Hauler-Bot

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Hauler-Bot is a Go-Bot from the Go-Bots portion of the Go-Bots continuity family.
Don't call him overweight.

When the Go-Bots need someone to lend a powerful helping hand, they know they can pick the very biggest in Hauler-Bot! Hauler-Bot is as big as several other bots put together, partly because he is several bots put together. His size, strength, adaptability, and most of all his never-say-die-attitude mean he can always be counted on to pull his weight when things get tough.

His trailer contains the experimental Go-Brillium supercharger.

Fiction

Go-Bots cartoon

Voice actor: ?

Irresponsible test subjects Racer-Bot ALPHA and Racer-Bot BETA ran off to Earth infused with the wonder energy Go-Brillium. In response, Hauler-Bot was sent from Botropolis to help out Aero-Bot's team. He powered up Aero-Bot and Speed-Bot with their own supplies of Go-Brillium, and all three headed out to the Rattlesnake 500 Desert Road Rally to catch the runaway bots. From that point out, Hauler-Bot's role was mostly hands-off, until his "bird" component was called upon to swoop down and lift a grandstand full of spectators to safety. Once the Racer-Bots had been saved from their own recklessness, Hauler-Bot joined the other Go-Bots in warning them about their carelessness and recommending they spend more time training so they could be full Go-Bot Protectors themselves one day. Racer-Bot Road Rally

Toys

Go-Bots

  • Hauler-Bot (Super Go-Bot, 2003)
    • Accessories: Trailer/ Pteranodon, Ankylosaur
Hauler-Bot was the largest Go-Bots toy to be released, being nearly the size of Supreme-sized figures. His vehicle mode is a huge articulated truck, with places to hold Basic or even Mega Go-Bots toys both on the cab itself as well as on the trailer. The cab converts into Hauler-Bot's robot form with the partially-automated transformation typical of Go-Bots; in this case, lowering the robot's legs causes his head to pop out.
The trailer turns into a standalone base with room for one smaller Go-Bot, and also separates into two robot animals; a "bird" (actually a Pteranodon in colors curiously reminiscent of Aero-Bot) and a "turtle" (actually an adorable wheeled Ankylosaur).
All three figures can combine into a unique (for Go-Bots, anyway) Super Mode, with the "turtle" component becoming a leg extension and the "bird" becoming a winged backpack.
In both truck and robot modes, the central figure features electronic lights and sounds which are activated by pressing in his windshield.
Compared to the stock photography used on the toy's packaging, the bird's tail is dark blue on the final release, but light blue in the photo.

Notes

  • Fast-Bot is in colors that might indicate he was originally conceived of as a "Hauler-Bot Racer".