Alan (G1)
| The name or term "Alan" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Alan (disambiguation). |
- Alan is an Autobot Micromaster from the Return of Convoy portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Alan (アラン Aran) has the ability to control electricity, a skill made even more powerful once he brings out his Giga-Techvolt twin-cannon. One would expect someone with that power to be loud and, well, energetic... but as his fellow Liner Team member Night puts it, Alan tends to "fade into the background." The high-volt warrior is a student of logic, even more so than his leader D-Go, and tends to keep quiet... and to himself.
Fiction
Micromaster
Alan was able to determine that the mysterious energy emitted by an unearthed life-pod near a dormant volcano was very similar to tachyon energy. The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!
Return of Convoy
Years later, Alan and the rest of the Liner Team were recruited by Sky Garry into the ranks of the Battlestars. Great Six Combination Warrior Sixliner!
Toys
Return of Convoy
- Sixliner (Micromaster Sixteam, 1991)
- Japanese ID number: C-370
- Originally released in a giftset with his fellow Micromaster trains, Alan transforms into an orange and gray TGV-PSE Atlantique high speed train. He has a "socket" connector tab in the back of his train mode allows him to "pull" any fellow Micromaster train or footplate-weapon with a "peg" connector. He also has a peg-hole on the top of his train mode that in theory lets him use the Sixtrain/Sixliner legs as the roof-mounted Giga-Techvolt cannon... but it only works if you wedge it at an angle so it's pointing upwards, or straight backwards. He can also form either arm to any Six-team combined robot, though his nominal placement is as the right arm of Sixliner. The toy's connector socket is approximately 5mm wide, making Alan compatible with Powerlinx ports.
Micromaster
- Alan (Micromaster, 2002)
- Sixliner ID number: 2
- Accessories: Sixliner legs/"Giga-Techvolt"
- Part of the first The Transformers: Micromaster assortment, Alan and his teammates were re-released in Japan in 2002, this time sold in identical individual boxes, identifiable only by the number on their instruction sheets visible through a small hole in the box. Like the rest of the Micromaster figures, Alan's stickers were either replaced with tampographs or dropped entirely; the Sixliners all came in the same plastic colors as the originals.
Notes
- Alan, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Return of Convoy release.
- Although the Micromaster release assigns Alan the Giga-Techvolt weapon, the original Return of Convoy Sixliner instruction booklet shows him towing the weapon that would later be called the Gripper.
