It is speculated that Ultra Magnus may have formerly been Dion, the best friend of worker robot Orion Pax, who was himself rebuilt into Optimus Prime by the ancient Autobot, Alpha Trion. Their apparent longstanding relationship, plus the similarity of Prime to Magnus's inner robot, would seem to support this idea, but it was never officially touched upon.
Whatever the case, Ultra Magnus made his first continuity appearance in the Earth year 2005 as commander of Autobot City on Earth. Leading the defence of the city when it came under Decepticon attack, Magnus suddenly found himself commanding the entire Autobot army when Optimus Prime died in battle and passed the Autobot Matrix of Leadership to him despite his protestations. Subsequently, in a confrontation with the Decepticons on the planet of Junk, Magnus was blown apart and lost the Matrix to Galvatron, but was reassembled and reactivated by the Junkions. When Hot Rod recovered the Matrix from Galvatron and became Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus stepped down as leader.
Takara released the much anticipated Masterpiece Convoy in December of 2003 as debut figure in their new collector line. It was an instant sell out and fans clamoured for more Master Piece. The result was a white Ultra Magnus who also stands over 12" tall and has hefty amount of die-cast parts along with real rubber tires and a light up feature. The vehicle mode, Convoy is of course a white semi-truck cab.
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 12 March, 2009.
