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JaAm

2009-09-11T04:38:58Z

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:''JaAm is a mysterious quantity in the [[Armada (franchise)|Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Hotshotjaam.jpg|right|180px|thumb|jAaM jaAm rEvOLutiOn]]
[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] is obsessed with '''JaAm'''. No one's really sure what it is, though Hot Shot's Autobot peers have suggested it may be some mysterious fuel source. Regardless, it's important enough to Hot Shot that he had a vanity license plate made to proclaim his love for it!

==WhAt iS jAam??==
Just before the [[Armada (toyline)|''Armada'' toyline]]'s imminent release in 2002, scans of the first pack-in [[Armada (mini-comic)|mini-comic]] were put online both at [http://www.transformers.com Transformers.com] and at [http://www.bwtf.com Ben's World of Transformers], the latter of which received early production samples from [[Hasbro]] for review. The original comic was trilingual, forcing the [[Chris Sarracini|writer]] to fit three languages worth of dialogue into tiny word bubbles, resulting in short and often stilted prose. Because of these limitations, many found the mini-comic to be a bit lacking. The British fan [[User:Blueshift|Yartek]] took it upon himself to rewrite the dialogue as nonsense, portraying Hot Shot as a mentally challenged, tortured freak of nature, famously proclaiming such things as "mY liFE iS PaIn" and "[[Kibble|WhY mY ShOuLdErS hUrT?]]" in randomly uppercase and lowercase letters. (This was, perhaps, Yartek's commentary on the art.) The most famous quote, "jaAm", comes from Hot Shot's description of the large green energy-draining device, which he mistakes for a container of [[wikipedia:Fruit_preserves|jam]].

The rewritten mini-comic proved to be wildly popular in the fandom and grew to be one of the most persistent memes through the duration of Armada and beyond. When [[Ben Yee]] overhauled his toy review system, he commissioned Hot Shot fan [[David Willis]] to create a series of images based on the mini-comic. Ironically, the Hot Shot toy itself rated poorly on Ben Yee's scale.

Hot Shot's love of JaAm was referenced twice on his [[Universe (2008 toyline)|''Universe'' toy]]—once on his vanity license plate, and about a quarter of his packaging bio is dedicated to it. Hasbro stayed up too late one night drinking, it feels like. Who's complaining?

==NoTeS==
*The specific capitalization of "JaAm" never actually appears in the comic, but Hasbro has used this capitalization on the back of ''Universe'' Hot Shot's packaging, with the second "A" being larger than the other - perhaps, we humbly propose, because that's how we've spelled it on this wiki.

==External links==
*[http://www.redshirt.co.uk/tall-tales/armada-the-real-story/ "Armada - The REAL Story", by Yartek]
*[[wikipedia:Fruit_preserves#Jam|Jam]] on Wikipedia

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Carnival

2009-09-11T04:37:48Z

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{{episode|
|series=Armada
|series2=Micron Legend
|ep=7
|prev=Jungle
|next=Palace
|title=Carnival
|japanese=祝祭 (おおさわぎ) - carnival
|romaji=Shakusai [Ōsawagi]
|translation=Festival (Clamor)
|image=Carnival-Animals and Alien.jpg
|caption=Meet Mr. Penguin, Mr. Bear, and Mr...er...[[Thrust (Armada)|Squidhead]]?
|production code=TF: A-07
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]]
|writer=[[Ryō Motohira]]
|director=[[Osamu Kamijō]]
|animation studio=[[Actas]]
|airdate=[[October 11]], 2002 (English) [[February 21|21 February]] 2003 (Japanese)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy]]
}}

'''A fair is a veritable smorgasbord.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Carnival-Heavy Wrench.jpg|left|200px|thumb]]
The kids puzzle over why the [[Mini-Con]] in the [[Mini-Con storage panel|panel]] recovered from [[Antarctica]] hasn't emerged yet. When [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] tells them it's sleeping, [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] tries to think of ways to wake it up. [[Alexis]] suggests they leave it to wake up naturally and do some cleaning while they're waiting. Meanwhile [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus]] and [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] are watching [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] fix equipment. Hot Shot asks [[Rad White|Rad]] and Carlos to pass him a huge spanner, which turns out to be too heavy for them to lift. This is apparently just Autobot humour. Hot Shot returns to work, and the kids realise there's not much they can do to help.

[[Image:Carnival-Demolishor "tripping".jpg|right|200px|thumb|This is an accident! I swear!]]
Up on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] clumsily gets in [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]'s way, earning a reprimand and the scorn of his fellow Decepticons. He then stumbles through the base hull, causing more damage. Disgusted, Megatron tells him to get lost.

Meanwhile, Rad and Carlos are growing bored. Carlos suggests some fresh air at the science carnival and the pair sneak out with their Mini-Cons while Alexis and [[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] are occupied at the computer. [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] spots them leaving. The two kids cruise through the fair, riding on their transformed Mini-Cons, who naturally want to have some fun too. As the kids are telling the Mini-Cons they can't transform in public, they overhear some children talking about robots and spot Sparkplug, [[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]] and [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]], who have followed them from the base. [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] and [[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] transform and join their fellow Mini-Cons, much to the dismay of Rad and Carlos, but it seems the crowd is just assuming that they're products of the laboratory which set up the fair. Soon the Mini-Cons are enjoying the carnival, even taking part in a parade.

[[Image:Carnival-Minicon March.jpg|left|200px|thumb]]
Also at the carnival are [[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] and [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]]. Fred spots the strange robots following Rad and Carlos around and tells Billy they should check out what's going on. Meanwhile Rad, nervous at how long the Mini-Cons have been out in public, suggests they return to return to base, and High Wire and Grindor transform to vehicle mode—observed by the spying Fred and Billy, who subsequently become convinced there's something going on.

The children at the carnival are upset when Carlos tells them the Mini-Cons are going back to "the lab". Billy and Fred turn up armed with a net and rope in order to capture one of the robots, which Fred believes are invading aliens, but while the pair are arguing, their quarry escapes. The Mini-Cons scatter through the carnival, causing chaos and confusion.

[[Image:Carnival-Salute.jpg|right|200px|thumb|And knowing is half the battle]]
[[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] leads Alexis, Sureshock and Hot Shot to the carnival, and Rad and Carlos are soon on the end of a scolding. Fred and Billy have cornered Jolt, but a trio of children prevent them from making the capture. As Billy makes veiled threats, the children run off in fear—but only because Hot Shot is right behind Fred and Billy. The pair hug Jolt in fear, and the Mini-Con transforms to copter mode, carrying them high into the air before they bail onto a hot-air balloon. Rad asks Hot Shot to get the duo down, and the Autobot borrows a tennis-ball cannon from one of the sideshows. After using it to burst the balloon, he stunt-jumps, transforming in mid-air to catch Fred and Billy and, with Jolt's help, fly them to safety. The small children who watch him land are extremely impressed. Rad, Carlos and Alexis make Fred and Billy swear not to tell anyone about what they've seen, and Hot Shot takes the Mini-Cons back to base.

Sometime later, Rad and Carlos are being lectured by Alexis, who tells them again they should be cleaning. Rad is impressed by the amount of work the Autobots have gotten done, and Carlos seems to trigger some activity from the Mini-Con panel, but neither of the boys is sure exactly what it means.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (8)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (9)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (10)
*[[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] (21)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (11)
*[[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (12)
*[[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] (13)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (14)

|c3=
*[[Carlos Lopez]] (1)
*[[Rad White]] (3)
*[[Alexis]] (5)

'''Guests'''

*[[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] (18)
*[[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] (19)
*Children (20)
*Random passerby #1 (22)
*Random passerby #2 (23)

|h4=[[Mini-Con|Mini-Cons]]|c4=
*[[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] (2)
*[[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] (4)
*[[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] (6)
*[[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]] (7)
*[[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]] (14)
*[[Leader-1 (Armada)|Leader-1]] (15)
*[[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] (16)
*[[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]] (17)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Carlos:''' "Hey, I got an idea! OK, let's scare it! That'll wake it up for sure." 
'''Rad:''' "So how you gonna do that?" 
'''Carlos:''' "Huh, good point. Wait, I got another idea! How about we throw a bucket of water on it!" 
'''Alexis:''' "Great plan! While we're at it, why don't I throw a bucket of cold water on your head too?" 
'''Carlos:''' "Come on, Alexis; I was just pulling his leg!" 
'''Alexis:''' "Hey, nothing like ice water for clearing out the cobwebs. So next time you're woken up from a comfy sleep by some ice-water in the face, remember who thought of it first!"

:—The kids debate how to wake up Jetstorm.

[[Image:Carnival-Stop in the name of the geek squad.jpg|right|200px|thumb|They're gonna find [[Martin and Roland]] and ''kick their asses''.]]
"Huh? It's them! Billy! Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy."

:—'''Fred''' subtly attempts to attract Billy's attention.

"They're getting away! What do we do?" 
"I'll give you one guess." 
"'K, to the hot dog stand!" 
"We're going after them! Come on, ya goof." 
"Aw, well I tried."

:—'''Fred''' and '''Billy'''.

[[Image:Carnival-Catching the Catchers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|And there go any pretenses of badassery Billy and Fred might have had.]]
"Better get out of the way while you can, otherwise something terrible might happen to ya. Like maybe... this robot will destroy the Earth!" 
"You've been watching too much TV. Besides, everyone knows that red robots are always the good guys." 
"OK, OK! So maybe it wasn't a good example!"

:—'''Fred''' matches wits with a '''small child''' and loses.

"No! Please! I'm allergic to chromium."

:—'''Billy''' fleeing from Hot Shot.

"My therapist was right—seventy dollars an hour ''does'' work out to mere pennies a day."

:—A random passerby on seeing a giant flying robot.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Micron Legend''===
===Continuity errors===
[[Image:Carnival-Starscream Sensei.jpg|right|200px|thumb|What's your name again?]]
* Grindor and Sureshock swap names for the whole episode. In fact, this trend will continue for the rest of the series, suggesting perhaps that their names had been swapped in some internal documentation.

* At the Decepticon base, Starscream calls Swindle "Grid", his Japanese name.
{{--}}
===Miscellaneous trivia===
[[Image:Carnival-Hot Shot jAm grin.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[JaAm]]?]]

*A couple of days have passed since "[[Soldier]]".
*When Fred notices Hot Shot, the latter is wearing the famous [[JaAm]] grin. It actually makes several appearances in this episode.
*When Alexis catches up with the boys, [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] perches on her shoulder. [[Laserbeak (G1)|As we know]], this makes her supremacy official.
*This episode is totally totally awesome.

[[Category:Armada episodes]]

Rodimus Prime (Animated)

2009-09-11T02:23:29Z

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{{faction|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Rodimus}}
:''Rodimus Prime is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Animated Rodimus Bow.jpg|thumb|400px|Hawkeye Prime]]

'''Rodimus Prime''' is more than just a high ranking Autobot officer, he's the "Chosen One"! He is extremely popular amongst his fellow Autobot brethren, and has mastered several different battle skills, including servo-to-servo combat. While he has mastered the use of various defensive weaponry, his personal weapon of choice is his uniquely-designed energy bow. Rodimus is a born leader and strives to become the next [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Magnus]]. In other words, he's "practically perfect in every way".

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Judd Nelson]] (English)

[[Image:TransWarpedRodimusCosmicRust.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Aww, but I'm too cool to rust!]]

Rodimus Prime and his team, [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]], [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]], [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]], and [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]], defended [[space bridge 687-030]] from [[Team Chaar]]. Rodimus ordered Brawn and Ironhide to fall back so they could protect the bridge, but a combo attack from [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]] and [[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] took down both [[Autobot]]s. Rodimus managed to evade [[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]]'s tentacle-attack and incapacitate the monster, but he was quickly knocked aside by [[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]]'s power-stomp attack.

As the Decepticons moved in, Rodimus defiantly growled that they'd have to go through him. In response, Oil Slick threw a vial of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] at Rodimus' feet, which quickly spread across his body and paralyzed him. {{storylink|TransWarped}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Animated===
[[Image:Animated Rodimus Minor toy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Help! I'm being attacked by ''Photoshop''!"]]
*'''Rodimus Minor''' (Deluxe, 2009?)
**''Accessories'': "Energy Bow", 2 missiles
: Rodimus Minor transforms into a futuristic car that highly homages the vehicle mode of Generation 1 [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]. A panel on the car's hood, which is also the figure's chest, can be flipped to either show an engine block or the figure's Autobot [[insignia]]. The figure comes with an Energy Bow, capable of firing two missiles.

{{comingsoontoy}}

==Notes==
*Rodimus shares his [[Hot Rod (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]'s original voice actor, Judd Nelson.
*In an answer to a question at [http://www.allspark.com/content/view/4966/20/ TFCon 2009], [[Derrick J. Wyatt|Derrick Wyatt]] stated that Rodimus is recovering from the Cosmic Rust attack. Aside from a very brief cameo<ref>An Autobot with Rodimus's character model but slightly different color scheme can be seen in the lower right of a crowd shot in [[Endgame, Part II]].</ref> that may or may not be him, Rodimus's fate has never been revealed fictionally.
*Originally, Rodimus was going to be the [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|jerk]] character of ''Animated''. This means his team is roughly 60% [[Hot Shot (Animated)|scrapped]] [[Red Alert (Animated)|ideas]], although 40% of those are because of the [[Transformers (2007)|live-action movie]].
*Despite being credited by the show's creators<ref>''Animated'' [[Tech Spec]] by [[Derrick J. Wyatt]].{{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 24}}</ref> as having the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] rank and clearly being the leader of a team like [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|another bloke]], his toy is listed as 'Rodimus Minor' for reasons currently unknown. Within the series, he is only ever called or credited as "Rodimus" (like [[Rodimus (Energon)|another bloke]].)

==References==
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[[Category: Autobots]]
[[Category: Animated characters]]