Battle Patrol

This article is about the four-bot Autobot Micromaster team. For the six-bot Decepticon Micromaster Combiner team, see Battle Squad.

The Battle Patrol is a team of Autobot Micromasters from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Left to right: Big Shot, Sunrunner, Sidetrack, FlakJapanese: Gunlift, Sunrunner, Sidetrack, Powerbomb

The Battle Patrol consists of

• Big Shot
• Flak
• Sidetrack
• Sunrunner

Japanese name: Battle Patrol Team

Fiction

Zone cartoon/comic

Zone version of the Battle Patrol.

The Battle Patrol Team were present at the Zone Base on planet Zone when it was attacked by four of the Nine Great Demon Generals, who tore through the counter-attacking Micromasters to steal the powerful Energon Z kept there. The Battle Patrol Team did its best to stop the mighty attackers, but their weapons caused little more than a mocking laughter from the huge Decepticons. Undeterred, they boarded Countdown's rocket and pursued the villains to Earth, where they battled the other half of the Demon Generals. Again being absolutely incapable of even hurting their opponents, the Battle Team Patrol along with their fellow Micromasters were on the verge of extinction only to be saved by the Powered Masters Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber, who arrived just in the nick of time to kick the Decepticons' butts. The Battle Team Patrol's members all survived and later cheered for their new Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas. Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!

Toys

Generation 1

• Battle Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1989)

All four members of the Battle Patrol came packaged on a single card, as part of the first year of Micromasters assortments. Their transformations are fairly diverse in comparison to the legions of identically-engineered Micromasters that came later.

Zone

• Battle Patrol Team (Micro Transformer team, 1990)
• Japanese ID number: C-332

The Japanese version of the Battle Patrol comes in a considerably different coloration: Big Shot (Gunlift) and Sidetrack go to deep brown and dark olive, while Flak (Powerbomb) and Sunrunner go blue and white. Early versions of this set also used yellow (!) plastic rather than the medium gray found on everyone but Sunrunner. This variation naturally goes for a fair bit more than the "corrected" version on the secondary market.

It could potentially be argued that, given their different names and coloration, the Battle Patrol Team are different characters to the Battle Patrol, but as they never recieved any characterization, it's really not worth the time or effort. We're sure they were childlike and precocious and such.

Return of Convoy

• Battle Patrol Team (Micro Trailer team, 1991)
• Japanese ID number: C-374
• Accessories: Micro Trailer #11

The "corrected-color" version of the Battle Patrol Team was re-released in Return of Convoy with no alterations. It did come with an extra that the Zone version lacked; Micro Trailer #11.