Longrack/longrack.htm More info on Longrack at TFU.info]''
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==Merchandise==
===''Beast Wars Gum''===
*'''Longrack''' (candy toy, 1999)
:A snap together model kit of Longrack was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars Gum]]'', sculpted entirely from yellow plastic. The kit could transform from robot to beast mode by being broken down into its component parts, then rebuilt into a new mode. It came with a stick of gum.

===''Beast Wars Real Figure Kit''===
*'''Longrack''' (1999)
**''Accessories'': Stand

:A non-transforming PVC prize figure kit of Longrack. It comes packaged with the unassembled figure and a stand. The stand has two attachment points for other Real Figure Kit stands to connect.
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==Notes==
*In giraffe mode, Longrack's toy has a completely red tongue, without the dark blue (often described as black) tip that real giraffes have.
*''[[Transformers Vault]]'' erroneously calls him '''Longneck'''.
*Longrack is one of few Maximals/Predacons to keep a pre-existing vehicular design for ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'', in his case the ''Cybertron'' Longrack toy previously used in IDW's ''Beast Wars'' comics. Writer [[Jim Sorenson]] cited Longrack as one of his favorite characters to write for, comparing him to ''{{w|Red Dwarf}}'' character {{w|Arnold Rimmer}}.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Oooh, that's a toughie. There's one from the first part of the finale who was really difficult to write for but came out very nicely. Wolfang was a hoot, but Bish did most of the heavy lifting there. Longrack was a lotta fun; I love his officiousness. There's a little bit of Arnold J. Rimmer in there.|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052|name=Jim Sorenson|site=The Allspark forums|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA|year=2016|month=10|day=15}}</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Giraffot''' (지라포트 ''Jirapoteu'')

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Maximals]]
[[Category:Convoys]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Transformers]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Jungle Planet]]
[[Category:Legends World natives]]
[[Category:Pack]]
[[Category:Repurposed toys]]
[[Category:Transformers with three modes]]

Magmatron (BW)

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:''Magmatron is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].

[[File:Magmatronbm.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Part robot, part 3 different prehistoric animals, and he can ''dance''.]]
'''Magmatron''' (マグマトロン ''Magumatoron'') seeks one thing: being crowned with the title of "[[Emperor of Destruction]]" after the failure of the insane [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]]. Almost nothing else matters. His chosen means to attain that, unfortunately for him, are a bumbling group of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] who do nothing but disappoint him and leave him grumpy after their repeated failures at acquiring [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois Capusles]]. Nevertheless, he's still content to sit on his throne aboard the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'' while his minions go out on missions—a tendency only broken by the chance to face down his nemesis, [[Big Convoy]]. But he's not interested in fighting fair, preferring to destroy his enemies through petty and underhanded tactics to assure complete victory. He's not without nuance, though, as [[Unicron/Generation 1|even greater evils]] can prompt him into an all-consuming vendetta against those who nearly destroyed [[Dinosaur (planet)|his ancestors]] and threaten the sanctity of the universe itself. For what is conquest worth if you have nothing to rule? Said vendetta can even call for the sacrifice of his subordinates, shaking even the ever-loyal [[Guiledart]]... One hopes, in the end, that Magmatron can learn to work with his enemies in taking down mutual threats and grow from it.

Magmatron possesses a [[mitotic spark|unique anatomy]] which allows him to separate into three dinosaur forms called '''Landsaurus''' (ランドサウルス ''Randosaurus''), '''Seasaurus''' (シーサウルス ''Shīsaurus''), and '''Skysaurus''' (スカイサウルス ''Sukaisaurus''),<ref>Referred to as "Landsaur", "Seasaur", and "Skysaur" in Magmatron's ''Beast Machines Dinobots'' bio.</ref> or merge them into a single monstrosity called '''Magmasaurus''' (マグマサウルス ''Magumasaurus'').

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Show Ryuzanji]] (Japanese)|[[Kwan-cheol Kim]] (Korean)}}
[[File:Magmatron cartoon.jpg|left|thumb|No, the toy isn't this cool.]]
Magmatron was fighting [[Big Convoy]] on a distant planet, up until he confronted him personally. Shocked by the legendary warrior's appearance, he attempted to stand against him, but was quickly disabled by Convoy's “Big Cannon”. Much later on, Magmatron and his troops were stationed on [[Gaia]], where they caught a glimpse of five new [[Maximal]] recruits touching down on the planet's surface. In response, he immediately ordered his soldiers to crush their opposition. He then rendezvoused with the other Predacons, surrounding their hostage, [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]], who told them where the Maximals were. Going off of this information, Magmatron found his way to Big Convoy and the other recruits, mocking the legendary Maximal warrior for being a teacher rather than a lone wolf like before. Convoy's students then formulated a plan to rescue Stampy, with [[Colada]], [[Break]], and [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]] taking on the other Predacons, and [[Heinrad (BW)|Heinrad]] freezing time for long enough to snatch the rabbit ‘bot away from Magmatron, and return back to his team unscathed. Enraged at having lost his hostage, Magmatron fired at Heinrad, who ducked, allowing the shot to instead hit Big Convoy in the chest. Demanding payback for his previous defeat, Magmatron prepared to launch another “Magma Rocket”, but was countered by Big Convoy's “Big Cannon” once more. Seeing how the battle was unfolding, [[Guiledart]] requested that [[DNAVI]] take them back to headquarters, which teleported all Predacons away from the combat. Back on his ship, Magmatron vowed to take the [[Angolmois Energy]] that rightfully belonged to the Predacons, before Big Convoy and his Maximals could. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

Magmatron received a transmission from [[Saberback]], who was stationed on the planet [[Godbless]], and had found a capsule of Angolmois energy. Saberback gloated to him about his abilities to create illusions, but Magmatron dismissed this, and was only concerned about the recovery of the capsule, and the plundering of the planet for natural resources. Later on, when Saberback asked to be teleported back to the ship with the capsule in tow, Magmatron told him that he couldn't teleport both at once, and that he'd have to make it back on his own. When Saberback told him that the Maximals were trailing him, and would complicate the situation, Magmatron ordered Guiledart, [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]], and [[Sling]], to assist their comrade. When the Predacons were defeated by Big Convoy, Magmatron had DNAVI teleport them off Godbless before they could be harmed any further. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

Magmatron was on the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'' when Guiledart suggested touching down on [[Solid]] to retrieve the Angolmois capsule located there. Although Dead End had his doubts, Magmatron insisted, and had DNAVI teleport them down to the planet. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

When Guiledart suggested outright attacking the Maximals on [[Maderan]] so that the Predacons could search for the Angolmois there unfettered, Magmatron agreed and gave him autonomy over the mission. He later had to come to the planet personally to recapture the Maximals when Guiledart was taking too long, dressing him down for failing at a supposedly simple mission. He did, however, allow his Predacons to torture their prisoners, himself taking great glee in seeing the Maximals in pain. Stampy was furious at the treatment of his friends and tried to attack Magmatron, but the Predacon leader swatted him away. When Big Convoy arrived soon after, Magmatron ordered a tactical retreat, and had DNAVI take the Predacons back to the ''Dinosaur''. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

[[File:Bwneo6 magmatron trisaur.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Sauroboros.]]

Magmatron was at the helm of the ''Dinosaur'' when the Predacons were in orbit of [[Donovan]]. He noted that the Maximals were likely there to find the Angolmois, just like them. When his troops managed to find the capsule located on the planet, he was there to listen to the transmission between them and DNAVI, during which they were told that both them ''and'' the capsule couldn't be teleported at once. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Ship's Log}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|The Stolen Gung Ho}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}

===''Bom Bom'' manga continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' manga====
Magmatron was a ''Giganotosaurus'' who led a gang of dinosaur rowdies on a primitive world in the [[7th Cosmos]]. After exposure to the Angolmois Capsule that crashed on the planet, the gang became more ferocious and killed [[Big Convoy#Beast Wars Neo comic|Big]]'s friends. The gang attacked [[Lio Convoy]], who had just arrived on the planet by accident, but failed because of Big's interruption. The gang followed Lio Convoy and Big's trails to the site where the capsule fell. Big pushed the gang into the valley, where the ''Giganotosaurus'' and its minions were caught in the explosion of the Angolmois Capsule and evolved into Transformers. The ''Giganotosaurus'' was fused with a ''Quetzalcoatlus'' and an ''Elasmosaurus'', becoming Magmasaurus. The Magmasaurus transformed into Magmatron, commanding his just-evolved minions to attack Lio Convoy and Big. Lio Convoy managed to defeat the henchmen with ease, but Magmatron took him out with one blast. With the power he now possessed, Magmatron claimed they would travel to various planets to kill every living thing. {{storylink|The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' manga====
[[File:bwn-bigconvoy&magmatron-manga-06-riding.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The 5 Rookies}} {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} {{storylink|100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!}}}}

Later, Magmatron again met Big, now the Maximal Big Convoy. During a fierce battle, Magmatron indicated they had a history but Big Convoy couldn't remember and was surprised by Magmatron's words. When Magmatron thought he gained the upper hand, he was surprised by multiple blasts from his foe's [[Big Cannon]]. {{storylink|Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky}}

The badly wounded Magmatron now had to separate himself into the three dinosaurs and stay in healing chambers. He ordered his henchmen to go to the planet [[Jörmungandr]] to retrieve an Angolmois Capsule. The group, however, failed and was sucked into space. The mysterious [[Unicron|Black Ball]], which had been retrieved by Big Convoy's crew, suddenly appeared in the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'', offering his troops, the [[Blentron]]s, to Magmatron. {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}

Magmatron and Big Convoy were tricked to an {{w|amphitheatre}} where the last capsule was located by the Black Ball. Magmatron commanded the Blentron to attack Big Convoy's crew. During the battle, Magmatron was attacked from behind by a Blentron. It was revealed that both Magmatron and Big Convoy were the last Angolmois Capsule, and thus the Black Ball, who was actually Unicron, desired to consume them to regain the energy. Magmatron saved his old rival, who was despairing upon regaining his memory,and convinced him to team up to fight Unicron and the Blentrons. Magmatron was eventually chewed up and spat out by Unicron. A dying Magmatron, now reduced to only a head, left his [[Magma Blade (BW)|Magma Blade]] to Big Convoy as a "parting gift" and asked Big Convoy to give him an honorable "warrior's death" with his own sword. Big Convoy conceded to the request. {{storylink|Double Cross}}

Big Convoy later struck the blow that finished off Unicron's physical body with Magmatron's sword, avenging his death. {{storylink|Return to Zero}}

===''Beast Machines'' toy bio===
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Magmatron was revered and reviled in equal measure as an "emperor of destruction". He had been on an intergalactic quest for [[Angolmois Energy|energy capsules]], but when he returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], he found it being overrun by [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] drones! There, he became part of the [[Dinobot (BM)|Dinobots]] led by [[T-Wrecks]].

He split into "Skysaur", "Landsaur", and "Seasaur", and their combined beast mode was a "tri-dinosaur [[Fuzor]]". {{storylink|#Beast Machines|Beast Machines bio}}

===3H comics===
Magmatron and the other Dinobots were sent on a mission, given to them by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], {{Storylink|Departure}} to the planet [[Arkus]]. The mission was a trap, however, and Magmatron and the others were attacked by [[energy vampire]]s and their master known as the [[Dweller (G1)|Dweller]]. {{storylink|Betrayal}} Magmatron fought off the Dweller long enough for the Dinobots to escape. When they returned to rescue him, they found nothing but his sword. {{storylink|The Wreckers: Finale Part 1}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
{{BW Shell Game}}
Magmatron made his way to prehistoric Earth, with the intention of raising an army out of the protoforms left behind by the Axalon's crew. He watched from afar as Optimus Primal's team launched from the planet aboard an Autobot shuttlecraft, with Megatron as their prisoner.
As one of his agents, Razorbeast, activated the stasis pods remotely, another one of his lackeys, Spittor, reported that one of the protoforms had been activated as a Maximal instead of a Predacon. Abandoning his cover as a Maximal double-agent, Razorbeast fled from Magmatron and into the wild. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:Magmatron speech TheGathering1.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb]]

According to one account, Magmatron was the result of one of many experiments conducted by the [[Tripredacus Council]] in the advent of protoform technology, after the signing of the Pax Cybertronia. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

Another account has it that, during the early days of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Magmatron endangered the fragile peace, being an indomitable general who would not accept defeat. When he was finally brought to heel by the [[Tripredacus Council]], he still chafed under the terms of the treaty and the council's apparent willingness to roll over for the Maximals. However, he accepted his change in status and maneuvered into a position on the [[Committee for State Affairs]] alongside his old enemy, [[Big Convoy]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #2}}

Frustrated by the Council's decision to bide its time, Magmatron recruited a small band of disenchanted warriors and fostered a professional relationship with the Tripredacus agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] to keep abreast of the situation on [[Earth]]. With this information, he formed an elegant and tightly knit plan to travel backwards in time to prehistoric Earth and reprogram all of the remaining [[protoform]] Maximals into Predacons. Keeping his plans secret until the last moment, he revealed to his forces that the Council had ordered him to pick up the task where their previous agent failed: capture the rogue [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]].

[[Chronal phase|Chronically displacing]] his crew so that they could not be detected by the beast warriors who are already there, they set to work. He ordered [[Razorbeast]] to begin activating the [[stasis pod]]s while [[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]], [[Manterror]], [[Transquito]], and [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] reported on their progress. They witnessed the birth of three Predacons, but Spittor was greeted by the Maximal, [[Polar Claw]]. More Maximals were spotted, revealing Razorbeast as a spy, but the warthog escaped into the wilderness. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

Once his new army was assembled, Magmatron ordered them to hunt down the Maximals. [[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]] and Spittor, however, accompanied Magmatron on his personal quest to find Razorbeast. He located the spy and quickly gained the upper hand with his three dinosaur modes, but Razorbeast pulled a fast one, and buried the Predacon leader beneath a mountainside. Magmatron soon recouped his losses by recovering the spark of the Tripredacus agent, Ravage. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 2|The Gathering #2}}

[[File:Gathering3-Megatron Magmatron.jpg|right|upright=1.5|thumb|Insert "Megatron not pleased a BWN character is stealing his role" joke here.]]

Iguanus, having located a [[blank]] protoform, assisted Magmatron with rebirthing Ravage in a new, [[Transmetal 2]] body. Magmatron ordered Ravage to hunt down and terminate Razorbeast's Maximals. Magmatron proceeded to set forth on his next mission; locating and capturing Megatron to ensure the Tripredacus Council didn't catch on to his real plans. He confronted Megatron, and the two engaged in battle. Megatron insisted that Magmatron was foolish for coming after him alone, as Ravage did, but Magmatron was not alone— Iguanus and Drill Bit ambushed Megatron and disabled him. The Predacons brought Megatron to a [[unspace|transwarp]] platform they had set up and prepared to send Megatron into the hands of the Council, but they were interrupted by the wandering [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 3|The Gathering #3}}

[[File:MagmatronVGrimlock TheGathering4.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb]]

Magmatron engaged Grimlock in a vicious [[beast mode]] battle, and despite the Maximal's resilence, Magmatron eventually overwhelmed him. Grimlock was enough of a distraction, however, to let Razorbeast and [[Optimus Minor]] enter the camp undetected and steal a [[chronal phase facilitator]]. When Razorbeast confronted Magmatron in the open, the Predacon general saw an opportunity to settle an old score. But with Razorbeast using the facilitator to shift out of his chronal phase, Magmatron was unable to land a single hit on his smaller opponent. Optimus Minor removed the facilitator attached to the unconscious Megatron, returning the rogue to his proper chronal state. Magmatron lunged to stop it, and ended up falling onto the transwarp platform just as it activated. Razorbeast blasted the device, causing it to malfunction and send Magmatron to parts unknown. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 4|The Gathering #4}}

Razorbeast's meddling in Magmatron's transwarp shunt caused the Predacon commander to be consigned to a temporal limbo, able to traverse the whole of history but unable to affect any of the events he witnessed. Through this, he saw the eventual end of Cybertron as its inhabitants set upon each other with beastly fury while [[Shokaract]] summoned [[Unicron]] to devour the planet. Knowing that the roots of this catastrophic event were already beginning in his time, Magmatron turned to the enemy who had consigned him to this fate. Exerting what little influence he could, he stabilized the Transwarp carrier signal sent by the Maximals weeks earlier, allowing the time-lost distress call to be received by [[Lio Convoy]] and the [[Pack]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}}

[[File:Magmatron Ravage TheAscending2.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb]]

Magmatron's meddling effect on the timestream was noticed by Unicron, who dispatched [[Latolata|Rartorata]] to Earth to deal with the assembling combatants there. His ability to change the future was increased further, however, when during the confusion of the battle on Earth between the Maximal and Predacon forces, a playing 'possum Ravage made contact with the chronal displacement bands. Magmatron was able to use his limited influence to hold Ravage inside chronospace, where he was able to make contact with the former [[Decepticon]]. Magmatron briefed him on the apocalypse that could yet come, urging him to call a truce with the Maximals in an effort to stop the end of all things. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}

From his chronal prison, Magmatron watched his rival Big Convoy die at Shokaract's hands in the future, knowing that it was only a prelude to the destruction to come. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}} A combined group of Maximals and Predacons returned with Ravage to present-day Cybertron to battle Shokaract, arriving before Big Convoy could be killed. Ravage again briefed with Magmatron, who instructed him to send a Maximal to attach a chronal-displacement device onto Shokaract's body. This was eventually accomplished at the cost of many lives and Shokaract was brought to Magmatron within chronospace. Magmatron showed him Cybertron's future and the realization that he was a pawn of Unicron caused a distraught Shokaract to commit suicide, causing a "time-lash" that freed Magmatron from limbo.

The restored Magmatron informed the assembled Maximals and Predacons that the threat had ended. He also reported that his old foe Razorbeast had died on Earth and respectfully declared the Maximal worthy of a momument. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
[[Vector Prime]] and his [[Time Warrior (AVP)|Time Warrior]]s prevented Magmatron from falling prey to the [[X-Dimension]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/12}}

===Waspscream continuity===
In [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], Magmatron and the [[Dinobot (BM)|Dinobot]]s were among the resistance groups against [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]]'s [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] rule of Cybertron. After the defeat of the Vehicons, Magmatron formed a new High Council with [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspscream]], [[Icebird]], and [[Rodimus Primal]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[File:BWU Magmatron.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.75]]

Magmatron was chief engineering specialist aboard the ''Dinosaur'', overseeing junior engineers [[Crazybolt (BW)|Crazybolt]] and [[Dead End (BW)|Dead-End]]. During the launch of an away mission to [[Metascan Omega|LGC-8803]], the ''Dinosaur'' was attacked by an [[Intruder]] craft, putting Magmatron to work maintaining the integrity of his ship.

He had little time to spare when [[Killer Punch]] came by with a tale of the hallways moving on him and [[Hydra (BW)|Hydra]] possibly being killed. Still, the intelligence specialist's sensor logs were compelling, so Magmatron arranged for a localized brown-out so that Killer Punch could reach the laboratory the ship seemed dedicated to keeping from him. It was only due to Killer Punch's paranoid comms channel that Magmatron saw what happened next. The Builder political officer [[Synapse (BWU)|Synapse]] bragged about killing Hydra before having Killer Punch killed as well. An uprising had begun on Cybertron, and Synapse couldn't have the proto-former crew getting any sympathetic ideas.

Magmatron rallied the remaining members of the crew on board in a plan to reach the captain's chambers and disable the ship's internal defenses. He and [[Guiledart]] made their way to the captain, only to find [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]] wasn't responsible for the attacks on the crew. He had been severed from control of the ''Dinosaur'', actually the [[Titan (group)|Megamaster]] war criminal once known as [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Additional damage done by the [[Destructon]] intruders only made the situation more perilous, forcing the chief back to engineering to keep the ship in the air long enough to seize control of it. Once Dead-End disabled Trypticon's higher consciousness, Magmatron and Full-Tilt were able to preserve the ship's integrity long enough to crash it on LGC-8803, opening the starship up into a new colony dubbed [[Trypticon (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Dinosaur City]].

Leaving Full-Tilt, first officer [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]], and others behind on Dinosaur City, Magmatron manned a shuttle with a contingent of his crew who wished to return to Cybertron and fight in the [[Grand Uprising]]. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

Magmatron's crew remained intact as a unit when they joined the Resistance. Guiledart, Bazooka, Crazybolt and Rampage were only joined by two additional resistance fighters named [[Archadis]] and [[Sling (BW)|Sling]]. Archadis was an arrogant lout, but his prior loyalty to [[Lio Convoy]] led to him being named second-in-command of Magmatron's squad. During a mission to eliminate a traitor named [[Snapper]] in the midst of a prisoner transfer, Magmatron's unit was separated from Rampage and got into a protracted shoot-out with the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]] guards. Rampage returned, uncharacteristically asking for help. He had been drafted into the defense of Cybertron by the Oracle against the [[Monster GoBot|Antares Eight]], disguised aliens intent on exposing Cybertron to conflict with the [[Human Confederacy]]. Magmatron abandoned Lio Convoy's mission to help Rampage, even fighting alongside Snapper and the Constructicons in the process. Once the dust settled, these united Cybertronians mostly chose to remain together as the [[Ex-Bot (BWU)|Ex-Bots]], defending innocents in [[Proximax]] and beyond from the fallout of the Builders' war with the Resistance. Archadis and Sling left to return to Lio Convoy, but the others remained with Magmatron and Rampage. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

Magmatron and the Ex-Bots defended Proximax from the horrors of war over the next stellar cycle. Magmatron and the former MaxCop [[Stiletto (BW)|Stiletto]] rose to the top as co-leaders of the motley collection of bots from different factions. They captured a renegade Predacon scientist named [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] intent on using a [[Robosmasher|Robo-Smasher]] on the populace. The war between the Builders and the Resistance was soon overcome by the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], as the Builders latest weapon turned against them and the planet at large. The Ex-Bots joined the fight, and advanced with various armies on the [[Grand Mal]], center of Vehicon activity. Magmatron and Guiledart found themselves fighting alongside the Legion of the Inferno, army of the [[Independent Predacus States]]. When the Mal fell (thanks to Rampage), Magmatron's three forms coordinated the various forces in corralling and eliminating as many disoriented but functional Vehicons remained.

In the aftermath, Magmatron's battlefield activities had impressed [[Ram Horn]], last survivor of the previous [[Tripredacus Council]]. He was offered a place on the new council, joining Ram Horn and [[Ser-Ket (BWU)|Ser-Ket]], protege of the fallen founder of the Predacons, [[Preditron]]. Magmatron represented the Independent Predacus States at the Grand Summit orchestrated by Lio Convoy, as the [[Cybertronian Parliament]] was forged to lead Cybertron into the next millennium. {{storylink|Derailment}}

===Legends World===
[[File:Legends Epiloge Magmatron.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5]]
The Magmatron of the [[Legends World]] was the principal at a school. When [[Big Convoy|Big]] suggested changing the "HR" for "home room" to "TF" for "''Transformers''" during a staff meeting, Magmatron asked what he was going to do during "TF" period. When the teacher said he'd talk about ''Transformers'', Magmatron noted that was he already was doing that and considered firing him. {{Storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei#Very Strange|Very Strange}}

After the Legends World was destroyed, Magmatron ended up on [[Beast (planet)|Beast]], where he became a full-fledged Beast Warrior through [[Transformers sickness]] and helped fight against [[Galvatron II]] and his [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]]. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3}} When the Legends World was restored, Magmatron returned to it, and saw [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] announce he was leaving the universe. He later was present for the graduation ceremony of Big's class. {{Storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}
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==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:Beast Wars-Magmatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|My entire body is hinges!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Magmatron''' ([[February]], [[1999]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''D-35'''
:*''Sonokong ID number'': '''D-05'''
:*''Accessories'': "[[Magma Blade (BW)|Magma Blade]]" Sword-hilt/launcher, "Magma Blade" sword-blade/missile, left & right "Wing Missiles", 2 "Giga Missiles"
{{toydesigner|[[Takashi Kunihiro]] (Takara)}}

: Part of the second wave of ''Beast Wars Neo'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWN|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Magmatron is an Ultra-sized figure that transforms from a massive robot into three prehistoric reptiles—a ''{{w|Quetzalcoatlus}}'' ("Skysaurus"), a ''{{w|Giganotosaurus}}'' ("Landsaurus"), and an ''{{w|Elasmosaurus}}'' ("Seasaurus").

: Each of his individual [[beast mode]]s feature a [[spark crystal]] and a form of storage for all of his accessories: Skysaurus's wings house his "Wing Missiles"; Landsaurus stores his spring-loaded "Magma Blade" hilt in its throat and the blade itself inside the tail; and Seasaurus stores his two "Giga Missiles" inside its body. Each of the individual beast modes also feature a gimmick: Skysaurus's gimmick is activated by pulling on the tail to move the wings in a flapping action; Landsaurus's mouth can plug either of the Skysaurus's Wing Missiles, which are fired by pulling back on the top of the head; and for Seasaurus, pinching on the back flippers makes the front ones move in unison to simulate a swimming motion. All three components of Magmatron can combine to form his "Magmasaurus" mode.

: In [[robot mode]], Magmatron—like most Ultra-sized figures—features multiple gimmicks and weapons. Magmatron's Magma Blade can be used in two different configurations; the first is the standard sword configuration, however, a second handle can be flipped out, allowing him to hold it as a blaster. Activating the trigger allows for any of his five missiles to be fired as his "Magma Rocket" attack. The lower section of Seasaurus becomes his "Magma Shield", that mounts on his left arm, and features the swimming gimmick from beast mode, which can now be used as his "Shield Crusher" pincer. As Seasaurus's neck is made up of multiple ball joints, its head can be manuevered through the gap between his shoulder and his left wing to simulate the "Magma Attack" from the cartoon. Magmatron also features free-rolling wheels on his robot feet which don't serve much of a purpose, though, they can be flipped down on Landsaurus to somewhat replicate [[Transmetal]] [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s "third mode" if so desired.

: Pictured in the box just below Magmatron's Magmasaurus mode (in the image to the right), is a recommended configuration for Seasaurus's neck joints to be positioned that enables you to have its head pegged onto his left shoulder snuggly. It's not very appealing to look at from behind, but it reduces the amount of neck hanging from his back and cleans up his silhouette from the front. All of the curves of his back-[[kibble]] make everything sit nice and tight against each other too!

: [[Sonokong]] released Magmatron in the [[South Korea|Korean]] ''Beast-War Neo'' toyline. This release features no changes to the toy itself, with the only differences being [[:File:D-05 Magmatron Sonokong.jpg|the packaging]] and bio cards.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Destron/Magmatron/magmatron.htm More information on Magmatron at TFU.info]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Cosmic Showdown: Big Convoy VS Magmatron''' (Vs pack, February 1999)}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''VS-35'''
:*''Sonokong ID number'': '''DX-05'''
:*''Accessories'': "Magma Blade" Sword-hilt/launcher, "Magma Blade" sword-blade/missile, left & right "Wing Missiles", 2 "Giga Missiles"

: Magmatron was also available in the "Cosmic Showdown" (大宇宙の対決 ''Daiuchū no Taiketsu'') vs-pack with [[Big Convoy#VS35|Big Convoy]]. Both toys are identical to their individual releases.

:This vs-pack was also released in Korea by Sonokong. Much like the single release of Magmatron, both toys are identical to the Takara releases, the only differences being the packaging and bio cards.

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[[File:Gold_Big_Convoy_and_Magmatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Kinpika Big Convoy VS Magmatron''' (Vs set, 1999)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "Magma Blade" sword-hilt/launcher, "Magma Blade" sword-blade/missile, left & right "Wing Missiles", 2 "Giga Missiles"

: This gold [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum metallized]] Magmatron was featured as a [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] giveaway through ''[[TV Magazine]]'', in a two-pack with a similarly-gold-chromed Big Convoy, with an extremely limited run of 10 two-packs made and awarded.

: Regrettably, the actual details of the giveaway are currently unknown, including what issue the contest was in and the entry requirements.

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Black Magmatron''' (1999)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "Magma Blade" Sword-hilt/launcher, "Magma Blade" sword-blade/missile, left & right "Wing Missiles", 2 "Giga Missiles"

: This mostly-solid-black [[redeco]] of Magmatron was a Lucky Draw item through ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'', with only ten pieces made and awarded.

: Regrettably, the actual details of the giveaway are currently unknown, including what issue the contest was in and the entry requirements.
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===''Beast Machines''===
[[File:BM Magmatron Toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"HasLab Star Saber is the first Japanese Transformer to be introduced in the US? That's cute."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-bd|'''Magmatron''' (Ultra, [[2000]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "Magma Blade" Sword-hilt/launcher, "Magma Blade" sword-blade/missile, left & right "Wing Missiles", 2 "Giga Missiles"

: One year after his Japanese release, Hasbro made Magmatron available to customers in the United States. The toy itself was slightly changed from his original release, with his missiles and sword "rounded off" to better conform with [[For safety reasons|United States safety laws]], and overall has a less "metallic" sheen to his plastic. Another more prominent difference is a duller-mustard shade of yellow paint being present on the pelvis of the robot mode, whereas the original has bright yellow.

: Hasbro's version of Magmatron was available [[exclusive]]ly through [[Target]] stores in the USA, in a box branded as part of the ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' toyline. For the most part, the packaging bore little resemblance to its Takara counterpart; however, it ''did'' feature a few elements in Japanese, meant to emphasize the "exotic" origin of the figure, namely a small version of the official Japanese ''Transformers'' logo (トランスフォーマー), the names of the toy itself, its combined beast mode and its three individual components in katakana, as well as a promotional blurb advertising the toy's features in Japanese that was lifted verbatim from the packaging of Takara's original ''Beast Wars'' release.

: The [[instructions]] for Magmatron incorrectly name two of his individual beast modes: the ''Quetzalcoatlus'' is referred to as a "''{{w|Pteranodon}}''", and the ''Giganotosaurus'' is referred to as a "{{w|Dromaeosauridae|raptor}}" (that is one ''biiiiiig'' raptor). The ''Elasmosaurus'' is referred to as a "{{w|Plesiosaur}}", which is ''kinda'' correct, just not as specific. The instructions also label his combined beast mode as a "monster mode".

: His [[bio]] card describes him as a Maximal, and also places him on [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]-dominated Cybertron. However, his separate [[beast mode]]s still retain their Predacon [[spark crystal]]s. His bio card also knocks the "-us" suffix off of the end of each of the individual beast mode names, making them "'''Skysaur'''", "'''Landsaur'''" and "'''Seasaur'''", and calls his combined beast mode a "tri-dinosaur [[Fuzor]]".
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:LegacyMagmatron.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2.2|Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur (and pterosaur and sauropterygid)]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Beast Wars Universe Magmatron''' (Commander Class, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Magmatron''' (マグマトロン)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''TL-69'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' 2024 [[June 29]]
:*''Accessories'': Sword, shield, 2 blades, 7 [[Fire Blast effect]]s
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Mario Carreiro]] and [[Christina Murphy]] (packaging)}}<ref>[[October 27]], [[2023]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDGvr0oGqs 1027 Hasbro Pulse Premium Event] on YouTube, with [[Mark Maher]] and [[Ben MacCrae]].</ref>

: Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the ''Transformers'' brand, ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: United]]'' "Beast Wars Universe Magmatron" is a Commander Class figure that retains his central [[gimmick]] of splitting into three prehistoric creatures: "Beast Wars Universe Skysaurus" (''Quetzalcoatlus''), "Beast Wars Universe Landsaurus" (''Giganotosaurus''), and "Beast Wars Universe Seasaurus" (''Elasmosaurus''). All three components can combine to form his "Magmasaurus" mode, although it isn't advertised on the packaging or stock photography.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CzxSQVMrV2b/ Demonstration of ''Legacy'' Magmatron's Magmasaurus mode] from [[Hasbro]] designer [[Mark Maher]] on Instagram</ref> The toy's design is so faithful to the original that it includes three ''Beast Wars''-style [[spark crystal]]s—the first new ones created in over twenty years.

: Included with Magmatron are seven Fire Blast effects parts, which are [[redeco]]s of the set that came with ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' [[Omega Supreme (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Omega Supreme]]. The [[package art]] on the side of the box is also drawn to mimic the [[stock footage|animation style]] used in the cartoon when the three beasts start to combine.

: Magmatron was teased on the ''Legacy: United'' poster art and the toy proper was officially revealed in the [[Hasbro Pulse#1027 Premium Events|Hasbro Pulse 1027 Premium Event]] on [[October 27]]. The [[TakaraTomy]] release of Magmatron includes a sleeve for the package that harkens back to the original ''Beast Wars'' toyline.

::''[https://www.instagram.com/p/C1tFdyPMIHy/ Designer commentary on ''Legacy'' Magmatron from Mark Maher on Instagram]''
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==Merchandise==
===''Beast Wars Real Figure Kit''===
*'''Magmatron''' (1999)
**''Accessories'': Stand

:A non-transforming PVC prize figure kit of Magmatron. It comes packaged with the unassembled figure and a stand. The stand has two attachment points for other Real Figure Kit stands to connect.
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==Notes==
[[File:Diaclone Reboot Illustration.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|He's pretty much every vehicle in this image.]]
* Magmatron's Magmasaurus mode was frequently shown to be his primary [[alternate mode]] throughout most of Magmatron's cartoon appearances and Japanese profiles, while the individual dinosaur modes were his secondary alternate modes. It also appears from the ''Beast Wars Neo'' production materials that have made it into the wild, that his individual dinosaur forms were never given full [[character model]]s, just [[:File:BWN-Magmatron-dino-models.jpg|rough outlines]] depicting what the individual dinosaur modes are supposed to be when separated, if the animators were to split them up, while the Magmasaurus mode was given a full, detailed model with front and rear views.
* Magmatron's Maximal on-package bio gives his quotation as "Til all is won", an obvious reference to a similar [['Til all are one|phrase]] that pops up in numerous other places in ''Transformers'' lore.
* The ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' incarnation of Magmatron is a "virtual redeco" of the revived ''[[Diaclone]]'' line's [http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/pictorial-review-of-diaclone-reboot-diabattles-v2/35531/ Dia-Battles V2] (ダイアバトルスV2) toy. You can thank [[Jesse Wittenrich]] for that idea. A transformation video of the 2016 toy can be [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOjNZI12uU seen here.]

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Magmatron''' (메그마트론 ''Megeumateuron'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Yán Chōng Tiān''' (炎冲天, "Soaring Flame")

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Beast Machines Dinobots]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars II Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Predacons]]
[[Category:Emperors of Destruction]]
[[Category:Fuzors]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Legends World natives]]
[[Category:Legacy Predacons]]
[[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]
[[Category:Predacon leaders]]
[[Category:Resistance]]
[[Category:Target exclusives]]
[[Category:Transformers with three modes]]
[[Category:Unicron-related characters]]

Guiledart (BW)

2024-01-29T10:15:49Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* Merchandise */ Adding Real Figure Kit

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:''Guiledart is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:GuiledartModel.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|No, despite what some people would tell you, ''[[Backstop (Cybertron)|Rhinoceros]]'' is not really descended from ''Triceratops''.]]

A scheming, nasty bunch of ‘bots, the Predacons aren’t typically renowned for being loyal–except for '''Guiledart''' (ガイルダート ''Gairudāto''). See, this triceratops field commander is incredibly committed to the Predacon cause, and is always at the beck and call of his leader, [[Magmatron]]. Don’t let this fool you into thinking that Guiledart isn’t a free thinker, however–he’s always looking to climb the chain of command. Like his peers, Guiledart is ambitious, ''unlike'' his peers, he makes sure that he advances in rank honorably. Whether that means performing a job superbly instead of critically damaging his superiors, or using his flawless battle tactics to lead the Predacons to victory instead of using political loopholes, Guiledart takes every opportunity to prove himself as worthy of a promotion within the bounds of integrity.

Even though, professionally, Guiledart cares about honor, that gets thrown out the window when dealing with [[Maximal|Maximals]]. He’s more than willing to play dirty to get the outcome he wants on the battlefield, and when push comes to shove, he’s a ferocious warrior. Armed with his electricity-releasing Thunder Horn blast and the cripplingly destructive Tail Shooter, woe be to any Maximal that encounters the brutal Guiledart on the field.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon===
[[File:Guiledart1.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Go home and be a family man.]]

{{voiceactor|[[Holly Kaneko]] (Japanese)|[[Jong-deok An]] (Korean)}}
Guiledart was among the Predacons stationed on [[Gaia]], along with his commander Magmatron. When they noticed five new [[Maximal]] recruits landing on the planet’s surface, he was ordered, along with the others, to deal with them. They immediately began to fire on the inbound Maximals, destroying their transport vessels and sending them crashing down. He then rendezvoused with the other Predacons, surrounding their hostage, [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]]. When the Maximals tried to rescue their teammate, Guiledart, along with his teammates, confronted them, but were suddenly frozen in place by [[Heinrad (BW)|Heinrad]]’s freezing of time. Held still for long enough for Heinrad to take back Stampy, once things returned to normal, he proclaimed that the Maximals must have used magic on them. Once Magmatron and [[Big Convoy]] began to duke it out, Guiledart took precautionary measures and demanded that DNAVI teleport them back to HQ before things got messy, taking all Predacons away from combat. Guiledart, along with the other Predacons, was lectured by DNAVI for their failure in combat. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

Guiledart was with the other Predacons when they listened to [[Saberback]], via transmission, describe his “magical” powers that he had used to disable the Maximals. [[Sling]] was shocked by the prospect of wizardry, while Guiledart saw through Saberback’s ''actual'' illusion, claiming that the only real special power the charlatan had was to transform into a flower. Later on, when Saberback called for reinforcements against [[Colada]] and [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]], Guiledart and the others answered the call. He lauded Saberback for his efforts in retrieving the [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]] capsule, before telling him to hand it over so that he could be the one to give it to Magmatron-- for safety, of course. Saberback wasn’t buying it, and called him out on just wanting to be the one who looked successful. In the middle of their bickering, Maximal reinforcements arrived, and the Predacons had the snot beaten out of them by Big Convoy. Like their last encounter with the Maximals, DNAVI had to teleport them away so that they weren’t harmed any further. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

Guiledart was on the ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]'', and proposed to Magmatron that the group teleport to [[Solid]] to retrieve the Angolmois capsule located there. When [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]] pushed back, thinking that it wasn’t honorable to pursue the Maximals in such a way, Guiledart fired back that he best shut his mouth. Magmatron took Guiledart’s side in the affair, and had DNAVI teleport them to Solid. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

When DNAVI was unable to give the Predacons the exact location of the Angolmois capsule located on the planet of [[Maderan]], Guiledart suggested waiting for the Maximals to arrive, then outright attacking them so that they had more time to search for the capsule on their own. Magmatron agreed, thinking it to be a good plan, and gave Guiledart control of the mission to Maderan. While Dead End and Saberback went to take care of Heinrad and Colada, Sling and Guiledart set an electric trap for [[Break]], Longrack, and Stampy. Though the trap was successful on the latter two, Stampy managed to escape. Guiledart wasn't too concerned, though-- he noted that cowardly 'bots like Stampy could manage to run away for a time, but would end up destroyed all the same. He later found himself eating his words when Stampy disabled the traps and freed the Maximals... for a time. Magmatron then showed up and recaptured them once more, dressing down Guiledart for taking too long on a supposedly simple mission. Stampy escaped again, but came back to attack Magmatron, with the Predacon leader swiping him away. Guiledart was enraged at the attacking of his commander, and then blasted Stampy with electricity, critically injuring him. When Big Convoy arrived, Guiledart was teleported away from the battlefield by DNAVI. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

When the Predacons were in orbit of [[Donovan]], Guiledart immediately placed responsibilities regarding finding the Angolmois capsule located there on Saberback. Saberback then shifted it to Dead End, who shifted it to Sling, who was upset at having to do the work. Guiledart asked what was bothering him, to which Sling responded that he felt like he was always bossed around, but Guiledart assured him that there was a ''reason'' the Predacons had him do so much. According to the triceratops 'bot, Sling was an invaluable "trump card", and that's why he was chosen to go to Donovan. Once Sling bought into it and left, it was revealed that Guiledart really had little faith in him and just wanted to get him to do the job. Later on, Guiledart had to beam down with the other Predacons to find the capsule themselves, as Sling was preoccupied with fighting Colada. When he and Saberback discovered it, they tried to ask DNAVI to teleport them back to the ship, but the AI was unable to transport the capsule and the pair at once. Upon hearing this news, the Maximals attacked, trying to take the Angolmois for themselves, causing a brawl to break out. When it just seemed like Guiledart and Saberback had gained the upper hand against the group, Big Convoy showed up and blew them all away with his "Big Cannon", resulting in a Maximal victory. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Ship's Log}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|The Stolen Gung Ho}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|Fight! Maximals}} {{storylink|End of the Maximals!?}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}
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===''Bom Bom'' comic continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' comic====
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!}}}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' comic====
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The 5 Rookies}} {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} {{storylink|100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!}}{{storylink|Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky}} {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}}}
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===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:BWAscendGuiledartPunch.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[M. Bison|Bison's]] ass is mine!]]
He's not loyal, he's a distrustful schemer! Shun him! {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #2}}

During one of Magmatron's astral journeys to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] apocalyptic future, Guiledart was seen crushing [[Halfshell]]'s eye socket, before being choked by the larger Predacon. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}}
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[File:Guiledart-BWU-Intersectionality.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb]]
The weapons and senior security specialist aboard the ''[[Trypticon (G1)|Dinosaur]]'', Guiledart was borderline-insubordinate at the best of times, not appreciating the [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]]' command structure of Maximal officers overseeing enlisted Predacons. He frequently disrespected the first officer, [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]].

When half the crew was dispatched in a shuttle to recover some missing prisoners from planet [[Metascan Omega|LGC-8803]], the ''Dinosaur'' came under attack from an unknown ship. Guiledart commanded the tactical weapons array long enough to drive the attackers off, but the ship suffered serious damage in the process.

Worse, internal strife overtook the ship as well. Word of the [[Grand Uprising]] back home had reached the ''Dinosaur'', and the Builder political officer [[Synapse (BWU)|Synapse]] killed two of the crew trying to contain the information. When Chief Engineer [[Magmatron]] reported the circumstances to the bridge, Guiledart immediately signed up for the mutiny against the Builders. Magmatron and Guiledart made their way to the captain's quarters, hoping to disable the living ship's efforts to fight back.

Once they met the captain, however, the Predacons learned he wasn't the problem. Captain [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]] had refused to kill his crew, and so Synapse severed his link to the ''Dinosaur'', really the war criminal Trypticon, so the Megamaster could eliminate the others without interference. Magmatron hooked Full-Tilt back up to the ship, and left Guiledart to protect the captain while the chief engineer tried to salvage the ship and disable the ship's consciousness at the same time.

Guiledart was confronted by [[Medusa]], one of the Destructons who lured them to the planet in the first place. He killed her, but lost an arm in the process and Full-Tilt's life support tubing was severed in the fight. Guiledart was forced to hook himself into the exchange to get the captain back on line and save the tumbling ship.

The ''Dinosaur'' would never fly again, but it managed to land with the best of them. Dinosaur City became a new, stable colony on the planet. Once the troops had settled in, Guiledart chose to accompany Magmatron back to Cybertron aboard the shuttle, in order to lend their arms to the Grand Uprising. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

Magmatron was welcomed into the Resistance and given command of his comrades as an independent unit, although Lio Convoy named one of his own troops [[Archadis]] as Magmatron's second-in-command over Guiledart. During a mission to eliminate the traitor Snapper in Builder custody, Rampage drew Magmatron's unit into a separate struggle between the Terrans and the alien [[Monster GoBot|Antares Eight]]. Afterwards, both the Builders and Resistance forces involved decided to stay together as the [[Ex-Bot (BWU)|Ex-Bots]], protectors of [[Proximax]]. Archadis refused to abandon the Resistance and departed, restoring Guiledart as Magmatron's official right hand 'bot. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

Guiledart remained Magmatron's right hand as the former chief engineer led the Ex-Bots in Proximax. When the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]] began, they joined the march on the [[Grand Mal]] to bring an end to the infectious entities. Afterwards, Magmatron received a prestigious appointment to the [[Tripredacus Council]], ruling body of the [[Independent Predacus States]]. Guiledart remained at his side as bodyguard and personal security for his "chief". {{storylink|Derailment}}

===Legends World===
Guiledart of the [[Legends World]] was a teacher at the school where [[Magmatron]] was the principal. He attended a staff meeting where [[Big Convoy|Big]] suggested changing the "HR" for "home room" to "TF" for "''Transformers''". {{Storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei#Very Strange|Very Strange}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:Unicron1-JavelinVsGuiledart.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6|Are you 'bot enough to fight with me?]]
Guiledart was one of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]]'s Maximals who fell under the command of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] led a force against Unicron to prevent him from eating [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Guiledart was sent out to attack, engaging [[Javelin]]. {{storylink|Last Stand (Unicron)|Last Stand}}
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==Games==
===''Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars''===
When the super-powerful [[Energon Quartz]] was discovered on [[Gaia]], Guiledart was one of the several combatants to join the brawl to take possession of it.

Guiledart could also partake in various other tasks, such as a mission to break a boulder to reveal an energon crystal hidden within before sundown, using a block in a mission to defend himself against various incoming projectiles, and missions to run across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.

After defeating every opponent that stood in his way, the last of which being [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], Guiledart gained possession of the Quartz. He decided not to use it immediately; such a powerful object could be used later during the war as a trump card. {{storylink|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars}}

{{BW fighter ending|Guiledart|GBC}}

====Move list====
{{note|This move list presumes the player is facing right; when facing left, reverse the left and right inputs.}}
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan=2|'''Robot Mode'''
!colspan=2|'''Beast Mode'''
|-
|Erstknock<ref name="german">Attacks take their name from the first four German ordinals: ''erste'', ''zweite'', ''dritte'', and ''vierte''.</ref>||←↓→B
|Prôton Wave<ref name="greek">Attacks take their name from the first four Ancient Greek ordinals in their neuter nominative forms: ''prôton'' (πρῶτον), ''deúteron'' (δεύτερον), ''tríton'' (τρῐ́τον), and ''tétarton'' (τέτᾰρτον).</ref>||↓→B
|-
|Zweitpress<ref name="german"/>||←↓→A
|Deúteron Tackle<ref name="greek"/>||↓→A
|-
|Drittblow<ref name="german"/>||→↓→B
|Tríton Threw<ref name="greek"/>||→↓→B
|-
|Viertreflector<ref name="german"/>||↓←B
|Tétarton Press<ref name="greek"/>||→↓→A
|-
|Megatic Black Hole (super)||↓→↓← B (grapple)
|Black Hole Cluster (super)||↓→↓← B
|-
|Changing Drain (desperation)||↓←↓→ A
|Changing Drain (desperation)||↓←↓→ A
|}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWNeo Guiledart toy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|I said go home to your wife and daughter!]]
*'''Guiledart''' (January [[1999]])
**''ID number'': '''D-29'''
**''Accessories'': "Tail Shooter" launcher, 2 missiles
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Part of the first wave of ''Beast Wars Neo'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWN|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Guiledart is a Deluxe-sized figure that transforms into a mustard-yellow/gold organic ''Triceratops''. As with most of the ''Beast Wars Neo'' Destron dinosaurs, he can assume a "Fake Death Mode" configuration in which he looks like a dead, decomposing ''Triceratops'', complete with rolled-up eyes and tongue sticking out. To activate the eyes and tongue, one simply pushes back on his nose-horn. To complete the dead dinosaur mode, his side panels fold down to reveal his beast mode ribs, and his robot feet and "Tail Shooter" can be pulled out to reveal more torn flesh and musculature details.

:In robot mode he's a stocky yet heavily armed little dude. He is armed with his spring-loaded "Tail Shooter" missile launcher (which also features his [[spark crystal]]), with the projectiles stored underneath his giant left shoulderpad. His dinosaur forelegs (also located on his left shoulderpad) feature flip-out, non-firing lasers.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Destron/Guiledart/guiledart.htm More information on Guiledart at TFU.info]''
{{BWGuiledartMold}}

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{{Twoimages|File:BWN-toy VS-29-box.jpg|w1=200
|File:DX-01 Giraffot VS Trikero Sonokong.jpg|w2=150|caption='''Left:''' ''Takara packaging pictured'' '''Right:''' ''Sonokong packaging pictured''|float=right}}
*'''Savannah Showdown: Longrack VS Guiledart''' (Vs pack, January 1999)
**''Takara ID number'': '''VS-29'''
**''Sonokong ID number'': '''DX-01'''
**''Accessories'': "Tail Shooter" launcher, 2 missiles

:Guiledart was also available in a "Savannah Showdown" (サバンナの対決 ''saban'na no taiketsu'') two-pack with his Maximal adversary [[Longrack (BW)#VS29|Longrack]].

:[[Sonokong]] also released this vs-pack in [[South Korea|Korea]]n ''Beast-War Neo'' markets. "Trikero" features no differences with the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] releases of Guiledart other than the packaging and [[Tech Spec]] cards.

:Both toys are identical to their individual-box releases.
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==Merchandise==
===''Beast Wars Gum''===
[[File:Bwgum_guiledart.jpg|thumb|right|250px|See kids, I'm not really dead!]]
*'''Guiledart''' (candy toy, 1999)
:A snap together model kit of Guiledart was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Gum|Beast Wars Gum]]'', sculpted from blue and yellow plastic. He could transform from robot to beast mode by being broken down into its component parts, then rebuilt into a new mode. It came with a stick of gum.
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===''Beast Wars Real Figure Kit''===
*'''Guiledart''' (1999)
**''Accessories'': Stand

:A non-transforming PVC prize figure kit of Guiledart. It comes packaged with the unassembled figure and a stand. The stand has two attachment points for other Real Figure Kit stands to connect.
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==Notes==
* The ''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle Complete Manual]]'', the official strategy guide for the ''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle]]'' video game, [[Japanese language|Romanizes]] Guiledart's name as "'''Gayle Dirt'''".
*The ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' incarnation of Guiledart is a "virtual redeco" of the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#T30|Generations: Thrilling 30]]'' Voyager Class [[Roadbuster (G1)#Generations|Roadbuster]] toy.

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Trikero''' (트리케로 ''Teurikero'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars II Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Predacons]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Predacons]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Maximals]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Legends World natives]]
[[Category:Resistance]]
[[Category:Strategists]]
[[Category:Teachers]]
[[Category:Transformers with three modes]]

Big Convoy (BW)

2024-01-29T10:11:35Z

Chuckwagoneer: /* Merchandise */ Adding Real Figure Kit

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:''Big Convoy is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:BigConvoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Was the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|dark of the moon]] on the sixth of June, in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss Kenworth pullin' logs]...]]

You ''don't'' want to give '''Big Convoy''' (ビッグコンボイ ''Biggu Konboi'') a hard time. While most Maximal [[Supreme Commander]]s are known for their level-headed and friendly natures, Big Convoy breaks the mold by positively wrecking and ruining anyone who gives him lip. A gargantuan bruiser of a warrior, he tramples the opposition in his woolly mammoth [[beast mode]] and utterly obliterates them in robot mode with his [[Big Cannon]]. He is known throughout the Maximal ranks as "The One-Man Army", a solitary Supreme Commander who can do the work of a whole battalion all on his lonesome.

So of course the [[Great Convoy]]s felt he would make a perfect training instructor for a batch of new recruits freshly minted from the Maximal Military Academy. While it takes every ounce of restraint Big Convoy can muster not to completely throttle the green little twerps, deep down he kinda-sorta ''likes'' them. Or he's getting there, anyway. [[Vector Sigma]] has taken a special interest in Big Convoy and often speaks ''through'' him via the [[Energon Matrix]] in his chest. And with each lesson in warfare he imparts to his new recruits, Big Convoy in turn learns a lesson about friendship and teamwork.

{{quote|I never trust anyone—except for my Big Cannon.|Big Convoy|"[[A Battle Fought Alone]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Legends'' comic====
'''Big Junior''' (ビッグジュニア ''Biggu Junia'') was the son of [[Blue Big Convoy]], a radical estranged from the [[Great Convoy]]s because of his egalitarian opinions regarding the relationship between Convoys and other Transformers. The two fought at each other's side till one fateful day where they battled a [[Blentron|mysterious group]] who sought out [[Angolmois Energy]]. Blue Big Convoy sacrificed himself to destroy the villains and to save Big Junior. The elder mammoth used his last words to teach a weeping Big Junior the true meaning of being a "Convoy" and gave his arm to replace Big Junior's destroyed one. Henceforward, Big Junior was Big Convoy and he became a loner to protect himself from the pain of losing another comrade. {{Storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Blue Big Convoy)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Junichi Inoue]] (Japanese)|[[Jung Goo Lee]] (Korean)}}
[[Image:Bwneo1 bigconvoy dreamwave.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Big Convoy pulls a [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]].]]
[[Image:BigConvoyAnime1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|We've got a great big codpiece.]]
Big Convoy once operated as a duo with [[Rockbuster]] and the two fought [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s and adventured together. However, their solitary natures eventually drove them apart and both warriors decided to become solo acts in the war against the Predacons. {{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} Big Convoy's decision to go it alone brought him into conflict with the Maximal drill instructor [[Survive]], a stern believer in the value of teamwork. They parted on shaky ground, with Survive determined to someday teach Big Convoy how to work in a group. {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} As "the One Man Army" (the nickname he quickly earned), Big Convoy focused his energies on thwarting the machinations of [[Magmatron]], the new leader of the Predacon forces. After a particularly explosive assault on a stronghold, the two became arch-foes.

Hoping to curb Big Convoy's psychotically antisocial behavior, the [[Great Convoy]]s ordered him to train a crew of unruly new recruits. Big Convoy loathed the assignment at first, but being a loyal soldier, accepted the task. His first mission was to explore [[Gaia]] and investigate the disappearance of [[Lio Convoy]]. Little did he know, Magmatron and his Predacons were following close behind him. After finding a black box message from Lio Convoy, Big Convoy learned of the [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]] Capsules ejected after the destruction of [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]]. Big Convoy then headed off with his group of trainees to collect the capsules, battling Magmatron every step of the way. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}}

On their journey to recover the Angolmois capsules, Big Convoy and his group of trainees stumbled upon the planet of [[Godbless]]. There, he spotted a volcano floating in orbit, and questioned [[NAVI]] on whether the planet had any natural satellites or not. When the answer was no, he drove his ship closer, but was met with an apparition of a supposed “[[God of the Maximals]]”, in reality an illusion created by [[Saberback]], who told them to stay away from the planet, before shocking the vessel's systems and causing it to crash. When the group officially landed on the surface, Big Convoy ordered [[Colada]] and [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]] to scout their surroundings. Later on, when the two Maximals discovered Saberback and a capsule of Angolmois, Convoy came to their defenses and fired his “Big Cannon” on him and the other Predacons, allowing the Maximals to escape with the Angolmois. Before they departed from Godbless, [[Vector Sigma]], speaking through Convoy, told the people of the planet to put in their best efforts on their own before turning to the assistance of a god. {{storylink|Chase the Mysterious Capsule}}

Big Convoy led the Maximal recruits to the supposedly warm, paradise-like planet of [[Solid]], to recover an Angolmois capsule. He was shocked, along with the others, to learn that the planet was actually frigid and frozen over. When Longrack attempted to assemble a ground team to explore the surface, Convoy shut him down, claiming that it would be good training for everyone to go. He changed his mind, though, when he realized that [[Break]] was the only one adequately equipped for snow exploration. Instead, he and the rest of the recruits remained waiting in the snow, until Break was ready with the capsule. Unfortunately, [[Sling (BW)|Sling]] and Saberback attacked the group, burying them all underneath piles of snow. Thankfully, Colada was able to rescue them, Big Convoy included, with his flame breath. The attack, combined with the horrific weather, was enough to demoralize the team, leaving them unable to rendezvous with Break in their current condition to retrieve the capsule. To this end, Convoy suggested using a slab of ice to slide across the planet's surface and meet with the penguin Maximal, having Longrack break off a piece from a nearby mountain. The plan succeeded, and the group met with Break just in time to fend off [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]] and take the Angolmois for themselves. Later on, when Longrack dressed down Break for seemingly caring more about the [[Gōmya|locals]] than the mission at hand, Vector Sigma spoke through Convoy, defending Break and stating that it was the right thing to do. {{storylink|Burning Heart Below Freezing}}

Big Convoy had the Maximal recruits touch down on [[Maderan]] to retrieve the Angolmois capsule located on the planet. When he was alerted through Stampy via signal flare of the Predacon presence on the surface, he took the ''[[Gung Ho]]'' down to solve the problem. After battling off Magmatron and freeing his recruits from the Predacons' clutches, he took wounded Stampy to the ship's sick bay so that he could recover. After the trainees apologizes to Stampy for poking fun at his cowardice, when he had in reality been the bravest of them all on Maderan, Vector Sigma spoke through Convoy once more, saying that, as a team, everyone had distinct, but important characteristics that made it run like clockwork. {{storylink|Hang in There, Stampy}}

When Colada and Break began to argue, Big Convoy sent them to the planet [[Donovan]] to search for the Angolmois there, and to hopefully stop their bickering. Break later called for help, revealing that he had left Colada to fend for himself in order to teach him a lesson, to the fury of Convoy. Once he beamed down on the planet, he searched for the pair, but was stopped by Dead End, who wished to have a one-on-one duel with the Maximal leader. Convoy shrugged off his attacks, and beat the snot out of the Predacon, rushing to help Break and Colada. By the time he arrived, the two had weakened the Predacons significantly, giving Convoy room to unleash his "Big Cannon" upon them. Once the Angolmois was secured, Vector Sigma spoke through the Maximal leader, talking on the virtues of working as a team. {{storylink|Mirage of the Sand}}

{{storylink|Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron}} {{storylink|Duel in the Labyrinth}} {{storylink|The Black Hole Crisis}} {{storylink|Sub-Commander Longrack}} {{storylink|Waa! They Got Eaten}} {{storylink|Planet of Time}} {{storylink|Lonely Hydra}} {{storylink|Break Is a Predacon?}} {{storylink|Ship's Log}} {{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|The Stolen Gung Ho}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}}

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===''Bom Bom'' comic continuity===
====''Beast Wars II'' comic====
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Long before [[Lio Convoy]] and [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]]'s [[Gaia]]n battles took place, '''Big''' (ビッグ ''Biggu'') the [[mammoth]] lived on a cold, primitive world in the [[7th Cosmos]]. When an [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]] Capsule fell on the planet, it evolved Big and other beasts, who were then led by a [[Magmatron|''Giganotosaurus'']], and the capsule came to be known as the Divine Stone. The resulting gang turned violent and, when he wasn't around, murdered Big's friends.

When the time-lost [[Lio Convoy]] ended up on Big's planet, he came face to face with the dinosaurs, and was saved in the nick of time by Big. After some introductions, Big brought Lio Convoy to the Divine Stone, but they were confronted by the evil creatures. Big was wounded in the battle, but the mammoth managed to push them all into the crevasse containing the stone, which exploded, further evolving the dinosaurs into full-fledged Transformers with robot modes. Lio Convoy was able to take down the mooks, but was easily defeated by the union of the ''Giganotosaurus'' with a ''Quetzalcoatlus'' and a ''Elasmosaurus''—[[Magmatron]]. When the villains made their leave, Lio Convoy recovered and found the mammoth dying in the snow. Regretting his involvement, Lio Convoy used his [[Energon Matrix]] to cure the animal. The process evolved Big into the Maximal Big Convoy, but he was left alone and amnesiac in the raging snowstorm. {{storylink|The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!}}

====''Beast Wars Neo'' comic====
Big Convoy would join the Maximals, becoming the notorious "One Man Army". During one battle, he disregarded [[Crow Convoy]]'s orders by rushing into a Predacon space fortress and blowing it up; the resulting shockwave damaged the [[Maximal Army 7th Fleet]]. For his insubordination, [[Great Convoy]] punished Big Convoy by making him the instructor of five rookie Maximals on the planet Gaia. He took a lackadaisy approach, commanding his students from the ''[[Gung Ho]]'', but came to their rescue when they encountered lethal [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] on the abandoned ''[[Galvaburg II]]''. Inside, they found the mysterious [[Unicron/Generation 1|Black Ball]]. When it was brought aboard the Maximals' ship, it suddenly activated the warp engine. {{storylink|The 5 Rookies}} The Black Ball revealed itself to be capable of speech and told the story of the war between Lio Convoy and Galvatron, and the Maximal commander's name stirred something in Big Convoy.

When the warp dropped the ''Gung Ho'' in [[Luxor]]'s orbit, it was immediately attacked by the Predacon flagship ''[[Dinosaur (ship)|Dinosaur]]''. The ''Gung Ho'' crashed into an asteroid, but not before Big Convoy sent his subordinates on escape pods to Luxor. While repairing the ''Gung Ho'' with [[NAVI (Gung Ho)|NAVI]], Big Convoy investigated Lio Convoy's record, finding nothing that connected them two. When the rookies down on Luxor were attacked by the Predacons [[Dead End (BW)|Dead End]] and [[Sling (BW)|Sling]], Big Convoy leapt to the planet to their rescue, managing to drive them away and prevent the planet's Angolmois Capsule from falling into the enemy's hands. {{storylink|There Are 7 Capsules}} Their time on the planet was far from over, as the planet's sand was revealed to be actually made up of millimeter-long robots called [[Sandron]], who refused to allow the Maximals to leave the planet with the Capsule and threatened to eat them from the inside out. They attempted to sow confusion by assembling themselves into duplicates of the Maximals, but the ''Gung Ho'' was repaired in time to take the Maximals off the planet, and Big Convoy managed to use some deft gunfire to hold back the Sandron before they naturally dissipated thanks to the removal of the Angolmois Capsule from the planet. {{storylink|100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!}}

The Maximals next went to [[Greengard]] for its Angolmois Capsule. After appointing [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]] the leader of that particular retrieval mission, Big Convoy stayed behind on the ''Gung Ho'', where he awaited the arrival of the ''Dinosaur''. After burying it in an avalanche, Big Convoy came face-to-face with Magmatron himself, who taunted the Maximal about his knowledge of Big Convoy's origins. After a fierce battle, Big Convoy was able to blast away Magmatron with his [[Big Cannon]] and picked up his students, who had succeeded at their mission. {{storylink|Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky}} The next capsule was detected at [[Colada]]'s homeworld, [[Jörmungandr]]. Leaving [[Longrack (BW)|Longrack]] to watch over the ''Gung Ho'', Big Convoy joined his other soldiers to the planet, where they ran into Sling, Dead End, and [[Saberback]]. Big Convoy entered a duel with Dead End, but it was eventually interrupted by Saberback, who tried to off Big Convoy on the recently arrived [[Guiledart]]'s orders. A retaliatory blast from Big Convoy disintegrated Guiledart and breached the world's shell, sucking everything out into space. The Predacons were doomed to the void, and Big Convoy was forced to let go of his Big Cannon to save [[Break]]'s life, losing it forever. {{storylink|A Battle Fought Alone}}

Big Convoy and his troops later found themselves within the sanctuary of the [[Byakurēn]], where they found an Angolmois Capsule being worshiped as a holy vessel. The Maximals fought off the cult's evil priests before [[Kuma Kinkin]] engaged Big Convoy in one-on-one combat. Big Convoy managed to slice off one of Kuma Kinkin's arms in the ensuing battle, and used the missionary's own Bearnium gauntlet to kill him, stabbing him with it through the forehead. The cult vanquished, Big Convoy and his crew took possession of the capsule. {{storylink|Break Through! The Polar Bear Raging Claw Fist!}} Next, Big Convoy led his troops to the aquatic planet [[Wednesday]], where they retrieved the fifth Angolmois Capsule after a brief altercation against [[Rage (BW)|Rage]]. {{storylink|To Jellyfish with Love! Cry Out, Stampy Blade}}

[[Image:MangaBigConvoyVsBlentrons.jpg|left|upright=1.2|thumb|Who wants some?!]]
The sixth capsule was in the [[Graviton Prison]]. Though the Maximals were captured by the malfunctioning robot-guards, Big Convoy used his incredible kicking-strength to bust his crew out of their cell. With the capsule in their possession, the Maximals returned to their ship. The prison's guards attempted once more to stop the by pulling down on the ''Gung Ho'', but Big Convoy once more used his powerful legs to save the day, kicking the guards into a nearby black hole. {{storylink|The Great Escape! Graviton Prison!}}

For the final capsule, the Black Ball led the Maximals to a floating amphitheatre in proximity of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], where they encountered the surviving Magmatron, who revealed that the Black Ball had led him there and gave him the [[Blentron]]s as troops! As events unfolded, though, the Blentrons turned on Magmatron and fed the collected capsules to the Black Ball, from which the face of [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] emerged. Unicron explained that the last Angolmois Capsule, the divine stone that fell on an icy planet so long ago, was absorbed into the bodies of Big Convoy and Magmatron, a revelation that broke Big Convoy's amnesia. Breaking down from his recovered memories, Big Convoy crouched in tears till Magmatron implored him to keep fighting, and the two joined forces against the Blentrons. Just as the two were about to swoop into Unicron's maw, [[Heinrad (BW)|Heinrad]], in actuality an agent of the [[Chronarchitect|Ruler of Time and Space]], froze time and explained to Big Convoy the threat of Unicron and the Ruler's plan to destroy the universe to remove the threat. After knocking some sense into the despondent Big Convoy, Heinrad was pulled out of the spacetime continuum for his violation of the dogma of noninterference. Away from Unicron, Big Convoy had to watch as the dark god chomped on Magmatron, spitting out his head and his [[Magma Blade (BW)|Magma Blade]]. After being entrusted the sword, Big Convoy used it to end his rival's life and swore to fight against Unicron, who had absorbed Cybertron to become his new body. {{storylink|Double Cross}}

With the Magma Blade in hand, Big Convoy had the ''Gung Ho'' lure Unicron to the clustered planetary system [[Georgian]], where the Maximal crew had Unicron attack planets, setting off explosions that destroyed his limbs. Limbless, Unicron tried to unleash a Blentron army, but it was of little effect to Big Convoy, who dove in and stabbed his eye with the Magma Blade. However, Unicron's dark essence emerged from its eye and plastered itself on Big Convoy's body to take it over. With no option, Big Convoy took the Matrix from his chest and unleashed its power, destroying himself and Unicron in the process. In his dying moments, Big Convoy saw Lio Convoy come to bring his soul to peace.

At Big Convoy's memorial, his former students, now graduated, paid homage to him when Heinrad appeared and took the four to an wintry planet. There, he revealed that Big Convoy's spark was "recycled" by his organization and the commander was reincarnated as an ordinary mammoth without memory or awareness of what came before. As the Maximals—now Convoys—saluted him, the mammoth walked off into the distance. {{storylink|Return to Zero}}

====''Beast Wars Metals'' comic====
The visage of Big Convoy appeared alongside those of Lio Convoy and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in a poetic montage overlooking the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] on [[Earth|Energoa]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 1|Beast Wars Metals #1}}
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===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
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[[Blurr (Armada)|Blurr]], [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]], and [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] discovered that the [[Herald of Unicron|Heralds of Unicron]] had destabilized the Decepticon [[space bridge nexus]], causing the space bridges to become windows to other dimensions. One of these windows showed Big Convoy, who seemed to be looking right back at Jetfire. Jetfire, thinking he had seen the Optimus Prime he knew, tried to say so, but only stuttered, possibly in shock. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:Gathering1-BigConvoy.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Where everybody knows your name...]]
By one account, Big Convoy was known as the "one robot army" and was assigned by the [[Maximal Elder]]s to the ''Gung Ho'' and its crew of Maximal rookies in a time before the [[Pax Cybertronia]]. Together, they defeated Magmatron. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #1}}

In another account, Big Convoy had earned himself a place on the [[Autobot High Council]] by the tail-end of the Great War. He was away from their base of operation when news came in that both Optimus Prime and Galvatron had fallen in combat, and so attended a meeting via holographic-projection. After rebranding themselves the "[[Primal Council]]", the group discussed their intent to broker an armistice with their enemies, in the hopes of ending the war without further bloodshed. To this end, Big Convoy was sent to a front near the [[Rust Sea Peninsula]]. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

Big Convoy was part of Cybertron's [[Committee for State Affairs]] alongside [[Heinrad (BW)|Heinrad]] and [[Magmatron]]. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}} Because of his distinguished service, he was a high-ranking member of the joint committee. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #1}}

On Cybertron, Big Convoy, along with [[Tasmania Kid]], had been investigating recent disturbances and riots occurring with increasing frequency. He found that the riots had been set off by the use of Angolmois capsules—something which he thought he had seen the last of. Though the rulers of the [[Maximal Imperium]] sent their aide, [[Ikard]], to bring Big Convoy to them, he refused to come, citing the importance of getting some control in the field. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}

[[Image:CybertronianBigConvoy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|He doesn't attend to politicians when there's asses to kick.]]

Following the trail of the Angolmois incidents, he and his unit were able to locate a monolithic structure jutting from the Cybertronian skyline. [[Colada|Cohrada]] speculated that the new building was in fact quite ancient, a part of an older era of Cybertron that was thrust up through the substructure. [[Shokaract]] emerged from the structure, eager to demonstrate his newfound power. Big Convoy retaliated, transforming into a heavily armed spider-tank alt mode. Magmatron witnessed that unless the timestream was altered, the Maximal leader would also be killed by Shokaract. Thus, the chronally displaced Predacon chose that moment in time for the transwarp coordinates to give to [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. Therefore, the battle was interrupted by the appearance of [[Lio Convoy]]'s transwarp cruiser, sparing Big Convoy. However, this hope was in vain, as it was soon shot down by Shokaract. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}}

Big Convoy later met [[Bump]], a "specialist" sent by Lio Convoy. Soon afterwards, Big Convoy and his soldiers encountered the Pack, along with immigrants from Earth, including [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. He participated in the plan and battled with Shokaract's forces. After their enemies were defeated, Lio Convoy and Big Convoy hoped that no threat came up while they were focused on rebuilding Cybertron, which had fallen into a sorry state after Shokaract's distribution of Angolmois. Unfortunately, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] popped up just in time to dash that hope. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

===''Kre-O'' online comic===
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Big Convoy was at the newly constructed Autobot base, [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], enjoying the big turret at the top of the building. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}

===Legends World===
In the [[Legends World]], Big Convoy was a ''Transformers'' nerd who worked as a high school teacher. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 59|Bonus Edition Vol. 59}} He attended the [[Transformers Celebration 2014]], {{storylink|Legends Bonus Vol.}} and later was part of the crowd that cheered on the recently arrived [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] from the [[G1 World]]. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 23#Lord Megatron Goes to the Legends World|Lord Megatron Goes to the Legends World}}

Big Convoy took a job as a teacher at Magmatron's high school, initially scaring his students with his fierce appearance before showing his true self when he ran off to buy ''Transformers'' toys. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Year 3, Class B Big-sensei}} He found teaching regular subjects boring and instead began teaching the history of the ''Transformers'' brand, {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|First Lesson First}} and petitioned Magmatron to change the homeroom period to a period dedicated to talking about ''Transformers''. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Very Strange}} Upon catching Colada shaking Stampy down, Big reprimanded him but showed his gentle side by giving his student some "money"... in the form of [[Cyber Key]]s. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Delinquent Colada}} During sports day, he presented Break with a Cyber Key medal for his exemplary skating before crushing his students under his weight during the cavalry race. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Hot-blooded Break}} When Longrack began studying ''Transformers'' at the cost of neglecting other subjects, Big realized he was leading his students astray and began teaching properly. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|Preparatory Reviewer Longrack}}

One day, Big Convoy awoke in the form of a robot mammoth who could turn himself into a tank and was, to his joy, diagnosed with [[Transformers sickness]]. [[DNAVI]] prescribed him some medicine, but he refused to be cured and threw it away. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|When I Awoke One Morning...}} On the way home, he was caught up in a [[Quintesson]] invasion and, finding [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] lamenting his uselessness, looked in vain for a [[football coach]] who could aid him. Realizing he himself qualified as a kind of coach, he then decided to disguise himself as a Decepticon and help Blitzwing. {{storylink|LG59 Blitzwing Prologue: Big-sensei|To Fight with...}} After he offered the beleaguered soldier his services as a strategist, he introduced himself as "'''Big Fight'''" (ビッグファイト ''Biggu Faito''). His strategy didn't amount to much, merely telling Blitzwing to forge his own destiny, but the [[Triple Changer]] was able to relay those ideas to an invading [[Overcharge (G1)|Overcharge]], who was actually Blitzwing from the past. After the invasion was ultimately repelled, Big Fight took his leave and Big Convoy was found the next day asleep during class. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 59|Bonus Edition Vol. 59}}

When [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s [[Majin Zarak]] threatened the Legends World, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s ''Encore'' Big Convoy toy leapt to the rescue and revealed that all ''Transformers'' toys in the Legends World were actually living beings. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two}}

Nevertheless, the Legends World was destroyed and the regular Big Convoy from that world was forced to evacuate the universe in the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and ended up on [[Beast (planet)|Beast]]. When that planet was attacked by [[Galvatron II]] and his [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], [[Lio Convoy|Leo Prime]] forced Transformers sickness onto the Legends World refugees and converted them into forms much like the G1 World's own Beast Warriors. With the other Convoys, Big Convoy destroyed Nemesis's core in a Triple Beast Convoy Matrix Attack. {{Storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
'''Slammoth''' was a member of the [[Cybertronian Navy]] who served aboard the ''[[Gung Ho|Gung-Ho]]'', patrolling the [[Allowed Zone]] of known space under the watchful eye of the [[Human Confederacy]]. {{storylink|Intersectionality}}

During the [[Grand Uprising]], Slammoth seized control of ''Gung-Ho'' from the Builders. He became Supreme Commander of the space vessels controlled by the [[Resistance]] as the war went on. In addition to clashing with Builders, Slammoth had several encounters with [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razor-Claw]], an opportunist Predacon warlord who seized control of Cybertron's three moons, and was initially antagonistic with [[Lio Convoy]]'s movement.

When the war ended and the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]] was routed, Slammoth took part in the negotiations at [[Dragon's Bane Cathedral]] in [[Hyperious]] to establish a new government. Once the [[Cybertronian Parliament]] was hammered into shape, Slammoth became one of the three chosen representatives of the Resistance. {{storylink|Derailment}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWNtoy-BigConvoy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|I'm not fat, it's all this kibble. It makes me look...poofy.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Big Convoy''' (February, [[1999]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''C-35'''
:*''Sonokong ID number'': '''C-05'''
:*''Accessories:'' "[[Big Cannon#Beast Wars Neo|Big Cannon]]", 2 missiles, 2 "[[Mammoth Haken#Beast Wars Neo|Mammoth Haken]]" missiles, "[[Energon Matrix#BigConvoy|Energon Matrix]]"
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Part of the second wave of ''Beast Wars Neo'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWN|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Big Convoy transforms into an organic mammoth. His beast mode has a rubber trunk which can be controlled by pushing a lever on the top of his head to somewhat simulate his "Mammoth Dynamite" attack. In addition, the tusks can be moved by pulling back either of his ears.

:In robot mode, Big Convoy is absolutely chock-full of weapons and [[gimmick]]s:
:#The spring-loaded "Big Cannon" (formed out of the beast's head, back, and tail) can fire two missiles from two barrels in succession with a rotating dial. It is held in his hands via [[5 mm post]] and can be stored on his back.
:#His shoulder armor can be swung up to reveal sculpted, non-firing missile pods.
:#He has flip-out "{{w|tonfa|Mammoth Tonfa}}" melee weapons in both forearms.
:#The two beast panels on the sides of his legs feature two spring-loaded missile launchers that fire his anchor-shaped "Mammoth Haken" projectiles (similar to the original ''Beast Wars'' Ultra Class [[Megatron (BW)/toys#BWultra|Megatron]] toy); the missiles can also be loosely held as melee weapons.
:#His chest panel flips down, revealing the first-ever removable Matrix toy accessory, vacuum-metalized gold with a transparent red center. This accessory can be held by any figure with standard 5mm fist holes.

: Big Convoy technically has a third mode, known as "Mammoth Tank", which is basically just his beast mode with the Big Cannon folded out and his Mammoth Haken launchers deployed. Yay.

: This toy is somewhat infamous for being a [[shellformer]], as practically all of his beast mode components are shells that fit around the compressed robot to form this mode. Much of his [[kibble]] can be detached from the main figure to form the majority of his beast mode [[:File:Bigconvoy shell.jpg|on its own]].

: [[Sonokong]] released Big Convoy as "Mammolike" in the [[South Korea|Korean]] ''Beast-War Neo'' toyline. This release features no changes to the toy itself, with the only differences being [[:File:C-05 Mammolike Sonokong.jpg|the packaging]] and bio cards.

: Big Convoy was [[redeco]]ed as [[Black Big Convoy]], then redecoed and slightly [[retool]]ed into [[Nemesis Prime (Universe)#Universe .282003.29|Nemesis Prime]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Cybertron/BigConvoy/bigconvoy.htm More information on Big Convoy at TFU.info]''
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Cosmic Showdown: Big Convoy VS Magmatron''' (Vs pack, February 1999)}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''VS-35'''
:*''Sonokong ID number'': '''DX-05
:*''Accessories:'' "Big Cannon", 2 missiles, two "Mammoth Haken" missiles, "Energon Matrix"

: Big Convoy was also available in the "Cosmic Showdown" (大宇宙の対決 ''dai uchū no taiketsu'') "versus" pack with his chief adversary, [[Magmatron#VS35|Magmatron]]. Both toys were identical to their individual releases.

:This vs-pack was also released in Korea by Sonokong. Much like the single release of "Mammolike", both toys are identical to the Takara releases, the only differences being the packaging and bio cards.

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[[File:Gold_Big_Convoy_and_Magmatron.jpg|thumb|250px]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Kinpika Big Convoy''' (1999)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-35'''
:*''Accessories:'' "Big Cannon", 2 missiles, two "Mammoth Haken" missiles, "Energon Matrix"

:This gold [[vacuum metallizing|vacuum metallized]] Big Convoy was featured as a [[Lucky Draw figure|Lucky Draw]] giveaway.

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[[File:1999_Blue_Big_Convoy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Please, Mr. Blue was [[Blue Big Convoy|my father]], call me Big.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Blue Big Convoy''' (1999)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-35'''
:*''Accessories:'' "Big Cannon", 2 missiles, two "Mammoth Haken" missiles, "Energon Matrix"

:A redeco of Big Convoy in blue, this figure is a Lucky Draw item.

:The ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]''-original character [[Blue Big Convoy#Legends|Blue Big Convoy]] is an homage to this release.
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===''Legends''===
[[File:TF-Legends-LG59-Bigfight.jpg|right|300px|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Blitzwing''' ([[January 27]], [[2018]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''LG59'''

:Available with the ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Voyager-sized [[Blitzwing (G1)/toys#Legends|Blitzwing]] figure, "Big Fight" is a redeco of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' [[Shuffler#Legends|Shuffler]]'s accessory. The [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] form of Blitzwing can ride Big Fight in robot mode. Big Fight can also transform into a 5 mm gun for larger ''Titans Return'' or any ''Legends'' Headmaster figures to wield.
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===''Encore''===
[[File:Encore-Big-Convoy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Guess this means we won't be seeing a ''Masterpiece'' Big Convoy anytime soon then...]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Big Convoy''' ([[January 26]], [[2019]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' "Big Cannon", 2 missiles, 2 "Mammoth Haken" missiles, "Energon Matrix"

:An ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' reissue, this release of Big Convoy has been extensively redecoed to be more anime-accurate. The most notable changes include his paint and plastic being much more matte overall, flat white replacing the pearlescent white and silver, his beast mode pelt being a darker brown, his gold parts swapped to yellow, and his beast eyes now white with pupils.

:This release of Big Convoy displays considerably well with the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' [[Lio Convoy]] and anime-colored [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#MP38|Optimus Primal]] toys. With all three figures being roughly the same height, it is highly accurate to the respective cartoon scales.
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[[File:TF-BWN-Encore-Big-Convoy-Matrix-Buster.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''Come on and Slammoth'' ''And welcome to the Jammoth'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Big Convoy (Matrix Buster Ver.)''' ([[February 28]], [[2020]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' "Big Cannon", 2 missiles, 2 "Mammoth Haken" missiles, "Energon Matrix", "Matrix Buster", "NAVI" figure, 2 leg attachments

:This ''Encore'' rerelease of Big Convoy has no deco changes from the original ''Beast Wars Neo'' version but does have a lot of new parts added to it.

: The centerpiece is the massive "Matrix Buster" cannon accessory (as used in the penultimate episode of the ''Neo'' anime), which can store the [[retool]]ed Energon Matrix with collapsible handles, and has two flexible tubes that plug into his waist-piece. Completing the cartoon-based configuration are two small turbine-like parts that extend his hip-mounted mammoth legs by plugging in between the legs and the removable feet, exploiting a facet of the toy's construction that was not considered a play "feature" prior.

: Finally, this set also includes a small [[NAVI (Gung Ho)#Toys|NAVI]] figurine. Yay!

: This figure was also released in [[Australia]] as a EB Games/Zing exclusive.
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==Merchandise==
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===''Beast Wars Real Figure Kit''===
*'''Big Convoy''' (1999)
**''Accessories'': Stand

:A non-transforming PVC prize figure kit of Big Convoy. It comes packaged with the unassembled figure and a stand. The stand has two attachment points for other Real Figure Kit stands to connect.
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===Flame Toys===
====Furai Model====
*'''Big Convoy''' (20??)
{{toydesigner|[[Akira Amemiya]] (concept artist)}}
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==Notes==
[[File:Mammothconvoy.jpg|thumb|right]]
*Concept art by Big Convoy's toy designer [[Hisashi Yuki]] lists his preliminary name as Mammoth Convoy.<ref>http://twitter.com/TOYROBOYUKI/status/1028923779949375488</ref>
*Like most comic-only Kreons, ''Kre-O'' Big Convoy is made up of existing ''Kre-O'' parts. He uses the [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] helmet, the bazooka gun (in reference to the [[Big Cannon]]), and some kind of spiky pieces attached to a backpack.
*Big Convoy was a candidate in [[TakaraTomy]]'s [[Fan polls#Masterpiece Fan's Choice|''Masterpiece'' Fan's Choice]] poll, which asked fans to determine which Autobot/Maximal leader from the franchise's then-30 year history should receive a new toy in the prestigious ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' line. Big placed eighth, with 2.1% of the vote.
*"Slammoth", Big Convoy's name in ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', originated as one of three possible names for the character eventually known as [[Victorion]] in the [[Fan polls#Combiner Wars Fan Built Combiner|Fan Built Combiner]] poll.

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Mammolike''' (맘모라이크 ''Mammoraikeu'')

==References==
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[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars II Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars Neo Maximals]]
[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Maximals]]
[[Category:Convoys]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Kre-O Autobots]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Legends Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legends Maximals]]
[[Category:Legends World natives]]
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[[Category:Maximal leaders]]
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Talk:Metalhawk (G1)

2023-05-19T02:22:31Z

Chuckwagoneer:

So should we genericize this guy's intro paragraph? He's been lots of different things in lots of different continuities. Or is his original portrayal Super Big Enough (like Galvatron being Megatron and created from Unicron) that it's important to keep? --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 12:56, 7 January 2012 (EST)
:Well I'll tell ya, the reason I went with that approach for his intro paragraph, and did the same for the other Masterforce Pretenders, is because they shared the same backstory across their anime and manga portrayals, and putting it into the intro saved typing out identical stuff across two different sections (and also because this backstory was part of their original Japanese pack-in profile cards, so seemed like core stuff for the characters). With Metalhawk's expansion to numerous other pieces of fiction since, though, it does seem to make more sense to genericize the intro and cover his Japanese backstory twice-over in the anime and manga sections. I don't think the resultant intro will be terribly interesting, though, given his personality is "good and brave and sword." - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 14:29, 7 January 2012 (EST)
::I think we could keep "Autobot Pretender Commander" without any problem. He's that in both the original materials and in Classics. It's just, uh, sometimes he dies before he gets to be a Pretender. ....yeah. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 15:10, 7 January 2012 (EST)
:I think original Metalhawk, a main character in a franchise, is more important than some comics with a much smaller audience, to be honest. People are always going to think of him as That Original Pretender Guy From Masterforce. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 20:37, 7 January 2012 (EST)

*''Spanish:'' '''Hook''' (America)
W-wait, what? [[User:Takeshi357|Takeshi357]] ([[User talk:Takeshi357|talk]]) 07:00, 15 February 2016 (EST)
:I've fixed the formatting on that entry, though I do wonder if someone misheard "Hawk". --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 14:31, 15 February 2016 (EST)
::That formatting is terrible then! --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 15:46, 15 February 2016 (EST)
:::It makes sense to me? (Language)-(name)-(region or other condition). Keeps all of the names in a language together and is easier to skim through if you're looking for a specific language. (I don't know what's confusing Takeshi here, and I really don't care.) [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 15:53, 15 February 2016 (EST)
::::The item directly above it is <language>: <phonetic representation of name> (<name in original alphabet>, <translation of name>). It makes the list look inconsistently formatted. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 16:08, 15 February 2016 (EST)
:::::<nowiki>*shrug*</nowiki> Lots of things go into those parentheses. [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Foreign names|Example.]] I think it looks better than, like, splitting up the names to "Brazilian Portuguese comic:", "Chinese Mandarin:", or whatever. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 16:13, 15 February 2016 (EST)
::::That just raises more questions, like why does a Japanese character have a Spanish name in America. Was the Botcon release bilingual? [[User:Takeshi357|Takeshi357]] ([[User talk:Takeshi357|talk]]) 07:04, 16 February 2016 (EST)
:::::The note is using America in the older sense of the entirety of the New World. It should probably be changed to Latin America. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 07:25, 16 February 2016 (EST)
::::::That makes more sense. But even then I'm inclined to agree it's probably a mishearing of "Hawk". [[User:Takeshi357|Takeshi357]] ([[User talk:Takeshi357|talk]]) 08:46, 16 February 2016 (EST)

==Wonderfest Garage Kits==
I have a question: I've seen that there were garage kits sold during Wonderfest 2016 and 2017 which were allowed under license from Takara, with Metalhawk being one of them along with several other characters. Would it be fine to add these to the characters' pages, and if so, would they go under Merchandise? [[User:Chuckwagoneer|Chuckwagoneer]] ([[User talk:Chuckwagoneer|talk]]) 22:22, 18 May 2023 (EDT)

Archadis (BW)

2023-05-18T07:48:04Z

Chuckwagoneer: De-snarked intro paragraphed and touched up bio.

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:''Archadis is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:ArchadisManga.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Heh. Oh, so you're so very precious, sweeties. But now it's time to die.]]
Not humble in any sense of the word, '''Archadis''' (アルカディス ''Arukadisu'') is an adept marksman hailed by [[Magmatron]] to push back against the [[Maximal| Maximals']] endeavors. He tends to make a whole big deal of himself through thinly veiled arrogance— but somewhat rightfully so due to his fighting prowess. Believing so much in his air of superiority, this conniver is not above the thought of insulting and sabotaging Magmatron's men for his own gains.

All this of course leads to Maximal and Predacon alike hating how much Archadis preens the reputation preceding him and the way he puffs out his downy chest, and by far, he draws the most criticism from the ever-loyal [[Guiledart]]. As one might imagine, there are few who wouldn't like to wring his immaculate, perfectly groomed neck, but Archadis is more than just talk. Beneath his stylish plumage rests a wealth of deadly projectile attacks which keep the unworthy rabble at a safe distance. However, if a foe is skilled enough to evade his bombardments, Archadis is more likely to flee than risk getting so much as one feather ruffled.

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Ren Tamura]] (Japanese)}}
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!?}} {{storylink|Planet of the Ultimate Weapon}} {{storylink|Troubled DNAVI}} {{storylink|Attack! Randy}} {{storylink|Bump the Physicist}} {{storylink|Hardhead Is Hardheaded}} {{storylink|Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!}} {{storylink|Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor}} {{storylink|Assemble! New Warriors}} {{storylink|Mysterious Beast Warriors!?}} {{storylink|The Stolen Capsules}} {{storylink|Pursue the Blentrons!}} {{storylink|Angry Magmatron}} {{storylink|Illusion? Lio Convoy}} {{storylink|Unicron Revived!?}} {{storylink|Unicron's Ambition}} {{storylink|Fight! Maximals}} {{storylink|End of the Maximals!?}} {{storylink|The Final Battle (BWN)|The Final Battle}} {{storylink|Graduation Ceremony!!}}}}

====''Beast Wars Diorama Story''====
[[File:BWDS 8.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

At some point, Archadis was transported back in time to the planet [[Earth|Energoa]], during the original [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] between the Maximals and the Predacons. {{storylink|Archadis Chapter}} Also brought to Energoa was [[Colada]], who Archadis personally fought in a large Maximal-Predacon battle. {{Storylink|Colada Chapter}} The battle was joined by several [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s from another universe. {{Storylink|Tigatron Chapter}} United, the Decepticons and the Predacons fought against their respective factions in one all-out attack. {{storylink|Motorarm Chapter}}
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===''Beast Wars Neo'' comic===
[[File:BWN ArchadisManga.gif|left|thumb|Wow. Michael Flatley just lost his job.]]
Archadis was a Predacon hitman hired by [[Magmatron]] to kill the Maximals scaling the highest peak on [[Greengard]] for an [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]] Capsule. True to form, Archadis was a snob, marveling at how wonderful it was to fly, an ability that the Maximals lacked. With his ability of flight, Archadis possessed the advantage in battle; the Maximals were stuck in the middle of their climb and didn't use their weapons out of fear of avalanches. After pummeling the other Maximals, Archadis deduced that, as [[Stampy (BW)|Stampy]] was the one holding the rope that the other Maximals were attached to, all he would have to do was attack the helpless bunny. Using his "Ryūsei Kochō Ken" (龍星古鳥剣, "Dino Star Ancient Bird Sword"), Archadis prepared to kill the Maximal... after delivering some ''very'' creepy entendres about it "hurting a little at first" (no, really). However, Stampy, inspired by his memories of [[Kitte Shūshū|his mother]], was able to jump onto and off the ''moon'' and somersault into Archadis, sending him blasting off and leaving his mask behind. Apparently, he didn't get the "million gold" reward. {{Storylink|Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky}}

===2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity===
[[File:Ascending4 TakoTank.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb]]
When most of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s population was infected with Angolmois, Archadis was part of a crowd that followed the [[Tako Tank]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In a universe where the Cybertronian civil war had ended comparatively early, Archadis was a latter-day Predacon who was protoformed with a female chassis but identified as male. The [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] of his reality would mention him in a lecture she gave in [[Axiom Nexus]] which [[Vector Prime]] attended. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/23}}

===Legends World===
Archadis worked at a "little brother cafe" and was there when the manager, [[Starscream (BW)|Starscream]], explained to another worker, who was [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|another Starscream]], just what kind of cafe they were. {{storylink|LG-18 Armada Starscream Super Mode Prologue}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Archadis was a member of the Resistance during the [[Grand Uprising]]. When [[Magmatron]] and the crew of the ''[[Trypticon (G1)|Dinosaur]]'' returned to Cybertron and signed up to the Resistance, [[Lio Convoy]] welcomed their aid. However, he assigned Archadis as second-in-command of the unit (as well as [[Sling (BW)|Sling]]) to maintain some influence over their activities. Magmatron and Archadis were given a mission to extract or kill the traitor [[Snapper]] from a Builder convoy. During the fighting, however, one of Magmatron's men named [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] formed an alliance with various parties as the [[Ex-Bot (BWU)|Ex-Bot]]s, and needed the Chief's help to deal with an imminent alien threat to Cybertron. Archadis's haughty manner did little to sway the ''Dinosaur''{{'}}s crew, and they aided Rampage. When the fighting was over, the Ex-Bots remained together in [[Proximax]] to defend the civilians from collateral damage during the Grand Uprising. Archadis refused to abandon the Resistance, and so he and Sling returned to Lio Convoy. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
Archadis was one of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]]'s Maximals. When this bestial horde invaded Cybertron, he was one of the many warriors who wound up battling [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]]. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 5: Endless Forever|Endless Forever}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
[[File:BWN-toy Archadis.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|The Fabuopteryx.]]
*'''Archadis''' (March 1999)
**''ID number'': '''D-36'''
**''Accessories'': "[[Founder Shot]]" gun, left & right "[[Wing Bomb]]s"
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Part of the third wave of ''Beast Wars Neo'' products in the [[Japan]]ese ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#BWN|Beast Wars]]'' toyline, Archadis is a Deluxe-sized figure that transforms into an organic ''{{w|Archaeopteryx}}''. In [[beast mode]], his wings extend via spring-loaded triggers to drop his "Wing Bombs"; doing this also reveals his two flip-out, non-firing "[[Wing Gundread]]s".

:In [[robot mode]], his right forearm hosts his non-firing "Founder Shot" blaster, with a geared "quick-draw" action, activated by rotating his attached tail-[[kibble]]. His Founder Shot blaster can also be removed from the mechanism if one wants him without a weapon. Archadis's [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[spark crystal]] is located on his robot mode chest, and can only be seen when un folding the beast mode wing.

:This mold was also used to make ''Beast Machines'' [[Airraptor#Toys|Airraptor]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Destron/Archadis/archadis.htm More information on Archadis at TFU.info]''

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*'''Favorites Showdown: Mach Kick VS Archadis''' (Deluxe VS pack, 1999)
**''Takara ID number'': '''VS-36'''
**''Sonokong ID number'': '''DX-06'''
**''Accessories'': "Founder Shot" gun, left & right "Wing Bombs"

:Archadis was also available in the "Favorites Showdown" (本命の対決 ''Honmei no Taiketsu'') vs-pack with the [[Maximal]] [[Mach Kick#VS36|Mach Kick]]. Both toys were identical to their individual releases.

:[[Sonokong]] also released this vs-pack in [[South Korea|Korea]]n ''Beast-War Neo'' markets. The Sonokong Archadis features no differences with the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] releases, other than the packaging and [[Tech Spec]] cards.
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===''Beast Wars Telemocha Series''===
*'''Archadis''' ([[March 22]], 2007)
**''ID number:'' '''TM-08'''
**''Accessories'': "Founder Shot" gun, left & right "Wing Bombs"

:As part of the ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Telemocha Series|Beast Wars Telemocha Series]]'', Archadis is an extensive [[redeco]] of the above Deluxe-sized figure; to better blend the figure with the other toys in the line, which got paint jobs hewing very closely to the [[Mainframe Entertainment|Mainframe]] models of the CGI show's cast. This figure retains all of the same aforementioned gimmicks and comes with a DVD featuring the Japanese dub of the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[Dark Voyage]]"...an episode (and show) that the character was never featured in.

:This toy mistakenly uses a [[Dinobot (BM)|Dinobot]] [[spark crystal]] (as his redeco [[Airraptor#Toys|Airraptor]] had) instead of a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] one like his original toy.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Destron/Archadis/archadis.htm More information on ''Telemocha'' Archadis at TFU.info]''

==Notes==
*Archadis is one of three ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]]'' toys whose designs were determined via a contest held by ''Japanese Television Magazine''. The winning designs were revealed in the April 1999 issue. The other winning designs became [[Mach Kick]] and [[Bazooka (BW)|Bazooka]]. The original design that became Archadis was female. This was referenced in an entry of the Facebook edition of [[Ask Vector Prime]] which described a trans male Archadis.
*Archadis' colour scheme is based on a then highly prolific piece of palaeoart by Zdenek Burian in the book ''[https://archive.org/details/prehistoricanima0000augu Prehistoric Animals]''.

===Foreign names===
*''Korean:'' '''Archadis''' (아카디스 ''Akadiseu'')

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