The Touch

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"'''The Touch'''" is a song by [[Stan Bush]], featured on the 1986 album ''[[The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]''. <strike>It is possibly the pinnacle of human achievement.</strike> It is fondly remembered by many fans for being featured in two climactic battles in [[The Transformers: The Movie]].

"The Touch" is first featured in "The Transformers: The Movie" when Optimus Prime, having just arrived to [[Autobot City]], takes on several of the Decepticon forces by himself. It plays again, near the end of the feature, as [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] opens the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. The song was used again during the climactic scene of the cartoon episode "[[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2]]".

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon===
At an undetermined time period following the creation of the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] and [[Targetmaster|Targetmasters]] and the seeming defeat of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], [[Powermaster]] Optimus Prime spent a good deal of time relating Transformers stories to the human schoolboy [[Tommy Kennedy]].

After a series of stories wherein he described the events of the battle with [[Unicron]], Optimus Prime had to depart to attend an interstellar peace conference in the midst of a barrage of questions from Tommy. As he was blasting off, Prime declared "But until I return, I leave you with 'The Touch'!"

Following this, the music video for "The Touch" began, although how Tommy was able to view it in the barren wasteland where his meetings with Prime typically took place is unknown. {{storylink|Generation_1_(cartoon)#Season_5|Season 5}}

{{note|''As Stan Bush could not have written the song for the 1986 theatrical ''The Transformers: The Movie'' within the context of the cartoon timeline (as the events of the movie had not happened at that point in continuity), it is possible that the song was simply a general release that Prime was personally fond of.''
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''Another possibility is that a fictionalized film account of the events surrounding the battle with Unicron was created sometime after the year 2005, and that Stan Bush's music video was produced to accompany that feature. This theory is not out of the realm of plausibility; in the UK comics, resident letter answerer [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] reviewed a Transformers film in an article entitled ''[[Letters page (Marvel UK)|Film 2006 With Grimlock]]''.''</p>}}

==Merchandise==
===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
*'''Bumblebee Plasma Cannon''' (2009)
: A role-playing toy based on [[Movie (franchise)|live-action movie]] [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]'s fist, transforming into a plasma cannon. When the Autobot insignia on the side of the cannon is pressed, the toy plays various sounds, including short clips from "The Touch".

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==Trivia==
* Bush launched a campaign to have "The Touch" included on either Guitar Hero or Rock Band. [http://kotaku.com/5059337/stan-bush-wants-the-touch-in-guitar-hero-rock-band 1] He recently announced the campaign's success, with "The Touch" hitting Guitar Hero: World Tour as free downloadable content. [http://kotaku.com/5173693/stan-bush-thanks-kotaku-readers-for-their-support 2]

* As part of the media hype building up to the release of [[Revenge of the Fallen]], Bush released a reworked version of "The Touch" with a more modern, [[Linkin Park]]-inspired sound. This is notable because, while completely unsanctioned or unrequested by Hasbro or Dreamworks, it is [[Holger Fath|totally hilarious]].

* The 1997 film Boogie Nights includes a short scene of star Mark Wahlberg recording "The Touch" in a music studio.

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