Sixtrain

2019-09-09T06:47:35Z

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:''Sixtrain is an [[Autobot]] [[Micromaster]] [[combiner]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:G1 - Sixtrain - Boxart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Take a ride on the Pain Train]]
'''Sixtrain''' (シックストレイン ''Shikkusutorein'') has surprising strength. Most of the Micromasters who form him are fairly mild-mannered and not exactly warriors, yet Sixtrain has the ability to become the most powerful of all the Micromaster combined robots... all due to his [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]-fragment-fueled "Red Mode", which creates a burning aura around him and enhances his combat power to incredible levels. Even when he's not in this mode, he's a skilled fighter, with a dangerous punch and the "Train Gun" that creates train-track-shaped beams of light that act as laser whips.

Even though he is the elder [[relatives|brother]] of [[Sixliner]], it's the younger brother who leads the Earth-based Micromasters.

He is composed of:

*[[Desire]], the team's leader
*[[Atlan]]
*[[Converter]]
*[[Raise]]
*[[San D-Go]]
*[[Windy (OC)|Windy]]

==Fiction==
===''Micromaster''===
When the Autobot Micromasters on [[Earth]] found the [[Decepticon]]s were digging near a [[Mount St. Hilary|dormant volcano]], Sixtrain used his burning "Red mode" to defeat [[Sixwing]] and send the Decepticons packing, the sheer power he exhibited in battle wowing [[Sireen]]. Sixtrain recombined when Sixwing returned, intent on stealing the artifacts that the Micromasters had found there. {{storylink|Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!}} Later, after the Autobots had established [[Metrobase]] on the excavation site, Sixtrain rushed to help the newly-arrived [[Multiforce]] fight off Berserker Sixwing — but this turned out to be unnecessary, as the Multiforce's own combined mode [[Landcross (Victory)|Landcross]] was more than capable of defeating the Decepticon combiner. {{Storylink|The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!}}

===''Operation Combination''===
Many years later, Sixtrain banded together with [[Sixwing]] and [[Guard City]] in a battle against the [[Decepticon]] [[Battle Gaia]] amidst a [[human]]-sized city. He and Sixwing were quickly bested, leaving only Guard City to fend off the villain. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (story page)|Big Pinch, Autobots!}}

Later, Sixtrain and all other [[Micromaster Combiner]]s scattered across the globe were summoned to Earth's orbit to join Guard City in a last line of defense against Battle Gaia and the [[Jet Corps]], who had fought their way past the [[Road Corps]]. Sixtrain went up against [[Battle Gaia]]-himself. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (story page)|The Decepticons' Attack on Earth!}}

Sixtrain, Sixwing, [[Sixbuilder]], [[Sixturbo]], and Guard City eventually combined to form the "[[Autobot Scrum Combination]]". Combining the power of all twenty-nine individual Autobots, their unleashed energy destroyed Battle Gaia on the spot. As the Jet Corps fled with the remains of Battle Gaia, Sixtrain joined the other Autobots in gleefully waving goodbye. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (story page)|Conclusion}}

===''Legends'' comic===
While describing [[Metrobase]], [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] recalled that Sixtrain had been stationed there prior to [[1985]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Metroplex)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}

==Toys==
===Operation Combination===
*'''Sixtrain''' (Micromaster 6-Team, 1992)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TF-05'''

: Sixtrain is a [[retool]] of the ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Return of Convoy (toyline)|Return of Convoy]]'' combiner [[Sixliner]], made up of six train Micromasters that combine via attaching to robot-mode [[kibble]]. When separated, this kibble becomes three different weapons; the legs can mount on San D-Go or Atlan's vehicle modes as a large roof-mounted cannon/thruster, the torso can connect to either footplate to form a twin blaster car pulled by any member of the team, and the gun, fists, and head all combine with the other footplate to form a weapons trailer. Sixtrain has limited compatibility with the "jet-kibble" style of Micromaster Combiner, really only able to swap out his arm or "back" components with others.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1992/Cybertron/Sixtrain/sixtrain.htm More information on Sixtrain at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/802/Generation+1/Six+Train.html Sixtrain toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk]''

===Micromaster===
[[Image:MC-toy Sixtrain.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]
*'''Desire''' (Micromaster, 2003)
*'''Atlan''' (Micromaster, 2003)
*'''Raise''' (Micromaster, 2003)
*'''San D-Go''' (Micromaster, 2003)
*'''Windy''' (Micromaster, 2003)
*'''Converter''' (Micromaster, 2003)

: In 2003, the entire Sixtrain team was re-released as part of ''[[The Transformers: Micromaster]]'', in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. For this release, all of the decals from the original version were replaced with [[Paint operation|paint applications]]. Sixtrain could only be assembled by buying all six components individually, he was never offered as a complete set.

: This version of the team was released without notable changes in the [[Hasbro]] ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' line as [[Rail Racer (Universe)|Rail Racer]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Cybertron/SixTrain/sixtrain.htm More information on ''Micromaster'' Sixtrain at TFU.info]''

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[[File:MCtoy-Sixtrain-Red-Mode.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Everybody gangsta till sixtrain goes red.]]
*'''Desire Red Mode''' (Micromaster, 2003)
*'''Atlan Red Mode''' (Micromaster, 2003)
*'''Raise Red Mode''' (Micromaster, 2003)
*'''San D-Go Red Mode''' (Micromaster, 2003)
*'''Windy Red Mode''' (Micromaster, 2003)
*'''Converter Red Mode''' (Micromaster, 2003)

:Each case of twelve individual Sixtrain members came with two of them that were cast in solid red plastics, representing Sixtrain's powered-up "Red Mode". Of course, the packaging meant you didn't know which box had the red versions until you opened them up. All six team members were made available in this fashion.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Cybertron/HSixtrain/sixtrain.htm More information on Sixtrain Red Mode at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/1234/Collectors+Edition+Japanese/Rage+Six+Train.html Sixtrain Red Mode toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk]''

==Notes==
[[File:SixtrainPencilBoardMockup.jpg|thumb|300px]]

*A mock-up of Sixtrain appeared on an ''Operation Combination'' pencil board (a flat piece of plastic used to separate sheets of paper when writing). The mock-up used [[Sixbuilder]]'s head in blue, and featured Sixtrain's components in somewhat different colors.
*Sixtrain and Sixliner being brothers comes from Sixtrain's original ''Operation Combination'' [[bio]]... and was completely ignored in the later ''Micromaster'' story. That the combined modes are brothers raises some questions about the component robots... do they consider themselves the brothers/sister of the entire rest of the other team? Or just of their counterparts/mold-partners?
*With the [[retcon]]ned shoehorning of ''Micromaster'' into the same timeline as ''Return of Convoy''/''Operation Combination'', Sixliner being the "younger" brother of the two looks like a continuity error at first. But thanks entirely to ''Micromaster'' being incredibly vague about when ''exactly'' both of the train-teams were created, it doesn't have to be. The first part of the story says virtually nothing about the Liner Team themselves (they might have been the first wave of toys, but that doesn't mean they were the first to be created in-fiction), and though Sixtrain doesn't appear until the fourth chapter, nothing in the story prevents him from having been around and simply "off-camera" elsewhere the whole time.

[[Category:Combined forms]]
[[Category:Legends Autobots]]
[[Category:Micromaster Autobots]]
[[Category:Operation Combination Autobots]]

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