Editing LG-EX Blue Big Convoy

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|seriesissue=''[[Transformers Legends (comic)|Transformers Legends Comic: Bonus Edition]]'' Vol. EX
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|next=The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 4: LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One
|image=Transformers Legends LG EX Blue Big Convoy.jpg
|caption=Also known as "BBC".
|japanese=漫画トランスフォーマーレジェンズ出張版 第EX話
|manga=[[Hayato Sakamoto]]
|packaged with=''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' LGEX [[Blue Big Convoy#Legends|Blue Big Convoy]]
|date=[[February 23]], [[2019]]
|chronology=
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''Blue Big Convoy teaches the meaning of "Convoy" to his son.'''

==Synopsis==
In a future beyond the 21st century, [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] is turned into a technorganic world thanks to [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]'s sacrifice, and with its rebirth [[Vector Sigma]] becomes an ultra-computer that governs the planet and creates a new generation of [[Transformer]]s to protect it. Several of these are "Convoy Type" [[Maximal]]s, named and patterned after Optimus Primal in honor of his memory, and these end up at the top of Cybertron's hierarchy. However, one of their number—[[Blue Big Convoy]]—renounces the notion that Convoys are special and refuses to be part of the [[Convoy Council]], who he accuses of overindulging in the power of their [[Energon Matrix]]es. He tells his son, [[Big Convoy|Big Junior]], that while he believes peace between Maximals and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] is the only way forward, said peace will someday end when the special treatment afforded by Convoys will trigger an uprising by those seeking equality.

Blue Big Convoy and Big Junior fight together in many a battle in defense of peace, until one day when Blue Big Convoy is struck down protecting his son from a force of [[Blentron|mysterious energy-seekers]]. When Junior despairingly asks why it came to this, his father responds that it's because he's a Convoy—a Convoy is nothing special, merely someone who fights to protect others. Before passing away, he asks Junior to take his left arm to replace his own destroyed appendage, then dubs him "Big Convoy" in recognition of his son's ability to protect others as well. Witnessing his father's death because of him leads Big Convoy to adopt a lone wolf nature, unwilling to fight alongside others as he doesn't want them to be hurt. Some time later, while an older Big Convoy is skipping out on [[Survive]]'s instructions, Vector Sigma summons [[Great Convoy]] to tell him the mysterious enemies were likely searching for [[Unicron]]'s energy. Expecting a new [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] to break out, the computer announces it will prepare for the coming chaos by re-mechanizing Cybertron and asks Great Convoy to focus on educating new recruits.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s
|c1=
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] (2)
*[[Lio Convoy]] (3)
*[[Great Convoy]] (4)
*[[Blue Big Convoy]] (5)
*[[Big Convoy|Big Junior/Big Convoy]] (6)
*[[Star Upper (BWII)|Star Upper]] (14)
*[[NAVI (Gung Ho)|NAVI]] (15)
*[[Break]] (17)
*[[Colada]] (18)
*[[Stampy (BWN)|Stampy]] (19)
*[[Longrack (BWN)|Longrack]] (20)
*[[Heinrad (BWN)|Heinrad]] (21)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s/[[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s
|c2=
*[[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]] (7)
*[[Megastorm]] (8)
*[[Starscream (BWII)|Starscream]] (9)

|h3=[[Blentron]]s|c3=
*[[Air Hammer (BW)|Air Hammer]] (10)
*[[Buzzclaw (BW)|Buzzclaw]] (11)
*[[Noctorro]] (12)
*[[Terragator]] (13)

|c4=
*[[Vector Sigma]] (16)
}}

==Notes==
*This comic is unusual among main-series ''Legends'' strips in that it features no [[Legends World]] characters or story elements, instead being a straightforward ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Beast Wars Neo]]'' prequel set entirely in the [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]. This is likely due to ''Legends'' being in the midst of the heavily serialized "The Road to Legends' Revival" storyline at the time of Blue Big Convoy's release or a desire to explain a continuity discrepancy (see below) before ''Legends'' ended.

===Continuity notes===
*This story serves to patch up a longstanding continuity discrepancy that existed between ''Beast Wars Neo'' and ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]''. In the former, Cybertron was depicted in its traditional appearance as a metallic world, just as it had always been in every ''Transformers'' series up to that point. In the latter, however, Cybertron undergoes a [[Great Transformation]] that changes it from a metallic world into a [[Technorganic]] one, with its environments becoming a hybrid of both organic and mechanical. At the time, it was widely assumed that ''Beast Wars Neo'' simply took place before ''Beast Machines'', as it was made first. However, a line of dialogue in [[Emissary of the Fourth Planet|Episode 36]] of ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' (which is set before ''Beast Wars Neo'') established that series (and ''Beast Wars Neo'', by extension) to take place tens of millennia into the far future, in contrast to how ''Beast Machines''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s predecessor series, ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', established ''Beast Machines'' to take place only three centuries into the future. In [[2007]], a [[Source:Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|Japanese timeline]] was published to place ''Beast Wars II'' and ''Beast Wars Neo'' after ''Beast Machines'', creating the discrepancy of Cybertron becoming a Technorganic planet a point before it is shown to be a metallic one again eons later. Thanks to this story, we finally have an explanation for how and why the Great Transformation was undone.
*The events of this comic span an impressive length of over tens of millenia. It begins right as ''Beast Machines'' ends, while the rest of the first pages takes place at some point prior to ''Beast Wars II'', as [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]] is implied to have not year begun his campaign of searching for [[Angolmois Energy]] on [[Gaia]]. The second page, meanwhile, is set after ''Beast Wars II'' prior to ''Beast Wars Neo'' since the Blentrons' hunt for Angolmois Energy occurred after the energy was extracted from Gaia and dispersed throughout the universe in Angolmois Capsules, which happened in the [[Farewell! Lio Convoy|final episode]] of ''Beast Wars II''.
*The person who reproaches [[Big Convoy]] is barely seen, but his visible hand (or, rather, boxing glove) shows him to be [[Star Upper (BWII)|Star Upper]].

===Transformers references===
*The group searching for [[Unicron]]'s energy comprises [[Fuzor]]s from the Hasbro ''Beast Wars'' toyline, their being energy-seekers affiliated with Unicron effectively repurposing them as [[Blentron]]s, who used Fuzor molds.

==External links==
*[https://karyuudofansubs.blogspot.com/2019/05/translation-blue-big-convoy.html Translation of Bonus Edition Vol. EX]


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