D-Go

D-Go is an Autobot Micromaster from the Return of Convoy portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

My backpack is an antique!

Liner Team leader D-Go (ディーゴ Dīgo) looks dangerously powerful, and he is. He's an expert sniper, and should he lose his temper, even his teammates have a hard time keeping him in check. But beneath the fearsome strength is a mind that carefully studies the logic behind any situation. Good friends with the healer Sireen, he works hard to develop strategies and find peaceful solutions to problems. This combination of strength and wisdom has made him the de facto leader of the Earth-based Autobot Micromasters.

Fiction

Micromaster Collection

When fix of the six Turbo Team Autobots had been infected by the Reverse Evolution virus, D-Go devised a plan to allow Sireen to upload an antivirus to the entire team at once by combining with them to form Sixturbo. The strategy worked, and Sixturbo was returned to normal. Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!

When mysterious green doppelgangers of the Build Team appeared and started wrecking human cities, D-Go called all the Autobots together and showed them footage of the attacks. Sixbuilder – Warrior of Misfortune!? Later, D-Go and Sireen analyzed the reports on the strange Cybertronian metal plates that were unearthed at the base of a dormant volcano, and wondered if this discovery combined with the Matrix fragment within Desire would help them in their eventual goal in finding the lost Optimus Prime and his troops. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!

Return of Convoy

Years later, D-Go 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

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• Sixliner (Micro Transformer Six-Team, 1991)
  • Japanese ID number: C-370

Originally released in a giftset with his fellow Micromaster trains, D-Go transforms into a D51 steam locomotive. His rear pegged hitch allows him to connect end-to-end with any fellow train or combiner kibble weapon with a socket-hitch. He also has a small socket on the top of his train mode, allowing him to use the Mega-Techvolt weapon. He can form the back to any of the Six-team combiners, as well as the chest to any of the "kibble-jet" types, but his nominal placement is as the back of Sixliner.

This mold was also used to make San D-Go and Universe Overload.

• More information on D-Go at TFU.info
• D-Go toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Micromaster Collection

• D-Go (Micromaster Sixtrain, 2002)
  • Sixtrain ID number: 1
  • Accessories: Sixliner head, rifle

D-Go and his teammates were re-released in Japan in 2002 as the first assortment of the Micromaster Collection, this time in identical individual boxes, identifiable only by the number on his instruction sheet visible through a small hole in the box. Like the rest of the Micromaster Collection figures, D-Go's stickers were either replaced with tampographs or dropped entirely, though he gained several new pieces of deco in exchange, especially in train mode.

• More information on Micromaster Collection D-Go at TFU.info

Notes

• For a long time, it was thought that D-Go's name was "Diego". However, "Diego" is rendered in katakana as ディエゴ, Diego, featuring an "e" that D-Go (ディーゴ Dīgo) does not have. It was not until a connection was made between D-Go's name and alternate mode—a D51 steam locomotive—that the pun in his name was discovered: "go" is "five" in Japanese, effectively making his name "D-Five", and ergo a reference to that series of trains, which is extremely popular in Japan.

• D-Go, 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.

External links

• Translation of D-Go's bio by Doug Dlin