Leo Prime
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Leo Prime (Lio Convoy 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.
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[edit] Beast Wars II (1998)
| Transformers character | |
 Optimus Primal and Leo Prime |
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| Leo Prime | |
|---|---|
| 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), Leo 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. However, believing him to be dying the Matrix had copied itself into another Maximal: LioJunior, who came to think of himself as Leo Prime's son.
After many adventures to prevent Galvatron from gaining the Angolmois energy, Leo 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 Leo Prime and Galvatron clashed for the last time. Unable to defeat his Angolmois charged enemy, the two Matrices combined their powers to merge Leo 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 Leo Prime. There, Leo Prime explained the nature of the threat and used what little was left of his power to help them escape. However, Leo Prime 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] IDW Publishing
His first actual appearance in an American series was during 2006 in the first issue of IDW Publishing's Beast Wars: The Gathering, 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. However, this Cybertronian form (except for his head) bore absolutely no resemblance to his Cybertronian form in the first two episodes of the Japanese animated series.
[edit] Beast Wars II Movie
Beast Wars II also produced a feature film entitled "Lio Convoy is in Imminent Danger!" In this film, the Predacons of the series discover a mysterious transwarp device that allows them to summon the monstrous Majin Zarak from Cybertron's past to aid them. The Maximals then summon Optimus Primal, referred to as "Convoy" in Japan, from prehistoric Earth prior to his becoming Transmetal. Optimus Primal then aided Leo Prime in battling the demonic Transformer by combining the power of their Matrixes, transforming into "Flash Lio Convoy" and "Burning Convoy", they destroyed Majin Zarak and returned Optimus Primal to prehistoric Earth.
[edit] Transformers: Robot Masters (2005)
Leo Prime appeared in this Japanese exclusive 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.
Leo Prime also 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 bearing the name "Leo Prime." 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)
