Armored Convoy

The Armored Convoy is an Action Master vehicle from the toyline portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
It's a truck large enough to be driven by a truck-sized robot. Eep.

The Armored Convoy is a gigantic truck that Optimus Prime drives. The cab portion becomes an interceptor shuttle, while the trailer unfolds into a battle station with communications and warfare capabilities.

It's armed with a photon cannon, heat-seeking "buzz bombs," a disintegration laser, and double-barreled "pom-pom" cannons. Sadly, it does not turn into a robot itself. That would be craaaazy recursive.

There are probably few Earth roads that it can fit on. Well, maybe in the city where "B.O.T." takes place.

Toys

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The Transformers

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"Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck, and I'm about to put the hammer down."
  • Armored Convoy with Optimus Prime (Action Master, 1990)
    • Accessories: 2 Laser Guns, Galactic Pulverizer Gun Barrels, 4 Blaster Cannons, 2 Energon Exhaust Stack, Photon Bazooka
The largest of the Action Master toys, the Armored Convoy is a great big convoy, truckin' through the night. The cab of the truck transforms into a small jet that can seat one Action Master figure, while the trailer itself converts into a larger battle station with turrets that several Action Masters can man.
The trailer unfolds into a large battle station with lots of weapon-mounting points. The rear spoiler-section of the trailer can seat two Action Master figures, while the other battlements and foot-pegs offer many places to station other figures. The central "engine" of the trailer has a pair of flip-out (non-firing) cannons.
The Armored Convoy was later redecoed as the Microman: LED Powers toy Micro Trailer – sans Optimus Prime, natch – which also received two separate Lucky Draw toys as the Dark Trailer and Flame Trailer. Now we really do got a great big convoy.

Merchandise

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  • Convoy (Action Master) & Megatron (Action Master) Set (December 28, 2024)
    • ID number: 93 & 94
Released as part of the thirteenth wave of the e-HOBBY exclusive Transformers Character Card series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of Optimus Prime (with Armored Convoy) and Megatron (with Neutro-Fusion Tank) in their Action Master forms along with character profiles and tech specs.


Notes

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  • "Convoy" was the Japanese name for Optimus Prime at the time this toy was released, which may or may not have influenced the vehicle's name.
  • The hand-painted prototype of the Armored Convoy used for catalog photography overlaid silver on parts of the truck that ended up different colors on the final toy.

Foreign names

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  • Italian: Super Convoglio Armato ("Super Armored Convoy")
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