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==Notes==
==Notes==
[[Image:RoadRanger02.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A '''lot''' of kids used me to sub for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].]]
[[Image:RoadRanger02.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A '''lot''' of kids used me to sub for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].]]
*Road Ranger is clearly intended to be the character from the [[Tonka GoBots]] line. His name does not appear in any of the final product material; it only appeared in an early Photoshopped promotional image on the [[E-Hobby|e-Hobby]] website. The individual toys' names were dropped when [[Takara]]'s legal department became concerned at how [[Bandai]]—the company that made the toys that would become the Tonka GoBots—would react to the names being used, despite the minimal chance of provable [[trademark]] infringement on Takara's part.
*Road Ranger is clearly intended to be the character from [[Tonka]]'s ''[[GoBots (franchise)|GoBots]]'' line. His name does not appear in any of the final product material; it only appeared in an early Photoshopped promotional image on the [[E-Hobby|e-Hobby]] website. The individual toys' names were dropped when [[Takara]]'s legal department became concerned at how [[Bandai]]—the company that made the toys that would become the GoBots—would react to the names being used, despite the minimal chance of provable [[trademark]] infringement on Takara's part.
* Of course, this all became moot once [[Fun Publications]] took the ball and ran with it, re-establishing explicit ties between the two formerly-rival franchises.
* Of course, this all became moot once [[Fun Publications]] took the ball and ran with it, re-establishing explicit ties between the two formerly-rival franchises.
* Unlike the [[Transformers]], the GoBots were originally a race of organic [[Human|humanoids]] who replaced much, but not all, of their bodies with machinery. Thus, Road Ranger is a cyborg and not a true robot.
* Unlike the [[Transformer]]s, the GoBots were originally a race of organic [[Human|humanoids]] who replaced much, but not all, of their bodies with machinery. Thus, Road Ranger is a cyborg and not a true robot.
*Road Ranger's ''Transformers'' color scheme was devised by [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]]. It bears a passing resemblance to the various [[Nemesis Prime (Armada)|Nemesis]] [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Primes]], but how intentional a nod this was on Ichikawa's part is uncertain, particularly given all the orange in Road Ranger's robot mode.
*Road Ranger's ''Transformers'' color scheme was devised by [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]]. It bears a passing resemblance to the various [[Nemesis Prime (Armada)|Nemesis]] [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Primes]], but how intentional a nod this was on Ichikawa's part is uncertain, particularly given all the orange in Road Ranger's robot mode.
[[Image:Miscolored minibots.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Now available in six fruity flavors!]]
[[Image:Miscolored minibots.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Now available in six fruity flavors!]]

Revision as of 15:37, 27 August 2011

Road Ranger is a Guardian posing as an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Mighty robots! Road Ranger is in the left-center.

Road Ranger is a traveler from another dimension, who has taken the form of an Autobot and infiltrated their ranks in the hopes of finding the solution to a problem that plagues his home.

Fiction

Fun Publications comic

Road Ranger, along with other displaced GoBots, somehow ended up at Axiom Nexus and was "processed". Transcendent: Part 1 Withered Hope


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Toys

Generation 1

  • G1 GoBots (Multi-pack, 2004)
    • Japanese ID number: 84
Road Ranger is a redeco of the Mini Vehicle Huffer, transforming into a cabover-syle semi truck of indeterminate model. He was only available in an e-Hobby-exclusive 6-pack with Bad Boy, Bug Bite, Path Finder, Small Foot and Treds.
This mold was the basis for the 1986 retool Pipes.

Notes

A lot of kids used me to sub for Optimus Prime.
  • Road Ranger is clearly intended to be the character from Tonka's GoBots line. His name does not appear in any of the final product material; it only appeared in an early Photoshopped promotional image on the e-Hobby website. The individual toys' names were dropped when Takara's legal department became concerned at how Bandai—the company that made the toys that would become the GoBots—would react to the names being used, despite the minimal chance of provable trademark infringement on Takara's part.
  • Of course, this all became moot once Fun Publications took the ball and ran with it, re-establishing explicit ties between the two formerly-rival franchises.
  • Unlike the Transformers, the GoBots were originally a race of organic humanoids who replaced much, but not all, of their bodies with machinery. Thus, Road Ranger is a cyborg and not a true robot.
  • Road Ranger's Transformers color scheme was devised by Hirofumi Ichikawa. It bears a passing resemblance to the various Nemesis Primes, but how intentional a nod this was on Ichikawa's part is uncertain, particularly given all the orange in Road Ranger's robot mode.
Now available in six fruity flavors!
  • The Ladybird book Autobots' Lightning Strike features miscolored versions of Huffer and Gears that somewhat resemble the colorations given to Road Ranger and Small Foot. Whether the GoBots' similarities are intentional is debatable.

Foreign names

  • Japanese: Road Ranger (ロードレンジャー Rōdo Renjā)

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