Town Commander

Town Commanders (僕らの町の司令官 Bokura no Machi no Shireikan, lit. "Our Town's Commander") are Commander-rank Autobots assigned to defend various locales in Japan. Most of them carry their own Matrix and have their own unique weapon to use in their battles against evil.

List of Town Commanders

The Town Commanders were introduced in waves as part of the Cybertron Satellite promotion and its associated sticker hunt. Known Town Commanders include:

Series 1

• Akiba Prime (Akihabara)
• Dimicron Prime (TakaraTomy)
• Fukutsu Prime (Fukutsu)
• Ginza Prime (Ginza)
• Ikebukuro Prime (Ikebukuro)
• Itami Prime (Itami)
• Kawasaki Prime (Kawasaki)
• Mito Prime (Mito)
• Nagoya Prime (Nagoya)
• Saitama Prime (Saitama)
• Sapporo Prime (Sapporo)
• Sendai Prime (Sendai)
• Tachikawa Prime (Tachikawa)
• Umeda Prime (Umeda)
• Yokohama Prime (Yokohama)

Series 2

• Hakata Prime (Hakata)
• Hiroshima Prime (Hiroshima)
• Ishinomaki Prime (Ishinomaki)
• Safety Prime (Transformers GT x Kid's Walk)
• Yūrakuchō Prime (Yūrakuchō)

Series 3

• Nanba Prime (Nanba)
• Sapporo Chūō Prime (Chūō-ku, Sapporo)
• Takasaki Prime (Takasaki)

Fiction

Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base

Several Town Commanders were involved in the battle against Doctor Arkeville's Nemesis Prime and NAVI-ko, but their efforts weren't of much use, as Nemesis Prime easily defeated them all. Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base

Toys

Transformers GT

File:Safety Prime toy.jpg

• Safety Prime (Original Ver.) (Legends class, 2013)

The only toy of a Town Commander ever made, Safety Prime is a redeco of 2010's Transformers: Reveal the Shield Legends Class Prowl, transforming into a modified Nissan 350Z, reworked into a motorsport safety car. He was given away free at the TakaraTomy-sponsored "Kids Walk" events held by Super GT in 2013 to participating children as something of a crossover between Cybertron Satellite and the Transformers GT franchise.

Notes

• The Town Commanders are something of a Transformers twist on Japan's "local hero" tradition of regional superhero mascots.
• Town Commanders were created in conjunction with the Cybertron Satellite promotion, allowing each installation of the promotion in various collaborating stores across Japan to have its unique character based on the culture of the local area.
• The primary objective for fans in the promotion was to fill out the official "Town Commander Collection Book" by traveling to each location to procure the sticker for that region's Town Commander, with the "final boss" of the event being chasing down TakaraTomy employees at participating events for a sticker of Dimicron Prime, the Town Commander representing TakaraTomy themselves.

External links

• Summary of the Cybertron Satellite campaign (complete with Town Commander bios) at the "Fight! Toy Warrior!" blog
• Scans of the Town Commander Collection Book at TFRaw