Magna Convoy

Magna Convoy is a Warrior of the Seven Lights from the Precursor World portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

It's times like this we really regret burning all the Thundercats jokes in the 2000s.

Originally a non-sentient drone created for combat support, Magna Convoy (マグナコンボイ Maguna Konboi) was infused with life by the dying leader of the Blue Order. The blue knightonium which adorns his body carries remnants of the leader's power. Magna Convoy's purpose is to retrieve the stolen Matrix Sword and bring the traitor Straxus to justice.

Fiction

Precursor World

He tried.

Magna Convoy began life as a simple Blue Order support drone designated MC11. When two Straxuses betrayed the Primus Vanguard and infected the Blue Order's members with programs that forced them to turn on each other, the hapless drone was quickly felled. God Neptune comic 1

"Please take on all of my responsibilities for poorly defined reasons, tiny child!"

However, by some miracle the drone survived, evolved into the warrior Magna Convoy and blessed with sentience and emotions by the power of his dying commander Blue Big Convoy. The first emotion he felt was rage. After making a promise to his predecessors to retrieve the Matrix Sword and meeting with the mysterious Soundwave, Magna Convoy assaulted Darkmount and battled one of the Straxuses for the sword, only to find that the blade had lost its power. He was nearly killed by Straxus and his allies before getting saved by a ship that teleported him to a location where the spirit of Blue Big Convoy appeared before him. The Primus Vanguard commander entrusted Magna Convoy with one final mission to protect his clone, a young Transformer named Convobat. Magna Convoy then passed out, and was later discovered and reawakened by Convobat himself. Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic Cybertron Convobat

After Magna Convoy taught Convobat about the Primus Vanguard and gave him the remains of the Matrix Sword, the two were attacked by Straxus's Rollermaster Corps, and Magna Convoy confronted Straxus again while telling Convobat to escape. Convobat refused, however, and instead came to his aid and returned the Matrix Sword, believing he deserved it better. Seeing Convobat as a ray of hope for the future, Magna Convoy was determined to protect him, and this determination allowed him to call upon the light of the Matrix Sword and defeat Straxus. He then departed into space with Convobat, and, upon discovering evidence of other survivors of the Primus Vanguard, vowed to recreate a new Blue Order. Cybertron Magna Convoy

Magna Convoy eventually proved fantastically successful, joining warriors new and old to claim his birthright as the leader of a next-generation Blue Order in the reconstituted Primus Vanguard. Finale

Legends comic

Thanks to the spirit energy of the Legends World, Ginrai woke up one day in the form of Magna Convoy, much to his confusion. The native Waspinator explained Magna Convoy's backstory and brought in Delta Magnus from the G1 World for further elaboration, but he didn't know anything about Magna Convoy or the Primus Vanguard. Still dedicated to his job as a delivery driver, Ginrai borrowed Delta Magnus's trailer to make deliveries and was able to "Double On" with it to form "Super Magna Convoy" to beat back some troublesome Decepticons. The impressed Nightscream recruited Ginrai to play the part of Magna Convoy in his next Convobat movie, but Ginrai woke up the next morning back to his human self. Desperate to still be in the movie, Ginrai painted his transtector blue. Bonus Edition Vol. EX

Toys

Legends

Matrix Sword and accessories

• Magna Convoy (June 5, 2017)
  • ID number: LG-EX
  • Accessories: Smokestacks/laser cannon, wind vane/ion blaster, Matrix Sword, Large Gun

An e-HOBBY exclusive, Legends Magna Convoy is a redeco of Classics Voyager Class Optimus Prime, transforming into a cab-over style truck of made up model. In robot mode, his wind vane transforms into a large blaster and can be used as a shield if one of his fists is folded down, and his smokestacks transform into a smaller laser cannon. Additionally, both weapons can combine together to form a double-barrelled over-shoulder weapon. He also features two accessories that are new to this mold: the Matrix Sword, which was reused from Voyager Class Titans Return Alpha Trion and Legends Leo Prime, and the large gun accessory from Titans Return Mindwipe. He comes with two comics, "Cybertron Magna Convoy" and "Bonus Edition Vol. EX".

This toy was repurposed as a temporary body for Ginrai after contracting Transformers sickness in the Legends comic.

• Legends Magna Convoy bio translation

Shattered Glass Collection

And you thought he had an identity crisis before.

For further information, see: Ultra Magnus (SG)#Shattered Glass Collection

Shattered Glass Collection Ultra Magnus is a retool of Kingdom Ultra Magnus. He transforms into a car carrier truck, with the trailer becoming armor for the Voyager-sized inner robot formed from the cab. Said inner robot was consistently referred to as Magna Convoy by Hasbro designer Mark Maher when promoting the toy for a Fan First Friday Tuesday,^[1] though only the Ultra Magnus name appears on the packaging.

Maher also noted the toy's "yellow, cartoon-accurate eyes". Okay!

Merchandise

Transformers Character Card

• Magna Convoy & Straxus Set (April 14, 2022)
  • ID number: 13 & 14

• Known designers: Shin Sasaki (illustration)

Released as part of the third wave of the e-HOBBY exclusive Transformers Character Card series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of Magna Convoy and Straxus along with character profiles and tech specs.

• Translation of Magna Convoy's Transformers Character Card

Notes

Sir-Not-Appearing-In-This-Franchise.

• Magna Convoy has a straight 10 on every one of his stats.
• Magna Convoy is based on the blue inner robot/cab of Diaclone Powered Convoy, which also inspired the Generation 1 character Delta Magnus.
• The name "Magna Convoy" was originally used in Legends of the Microns as the Japanese name for "Optimus Prime Megaweapon", the combination of Convoy (Optimus Prime) and Ultra Magnus (Overload).
• Magna Convoy makes a brief appearance in his original form as the drone MC11 in the first Selects God Neptune comic, obscured when Blue Big Convoy falls on him. Enough of him is shown to reveal that before being granted true life and being reformatted, he was a toy released in the 1979 "Police Keeper" range of Microman figures from Takara; specifically, the blue Micro Knight, which had the ID number of...MC11! The Micro Knights were positioned as "android helpers" to the line's usual translucent plastic cyborgs, and were vacuum metallized from head to toe with the exception of the line's trademark 5 mm compatible hands and feet. Proving something of a darling with Microman collectors due to their unusual appearance, the Micro Knight received several reissues well into the 2000s.

References

See also

• Delta Magnus