Armored Convoy

The Armored Convoy is an Action Master vehicle from the Generation 1 continuity family.

It's a truck large enough to be driven by a truck-sized robot. Eep.

The Armored Convoy is a gigantic truck that Optimus Prime drives. The cab portion becomes an interceptor shuttle, while the trailer unfolds into a battle station with communications and warfare capabilities.

It's armed with a photon cannon, heat-seeking "buzz bombs," a disintegration laser, and double-barreled "pom-pom" cannons. Sadly, it does not turn into a robot itself. That would be craaaazy recursive.

There are probably few Earth roads that it can fit on. Well, maybe in the city where "B.O.T." takes place.

Toys

Generation 1

"Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck, and I'm about to put the hammer on down."

• Armored Convoy with Optimus Prime (Action Master, 1990)

The largest of the Action Master toys, the Armored Convoy is a great big convoy, truckin' through the night. The cab unit can seat a single Action Master figure, and transforms into a space jet with multiple weapon-mounting points.

The trailer unfolds into a large battle station with lots of weapon-mounting points. The rear spoiler-section of the trailer can seat two Action Master figures, while the other battlements and foot-pegs offer many places to station other figures. The central "engine" of the trailer has a pair of flip-out (non-firing) cannons.

• More information on Armored Convoy at tfu.info

Notes

• The Armored Convoy mold was eventually released in Japan as part of the Microman "LED Powers" line, in clear-green and white as the L-20 Micro Trailer with "Laser Secret Breast Pilot Edison" figure.Add to that two (2!) seperate Lucky Draw versions of the Microman release in transparent red and transparent black, respectively.
• The name "Armored Convoy" is a tribute by the English-speaking Hasbro team to the Japanese name for Optimus Prime, "Convoy".