San D-Go

San D-Go is a Micromaster from the Operation Combination portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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San D-Go (サンディーゴ, sa-n-dī-go) is a member of the Train Team, six rail-based Micromasters who can combine to form Sixtrain. The Train Team fight alongside the Guard City team and other Micromasters to protect the Earth from the forces of the mighty Decepticon Führer Scrash.

Fiction

Operation: Combination story pages

San D-Go never appeared as an individual, only as a component to Sixtrain's robot mode. Big Pinch, Autobots! The Decepticons' Attack on Earth! Conclusion

Toys

Operation Combination

• SixTrain (Micromaster Sixteam, 1992)
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A redeco of Sixliner member D-Go, the original version of San D-Go was available only as part of a SixTrain gift set in Japan. The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find.

This mold was also used to make Universe Overload.

• More information on San D-Go at TFU.info
• San D-Go toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Micromaster Collection

• San D-Go (Micromaster, 2003)
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In 2003, the entire Sixtrain team was re-released as part of the "Micromaster Collection", in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. For this release, each character was extensively redecoed, plus the decals from the original version were replaced with paint applications.

• More information on San D-Go at TFU.info

• San D-Go Red Mode (Micromaster, 2003)

In every case of twelve Train Team Micromasters, two of them were solid-red-plastic "Red Mode" variations. All six Micromasters were available in this manner.

• More information on San D-Go Red Mode at TFU.info
• San D-Go Red Mode toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Trivia

• San D-Go's name seems to be a pun on the Californian city San Diego — however, his name is not actually "San Diego". "Diego" is rendered in katakana as ディエゴ, dī-e-go, featuring an "e" that San D-Go (サンディーゴ, sa-n-dī-go) does not have. The latter part of San D-Go's name is in fact duplicated from his mold-partner D-Go, whose name was determined to be a pun based on the fact the number five is "go" in Japanese and he turns into a D51 steam locomotive. Perhaps coincidentally, "san" is Japanese for the number three, but no one in the fandom has been able to figure out if "3-D-5" might refer to anything.

External links

• Translation of San D-Go's bio by Doug Dlin