Alan (G1)

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

Come back here, Alan, you wanker!

Alan (アラン, a-ra-n) has the devastating ability to control electricity, a skill made even more powerful once he brings out his Giga-Techvolt twin-cannon. One would expect someone with that power to be loud and, well, energetic... but as his fellow Liner Team member Night puts it, Alan tends to "fade into the background." The high-volt warrior is a student of logic, even moreso than his leader D-Go, and tends to keep quiet... and to himself.

Fiction

Alan was able to determine that the mysterious energy emitted by an unearthed life-pod near a dormant volcano was very similar to tachyon energy. The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!

Return of Convoy

Years later, Alan and the rest of the Liner Team were recruited by Sky Garry into the ranks of the Battlestars.

None of the Liner Team ever actually show up as individuals, only as components of the combined robot Sixtrain.

Toys

Return of Convoy

Readin' the wiki, are ya? F**kin' looks like it an' all, mate.

• Sixliner (Micromaster Sixteam, 1991)
  • Japanese ID number: C-370

Originally released in a giftset with his fellow Micromaster trains, Alan transforms into an orange and gray TGV Atlantique high speed train. He has a "socket" connector tab in the back of his train mode allows him to "pull" any fellow Micromaster train or footplate-weapon with a "peg" connector. He also has a peg-hole on the top of his train mode that in theory lets him use the Sixtrain/Sixliner legs as the roof-mounted Giga-Techvolt cannon... but it only works if you wedge it at an angle so it's pointing upwards, or straight backwards. He can also form either arm to any Six-team combined robot, though his nominal placement is as the right arm of Sixliner. The toy's connector socket is approximately 5mm wide, making Alan compatible with Powerlinx ports.

This mold was later redecoed to make Atlan and Universe Tankor.

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

Micromaster Collection

I got amps in my pants.

• Alan (Micromaster, 2002)
  • Sixliner ID number: 2
  • Accessories: Sixliner legs/"Giga-Techvolt"

Part of the first Micromaster Collection assortment, Alan and his teammates were re-released in Japan in 2002, this time sold in identical individual boxes, identifiable only by the number on their instruction sheets visible through a small hole in the box. Like the rest of the Micromaster Collection figures, Alan's stickers were either replaced with tampographs or dropped entirely; the Sixliners all came in the same plastic colors as the originals.

• More information on Alan at TFU.info

Notes

• Alan, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster Collection release a decade after his original Return of Convoy release.

• Although the Micromaster Collection release assigns Alan the Giga-Techvolt weapon, the original Return of Convoy Sixliner instruction booklet shows him towing the weapon that would later be called the Gripper.

External links

• Translation of Alan's bio by Doug Dlin