Long Haul
And we end our look back at the Transformer toys this month with the guts of the Constructicons, Long Haul.
Starting out as a Diaclone Construction Vehicle RobotNo. 5 Dump Truck, Long Haul was one of the first combiner bots in the franchise. Like I said with Hook, subsequent combiners would only have one robot as the torso but here we gets two, so Long Haul got to act as the lower body.
There weren't too many toys on him. Much like his Constructicon brethren, there was the initial toy in 1985, a later giftset and the European release where he was a bit yellow.
The file card paints rather interesting character. Hates his job but understands the importance of supply lines. "Can be goaded into a fight if he's overmatched" is a rather interesting line. Does he avoid violence unless there's no other option? Does he wait until he's overmatched?
The comic was less clear. Built by Shockwave on Earth, he mostly stayed with the Constructicons in group shots until they were slowly faded away in the background. Seriously we didn't even see them get shot or anything.
The cartoon, where he was voiced by Gregg Berger, didn't fare much better. He mostly complained about his job, as well as having multiple origins. His biggest individual role was dragging an injured Kickback away in the movie. After that, it was all background shots until the end.
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