Long Haul (ROTF)
| The name or term "Long Haul" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Long Haul (disambiguation). |
- Long Haul is a Decepticon from the Revenge of the Fallen franchise in the live-action film continuity family.
Long Haul wishes he could spend more time in battle, destroying his enemies with projectile weaponry. Instead, he often finds himself stuck in the role of pack mule, lugging around the other Decepticons gear. He finds this a highly loathsome task. So it's not surprising that stuff left in his truck bed has a tendency to get lost in transit.
There are two of him, one of which forms the right leg of Devastator.
Fiction
Revenge of the Fallen movie
After the All Spark shard was retrieved from NEST's secure bunker at Diego Garcia, Long Haul, Rampage, Mixmaster, Scalpel, Ravage and another Constructicon secreted themselves aboard the Bayos freighter heading towards the North Atlantic. Once the ship passed over the Laurentian Abyss, the Decepticons jumped overboard and dived down to where Megatron's broken body lay. Scalpel ordered the death of the smallest Constructicon to rebuild Megatron, an request that Long Haul and the others obliged with. Soon, Megatron was reborn!
Some time later, Long Haul and another Constructicon with the same body-type were present during the climactic battle in Egypt between the Autobot/NEST forces and The Fallen's Decepticons. Long Haul and several other Constructicons waited in a quarry in their construction vehicle disguises until the humans Seymour Simmons, Leo Spitz and their Autobot guardians Skids and Mudflap approached. The Constructicons combined into the mighty Devastator and attacked. Elsewhere, the other Long Haul fought against the NEST forces in the Egyptian town near the great ruins of the pyramids and was destroyed during the United States Air Force air strike. Meanwhile, Devastator had shrugged off the Autobot twins and was busy demolishing the Great Pyramid of Giza when Simmons called upon the United States Navy to attack Devastator. The U.S.S. Kidd fired her experimental railgun, smashing one of his arms to pieces and destroying Devastator. Revenge of the Fallen
Games
Revenge of the Fallen - The Game
- Voice actor: Neil Kaplan
Revenge of the Fallen - The Game (Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC)
Decepticon campaign
Long Haul served as the Decepticons' ground-based heavy-hitter, with his long-range charged grenades and flamethrower. He could also initiate a combat repair sequence that would rapidly regenerate his health, much like the Autobot Ratchet's repair ability.
After Sideways cleared out most of the Protectobots from Shanghai construction area, Long Haul was deployed to upload a virus into all of the NEST communications arrays in the area. Soon after, Long Haul was sent to the Shanghai spiral highway to destroy two NEST field headquarters and their defenders, drawing the Autobot Ironhide out into the open. Both combatants were roughly evenly matched, but Long Haul's long-range charged grenades and his combat repair sequence gave him the edge to defeat Ironhide this time. Long Haul was soon sent back to the spiral highway to follow in the wake of a cloaked Autobot probe, which was, to add insult to injury, created by salvaging Decepticon technology. The Decepticon shrugged off attacks by the Autobot defenders, chased after the probe and destroyed it when it revealed itself.
Later, Long Haul was sent to the United States West Coast oil refinery to capture the human female known as Mikaela Banes, who may know the location of an All Spark fragment. He destroyed numerous buildings to force the engineers to evacuate, then brought them to a interrogator probe that plumbed the minds of these primitive organic beings. Though none of the subjects survived the torture, one did provide the location of the human female before he expired, and Long Haul was able to capture her. Unfortunately, she was rescued by the Autobots soon after Long Haul left the area.
After Megatron's glorious resurrection, Long Haul was deployed to the East Coast industrial area to chase after and destroy yet another cloaked Autobot probe. Soon after, he was sent to the East Coast city with the L-train to send a message to the pathetic humans that their NEST and the Autobots could not protect them. Despite overwhelming odds, Long Haul attacked and destroyed the primitive power plant and the crude televisual broadcasting station. Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
Autobot campaign
At the Shanghai spiral highway, Ironhide was eager for payback for his earlier defeat at the hands of Long Haul. He destroyed the Combaticon units assigned to the area to draw Long Haul out, then the two titans went to town on each other. Once again, both were roughly evenly matched in terms of physical strength and firepower, but in the end, Ironhide's experience and cunning prevailed. Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
Toys
Revenge of the Fallen
Legends Class toys
- Long Haul (EZ Collection DX, 2009)
- Japanese ID number: D6
- Long Haul and the six other Legends class Constructicons combine to form Devastator.In Japan, the Legends class Constructicons are sold individually.
- Constructicon Devastator (Legends figure multi-pack, 2010)
Voyager Class toys
- Long Haul (Voyager, 2009)
- Japanese ID number: RD-17
- Long Haul transforms from a genericized Dump Truck into a bulky robot mode. In robot mode, he has two spring-loaded flip-out axes and two Mech Alive gimmicks (only one of which is advertised) in which turning his head also turns a cog in his chest and bending his elbows moves some pistons. Sadly, there is a bar above his head that restricts the ability to turn his head. The bad part is that it has hinges everywhere but where it meets the shoulders. He has lightpiping, but it is effectively neutered by the kibble and shoulders.
- He is packaged in robot mode, as his alt mode is too wide and thick for a standard Voyager-sized box.
Supreme Class toys
- Constructicon Devastator (2009)
- The roughly Deluxe size Long Haul dump truck transforms into Devastator's right leg. Due to cost, stability and design concerns, the Long Haul truck cannot turn into a robot itself.
Fast Action Battlers
- Devastation Blast Long Haul (Fast Action Battler, 2009)
Merchandise
Robot Heroes
- Bumblebee and Long Haul (2009)
- Desert Devastation (Multi-pack, 2009)
- Long Haul is the sculpted right leg of "Desert Devastation" Devastator, a super-sized Robot Heroes figure. He is only available in a multi-pack with Skids and Mudflap in their vehicle modes and William Lennox.
Burger King
- Devastator (2009)
- An extremely-simplified version of Long Haul's vehicle mode is included as part of Burger King Devastator. His bucket is hollow and capable of carrying material, however its pinched shape prevents it from carrying much. Though his ball socket is compatible with any of Devastator's limb connections, it's marked with a C to indicate he forms Devastator's right leg.
Trivia
- Artist Josh Nizzi attracted the attention of Hasbro's Transformers design director Aaron Archer, director Michael Bay and the Transformers fandom when he created a "movie-style" design for Long Haul in 2007. Nizzi's work impressed Hasbro and the director enough for him to be hired as a concept artist and for his Long Haul design to actually be used for the character in the movie, associated media and merchandise. It was the very first design approved for Revenge of the Fallen.[1]
- In the original fanart by Josh Nizzi, Long Haul's alt mode is a CAT 797, with an overall length of 14.5m / 47.67ft. However, the vehicle which becomes the left leg of Devastator is a smaller CAT 773B with an overall length of 10.3m / 33.5ft. Either this was a change made during the adaptation from art to CGI, or the two Long Hauls are in fact different vehicles.
