Micro Trailer

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Star Convoy's tractor trailer mode is four times longer than this one, yet his Action Master truck would still be bigger!

Micro Trailers (マイクロトレーラー Maikuro Torērā) are tiny trailers made for carrying Micromasters around.

Fiction

3H comics

A transport which looked like a large version of a Micro Trailer was used to deliver reinforcements against an army of Nightbirds, to rescue Doctor Fujiyama. Departure

2005 IDW continuity

Tailgate was carrying a Micro Trailer full of energon cubes when he raced to reach the Ark's launch, only to end up stuck in a cave where he was forced to detonate the trailer's energon to get out. How to Say Goodbye and Mean It

United EX

Choppermaster used at least one Micro Trailer to transport four Master Class drones to a training site in the Alps. In the Blazing Alps

Beast Wars: Uprising

The Constructicons carried their prisoner Snapper through Proximax in a Micro Trailer. Cultural Appropriation

End of G1 Universe

A white container was carried by Bluebolt when they arrived at Earth, housing the dead Leo Prime inside. Dark Amber Leo Prime (First)

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

This is awesome and you know it.

• Known designers: Takashi Kunihiro and Motoki Takaya (TakaraTomy)

The Micro Trailers were a gimmick introduced by Takara for Return of Convoy, the 1991 line of Japanese Transformers. Since Takara were releasing the previous year's Hasbro product and declined to market any of the Action Masters, this line was completely dominated by the Micromaster play pattern and the Micro Trailers were created to add more play value to it. Every set released in the line, save Grandus and Sixliner, came with a futuristic tractor trailer with the trailer section large enough to fit one Micromaster. They are spring-loaded, and by pressing a tab located below the Micro Trailer's front windows you can shoot a Micromaster across smooth surfaces.

Despite their blocky design the trailers were actually quite versatile. They had connectors on their sides to allow for several to be attached side by side. The post holes could also fit most Micromaster base weapons and accessories. The back ends also feature connectors to attach them to any "W" Team (aka Micromaster Combiner) member. Finally, there was a connection point on the trailer (at the cab end) allowing Microtrailers to be attached to Micromaster bases using the ramping system.

Sky Garry was designed to carry three of these little transports, Star Convoy could carry two in his trailer, while Grandus has space in his "base" mode for one.

Fourteen "different" Micro Trailers were produced, distinguished by the unique stickers that went on the sides of the trailer section. Also, the Micro Trailers that came with Micromaster teams were white, and the ones included with larger figures were black.

This truck would go a heckuva lot faster if it had real wheels...

• Micro Trailer (no number) (Star Convoy)

• MT-0 (Sky Garry)

• MT-1 (Big Truck Team)

• MT-2 (Hot Rod Team)

• MT-3 (Military Team)

• MT-4 (Shuttle Rocket W Team)

• MT-5 (Fire Tanker W Team)

• MT-6 (Radar Hover W Team)

• MT-7 (Dump Shovel W Team)

• MT-8 (Crane Cannon W Team)

• MT-9 (Jet Tank W Team)

• MT-10 (Rescue Patrol Team)

• MT-11 (Battle Patrol Team)

• MT-12 (Super Car Patrol Team)

Age of the Primes

• Star Optimus Prime (Titan Class, 2025)

• Known designers: Mark Maher (Hasbro), Shuhei Umezu (TakaraTomy)

A black Micro Trailer numbered "MT-13" is included with Age of the Primes Titan Class Star Optimus Prime, a new version of Star Convoy. It can carry the also-included Micromaster Hot Rord, be armed with several of Star Optimus Prime's weapons to transform into a battle platform (which resembles the original Rodimus Prime's battle station), or connect to Star Optimus Prime's base mode. When not in use, the vehicle can be stored in one of Star Optimus Prime's legs.

The MT-13 designation is most likely due to being included with the thirteenth member of the Thirteen, but also continues the numbering from the original set of Micro Trailers. (Star Convoy's original figure comes with an unnumbered Micro Trailer.) Despite being numbered, it is not physically labeled on the side as the old ones were, instead maintaining the Autobot symbol design from Star Convoy's Micro Trailer.

Notes

• As demonstrated above, the 5 mm posts on the Micro Trailers are the exact same dimensions as the later Mini-Con pegs used in Armada.
• Thanks to a list posted to alt.toys.transformers, there is a widespread misbelief that the five other Zone teams were released with the non-existent trailers MT-13 to MT-17.
• When Sky Garry was redecoed into "Deathgarrygun" in the Brave of Gold Goldran series, so too were his three micro trailers. However, in the show, when the Deathgarrygun ships are seen, they all lack the tractor unit of the toy, as well as having symmetrical two entrances per container instead of only one.