Converter
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| This article is about the Micromaster Sixtrain member. For the Recyclon, see Convertor. |
- Converter is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Though he's the oldest of the Earth-based Micromasters, Converter (コンバーター Konbātā) doesn't act it, trying to always act carefree and full of youthful energy. (Midlife crisis, anyone?) He loves history, and finds the ancient ruins of Earth fascinating. He often uses the tales of his new home's ancient past in his advice to his teammates in the Train Team.
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Fiction
Micromaster
Converter and Joe discovered a special stratum deep underground in the area near a dormant volcano, but hadn't had the chance to investigate until the Decepticon Micromasters arrived on the site. After driving off Sixwing with Sixtrain's "Red Mode", Converter allayed Discharge's fears that the Decepticons were attempting to make the volcano erupt, pointing that the digging was indicative of an excavation site. After Gran Arm discovered plates of Cybertronian metal, Converter was certain that life-forms similar to theirs had been there. However, Sixwing returned to try and take the unearthed prize, and Converter had to re-combine with his teammates to fight off the invaders. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!
Later, after the construction of the Metrobase, Converter, Joe, and Crush-Bull were recovering a strange life-pod from the excavation site when the Decepticons made another attack. A strange plasma radiation wave burst form the life-pod, knocking all the Micromasters temporarily offline. They awoke shortly afterward, feeling no ill effects, and the Decepticons beat a retreat. As the newly arrived Multiforce introduced themselves to the Autobots, the Decepticon Sixbuilder and Sixwing attacked once again. The Train Team offered to help as Sixtrain, but the new arrivals' combined form Landcross was able to handle the situation easily. The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!
Operation Combination
Years later, Converter and the rest of the Six-team Micromasters joined Guard City and the Road Corps in defending Earth from the forces of the Decepticon High Regent Scrash. Operation Combination
Train Wars
The Trainbots were heavily injured fighting the Nine Great Demon Generals in the form of Raiden, leaving them requiring extensive repairs. Blaming himself for their condition, Shouki left the team so that his leadership would never endanger them again. Sixtrain stood watch over Shouki's elective reformatting into a spy shuttlecraft at Metrobase. Shouki & Daniel Chapter
Later, just as Cybertron seemed lost to the interdimensional incursion of the Fallen, Shouki and the ragtag band of Transformers left to defend Cybertron were greeted by Desire along with D-Go and Shouki's old comrade Suiken. The other Trainbots had arrived astride Metroplex, bringing with them the Train Team and the Liner Team! Chiding his brother for being as solemn as ever, Yukikaze reminded Shouki the Trainbots would always have his back. With that, on Windy's count all three teams of train 'bots combined into the Trainbot Omni-Car Joint to chain the Fallen, giving Shouki and company time to vanquish the cosmic evil by funneling Metroplex's power through Shouki's new "Raiden" cannon mode. Train Wars 2
Toys
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
- Sixtrain (Micromaster Six-Team, 1992)
- ID number: TF-05
- Released in the Operation Combination portion of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, Convertor is a redeco of Return of Convoy Sixliner component Night, transforming into an EF66 "Blue Train" engine. He has a "peg" connector tab in the back of his train mode allows him to connect to any fellow Micromaster train or footplate-weapon with a "socket" connector.
- He can also form either leg to Sixtrain or Sixliner (if you do not use his hitch to better secure the footplate as the instructions show), but his normal placement is as the left leg of Sixtrain.
- He was only available in the complete Sixtrain box set, along with this fellow Micromasters Atlan, Desire, Raise, San D-Go, and Windy.
- The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find, due to their final-year release well after Transformers had faded from relevance in Japan, and thus command some hefty prices even with the molds' later re-releases.
Micromaster
- Converter (Micromaster, 2003)
- Micromaster ID number: 6
- Accessories: Sixtrain chest
- In 2003, the entire Sixtrain team was re-released as the fifth The Transformers: Micromaster assortment, in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. For this release, each character was extensively redecoed, plus the decals from the original version were replaced with paint applications. Night changes significantly, going from a red train to a dark green train. In train mode his windows are now all painted black, he has a white sripe on each side rather than a huge white block, a new Autobot symbol. His robot mode is also more complexly decoed, with his face now silver with a yellow visor rather than all-silver, and a silver midriff, as many of these toys got for some reason.
- On top of this, two out of every twelve toys in the shipping/display case were all-red-plastic, minimally-painted "Red Mode" chase figures. Even the combiner kibble was cast in red.
Notes
- Converter, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Operation Combination release.
