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The name or term "Heavy Load" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Heavy Load (disambiguation).

Heavy Load is an Autobot originally from the Robots in Disguise continuity family.

Heavy Load (aka Build Typhoon) is as bulky as his name implies. His thick armor intimidates even the toughest Decepticons, but his bulk does not inhibit his movement. On the contrary, he's studied martial arts and can move as gracefully as the lightest of Transformers. Heavy Load is the most powerful of the Build Team (not to mention the loudest) and is always quick with a joke. He tends to play mentor to the team's young leader Wedge.

Fiction

Cartoon continuity

2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Voice actor: Daran Norris (English), Yoshikazu Nagano (Japanese), Vladimir Gerasimov (Russian), Byeong-gwan Kim (Korean), Carlos Hernandez (Latin-American Spanish), Saverio Indrio (Italian), Sohn Son-kun (Korean)

When the Autobot Brothers encountered the Build Team in an unfinished tunnel, Heavy Load was a mite boastful about the team's tunneling prowess. He was even more enthusiastic when Wedge secured the team their first combat mission. Once they got to the site where the Predacons were trying to steal some diamonds, he and Grimlock helpfully began transporting the goods. The Predacons swiftly realized what was up and captured Wedge. Heavy Load cunningly offered them a disk which he claimed held the plans for the global space bridge (but in reality were plans for a sewer). Despite his protests, he and the rest of the team ended up chasing a penguin that had stolen the fake disk, and later admitted to his fellow Autobots that the disk they'd been chasing was bogus. Wedge's Short Fuse

With the completion of the Arctic link, Heavy Load took the opportunity to play up Wedge's role as foreman with Optimus Prime. Wedge was not enthusiastic about Heavy Load's suggestion they could start on the south route, opting instead for combat training. Heavy Load was not keen, but followed anyway, leaving Grimlock to program the space bridge computer. Unfortunately, this led to the space bridge being sabotaged, and he had to help break up an argument between Wedge and Rapid Run. After the space bridge was fixed, the Build Team combined into Landfill to repel Megatron and Scourge from the north energy research facility. Landfill

After Sky-Byte and the Predacons attacked the CGA Tower, Wedge helped to hold it up, but the rest of the Build Team were forced to stay back. They defended the tower against Scourge's attack and formed Landfill in order to dig a new foundation for the tower, allowing the safe release of the hostages. Sky-Byte Saves the Day With all repairs and maintenance finally complete, Heavy Load and the Build Team helped test the space bridge. Lessons of the Past

Heavy Load intercepted a transmission meant for the Autobot Brothers indicating that the Commandos had been attacking construction equipment. The Build Team decided to face the Decepticons alone, and Hightower sabotaged the space bridge to keep the other Autobots away. The battle did not go well, and Heavy Load began to think their plan wasn't such a good idea. After regrouping, Build Team formed Landfill and eventually narrowly defeated Ruination. Afterward, they enjoyed a soothing oil bath with Team Bullet Train. A Test of Metal

When the Build Team were assigned to work in an area under Metro City where they'd worked before, Heavy Load brought up the fact that last time they were there, they'd experienced disturbing hallucinations. He agreed with Wedge's resolve to carry out the job anyway. When the hallucinations started again, he contacted headquarters and was told to persuade the rest of his team to continue. Evidently, he succeeded, as the Build Team soon broke through to a cavern containing Fortress Maximus and formed Landfill to fight the Decepticons who then arrived. Fortress Maximus Heavy Load and the rest of Build Team subsequently hid Fortress Maximus in a huge building in the middle of the city, although Heavy Load had to stop hot-headed Wedge from going to fight at least once. Koji Gets His Wish

With Doctor Onishi recovered, the Build Team and Autobot Brothers began a race to locate the last five O-Parts. Wedge was taken captive by Megatron after the O-Parts were all collected, and Heavy Load turned the three his team had found over to Optimus for the exchange, although in the end, it turned out to be unnecessary. A Friendly Contest

The Build Team accompanied the Autobot Brothers on a mission to find Cerebros beneath an ancient temple. This was fortunate, as the Decepticons caved the temple in on top of them, and the Build Team was able to dig the Autobots out. They later helped to guard Fortress Maximus. To no one's surprise, the Decepticons attacked, and the Build Team formed Landfill during the resulting battle. Maximus Emerges

When Scourge made a second attempt to control Maximus in the Sahara Desert, the Build Team and Team Bullet Train picked up a large number of children and took them to the site via the global space bridge. There the children were able to command Maximus to stop. The Human Element

When the Decepticons launched an attack on the Autobot base, the Build Team was called to a predetermined location with the rest of the Autobots to spring a trap on their foes. When the Megastar joined the fight, they formed Landfill, who was promptly blown apart by the battle station's firepower. Surprise Attack!

After the defeat of the Megastar, Landfill was formed again to fight the Decepticons while Omega Prime engaged in combat with Galvatron. Galvatron unleashed his cyber-bats, causing Prime to call a retreat, and the Autobots found themselves trapped in a space bridge tunnel rapidly filling with molten lava. Although they escaped, Galvatron soon had them at his mercy again. Galvatron's Revenge

As Galvatron attempted to attack Optimus Prime, Landfill and the other Autobots blocked his attack and were paralyzed by Galvatron's power. They remained in this state until Omega Prime was able to defeat Galvatron in the Earth's core. Afterward, just for fun, the Build Team did some more work on the space bridge. The Final Battle

The events of the Robots in Disguise cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as noted above, except that they take place in the world of the original Generation 1 cartoon where the Transformer cast are time travelers from the Beast Era to Tokyo in the year 2000.

The Dimensional Patrol was brought to the Legends World by Skids and Sky-Byte to defend it against the attack of Majin Zarak and the Zamojin. Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One

Universe comic

In Viron 903.0 Beta, Heavy Load and his teammates joined the Dimensional Patrol. Ask Vector Prime, 13 September 2015 Landfill was abducted by Unicron to become one of the latest combatants inside the Cauldron. Before his inter-dimensional trek could be completed, however, Rhinox from the Children of Primus attempted to intercept the dimensional transition before Unicron claimed his latest victims. Pulled in two directions, Landfill and his comrades Side Burn and Prowl were instead deposited on a frozen planetoid in space. A rescue team of Children of Primus deployed to the planetoid, but so did a team of Minions of Unicron. Landfill worked together with the rescue team, a group of Autobots accidentally pulled in from the past by Rhinox's device, and his fellow victims to successfully defeat the Minions. Afterwards, the temporally-displaced Autobots were sent back to their proper spacetime Voice Actor Drama while Landfill, Prowl, and Side Burn were sent back to their home reality without further participating in the Universe War. Ask Vector Prime, 13 September 2015

Shell Game continuity

In universal stream Viron 704.31 Epsilon, Build Typhoon was robo-smashed by Megazarak into Long Haul. Ask Vector Prime, 30 July 2015

2005 IDW continuity

The Functionist Universe

Heavy Load and his three teammates stood in a crowd as Twelve-of-Twelve led a procession of captured AVL activists. Anomie

Toys

Robots in Disguise (2001)

• Build Typhoon (2000) / Heavy Load (Deluxe Class, 2001)

• Takara release date: August ?? 2000
• Takara ID number: C-020
• Accessories: "Chomper Bucket" claw
• Known designers: Hisashi Yuki (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Part of the "Build Team", Heavy Load transforms into a very chunky "earth mover" style dump truck. Unlike most Transformers dump trucks, his dump bed is actually articulated to perform the action that dump trucks are named after. The dump bed detaches to become a massive hand-held "Chomper Bucket" snapping-claw weapon for use in robot mode, but it can also be stashed on his back, cape-like. The Takara version's instructions show a third "gimmick mode" in which his dump-bed is rotated forward in his vehicle mode so it can "chomp" ahead of him.

He can also form either leg or both arms to the team's combined Landfill mode; the three limb-bots of the team are designed to be able to swap between which limb they form without detaching from the combined mode. However, his nominal placement is as the right leg, with the giant claw weapon mounted on the right arm.

He was first released in the sixth wave of Takara's Car Robots toyline, alongside his fellow Build Team members, as "Build Typhoon". The later Hasbro Robots in Disguise "Heavy Load" release adds numerous paint applications to him, the most obvious being an Autobot sigil and "dirt-wash" paint on his dump bed.

This mold was also used to make Universe Long Haul.

• More information on Heavy Load at TFU.info

• Build King (Multi-pack, 2000)

• Takara release date: August ?? 2000
• ID number: C-022
• Accessories: "Chomper Bucket" claw

In Japan, the entire Build Team was also released as a complete box set of four toys: Build Boy, Build Cyclone, Build Hurricane, and Build Typhoon. Each toy is identical to their individual (Takara) releases.

Sonokong also released this gift set in Korean markets with no differences other than the packaging.

• Landfill (Multi-pack, 2003)

• Release date: November 25 2003
• Accessories: "Chomper Bucket" claw

A mainly-yellow redeco of the entire Build Team was released as a Walmart exclusive multi-pack on "Black Friday", the day after Thanksgiving, the most hellishly-overcrowded shopping day of the year. The set cost considerably less than four individual deluxes.

As Heavy Load was already yellow, the deco changes are less immediately noticeable, but there are quite a few. He loses basically all the detail deco on his front end/shoulders, a different dirt-wash has been added to his lower vehicle-mode parts, and a number of silver "wear" marks have been added to his legs and dump-bed.

• More information on Wal-Mart Heavy Load at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Build Typhoon (ビルドタイフーン Birudo Taifūn)
• Korean: Build Typhoon (빌드태풍 Bildeu Taepung)