Mobile Autobot Repair Bay
A Mobile Autobot Repair Bay, or M.A.R.B., is an extremely versatile Autobot vehicle. It is a hovering vehicle, equipped with sensors sophisticated enough to detect life signs buried below several meters of tar despite four million years of hibernation. It also possesses a high-pressure hose able to blast away said tar, and enough gear to patch into a Transformer's mind and display their memories on a monitor.
Fiction
[edit]Marvel The Transformers comics
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Ratchet rode the M.A.R.B. through the Savage Land as he attempted to locate the Dinobots. He then used its gear to uncover Slag and tap into his memories. Repeat Performance!
Later on, as Slag rampaged through Idaho, Jazz and Ironhide followed him on the M.A.R.B. Dinobot Hunt!
2005 IDW continuity
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Ratchet, Drift, and Pipes used M.A.R.B.s to travel over the surface of Messatine. Life After the Big Bang
Later aboard the Lost Light, Ambulon used one to hit Overlord in the back, ineffectually. Under Cold Blue Stars
When they discovered the legendary Luna 1, Rodimus, Ratchet, Perceptor, Chromedome, Tailgate, and Rung rode M.A.R.B.s across its surface but they were attacked by Decepticons riding skimmer units of their own and Ratchet's M.A.R.B. was destroyed. The Fecund Moon The others fled into a field of murdered Titans and then inside the Titans themselves, where Rodimus crashed his M.A.R.B. in a series of nifty moves that incapacitated his pursuer, though none of the others displayed the same level of flair and they were all quickly captured by Lockdown's crew. House of Ambus
Notes
[edit]- In "The Fecund Moon", the English-accented Rodimus and Brainstorm manage [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Rhoticity in English|{{#if:to confuse|to confuse|Rhoticity in English}}]] M.A.R.B.s with the homophonic M.A.A.B.s.
Foreign names
[edit]- Japanese: Autobot Idō Chiryō Bay (オートボット移動治療ベイ)
- Swedish: Mobil Automatisk Reparationssläde ("Mobile Automatic Repair Sled"), MARS