Mega-Octane

Mega-Octane is a Decepticon from the Robots in Disguise continuity family.

Grimlock called. He wants his head back.

Mega-Octane is the cool-headed commander of the Commandos. He orders his troops into battle with militaristic stoicism, as if they were his own limbs, but actually spends more of his time keeping the hot-headed Scourge in check. Scourge claims to be leader of the small Decepticon faction, but in reality it is Mega-Octane who holds the group together. But all great bots have their personal quirks—Mega-Octane is not satisfied unless he takes his bath before everyone else.

He merges with the other Commandos to form Ruination, who he completely controls.

Mega-Octane is one of the many Decepticons under the command of Unicron in the Universe war, though at this time it is unknown if it is the "original" Mega-Octane or an alternate-universe incarnation.

Japanese name: Dolrailer (ドルレイラー Dorureirā)

Fiction

Robots in Disguise cartoon

Voice actor: Bob Papenbrook (English), Holly Kaneko (Japanese)

Mega-Octane was originally part of a small Autobot crew sent to Earth to reactivate the legendary Autobot battle station, Fortress Maximus. As they were stored in a protoform state, the Autobots were unable to prevent their spaceship from malfunctioning and crashing somewhere in the United States in the mid-20th century. The ship was later discovered by Doctor Onishi during his work as an archaeologist and, later still, the information was obtained by Megatron through scans of the doctor's mind. Megatron was able to steal the six Autobot protoforms and take them to a nearby military base, where he infused them with his own spark energy, turning them into Decepticons. The first of the Decepticons to be reformatted was Mega-Octane. Although Optimus Prime optimistically tried to welcome Mega-Octane to Earth, he was rebuffed and the Decepticon set about covering the Predacons as they scanned new forms for the rest of the Decepticons. Although Mega-Octane regarded himself as the leader, Scourge, the last to be reformatted, asserted his own leadership over the five Commandos. The Decepticons

On their first mission, the Decepticons mounted an attack on Sherman Dam, abseiling up the side of it in order to plant pulsar bombs. When Scourge attempted to detonate the bombs, they found that Sky-Byte and the Predacons had tampered with them, forcing them to attempt to destroy the dam through other means. The arrival of Team Bullet Train resulted in Mega-Octane ordering the Commandos combine into Ruination for the first time, although the huge robot was soon defeated by Rail Racer and the Autobot Brothers. Commandos

The next mission saw Scourge and the Commandos on guard duty, perhaps as a punishment for their previous failed mission, while the Predacon trio dug under a volcano. The Commandos were relegated to against the Spy Changers when they arrived with Optimus Prime. Volcano In an attempt to restore themselves in Megatron's eyes, they hatched a new plan to launch Movor into space to try to track the Autobots to their lair. With mounting irritation, Mega-Octane led his team from target to target, none of them the Autobot base, until they were eventually led into a trap. Attack from Outer Space

Mega-Octane soon came up with a new plan to find the Autobot base - the Decepticons would pretend to switch sides. He met with Optimus Prime under a white flag, claiming that the Decepticons had rediscovered their Autobot nature and no longer followed Megatron. The Autobot brothers subjected the six Decepticons to test after test to prove their loyalty, with Mega-Octane barely keeping Scourge's temper in check. Unfortunately right on the verge of success, Scourge gave the plan away and the Decepticons were forced to retreat. The Test

A new plan was hatched which involved attacking power plants. The Autobots were hampered by the misguided assistance of Sky-Byte, but seemed to repel most of the Decepticon assaults. The Fish Test The Decepticons subsequently butted in on one of Sky-Byte's plans, stealing a disk supposedly containing the plans to the Autobots' Global Space Bridge which the Predacons were trying to obtain. Unfortunately it was an Autobot trick, and both the Decepticons and Predacons ended up in a sewer. Wedge's Short Fuse

Annoyed by the Autobots constant escapes through the space bridge, the Decepticons tracked one of the Build Team to the space bridge control center, allowing them to break in and sabotage the controls, sending any Autobots using the space bridge to a random destination. Mega-Octane remained in the control center while Scourge joined Megatron at the North Energy Research Center, and the other Commandos caused havoc in other parts of the city to draw the Autobots away. When the Autobots discovered the sabotage, the Commandos attempted to prevent them reaching the control center but were fought off. Landfill

Two guns are better than one!

The Commandos made another attempt to please Megatron, stealing energy from a power plant, only to have it swiped by the Build Team while they were busy fighting Rail Racer. Annoyed, the Decepticons began to randomly attack construction vehicles in order to draw the Build Team out. Eventually the Build Team learned of the attacks and faced the Commandos, defeating Ruination. A Test of Metal

The Decepticons again attempted to curry favour with Megatron by intercepting Optimus Prime to obtain the O-Parts, but were ultimately unsuccessful. Sky-Byte Saves the Day After a semi-successful attempt to raid an oil refinery, Scourge and Mega-Octane leaked a transmission ordering Sky-Byte to look for O-Parts in order to lead the Autobots into an ambush. Instead of the expected Autobots, they were confronted by Ultra Magnus. They attempted to fight the newly-arrived Autobot, but retreated after Optimus Prime arrived to lend a hand. Ultra Magnus Back at base, they watched Movor's surveillance of Ultra Magnus beating down Optimus, and Megatron demanded of them to know why one Autobot had done what the Decepticons had failed to do. They were able to track Sky-Byte to the island on which Optimus was recuperating after the battle and mount an attack, but were chased off once again when Optimus and Ultra Magnus merged into Omega Prime. Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!

The Decepticons interrupted another of Sky-Byte's plans in order to kidnap the Autobot Brothers. With the three brothers as hostages, the Decepticons led Optimus into a trap and fought the Autobot leader savagely. They were again seen off after Magnus rescued the brothers. The Two Faces of Ultra Magnus Seeing an opportunity, Scourge met with Ultra Magnus to persuade the Autobot to join him against both Optimus Prime and Megatron. When Magnus turned him down, Scourge and the Commandos turned on him, only to end up fighting the three Autobot Brothers instead. Power to Burn!

With information extracted from Doctor Onishi, the Decepticons were led to venture beneath Metro City, following the tunnels to find a huge cavern beneath Metro City housing Fortress Maximus. After fighting the Autobots, Maximus' defences forced them to retreat. Fortress Maximus While Scourge undertook a mission to find Maximus, the Commandos kept Rail Racer busy as Ruination. Koji Gets His Wish

The Decepticons attempted unsuccessfully to prevent the Autobots from finding the rest of the O-Parts A Friendly Contest and were lead by Megatron to the Sahara, where the Autobots were looking for the Orb of Sigma. Despite breaching the pyramid in which the Orb was stored, they were unable to prevent the Autobots from making off with it, and Megatron himself was lost. Peril from the Past

With Scourge now leading, the Decepticons tracked the Autobots to a temple, where Cerebros was recovered. Mega-Octane warned Scourge that they might not be able to command Cerebros, but Scourge was confident that the Autobot portion of his bio-signature would be sufficient. Sure enough, Cerebros led them to Maximus' hiding place and activated the giant robot. Once activated, Scourge was unable to control Maximus, and the Decepticons were forced to retreat. Maximus Emerges

With the return of Megatron with a new form and name, Galvatron, Scourge made a few more attempts to control Fortress Maximus, eventually giving away the fact that he was betraying Galvatron. Furious, Galvatron reprogrammed absolute loyalty into all six of the Decepticons and put them under Sky-Byte's command. They were soon led into a trap. Surprise Attack! Despite their proven loyalty, Galvatron sent the Decepticons into the space bridge after the Autobots, then flooding the tunnel with molten lava to kill two birds with one stone. Galvatron's Revenge The Decepticons, like the Autobots, survived but contributed little to the ensuing battle. After Galvatron's eventual defeat at the hands of Omega Prime, the Decepticons were taken aboard Fortress Maximus to the asteroid prison colony. The Final Battle

Toys

Robots in Disguise

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"One Of These Just Doesn't Belong..."

• Mega-Octane (Deluxe, 2000/2001)
  • Japanese ID number: D-010
  • Accessories: Rifle, chestplate, Ruination parts (head, chestplate, left & right fists, left & right footplates)

A retool of the Generation 1 Onslaught toy, Mega-Octane transforms into a flatbed truck and trailer with a twin-barreled cannon. The twin-barreled cannon has a hole to store his large rifle in vehicle/base mode as well as his retooled ramp (which can also be held in his hand as a shield) in robot or combined mode. The backpack also retains the smaller hole from the Generation 2 tooling of the toy. You can use that to store the small weapons from the other members of Ruination if you want. Why not? If you don't want to store Mega-Octane's gun in the post hole you can also use the rectangular pegs on the backpack to hold (upside down) the rifle by its targeting sight.

Mega-Octane's gun was also retooled so that one of the holes on the side of the rifle goes right through and the other has been partially filled. This was done to allow Armorhide and Movor's pistols to peg into the gun for a super mode. Of course the holes were the right size to do this on the original Sonic stun-gun... so... uhh... at least this time it's an official feature.

As the toy uses the Scramble City style of connection, he can form the torso to any combination of similar robots, though naturally he is normally the torso to the combined robot Ruination. He also came with the combiner kibble to Ruination.

He was first released as part of the Takara Car Robots line in 2000. In 2001, Hasbro released the toy as part of the Robots in Disguise series. There are several very noteworthy differences between the two. The Takara version uses a very light olive-green base plastic, mustard-gold plastic for the robot chest, cannons and combiner kibble, plus the black-and-gold camouflage is sometimes done as metallic decals, one of which has the old Combatron symbol on it. The Hasbro version uses a much darker green plastic, silver-gray chest/cannon/kibble plastic, muddy-tan-and-black camo (in the same pattern), uses no decals (leaving those areas blank), and has a Decepticon insignia on the truck roof. Additionally, Hasbro shortened the length of Mega-Octane's rifle, and all subsequent releases of this toy from Hasbro or Takara/Sonokong used this version of the tooling.

This mold was also used to make Great Cannon.

• Valdigus (Multi-pack, 2000)
  • Japanese ID number: D-011

In Japan, Mega-Octane/Dolrailer was also made available as part of a complete team multi-pack with his teammates Armorhide, Movor, Rollbar and Ro-Tor. All toys were identical to their individual Japanese releases, but the set only came with a bio card for the combined form.

"Boombox and Spinners Not Included"

• Ruination (Ultra, 2003)

The entire Commando team was redecoed in various shades of gray with "urban camo" patterns as part of a Wal-Mart exclusive gift set, oddly released well after the end of the Robots in Disguise line. Movor was also slightly retooled, blunting his nosecone significantly.

Universe

• Ruination (Ultra, 2004)

The entire Ruination team was redecoed again to make another Wal-Mart exclusive set (why?), this time with a unified "desert camo" theme under the Universe banner. It came out at the same time as five other Wal-Mart Transformers exclusives, which led to a glut. Ruination seemed a particularly slow mover in this batch.

External links

• Mega-Octane at TFU.info