Cannon Transport

The Cannon Transport is a Decepticon Micromaster transport from the toyline portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

This series of conflicts was later dubbed the War of the Shaking Fists.

The Cannon Transport is commanded by Cement-Head and Terror-Tread, who lug it into battle. It can convert to a battle station mode with multiple cannons, or split into two separate artillery emplacements with dual plasma blasters. Its state of the art scanners can track enemy Autobots up to twenty miles away.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

The Cannon Transport Thoroughfare was an integrated part of Micropolis on a post-war Cybertron. Hot Rod traveled through the Thoroughfare on his way to his Star Convoy base after being summoned to help fight against Lio Convoy's anti-government faction. Micro-Aggressions

Commercial appearances

Cement-Head and Terror-Tread drove through a rocky desert combined with the Cannon Transport, then all three separated, transformed, and launched an attack against an unseen foe. Micromaster Combiners and Combiner Transports commercial

Toys

The Transformers

• Cannon Transport (Micromaster Decepticon Combiner Transport, 1990)

• Accessories: 2 cannons, left & right shields/ramps

Released in the seventh and final year of the original The Transformers toyline in the US (sixth and not-final in Europe), the Cannon Transport is a massive, well, anti-aircraft cannon transport, with connection points on both ends that can be used to attach Micromaster Combiners in their half-a-vehicle modes to drive it around. The Transport can also expand to form a battle station with connector ramps one each end to attach to other Micromaster "playsets", or split into two wheeled "battle emplacements", each of which has a driver's compartment for a Micromaster to sit in.

The Transport came with the Decepticon Micromaster Combiners Terror-Tread and Cement-Head.

No version of this mold was sold in Japan.

• More information on the Cannon Transport (via Cement-Head) at TFU.info

Notes

• As with the Missile Launcher, it seems the Tech Spec writer didn't quite grasp the concept; the bio describes the Cannon Transport as being able to transform into a battle platform, two artillery emplacements, OR two robots. It also describes the Transport as having an additional "Micromaster Combiner Mode" which allows it to "fuse" with other Micromaster Combiners. Right.
• The Cannon Transport's packaging art incorrectly swaps the colors of Terror-Tread and Cement-Head's torso parts.
• The box back mural reflects the hi-contrast colors shown on the prototype pictured in the 1990 catalog.

Foreign names

• Spain: Remolque de Cañon ("Cannon Trailer")