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Storms of Destruction

2010-08-31T16:45:39Z

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{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=[[Kid Stuff|Kid Stuff storybooks]]
|prev=When Continents Collide
|next=Jaws of Terror
|seriesissue2=Listen 'n' Look
|title="Storms of Destruction"
|image=Storms of Destruction Cover.PNG
|caption=
|publisher=[[Kid Stuff]]
|date=1985
|pagecount=24pp
|written by=unknown, possibly [[John Braden]]
|art by=unknown, possibly [[Pablo Marcos]] and [[Judith Marcos]]
|continuity=Shyeah. As if.
}}
'''Megatron plans to pump sea water beneath the jungle, forcing an ocean of oil to the surface. Will the Autobots get off their tushes and stop him?'''

==Synopsis==
Prime and Prowl arrive at the island of Sumatra and find hundreds of square miles of jungle burned away, leaving only a white residue in its wake. The Decepticons are back at work!

In the underground "Decepticon development center", Megatron gloats over a modified tunnel-boring machine he's stolen from the humans. Soon he will use the machine and his new knowledge to execute his master plan!

The two later make their way through the jungles of Brazil's [[Matto Grosso]], to the site of the satellite launch complex destroyed by the Autobots. {{storylink|Satellite of Doom|Satellite of Doom}} Megatron plans to squeeze enough oil from under the jungle to destroy the Autobots!

A native fires a poison dart at Soundwave. It does nothing.

A few days later, Megatron and Soundwave travel under the sea in their mole boring machine. Megatron plans to pump salt water under the oil, forcing it to the surface. The drill tunnel collapses, destroying the city of Machu Picchu and collapsing part of the Andes Mountains into a lake. Megatron is annoyed, but before he can do much besides call Soundwave a tape-filled idiot, the Autobots attack.

In the command center, Prowl listens for signs that the mole machine is active and concludes that it's shut down.

Megatron and Soundwave start drilling again, and flood the jungle with oil. Aboard a [[Decepticon defoliator craft]], Megatron orders the jungle knocked down and more oil transporters brought in to suck up the oil.

The Decepticons' oil tunnel draws off a dominant warm current from the coast of South America; the cold current that comes to replace it wreaks global havoc on weather patterns. Bumblebee locates the Decepticons and reports in. Skyfire locates the Decepticons. The Autobots attack and win. Megatron and Soundwave escape aboard the mole machine. Earth returns to normal.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (2)
* [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (5)
* [[Hound]] (5)
* two other unidentifiable Autobots (5)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (6)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] (7)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (3)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (4)

|c3=
* a monkey
* a random native
* a random native drowning in oil

}}
==Quotes==
"We are fully prepared now to go forward with the master plan!" 
"''We''? What have you learned, you cassette-stuffed wimp! You know only what I tell you!" 
:—...And what '''Soundwave''' gets told by '''Megatron''' - repeatedly - is that he's full of cassettes.

"All-powerful one... oh master... your vision of the destruction of those Autobot junk heaps brings tears to my eyes." 
"Bah! You are nothing but a sentimental bag of bolts, Soundwave!" 
:—'''Soundwave''' and '''Megatron'''

"That's only the ante, Prowl. The game has just begun. I'm
waiting for Megatron's bet. Then I'll cover it and force his hand." 
:—But until then, '''Optimus Prime''' is just gonna sit there and let the world end.

"I'll check my radio, master, but... uh oh! My cable connection was
loose, master! It was my headset that garbled that message!" 
"You mechanical nitwit! Is your tape wound too tight or what?"
:—'''Soundwave''' and '''Megatron''' should really invest in Bluetooth.

"Attack, noble Autobots! Reduce the infernal Decepticons and the corrupt Megatron to twisted heaps of hot metal!"
:—With that attitude, '''Optimus Prime''' really should've won the war already.

==Notes==
===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* The story opens by describing Prime and Prowl as being "in their robotic mode", as if they were combined or something. The same error repeats for Soundwave and Megatron.

===Continuity errors===
* What happened to the first Autobot attack?? Did they just give up and go home?
* Prime seems pretty smug, considering he's just sitting there letting Megatron carry out his world-devastating scheme.
* What was the point of Skyfire finding the Decepticons, when Bumblebee already did so on the previous page??

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* The art is the usual mix of copied [[Package art|package art]] and toy-based drawings.
* Prowl wears a headset as he studies the computer "printout". Hahahaha.
* "Earth returns to normal" is, literally, a longer description of how the planet is restored than the book itself gives.
* Hound can fly...in jeep mode

==External links==
* [http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/%7Esstoneb/tf/books/kidstuff/storms.html Storms of Destruction] at Steve-o's Transformers Site.

[[Category:Audiobooks]]
[[Category:Episodes]]

Top Trumps: Transformers

2010-08-16T00:36:28Z

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{{disambig2|the Top Trumps Transformers book|the Top Trumps card games|Top Trumps}}
{{comicstory
|seriesissue=[[Top Trumps]]
|prev=
|next=
|image=Tf2007 TopTrumpsBook.jpg
|caption=
|title=Top Trumps
|publisher=[[Haynes Publishing]]
|imprint=
|date=[[November 1]], [[2007]]
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|illustrations=[[DreamWorks]]' promotional images.
|continuity=[[Movie continuity]]
|pagecount=192
|price=
|ISBN=978-1844255023
}}
Produced to tie in with the [[Transformers (2007)|2007 movie]], the '''Top Trumps Transformers''' book is an expansion on the [[Top Trumps]] card pack. It consists of a series of profiles on characters and a few objects from the film. Each gets a text profile, written by Simon Furman, along with a quote and a list of attributes including items from the cards. [[Transformer]]s also get a description for their [[alternate mode]].

Attributes for Transformers are the usual things — "function", "height", "power", "Sector 7 threat rating" — while humans get attributes such as "played by", "likes" and "dislikes", and "special features". The last of these is used for items of note which don't fit into other categories, including "Deceased", "Adviser to President", and "Trainer of [[Mojo]] the chihuahua".

==Content==
*Autobots
**[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
**[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]
**[[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]
**[[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]]
**[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]
*Cybertron
**[[AllSpark (Movie)|The All Spark]]
**[[Protoform]]s
*Humans
**[[Sam Witwicky]]
**[[Mikaela Banes]]
**[[John Keller|Keller]]
**[[William Lennox|Cpt. William Lennox]]
**[[Robert Epps|Julius Epps]]
**[[Maggie Madsen]]
**[[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]]
**[[Jorge Figueroa]]
**[[Tom Banachek]]
**[[Witwicky|The Witwickys]]
***[[Ron Witwicky]]
***[[Judy Witwicky]]
***[[Archibald Witwicky|Cpt Witwicky]]
**[[Sector Seven|Sector 7]]
*Decepticons
**[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]
**[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]
**[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]
**[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]
**[[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]]
**[[Brawl (Movie)|Devastator]]
**[[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]
**[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]]

==Errors==
*The images illustrating Figueroa's entry are all of [[Burke]]. This is not the only time this has happened, as the Top Trumps card for [[Patrick Donnelly]] also shows the wrong actor.
*One of Megatron's images is of one of his unused face designs.
* Good luck using this book for reference of Scorponok's head; for whatever reason, the models used for him have it removed. He does have some nice gear-work between his shoulders though...

==Items of note==
*Optimus has "remote-access drone units" which give him a tactical overview of situations.
*The city in which the Witwickys live is named as [[Tranquility]], [[Nevada]].
*Mikaela's father is named as Colin Banes.
*The final battle of the movie is placed in [[Los Angeles]] rather than [[Mission City]].
*Epps likes "Hip-hop", and dislikes "Fig's Mama's alligator étouffée".
*Maggie Madsen works for the [[Rand Corporation]].
*The "Witwicky Family" don't get individual text profiles, but they do get individual attributes.
*[[Moustache Man]] can be seen in one of Starscream's images, though he is not mentioned in the text.
*Blackout has "personal drone troopers", which may simply be a reference to Scorponok.
*One of Frenzy's images features a clapper board.

[[Category:Reference texts]]
[[Category:Movie]]

Scrapper (issue)

2010-06-12T17:04:57Z

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{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #8
|prev=The Transformers issue 7
|next=The Transformers issue 9
|title=
|image=Transformers 8-A.jpg
|caption=Yay, Spotlight: Scrapper!
Wait, ''what the-?''
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date= [[June 9]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=June 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Javier Saltares]]
|colors by=[[James Brown]]
|letters by= [[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|associate editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''Spike Witwicky reflects on current events and attempts to come to terms with his position as a leader.'''

==Synopsis==
{{issuestub}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters

|c2=
* [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]
|c3=
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Daniel Witwicky]]
* [[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]]
* [[Joe Henderson|Joe Henderson]]
* [[Campologno|Campologno]]
}}

==Quotes==
"I've always hated machines. The ones that make you stronger. The ones that make you more vulnerable."
:—'''Spike Witwicky''' doing an impression of [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]].

"And green. Really. That has to be the ''stupidest'' color for a "disguise"..."
:—'''Spike Witwicky''' taunting Constructicon Scrapper.

"I wanted to show you that ''one'' of us can beat you. No lasers. None of your technology. Just a solution that can be made out of stuff anyone would have in their kitchen."
:—'''Spike Witwicky''' ruining all the fun by emasculating the entire Cybertronian race.

==Errors==

==Items of note==
* This is the first issue of the ongoing series (or any previous series) to not feature any prominent Transformer robots. The story mainly focuses on Spike Witwicky and a robot isn't even seen until page 17.

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' Scrapper busting through a construction site; art by [[Don Figueroa]] and colors by [[James Brown]].
* '''Cover B:''' Scrapper reaching out towards Spike Witwicky through a construction site; art by [[Javier Saltares]] and colors by [[James Brown]].
* '''Cover RI:''' Concept art of Jazz; art by Don Figueroa.

<gallery>
Image: Transformers 8-A.jpg|Oh scrap!
Image: Transformers 8-B.jpg|We're all rooting for Scrapper here.
Image: Transformers 8-RI.jpg|Hasbro, get to making this - NOW!
</gallery>

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