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:''Signal Lancer is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''
<div id="title-factionicons" style="float: right; display: none;"><div style="position: relative;"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot"><img alt="" src="Signal%20Lancer_files/30px-Symbol_autobot_reg.png" border="0" height="30" width="30"></a></div></div>
:''Signal Lancer is an <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobot</a> from the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28franchise%29" title="Cybertron (franchise)">Cybertron</a> portion of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Trilogy" title="Unicron Trilogy">Unicron Trilogy</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family" title="Continuity family">continuity family</a>.''


[[Image:SignalLancer.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Don't cross the street in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle of the block!]]
[[Image:|right|300px|thumb|Don't cross the street in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle of the block!]]
After the Autobots were evacuated from <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a> to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, '''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 href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Pay_phone_refugee" title="Pay phone refugee">a pay phone</a> located directly across the road.


After the Autobots were evacuated from [[Cybertron (planet)|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 version.}}


<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">'''Note:''' ''Signal Lancer was not named in the American version of the cartoon, and gets his name from Japan's version.''</div>


==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.
<a name="Fiction"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Fiction">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Fiction</span></h2>
<a name="Animated_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Animated continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Animated continuity</span></h3>
<a name="Cybertron"></a><h4><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cybertron">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">''Cybertron''</span></h4>
:''Voice actor:'' <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Paul_Dobson" title="Paul Dobson">Paul Dobson</a> (English), <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Takayasu_Usui&action=edit" class="new" title="Takayasu Usui">Takayasu Usui</a> (Japanese)


He would frequently stop [[Tim Hansen]] and his boss on their way to Tim's family's home and back.
Signal Lancer was "trained" to stay put by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lori" title="Lori">Lori</a>, even though a stoplight in the middle of nowhere, not even at a cross-road, was silly.  <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hidden" title="Hidden">Hidden</a></span>


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 bridge]]s.  Transforming and proclaiming that he had a great destiny before him, he left his post and joined [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]]'s team. [[Pay phone refugee|His pal]] wished him good luck.
Later, Signal Lancer was seen with a tour bus refugee when <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_%28Armada%29" title="Jetfire (Armada)">Jetfire</a> made an announcement that the Autobots would be departing from Earth as part of a plan to save it from <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28Armada%29" title="Starscream (Armada)">Starscream</a>'s <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ancient_Decepticon" title="Ancient Decepticon">forces</a>.  <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Retreat" title="Retreat">Retreat</a></span>


Tim's boss was rather confused to not see that stoplight anymore afterwards.
At some point, he was joined in his desert vigil by a pay phone refugee.


===Cyber Key Code content===
He would frequently stop <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tim_Hansen" title="Tim Hansen">Tim Hansen</a> and his boss on their way to Tim's family's home and back.
After the [[Omega Lock]] was retrieved and [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] finally defeated, "the Traffic Light Autobot" was commissioned by [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] to join [[Hightail]] as his partner and travel across Earth, mapping out every road on the planet.


When the universe was saved from the threat of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Singularity" title="Unicron Singularity">Unicron Singularity</a>, Signal Lancer answered the call to travel into space and construct a new system of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge" title="Space bridge">space bridges</a>. Transforming and proclaiming that he had a great destiny before him, he left his post and joined <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Metroplex_%28Cybertron%29" title="Metroplex (Cybertron)">Metroplex</a>'s team. His pay-phone pal wished him good luck.


{{note|This information, taken from Hightail's [[Cyber Key Codes|Key Code]] data, contradicts the ''Cybertron'' cartoon's final credit sequence... unless there's another "Traffic Light Autobot", which is possible.}}
Tim's boss was rather confused to not see that stoplight anymore afterwards.  <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beginning" title="Beginning">Beginning</a></span>


==Trivia==
[[Image:SignalLancer-Transform.jpg|thumb|right|Get cracking, kitbashers.]]


* During the early development stages of the ''Galaxy Force'' cartoon series, Gonzo actually created a concept design for the robot mode of the initially unnamed "Traffic Light TF". When Signal Lancer finally revealed his robot mode (and name) in the series' (chronologically) final episode, [[Mudflap|Mudflap's]] general animation model and transformation scheme was used as a basis, but the details for the robot mode were directly based on the old concept design. The early design was shown at the Tokyo Anime Fair a few months after the ''Galaxy Force'' cartoon series was launched in Japan. Photos from the event can be found at [http://snakas.web.infoseek.co.jp/event/0504tokyoanime.htm Autobase Aichi].
<a name="Cyber_Key_Code_content"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cyber Key Code content">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Cyber Key Code content</span></h3>
After the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Lock" title="Omega Lock">Omega Lock</a> was retrieved and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28Armada%29" title="Megatron (Armada)">Galvatron</a> finally defeated, "the Traffic Light Autobot" was commissioned by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28Armada%29" title="Optimus Prime (Armada)">Optimus Prime</a> to join <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hightail" title="Hightail">Hightail</a> as his partner and travel across Earth, mapping out every road on the planet.




[[Category: Autobots]]
<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">'''Note:''' ''This information, taken from Hightail's <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyber_Key_Codes" title="Cyber Key Codes">Key Code</a> data, contradicts the ''Cybertron'' cartoon's final credit sequence... unless there's another "Traffic Light Autobot", which is possible.''</div>
[[Category: Cartoon-only characters]]
<a name="Timelines"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Timelines">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Timelines</span></h3>
[[Category: Cybertron characters]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>
Signal Lancer is one of countless "offworlders" residing in &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Axiom_Nexus" title="Axiom Nexus"&gt;Axiom Nexus&lt;/a&gt;. He was seen having a drink with the &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Vehicon_%28BM%29" title="Vehicon (BM)"&gt;Vehicon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thrust_%28BM%29" title="Thrust (BM)"&gt;Thrust&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gone_Too_Far" title="Gone Too Far"&gt;Gone Too Far&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
 
 
&lt;a name="Trivia"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Trivia"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Trivia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
[[Image:|right|180px|thumb|Get cracking, kitbashers.]]
* During the early development stages of the ''Galaxy Force''
cartoon series, Gonzo actually created a concept design for the robot
mode of the initially unnamed "Traffic Light TF". When Signal Lancer
finally revealed his robot mode (and name) in the series'
(chronologically) final episode, &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mudflap_%28Cybertron%29" title="Mudflap (Cybertron)"&gt;Mudflap&lt;/a&gt;'s
general animation model and transformation scheme was used as a basis,
but the details for the robot mode were directly based on the old
concept design. The early design was shown at the Tokyo Anime Fair a
few months after the ''Galaxy Force'' cartoon series was launched in Japan. Photos from the event can be found at [http://snakas.web.infoseek.co.jp/event/0504tokyoanime.htm Autobase Aichi].

Revision as of 07:38, 19 March 2009

<div id="title-factionicons" style="float: right; display: none;"><div style="position: relative;"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot"><img alt="" src="Signal%20Lancer_files/30px-Symbol_autobot_reg.png" border="0" height="30" width="30"></a></div></div>

Signal Lancer is an <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobot</a> from the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28franchise%29" title="Cybertron (franchise)">Cybertron</a> portion of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Trilogy" title="Unicron Trilogy">Unicron Trilogy</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family" title="Continuity family">continuity family</a>.

[[Image:|right|300px|thumb|Don't cross the street in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle of the block!]] After the Autobots were evacuated from <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a> to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, 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 href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Pay_phone_refugee" title="Pay phone refugee">a pay phone</a> located directly across the road.



<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">Note: Signal Lancer was not named in the American version of the cartoon, and gets his name from Japan's version.</div>


<a name="Fiction"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Fiction">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Fiction</span></h2> <a name="Animated_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Animated continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Animated continuity</span></h3> <a name="Cybertron"></a><h4><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cybertron">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Cybertron</span></h4>

Voice actor: <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Paul_Dobson" title="Paul Dobson">Paul Dobson</a> (English), <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Takayasu_Usui&action=edit" class="new" title="Takayasu Usui">Takayasu Usui</a> (Japanese)

Signal Lancer was "trained" to stay put by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lori" title="Lori">Lori</a>, even though a stoplight in the middle of nowhere, not even at a cross-road, was silly. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hidden" title="Hidden">Hidden</a></span>

Later, Signal Lancer was seen with a tour bus refugee when <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_%28Armada%29" title="Jetfire (Armada)">Jetfire</a> made an announcement that the Autobots would be departing from Earth as part of a plan to save it from <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28Armada%29" title="Starscream (Armada)">Starscream</a>'s <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ancient_Decepticon" title="Ancient Decepticon">forces</a>. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Retreat" title="Retreat">Retreat</a></span>

At some point, he was joined in his desert vigil by a pay phone refugee.

He would frequently stop <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tim_Hansen" title="Tim Hansen">Tim Hansen</a> and his boss on their way to Tim's family's home and back.

When the universe was saved from the threat of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Singularity" title="Unicron Singularity">Unicron Singularity</a>, Signal Lancer answered the call to travel into space and construct a new system of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge" title="Space bridge">space bridges</a>. Transforming and proclaiming that he had a great destiny before him, he left his post and joined <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Metroplex_%28Cybertron%29" title="Metroplex (Cybertron)">Metroplex</a>'s team. His pay-phone pal wished him good luck.

Tim's boss was rather confused to not see that stoplight anymore afterwards. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beginning" title="Beginning">Beginning</a></span>


<a name="Cyber_Key_Code_content"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cyber Key Code content">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Cyber Key Code content</span></h3> After the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Lock" title="Omega Lock">Omega Lock</a> was retrieved and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28Armada%29" title="Megatron (Armada)">Galvatron</a> finally defeated, "the Traffic Light Autobot" was commissioned by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28Armada%29" title="Optimus Prime (Armada)">Optimus Prime</a> to join <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hightail" title="Hightail">Hightail</a> as his partner and travel across Earth, mapping out every road on the planet.


<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">Note: This information, taken from Hightail's <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyber_Key_Codes" title="Cyber Key Codes">Key Code</a> data, contradicts the Cybertron cartoon's final credit sequence... unless there's another "Traffic Light Autobot", which is possible.</div> <a name="Timelines"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Timelines">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Timelines</span></h3> Signal Lancer is one of countless "offworlders" residing in <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Axiom_Nexus" title="Axiom Nexus">Axiom Nexus</a>. He was seen having a drink with the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Vehicon_%28BM%29" title="Vehicon (BM)">Vehicon</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thrust_%28BM%29" title="Thrust (BM)">Thrust</a>. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gone_Too_Far" title="Gone Too Far">Gone Too Far</a></span>


<a name="Trivia"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Trivia">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Trivia</span></h2> [[Image:|right|180px|thumb|Get cracking, kitbashers.]]

  • During the early development stages of the Galaxy Force

cartoon series, Gonzo actually created a concept design for the robot mode of the initially unnamed "Traffic Light TF". When Signal Lancer finally revealed his robot mode (and name) in the series' (chronologically) final episode, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mudflap_%28Cybertron%29" title="Mudflap (Cybertron)">Mudflap</a>'s general animation model and transformation scheme was used as a basis, but the details for the robot mode were directly based on the old concept design. The early design was shown at the Tokyo Anime Fair a few months after the Galaxy Force cartoon series was launched in Japan. Photos from the event can be found at Autobase Aichi.

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