Leo Prime
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Leo Prime (LioConvoy in Japan) is the name of a fictional character in the Transformers universes.
Prior to 2006, the character had not appeared in either a toyline or storyline outside of Japan and was known as Lio Convoy.
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[edit] Beast Wars II (1998)
| Transformers character | |
 Convoy and Lio Convoy |
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| Leo Prime (Lio Convoy) | |
|---|---|
| Affiliation | Maximal |
| Sub-Group | Ultra Beasts, Convoys |
| Function | Cybertron Supreme Commander |
| Motto | "I will protect the freedom of the Galaxy until the day I die and after that I will have no regrets." |
| Alternate Modes | White Lion |
| Series | Beast Wars II |
| Voiced by | Hozumi Gôda (Japanese) |
NOTE: In the Japanese Transformers Beast Wars II series, the Maximal faction is known as Cybertron, the Predacon faction is known as Destron and Transformers home planet Cybertron is known as Seibertron.
[edit] Animated Series
Originally a brave and noble Maximal commander, after his ship was attacked by a group of renegade Predacons led by Galvatron Leo Prime was dispatched to pursue the Predacons and bring them to justice. Chasing them to the planet Gaia (in reality a future Earth) Prime was injured by the fields of Angolmois energy (similar to the Energon fields in Beast Wars). He was then rescued by a white lion, whose form he scanned to give him a beast mode for protection. Howver, believing him to be dying the Matrix had copied itself into another Maximal - LioJunior, who now came to think of himself as Leo Prime's son.
After many adventures to prevent Galvatron from gaining the Angolmois energy, Prime would meet his foe one last time on the Nemesis, a planet-sized warship Galvatron intended to use to suck the energy out of planets. As his team sabotaged the Nemesis from within Prime and Galvatron clashed for the last time. Unable to defeat his Angolmois charged enemy, the two Matrices combined their powers to merge Prime and LioJunior, allowing them to defeat the insane Galvatron. Enraged by this defeat Galvatron set his own Matrix to self-destruct the Nemesis. Although the Maximals survived the explosion, they became trapped inside a wormhole...
[edit] Beast Wars Neo
Many years later, after further battles of the Angolmois energy between Big Convoy and Magmatron revealed its' true origin - the lifeforce of Unicron - the Chaos Bringer was resurrected, and caused Big Convoy's Maximals to fall inside the same wormhole as Prime. There, Leo Prime explained the natureof the threat and used what little was left of his power to help them escape. Howver, Leo was later able to escape himself, and aided Big Convoy and Magmatron in Unicron's eventual defeat, helping to bring about a new age of peace on Cybertron.
[edit] Comic Book Appearances
His first actual appearance in an American series was during 2006 in the first issue of IDW Publishing's Beast Wars, sending Razorbeast on a mission as a double-agent infiltrating Magmatron's Predacons. However, he was not named; his first American toy was not yet known of at the time. He had a Cybertronian redesign as in the storyline, Leo Prime had yet to travel to Earth to become a lion.
[edit] Transformers: Robot Masters (2005)
Lio Convoy appeared in this Japanese only series with a new deluxe sized toy closely based on his original form. There was later a Dengeki Hobby Exclusive black recolor of the toy in Decepticon packaging based upon the black recolor of the original toy.
[edit] Comic Book Appearances
Lio Convoy appeared in the Robot Masters comic that was only available in Japan.
[edit] Transformers: Classics (2006)
Lio Convoy finally appeared as an official Hasbro toy as a repaint of the Legends of Cybertron Leobreaker. Although he is not strictly a Classics toy, he does appear in Classics packaging.
[edit] Links
Lioconvoy Toy Review
Lioconvoy Toy Gallery
Lioconvoy Toy Gallery (original)
Lioconvoy Toy Gallery (black repaint)
