Heavy Load (Universe)

The name or term "Heavy Load" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Heavy Load (disambiguation).

Heavy Load is a Decepticon from the Classics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family (via the 2008 Universe line).

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Heavy Load is a chemist who used to work for the good of all, but centuries of experiments have taken their toll. His cognitive systems were degraded through chemical exposure, leaving him a different bot than he used to be, unrecognizable to his peers. The concoctions that warped him are now his stock-in-trade, as he sells poisons and bombs to Decepticon gangs and tests new creations on Autobot captives.

He is partnered with the Mini-Con Drill Bit.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 comics continuity

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At the dawn of the war, Heavy Load served Megatron's growing insurgency. He stood guard one day as Megatron welcomed a visitor, Hot Rod. Rise

Toys

Universe (2008)

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• Decepticon Heavy Load with Drillbit Mini-Con! (Voyager, 2008)
  • Accessories: Torpedo, pipes/twin-barreled blaster, key

Universe Heavy Load is a redeco of Cybertron Quickmix in yellow, dull green, and black, transforming into a Cybertronic cement mixer with a drum that actually turns (though on a ratcheting joint). The top of the mixing assembly flips up to reveal a "cockpit" for Heavy Load's pack-in Mini-Con, Drill Bit, to stand on; pegs fold out that plug into holes in Drillbit's arms for stability. Drill Bit can also connect to the control panel in vehicle mode by plugging his "handle" into the hole on the station and fitting his treads on the platform.

In robot mode, plugging the Key into the key jack on his drum splits it open and reveals his spring-loaded "torpedo launcher". The "pipe" piece on his roof is actually removable, and can be placed on his arm, peg onto any of his other Powerlinx hardpoints, or even be used as a hand-held "blaster" thanks to its own Powerlinx peg. Also, while his instructions pay little attention to it and treat it as a step in the transformation, he has an alternate "work" robot mode, which basically just pushes his hips up into his torso and raises his shoulders up. He comes with a yellow-bordered opaque black Gigantion-style Cyber Key.

His stock photography shows him as mis-transformed, with his shoulders not being pegged onto his torso and the cab portions on his legs not being rotated properly. It also shows him as lacking the "headset" on the left side of his face.

• More information on Heavy Load at TFU.info

Notes

• The pipe/blaster piece, though shown in official photography on the back bumper of his vehicle mode (as it is on Quickmix), is mounted on his vehicle-mode cab roof's Powerlinx peg inside the package. This is, frankly, awesome.
• Like all other non-Cybertron-release toys that use Cyber Key accessories to activate features, his packaging simply calls the piece a "Key".
• Heavy Load's insignia uses the live-action movie version, with the four-sided "eyes".
• Despite being a Decepticon construction vehicle partnered with a familiarly green-and-purple Mini-Con, Heavy Load is not a Constructicon, and despite the absence of the Constructicons' own cement-mixer chemist from their roster in this franchise, Hasbro writer Forest Lee has said that Heavy Load is not him.