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"Giant" ギガロニアのメガロコンボイ() (Gigalonia no Megalo Convoy) "Megalo Convoy of Gigalonia"
Production company	TV Aichi,We've,Tōkyū Agency
Airdate	October 8,2005(Japanese) September 13,2006(English)
Writer	Hiro Masaki
Director	Mitsuru Kawasaki
Animation studio	GONZO
Continuity	Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity

The Autobots find the Giant Planet and seek out its inhabitants. New allies are made on both sides of the battle.

Synopsis

If Doozers were giants...

On theVelocitroncolony-world shipOgygia,Scattorshotruns a tracking program to find theAtlantis,whereBud,JoltandReverbare still trapped, but the trail goes cold.Lorireasons that sinceStarscreamis taking theAtlantistoGigantion,then they simply need to reach the planet first to find them. Scattorshot picks up a heat-image, and they move in to investigate. Passing through an asteroid field, they find Gigantion, a colossal planet totally covered in cities.

Landing on the surface, theAutobotssplit up and try to find the citizens. After a long and fruitless search,Safeguarddiscovers a giant rock inside a building that's blocking a doorway.Wing Saberrams into it like a big dumb doof. One barrage ofCyber-Key-enhancedattacks later, a hole big enough for thehumansandMini-Consis formed in it.Coby,Lori,Six-Speedand Safeguard investigate, but find only an ancient control room in disrepair and completely stripped of valuable parts. Safeguard makes note of the Gigantions' custom of constantly moving to newly built cities, so the Autobots split up again.

WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!

Back on theOgygia,Scattorshot picks up a faint noise from underground, too steady to be a natural occurrence. The Autobots move to the approximate source, at which point the ground begins to tremble. Initially suspecting an earthquake, the Autobots pull back...only to marvel at the sight of a giant city rising up out of the ground! The Autobots immediately head into the new city and discover a construction site, with the actual Gigantion natives hard at work. Coby and Lori rush headlong into the build-site, and predictably, a nearby crane's load slips, promptingLandmineto charge in and grab the colossal I-beam that threatens to crush the humans.Optimussteps in to help, but neither is strong enough to hold the beam for long...until the gargantuanMetroplex,planet leader of Gigantion, shows up and uses his saw to slice the I-beam in two. As introductions are made, Metroplex inquires if the newcomers come from "thatPlanet X".When Optimus inquires as to what exactly" Planet X "is, Metroplex replies that he doesn't really know himself, then quickly turns to berate the crane-bot for forgetting their motto," Safety first. "Coby sets to work fixing up the injuries Landmine has taken saving them, while Six-Speed and Metroplex's Mini-Con partnerDrill Bitreunite, and Drill Bit passes around hugs.

Metroplex takes the Autobots back to his main bunker, where he introduces his right-hand-botQuickmix,and they all discuss the matter of theCyber Planet Key.Quickmix says he's heard the object in question is in the planet's central layer, but the two Gigantions insist that going to the lower abandoned levels of the planet is not allowed by their laws, and that the Autobots should respect that.Vector Primeattempts to create a warp to illustrate...something, and discovers that for some reason, he can't. Further discussion is interrupted when a dump truck alerts Metroplex to trouble elsewhere:Menasoris back!

The rebellious bot is attempting to drill through another rock barricade. Quickmix manages to stop him, butMegatronand theDecepticonsare there, along withanothernew ally:Soundwave,who helped bring them to Gigantion and now mocks the Autobots with his sonic skills, flawlessly impersonating Optimus Prime's voice. Menasor rants about how Gigantion's old ways are dumb and attacksEvacandOverride.The fight begins: Optimus and Wing Saber merge into Sonic Wing Mode to dogfight with Soundwave, Quickmix handlesScourge,Thundercrackerchases Landmine (and gets knocked out of the air before he can pull off his latest super-duper attack move),LeobreakerandSnarltackleRansackandCrumplezone,and theCybertron Defense Teamgang up onThunderblast.Jetfireguards the humans and tells Coby to not eventhinkabout moving from safety.

Crivens, jings and help my boab! What did ah step in?

Meanwhile, Metroplex tussles with the combined Megatron andNemesis Breaker.Megatron believes that the giant's size will make him slow, but Metroplex proves to be far more agile than expected, leaping quickly into the air and stomping Megatron hard into the ground. Scourge, Thundercracker, Ransack and Crumplezone regroup and gang up on Metroplex to help their leader, but the giant effortlessly blows them away. Megatron, still underfoot, uses some dark energy to make Metroplex stagger, and rushes at him with a Cyber-Key-enhanced Dark Claw attack. Metroplex counters by powering up his "Sparkdrinker"axe with his own Key, and brings it down on Megatron's skull. Thehugeexplosion and force of the impact sends Megatron crashing down through several levels of the planet, while Nemesis Breaker is hurled away and destroyed, evaporating back into the black mist he came from. The Decepticons, Menasor included, quickly jump down the hole, grabbing Megatron and rushing for safety.

After the battle, Metroplex and Quickmix come to a decision, realizing that theyneedto break their own traditions and enter the lower levels to stop the Decepticons from bringing destruction to all of creation. Adding the Autobotinsigniato their armor, the two giants shake hands (and mixing drum) with the Autobots, and the forces of good get alotbigger with just the addition of two more robots.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"Abracadabra, rock becomes a door!" *rams into rock* "(dizzily) And my head becomes a lump."

—Wing Saber

"Not every problem can be solved by breaking something, you know."
"Hmm. Maybe if we all tried together, we could break through."
"Exactly!... Wait, what?"

—JetfireandOptimus Prime

"Wait, it could be dangerous!"
"Oh, it'salwaysdangerous. "

—Optimus PrimeandCoby

"Just step back, old man! I'm sick of all your daft rules that don't even make any sense! The time for those rules is long gone! They're old and outdated, just like you! We're about to enter a new age! And I'm gonna be the one who's gonna lead this planet into it!"

—Menasor

"All you 'bots down on the floor, get ready to rock it."

—Soundwavegiving a DJ impression.

"Looks like it's time to drop some science on you all."

—Soundwave

"Soundwave, when I'm done with you, the only sound coming out of you will be your own voice begging for mercy!"
"Big talk. Let's see you back it up!"

—Optimus Primeusing a ridiculously long sentence to explain how he will defeatSoundwave,who tells him to back it up.

"Our team just keeps getting bigger and better!"
"Well, we're just so likable!"

—CobyandLori

Notes

Differences withGalaxy Force

• As the Autobots look down on Gigantion,Galaxy Forcehas them marvel at the prospect of Transformer descendants living on it. As we alreadyknow they do,thanks toJoltsaying so in "Balance",Cybertronchanges the dialogue to the Autobots getting ready to go into action and vowing to get the Cyber Planet Key.
• When the city rises out of the ground,Cybertronhas Coby conclude that the Gigantion natives live underground, before Scattorshot pipes up about it taking the sight of the city to convince them he was right about it not being an earthquake. InGalaxy Force,Coby does not reach this conclusion, and it is Override, not Scattorshot, who speaks next, informing the kids that they construct things the same way (raising them up out of the ground, presumably—she doesn't expand on her statement) onVelocitron.
• During Metroplex's explanation of the partnership between Mini-Cons and the larger Gigantions,Galaxy Forcehas him mention that the Mini-Cons can actually "act through" the larger robots by linking up with them.
• WhileCybertronjust has Lori plead with Metroplex and Quickmix to allow them to go to the lowest level,Galaxy Forcehas her ask why they abandon their cities. Neither Gigantion actuallyknows,but Metroplex speculates it's a way of escaping their past.
• Nemesis Breaker can be heard screaming when he is hurled before he is destroyed and fades away in. InGalaxy Forcehowever, he remains completely silent.

Animation or technical errors

• When the Autobots all power up with their Cyber Keys, Scattorshot is shown using an Earth Key, as opposed to the Cybertron Key he started using afterhis upgrade.
• When Metroplex introduces himself, he mispronounces Gigantion ( "Jy-gan-shun" ) as "Guy-gan-shun".
• As the Decepticons gawp at the defeated Megatron, the black "mask" around Ransack's eyes is missing.
• When Quickmix notifies Metroplex about Menasor, there are two Quickmixes in the picture!

Continuity or plotting errors

• Why didn't Safeguard tell anyone about the Gigantions' build-then-move thing before they spent all day wandering around a clearly abandoned city?

Continuity notes

• When thinking of a way to help the Autobots in battle, Coby decides to run back to theOgygiaand get themysterious cratehe was seen loading on board in "Warp".The plot-point will come to fruition in"City".
• Back when we first caught a glimpse of the planet in "Balance",Gigantion was much smaller than it appears in this episode. Future episodes will explain this mysterious change in size!

Trivia

• With this episode, the blacked-out figures of the Gigantions visible in the newGalaxy Forceclosing sequence, which debuted in "Critical",are blacked-out no longer, taking the sequence into the finalized form it will retain until the end of the series.
• The show reinterprets Metroplex'svehicle modeas having asawon top, when in actuality, it's supposed to be a bucket-wheel excavator, which shovels rocks and debris away, spinning theoppositedirection a saw would. Of course, there are motors that can spin either way, and in any case the shovel end of the axe is in front. On the other hand, the Gigantions' transformation stock footage sequences illustrate some notable toyaccuracy,as they depict each of the characters' "work" modes as in-between stages in their full transformations. Metroplex and Quickmix take a moment to pose in these modes in the middle of their transformations (pictured), but Menasor's is never shown fully and clearly.
• This is the last we ever see of Nemesis Breaker. Not that he did much anyway, but Megatron never bothers to bring him back after this.
• Menasor's Cyber Key is hilariously useless. InGalaxy Force,his call-out is for "Giant Drill", but the only obvious thing that summoning the key does is spin the drill, which he cando anyway,as he proves in this very episode! So, what's the point?
• For this episode, Soundwave is voiced byGarry Chalkin place of his regular actorRobert O. Smith,this was done to mirror the Galaxy Force version where Soundwave also copies Optimus's voice.

Home video releases

DVD

2006 —Transformers: Galaxy Force— Vol. 10 (Victor Entertainment) — Japanese audio only.
2008 —Transformers: Cybertron— The Ultimate Collection (Paramount)
2014 —Transformers: Cybertron— The Complete Series (Shout! Factory)