Reconfiguration Matrix

Since when has Prime needed a reason for coming back to life?

The Reconfiguration Matrix (or Internal Reconfiguration Matrix) is a device within Optimus Prime which allows him to transform his body into numerous entirely distinct robot and vehicle modes. It can also reconfigure the bodies of others and even produce new bodies for dissociated sparks.

Fiction

Generation 2 toy bios

Using his internal reconfiguration matrix, Optimus Prime was "recently" able to convert himself into different vehicle modes. The fastest of these new forms by far was his Go-Bot one! Go-Bot Optimus Prime bio

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Ask Vector Prime

The Praetorian tried to use the corrupted Reconfiguration Matrix to turn all of the robotic life in the Vega Sector into loyal Scrapmetal. He was stopped by the Multiforce. Ask Vector Prime, 01/06/2015

G-2 story pages and pack-in manga

Wheeljack, Perceptor, and Jetfire formed a research team which studied the properties of the Matrix of Leadership and eventually discovered the Reconfiguration Matrix mechanism within it. G-2 Part 5

In an epic battle with Megatron, Optimus Prime's weaponry was disabled by Hooligan. He was then badly injured by an attack from Dreadwing and Smokescreen. Megatron administered the fatal blow and believed his enemy was finally finished. The sparks of past Autobot leaders within the Matrix of Leadership then activated the Reconfiguration Matrix, reviving Optimus Prime as Battle Convoy. G-2 #13

e-HOBBY comics

When Galvatron II threatened the galaxy with a mobile battle fortress, the deceased Matrix-bearer Ultra Magnus became aware of it from within the Matrix. He reached out to Optimus Prime and used the Autobot leader's Reconfiguration Matrix to resurrect himself in a new Laser Rod body. Magnus also gained the ability to convert into other forms (such as his original body).

Legends comic

Optimus Prime used the Reconfiguration Matrix again to reformat into a new body similar to his original form. Lord Megatron Goes to the Legends World

Descent into Evil

Optimus Prime used the Reconfiguration Matrix to generate a new form for Ironhide after he was badly damaged at the battle of Moon Base Four.

Toys

Timelines

If I'm a mammoth I'm a very manly mammoth.

• Ultra Mammoth (Ultra Class, 2012)
  • TFSS1 number: 6
  • Accessories: Blue Bolts cannon, two Energy Bolts, two Thunderstrike missiles, Reconfiguration Matrix

The Ultra Mammoth toy includes a removable Matrix toy accessory in vacuum-metalized sliver with a transparent blue center, a redeco of the Energon Matrix accessory included with Big Convoy. This accessory can be held by any figure with standard 5mm fist holes, or stored in Ultra Mammoth's chest behind a flip-down panel. The instructions refer to the space in his chest as a "Dead Matrix annex," but the Matrix within is referred to as the Reconfiguration Matrix in packaging and was ultimately depicted by tie-in fiction as the Origin Matrix.

Ultra Mammoth is one of the first six Transformers Collectors' Club exclusive figures to be offered via the Figure Subscription Service in 2013.

This accessory was also used to make Beast Wars Neo Black Big Convoy's Energon Matrix and Universe Nemesis Prime's Dead Matrix. The Ultra Mammoth figure was also repurposed as a different guy also called Ultra Mammoth; what Matrix he carries, if any, has not been established.

• More information on Ultra Mammoth at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Saikōsei Matrix (再構成マトリクス Saikōsei Matorikusu, "Reconfiguration Matrix")