Sixliner

Sixliner is an Autobot Micromaster combiner from the Return of Convoy portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Sixliner is always ready to deploy the deadly "Double Deuce".

Sixliner (シックスライナー Shikkusurainā) is the combined form of the Liner Team (ライナーチーム Rainā Chīmu) and the younger brother of Sixtrain. Though still considered a rookie, he's been thrust into positions of great importance among the Autobots; both being the de facto leader of the Micromasters based on Earth in the early 1980s (before Optimus Prime, Megatron, and their forces would awaken from their crash-induced slumber), and as a member of the elite Battlestars group.

His component robots are:

• D-Go, the steam engine and team leader
• Alan, the TGV Express train
• Joe, the Super Hitachi train
• Leaf, the 200 Series bullet train
• Night, the EF66 "Blue" train
• Spark, the 100 Series bullet train

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Micromaster

The Liner Team were Cyberdroids who evolved into Micromasters thanks to a mysterious energy wave. Finding themselves on Earth in the early 1980s, they blended into human society and fought against those Micromasters who had evolved into Decepticons. A New Transformer Legend Begins!! When five of the Turbo Team had been turned into Decepticons by the mind changer virus, Sixliner stood ready in case Sireen's plan to install an antivirus by merging with his teammates failed. Thankfully, the installation was a success, and Sixliner and the once-again Autobot Sixturbo shared a hearty handshake. Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!! Shortly after, Sixliner rushed into battle against the Decepticon Sixwing brandishing the Vaccine Program Gun, a weaponized version of the antivirus used to cure Sixturbo. Unfortunately, Sixwing was able to subvert the program, giving him the "Berserker" mode with the powers of an evil Autobot (look, just go with us on this, alright?). Enter the Decepticon Sixwing!!

The Battlestars manga and story pages

Voice actor: Ikuya Sawaki (Japanese, TF Telephone audio adventures)

Many years later, Sky Garry, temporary Supreme Commander of the Autobots, enlisted the youthful rookie Sixliner into the Battlestars after watching an impressive fight between him and a horde of energy-plundering Galaman warriors on Earth. The Battlestars Part 2

Aware of the mission of the Battlestars, Decepticon Emperor Dark Nova stole Optimus Prime's body and cloned it as an evil fake Optimus Prime. Sixliner was quickly taken hostage by fake Optimus Prime, but was saved by a unified attack from Sky Garry and Grandus. The Battlestars Part 3 After the fake's defeat, the Battlestars rescued the fallen Supreme Commander's corpse from the Great Novaroid forces on planet Lucifer. Using the power of the Zodiac, they brought Optimus Prime back to life and upgraded him into Star Convoy. The Battlestars Part 4

Sixliner then had the honor of fighting alongside his idol, Star Convoy, in a battle against a horde of Great Novaroid drones. With the help of Star Convoy's Microcarrier, they defeated their enemies. The Battlestars Part 5

Sixliner was the first to go up against the resurrected Super Megatron in a battle at the North Pole. His youth and inexperience made him a poor adversary, though, and Super Megatron swatted him aside with a single blow. Star Convoy quickly arrived to save the day and Sixliner swooned at how impressive the Supreme Commander was, desiring to be just like him some day. The Battlestars special

Sixliner then joined in battle against Dark Nova and the upgraded Ultra Megatron. The Battlestars Part 8 However, he did not join the other Battlestars when they journeyed into Star Giant's stomach and destroyed the enemy. The Battlestars Part 10

Operation Combination

With Earth being targeted by the new Decepticon leader Scrash, Star Convoy began dispatching additional combiner warriors such as Sixbuilder to join Sixliner on the planet. Operation Combination Part 1 Not long after his older—and all-round superior—brother Sixtrain arrived on Earth, Sixliner left the planet to take his sibling's place at Autobot headquarters out in space. Operation Combination Part 4

Train Wars

"On your left."

Just as Cybertron seemed lost to the interdimensional incursion of the Fallen, Shouki and the ragtag band of Transformers left to defend Cybertron were greeted by D-Go along with Desire and his old comrade Suiken. The other Trainbots had arrived astride Metroplex, bringing with them the Liner Team and the Train Team! With that, on Windy's count all three teams of train 'bots combined into the Trainbot Omni-Car Joint to chain the Fallen, giving Shouki and company time to vanquish the cosmic evil by funneling Metroplex's power through Shouki's new "Raiden" cannon mode. Train Wars 2

Legends comic

While describing Metrobase, Metroplex recalled that Sixliner had been stationed there prior to 1985. LG-EX Metroplex

When Dark Nova stole the body of Optimus Prime, he did so right under the nose of Prime's loyal guard, Roller. The Battlestars allowed Roller to join the Battlestars and help them in their mission to revive Optimus Prime and stop Dark Nova. Roller was destroyed fighting Novaroids to divert enemy forces from the other Battlestars. When Sky Garry used to Zodiac to revive the Supreme Commander as Star Convoy, he placed the body of Roller next to the Prime, letting him be incorporated into the new leader's form. LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part Two

In 2038, Sixliner was stationed on Zone. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2

Wings Universe

Sixliner and his brother Sixtrain were Cybertronian Knights. They happened to be entering the main chamber of the organization's headquarters as Flare-Up and Apelinq were debriefed on the assault on the Galadria Space Bridge Outpost in the Delta Prysmos Sector by Knight Commander Ginrai. Hoist the Flag

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

Welcome to Tiny Train World.

• Sixliner (Micromaster Sixteam, 1991)

• ID number: C-370

Released in the Return of Convoy part of the original Takara Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, Sixliner is a super robot composed of six Micromaster trains: Alan (orange TGV Express train), D-Go (black steam engine), Joe (off-white Super Hitachi train), Leaf (white & green Tohoku bullet train), Night (blue EF66 "Blue" train), and Spark (white & blue Tokaido 100 line bullet train). The combined mode is held together with various pieces of combiner kibble, which form three weapons/vehicles when the team is separated: the Giga-Techvolt cannon, the Gripper probe, and the Wingard booster.

As the first of this kind of Micromaster combiner, he has limited compatibility with the latter six-team combiners, really only able to swap out arm and "back" components with the "kibble-jet" types thanks to the arms' 5 mm post connections and the standard Micromaster footpeg attachment for the backs.

Sixliner was only sold as a complete box set.

This mold-set was retooled to make Sixtrain and Universe Rail Racer.

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

Micromaster

• D-Go (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 1

• Alan (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 2

• Spark (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 3

• Leaf (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 4

• Joe (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 5

• Night (Micromaster, 2002)

• ID number: 6

In 2002, the entire Sixliner team was re-released as the first 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; while each one lost a few pieces of deco, in general the entire team's train-mode decos were rather extensively expanded.

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

The Liner Team is the only wave of Micromaster to not have any form of "chase" variant.

• More information on Micromaster Sixliner at TFU.info
• Translations of the Liner Team's Micromaster bios by Doug Dlin