Sixturbo

Sixturbo is an Autobot Micromaster combiner from the Operation Combination portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Walking traffic jam.

Sixturbo (シックスターボ Shikkusutābo), the combined form of the Turbo Team (ターボチーム Tābo Chīmu), has blended into human society, and fights against the evil Decepticons when they threaten cities.

Sixturbo's component robots are...

• Road Police the police car and team leader.
• Circuit the F-1 race car.
• Discharge the fire truck.
• Glide the motorcycle.
• Neo-Wheel the Lamborghini.
• Sireen the ambulance.

Fiction

Micromaster

Unknown Decepticons infected all of the Turbo Team except Sireen with the mind changer virus, turning them into a Decepticons themselves. Having been loaded with an anti-virus program, Sireen tricked them into combining into Sixturbo. Sireen was briefly turned into a Decepticon himself, making Sixturbo into Reverse Evolution Sixturbo, but then the antivirus program took effect and reverted him to normal. Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!

Later, Sixturbo fought Sixwing. Sixwing had the advantage, especially after he was accidentally upgraded to Berserker Sixwing. Enter the Decepticon Sixwing!!

Operation Combination

Sixturbo and all other Micromaster Combiners 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. Sixturbo went up against Shadow Jet. The Decepticons' Attack on Earth!

Sixturbo, Sixtrain, Sixwing, Sixbuilder, 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, Sixturbo joined the other Autobots in gleefully waving goodbye. Conclusion

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

• Sixturbo (Micromaster Six-Team, 1992)

• ID number: TF-03
• Accessories: Torso frame, legs, Sixturbo head, left & right Sixturbo fists, left & right footplates, rifle, radar/missile pod

Released in the Operation Combination portion of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, Sixturbo is the combined form of six ground-vehicle Micromasters: Circuit the F-1 racer, Discharge the fire truck, Glide the motorcycle, Neo-Wheel the Lamborghini, Road Police the police car, and Sireen the ambulance.

His component robots can be swapped around with the other similarly-built Six-Teams Sixwing and Sixbuilder, and to some degree with Sixliner and Sixtrain. His combiner kibble can be assembled to make the "Falcon Wing" vehicle (not named in this release) that can be piloted by a single Micromaster.

The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find, due to their final-year release well after Transformers had faded from relevance in Japan, and thus command some hefty prices even with the molds' later re-releases.

This mold-set was also used to make Universe Defensor. It shares the torso frame, legs, footplates and rifle molds with Sixwing and Sixbuilder.

• More information on Sixturbo at TFU.info
• Sixturbo toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Micromaster

• Road Police (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 1

• Glide (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 2

• Circuit (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 3

• Neo-Wheel (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 4

• Discharge (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 5

• Sireen (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 6

In 2003, the entire Sixturbo team was re-released as the third wave of The Transformers: Micromaster, in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. For this release, the stickers were removed and all of their deco is done via paint applications; each one lost some deco (in particular anything with printed detail like text), but also gained a few other pieces of deco, plus everyone got an Autobot symbol.

Sixturbo could only be assembled by buying all six components individually, he was never offered as a complete set.

On top of this, two out of every twelve toys in the shipping/display case were all-black-plastic, nigh-unpainted "Reverse Evolution"-mode chase figures with white Decepticon sigils. Even the combiner kibble was cast in black, albeit a little more dark-gunmetal.

• More information on Sixturbo at TFU.info
• More information on Reverse Evolution Sixturbo at TFU.info
• Reverse Evolution Sixturbo toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk
• Translations of the Turbo Team's Micromaster bios by Doug Dlin

Notes

• The Falcon Wing jet was not named in the original Operation Combination series; like almost every non-combined-mode aspect of the team, the name comes from Micromaster.