Armored Convoy

The Armored Convoy is an Action Master vehicle from the toyline portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

It's a truck large enough to be driven by a truck-sized robot. Eep.

The Armored Convoy is a gigantic truck that Optimus Prime drives. The cab portion becomes an interceptor shuttle, while the trailer unfolds into a battle station with communications and warfare capabilities.

It's armed with a photon cannon, heat-seeking "buzz bombs," a disintegration laser, and double-barreled "pom-pom" cannons. Sadly, it does not turn into a robot itself. That would be craaaazy recursive.

There are probably few Earth roads that it can fit on. Well, maybe in the city where "B.O.T." takes place.

Toys

The Transformers

"Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck, and I'm about to put the hammer down."

• Armored Convoy with Optimus Prime (Action Master, 1990)

The largest of the Action Master toys, the Armored Convoy is a great big convoy, truckin' through the night. The cab unit can seat a single Action Master figure, and transforms into a space jet with multiple weapon-mounting points.

The trailer unfolds into a large battle station with lots of weapon-mounting points. The rear spoiler-section of the trailer can seat two Action Master figures, while the other battlements and foot-pegs offer many places to station other figures. The central "engine" of the trailer has a pair of flip-out (non-firing) cannons.

• More information on Armored Convoy at TFU.info

Notes

• The Armored Convoy mold was eventually released in Japan as part of the Microman "LED Powers" line, in clear-green and white as the L-20 Micro Trailer with "Laser Secret Breast Pilot Edison" figure. Add to that two (2!) separate Lucky Draw versions of the Microman release in transparent red and transparent black, respectively.
• "Convoy" was the Japanese name for Optimus Prime at the time this toy was released, which may or may not have influenced the vehicle's name.

Foreign names

• Italian: Super Convoglio Armato ("Super Armored Convoy")