Metroplex (Cybertron)

This article is about the Cybertron-series Gigantion leader. For the Genration 1 Autobot, see Metroplex (G1).

Metroplex is an Autobot from Gigantion in the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

His Mini-Con partner is Drill Bit.

Japanese name: Megalo Convoy

Toys

Cybertron

• Metroplex (Leader-Class, 2005)

Japanese ID number: C-

Metroplex transforms into a Cybertronic bucket-wheel excavation machine. In this mode, his bucket-wheel/shovel assembly is on a rotator and contains numerous ratchet-joints, plus the wheel can spin, though it does not do so freely. This assembly becomes Metroplex's colossal axe "Sparkdrinker" in robot mode, plus has a spot on the shovel to attach Drill Bit in his vehicle mode. Plugging a Cyber Planet Key into the Key jack on Sparkdrinker opens up the wheel to form the axe-head, plus activates an electronic light.

Like his fellow Gigantions Quickmix and Menasor, Metroplex has two different robot modes, their full-sized standard mode, and a shorter, sturdier "work" mode.

He comes with his Mini-Con partner Drill Bit, and a gold-bordered Gigantion-style Cyber Planet Key. The Hasbro version has the Key Code "lm74" on the back of the Cyber Planet Key.

• Megalo Convoy gold edition

A solid-gold-chromed version of Metroplex was given away as a contest prize in Japan. Limited to 15 pieces, it was available in a Japanese toy magazine (which one is unknown at the time).

Trivia

• Metroplex's "work" robot mode is not shown in the Japanese release's instructions. It is also only briefly glimpsed in the cartoon, as part of his stock-footage "vehcle to robot" transformation sequence.

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.