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* Signal Lancer's robot mode appears to be modeled somewhat after [[Mudflap]], sharing the same oblong transformation scheme. | * Signal Lancer's robot mode appears to be modeled somewhat after [[Mudflap]], sharing the same oblong transformation scheme. | ||
* Concept | * Concept art of Signal Lancer was shown at the Tokyo Anime Fair shortly after the ''Galaxy Force'' cartoon series was launched in Japan, depicting a different transformation. Photos from the event can be found at [http://snakas.web.infoseek.co.jp/event/0504tokyoanime.htm Autobase Aichi]. | ||
* In the American dub, Signal Lancer had virtually the same voice as Robots In Disguise's Tow-Line -- another stickler for law and order. | * In the American dub, Signal Lancer had virtually the same voice as Robots In Disguise's Tow-Line -- another stickler for law and order. | ||
Revision as of 22:27, 15 September 2007
- Signal Lancer is an Autobot from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
After the Autobots were evacuated from Cybertron to Earth, Signal Lancer is one of several Transformers who took the form of a stoplight. Located in a remote portion of the American desert, his only friend was a Transformer who turned into a pay phone located directly across the street.
- (Note: Signal Lancer was not named in the American version of the cartoon, and gets his name from Japan's Galaxy Force dub.)
Fiction
Animated continuity
Cybertron
- Voice actor: Paul Dobson (US), ? (Japan)
Signal Lancer was "trained" to stay put by Lori, even though a stoplight in the middle of nowhere, not even at a cross-road, was silly. Well, at least he had the pay-phone-bot to keep him company.
He would frequently stop Tim Hansen and his boss on their way to Tim's family's home and back.
When the universe was saved from the threat of the Unicron Singularity, Signal Lancer answered the call to travel into space and construct a new system of space bridges. Transforming, he left his post and joined Metroplex's team.
Tim's boss was rather confused to not see that stoplight anymore afterwards.
Cyber Key Code content
After the Omega Lock was retrieved and Galvatron finally defeated, "the Traffic Light Autobot" was commissioned by Optimus Prime to join Hightail as his partner and travel across Earth, mapping out every road on the planet.
- (Note: This information, taken from Hightail's Key Code data, contradicts the Cybertron cartoon's final credit sequence... unless there's another "Traffic Light Autobot".)
Trivia
- Signal Lancer's robot mode appears to be modeled somewhat after Mudflap, sharing the same oblong transformation scheme.
- Concept art of Signal Lancer was shown at the Tokyo Anime Fair shortly after the Galaxy Force cartoon series was launched in Japan, depicting a different transformation. Photos from the event can be found at Autobase Aichi.
- In the American dub, Signal Lancer had virtually the same voice as Robots In Disguise's Tow-Line -- another stickler for law and order.
