Monster Trucks Patrol
- The Monster Trucks Patrol is a team of Autobot Micromasters from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Left to right: Hydraulic, Slow Poke, Heavy Tread, Big Hauler
Sunday Sunday SUNDAY!!! Gear-grinding, shape-changing, micro-robot MADNESS!!! Monster Trucks Patrol madness!!! SEE four Autobot Micromasters RIP into action against the dastardly doers of destructive deeds, the DECEPTICONS!!!
Geeeeeeet ready for the Monster Trucks Patrol!!! Tread-Head seats are STILL JUST $4.99!!! FOUR NINETY-NINE!!! You're paying for the whole seat but you'll ONLY NEED THE EDGE!!! Featuring:
- Big Hauler - he's lean, he's GREEN and he's MEEEEAN!!
- Heavy Tread - the wheelie-popping, nitro-burning, prank-playing FUNNY CAR!!
- Hydraulic - he leads the pack, CRUSHING anything in his way!!
- Slow Poke - he's a truck, he's a robot, he's yellow, he's powering through everything in his path!!!
Don't miss them!! They're AWESOME!!!! awesome awesome awesome
Fiction
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
The Monster Truck Patrol had chosen sides to work with the Autobots by the time Countdown returned to Cybertron roughly three million years ago, but it is unclear whether they had officially joined as a patrol yet. Hydraulic and Big Hauler joined Crunch and the Hot Rod Patrol in rescuing Roadbuster from a Decepticon attack, and used their Cybertronian horsepower to drag him back to base. Destined for Nothing
Toys
The Transformers
- Monster Trucks Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1990)
- Released in the seventh and final year of the original Transformers toyline in the US, the Micromaster Monster Trucks Patrol is a set of four tiny robots (Big Hauler, Heavy Tread, Hydraulic, and Slow Poke) who turn into, well, three monster trucks and a drag racer of the type usually seen at monster truck shows.
- Big Truck Team (Micro Transformer Team, 1991)
- ID number: C-361
- Accessories: Micro Trailer #1
- This four bots were also released in Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers line, during the Return of Convoy year, with no notable physical changes from the Hasbro release.
- Like the Hasbro toy, they were only available as a complete set, but this release included Micro Trailer #1.
Notes
- The team is called "Monster Trucks Patrol", with a plural-"s", on its toy packaging, but lacks the plural-"s" in the Hasbro toy catalog included with all the toys released in 1990. When Adam Patyk and James McDonough were writing the More Than Meets The Eye profiles series for Dreamwave, they presumably consulted the toy catalog (scans of which were much easier to come by at the time than photos of the toys' packaging), and hence used that spelling as well.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Big Truck Team (ビッグトラックチーム Biggu Torakku Chīmu)
- French: Patrouille De Poids Lourds ("Heavy Truck Patrol")
- Italian: Pattuglia Pionieri ("Pioneering Patrol")
