Overload (Armada)
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- Overload is an Autobot from the Armada portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Who Overload is depends on which continuity you're looking at. Sometimes "Overload" is simply the name of the armored-up form of the Mini-Con Rollout. And sometimes he's a separate entity... okay, a separate entitiy who uses someone else to form his chest and head, but still.
- Japanese name: Ultra Magnus
Fiction
Dreamwave comics continuity
Armada
Energon
Animated continuity
Armada
Linkage mini-comics
Overload, flanked by Tidal Wave (who happens to form extra artillery for the Decepticon leader), engaged the forces of Unicron with some heavy Powerlinx artillery, using Prowl and Kingbolt in their pistol modes, plus Quench in his missile launcher mode.
Toys
Armada
- Overload with Mini-Con Rollout (Max-Con, 2003)
- Japanese ID number: MC-14
- Overload is a red and black carrier truck capable of carrying Jetfire in his vehicle mode. His robot mode, in which his Mini-Con, Rollout, acts as his head, is a heavily armed robot with a vague resemblance to Generation 1's Ultra Magnus (thus the Japanese name), though it actually (according to the designer) has more details from the Action Master Rollout. Overload can be pulled by Rollout in his altmode, Optimus Prime's cab, or attached to Optimus' trailer to form a double trailer. Overload can also transform into a dual spring-loaded missile-firing cannon pack for Optimus Prime's super mode, and can also attach to Prime's trailer in its "base" mode.
- The Overload mold was reused for Energon Ultra Magnus, and was retooled by OTFCC for Universe Sentinel Maximus with a new head mold.
- Magna Convoy DX Set (Multi-pack, 2003)
- Overload and Rollout were cast in colored-clear plastics (dubbed "Ultra Magnus Special Clear Version"), and made available only in a Japanese Toys "R" Us exclusive multi-pack, coming with Optimus Prime in his "Final Battle Color Version" (aka Powerlinx colors), Corona Sparkplug, and an X-Dimension redeco of the Street Action Mini-Con Team.
- Special Ultra Magnus (Max-Con, 2003)
- 100 samples of this "sky blue" redeco of Overload and Rollout were given away as prizes in a contest from the Japanese Tele-V Magazine in October 2003.
Energon
- Optimus Prime with Mini-Con Corona Sparkplug & Overload with Mini-Con Rollout (Multi-pack, 2004)
- For this Costco-exclusive set, Overload (and Rollout) was redecoed into a predominantly yellow scheme with burgundy accents. He came with a new-deco version of Armada Optimus Prime and Sparkplug (who, despite his larger partner's new duds, remained pretty much the same).
Trivia
- Overload's entry in Dreamwave's Armada: More than Meets the Eye profile series claims that his combination with Rollout uses "Headmaster technology." The Fleer card for Rollout also makes mention of this.
- According to Hirofumi Ichikawa, he intended to have a sub-plot explaining just where the hell Overload came from in the "Linkage" mini-comics, but didn't have the space to do so, so he dropped it in favor of focusing on the A-plot and cramming in what DVD-exclusive-character moments he could.
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