Signal Lancer (Cybertron)

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Signal Lancer is an <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobot</a> from the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28franchise%29" title="Cybertron (franchise)">Cybertron</a> portion of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Trilogy" title="Unicron Trilogy">Unicron Trilogy</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family" title="Continuity family">continuity family</a>.

[[Image:|right|300px|thumb|Don't cross the street in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle of the block!]] After the Autobots were evacuated from <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a> to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, Signal Lancer is one of several Transformers who took the form of a stoplight. Located in a remote portion of the American desert, his only friend was a Transformer who turned into <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Pay_phone_refugee" title="Pay phone refugee">a pay phone</a> located directly across the road.

<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">Note: Signal Lancer was not named in the American version of the cartoon, and gets his name from Japan's version.</div>

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Voice actor: <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Paul_Dobson" title="Paul Dobson">Paul Dobson</a> (English), <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Takayasu_Usui&action=edit" class="new" title="Takayasu Usui">Takayasu Usui</a> (Japanese)

Signal Lancer was "trained" to stay put by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lori" title="Lori">Lori</a>, even though a stoplight in the middle of nowhere, not even at a cross-road, was silly. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hidden" title="Hidden">Hidden</a></span>

Later, Signal Lancer was seen with a tour bus refugee when <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_%28Armada%29" title="Jetfire (Armada)">Jetfire</a> made an announcement that the Autobots would be departing from Earth as part of a plan to save it from <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28Armada%29" title="Starscream (Armada)">Starscream</a>'s <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ancient_Decepticon" title="Ancient Decepticon">forces</a>. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Retreat" title="Retreat">Retreat</a></span>

At some point, he was joined in his desert vigil by a pay phone refugee.

He would frequently stop <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tim_Hansen" title="Tim Hansen">Tim Hansen</a> and his boss on their way to Tim's family's home and back.

When the universe was saved from the threat of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Singularity" title="Unicron Singularity">Unicron Singularity</a>, Signal Lancer answered the call to travel into space and construct a new system of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge" title="Space bridge">space bridges</a>. Transforming and proclaiming that he had a great destiny before him, he left his post and joined <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Metroplex_%28Cybertron%29" title="Metroplex (Cybertron)">Metroplex</a>'s team. His pay-phone pal wished him good luck.

Tim's boss was rather confused to not see that stoplight anymore afterwards. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beginning" title="Beginning">Beginning</a></span>

<a name="Cyber_Key_Code_content"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cyber Key Code content">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Cyber Key Code content</span></h3> After the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Lock" title="Omega Lock">Omega Lock</a> was retrieved and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28Armada%29" title="Megatron (Armada)">Galvatron</a> finally defeated, "the Traffic Light Autobot" was commissioned by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28Armada%29" title="Optimus Prime (Armada)">Optimus Prime</a> to join <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hightail" title="Hightail">Hightail</a> as his partner and travel across Earth, mapping out every road on the planet.

<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">Note: This information, taken from Hightail's <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyber_Key_Codes" title="Cyber Key Codes">Key Code</a> data, contradicts the Cybertron cartoon's final credit sequence... unless there's another "Traffic Light Autobot", which is possible.</div> <a name="Timelines"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Signal_Lancer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Timelines">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Timelines</span></h3> Signal Lancer is one of countless "offworlders" residing in <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Axiom_Nexus" title="Axiom Nexus">Axiom Nexus</a>. He was seen having a drink with the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Vehicon_%28BM%29" title="Vehicon (BM)">Vehicon</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thrust_%28BM%29" title="Thrust (BM)">Thrust</a>. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gone_Too_Far" title="Gone Too Far">Gone Too Far</a></span>

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• During the early development stages of the Galaxy Force

cartoon series, Gonzo actually created a concept design for the robot mode of the initially unnamed "Traffic Light TF". When Signal Lancer finally revealed his robot mode (and name) in the series' (chronologically) final episode, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mudflap_%28Cybertron%29" title="Mudflap (Cybertron)">Mudflap</a>'s general animation model and transformation scheme was used as a basis, but the details for the robot mode were directly based on the old concept design. The early design was shown at the Tokyo Anime Fair a few months after the Galaxy Force cartoon series was launched in Japan. Photos from the event can be found at Autobase Aichi.