Full-Barrel
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- Full-Barrel is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Full-Barrel is half of the Autobot Battlefield Headquarters team, along with his combiner partner Overflow. His battlefield tactics don't get more complicated than, "Full speed ahead!" but Overflow tries to act as a moderating influence (which would probably work better if Overflow was the front of their combined form).[1]
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Toys
The Transformers
- Battlefield Headquarters (Micromaster Combiner Autobot Headquarters, 1990)
- Accessories: 2-part "Battlefield Headquarters" vehicle, 2 "scrambler guns", 2 "laser machine guns", 2 "air-to-air missiles", 2 "cruise missiles"
- Released in the seventh and final year of the original The Transformers toyline in the US (sixth and not-final in Europe), Full-Barrel transforms into the front half of a tractor-trailer rig (with about a third of the cargo trailer at the back). He is intended to combine primarily with his partner Overflow to form a complete tractor-trailer rig. As a Micromaster Combiner, he can also attach to any other Micromaster Combiner, Combiner Transport or Micro Trailer to form weird new vehicle modes.
- He and Overflow were only available packed in with Autobot Battlefield Headquarters.
- No version of this set was sold in the Takara line.
Notes
- Dedicated art of Overflow and Full-Barrel's own bodies was largely obscured on the packaging for the Battlefield Headquarters. Decades later, the full views were published in Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging.
- In Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye encyclopedia, Full-Barrel is incorrectly shown as transforming into the entire tractor-trailer rig, instead of just the front half.
- Amusingly, Full-Barrel and Overflow form a perfect miniature version of the Battlefield Headquarters they drive, even having the Headquarters' folded wings sculpted into their sides. Both the Battlefield Headquarters and Full-Barrel/Overflow even split in the same place in vehicle mode.
