Hauler-Bot

This article is about the Go-Bot. For the Generation 1 Autobot, see Hauler.

Hauler-Bot is a Go-Bot from the Go-Bots portion of the Go-Bots continuity family.

More overweight than Long Haul.

When the Go-Bots need someone to lend a powerful helping hand, they know they can pick the very biggest in Hauler-Bot! Hauler-Bot is as big as several other bots put together, partly because he is several bots put together. His size, strength, adaptability, and most of all his never-say-die-attitude mean he can always be counted on to pull his weight when things get tough.

His trailer contains the experimental Go-Brillium supercharger.

Fiction

Go-Bots

Cartoon

Voice actor: ?

Irresponsible test subjects Racer-Bot ALPHA and Racer-Bot BETA ran off to Earth infused with the wonder energy Go-Brillium. In response, Hauler-Bot was sent from Botropolis to help out Aero-Bot's team. He powered up Aero-Bot and Speed-Bot with their own supplies of Go-Brillium, and all three headed out to the Rattlesnake 500 Desert Road Rally to catch the runaway bots. From that point out, Hauler-Bot's role was mostly hands-off, until his "bird" component was called upon to swoop down and lift a grandstand full of spectators to safety. Once the Racer-Bots had been saved from their own recklessness, Hauler-Bot joined the other Go-Bots in warning them about their carelessness and recommending they spend more time training so they could be full Go-Bot Protectors themselves one day. Racer-Bot Road Rally

Toys

Playskool Go-Bots

• Hauler-Bot (Super Go-Bot, 2003)

Hauler-Bot was the largest released Go-Bots toy. His vehicle mode is a huge articulated truck, with places to hold Basic or even Mega Go-Bots toys both on the cab itself as well as on the trailer. The cab converts into Hauler-Bot's robot form with the partially-automated transformation typical of Go-Bots; in this case, lowering the robot's legs causes his head to pop out. The trailer turns into a standalone base with room for one smaller Go-Bot, and also separates into two robot animals, a "bird" (actually a Pteranodon in colors curiously reminiscent of Aero-Bot) and a "turtle" (actually an adorable wheeled ankylosaur).

All three figures can combine into a unique (for Go-Bots, anyway) Super Mode, with the "turtle" component becoming a leg extension and the "bird" becoming a winged backpack.

In both truck and robot modes, the central figure features electronic lights and sounds.

• More information on Hauler-Bot at Playskool Go-Bots are Pure Love (via Wayback Machine)
• More information on Hauler-Bot at TFU.info

Notes

• Fast-Bot is in colors that might indicate he was originally conceived of as a "Hauler-Bot Racer".