#Transformers Car Robots

[lui-the-cute-snek]

BUILD TEAM! I love teams where the youngest one is the leader, it's always a fun dynamic!

Transformuary day 19 & 20: Combiner & Leader

[bluespider62]

This goes for every other Cybertron, Destronger and Destron

For those who don't get the joke, Robots in Disguise (2001) was originally an anime called Car Robots, which featured a new character named Fire Convoy.

The rank of "Convoy" was an Autobot title made to honor Optimus Prime and held by bots who had an uncanny resemblance to Oppy, such as Lio Convoy, Lio Jr., Big Convoy and Black Convoy.

[dstevensartgallery]

See you all at TFcon Toronto!

[primeconvoy1]

Blue Bolts (Haslab)

The creative team at Takara Tomy and Hasbro decided to make the weapon/launcher for Ultra Magnus into his weaponizer partner Blue Bolts.

[megaturtle1012]

Got this for my birthday, and I’m having fun!

OG Armada Red Alert is is my very first Transformers toy, and despite having no Minicon, this is a great update.

[pyroanime2k16]

Transformers RID01/Car Robots expansion idea

This is an expansion of the Transformers Car Robots/Robots In Disguise 2001 cartoon (because it deserves more attention). This includes some elements from the Universe audio story where Optimus is female, the Maximals in some form (as the Predacons are the main bad guys in the show), and an alternate and more honorable version of the show’s take on what would become the infamous Nemesis Prime archetype: Scourge.

Basically, everything is the same until the Omega Prime (Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus combination) and Scourge reveals. Here, the three are actually the same person: Omega Prime (formerly known as Invictus), but because of the spark’s immense power and potential, it was split into triplets (twin brothers of light: Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus and brother of darkness: Scourge).

Optimus and Magnus are more or less identical to their initial RID01/Car Robots interpretations, while Scourge is more of a morally conflicted anti-hero. He is violent and fierce, but still has a sense of honor, which ultimately makes him do what he does for the greater good of everyone. This is ultimately what frees him from Decepticon/Predacon control after being brainwashed.

Scourge was captured and brainwashed into becoming a Decepticon, being legally pronounced dead until his debut. In episode 32, Omega Prime realizes just how depraved Megatron is here (using a clone of himself as a test subject) and tries to kill him, only to be nearly killed himself. Scourge successfully saves him, killing Megatron, but also nearly dies and as a result, the three are forced to 1: go through the Beast upgrade to become a Maximal to save them and 2: become one individual again.

The fusion gives our hero three forms: A Raptor (Eagle, Hawk, and Falcon mix) as her first/primary, Roc as an incomplete and berserker form forced upon her, and a Phoenix as her final. The process makes our hero female, but she doesn’t care as long as she’s still the same hero at heart (which is very important imo if you’re gonna swap roles, genders, etc). Megatron’s clone takes his place and is admittedly even worse than her “father”.

The Autobot leader retains the Optimus Prime name despite her change, having grown very attached to it. Though she is legally classified as Invictus Prime, she responds to Optimus a vast majority of the time, as that's the name she's grown much accustomed to. Megatron's clone is Galva-Empress and is a massive Predacon with a dragon mode and demonic motif. She is much more unhinged, resulting in her becoming the ONLY antagonist in the story.

[siphersaysstuff]

FORTY YEARS!

So here's a thing I'm doing now. Each of my monthly Patreon-backed @tfwiki Transformers toy pic updates will be backed up by a YouTube video! Here I can get into more details about each toy, share some fun factoids, make attempts at humour with a u, etc.

So why not start off with a look back at a few toys from across the 40 years of the franchise?

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[lowder-the-koopa]

Lowder Reviews: What's Next 5

[obscurusgabriel]

Rid 2001 Gigatron/Megatron

He may not be the best villain but i think Gigatron/Megatron needs some love too. Plus i think he looks cool.

[theenbimeister]

GOD MAGNUS VS FIRE CONVOY

[jknighttoku10]

Here’s omega prime my dad got for my on my birthday!^^ and they are amazing!^^

[princess-viola]

[bluespider62]

Made some more voice headcanons ! Feel free to yell at me in the comments hehehe

[longwuzhere]

My Haslab Omega Prime is here!!!

Transformers Robots in Disguise from 2001 was my first introduction to Earth based vehicle Transformers. I watched Beast Wars back in the day and that was my first introduction to Transformers overall. The pic on the left is Omega Prime/God Fire Convoy in Japan combined from Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus while on the right its Omega Prime with the rest of Super Mode Optimus attached on. There is a secret mode where you can attach all of the Super Mode Optimus parts on him and this is what I made until they release an official video instructions on how it's properly done.

Here is Optimus Prime or Fire Convoy as he is named in Car Robots: Transformers in Japan with the Super Mode armor in base mode. Love that you can give Optimus the missile rack mounted on his shoulders just like in the original toy back in the early 2000s. With this new version he's got better articulation like an ab crunch and ratcheted hips, knees, and shoulders. He's got thicker thighs to even out Super Mode and Omega Prime's proportions. I did have to do some sanding in the inner spinal column because you have to push down on the body and out of the box it had no cracks on the abs, but I did the sanding to prevent future damaging there.

Now here is Optimus in Super Mode and vehicle mode. Like I said before from the base mode parts you can armor up Optimus into his iconic Super Mode. Still retains his articulation from his normal robot mode but not has finger articulation. This version of Optimus here is my favorite because of the vehicle mode choice. A fire engine fits Optimus so well because he saves lives like fire fighters. Optimus Prime needs to be fire engines more often! Bonus points to this version for allowing Cerebros, the bonus Titanmaster figure to sit in the bucket. Also the ladder extends and the missiles in it can flip out while the warheads are removable.

The other two figures include in this are Ultra Magnus or God Magnus in Car Robots: Transformers and Bluebolts. The cartoon/anime really played up the anti-hero-ness of this version of Ultra Magnus and it really stuck with me as a kid. I love that the creative team really redesigned Bluebolts here. Originally 2001 Bluebolts was just a weapon pack for Ultra Magnus, but here the design team gave her cool modular parts and can still transform into Ultra Magnus' weapon pack.

Thanks to her modular nature Bluebolts can separate and fill out the empty spaces in Ultra Magnus' chest and back legs. Really smart way for weapons storage.

I adore this vehicle mode for Ultra Magnus. He homages the 80s UM by being a car carrier truck but its more like what a car carrier would look like driving on the streets at least how I usually see them. Vehicle mode can carry up to 3 cars.

The photos don't do it justice but Omega Prime here can double hand the nearly 2ft tall Matrix Blade and you can pull off the Obari pose! Its freaking cool! God I love Transformers Robots in Disguise/ Car Robots: Transformers!

[primeconvoy1]

Omega Prime (Haslab)

[sweetpeaches666]

Gigatron/Megatron suing Fire Convoy/Optimus for the child support money he owns him for Black Convoy/Scourge.