The main body of the vehicle is black - unique to this toy in the team. The middle of the toy used the red plastic common to the entire team and there's a small amount of the light blue at the back. There are eight wheels moulded into each side of Payload, but the moving wheels are found hidden under the toy.
As well as forming part of the Requiem Blaster Payload combines withSkyblast - find the side of Skyblast with two pegs sticking out and put these into the holes on the back of Payload's vehicle with the nose pointing forward for Payload to act as a transported for Skyblast.
The Minicon socket is the under the front of the toy and to one side. Attached to a larger toy he just looks like a transport vehicle but you can then attach Skyblast to him to appear like a missile & launcher.
TF: Separate the front of the toy and fold the handle that's between both halves up and onto the back of Payload. Turn the toy round 180 degrees in the middle. Fold all of the back of the vehicle down exposing the blue head - the sides fold down further to form arms.
The robot is mainly black but the red of the legs & waist and the blue breaks it up a little and works nicely. He's got knees that bend, ball jointed hips, a waist and shoulders & neck that turn.
Overall: plain vehicle that only exists to form transport for another toy, poor add on for the same reason, but a really good robot
In Japan Payload was known as Move which is a pretty descriptive name for him! He appeared with the other two official members of the Space team in Minicon pack numbered MM-13. There's no giftset featuring this team as their obvious partner Jetfire is a toy larger than Supercon size.
Original Payload review: "Payload: As a Ground Transport vehicle you've basically got a lorry which you can use to carry the Sky Blast rocket on. Fold the front down to form some feet, open the legs and release the piece of plastic that forms the gun's handle, rotate at the waist and fold the back down to form the chest. Very like the cars earlier and not unfamiliar to any MM owner in robot mode. The socket on this one is under the cab. "
The Space Team's first brush with misfortune occurs late on in Transformers Armada - along with the Adventure & Street Speed teams who were also in Armada Minicons wave three - when their Unicron Battles recolour was cancelled. Red remains red in this team, but the other common colour in the team light blue becomes black.
The black of Payload becomes bright purple. Purple and red is another of those colour combinations that should be avoided on TF toys !
This is the only time that the Space team gets the same paint scheme used on all three parts.
Red becomes grey on all three toys and the light blue used becomes a teal blue. Payload's black becomes grey.
This version looks very plain and unappealing.
Red remains red on all three toys and the light blue becomes a pale grey blue as does the white used on Skyblast. The black of Payload becomes a horrid lime green. The Energon version might look plain but this just looks bad !
For this team Red becomes Purple, Light Blue becomes Grey, Darker Blue becomes a very Pale Grey, Black (only on Payload/Blastcharge) becomes an Off White - these 2 are very similar but different when you see them next to each other and White (on Skyblast/Backblast) becomes a Rust Red.