- Metroplex is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
We built this city on rock and roll!
Metroplex is either the proper name for Autobot City or simply a region inside Autobot city itself. Either way, Metroplex is big. Crazy big. He isn't very talkative, but then, few cities are. He has a deep-seated rivalry with the gargantuan Decepticon, Trypticon.
- Italian name: Guardian
- Japanese name: Metroflex
- French-Canadian name: Métroplex
Fiction
Animated continuity
- Voice actor: Bud Davis (US), Osamu Saka (Japan)
Metroplex might have appeared in the movie, he might not have, it's hard to tell. Either way, he didn't transform into his robot form due to the fact that his Transformation Cog was destroyed early in the attack. As a result, if he DID appear, he was stuck in Base Mode.
After the Movie, Perceptor built a new Cog, and entrusted its delivery to Blurr and Wheelie. After numerous setbacks (including nearly getting killed by Galvatron and being stranded on Jupiter's moon Io), the Cog was safely delivered and inserted into Metroplex. Who promptly transformed and had a horribly animated battle against Trypticon.
Marvel Comics continuity
Dreamwave comics continuity
Toys
Generation 1
- Metroplex (Autobot City, 1986)
- Japanese ID number: C-70
- Metroplex transforms from a large robot to a multi-leveled "city" mainly for use with the smaller Generation 1 toys. This mode includes a service bay with launching mechanism, a helipad, and "parking" for six vehicles in whatever his legs fold out to be. He also has a third mobile battle station mode; a more compact wheeled form that incorporates his many weapons.
- Metroplex came with Six-Gun, Slammer, and Scamper; the first two formed various parts of Metroplex's alternate modes. He can connect with any of the Scramble City-styled combiner limbs using connectors on his arms and legs. Also, in city mode, Metroplex can connect with the base modes of Silverbolt, Hot Spot, Motormaster, and Onslaught, a feature that was left out of the Hasbro instructions.
- As a third-year piece, Metroplex was one of several items to undergo "materials changing". Initial versions of Metroplex used rubber tires, and the fronts of his upper legs were fully-chromed silver. After a time, though, the tires were replaced with single-piece hard-plastic tires, and his legs changed to white plastic with a silver factory-applied sticker at the top. However, the plastic tire version also possessed a waist reinforced with two screw points instead of one, in an effort to prevent Metroplex literally snapping in half as so many of the original versions did due to a weak spot on the waist.
- This mold was also used to make Metrotitan.
Merchandise
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