Mobile Autobot Repair Bay

The Mobile Autobot Repair Bay is a Transformer vehicle from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Well, it's no Segway, but it'll do.

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

Marvel The Transformers comics

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

Water! Water put out fire tar!

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!

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Ratchet, Drift, and Pipes used M.A.R.B.s to travel over the surface of Messatine. Life After the Big Bang

We lose more M.A.R.B.s that way.

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

• In "The Fecund Moon", Rodimus and Brainstorm manage to confuse M.A.R.B.s with the homophonic M.A.A.B.s.

See also

• Autobot repair device