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{{Disambig3.5|the ''Return of Convoy'' Micromaster|the human from the Marvel UK comic|Alan (human)|Alan}}
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===''Return of Convoy''===
===''Return of Convoy''===
Years later, Alan and the rest of the Liner Team were recruited by [[Sky Garry (ROC)|Sky Garry]] into the ranks of the [[Battlestars]]. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)#Part 2|Great Six Combination Warrior Sixliner!}}
Years later, Alan and the rest of the Liner Team were recruited by [[Sky Garry (ROC)|Sky Garry]] into the ranks of the [[Battlestars]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|Great Six Combination Warrior Sixliner!}}


{{note|None of the Liner Team ever actually show up as individuals, only as components of the combined robot Sixtrain.}}
{{note|None of the Liner Team ever actually show up as individuals, only as components of the combined robot Sixtrain.}}
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==Notes==
==Notes==
* Alan, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual [[bio]] information whatsoever until his ''Micromaster'' release a decade after his original ''Return of Convoy'' release.
* Alan, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual [[bio]] information whatsoever until his ''Micromaster'' release a decade after his original ''Return of Convoy'' release.
* Although the ''Micromaster'' 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 (ROC)|Gripper]].
* Although the ''Micromaster'' release assigns Alan the Giga-Techvolt weapon, the original ''Return of Convoy'' Sixliner [[instructions|instruction booklet]] shows him towing the weapon that would later be called the [[Gripper (ROC)|Gripper]].


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 10:29, 4 March 2012

This article is about the Return of Convoy Micromaster. For the human from the Marvel UK comic, see Alan (human). For a list of other meanings, see Alan (disambiguation).
Alan is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Come back here, Alan, you wanker!

Alan (アラン Aran) has the 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 more so than his leader D-Go, and tends to keep quiet... and to himself.

Fiction

Micromaster

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. Great Six Combination Warrior Sixliner!

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.


Micromaster

I got amps in my pants.
  • Alan (Micromaster, 2002)
    • Sixliner ID number: 2
    • Accessories: Sixliner legs/"Giga-Techvolt"
Part of the first The Transformers: Micromaster 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 figures, Alan's stickers were either replaced with tampographs or dropped entirely; the Sixliners all came in the same plastic colors as the originals.

Notes

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