Heavy Load (Universe)

The name or term "Heavy Load" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Heavy Load (disambiguation).

Heavy Load is a Decepticon originally from the Generation 1 continuity family (via the 2008 Universe toyline).

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Heavy Load is a chemist who used to work for the good of all, but centuries of experiments have taken their toll. His cognitive systems were degraded through chemical exposure, leaving him a different bot than he used to be, unrecognizable to his peers. The concoctions that warped him are now his stock-in-trade, as he sells poisons and bombs to Decepticon gangs and tests new creations on Autobot captives.

He is associated with the Mini-Con Mobile Fortification Team.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

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At the dawn of the war, Heavy Load served Megatron's growing insurgency. He stood guard one day as Megatron welcomed a visitor, Hot Rod. Rise

Ask Vector Prime

Heavy Load's Mobile Fortification Team was dispatched to the Beast Wars of Aurex 615.03 Epsilon, which took place in Alpha Q's universe, on board the Doomsday. It is unknown if he went with them. Ask Vector Prime, 23 September 2015

Toys

Universe (2008)

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• Decepticon Heavy Load with Drill Bit Mini-Con! (Voyager, 2008)

• Series: Classics Series
• Accessories: Torpedo missile, pipes/twin-barreled blaster, key
• Known designers: Andrew Scribner (deco artist)

Part of the first wave of 2008 Universe Voyager Class toys, "Decepticon Heavy Load" is a redeco of Cybertron Quickmix in yellow, dull green, and black, transforming into a Cybertronic cement mixer with a drum that actually turns (though on a ratcheting joint). The top of the mixing assembly flips up to reveal a "cockpit" for Heavy Load's pack-in Mini-Con, Drill Bit, to man, with pegs that fold out and plug into holes in Drillbit's arms. Drill Bit can also connect to the control panel in vehicle mode by plugging his 5mm handle into the hole on the station and fitting his treads on the platform.

In robot mode, plugging the Key into the key jack on his drum splits it open and reveals his spring-loaded "torpedo launcher". The "pipe" piece on his roof is actually removable, and can be placed on his arm, peg onto any of his other 5 mm Powerlinx hardpoints, or even be used as a hand-held "blaster" thanks to its own Powerlinx peg. He comes with a yellow-bordered opaque black Gigantion-style Cyber Key. Like all other non-Cybertron-release toys that use Cyber Key accessories to activate features, his packaging simply calls the piece a "Key". Heavy Load's insignia uses the live-action movie version, with the four-sided "eyes".

While his instructions pay little attention to it and treat it as a step in the transformation, he has an alternate "work" robot mode, which basically just pushes his hips up into his torso and raises his shoulders up. His stock photography also shows him as mis-transformed, with his shoulders not being pegged onto his torso, his feet rotated backwards, and the cab portions on his legs not being rotated properly. It also shows him as lacking the "headset" on the left side of his face. The pipe/blaster piece, though shown in stock photos as being on the back bumper of his vehicle mode, is actually mounted on his vehicle mode cab roof's Powerlinx peg inside the package. This is, frankly, awesome.

• More information on Heavy Load at TFU.info

Notes

• Despite being a Decepticon construction vehicle partnered with a familiarly green-and-purple Mini-Con, Heavy Load is not a Constructicon, and despite the absence of the Constructicons' own cement-mixer chemist from their roster in this franchise, Hasbro writer Forest Lee has said that Heavy Load is not him. (Presumably, this stems from Hasbro having lost the "Mixmaster" trademark for most of the 2000s, hence the preponderance of Quickmix toys in the decade.)