I found out that Optimus Prime transforms into a Freightliner 202 truck and I've seen the CGI Video of it.
I'm heading over to Japan in the near future and buy 2 Diaclone Battle Convoy and 3 Diaclone Powered Convoy (brand new and sealed) because they're very rare and hard to find anywhere in the west so the best place is to buy Diaclone Battle Convoy and DIaclone Powered Convoy is from Japan and not just the internet, right?
Its a little strange watching my favorite robots in disguise being advertised in a commercial completely devoid of Transformer music, lol. Seriously. I can't accept that this was before TF, what after nearly 26 years of Transformers bombarding mainstream populace and everywhere else on this planet since 1984. Lol makes you think.
@Skor76 yeah makes you think a lot... but hasbro only licensed transformers as a cartoons and japan already released the toys before the show... think of it as additional advertising media for the toy industry
Diaclone Battle Convoy is one of my top favourite Diaclone Car Robots and I'm so lucky that I bought it last June and I'm also going to keep an eye out for another Diaclone Battle Convoy real soon altought they are hard to find and hard to get a hold of. Great Video.
That's amazing! The Diaclones must be so hard to get ahold of these days. You've got a real treasure on your hands, even more of a treasure than a vintage G1 Prime, I'd say.
The toy had a bumper sticker that read, "BC keeps Diaclone Trukin!"
The transformers also never described the various other modes Optimus and others had. I showed a guy the other day how the robot could extend through the top of the trailer. He had the toy over 20 years and always wondered what that hole was for.
I've had Jetfire for that long and I can't figure out what that gunclip is for or where it goes on the toy. I've tried his head, arm, butt...but it doesn't seem to fit anywhere on the toy.
its so weird that convoy was just a gerneric robot when he was first introduced in japan but in america he was an instant hero and the greatest autobot leader
Where the first Autobot Leader toy begins.
AliceSonicGundamFan 3 months ago
its intersting about the diaclone toys that some of the robots don't have names back then and they came with tiny figures
imxformed 7 months ago
Maybe the flight abilities displayed in Diaclone were why the Autobots flew in the pilot.
ZeldaTheSwordsman 1 year ago
'Cause we got a Battle Convoy, rockin' through the night...
ZeldaTheSwordsman 1 year ago 2
holy shit 5 primes!!!!!!!! megatron's screwed
GodzillaXAbudAwwal 1 year ago 3
@GodzillaXAbudAwwal Megatron was a Microman.
RedRanger2001 10 months ago
@RedRanger2001 i know
GodzillaXAbudAwwal 10 months ago
It feels so surreal
Nolus20 1 year ago
Wheeljack could fly, with solid-fuel boosters in his arms. I like to think Marvel wrote that into his bio purely because of this advert :)
KiraBlackwater 1 year ago
@KiraBlackwater It was on his box, too. He demonstrated it a number of times in the cartoon.
ZeldaTheSwordsman 1 year ago
I watched this on youtube in 08 and cracked up when wheeljack flew by
TheRUBYHAZE 1 year ago
I found out that Optimus Prime transforms into a Freightliner 202 truck and I've seen the CGI Video of it.
I'm heading over to Japan in the near future and buy 2 Diaclone Battle Convoy and 3 Diaclone Powered Convoy (brand new and sealed) because they're very rare and hard to find anywhere in the west so the best place is to buy Diaclone Battle Convoy and DIaclone Powered Convoy is from Japan and not just the internet, right?
Aaronator19842009 1 year ago
Its a little strange watching my favorite robots in disguise being advertised in a commercial completely devoid of Transformer music, lol. Seriously. I can't accept that this was before TF, what after nearly 26 years of Transformers bombarding mainstream populace and everywhere else on this planet since 1984. Lol makes you think.
Skor76 2 years ago
@Skor76 yeah makes you think a lot... but hasbro only licensed transformers as a cartoons and japan already released the toys before the show... think of it as additional advertising media for the toy industry
hellsphinxjr 1 year ago
That's gotta be Optimus Prime before the US Transformers!
PDS1990 2 years ago 4
Battle Convoy was possibly the first Diaclone Car Robot toy to be based on an American car. In that case, it's Freightliner COE 180.
RedRanger2001 2 years ago 3
@RedRanger2001 I found out that Otimus Prime transforms into a Freightliner 202 truck and I've seen the CGI Video of it.
Aaronator19842009 1 year ago
Wheeljack can fly?
CubsFans0 3 years ago 2
His Japanese counterpart can
vh2k 2 years ago
in "More Than Meets the Eye" episode. everyone can fly in robot mode :P as they've been depiched in Diaclone advertisements
DiscothecaImperialis 2 years ago
Diaclone Battle Convoy is one of my top favourite Diaclone Car Robots and I'm so lucky that I bought it last June and I'm also going to keep an eye out for another Diaclone Battle Convoy real soon altought they are hard to find and hard to get a hold of. Great Video.
Aaronator19842009 3 years ago 2
battle convoy is optimus prime
makutateridax20 2 years ago 3
That's amazing! The Diaclones must be so hard to get ahold of these days. You've got a real treasure on your hands, even more of a treasure than a vintage G1 Prime, I'd say.
heavyarms01h 2 years ago
It's amazing how far the Transformers have come. IT won't be long until they're inducted into the Smithsonian Museum.
greatrey 4 years ago 15
My grandpa has that entire set!
Ivasivechimp 4 years ago
Wheeljack flying? Dammn those writers that killed him in the first movie!
6arcsn1sky 4 years ago 10
Oh, don't worry, the Japanese animators didn't get that memo, and so you suddenly see him again in their later G1 cartoons! =D
heavyarms01h 2 years ago
@6arcsn1sky Well, war sucks balls like that.
ZeldaTheSwordsman 1 year ago
@ZeldaTheSwordsman True
6arcsn1sky 1 year ago
The toy had a bumper sticker that read, "BC keeps Diaclone Trukin!"
The transformers also never described the various other modes Optimus and others had. I showed a guy the other day how the robot could extend through the top of the trailer. He had the toy over 20 years and always wondered what that hole was for.
duketogo 4 years ago
You're kidding me, right? I got it when I was 10 and I figured out that the hole was to extend the repair robot.
huryochagi 4 years ago
I've had Jetfire for that long and I can't figure out what that gunclip is for or where it goes on the toy. I've tried his head, arm, butt...but it doesn't seem to fit anywhere on the toy.
MeowMonkey 4 years ago
Try looking up Bandai or Takatoku Macross Valkyrie toys here or on the Internet, and see what their instructions, pictures, or reviews have to say.
G1 Jetfire was a repaint (possible retool? I'm not sure) of a Takatoku (later Bandai) Super VF-1S toy from Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
heavyarms01h 2 years ago
its so weird that convoy was just a gerneric robot when he was first introduced in japan but in america he was an instant hero and the greatest autobot leader
reanimate280 5 years ago
And then when they came back from Japan, He was made a Cybertron Leader and a great hero.
YamatoBushi 5 years ago
Takara originally intended Diaclone to be falls into REAL ROBOT category, However it is Budaski that alters the concept. making them Super Robots....
With "American Super Hero" elements. that's why all Transformers are a fully sentient lifeform instead of being crewed like Japanese 'bots.
DiscothecaImperialis 2 years ago 3
Its great that hasbro got the molds!!
obscuredblood 5 years ago