Big Convoy, Move Out
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| "Big Convoy, Move Out" (Big Convoy Shutsugeki Seyo) | ||||||
| Production code | BWN-01 | |||||
| Production company | TV Tokyo, NAS, Ashi Productions | |||||
| Airdate | 3 February 1999 | |||||
| Writer | Junki Takegami | |||||
| Director | Tomio Yamauchi | |||||
| Animation studio | Ashi Productions | |||||
| Continuity | Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity | |||||
Big Convoy and the new Maximal recruits investigate the disappearance of Lio Convoy as well as the powerful new Angolmois Capsules, scattered across the galaxy!
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Synopsis
On a distant planet, a team of Predacons wage war against a seemingly unstoppable Maximal warrior. The warrior breaks into the Predacon stronghold and faces off against the Predacon commander, Magmatron. The warrior turns out to be the legendary "One-Man Army", Big Convoy. The two opponents have a go at it and Big Convoy walks away the victor after using his ultimate attack, the Big Cannon.
A long time later, Big Convoy is out in space one day when he called back to camp by orders of Vector Sigma. Once he arrives he is greeted by the Great Convoys who inform him that he is to be the instructor of a team of new recruits. Being a loner, Big Convoy immediately rejects the idea but is then informed he has no choice, as it is the direct order of Vector Sigma. Bitter, Big Convoy reluctantly accepts.
On the Maximal spaceship, the Gung Ho, the new recruits introduce themselves: Break, the hot-headed penguin; Stampy, the cowardly bunny rabbit; Colada, the foul-mouthed and violent cobra; Longrack, the mature-beyond-his-years giraffe; and Heinrad, the easy-going tanuki. After introducing themselves, Break devises a plan to test their new commander's skill in combat. Break suggests that they all hide and spring a surprise attack on Big Convoy once he enters, much to Longrack's disapproval. The plan does not go well, as Big Convoy effortlessly defeats each of them, except Stampy, who gives up immediately.
Big Convoy then informs them that their first training mission will be to investigate the disappearance of Lio Convoy and his troops on planet Gaia a few years ago, and the massive explosion reported at the same time. NAVI, the on-board computer, warps the Gung Ho to their destination. They arrive in a field of asteroids, bewildered at the amount of destruction inflicted upon the planet. Big Convoy wastes no time in appointing Longrack as sub-commander of the team and sends them to investigate Gaia's surface.
Upon touchdown they are greeted by Magmatron and his troops: Guiledart, the second in command who transforms into a Triceratops; Saberback, the mystic who transforms into a Stegosaurus; Sling, the idiotic Dimetrodon; and Dead End, the quiet and psychotic ammonite. Stampy wastes no time in getting taken hostage while the rest get pummeled. Big Convoy shows up just in the nick of time to prevent the recruits from retreating by...shooting at them and corralling them back toward the enemy (holy crap!). Using his secret attack, the Time Freeze, Heinrad manages to rescue Stampy (though the attack only lasts 30 seconds and drains all of his energy). Big Convoy sends Magmatron packing with his Big Cannon and the rest of the Predacon warriors follow suit by teleporting back to their ship, the Dinosaur. Using the Matrix to speak through Big Convoy, Vector Sigma informs the recruits never to give up hope and "All for one and one for all".
Inspecting the ruins of the old Maximal ship, they happen upon the black box. Taking it on board with them, they play the message. Lio Convoy recounts the last events of his war. He and his Maximals battled Galvatron and the Predacons who had used the artificial planet Nemesis to drain Gaia of its Angolmois Energy—the most powerful energy in the universe. As a last ditch effort, Lio Convoy caused Nemesis to self-destruct, resulting in the Angolmois Energy being sealed in capsules and scattered all across the galaxy. The message ends and their mission is clear, Big Convoy commands NAVI to enter warp-speed so they can go hunt down the Angolmois Capsules. Back on the Dinosaur, DNAVI (the Predacon onboard computer) berates the warriors over their failure in battle. Magmatron commands the ship to follow the Maximals, as they too are after the Angolmois Capsules.
Capsule score
- Maximals: 0
- Predacons: 0
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
Continuity notes
- The episode's opening scene makes it explicitly clear that all-out war has broken out between the Maximals and Predacons, and which has been going on for some time given Big Convoy's now-legendary combat history. This is in stark contrast to how the American Beast Wars established in its first episode a centuries-old peace between the two factions that was still in effect. But since the Beast Wars II cartoon had previously shifted its timeframe to occur eons after the home-time of the Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoon, this is simply the new status quo for the Maximals and Predacons going forward.
Continuity errors
- Oddly, the Maximals do not encounter, attempt to track down, or even make mention of the various other Maximals and Predacons left behind on Gaia after the destruction of Nemesis. The stragglers consist of the Insectrons, the Jointrons, and the Autorollers. The fate of these characters won't be touched upon until the last episode, "Graduation Ceremony!!", where they are all seen back on Cybertron with no explanation as to how they got there.
Transformers references
- The mega-computer Vector Sigma originally appeared in the The Transformers cartoon and was last seen in the Headmasters cartoon. It's had something of a makeover since then.
- The disappearance of Lio Convoy and the attack of Galvatron's Nemesis upon Gaia occurred, of course, at the conclusion of the Beast Wars II cartoon.
Home video releases
- VHS
1999 — Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo — ACT. 1 (Pioneer LDC)
- DVD
2012 - Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo - DVD BOX (Video Maker)