Heavy Load (Universe)
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- Heavy Load is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 and Unicron Trilogy continuity families (via the 2008 Universe toyline).
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 associated with the Mini-Con Mobile Fortification Team.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
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
Ask Vector Prime
Heavy Load's Mobile Fortification Team was dispatched to the Beast Wars of Aurex 615.03 Epsilon, which took place in Alpha Q's universe, on board the Doomsday. It is unknown if he went with them. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23
Toys
Universe (2008)
- Decepticon Heavy Load with Drillbit Mini-Con! (Voyager, 2008)
- Series: Classic Series
- Accessories: Torpedo missile, pipes/twin-barreled blaster, key
- Part of the first wave of 2008 Universe Voyager Class toys, "Decepticon 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 man, with pegs that fold out and plug into holes in Drillbit's arms. Drill Bit can also connect to the control panel in vehicle mode by plugging his 5mm 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 5mm Powerlinx hardpoints, or even be used as a hand-held "blaster" thanks to its own Powerlinx peg. He comes with a yellow-bordered opaque black Gigantion-style Cyber Key. 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".
- 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. His stock photography also shows him as mis-transformed, with his shoulders not being pegged onto his torso, his feet rotated backwards, 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. The pipe/blaster piece, though shown in stock photos as being on the back bumper of his vehicle mode, is actually mounted on his vehicle mode cab roof's Powerlinx peg inside the package. This is, frankly, awesome.
Notes
- 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.
