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The Transformers (European toyline)

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Originally, European countries got the same '''''The Transformers''''' toys [[Hasbro]] had previously released in the USA, although different countries got different toys (with the occasional noticeable [[variant]]). Initially, numerous sub-contracted companies were responsible for releasing the toys in the individual European countries (which involved [[multilingual packaging|language variations]] on the [[packaging]]), but over time, they were either bought out by Hasbro or simply dropped in favor of a more and more unified European market.

After [[The Transformers (toyline)|the original ''The Transformers'' toyline]] ended in the US, the line continued in Europe until it was renamed into ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)#|Generation 2]]'' in 1994.
{{picsneeded|European-release toys in-package, GiG cars with ridiculous "bopper" missiles}}

==1984==
While ''The Transformers'' would not reach most of Europe until 1985, a number of the toys from the 1984 US line were also available in the UK the same year. Given that the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|Marvel UK comic]] launched in September '84 (complete with advertisements touting that the toys were "In the shops now!") it seems likely that they were on-sale by mid-summer at the latest, only a few months after the line's US launch.

Little is known about the earliest toys released in the UK. Common consensus is that they came in English-only packaging virtually indistinguishable from the US packaging. Recounts of which toys were and weren't available in the UK vary depending on who you ask. A surprising confirmed omission from the initial wave of 1984 toys is [[Megatron (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Megatron]], whose absence on the shelves was even noted in the letters page of the Marvel UK comic. Also of note is that the line's UK tag-line initially was "''Warrior'' Robots in Disguise", seen in the comic and on much of the early ancillary merchandise.

The assortment names used below are those seen in the leaflet which accompanied the 1984 range.

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{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Mini Cars'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#Toys|Brawn]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Toys|Bumblebee]] (yellow/red)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Toys|Cliffjumper]] (red/yellow)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Gears (G1)#Toys|Gears]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#Toys|Huffer]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Toys|Windcharger]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Spy-Cassetes'''{{sic}}
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Ravage (G1)/toys#Toys|Ravage]] / [[Rumble (G1)/toys#Toys|Rumble]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Frenzy (G1)/toys#Toys|Frenzy]] / [[Laserbeak (G1)/toys#Toys|Laserbeak]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Robot Cars'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Toys|Bluestreak]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Toys|Hound]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#Toys|Jazz]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Toys|Mirage]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Ratchet (G1)/toys#Toys|Ratchet]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Toys|Sideswipe]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Cassete Man'''{{sic}}
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Toys|Soundwave]] / [[Buzzsaw (G1)/toys#Toys|Buzzsaw]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:G1sideswipe.jpg|200px|thumb|Robot Car Sideswipe]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Strike Planes'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Toys|Skywarp]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/toys#Toys|Starscream]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Toys|Thundercracker]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Leader Truck'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Optimus Prime]]}}
|}
{{note|Cliffjumper and Bumblebee were both available in red and yellow in 1984, and again in 1985, this time with rubsigns. Cliffjumper appears in yellow in the 1984 catalogue, but this was corrected for the following year's photos.}}

==1985==
The ''Transformers'' toy line officially started in most European countries in 1985. It should be noted, though, that various European companies had already released licensed versions of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' and ''[[Microman]]'' toys domestically prior to that (''[[Trasformer]]'' by [[GiG]] in Italy; ''Diaclone'' by [[Joustra]] in France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands; Takara themselves released ''Diaclone'' in Finland). Some of the toys in those lines sported Hasbro-series changes, including color schemes and even Autobot symbols(!), as Takara was already shifting production of the toys from ''Diaclone'' to their own domestic release of ''Transformers''. But it wasn't until 1985 that ''Transformers'' toys were ''officially'' introduced to the various European markets under that name.

<big>'''United Kingdom'''</big>

All 1984 toys were still available in 1985, now with the addition of [[rubsign]]s. They were joined by the figures that had initially been omitted, namely the remaining Autobot cars and Megatron, who was reported by Hasbro to be available from around Easter. Alongside with a variation of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Optimus Prime]] that sported red instead of blue feet, Megatron was manufactured by French company Ceji as part of a deal with Hasbro, and the red-footed version of Optimus Prime was also released by [[Milton Bradley]] in mainland Europe (see below).<ref name="redfoot1">[http://www.tf-1.com/articles/eurous_frame.php?art=redfoot "Red Footed Optimus Prime"] at TF-1.com</ref><ref name="mbjoustra">[http://20thcenturytoycollector.com/mb-transformers-part-4/ "The MB & Joustra Connection"] at 20th Century Toy Collector</ref>

Oddly, numerous toys were left out of the UK range, never to see official release: notably [[Swoop (G1)/toys#Toys|Swoop]], [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Toys|Shockwave]] and [[Blaster (G1)/toys#Toys|Blaster]]. The [[Constructicon (G1)#Toys|Constructicon]]s were also missing; in the early 90s they got a semi-official import release, and a de-combiner'ed [[redeco]] release (see "1992" below). Some of the non-Takara sculpts were likely dropped due to licensing arrangements ([[Omega Supreme (G1)#Toys|Omega Supreme]], for example, was available as part of the competing Grandstand ''Convertors'' line around this time as "Omegatron"). Due to his absence from the 1985 Hasbro [[catalog]], [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Toys|Jetfire]] has long been believed to have been held over until the 1986 range, but he was featured in the Autumn 1985 Argos catalog.<ref name="argos85">[http://issuu.com/retromash/docs/argos-no24-1985-autumn Fall 1985 Argos catalog] at Issuu.com.</ref>)

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{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Mini-Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Beachcomber (G1)#Toys|Beachcomber]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Cosmos (G1)#Toys|Cosmos]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Powerglide (G1)/toys#Toys|Powerglide]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Seaspray (G1)#Toys|Seaspray]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Warpath (G1)#Toys|Warpath]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Insecticons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bombshell (G1)#Toys|Bombshell]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Kickback (G1)#Toys|Kickback]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Shrapnel (G1)#Toys|Shrapnel]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Robot Cars'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Grapple (G1)#Toys|Grapple]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hoist (G1)/toys#Toys|Hoist]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#Toys|Inferno]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Toys|Ironhide]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#Toys|Prowl]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Red Alert (G1)/toys#Toys|Red Alert]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Skids (G1)#Toys|Skids]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Smokescreen (G1)/toys#Toys|Smokescreen]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#Toys|Sunstreaker]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#Toys|Tracks]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys#Toys|Trailbreaker]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Toys|Wheeljack]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:G1Megatron toy.jpg|200px|thumb|Megatron, imported by Ceji]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Jumpstarters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Topspin (G1)#Toys|Topspin]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Twin Twist#Toys|Twin Twist]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Dinobots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Toys|Grimlock]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Slag (G1)/toys#Toys|Slag]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sludge (G1)#Toys|Sludge]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#Toys|Snarl]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Strike Planes'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Dirge (G1)/toys#Toys|Dirge]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Ramjet (G1)/toys#Toys|Ramjet]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Thrust (G1)/toys#Toys|Thrust]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Leader'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Megatron]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Jetfire'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Toys|Jetfire]]}}
|}
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<big>'''Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain'''</big>

The earliest toys released in continental Europe (minus Italy) were distributed by [[Milton Bradley]], which was in the process of being taken over by Hasbro at that point. There's no solid evidence that all the MB toys were available in all these countries, but the packaging is sporting German, French, Dutch and Spanish text. Therefore, MB covered the markets where Joustra's ''Diaclone'' toys were previously available, with the addition of Spain. The first wave of MB-branded toys was a rather odd selection, a result of Joustra holding the rights to many of the remaining toys, among them Optimus Prime. As a consequence, Jetfire was initially marketed as Autobot leader. Following a deal between Hasbro Bradley and Joustra's struggling parent company Ceji, a large amount of unsold Joustra toys were ''literally'' repackaged and released as the second wave of MB ''Transformers''.<ref name="mbjoustra"/>

Special Note: the tech specs feature inconsistencies for the Dutch (Functie / Funktie) & Spanish (Función / Cometido) across the line. Usage appears to be figure consistent, meaning you will only see use of one or the other within the wave.

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:'''Wave 1'''
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Mini Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Beachcomber (G1)#Toys|Beachcomber]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Cosmos (G1)#Toys|Cosmos]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Powerglide (G1)/toys#Toys|Powerglide]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Seaspray (G1)#Toys|Seaspray]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Warpath (G1)#Toys|Warpath]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Constructicons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bonecrusher (G1)/toys#Toys|Bonecrusher]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Hook (G1)/toys#Toys|Hook]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Long Haul (G1)/toys#Toys|Long Haul]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Mixmaster (G1)/toys#Toys|Mixmaster]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Scavenger (G1)/toys#Toys|Scavenger]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Scrapper (G1)/toys#Toys|Scrapper]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Insecticons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bombshell (G1)#Toys|Bombshell]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Kickback (G1)#Toys|Kickback]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Shrapnel (G1)#Toys|Shrapnel]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Jumpstarters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Topspin (G1)#Toys|Topspin]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Twin Twist#Toys|Twin Twist]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:Jetfireg1toy.jpg|200px|thumb|Jetfire, the new Autobot leader]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Triple Changers'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#Toys|Astrotrain]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Blitzwing (G1)/toys#Toys|Blitzwing]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Dinobots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Toys|Grimlock]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Slag (G1)/toys#Toys|Slag]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sludge (G1)#Toys|Sludge]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#Toys|Snarl]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Deluxe Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Roadbuster (G1)#Toys|Roadbuster]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Whirl (G1)#Toys|Whirl]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Deluxe Insecticons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Barrage (Insecticon)#Toys|Barrage]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Chop Shop (G1)#Toys|Chop Shop]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Ransack (G1)#Toys|Ransack]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Venom (G1)#Toys|Venom]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Communicator'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Toys|Soundwave]] and Condor Cassette: [[Buzzsaw (G1)/toys#Toys|Buzzsaw]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Communicator'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Blaster (G1)/toys#Toys|Blaster]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Aeroplanes'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Dirge (G1)/toys#Toys|Dirge]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Ramjet (G1)/toys#Toys|Ramjet]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Thrust (G1)/toys#Toys|Thrust]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Leader'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Megatron]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Laser Gun'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Toys|Shockwave]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Leader'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Toys|Jetfire]]}}
|}
{{Note|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#Toys|Devastator]] is listed under his own number in the MB dealer catalog, but thus far, no evidence of an MB Devastator [[giftset]] has surfaced.}}

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:'''Wave 2'''
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Mini Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Brawn (G1)/toys#Toys|Brawn]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Gears (G1)#Toys|Gears]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Huffer (G1)#Toys|Huffer]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Toys|Windcharger]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Cassettes'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Laserbeak (G1)/toys#Toys|Laserbeak]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Ravage (G1)/toys#Toys|Ravage]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Robot Cars'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#Toys|Jazz]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Toys|Mirage]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#Toys|Prowl]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Ratchet (G1)/toys#Toys|Ratchet]]}}
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|"Sideswipe" (actually [[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#Toys|Sunstreaker]])}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#Toys|Tracks]] (red)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys#Toys|Trailbreaker]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Toys|Wheeljack]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:G1toy optimus prime variants and running changes.jpg|thumb|200px|Optimus Prime Ceji variant]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Planes'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/toys#Toys|Starscream]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Toys|Thundercracker]] (in Starscream packaging)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Commander'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Optimus Prime]]}}
|}

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<big>'''Italy'''</big>

[[GiG]] ("Geegh", but sometimes misspelled "GiGi") originally released licensed ''Diaclone'' toys under the name "[[Trasformer]]", occasionally sporting color schemes only found on Hasbro's ''Transformers'' versions (very likely because Takara was shifting production of the toys from ''Diaclone'' to ''Transformers'' at the time). Whether it was pressure from Hasbro or a mere marketing decision, GiG eventually acquired an additional license from Hasbro and launched their own version of the ''Transformers'' line, with the toys often sporting original Italian names (for example, the Autobots became "Autorobots", and the Decepticons "Distructors").<ref name="chicken">[http://tfsource.com/blog/the-chicken-or-the-gig-part-1/ "The Chicken or the Gig?", Part 1] and [http://tfsource.com/blog/the-chicken-or-the-gig-part-2/ Part 2] at TFSource</ref> In addition to the official ''Transformers'' logo, a small remainder of the old ''Trasformer'' logo would remain on the packaging until 1987.

Speaking of ''Trasformer'' remnants, the "Autorobot Cars" and the "Distructor Planes" all sported unique "safety" missiles with large rubber boppers on the end instead of the individual missiles the versions released everywhere else had.

The [[Mini Vehicle|Autobot Minicars/Mini Vehicles]] were apparently never released by GiG. The Italian names for their characters come from the Italian dub of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|animated series]].

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Escavators''' (Constructicons)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Braccio ([[Scavenger (G1)/toys#Toys|Scavenger]])}}
{{bp-d1|Macigno ([[Long Haul (G1)/toys#Toys|Long Haul]])}}
{{bp-d1|Ringhio ([[Scrapper (G1)/toys#Toys|Scrapper]])}}
{{bp-d1|Rollo ([[Mixmaster (G1)/toys#Toys|Mixmaster]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{bp-d1|Rostro ([[Hook (G1)/toys#Toys|Hook]])}}
{{bp-d1|Scudo ([[Bonecrusher (G1)/toys#Toys|Bonecrusher]])}}
{{bp-d1|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#Toys|Devastator]] (giftset)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autorobot Cars'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Canguro ([[Hound (G1)/toys#Toys|Hound]])}}
{{bp-a1|Freccia ([[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Toys|Sideswipe]])}}
{{bp-a1|Gancio ([[Grapple (G1)#Toys|Grapple]])}}
{{bp-a1|Giaguaro/Alert ([[Red Alert (G1)/toys#Toys|Red Alert]])}}
{{bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#Toys|Inferno]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{bp-a1|Lince ([[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#Toys|Sunstreaker]])}}
{{bp-a1|Mistero ([[Mirage (G1)/toys#Toys|Mirage]], "Ligier" markings)}}
{{bp-a1|Saetta ([[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Toys|Wheeljack]])}}
{{bp-a1|Tigre ([[Jazz (G1)/toys#Toys|Jazz]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Distructor Triple Changers'''
{{bp-d1|Triplex Uno ([[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#Toys|Astrotrain]])}}
{{bp-d1|Triplex Due ([[Blitzwing (G1)/toys#Toys|Blitzwing]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Dinorobots''' (Dinobots)
{{bp-a1|Bronto ([[Sludge (G1)#Toys|Sludge]])}}
{{bp-a1|Reptilo ([[Swoop (G1)/toys#Toys|Swoop]])}}
{{bp-a1|Stego ([[Snarl (G1)#Toys|Snarl]])}}
{{bp-a1|Tiran ([[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Toys|Grimlock]])}}
{{bp-a1|Tricex ([[Slag (G1)/toys#Toys|Slag]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Distructor Planes'''
{{bp-d1|Astrum ([[Starscream (G1)/toys#Toys|Starscream]])}}
{{bp-d1|Corvo ([[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Toys|Skywarp]])}}
{{bp-d1|Vampiro ([[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Toys|Thundercracker]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autorobot Leader'''
{{bp-a1|Commander ([[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Optimus Prime]], has plastic variant)}}
|}
{{picsneeded|Autobot with the big hilarious bopper missile}}
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==1986==
<big>'''UK, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain'''</big>

Presumably, ''Transformers'' didn't sell well in Germany in 1985, as German was dropped as a language from the packaging until ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]''. Instead, Hasbro (who had finished taking over MB) consolidated the UK market with the rest of Europe (except for Italy, again). The 1986 releases that were now available in packaging with "Hasbro" rather than "MB" logos sported the four languages English, French, Dutch and Spanish (the order between English and French could occasionally be swapped).

Confirmed European Hasbro releases from 1986 are:

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Mini-Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Toys|Bumblebee]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hubcap (G1)#Toys|Hubcap]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Outback (G1)#Toys|Outback]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Pipes (G1)#Toys|Pipes]] (inc. "Puffer" variant)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Swerve (G1)#Toys|Swerve]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Wheelie (G1)#Toys|Wheelie]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Aerialbots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Air Raid (G1)/toys#Toys|Air Raid]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Fireflight (G1)/toys#Toys|Fireflight]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Silverbolt (G1)/toys#Toys|Silverbolt]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)/toys#Toys|Skydive]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Slingshot (G1)/toys#Toys|Slingshot]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Protectobots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Blades (G1)#Toys|Blades]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[First Aid (G1)#Toys|First Aid]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Groove (G1)#Toys|Groove]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hot Spot (G1)#Toys|Hot Spot]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Streetwise (G1)#Toys|Streetwise]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Constructicons''' (yellow)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bonecrusher (G1)/toys#Toys|Bonecrusher]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Hook (G1)/toys#Toys|Hook]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Long Haul (G1)/toys#Toys|Long Haul]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Mixmaster (G1)/toys#Toys|Mixmaster]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Scavenger (G1)/toys#Toys|Scavenger]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Scrapper (G1)/toys#Toys|Scrapper]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=4|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Stunticons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Breakdown (G1)#Toys|Breakdown]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Dead End (G1)#Toys|Dead End]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Drag Strip (G1)#Toys|Drag Strip]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Motormaster (G1)#Toys|Motormaster]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Wildrider (G1)#Toys|Wildrider]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Combaticons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Blast Off (G1)/toys#Toys|Blast Off]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Brawl (G1)/toys#Toys|Brawl]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Onslaught (G1)/toys#Toys|Onslaught]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Swindle (G1)/toys#Toys|Swindle]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Vortex (G1)/toys#Toys|Vortex]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Battlespringers''' (Battlechargers)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Runabout (G1)#Toys|Runabout]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Runamuck (G1)#Toys|Runamuck]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Triple Changers'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Broadside (G1)#Toys|Broadside]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Octane#Toys|Octane]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sandstorm (G1)#Toys|Sandstorm]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Springer (G1)/toys#Toys|Springer]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Vehicles''' (Autobot Cars)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Blurr (G1)/toys#Toys|Blurr]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Grapple (G1)#Toys|Grapple]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hoist (G1)/toys#Toys|Hoist]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Hot Rod]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Toys|Hound]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#Toys|Inferno]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Kup (G1)/toys#Toys|Kup]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Red Alert (G1)/toys#Toys|Red Alert]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Toys|Sideswipe]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Smokescreen (G1)/toys#Toys|Smokescreen]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys#Toys|Trailbreaker]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#Toys|Tracks]] (now blue)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Planes'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Cyclonus (G1)/toys#Toys|Cyclonus]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Scourge (G1)/toys#Toys|Scourge]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Leader'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#The Transformers|Optimus Prime]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot City'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Metroplex (G1)#Toys|Metroplex]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Communicator'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Toys|Soundwave]] and Condor Cassette: [[Buzzsaw (G1)/toys#Toys|Buzzsaw]]}}
|}

{{note|An instruction sheet for Scourge exists sporting the languages French, English, Dutch and Spanish. No packaged sample has surfaced thus far.}}

{{-}}
<big>'''Italy'''</big>

[[GiG]] was still doing their own thing at this point, with a bit of mix of Hasbro and Takara-style packaging. Notably, GiG's versions of the Aeriabolts, Protectobots, Stunticons and Combaticons came in boxes based on the Takara versions (including prominent "C" and "D" numbers and "Takara" instead of "Hasbro" logos), just like the previous year's Constructicons. This only applied to the combiner limbs, though; the leaders/torsos came in boxes based on the Hasbro versions, including "A5", "P5", "S5" and "D5" numbers.

Known Italian releases of 1986 toys are:

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Aerialbots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Log ([[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)/toys#Toys|Skydive]])}}
{{bp-a1|Optor ([[Fireflight (G1)/toys#Toys|Fireflight]])}}
{{bp-a1|Radiant ([[Silverbolt (G1)/toys#Toys|Silverbolt]])}}
{{bp-a1|Tornado ([[Air Raid (G1)/toys#Toys|Air Raid]])}}
{{bp-a1|Vertic ([[Slingshot (G1)/toys#Toys|Slingshot]])}}
{{bp-a1|Pentajet ([[Superion (G1)#Toys|Superion]] giftset)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Protectobots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Chips ([[Groove (G1)#Toys|Groove]])}}
{{bp-a1|Drago ([[Hot Spot (G1)#Toys|Hot Spot]])}}
{{bp-a1|Phantom ([[Streetwise (G1)#Toys|Streetwise]])}}
{{bp-a1|Rasor ([[Blades (G1)#Toys|Blades]])}}
{{bp-a1|Sirena ([[First Aid (G1)#Toys|First Aid]])}}
{{bp-a1|[[Defensor (G1)#Toys|Defensor]] (giftset)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Stunticons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Barracuda ([[Motormaster (G1)#Toys|Motormaster]])}}
{{bp-d1|Caimano ([[Breakdown (G1)#Toys|Breakdown]])}}
{{bp-d1|Cobra ([[Dead End (G1)#Toys|Dead End]])}}
{{bp-d1|Iguana ([[Drag Strip (G1)#Toys|Drag Strip]])}}
{{bp-d1|Squalo ([[Wildrider (G1)#Toys|Wildrider]])}}
{{bp-d1|Pentacar ([[Menasor (G1)#Toys|Menasor]] giftset)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Combaticons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Bomber ([[Brawl (G1)/toys#Toys|Brawl]])}}
{{bp-d1|Crasher ([[Swindle (G1)/toys#Toys|Swindle]])}}
{{bp-d1|Destroyer ([[Onslaught (G1)/toys#Toys|Onslaught]])}}
{{bp-d1|Exploder ([[Blast Off (G1)/toys#Toys|Blast Off]])}}
{{bp-d1|[[Vortex (G1)/toys#Toys|Vortex]]}}
{{bp-d1|Multiforce ([[Bruticus (G1)#Toys|Bruticus]] giftset)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:GiG Pentajet Ad.jpg|thumb|200px|Pentajet]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Predacons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Falcon ([[Divebomb (G1)#Toys|Divebomb]])}}
{{bp-d1|Felin ([[Rampage (G1)#Toys|Rampage]])}}
{{bp-d1|Rinox ([[Headstrong (G1)#Toys|Headstrong]])}}
{{bp-d1|Torox ([[Tantrum (G1)#Toys|Tantrum]])}}
{{bp-d1|Zannar ([[Razorclaw (G1)#Toys|Razorclaw]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Distructor Planes'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Ciclone ([[Cyclonus (G1)/toys#Toys|Cyclonus]])}}
{{bp-d1|Sheriff ([[Scourge (G1)/toys#Toys|Scourge]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autorobot City Commander'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Convoy ([[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Toys|Ultra Magnus]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autorobot City'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Guardian ([[Metroplex (G1)#Toys|Metroplex]])}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Distructor City'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Tripticon ([[Trypticon (G1)#Toys|Trypticon]])}}
|}

{{-}}
<big>'''Greece'''</big>

[[El Greco]] released a small number of ''Transformers'' toys to the Greek market. The Autobots were called Αυτορομπότ (Autorobots). The only known El Greco releases include seven Autobot Mini-Vehicles (which all have minor coloration differences) and two combiner giftsets. The cards the toys were available on were based on the Hasbro cards and sported Hasbro logos in addition to the "El Greco" logo.

It's not entirely clear when exactly the following toys were first available in Greece; however, they couldn't have been released before 1986, since they depict the "[[Decipher the Decepticon]]" poster artwork on the back of their cards.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Heroic''' (Autobot Mini Vehicles)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Achtypitos ([[Warpath (G1)#Toys|Warpath]])}}
{{bp-a1|Angelioforos ([[Beachcomber (G1)#Toys|Beachcomber]])}}
{{bp-a1|Egkefalos ([[Brawn (G1)/toys#Toys|Βrawn]])}}
{{bp-a1|Gigantas ([[Huffer (G1)#Toys|Huffer]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{bp-a1|Keravnos ([[Powerglide (G1)/toys#Toys|Powerglide]])}}
{{bp-a1|Kyriarchos ([[Cosmos (G1)#Toys|Cosmos]])}}
{{bp-a1|Thalassolykos ([[Seaspray (G1)#Toys|Seaspray]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Giftsets'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Defensor (G1)#Toys|Defensor]]}}
{{bp-d1|Excavator ([[Devastator (G1)/toys#Toys|Devastator]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}
</ul>

==1987==
<big>'''UK, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium'''</big>

Apparently realizing that tech specs in four different languages aren't exactly the optimal choice, Hasbro started breaking up the languages again. The UK got toys in English-only packaging, whereas France, Belgium, and the Netherlands got toys in bilingual French/Dutch packaging. Germany only got the English versions with safety warning stickers in German. Presumably, all toys were available in all language variants, but without solid evidence, this is pure speculation.
Known European toys from 1987 in French/Dutch packaging are:

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Technobots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Afterburner (G1)#Toys|Afterburner]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)#Toys|Lightspeed]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Nosecone (G1)#Toys|Nosecone]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Scattershot (G1)#Toys|Scattershot]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Strafe (G1)#Toys|Strafe]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Computron (G1)#Toys|Computron]] (giftset)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Duocons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Battletrap (G1)#Toys|Battletrap]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Flywheels#Toys|Flywheels]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Headmasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Brainstorm (G1)#Toys|Brainstorm]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Chromedome (G1)#Toys|Chromedome]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hardhead (G1)#Toys|Hardhead]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Highbrow (G1)#Toys|Highbrow]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Targetmasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Blurr (G1)/toys#Targetmaster|Blurr]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Crosshairs (G1)#Toys|Crosshairs]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Targetmaster|Hot Rod]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Kup (G1)/toys#Targetmaster|Kup]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Pointblank#Toys|Pointblank]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sureshot (G1)#Toys|Sureshot]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:G1 Galvatron toy.jpg|thumb|200px|Galvatron]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Headmasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Apeface#Toys|Apeface]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Mindwipe (G1)#Toys|Mindwipe]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Scorponok (G1)/toys#Toys|Scorponok]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Skullcruncher (G1)#Toys|Skullcruncher]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Snapdragon (G1)#Toys|Snapdragon]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Weirdwolf (G1)#Toys|Weirdwolf]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Targetmasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Cyclonus (G1)/toys#Targetmaster|Cyclonus]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Misfire (G1)#Toys|Misfire]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Scourge (G1)/toys#Targetmaster|Scourge]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Slugslinger (G1)#Toys|Slugslinger]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Triggerhappy (G1)#Toys|Triggerhappy]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Leader'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#G1RodimusPrime|Rodimus Prime]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot City Commander'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Toys|Ultra Magnus]]}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon City Commander'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Galvatron (G1)/toys#Toys|Galvatron]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Space Shuttle'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Sky Lynx (G1)#Toys|Sky Lynx]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon City'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Trypticon (G1)#Toys|Trypticon]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Headmaster Decepticon Base'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Scorponok_(G1)/toys#The_Transformers|Scorponok]]}}
|}
{{Note|An instruction sheet for Galvatron exists which only sports the languages French and Dutch. It is therefore assumed that he was available later than Scourge, whose instruction sheet still sported texts in English and Spanish as well.}}

{{-}}
<big>'''Italy'''</big>

[[GiG]] continued to have their own slightly-different take on ''Transformers'', mainly in packaging; the "Racerbots" (Throttlebots), "Tecnobots" and "Terrorbots" (it should be obvious) came in Takara-styled boxes complete with Japanese ID numbers. "Tundertron" (Abominus) was available as a giftset even though Hasbro hadn't released the toys in that form in the USA; the box layout was again based very closely on the standard Hasbro combiner giftsets at that time, but lacking the Hasbro logo, and sporting the toys' Takara ID numbers. The "Tecnobot" and "Terrorbot" advertisement flyers depict Scattershot and Hun-Gurrr erroneously wearing their respective combiner heads in their uncombined robot modes. The Monsterbots' boxes were based on the Hasbro versions, but sported "Takara" instead of "Hasbro" logos and Takara ID numbers.

Known Italian toys from 1987 are:

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Racerbots''' (Throttlebots)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Rollerbot ([[Wideload (G1)#Toys|Wideload]])}}
{{bp-a1|Saterbot ([[Freeway (G1)#Toys|Freeway]])}}
{{bp-a1|Scoutbot ([[Chase (G1)#Toys|Chase]])}}
{{bp-a1|Strobobot ([[Searchlight (G1)#Toys|Searchlight]])}}
{{bp-a1|Trollbot ([[Rollbar (G1)#Toys|Rollbar]])}}
{{bp-a1|Wagenbot ([[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Goldbug|Goldbug]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Tecnobots''' (Technobots)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Argobot ([[Nosecone (G1)#Toys|Nosecone]])}}
{{bp-a1|Radarbot ([[Afterburner (G1)#Toys|Afterburner]])}}
{{bp-a1|Rocketbot ([[Strafe (G1)#Toys|Strafe]])}}
{{bp-a1|Scatterbot ([[Scattershot (G1)#Toys|Scattershot]])}}
{{bp-a1|Starbot ([[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)#Toys|Lightspeed]])}}
{{bp-a1|[[Computron (G1)#Toys|Computron]] (giftset)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Terrorbots''' (Terrorcons)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Battlebot ([[Rippersnapper (G1)#Toys|Rippersnapper]])}}
{{bp-d1|Bifronbot ([[Sinnertwin (G1)#Toys|Sinnertwin]])}}
{{bp-d1|Crudelbot ([[Cutthroat (G1)#Toys|Cutthroat]])}}
{{bp-d1|Grifobot ([[Hun-Gurrr (G1)#Toys|Hun-Gurrr]])}}
{{bp-d1|Spectrobot ([[Blot (G1)#Toys|Blot]])}}
{{bp-d1|Tundertron ([[Abominus (G1)#Toys|Abominus]] giftset)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Duoform''' (Clones)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Booster/Gemini ([[Fastlane#Toys|Fastlane]]/[[Cloudraker (G1)#Toys|Cloudraker]])}}
{{bp-d1|Roboclon/Rapax ([[Pounce#Toys|Pounce]]/[[Wingspan#Toys|Wingspan]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:GiG Tundertron Ad.jpg|thumb|200px|The Terrorbots]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autorobot Headmasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Blindobot ([[Hardhead (G1)#Toys|Hardhead]])}}
{{bp-a1|Cruiserbot ([[Highbrow (G1)#Toys|Highbrow]])}}
{{bp-a1|Duobot ([[Chromedome (G1)#Toys|Chromedome]])}}
{{bp-a1|Goblin ([[Brainstorm (G1)#Toys|Brainstorm]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Monsterbots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Drekbot ([[Doublecross#Toys|Doublecross]])}}
{{bp-a1|Tigerbot ([[Grotusque#Toys|Grotusque]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Distructor Headmasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Tagor ([[Apeface#Toys|Apeface]])}}
{{bp-d1|Tifon ([[Snapdragon (G1)#Toys|Snapdragon]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Sixchanger'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Iperbot Sei Azioni ([[Sixshot (G1)#Toys|Sixshot]])}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Decepticon Citybot'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Scorpion ([[Scorponok (G1)/toys#Toys|Scorponok]])}}
|}
{{-}}

==1988==
<big>'''UK, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium'''</big>

Toys were still available in English-only and French/Dutch packaging. The UK toys started sporting a yellow "Original HASBRO Transformers" sticker on their packaging, possibly as a reaction to the sudden flood of Mexican toys (although those didn't come out in Europe until late 1988/early 1989). This sticker is also the only way to tell a European toy in English packaging apart from its US counterpart, as the packaging itself appears to be identical. 1988 toys were available in Germany in English-only packaging including the "Original HASBRO Transformers" sticker, with additional safety warning stickers in German.

Known European toys from 1988 are (all of the toys on this list have been found in both English stickered packaging and French/Dutch packaging):

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Sparkabots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Fizzle#Toys|Fizzle]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Guzzle (G1)#Toys|Guzzle]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sizzle (G1)#Toys|Sizzle]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Firecons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Cindersaur (G1)#Toys|Cindersaur]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Flamefeather (G1)#Toys|Flamefeather]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Sparkstalker#Toys|Sparkstalker]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Triggerbots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Backstreet (G1)#Toys|Backstreet]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Dogfight (G1)#Toys|Dogfight]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Override (G1)#Toys|Override]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Triggercons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Windsweeper#Toys|Windsweeper]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Ruckus (G1)#Toys|Ruckus]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Crankcase (G1)#Toys|Crankcase]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Seacons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Overbite (G1)#Toys|Overbite]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Nautilator#Toys|Nautilator]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Seawing (G1)#Toys|Seawing]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Skalor#Toys|Skalor]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Snaptrap (G1)#Toys|Snaptrap]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Tentakil (G1)#Toys|Tentakil]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Double Targetmasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Landfill (G1)#Toys|Landfill]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Needlenose (G1)#Toys|Needlenose]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Quake (G1)#Toys|Quake]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Quickmix (G1)#Toys|Quickmix]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Scoop (G1)#Toys|Scoop]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Spinister (G1)#Toys|Spinister]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Powermasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Darkwing (G1)#Toys|Darkwing]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Doubledealer#Toys|Doubledealer]]}}
{{bp-d1|[[Dreadwind (G1)#Toys|Dreadwind]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Getaway#Toys|Getaway]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Joyride (G1)#Toys|Joyride]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#PMOP|Optimus Prime]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Slapdash (G1)#Toys|Slapdash]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Six Changer'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Quickswitch#Toys|Quickswitch]]}}
|}
{{-}}
<big>'''Italy'''</big>

Starting with the Pretenders, [[GiG]] finally dropped the small remainder of the old ''Trasformer'' logo from their packaging. The most interesting releases this year are the "Grandi Set Transformers" (also called "Superset Transformers" in the 1988 Christmas catalog), re-releases of the prior Combiner giftsets with a pack of five random "Exogini Transformers" ([[Decoy]]s) as a freebie.

Known Italian releases from 1988 are:

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Triggerbots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Bitume ([[Backstreet (G1)#Toys|Backstreet]])}}
{{bp-a1|Furio ([[Override (G1)#Toys|Override]])}}
{{bp-a1|Orage ([[Dogfight (G1)#Toys|Dogfight]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Triggercons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|4x4 ([[Crankcase (G1)#Toys|Crankcase]])}}
{{bp-d1|Rafale ([[Windsweeper#Toys|Windsweeper]])}}
{{bp-d1|Rallye ([[Ruckus (G1)#Toys|Ruckus]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Pretenders Autorobot'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Falcon ([[Waverider#Toys|Waverider]])}}
{{bp-a1|Febos ([[Landmine (G1)#Toys|Landmine]])}}
{{bp-a1|Felin ([[Groundbreaker#Toys|Groundbreaker]])}}
{{bp-a1|Rotor ([[Sky High (Pretender)#Toys|Sky High]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Squalos ([[Splashdown#Toys|Splashdown]])}}
{{bp-a1|Super Commander ([[Cloudburst#Toys|Cloudburst]])}}
{{bp-a1|Ursus ([[Chainclaw (G1)#Toys|Chainclaw]])}}
{{bp-a1|Zanna ([[Catilla (G1)#Toys|Catilla]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Pretenders Distructor'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Ghigno ([[Carnivac (G1)#Toys|Carnivac]])}}
{{bp-d1|Insector ([[Bugly (G1)#Toys|Bugly]])}}
{{bp-d1|Korno ([[Skullgrin#Toys|Skullgrin]])}}
{{bp-d1|Lobos ([[Bomb-Burst (G1)#Toys|Bomb-Burst]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Razzak ([[Finback#Toys|Finback]])}}
{{bp-d1|Reptilo ([[Submarauder (G1)#Toys|Submarauder]])}}
{{bp-d1|Squamos ([[Iguanus (G1)#Toys|Iguanus]])}}
{{bp-d1|Verros ([[Snarler#Toys|Snarler]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Grandi Set/Superset Transformers'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1| [[Computron (G1)#Toys|Computron]]}}
{{bp-a1| [[Defensor (G1)#Toys|Defensor]]}}
{{bp-d1| [[Devastator (G1)/toys#Toys|Devastator]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Multiforce ([[Bruticus (G1)#Toys|Bruticus]])}}
{{bp-a1|Pentajet ([[Superion (G1)#Toys|Superion]])}}
{{bp-d1|Tundertron ([[Abominus (G1)#Toys|Abominus]])}}
|}

==1989==
<big>'''UK, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain'''</big>

In 1989, all releases received French names, but not Dutch names. Spain started getting toys in Spanish-only packaging (which are not to be confused with the unofficially imported Mexican toys by [[IGA]]). The smaller Pretenders, the Classic Pretenders, the Micromaster Stations and the Micromaster Transports were once again available in Germany in English packaging.

Confirmed releases include:
{{note|Alternate-language names are not given here to save space. '''UK''': English packaging, '''F/NL''': French/Dutch packaging, '''S''': Spanish packaging}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Small Pretenders'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bludgeon (G1)#Toys|Bludgeon]] (UK, F/NL)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Doubleheader#Toys|Doubleheader]] (UK, F/NL)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Longtooth#Toys|Longtooth]] (UK, F/NL)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Octopunch (G1)#Toys|Octopunch]] (UK, F/NL)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Pincher (G1)#Toys|Pincher]] (UK, F/NL)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Stranglehold#Toys|Stranglehold]] (UK, F/NL)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Patrols'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Air Strike Patrol#Toys|Air Strike Patrol]] (F/NL)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Battle Patrol#Toys|Battle Patrol]] (UK, F/NL)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Off Road Patrol#Toys|Off-Road Patrol]] (F/NL)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Race Car Patrol#Toys|Race Car Patrol]] (UK, F/NL)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Rescue Patrol (G1)#Toys|Rescue Patrol]] (UK, F/NL)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Sports Car Patrol#Toys|Sports Car Patrol]] (F/NL)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Transports'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Erector (G1)#Toys|Erector]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Flattop (Decepticon)#Toys|Flattop]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Overload (G1)#Toys|Overload]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Roughstuff#Toys|Roughstuff]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Bases'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Groundshaker (G1)#Toys|Groundshaker]] (F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Skyhopper#Toys|Skyhopper]] (F/NL)}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Battle Stations'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Greasepit_(Micromaster)#Toys|Greasepit]] (F/NL)}}
|}
{{-}}
<big>'''Italy'''</big>

Known Italian toys from 1989 are:

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Pretender Monsters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Artiglio ([[Slog (G1)#Toys|Slog]])}}
{{bp-d1|Avvoltoio ([[Birdbrain#Toys|Birdbrain]])}}
{{bp-d1|Pipistrello ([[Icepick (G1)#Toys|Icepick]])}}
{{bp-d1|Raptor ([[Scowl (G1)#Toys|Scowl]])}}
{{bp-d1|Spettro ([[Bristleback#Toys|Bristleback]])}}
{{bp-d1|Vampiro ([[Wildfly#Toys|Wildfly]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Small Pretenders'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Tenax ([[Pincher (G1)#Toys|Pincher]])}}
{{bp-a1|Ferox ([[Longtooth#Toys|Longtooth]])}}
{{bp-a1|Biclonius ([[Doubleheader#Toys|Doubleheader]])}}
{{bp-d1|Demon ([[Stranglehold#Toys|Stranglehold]])}}
{{bp-d1|Medusa ([[Octopunch (G1)#Toys|Octopunch]])}}
{{bp-d1|Teskior ([[Bludgeon (G1)#Toys|Bludgeon]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Microtransformers Pattuglias''' (Micromaster Patrols)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Expeditors ([[Off Road Patrol#Toys|Off Road Patrol]])}}
{{bp-d1|Interceptors ([[Air Strike Patrol#Toys|Air Strike Patrol]])}}
{{bp-d1|Pattuglia Guastatori ([[Sports Car Patrol#Toys|Sports Car Patrol]])}}
{{bp-a1|Pattuglia Mezzi d'Assalto ([[Battle Patrol#Toys|Battle Patrol]])}}
{{bp-a1|Pattuglia Soccorso ([[Rescue Patrol#Toys|Rescue Patrol]])}}
{{bp-a1|Sprintforce ([[Race Car Patrol#Toys|Race Car Patrol]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Microtransformers Deluxes''' (Micromaster Transports)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Tornado ([[Roughstuff#Toys|Roughstuff]])}}
{{bp-a1|Tractor ([[Erector (G1)#Toys|Erector]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Microtrasformer{{sic}} Stations''' (Micromaster Stations)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|Argon ([[Hot House (Micromaster)#Toys|Hot House]])}}
{{bp-d1|Assalt ([[Greasepit (Micromaster)#Toys|Greasepit]])}}
{{bp-d1|Lancer ([[Airwave (Micromaster)#Toys|Airwave]])}}
{{bp-a1|Radar ([[Ironworks (Micromaster)#Toys|Ironworks]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Microtransformer Bases''' (Micromaster Bases)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|Rotor ([[Skyhopper#Toys|Skyhopper]])}}
{{bp-a1|Titano ([[Groundshaker (G1)#Toys|Groundshaker]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Set Commandos''' (Classic Legends)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1d1|Saetta / Folgore / Drago / Tornado ([[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Hero Set|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)/toys#HeroSet|Jazz]], [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#HeroSet|Grimlock]] & [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Heroset|Starscream]] (respectively) set)}}
|}
{{-}}

<big>'''Unofficial Mexican imports'''</big>

In addition to the regular toys released by Hasbro and GiG, [http://www.tfarchive.com/toys/articles/mexican_invasion.php Europe was also hit by a flood of Transformers toys imported from Mexico]. While these toys had been officially produced by [[IGA]] with the intention to release them on the Mexican market, a large unsold stock remained that was eventually exported to Europe without Hasbro's involvement. The toys were available in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Romania, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. This created a strange situation where unofficially imported (but officially produced) toys competed with official European releases. These toys are considered official for Mexico but unofficial for Europe.

==1990==
By 1990, Hasbro had mostly streamlined their European markets. Presumably, all toys that came out in one country were also available everywhere else. Even the Italian releases now sported a uniform look with the toys that were available elsewhere in Europe (even though they still sported a "[[GiG]]" logo and Italian names), with one exception. Also, with Hasbro cancelling the ''Transformers'' line in the USA for the time being, the European Hasbro branches continued releasing new toys which the USA would never get. By this time, [[Australia]] also was receiving releases, re-releases and exclusives in a pattern similar (if not exactly the same) to that of the European market; this would continue at least as far as ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]''.

Presumably, Germany got the UK versions of the 1990 [[Action Master]]s in English-only packaging. Also, GiG gave at least some of the Action Masters toys that were based on older characters the original Italian names again.

Confirmed releases include:
{{note|Alternate-language names are not given here to save space. '''UK''': English packaging, '''F/NL''': French/Dutch packaging, '''S''': Spanish packaging, '''I''': Italian packaging with alternate names}}

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Patrols'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Air Patrol#Toys|Air Patrol]] (S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Construction Patrol#Toys|Construction Patrol]] (S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hot Rod Patrol#Toys|Hot Rod Patrol]] (F/NL, S, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Military Patrol#Toys|Military Patrol]] (F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Monster Trucks Patrol#Toys|Monster Trucks Patrol]] (UK, F/NL, S, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Race Track Patrol#Toys|Race Track Patrol]] (S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Combiner Squads'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Astro Squad#Toys|Astro Squad]] (UK, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Battle Squad#Toys|Battle Squad]] (I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Constructor Squad#Toys|Constructor Squad]] (UK, S, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Metro Squad#Toys|Metro Squad]] (I)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Combiner Transports'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Cannon Transport#Toys|Cannon Transport]] (UK, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Missile Launcher#Toys|Missile Launcher]] (S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tanker Truck#Toys|Tanker Truck]] (UK, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Combiner Autobot Battlefield Headquarters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Battlefield Headquarters#Toys|Battlefield Headquarters]] (F/NL, S, I)}}
|

|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=3|[[File:G1-toy CannonTransport.jpg|thumb|200px|Cannon Transport]][[File:G1 Overrun toy.jpg|thumb|200px|Attack Copter with Over-Run]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Combiner Anti-Aircraft Base'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Anti-Aircraft_Base#Toys|Anti-Aircraft Base]] (UK, F/NL)}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Figures'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Blaster (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Blaster]] with [[Flight-Pack#Toys|Flight-Pack]] (UK, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Bumblebee]] with [[Heli-pack#Toys|Heli-pack]] (UK, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Devastator]] with [[Scorpulator#Toys|Scorpulator]] (UK)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Grimlock]] with [[Anti-tank cannon#Toys|Anti-tank cannon]] (UK, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Jackpot (G1)#Toys|Jackpot]] with [[Sights (G1)#Toys|Sights]] (I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Jazz]] with [[Turbo Board#Toys|Turbo Board]] (I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Mainframe (G1)#Toys|Mainframe]] with [[Push-Button#Toys|Push-Button]] (I)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Rad (G1)#Toys|Rad]] with [[Lionizer (G1)#Toys|Lionizer]] (I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Rollout (G1)#Toys|Rollout]] with [[Glitch (G1)#Toys|Glitch]] (I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Shockwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Shockwave]] with [[Fistfight (G1)#Toys|Fistfight]] (UK)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Soundwave]] with [[Wingthing (G1)#Toys|Wingthing]] (UK)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#AM|Snarl]] with [[Tyrannitron#Toys|Tyrannitron]] (UK)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Treadshot (G1)#Toys|Treadshot]] with [[Catgut#Toys|Catgut]] (I)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Action Blasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Attack Copter#Toys|Attack Copter]] with [[Over-Run (G1)#Toys|Over-Run]] (F/NL)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Action Vehicles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Starscream]] / [[Turbo Jet#Toys|Turbo Jet]] (I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Wheeljack]] / [[Turbo Racer#Toys|Turbo Racer]] (I)}}
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Galaxy Shuttle'''
{{bp-a1|[[Galaxy Shuttle#The Transformers|Galaxy Shuttle]] (I)}}
|}
{{note|Galaxy Shuttle was originally from the [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#1989 (Victory)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'' toyline. The Italian GiG release is the only non-Takara release of the toy. How/why is anyone's guess.}}

{{-}}
[[File:EuroClassicsOnslaughtBattle.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Transformers: Classics|Not]] [[2006]].]]
<big>'''"Classics" (Europe & Australasia)'''</big>

Possibly taking a cue from the popularity of the Classic Pretenders, Hasbro started re-releasing original toys from 1984-1987 in "gold" packaging based on the Classic Pretenders' boxes, under the name "[[Classics (Europe)|Classics]]". Germany got the "Classics" toys in English packaging. Unlike the English and French/Dutch versions, the Italian and Spanish "Classics" don't actually say "Classic" anywhere on the packaging. The toys themselves are functionally identical to their original releases, complete with [[rubsign]]s. (Some toys released this year were altered the following year, but we'll talk about the details of that then.)

''Why'' this line happened is currently unknown, but there are several possibilities. It is known that the ''Transformers'' line was only ''just'' starting up in China (thanks to some legal shenanigans), and it appears the "Classics" toys were produced in the same Chinese factories, so the molds suddenly being available for production presented possibilities. It is unknown if Hasbro had originally intended for the toys to be released in the US market as well as in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, but the line's cancellation in the US killed that.

Confirmed European/Australasian "Classic" releases from 1990:<ref>http://www.fredsworkshop.com/veurolist.html</ref>
{{note|Alternate-language names are not given here to save space. '''UK''': English packaging, '''F/NL''': French/Dutch packaging, '''S''': Spanish packaging, '''I''': Italian packaging with alternate names}}

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Aerialbots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Air Raid (G1)/toys#1990Classic|Air Raid]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Fireflight (G1)/toys#1990Classic|Fireflight]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Silverbolt (G1)/toys#1990Classic|Silverbolt]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Slingshot (G1)/toys#1990Classic|Slingshot]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)/toys#1990Classic|Skydive]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Stunticons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Breakdown (G1)#1990Classic|Breakdown]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Dead End (G1)#1990Classic|Dead End]] (UK, F/NL, S, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Drag Strip (G1)#1990Classic|Drag Strip]] (UK, F/NL, S, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Motormaster (G1)#1990Classic|Motormaster]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Wildrider (G1)#1990Classic|Wild Rider]]{{sic}} (UK, F/NL, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Heroes'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Inferno (G1)/toys#1990Classic|Inferno]] (UK, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys#90sClassic|Ironhide]] (UK)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#90sClassic|Jazz]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#Classics|Prowl]] (sticker variant) (UK, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#ClassicSunny|Sunstreaker]] (UK)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Classics|Wheeljack]] (UK, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:G1toy ClassicHeroProwl.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Classic Hero Prowl]]
|}

{{-}}

==1991==
Although ''Transformers'' had come to a stop in the US, Hasbro continued releasing new toys to the European and Australasian markets. Those included numerous Action Masters, more "Classic" re-releases of older toys, and even toys that were originally only available in Japan, slightly redecoed for the European market. Again, Action Masters were available in English packaging in Germany.

Confirmed releases include:
{{note|Alternate-language names are not given here to save space. '''UK''': English packaging, '''F/NL''': French/Dutch packaging, '''S''': Spanish packaging, '''I''': Italian packaging with alternate names}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master figures'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Bombshell (G1)#ActionMaster|Bombshell]] with [[Needler (G1)#Toys|Needler]] (UK, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Charger#Toys|Charger]] with [[Fire Beast#Toys|Fire Beast]] (UK, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Powerflash#Toys|Powerflash]] with [[Road Rocket (G1)#Toys|Road Rocket]] (UK, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Sideswipe]] with [[Vanguard#Toys|Vanguard]] (UK, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Take-Off#Toys|Take-Off]] with [[Screech (Action Master)#Toys|Screech]] (UK, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Tracks]] with [[Basher#Toys|Basher]] (UK, I)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Action Master Exo-suit|Exo-Suit]] Action Masters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Circuit (G1)#Toys|Circuit]] (UK, F/NL)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Thundercracker]] (UK, F/NL)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Motorized Exo-Suit Action Masters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Rumbler (G1)#Toys|Rumbler]] (UK, F/NL)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Slicer (G1)#Toys|Slicer]] (UK)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Action Master Elites'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Double Punch#Toys|Double Punch]] (UK)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Omega Supreme (G1)#omegaspreem|Omega Spreem]] {{sic}} (UK)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Turbo Master#Toys|Turbo Master]] (UK)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windmill (G1)#Toys|Windmill]] (UK)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=4|[[File:G1-toy DoublePunch.jpg|thumb|200px|Action Master Elite Double Punch]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Motorvators'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Flame (Motorvator)#Toys|Flame]] (UK, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Gripper (G1)#Toys|Gripper]] (UK, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Lightspeed (Motorvator)#Toys|Lightspeed]] (UK, I)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Others'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Overlord (G1)#The Transformers|Overlord]] (UK, F/NL, I)}}
|}

{{-}}
<big>'''Classics'''</big>

Again, Classics toys were available in English packaging in Germany. However, the Classic Combaticons might have not been available in Germany, due to the unpopular "war" theme. Also, again, the Italian and Spanish Classics don't say "Classic" anywhere on the packaging, unlike the English and French/Dutch versions. The rubsign indents on the Classic Protectobots, Combaticons, Throttlebots, and Triple Changers Springer and Octane, were filled in. As the rubsigns were the ''only'' faction symbols on the Throttlebots, they were replaced with paper Autobot symbol stickers.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Throttlebots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Chase (G1)#1991Classic|Chase]] (UK, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Freeway (G1)#1991Classic|Freeway]] (UK, I Saterbot)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#EuroClassic|Goldbug]] (UK, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Rollbar (G1)#1991Classic|Rollbar]] (UK, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Searchlight (G1)#1991Classic|Searchlight]] (UK, I Strobobot)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Wideload (G1)#1991Classic|Wideload]] (UK, I Rapidbot)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Protectobots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Blades (G1)#1991Classic|Blades]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[First Aid (G1)#1991Classic|First Aid]] (UK, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Groove (G1)#1991Classic|Groove]] (UK, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hot Spot (G1)#1991Classic|Hot Spot]] (UK, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Streetwise (G1)#1991Classic|Streetwise]] (UK, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Combaticons'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Blast Off (G1)/toys#1991Classic|Blast Off]] (UK, S)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Brawl (G1)/toys#1991Classic|Brawl]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Onslaught (G1)/toys#1991Classic|Onslaught]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Swindle (G1)/toys#1991Classic|Swindle]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Vortex (G1)/toys#1991Classic|Vortex]] (UK, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Triple Changers'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#1991Classic|Astrotrain]] (UK, S)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Octane#1991Classic|Octane]] (UK, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sandstorm (G1)#1991Classic|Sandstorm]] (UK, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Springer (G1)/toys#1991Classic|Springer]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:G1toy Classics FirstAid.JPG|right|thumb|150px|Classics First Aid]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Dinobots'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#1991Classic|Grimlock]] (UK)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Sludge (G1)#1991Classic|Sludge]] (UK, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Snarl (G1)#1991Classic|Snarl]] (UK, I)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Classic Heroes'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#1991Classic|Sideswipe]] (UK, S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Tracks (G1)/toys#1991Classic|Tracks]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Autobot Leader'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#EuroClassics|Optimus Prime]] (UK, F/NL, S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Combiner giftsets'''
{{bp-d1|[[Devastator (G1)/toys#Toys|Devastator]]}}
{{bp-a1|[[Defensor (G1)#Toys|Defensor]]}}
|}
{{note|The Combiner giftsets were released only in Greece by GiG under the brand name "El Greco". These versions also came with a Classic Dinobot attached on the back or front of the box.}}
{{-}}

==1992==
[[File:G1Stalker toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Predator Stalker (with Snare attached in the lower-right)]]
'92 is when the European ''Transformers'' line really began to kick into high gear, even if the amount of product was a little on the light side. Hasbro produced new toys exclusively designed for the European market (though some did get imported to Japan), which had a far more cohesive design aesthetic than... well, the line ever had in its past. The Autobots trended towards brighter colors and generally had more "human" faces, and each one used bright-magenta translucent plastic for vehicle-mode windscreens and a new innovation in the line, [[light-piping|light-piped]] eyes which appear to "glow" when light shines through them from behind. The Decepticons trended towards darker, cooler colors, their faces much more "robotic" (usually with facemasks and visor-eyes), and using bright-green translucent plastic for their canopies/optics. Both sides also included spring-loaded missile launchers, a [[gimmick]] that had been all but abandoned in Hasbro's markets due to more stringent [[for safety reasons|safety regulations for projectiles]] in the US.

Rounding out the year's product are a strange pair of re-released combiner teams ''lacking'' their combining ability... or individual names.

After this year, Hasbro decided European sales were good enough to [[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|try to revive ''Transformers'' in the US again]].<ref>[http://www.tfarchive.com/fandom/interviews/george_dunsay/george_dunsay_interview.php George Dunsay interview at TFArchive]: "At the time it was discontinued in the US, it was not a temporary decision. It is only after the success in Europe that the US people decided to reintroduce it"</ref>

In terms of languages, English and Spanish were now merged into bilingual English/Spanish packaging for the British, Spanish, Australian, and New Zealand markets, whereas France, Belgium, and the Netherlands still got toys in bilingual French/Dutch packaging, but now with alternate (English) names as well, and Italy still got toys in Italian-only packaging from GiG.

Confirmed releases include:
{{note|Alternate-language names are not given here to save space. '''UK/S''': English/Spanish packaging, '''F/NL''': French/Dutch packaging, '''I''': Italian packaging with alternate names}}

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Turbomasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
'''Small'''
{{bp-a1|[[Boss (G1)#Toys|Boss]] (UK/S, F/NL, I}}
{{bp-a1|[[Flash (G1)#Toys|Flash]] (UK/S, F/NL)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Hurricane#Toys|Hurricane]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Scorch (G1)#Toys|Scorch]] (UK/S, F/NL)}}
'''Medium'''
{{bp-a1|[[Rotorstorm (G1)#Toys|Rotorstorm]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
'''Large'''
{{bp-a1|[[Thunder Clash#Toys|Thunder Clash]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Predators'''
<ul class="iconlist">
'''Small'''
{{bp-d1|[[Falcon (G1)#Toys|Falcon]] (UK/S, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Skydive (Predator)#Toys|Skydive]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Snare#Toys|Snare]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Talon (G1)#Toys|Talon]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
'''Medium'''
{{bp-d1|[[Stalker (G1)#Toys|Stalker]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
'''Large'''
{{bp-d1|[[Skyquake (G1)#Toys|Skyquake]] (UK/S, F/NL)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Rescue Force'''
{{bp-a1|"[[Rescue Force 2#Toys|Rescue Force buggy]]"}}
{{bp-a1|"[[Rescue Force 3#Toys|Rescue Force drill]]"}}
{{bp-a1|"[[Rescue Force (individual)#Toys|Rescue Force jet]]"}}
{{bp-a1|"[[Rescue Force 1#Toys|Rescue Force tank]]"}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Constructicons'''
{{bp-d1|"[[Bonecrusher (G1)/toys#1992yellow|Bonecrusher]]"}}
{{bp-d1|"[[Hook (G1)/toys#1992yellow|Hook]]"}}
{{bp-d1|"[[Long Haul (G1)/toys#1992yellow|Long Haul]]"}}
{{bp-d1|"[[Mixmaster (G1)/toys#1992yellow|Mixmaster]]"}}
{{bp-d1|"[[Scavenger (G1)/toys#1992yellow|Scavenger]]"}}
{{bp-d1|"[[Scrapper (G1)/toys#1992yellow|Scrapper]]"}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:G1-toy Flash.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Turbomaster Flash]]
|}
{{-}}

==1993==
[[File:G1-toy-Ironfist.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Lightformer Ironfist]]
While Hasbro rolled out the new ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' toyline in the US, the European line continued under the original branding, with a slew of new all-new-mold toys with a variety of gimmicks… though curiously with the "Generation 2" Autobot and Decepticon symbols applied to them. (A popular [[Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers#Generation 2|rumor]] claims that this was due to the international licence for the original symbols having expired, which sounds highly dubious.) Some toys even got the "Autobot/Decepticon" text-stamp that was added to every ''Generation 2'' toy in the US.

On top of all these new molds, last year's Turbomasters, Predators, Rescue Force and Constructicons were still shipping to stores, making for quite a full assortment of toys for the final year of the original ''Transformers'' toyline globally. ''Salut!''

Many fans consider this year a sort of "Generation 1.5", further buoyed by the fact that all of the new molds got re-released in 1994 under the ''Generation 2'' branding in European markets.

Confirmed releases include:
{{note|Alternate-language names are not given here to save space. '''UK/S''': English/Spanish packaging, '''F/NL''': French/Dutch packaging, '''I''': Italian packaging with alternate names}}

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Axelerator]]s'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Turbofire#Toys|Hotrider]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Rapido#Toys|Rapido]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Skram (G2)#Toys|Skram]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Windbreaker#Toys|Zap]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Skyscorcher]]s'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Eagle Eye (G2)#Toys|Hawk]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Afterburner (G2)#Toys|Snipe]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Terradive (G2)#Toys|Terradive]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Windrazor (G2)#Toys|Tornado]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Aquaspeeder]]s'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Aquafend#Toys|Aquafend]] (UK/S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Deluge (G1)#Toys|Deluge]] (UK/S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Jetstorm (G1)#Toys|Jetstorm]] (UK/S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Speedstream#Toys|Speedstream]] (UK/S)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Stormtrooper (G1)|Stormtrooper]]s'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Aquablast#Toys|Aquablast]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Drench (G1)#Toys|Drench]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Hydradread#Toys|Hydradread]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Rage (G1)#Toys|Rage]] (UK/S, F/NL, I)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:G2-toy Clench.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Obliterator Clench]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Lightformer]]s'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-a1|[[Deftwing#Toys|Deftwing]] (UK/S, F/NL)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Ironfist (G1)#Toys|Ironfist]] (UK/S, F/NL)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Trakkon]]s'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Calcar#Toys|Calcar]] (UK/S, F/NL)}}
{{bp-d1|[[Fearswoop (G1)#Toys|Fearswoop]] (UK/S, F/NL)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Obliterator]]s'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-d1|[[Clench (G1)#Toys|Clench]] (UK/S)}}
{{bp-a1|[[Pyro (G1)#Toys|Pyro]] (UK/S)}}
|}
{{-}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines|European]]

Trasformer

2023-07-23T06:49:14Z

CyRaptor: /* Tripla Trasformazione */

[[File:Trasformer_logo.png|thumb|upright=2|Mor tha mets te ee!]]
'''''Trasformer''''' {{sic}} was a unique international release of [[TakaraTomy|Takara's]] ''[[Diaclone]]'' and ''[[Micro Change|MicroChange]]'' lines by an [[Italy|Italian]] company named [[GiG]] that was launched in [[1984]], as a continuation of GiG's ''Diaclone'' line that was launched two years earlier. The toys are infamous for featuring several characteristics of Hasbro's ''Transformers'' versions of those toys, even though GiG initially only had a license from Takara for importing their ''Diaclone'' versions.

==History==
In [[1982]], GiG had acquired the license for selling imported Diaclone and MicroChange toys on the Italian market from Takara. Initially, GiG simply released the toys under the name ''Diaclone'', such as the Dia-Battles combiner, the Dia-Train or the Power Bases playsets. Of note is that GiG used the noun "trasformazione" (Italian for "transformation") and "trasformare" ("to transform") referring to some early ''Diaclone'' toys in official advertising as early as 1982. (And just in case someone's wondering, the Italian language offers several potential synonyms they could have used instead.)

[[File:GiGmissiles.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|And you thought American safety standards were ridiculous.]]In 1984, around the same time [[Hasbro]] launched the original ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Transformers]]'' line in the USA, GiG rebranded its ''Diaclone'' toys as ''Trasformer'', with the Diaclone Car Robots (which Hasbro released as the Autobot Cars assortment) renamed "Auto Robot" and the ''Diaclone'' pilots omitted in most instances. Even though the packaging design was fully based on Takara's ''Diaclone'' packaging (and thus also didn't feature any bios or fiction of any kind), some of the toys themselves featured characteristics that didn't originate with Takara's ''Diaclone'' toys (which GiG had a license for), but with Hasbro's ''Transformers'' versions of those toys, such as the "Countach LP 500S", which was released in yellow<ref name="sunstreaker1">[http://randomtoyreviews.blogspot.com/2012/10/an-unexpected-holy-grail-diaclone.html GiG Trasformer "Sunstreaker"] at Random Toy Reviews</ref> (a color that originated with Hasbro's [[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#Generation 1|Sunstreaker]] version of the toy, whereas Takara's ''Diaclone'' version was red), and several toys featuring ''Transformers'' factory sticker sheets.

However, the ''Trasformer'' line also included the ''Diaclone'' [[Fumes|jet-helicopter]] [[Triple Changer]], which was never released as part of the ''Transformers'' line. On the other hand, GiG also undertook some bizarre [[For safety reasons|safety modifications]], replacing the toys' regular [[missile]]s with all-new missiles that featured ridiculously oversized rubber tips. Interestingly enough, GiG also released their version of the [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] mold as part of the ''Trasformer'' line, even though the toy wasn't licensed from Takara, but another company named ToyBox.

A common assumption among the [[fandom]] is that the entire ''Trasformer'' line represents a blatant attempt at exploiting the global popularity of ''Transformers'' via their existing business relationship with Takara without paying royalties to Hasbro, with Hasbro eventually pressuring GiG into acquiring an additional license so they could release ''Transformers'' proper. This has been put into question in recent years: As noted above, GiG used the Italian words for "transform" and "transformation" to advertise ''Diaclone'' toys long before Hasbro discovered them at Tokyo Toy Fair 1983, and the earliest confirmed official use of the name "Trasformer" on behalf of GiG was a magazine advert for the toy line published in April 1984, a mere two months after Hasbro had officially unveiled their ''Transformers'' toy line at Toy Fair, although five months after Hasbro initially filed for the trademark name of ''Transformers''.<ref>[http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=tm&rno=1296543 Trademark Assignment Abstract of Title]</ref> Therefore, it's possible that whoever came up with the name "Transformers" on Hasbro's behalf was "inspired" by GiG, rather than the other way around. Likewise, it's ''also'' possible that the name [[Autobot]] was "inspired" by GiG's use of the name "Auto Robot" (itself a direct adaptation of Takara's name "Car Robot").<ref name="chicken1">[http://tfsource.com/blog/the-chicken-or-the-gig-part-1/ "The Chicken or the Gig?", Part 1] at TFSource</ref>

Following this theory, the ''Trasformer'' toys that featured distinct ''Transformers'' characteristics were simply transitional ''Diaclone''/''Transformers'' hybrids, since by that time, Takara was phasing out production for ''Diaclone'' altogether in favor of the more popular ''Transformers'' versions for Hasbro (Takara discontinued ''Diaclone'' in Japan and started their own version of ''Transformers'' in 1985). This would have ultimately deprived GiG of ''Diaclone'' products, leaving them with two options: Canceling ''Trasformer'' entirely, or acquiring a license from Hasbro and thereby also gaining access to additional promotional material, such as the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon series]].<ref name="chicken2">[http://tfsource.com/blog/the-chicken-or-the-gig-part-2/ "The Chicken or the Gig?", Part 2] at TFSource</ref>

Whatever the reason, by [[1985]], GiG abandoned the ''Trasformer'' line and instead re-released the toys in actual ''Transformers'' packaging, albeit keeping a small remainder of the old ''Trasformer'' logo in addition to the larger ''Transformers'' logo, presumably as an attempt to maintain some sense of brand continuity. The small ''Trasformer'' logo would finally be dropped for good in 1988, starting with the [[Pretender]]s toys. Still, the pre-existing direct business relationship between GiG and Takara also resulted in a unique mix of Hasbro-inspired and Takara-inspired packaging for Italian ''Transformers'' toys, as well as the release of some toys (or at least versions of certain toys) that were otherwise exclusive to Takara, such as [[Bruticus (G1)#Generation 1|Bruticus]] and [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] [[giftset]]s, the "Hero Set" (renamed "Set Commandos" for the Italian market) featuring the inner robots of the [[Classic Pretender]] versions of [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Hero Set|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz (G1)/toys#HeroSet|Jazz]], [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#HeroSet|Grimlock]] and [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Heroset|Starscream]] in their Japanese-market decos, and the [[Galaxy Shuttle]].

==Toys==
The following list is not a complete overview of the entire line but lists some of the [[pre-Transformer]]s that made it into the GiG ''Trasformer'' line.

===Auto Robot===
[[File:Topolino Datsun Fairlady Z.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Shiny!]]
*No 1 Countach LP 500S (Pre-[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys|Sunstreaker]])
*No 2 Super Countach LP 500s (Pre-[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys|Sideswipe]])
*No 3 Fuoristrada J59 (Pre-[[Hound (G1)|Hound]])
*No 4 Ligier JS11 F-1 (Pre-[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]])
*No 5 Fairlady Z 280Z (Pre-[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys|Bluestreak]])
*No 6 Fairlady Z Police Car (Pre-[[Prowl (G1)/toys|Prowl]])
*No 7 Porsche 935 Turbo (Pre-[[Jazz (G1)/toys|Jazz]])
*No 8 Fairlady Z Racing Type (Pre-[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]])
*No 9 Ambulance (Pre-[[Ratchet (G1)/toys|Ratchet]])
*No 10 Lancia Stratos Turbo (Pre-[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys|Wheeljack]])
*No 11 4WD Hilux (Pre-[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]])
*No 12 Honda City Turbo (Pre-[[Skids (G1)|Skids]])
*No 13 Corvette Stingray (Pre-[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], or Pre-[[Road Rage (G1)|Road Rage]])
*No 14 New Countach LP500S Police Car (Pre-[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], or Pre-[[Clampdown (G1)|Clampdown]])
*No 15 4WD Hilux Autogru (Pre-[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]])
*No 16 Cherry Vanette (Pre-[[Ironhide (G1)/toys|Ironhide]])
*No 30 Camion Pompieri (Pre-[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]])
*No 31 Camion Gru (Pre-[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]])
*No 50 Camion Convoy Portauto - Diaclone [[Delta Magnus|Powered Convoy]] (Pre-[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys|Ultra Magnus]])
{{--}}

===Dinosaur Robots===
*1 Tyrannosaurus (Pre-[[Grimlock (G1)/toys|Grimlock]]) blue crotch ''Diaclone'' version, later versions had the usual red crotch
*2 Triceratops (Pre-[[Slag (G1)|Slag]]) Blue and white ''Diaclone'' version, later versions were red
*3 Brontosaurus (Pre-[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]])
*4 Stegosaurus (Pre-[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]) Black chest, later versions were red
*5 Pteranodon (Pre-[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]) Not released by GiG, but distributed in Japanese box

===Tripla Trasformazione===
*Aereo A Tripla Trasformazione (Pre-[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], or Pre-[[Overcharge (G1)|Overcharge]])
*Elicottero A Tripla Transformazione (jet/helicopter Triple Changer; [[Rotorbolt (Timelines)|never released]] [[Skyklik|as a Transformer]])

===Scatter===
*[[Aragon]] (Pre-[[Powerdasher]] car)
*[[Zetar (G1)|Zetar]] (Pre-[[Powerdasher]] drill)
*[[Cromar]] (Pre-[[Powerdasher]] jet)
[[File:1985 Topolino Walther P-38 UNCLE.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.]]

===Destroy Car===
*[unnamed] (Diaclone Change Attacker "Oneboxcar Vanette"; never released as a Transformer)
*[unnamed] (Diaclone Change Attacker "Starion Turbo 2000"; never released as a Transformer)
*[unnamed] (Diaclone Change Attacker "Lamborghini Cheetah"; never released as a Transformer)

===Others===
TAKARA
*MC-10 Cassette Man (Pre-[[Soundwave (G1)/toys|Soundwave]] and Pre-[[Rumble (G1)/toys|Rumble]]: the ''Trasformer'' release was actually based on the Hasbro Soundwave, with the retooled cassette door lacking the "Cassette Man" molding and even bearing Decepticon logos)
*MC-11 Magnum Robo ([[Kiloton|No Transformer release]])
*MC-12 Walther P-38 (Predecessor of the Japanese version of [[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]])
*MC-13 UNCLE Walther P-38 (Predecessor of the US/European version of [[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron]])
*MC-14 Metal Man (Pre-[[Eggbot]]/[[Dark Eggbot]]/[[Star Dust]])
*MC-15 Metal Leo (Pre-[[Eggleo]]/[[Dark Eggleo]]/[[Angela]])
*MC-16 Metal Hawk (Pre-[[Eggbird]]/[[Dark Eggbird]]/[[Zangetsu]])
*MC-17 Lock Robo Dial Man. (Transforms from a working dial lock to a robot. [[Dialman|No Transformer release]])
*MC-18 Lock Robo Magneman. (Transforms from a working key lock to a robot. No Transformer release)
*MC-20 Micro Scope (Pre-[[Perceptor (G1)/toys|Perceptor]])
*MC-21 Radi-Cassette Robo (Pre-[[Blaster (G1)/toys|Blaster]])
*A number of watches including Crono Laser

OTHERS
*Megarobot multi-azione (Pre-[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]])
*357 Magnum Robo. (No Transformer release, but see [[Treadshot (G1)#Notes|Treadshot]].)
{{-}}

==Gallery==
<center><gallery>
File:Camion_Convoy.jpg|It only exists when no one's looking.
File:Topolino Padlock Dude.jpg|Security more questionable than Red Alert.
File:Topolino Trasformer Watches.jpg|James Bond WISHES he was this cool.
</gallery></center>

==Notes==
[[File:RedCabPoweredConvoy.jpeg|upright=1.66|thumb|Not actually Optimus Prime, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Anti-Gravity Pedestal Tenseg Base|or is he]]?]]
* "Ligier JS11 F-1", the ''Trasformer'' version of [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], sports "Ligier" decals on the sides of the [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] rather than the standard "Citanes" logos found on the ''Diaclone'' and ''Transformers'' versions. Two known variants exist, with either "Ligier" stickers covering the original tampographed "Citanes" logos, or tampographed "Ligier" logos. The "Citanes" version was first, the "Ligier" decals were a later version, and the tampographed "Ligier" was the last of the ''Trasformer'' releases (1984) before GiG released the Hasbro-style "Mirage". However, the first release boxes contained the "Citanes" logo ''Trasformer'' figure.

*The GiG versions of "Camion Convoy Portauto" ([[Delta Magnus|Powered Convoy]]) and the ''Diaclone'' "Car Robots" had the same boxes as the Takara versions, except for the Italian inserts.

*Though "Camion Convoy" (Pre-[[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]) is listed in a GiG ''Trasformer'' catalog, he is given no ID number, and there is no evidence of a packaged specimen existing. Instead, "Camion Convoy Portauto" (Powered Convoy/Pre-Ultra Magnus) was alternatively available with blue or red cabs.

* The [[Cordon|police version]] of pre-[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys|Sunstreaker]] was released in Italy and Spain from 1983 to 1987. The spoiler and the chrome intake were painted white and the Japanese stickers removed; the spoiler sticker read "Polis Countach". This could be one of the rarest of the "pre-Transformers".

==External links==
*[http://www.nijirain.com/Lady-ToysDIA.htm Overview of pre-''Trasformer'' Diaclone releases by GiG]
*[http://digilander.libero.it/tfitalia/toys/trasformer/index.htm Catalog images of GiG's ''Trasformer'' toys]
*[http://www.fredsworkshop.com/vitaly.html Information on Italian Transformers and Pre-Transformers toys]
*[http://www.tf-1.com/articles/eurous/gig_template.html GiG article at TF-1.com]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsc-AWO1ZsM Trasformer commercial featuring the over-sized missiles]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Non-Transformers toylines]]
[[Category:Trasformer]]

Devastation issue 5

2021-01-03T13:14:32Z

CyRaptor: /* Real-life references */

{{Comicstory
|series=devastation|issueno=5
|prev=Devastation issue 4
|next=Devastation issue 6
|image=Devastation 5a.jpg
|caption=Holy crap, I have [[Pat Lee]] legs!
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[February 6]], [[2008]]
|coverdate=January 2008
|written by=[[Simon Furman]]
|art by=[[E. J. Su]]
|colors by=[[Zac Atkinson (colorist)|Zac Atkinson]]
|color assist by=[[Josh Burcham]] and [[Kris Carter]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Andrew Steven Harris]] and [[Chris Ryall]]
|continuity=[[2005 IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[2005 IDW timeline|Devastation]]
}}
'''The Reapers take on the Decepticons while Starscream makes his move.'''

==Synopsis==
''Long before the [[Great War (G1)|war]] made it to [[Earth]], [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] discusses with [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] about how the newly created [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] may be too powerful—what would happen if he turned on Megatron? Megatron, however, is not worried—he had the smarts to prepare an "off switch" for Sixshot, should he ever need it.''

In the present, the [[Reaper]]s attack the [[Decepticon Command Bunker]] in [[Oregon]]. Megatron demands information from [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], who gives him obvious observations. Megatron is '''not''' impressed. He asks where [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] is, and Blitzwing makes up a quick lie to hide the truth, as Astrotrain is scheming with Starscream. Sixshot arrives and blasts a hole in the Reapers' ship. The [[Deathbringer (IDW)|Deathbringer]] observes his arrival, and converses with another Reaper, saying that Sixshot will be given another chance to join him, or be destroyed with the other Decepticons.

On the ''[[Ark-32]]'', [[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]], still missing his right arm, is watching as [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] attempts to zap [[Jimmy Pink]] and [[Verity Carlo]] back to life. At this point, they have been technically dead for 5.62 [[Earth]] minutes and even if they are revived, "there's every chance that they'll have sustained critical brain damage". Ratchet manages to get their hearts beating again, but their brain status is unknown. On the bridge, [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] tells [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] that they're the only ones available, as Ratchet has to tend to [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] and Jazz, while [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] works on information from [[Hound (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Hound]]'s unit. [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] also has a conversation with [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]], who mentions [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]].

[[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] and [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Hot Rod]] are at [[Wreck -n- Rule|the junkyard]] searching for [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]], but the [[Machination]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] find them and take Wheeljack out by knocking some junk cars on top of him. Hot Rod then responds by playing chicken with the Headmaster (in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]), easily and effectively taking the "amateur" out of commission. But as soon as he does, two more [[Sunstreaker clone]]s enter the scene.

[[File:Devastation5 THOK!.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Holy sound effects, Batman!]]
At the Machination headquarters in [[Tampa]], [[Hunter O'Nion]] emerges from the Headmaster process in pain. When a scientist sees him and sounds the alarm, Hunter punches him through the door with newfound strength. He makes his way to the "factory floor" and prepares to take one of the Sunstreaker clone bodies for a spin.

As the Reapers attack Decepticon headquarters, Sixshot, assuming this is another invitation, tells them he isn't interested. The Deathbringer explains that if doesn't join them, then he will be destroyed—if not by the Reapers, then by his own isolation, which will drive him to madness. The Deathbringer offers him one more chance, if only to save his sanity. Sixshot appears conflicted, and Megatron is shocked and angered by this. It's completely replaced with shock when the siege armor opens, and out comes Starscream, calling out Sixshot. This apparently pushes Sixshot to side with the Reapers, as he thanks Starscream for "making this decision that much easier". It's a short fight, though. Starscream utters Megatron's failsafe—"Reset: Pi-Orion-Actual-Orbit. Enable."—and Sixshot crashes violently to the ground. Starscream then proceeds to bomb the Reapers heavily. Having witnessed Starscream's return, Megatron informs Astrotrain and the others that he "sees everything so very clearly now". But putting all that aside, Megatron sees the matter at hand and orders the Decepticons to attack the Reapers.

On ''Ark-32'', Optimus Prime informs Prowl that they need to retrieve Wheeljack and Hot Rod. They are pulling out to see to one of those other crises Prowl mentioned earlier: The secure facility on [[Garrus-9]] has been breached, and Prime and company need to make sure that some of the "[[Pretender Monster|recent inmates]]" there don't end up in enemy hands. Earth is going to have to deal with the Decepticons and Reapers on its own.

However, a [[Skywatch]] bigwig gives the order to "take whichever of the [[Eureka]]-six is most advanced and get them prepped for combat"—it is [[Grimlock (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Grimlock]].

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] (14)
*[[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]] (15)
*[[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] (18)
*[[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] (19)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (20)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] (21)
*[[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] (22)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] (23)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Hot Rod]] (24)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Sunstreaker]] (26)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Grimlock]] (28)
|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] (2)
*[[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] (3)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (4)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Thundercracker]] (5)
*[[Skywarp (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Skywarp]] (8)
*[[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] (9)
*[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] (12)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (13)
|c3=
*[[Verity Carlo]] (16)
*[[Jimmy Pink]] (17)
*[[Hunter O'Nion]] (27)
|c4=
*[[Ravenous]] [[Reaper]] (6)
*Other Reapers (7)
*[[Deathbringer (IDW)|Deathbringer]] (10)
*[[Klaxa]] (11)
*[[Sunstreaker clone]]s (25)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Megatron:''' "Who are they?" 
'''Blitzwing:''' "We don't know, Megatron." 
'''Megatron:''' "What do they want?" 
'''Blitzwing:''' "Er, ditto." 
'''Megatron:''' "Tell me something, Blitzwing, or so help me, I'll eviscerate you as thoroughly as I did Starscream!" 
'''Blitzwing:''' "Um. They're...alien. A mishmash of species. And they're, er...HOSTILE!" 
'''Megatron:''' "You don't say." 
:—'''Megatron''' doesn't buy '''Blitzwing'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s bluffing.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*The Eureka Six are [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]].

===Transformers references===
*

===Real-life references===
*Hunter fires off a couple of '60s song references as he makes his getaway, commenting that "{{w|We Gotta Get out of This Place|I gotta get outta this place}}" and that his new Sunstreaker clone body will be his "{{w|Ticket to Ride|ticket to ride}}".
*On page 3, panel 1, one of the silhouetted Reapers appears to be based on recurring Ultraman series antagonist Alien Baltan, distinguished by its V-shaped head crest and upwards-held pincers.
*Similarly, a three-headed dragon Reaper silhouetted on page 20, panel 6, closely resembles [[Godzilla]]'s enduring nemesis {{w|King Ghidorah}}.

===Errors===
*Thundercracker is colored purple in 2 frames. This is corrected in the trade.
*Ratchet's head and chevron color are again colored differently than usual. This is also corrected in the trade.
*Runamuck and Runabout's colors are switched in the second panel of page 4. An attempt is made to correct this in the trade...but the Battlechargers' colors are switched in the FIRST panel this time, making it so now BOTH panels have the wrong colors for the duo. Uhm, it's the thought that counts?

===Other trivia===
*In the Decepticomments section, editor [[Andrew Steven Harris]] answers mail and reminds readers about a contest to give him a Transformers name.
*On the inner rear cover, ''[[Transformers: Mosaic]]'' issue "The Curse" is featured.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A''': Starscream screaming by [[E. J. Su]]
*'''Cover B''': Starscream and Megatron by [[Nick Roche]] and [[Josh Burcham]] (colors)
*'''RI''': Sketch cover (black and white of cover B)
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File:Devastation 5a.jpg|
File:Devastation 5b.jpg|I can't quit you, Megatron.
File:Devastation 5ri.jpg|RI cover
</gallery>

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Spotlight: Arcee

2020-12-31T06:09:35Z

CyRaptor: /* Continuity notes */

{{comicstory|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Spotlight|The Transformers Spotlight]]'' #12
|prev=Spotlight: Blaster
|next=Spotlight: Mirage
|title="The Transformers Spotlight: Arcee"
|image=Spotlight Arcee cvrA.jpg
|caption=Graduated from St. Trinians with honors.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[February 20]], [[2008]]
|coverdate=February 2008
|written by=[[Simon Furman]]
|art by=[[Alex Milne]]
|colors by=[[Josh Perez]] and [[Kris Carter]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|edits by=[[Andrew Steven Harris]]
|chronology=[[2005 IDW timeline|Devastation]]
|continuity=[[2005 IDW continuity]]
}}
'''This ain't the Fembot we all know and love, folks...

==Synopsis==
[[File:SpotlightArcee-ArceeWillBurnJhiaxusDown.jpg|left|upright=1.35|thumb|"Oh, I finally get it! 'Jhi-ax-us?' Gee, ax us!"]]
An enraged [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] has been tearing a path of destruction through the universe, necessitating [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] to hunt her down and bring her in as authorized by the [[Tyrest Accord]]. After a protracted battle, she gets knocked out by a flash/concussion grenade and taken into custody by Magnus. As they leave the area, a couple of apparent [[drone]]s surface and talk to a monitor—promising that the [[Nega-Core]] has not been detected and/or taken, which elicits a confirmation from their [[Jhiaxus (G2)|master]] that preparations for the [[Expansion]] will continue.

[[Garrus-9]] penitentiary: Arcee's [[spark]] is being held in a cell, along with some notable others. Warden [[Fortress Maximus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Fortress Maximus]] confers with [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] and the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] about when they can incarcerate the [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] [[Pretender Monster|components]] in the same way; Jetfire notes that they can't break through the destructive programming far enough to rehabilitate/reform the sparks (as per [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s orders), and as such, haven't pulled the sparks from the frames. As they confer, the [[Decepticon]] [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] leads his [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] in a perfectly-timed (as monitored by [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzaitron]]) assault on the facility, striking at precisely the right grid-sensor-shuffling moment and breaking into the penitentiary.

Fortress Maximus has no choice but to unleash the "threat-level-9" Arcee on them, with the sole caveat of destroying her spark (via a spark casing g-force crush) if she attempts to escape. A furious battle ensues, but after she cuts through [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] and plows through [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]], the Combaticons (who recognize her when she first attacked) manage to teleport out with the unconscious Monstructor components (whom Banzaitron wants to join his Secret Service).

Arcee proposes that she be released to hunt them down or killed on the spot. When asked for '''her''' motivation she grows angry, commenting that "you don't even know you're DOING it... you unconsciously SENSE a difference." She then reveals that [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] tampered with her [[CNA]], turning her into a female, "because he was curious, because he '''could'''", just to see what introducing gender to the Transformer race would do. He then discarded her and left her to her fate. Traumatized and vengeful, all she can think of is wiping out Jhiaxus and all trace of his tampering in this universe.

Fortress Maximus disagrees, pointing the remote spark-casing-control unit at her, but Jetfire tells him to let her go (he'll back up whatever story Maximus concocts for her escape), as they have precious little to lose at this point.
{{--}}

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*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (2)
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Fortress Maximus]] (4)
*[[Repugnus (G1)|Repugnus]] (5)
*[[Longtooth]] (6)
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (11)
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (12)
*[[Fastlane]] (13)
*[[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]] (14)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (15)
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*[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] (28)
*[[Rad (G1)|Rad]] (29)
*[[Skyfall (G1)|Skyfall]] (30)
*[[Windbreaker]] (31)
*[[Over-Run (G1)|Over-Run]] (32)
*[[Turbofire]] (33)
*[[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]] (34)
*[[Rollout (G1)|Rollout]] (35)
*[[Sprocket (G1)|Sprocket]] (36)
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (41)
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (42)
{{!}}}
|c2=
*[[Skyjack (G2)|Skyjack]] (7)
*[[Ransack (G2)|Ransack]] (8)
*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (9)
*[[Axer (G1)|Axer]] (23)
*[[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzaitron]] (24)
*[[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] (25)
*[[Roadblock (G1)|Roadblock]] (26)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (37)
*[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (38)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (39)
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (40)
|c4=
*[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] (3)
*[[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] (10)
*[[Scowl (G1)|Scowl]] (17)
*[[Icepick (G1)|Icepick]] (18)
*[[Slog (G1)|Slog]] (19)
*[[Bristleback]] (20)
*[[Wildfly]] (21)
*[[Birdbrain]] (22)
}}

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Jhiaxus and talk of the Expansion is part of the growing [[Dead Universe]] storyline, which will pay off in [[Revelation (IDW)|''Revelation'']], and then again in ''[[Chaos (IDW)|Chaos]]'', and then ''again'' in ''[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]''.
*Later stories will clarify it's not being a lone female in a boy's toyline that traumatises Arcee, but the fact of being experimented on against her will and then discarded.
*Arcee states that she was the first female Transformer experiment and it is implied she is something rare and (perhaps) unique. However nothing in the issue states that she was the ''only'' female Transformer created due to Jhiaxus's program. Indeed, in ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]'' and ''[[All Hail Megatron issue 14|Replay]]'' a number of female Transformers make cameo appearances.
*Arcee's reference to gendered pronouns makes little sense in the original context. It stands to reason that a race originally entirely devoid of gender would lack sexually-oriented pronouns in their native language. So the use of "he" and "she" would likely be supplemented with a uniform variation of "they" for everybody. Once female Transformers were retconned as having previously existed, the existence of the pronouns makes sense.
*Arcee's backstory of being an unwitting experiment comes up in "[[An Uneventful Night]]", where she's out to destroy the [[Enigma of Combination]] so nobody else can be altered against their will, and more broadly in the second half of [[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Barber's ''Transformers'' ongoing]] as she's mistrustful of 'great men' figures on a cause.
*Arcee stabbing Blast Off with her sword gets a minor call back in [[07:00:00|Till All Are One #1]].
* '''First appearances:''' Arcee; Repugnus, Longtooth, Skyjack, and Ransack appear as disembodied sparks only; Cloudraker, Fastlane, Jackpot, Rad, Skyfall, Windbreaker, Over-Run, Turbofire, Vroom, Rollout, Sprocket; Roadblock, Brawl, Vortex; Jhiaxus.

====Later retcons====
* After bringing Arcee to the fore in the ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise]]'' and ''[[Optimus Prime (comic)|Optimus Prime]]'' comics – and introducing numerous other [[female Transformer]]s along the way – author [[John Barber]] would sporadically touch on the events surrounding Arcee's origin story, fleshing out background details and providing some subtle retcons.
** ''[[The Transformers: Windblade|Windblade]]'' would introduce the lost colony world of [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], where female and male Transformers naturally coexisted. This would lead into the idea that ancient Cybertron ''did'' have female Transformers, but had lost them for unknown reasons. Rather than a Frankensteinian attempt to force gender on the species, Jhiaxus's experiments were an effort to ''reintroduce'' a lost element of Cybertronian society.
** Glimpses of Arcee's internal thoughts provided some context for the otherwise troubling circumstances behind her transformation. [[Sins of the Wreckers issue 3|''Sins of the Wreckers'' #3]] implied that Arcee had, to some extent, consented to these experiments because she did not see Jhiaxus "for what he was". Other dark mutterings mentioned that she had 'allowed' him to "do that" to her, suggesting that her troubled mental state following the change was the product of something other than the alteration of her CNA. Later issues suggested that Arcee was struggling with identity issues even before falling in with Jhiaxus, noting that her prior self was a "lie [she] told herself" <ref>"[[New Cybertron Part 5: Future Glories Lost]]"</ref> and that her current form is "who she was always meant to be".<ref>[[All Hail Optimus Part 3: The Medium and the Message]]</ref> This was brought full circle in [[Post|the ''Optimus Prime'' finale issue]] where Arcee would explicitly refer to herself as being transgender, having been born into a male body but identifying as female. It was also retconned that she volunteered for Jhiaxus' extreme procedure and that her violent behaviour was in large part motivated by Jhiaxus' non-existent aftercare.

===Transformers references===
* This issue's cast is another deep dive into the tail end of the Generation 1 line. Most of the Garrus-9 guards are Action Masters; we also get a smattering of later-run Pretenders.

===Trivia===
*Six years later the comic caused a brief conflict between Furman and [[Mairghread Scott]], who developed IDW's second female Transformer, [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]. Scott implied that Windblade wouldn't have a special origin for being female and when asked about ''Spotlight: Arcee'', she said she found the implications of Arcee's gender making her mad and a woman being the aberration "upsetting". She clarified that she didn't believe Furman was trying to make any gender comments, that "in a vacuum, Furman’s story is completely legitimate" (but sadly stories do not exist in a social & cultural vacuum), and pinned the blame on how rare female characters were in the brand; "Arcee’s origin is offensive because we don’t have any other female origins to balance it".<ref>[http://mscottwrites.tumblr.com/post/71325530812/what-are-your-thoughts-on-the-idw-arcee-origin-that Shotgun Mermaid (Mairghread Scott's tumblr), 27 December 2013]</ref> Furman considered this a personal attack, "accus[ing] me of apparently setting out to be offensive to women", and also took issue with another creator "sling[ing] mud", believing they had a duty to be respectful when discussing each other's work. "However ‘carefully’ Mrs. Scott chose her words, the message was the same: Spotlight Arcee was some derogatory and misguided portrait of all women and we’re going to fix that."<ref>[http://simonfurman.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/response-to-mairghread-scott/ Furman Q&A: "Response to Maigrhead Scott" (and comments]</ref> Scott and Furman talked and "ironed out the bumps" a few days later.
*The issue contains bonus sketch art by Alex Milne, including color tests for Arcee.
*Cover B was colored in a style that pays homage to the cover of [http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/40-180/Akira-Vol-1-TPB ''Akira Vol.1''.] <ref>[http://dyemooch.deviantart.com/art/Spotlight-Arcee-alt-cover-72893344 Colorist at deviantART]</ref>

===Errors===
*Maybe not an error, but Fortress Maximus's shoulder's design differs from the one seen in ''[[Spotlight: Blaster]]''.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Arcee, [[Nova Prime]], the Pretender Monsters, Ultra Magnus, Fortress Maximus and some dead guy by Alex Milne and Josh Perez.
*'''Cover B:''' Arcee being assembled by Alex Milne and Josh Perez.
*'''Cover RI:''' Uncolored sketch of cover B.
<gallery>
File:Spotlight Arcee cvrA.jpg|Kiss me deadly
File:Spotlight Arcee cvrB.jpg|Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors...
File:Spotlight Arcee cvrRI.jpg|RI Cover
</gallery>

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</gallery>

==References==
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Spotlight: Blaster

2020-12-30T06:34:15Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{comicstory|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Spotlight]]'' #11
|prev=Spotlight: Ramjet
|next=Spotlight: Arcee
|title="The Transformers: Spotlight Blaster"
|image=Spotlight Blaster cvrA.jpg
|caption=The Voice
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[January 23]], [[2008]]
|coverdate=January 2008
|written by=[[Simon Furman]]
|art by=[[Emiliano Santalucia]]
|colors by=[[Josh Burcham]]
|color assist by=[[Andrew Elder]], [[Liam Shalloo]], [[Espen Grundetjern]]
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] and [[Andrew Steven Harris]]
|chronology=[[2005 IDW timeline#Devastation|Devastation]]
|continuity=[[2005 IDW continuity|IDW continuity]]
}}
'''Blaster attempts to foil a plot on his life.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Perceptor fixes Blaster Spotlight Blaster.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4]]
[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] was once an [[Autobot]] broadcaster under the stage name of "The Voice". However, it was long after he was thought dead that he was found by [[Ku'arn]], captain of the ''[[Yar]]'' Star Trawler. This came as somewhat of a shock to [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], aboard the [[Autobot Orbital Command Hub]]. However, he was quickly taken aboard and repaired by [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Perceptor]]. The famous media personality was forced to admit that even he didn't know the circumstances of his near-death, his memories of the time just one big blank. Silverbolt tells Blaster that it was always assumed to be an inside job, as the proximity and precision needed could only have been pulled off by an Autobot.

Left to his own devices aboard the Command Hub, Blaster finds himself unable to escape the paranoia of what happened to him. Though he's greeted warmly by his fellow Autobots after his return from the dead, he can't help but wonder if one of them was the one that shot him. Worse still, he knows that they expect "The Voice", a persona he just can't muster anymore after his traumatic experience. He endeavors to catch up on the time during his absence, but his paranoia turns out to be justified as an unseen assailant takes another shot at him, then disappears into the corridors of the station.

Again the security monitors show nothing, Perceptor discovering that the assassin was using a sensor-jamming technology that prevented his identity from being discovered. Blaster decides to take matters into his own hands and bait the assassin—he goes to the broadcast station and announces that "The Voice" has returned, and will soon be transmitting live to all outposts. After the announcement, Blaster reminisces about his broadcasting days before preparing. He has Perceptor cross-reference the personnel rosters from his old orbital array with Autobots presently aboard the Command Hub. This yields four suspects: [[Mirage (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Mirage]], [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]], [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]]. All four were within striking distance on the orbital array and were still aboard the Command Hub. Blaster admits that, before the incident, he would have trusted any of them with his life.

As the broadcast begins, Perceptor is interrupted in his monitoring by the assassin, who makes his way down the corridor to Blaster. Tossing a grenade into the broadcast station, he watches the blast doors seal off the breach, his grisly task seemingly accomplished. However, Blaster reveals that he was not actually in the broadcast station, and with disbelief, confronts the assassin—his old comrade Beachcomber. The normally pacifistic Autobot admits that he can't control his own actions, having been implanted with a [[cerebro-shell]] by [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] and [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]], and tasked with silencing Blaster.

Blaster talks to Beachcomber, telling him that he won't pull the trigger and that he's strong enough to resist. Beachcomber finally manages to override the control mechanism, then collapses. Back in the repair bay, Perceptor expresses doubt he will ever recover; when Beachcomber burned out the cerebro-shell it also damaged a significant portion of his [[neo-cortex]]. Blaster expresses anger at the whole affair and vows to find Soundwave so that he can ensure the last thing his Decepticon rival hears will be the sound of his voice.

==Featured characters==
(Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.) 
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*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (1)
*[[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] (2)
*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (3)
*[[Pincher (G1)|Pincher]] (4)
*[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]] (6)
*[[Gunrunner (G1)|Gunrunner]] (7)
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] (8)
*[[Downshift (G1)|Downshift]] (9)
*[[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Perceptor]] (10)
*[[Overdrive]] (11)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (12)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (13)
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Fortress Maximus]] (14)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (15)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (16)
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*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (17)
*[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] (18)
*[[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] (19)
*[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]] (20)
*[[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]] (21)
*[[Override (G1)|Override]] (22)
*''[[Getaway]]'' (23)
*''[[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]]'' (24)
*''[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]'' (25)
*''[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]]'' (26)
*''[[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]]'' (27)
*''[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]'' (28)
*''[[Landfill (G1)|Landfill]]'' (29)
*[[Mirage (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Mirage]] (40)
*[[Sunbrow]] (41)
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (42)
{{!}}}
|c2=
*''[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]]'' (30)
*''[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'' (31)
*''[[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]]'' (32)
*''[[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]]'' (33)
*''[[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]]'' (34)
*''[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]]'' (35)
*''[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]]'' (36)
*''[[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]]'' (37)
*''[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]'' (38)
*''[[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]]'' (39)
*''[[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]]'' (43)
*''[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'' (44)
|c4=
*[[Ku'arn]] (5)
}}

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Blaster was shown on the Command Hub during ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'', which would have set this story as happening before then—however, Simon Furman has said that Blaster-looking figure [[Bluster|was someone else all along]]...
*While ''Stormbringer'' initially presented Cybertron as being rendered uninhabitable following [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing's]] rampage, ''Spotlight: Blaster'' shows it remained inhabitable long enough for Autobot & Decepticon forces to continue battling on it for a short time afterward. Whether this was a genuine attempt to grab territory (when you consider that, post-Thunderwing, it would be obvious Cybertron was dying) or simply an attempt by the Decepticons to kill Autobots is unknown.
*The Decepticons recovered from Thunderwing's rampage earlier than the Autobots.
* '''First appearances:''' Silverbolt, Fortress Maximus, Cosmos, Beachcomber; Getaway, Kup, Landfill, Smokescreen; Bombshell (later an error thanks to ''All Hail Megatron''; later still retconned to be a "different Bombshell".) Not withstanding a retroactive art error in ''Stormbringer'', Blaster had already appeared in ''Megatron: Origin'' #2.

===Transformers references===
*Bluestreak's color scheme, featuring a blue helmet with a yellow crest, is based on the character's original [[package art|box art]] rather than his Generation 1 toy or [[character model]], which feature a silver or gray helmet with a red crest.

===Errors===
*According to the title page, this issue was written by "[[Simon Furman|Simaon Furman]]". Who he?
*Fortress Maximus' brief appearance depicts him in his traditional G1 design, rather than the brand-new design that [[Alex Milne]] will debut for him in "[[Spotlight: Arcee]]". Perhaps the reference material simply wasn't available yet.
*On page 11, in the last speech bubble, "nano-kliks" is misspelled as "nano-kilks".
*In the flashbacks to the past where the Autobots are huddled, waiting for Blaster's broadcast, Broadside is colored tan instead of his usual gray.
*On the splash page of the Decepticons' all-out assault in the past, vehicle-mode Tantrum is mistakenly colored as part of Trypticon's foot.

===Covers (2)===
*'''Cover A:''' Blaster, classic look by [[Emiliano Santalucia]] and [[Jeremy Roberts]].
*'''Cover RI:''' Blaster, cassette-bots and rock band by [[Alex Milne]] and [[Josh Perez]].
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File:Spotlight Blaster cvrA.jpg|"Let me slow things down for all the fem-bots listening..."
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[[Category:Spotlight issues|Blaster]]

Stormbringer issue 4

2020-12-08T12:56:23Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{Comicstory
|series=stormbringer|issueno=4
|prev=Stormbringer issue 3
|next=Escalation issue 1
|image=Stormbringer 4a.jpg
|caption=Everyone vs Thunderwing. Everyone is outnumbered.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[October 18]], [[2006]]
|coverdate=October 2006
|story by=[[Simon Furman]]
|art by=[[Don Figueroa]]
|colors by=[[Josh Burcham]]
|letters by=[[Sulaco Studios]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor (IDW)|Dan Taylor]]
|continuity=[[2005 IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[2005 IDW timeline#2006-7|2006-7]]
}}

'''Thunderwing is coming home, and now it's up to the Autobots and Decepticons to atone for their mistakes.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Stormbringer4 JetfirePrime plainlanguage.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.95]]
From [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s command bunker, the [[Wrecker]]s and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] watch as the rogue [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] enters [[transwarp]] space, powering home to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] has a theory of his own: without the guiding influence of the [[axis cradle]], Thunderwing is operating under his own power again, and though he still has no conscious mind to speak of, his body is operating by rote and is intent on finishing what he started. The Autobot flier digs into Bludgeon's files, trying to learn more about the mysterious "[[Ore-13|Ultra-Energon]]" that the Decepticon used in the first place.

As he does so, Prime and the Wreckers gear up for action: Prime is adamant that Thunderwing ''must'' be stopped by any means necessary, gravely noting to an incredulous [[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]] that, if it comes down to it, he'll destroy Cybertron itself to stop the abomination. The Autobots aren't the only ones preparing for the coming conflict; under [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s orders, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s aboard the [[Decepticon]] warship ''[[Thanatos]]'' prepare to bombard Cybertron from orbit in order to destroy Thunderwing once and for all. [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] harbors reservations, and orders his crew to hold off the bombardment, just in time to see Thunderwing rematerialize in low orbit.

Thunderwing crashes down onto the surface of Cybertron, but as the Wreckers watch on, Thunderwing stands motionless. Some part of Thunderwing's ravaged mind flashes back to the days before the destruction of Cybertron—when a disgusted Megatron terminated his experiments into polydermal grafting, forcing him to go rogue and commit greater and greater atrocities in the name of survival—and, as those memories surface once more, the mindless monster that was once Thunderwing suddenly unleashes a crackling torrent of energy on the Autobots! The Wreckers regroup to launch a joint assault on the beast, but neither their airborne barrage or [[Twin Twist]]'s up-close assault have any effect.

As the [[Autobot]]s engage Thunderwing, Razorclaw watches their efforts, and the conflicted Decepticon reaches an internal compromise: he orders [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] to lead two assault teams down to [[Thunderhead Pass]], but once their cannons are charged, they'll fire regardless of who's on the ground.

In Bludgeon's Base, Optimus paces as Jetfire decrypts another piece of Bludgeon's files. This data, Jetfire believes, may be the key to defeating Thunderwing; the Ultra-Energon he runs on is powerful but short-lived, and the more energy he expends, the faster he burns himself out. This vital knowledge isn't passed on to the Wreckers, however, who fight a desperate rearguard action until Springer is caught off-guard by an exploding pocket of natural gas... only to be saved by Divebomb! Divebomb's assault teams arrive and open fire on Thunderwing, buying time for Optimus Prime and a legion of reprogrammed [[Centurion droid|Centurion]]s to arrive and wade into the fray.

The combined onslaught seems to weaken Thunderwing—a respite that's only temporary, as the Pretender transforms into an intimidating "[[Super mode|ultra mode]]" to continue the fight, wiping out the Centurions. As the ''Thanatos''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s firing timer ticks down to the point of no return, Razorclaw orders his Decepticons back, ready to destroy Cybertron for the greater good, until Optimus steps up to finish the fight.

Optimus opens fire on the monster, bringing his entire arsenal to bear as he expounds on what's led them to this point: ''every'' Cybertronian is complicit in what happened to Cybertron, and while Thunderwing was more forward thinking than most, his "solution" to the problem was what led to the destruction of Cybertron. While Optimus has long ruminated on his failure to save his world, stopping Thunderwing, he declares, is the first step towards absolving his guilt and healing his world. As Optimus pours on the firepower, the timer towards the Decepticon bombing run ticks ever downward... until a spent Thunderwing runs out of fuel and collapses, allowing Razorclaw to abort the bombing run at the last second.

The Autobots gather around Thunderwing's prone body to make sure he's really offline. Optimus is still uneasy, wondering ''where'' Bludgeon got the mysterious Ultra-Energon in the first place, and orders Jetfire to scour Bludgeon's files for any more information. Returning to the Autobot command hub aboard ''[[Ark-27]]'', Optimus Prime receives a communiqué from Jetfire, who has uncovered further information in Bludgeon's files—a Decepticon plan, [[Regenesis]], involving a planet called [[Earth]]. Connecting this information with the update he received from [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]]'s unit, Prime orders a change of course.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
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{{!}}-
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (2)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (3)
*[[Twin Twist]] (4)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (5)
*[[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]] (6)
*[[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] (7)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (8)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] (9)
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (10)
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (11)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (12)
*[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] (13)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (14)
*[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]] (29)
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] (30)
*[[Pointblank]] (31)
*[[Override (G1)|Override]] (32)
{{!}}}
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{{!}}-
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] (1)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (15)
*[[Windsweeper]] (16)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (17)
*[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] (18)
*[[Quake (G1)|Quake]] (19)
*[[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]] (20)
*[[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]] (21)
*[[Headstrong (G1)|Headstrong]] (22)
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] (23)
*[[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] (24)
*[[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] (25)
*[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]] (26)
*[[Barrage (Insecticon)|Barrage]] (27)
*[[Centurion droid|Centurion Drones]] (28)
{{!}}}
}}

==Quotes==
"That thing's its own personal ground zero!"
:—'''Roadbuster''' on Thunderwing

"This planet — or at least, what's '''left''' of it — remains a '''testament''' to our short-sightedness. A reminder that in war... there '''are''' no real winners. Part of me feared coming back here, but in truth I never left. At long last, I can confront my own demons, acknowledge once and for all my fallibility, my accountability... and let the healing begin."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' pontificates as he blasts Thunderwing

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*So how ''did'' Bludgeon find out about [[Regenesis]] and [[Ore-13]]? Check out "[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]" and "[[Spotlight: Soundwave]]" to get the full story!
*Optimus Prime's last appearance has him heading to Earth—partially due to his desire to figure out the mystery of Ore-13, and partially because of [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]]'s transmission that he received in [[Stormbringer issue 1|issue #1]] of the miniseries—setting up his debut in ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]'' [[Infiltration issue 6|issue #6]] and leading directly into the events of ''[[The Transformers: Escalation|Escalation]].''
*'''First appearances:''' The entire Decepticon cast, apart from Thunderwing, Megatron and Razorclaw.

===Transformers references===
* Thunderwing's "ultra mode" seems loosely adapted from the 1988 [[Mega Pretender]]s, of which Thundering was a part of, who could combine with their outer shells to form a sort of powered-up "[[super mode]]".

===Real-life references===
* The Decepticon warship ''[[Thanatos]]'' is named after {{w|Thanatos|Thanatos}}, the Greek deity of death.
* "There's no place like home," quips Razorclaw, quoting the iconic line from the original ''{{w|The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|Wizard of Oz}}''. film.
* As he speeds towards Thunderwing, Topspin proudly declares that when people ask him why he fought Thunderwing one-on-one, he'll say "because it was there," paraphrasing mountaineer {{w|George Mallory}}'s famous quote about scaling Mt. Everest. (''Not'' Edmund Hillary!) Of course, this declaration also fits Topspin's usual "bot against nature" mentality perfectly.

===Other trivia===
*The A covers of each issue can be combined into a giant image which was later shrunken down for the trade paperback.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Battle against Thunderwing wraparound cover by Don Figueroa. This cover can be combined with similar ones from the other three issues to form a giant battle scene.
*'''Cover B:''' Optimus Prime sketch cover by Don Figueroa
*'''Cover RI:''' Cover A uncolored
<gallery>
File:Stormbringer 4a full.jpg|Mega Pretender taken to the next level.
File:Stormbringer 4b.jpg|This bot's a bad mutha... Shut your mouth! I'm just talkin' 'bout Prime!
File:Stormbringer 4ria.jpg|Cover RI-A.
</gallery>

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Stormbringer issue 3

2020-12-08T12:31:14Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{Comicstory
|series=stormbringer|issueno=3
|prev=Stormbringer issue 2
|next=Stormbringer issue 4
|image=Stormbringer 3a.jpg
|caption=Comin' to wreck house in your neighborhood.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[September 6]], [[2006]]
|coverdate=September 2006
|story by=[[Simon Furman]]
|art by=[[Don Figueroa]]
|colors by=[[Josh Burcham]]
|color assist by=[[grungewerx]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor (IDW)|Dan Taylor]]
|continuity=[[2005 IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[2005 IDW timeline#2006-7|2006-7]]
}}
'''As the Decepticons try to stop Thunderwing, Optimus Prime and the Wreckers take on Bludgeon's cabal.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Roadbustertotherescue.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]], now firmly under the control of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], has touched down on the once-peaceful planet of [[Nebulos]], deploying a formidable arsenal of weaponry against its occupants to further Bludgeon's insane plan to scour the planet clean in the hopes of rejuvenating Cybertron. A pleased Bludgeon watches from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] as his creation rampages through a Nebulan city, but other matters soon demand his attention; setting Thunderwing on auto-control, Bludgeon and his followers move on to the next phase of their plan: having continued Thunderwing's research on the [[Pretender|polydermal grafting]] technology that ultimately drove him insane, the rogue Decepticons have improved on Thunderwing's findings and created the next generation of organic carapaces.

Up above, in the ruins of [[Nova Cronum]], [[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] and [[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] struggle to overpower their [[Centurion droid|Centurion]] attackers. It looks like the end for the duo... but luck's in their favor when [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] and [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] plough into the droids in the nick of time, gunning them down in a hail of fire! A few minutes later, Nosecone comes to amidst a group of Autobots; his rescuers were the vanguard for a larger detachment, one led by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] himself and bringing the rest of the elite [[Wrecker]]s with him. Optimus and [[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]] talk tactics while Topspin fills in the driller on their findings. Topspin tells him to stay topside: he's done enough, and now it's time for "the professionals" to take over.

As Thunderwing runs amok on Nebulos, the local [[Decepticon]] [[Infiltration protocol|infiltration unit]] weigh up their options in the face of certain doom. Squad leader [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] makes the final call to attack the creature, ordering [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] to stay behind and erase all trace of their presence if they can't control it. As the crew rolls out, however, Darkwing makes a secret agreement with his teammate [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] to flee the scene if things get too rough.

[[File:IDWBludgeonShell.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Stormbringer coming down, meaning to stay; thunder and lightning heading your way!]]

On Cybertron, the Wreckers swing into action: [[Twin Twist]] and [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] first use their earthmoving [[alternate mode]]s to burrow straight down into Bludgeon's bunker, and then Optimus Prime leads the charge. Bludgeon's loyalists aren't prepared for the Wreckers' onslaught and swiftly fall; [[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]], meanwhile, slips away from the carnage and makes a break for the pressure vats to alert Bludgeon... only to find Bludgeon's already there, clad in a new suit of polydermal armor and wielding a glowing sword!

Back on Nebulos, the terrified Decepticons make their last stand against Thunderwing, to predictable results: [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] is pulped in one hand, [[Roadgrabber]] is swatted out of the air and crashes into a building, and [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] is crushed underfoot. Darkwing and Dreadwing make a half-hearted pass against the beast, but as the atmosphere begins to ionize, the two opt to grab Thrust, cut their losses, and run.

[[File:Stormbringer3 NebulousDecepticons2.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Dark cloud gathering, breaking the day; no point running 'cause it's coming your way!]]

The Wreckers, meanwhile, have breached the pressure vat chamber and barge through, expecting a fight... only to find that Bludgeon has bisected Iguanus with his sword and suffered a system failure of his own, the flesh of his shell melting off his catatonic body. Optimus consoles the dying Iguanus as the Decepticon explains where Bludgeon went wrong: the exo-shell hadn't been properly aligned, and the resulting backlash has, in effect, trapped the mad Decepticon inside his own head. Roadbuster and [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] successfully rescue [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] from one of Bludgeon's machines; he tells Optimus Prime to shut down Bludgeon's [[axis cradle]], and Springer obliges by blowing the machine to bits.

Having escaped the ravaged Nebulos, Dreadwind and Darkwing send a message to [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]], who in turn contacts the [[Decepticon High Command|High Command]]. The message finds its way to [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]], who has recently arrived on [[Earth]]; he authorizes Razorclaw to do whatever is necessary to stop Thunderwing... even if it means destroying Cybertron in the process.

And, on Cybertron, Jetfire gets to work decoding the data in Bludgeon's systems, discovering that Bludgeon has used a mysterious substance known as "[[Ore-13|Ultra-Energon]]" to awaken Thunderwing in the first place. Before he can get any further, however, an orbital perimeter alarm sounds—with Bludgeon's control system destroyed, Thunderwing is coming home...

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (8)
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (9)
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (10)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (11)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (12)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] (13)
*[[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]] (14)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (15)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (16)
*[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] (24)
*[[Twin Twist]] (25)
*[[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] (26)
|c2=
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{{!}}-
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] (1)
*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (2)
*[[Skullgrin]] (3)
*[[Finback]] (4)
*[[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]] (5)
*[[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]] (6)
*[[Centurion droid|Centurion Drones]] (7)
*[[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] (17)
*[[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] (18)
*[[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] (19)
*[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] (20)
*[[Roadgrabber]] (21)
*[[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] (22)
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (23)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (27)
*[[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] (28)
{{!}}}
}}

==Quotes==
"Suppose there's no point in asking you to stay up here, out of the firing line." 
"No." 
:'''—Springer''' and '''Optimus Prime'''.

"Damn! Damn! Damn! It's all gone to Hell!"
:'''—Iguanus''' is having a bad day.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*They sure look dead in this issue, but under the pen of [[James Roberts]] both Crankcase and Skullcruncher would be revealed to have ''survived'' their encounter with Thunderwing in ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]:'' Crankcase would go on to join the misfit [[Scavenger (group)|Scavenger]]s, while Skullcruncher got off better and started a new life as a stand-up comedian.
*In a similar vein, several of Bludgeon's cultists sure ''look'' as though they've been killed, but ''[[The Transformers: Lost Light]]'' would suggest that at least three members — [[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]], [[Skullgrin]], and [[Finback]] — had merely been subdued and eventually imprisoned in the Autobot's infamous [[Garrus-9]] prison facility.
* Megatron's brief appearance in this issue links directly to the concurrent [[The Transformers: Infiltration|''Infiltration'']] miniseries, where we see Megatron's side of the conversation in the pages of [[Infiltration issue 4|issue #4]] and [[Infiltration issue 5|#5]].
* '''First appearances:''' Razorclaw

===Transformers references===
*Optimus Prime's hand-held rifles are pretty obviously those from his [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Powermaster body]]. This in mind, his arm-mounted twin-cannons could be inspired by the same toy.
* Bludgeon's new suit of polydermal armor is heavily based on his toy's Pretender shell. Unlike the original, however, its design suggests that, like the [[Mega Pretender|Mega]] and [[Ultra Pretender]]s, it's able to assume an alternate mode all its own; in Bludgeon's case, some kind of treaded ground vehicle.

===Errors===
*In the recap, Thunderwing is called Bludgeon.
*Iguanus has a different design for his face during his "death" scene with Prime.

===Other trivia===
*Japanese characters can be seen on the monitor in the last panel, suggesting that someone didn't want to go to the trouble of coming up with suitably alien letters...
*The Decepticomments section had readers' mail answered by Chris Ryall.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Wreckers wraparound cover by Don Figueroa and Josh Burcham. This cover can be combined with similar ones from the other three issues to form a giant battle scene.
*'''Cover B:''' Cybertron sketch wraparound cover by Don Figueroa; this was later colored for ''[[The Transformers: The Best of Simon Furman|The Best of Simon Furman]]'' trade paperback and the [[Madman Entertainment]]-exclusive [[The Transformers (Madman)|comic]].
*'''Cover RI:''' Cover A uncolored.
<gallery>
File:Stormbringer 3a full.jpg|Who ya gonna call? The Wreckers!
File:Stormbringer 3b.jpg|Cybertron is a spiky ball!
File:Stormbringer 3ria.jpg|Cover RI-A
</gallery>

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===Reprints===
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Stormbringer issue 2

2020-12-07T12:01:49Z

CyRaptor: /* Transformers references */

{{Comicstory
|series=stormbringer|issueno=2
|prev=Stormbringer issue 1
|next=Stormbringer issue 3
|image=Stormbringer 2a.jpg
|caption=Um, is this ''[[Transformers: The War Within|The War Within]]''?
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[August 9]], [[2006]]
|coverdate=August 2006
|story by=[[Simon Furman]]
|art by=[[Don Figueroa]]
|colors by=[[Josh Burcham]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor (IDW)|Dan Taylor]]
|continuity=[[2005 IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[2005 IDW timeline#2006-7|2006-7]]
}}
'''The avatar of doom awakens'''.

==Synopsis==
[[File:Stormbringer2 Dogfight Optimus.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
On the distant organic world of [[Nebulos]], the local inhabitants are going about their daily business until a gigantic shadow looms over the peaceful cityscape...

A few hours before, in the depths of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], a conscious [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] is interrogated by his captor, the [[Decepticon]] [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]. Bludgeon has gathered a team of like-minded 'bots to reawaken the dormant [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] and accomplish through mysticism what science could not: if they destroy enough worlds, Bludgeon reasons, then their sacrifice will appease the "spirit" of Cybertron, allowing their ravaged world to return to its former glory.

Horrified by Bludgeon's mad plan, Jetfire pleads with his captor, reminding him that Thunderwing's rampage was responsible for the devastation of their world in the first place. Bludgeon counters that Jetfire is just as responsible for what happened to their world: Thunderwing foresaw what was coming and was dismissed by his peers, and now Bludgeon and his cadre will finish what Thunderwing started. Bludgeon reveals the next stage of his plan to his prisoner: using the unconscious [[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]]s as raw material for the Thunderwing's infamous "polydermal grafting process:" the unstable upgrade that drove its creator insane. As Bludgeon's followers gather, their leader, shrugging off Jetfire's protests, proclaims that, soon, they'll ''all'' be so much more...

In the meantime, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] receives a report regarding the disappearance of the ''[[Calabi-Yau]].'' When Prime realizes that the vessel crashed near the infamous [[Thunderhead Pass]], he orders his aide [[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]] to call up the toughest group of Autobots on the roster: the [[Wrecker]]s.

On the embattled world of [[Varas Centralus]], Wrecker leader [[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]] receives Prime's transmission as the Autobot commandos prepare to dig in and lay siege to the local Decepticon siege armature. The battle is cut short when Springer relays Prime's orders to his unit: they're pulling out and heading back to Cybertron.

Using the [[energon]] pocket detected by the ''Calabi-Yau'', Bludgeon commences restoring power to Thunderwing, despite Jetfire's protests. Bludgeon reveals that he's not going to directly control Thunderwing; rather, he'll use an [[axis cradle]] to link himself to Thunderwing's blank neural processor. Rather than puppet the comatose Decepticon directly, Bludgeon will give hints and directional prompts to Thunderwing, pointing him toward the sacrificed planets. The rest will be left to Thunderwing's own instincts. Hoping to make one last attempt at stopping Bludgeon, Jetfire easily breaks free of his restraints and overpowers one of his captors, but he's quickly electrocuted by [[Finback]] and dragged off to become raw material for Bludgeon's polydermal grafting experiments...

[[File:Stormbringer2 NebulosDecepticons1.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

Aboard the Wrecker's starship ''[[Xantium (G1)|Xantium]]'', Springer holds a brief meeting with Optimus Prime as the Autobot leader journeys to their staging ground on [[Moonbase Two|Luna Two]]. Springer, doubtful about coming out on top against Thunderwing is adamant that the Autobot leader simply destroy Cybertron entirely. Though hesitant, Prime hesitantly tells the Wrecker commander that he'll ''consider'' it... but flashes back to their last battle against Thunderwing, when [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] advocated the same tactic. Prime's assistant Dogfight is eager to get into the action, but Prime tells him that he'll be lucky to come out the other side feeling that way.

On the surface of Cybertron, [[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] and [[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] leave their escape pod and make their way across the surface of Cybertron and take shelter inside a storage bunker, but the cosmic radiation plays havoc with their systems and they are rounded up by a pair of [[Centurion droid|Centurion drones]].

On Nebulos, the local Decepticon [[Infiltration protocol|infiltration unit]] picks up something big and powerful exiting [[Transwarp|foldspace]]. The people of the planet look to the sky and flee in fear, for the apocalypse has arrived—and its name is Thunderwing!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
{{{!}}border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent"
{{!}}-
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] (1)
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (4)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (5)
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (6)
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (11)
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (12)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] (13)
*[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]] (14)
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] (15)
*[[Pincher (G1)|Pincher]] (16)
*[[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]] (17)
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (18)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (19)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (20)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (21)
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (22)
*[[Twin Twist]] (23)
*[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] (24)
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] (25)
*[[Gunrunner (G1)|Gunrunner]] (26)
*[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]] (27)
*[[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]] (28)
*[[Pointblank]] (29)
*[[Override (G1)|Override]] (30)
{{!}}}
|c2=
*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (2)
*[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] (3)
*[[Finback]] (7)
*[[Skullgrin]] (8)
*[[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]] (9)
*[[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]] (10)
*[[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] (31)
*[[Centurion droid|Centurion Drones]] (32)
*[[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] (34)
*[[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] (35)
*[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] (36)
*[[Roadgrabber]] (37)
*[[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] (38)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (39)
*[[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] (40)
|c4=
*[[Nebulan]]s (33)
}}

==Quotes==
"The '''polydermal abrasion''' process is long, painful, and arduous, Jetfire. You'll have plenty of time to reflect... on your general '''lack''' of faith."
:— '''Bludgeon''' doesn't like atheists

"I, ah, just wanted to say what an '''honor''' it is to serve alongside you on this mission. I'm very excited by the opportunity." 
"Excited? Let us hope, Dogfight... that when, one way or another, this is all '''over'''...that sentiment prevails."
:— '''Dogfight''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*The Autobots' vessel is not named here, but will later be identified as the ''[[Ark-27]]''.
*Bludgeon's team is made up entirely of the Wave 1 and 2 Decepticon Pretenders... except for [[Bugly (G1)|Bugly]] and [[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]]. Bugly would eventually be revealed as a former member of Bludgeon's cult in 2017, when ''[[Revolutionaries]]'' [[When Eagles Scream|#5]] told his story!
*The siege mode armature was first explained in ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]'' [[Infiltration issue 4|#4]], which outlined its significance in the Decepticons' standardized [[infiltration protocol]].
*'''First appearances:''' Springer, Roadbuster, Topspin, Broadside, Whirl, Sandstorm, Scoop, and Twin Twist; Sureshot, Dogfight, and Backstreet; Darkwing, Dreadwind, Ruckus, Skullcruncher, Thrust, Roadgrabber and Crankcase.

===Transformers references===
[[File:Stormbringer2 Finback.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
* The organic planet of [[Nebulos]] first appeared in [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|the Marvel comic series]], a planet whose inhabitants were responsible for inventing the symbiotic [[binary bonding]] process that led to [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]], and [[Powermaster]]s. The native [[Nebulan]]s are depicted with green skin and yellow eyes, hewing closer to their cartoon depictions that appeared in the [[The Rebirth|truncated Season 4]] of the original cartoon.
* Jetfire and Scoop both swear by [[Primacron]], creator of [[Unicron]] from the original cartoon. As neither [[Primus]] nor Unicron had conclusively been established to exist when this issue was first published, Primacron was subbed in as an alternate being to swear by.
* It shouldn't come as a surprise Thunderwing, Bludgeon, and Bludgeon's followers are all Generation 1 [[Pretender]] characters; the "grafting process" that drove Thunderwing to madness is a re-imagining of the iconic "Pretender shells" that was one of the primary [[gimmick]]s in 1988. That said, Bludgeon and his crew have received significant makeovers; their robot modes have been redesigned to incorporate features from their Pretender shells, which they have yet to obtain.
* The Wreckers! The Autobots' go-to team for blowing stuff up was originally created for the Marvel UK comics, utilizing various characters and toys that had not been taken up by the US stories. Furman brings his creation back here with virtually the same lineup, adding [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] as a new addition to the roster.
* The [[Centurion droid]]s are based off the automated defense mechanisms that appeared in the "The Key to Vector Sigma" two-parter episodes. Here, they are reimagined as a mundane security system rather than the secret guardians of the planet's core that they were in their debut. With their shoulder-mounted cannons, they bear a passing resemblance to the [[Centurion (Marvel)|''other'' Centurion]] from the Marvel comics, which was also a non-sentient war robot.

===Errors===
*The inside cover of issue #2, solicited for August 2006, shows the publish date of the issue as June 2006, one month ''before'' the last issue.
* Springer radios [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] to relay battle orders... but just last issue, Bluestreak was hanging around in the Autobots' command post.
*Nosecone's last sentence on page 16 is missing its concluding period.

===Other trivia===
* Cover A depicts a large number of Autobots and Decepticons in conflict with Thunderwing, likely a literal or figurative representation of the Battle of Thunderhead Pass. In practice, it would actually be several years before some of the depicted Transformers were introduced in IDW continuity.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Prime's Autobots and Megatron's Decepticons vs Thunderwing wraparound cover by Don Figueroa and Josh Burcham. This cover can be combined with similar ones from the other three issues to form a giant battle scene. This cover/section of the large image seems to represent the Transformers who tangled with Thunderwing in the past, other than Optimus Prime himself.
*'''Cover B:''' Half colored Thunderwing wraparound cover by Don Figueroa and ???
*'''Cover RI-A:''' Cover A uncolored
<gallery>
File:Stormbringer 2a full.jpg|Thunderwing likes [[Neon]].
File:Stormbringer 2b.jpg|Thunderwing—that's hot! Even without color!
File:Stormbringer 2ria.jpg|Cover RI-A
</gallery>

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Stormbringer issue 2

2020-12-07T11:54:43Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{Comicstory
|series=stormbringer|issueno=2
|prev=Stormbringer issue 1
|next=Stormbringer issue 3
|image=Stormbringer 2a.jpg
|caption=Um, is this ''[[Transformers: The War Within|The War Within]]''?
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[August 9]], [[2006]]
|coverdate=August 2006
|story by=[[Simon Furman]]
|art by=[[Don Figueroa]]
|colors by=[[Josh Burcham]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor (IDW)|Dan Taylor]]
|continuity=[[2005 IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[2005 IDW timeline#2006-7|2006-7]]
}}
'''The avatar of doom awakens'''.

==Synopsis==
[[File:Stormbringer2 Dogfight Optimus.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
On the distant organic world of [[Nebulos]], the local inhabitants are going about their daily business until a gigantic shadow looms over the peaceful cityscape...

A few hours before, in the depths of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], a conscious [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] is interrogated by his captor, the [[Decepticon]] [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]. Bludgeon has gathered a team of like-minded 'bots to reawaken the dormant [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] and accomplish through mysticism what science could not: if they destroy enough worlds, Bludgeon reasons, then their sacrifice will appease the "spirit" of Cybertron, allowing their ravaged world to return to its former glory.

Horrified by Bludgeon's mad plan, Jetfire pleads with his captor, reminding him that Thunderwing's rampage was responsible for the devastation of their world in the first place. Bludgeon counters that Jetfire is just as responsible for what happened to their world: Thunderwing foresaw what was coming and was dismissed by his peers, and now Bludgeon and his cadre will finish what Thunderwing started. Bludgeon reveals the next stage of his plan to his prisoner: using the unconscious [[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]]s as raw material for the Thunderwing's infamous "polydermal grafting process:" the unstable upgrade that drove its creator insane. As Bludgeon's followers gather, their leader, shrugging off Jetfire's protests, proclaims that, soon, they'll ''all'' be so much more...

In the meantime, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] receives a report regarding the disappearance of the ''[[Calabi-Yau]].'' When Prime realizes that the vessel crashed near the infamous [[Thunderhead Pass]], he orders his aide [[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]] to call up the toughest group of Autobots on the roster: the [[Wrecker]]s.

On the embattled world of [[Varas Centralus]], Wrecker leader [[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]] receives Prime's transmission as the Autobot commandos prepare to dig in and lay siege to the local Decepticon siege armature. The battle is cut short when Springer relays Prime's orders to his unit: they're pulling out and heading back to Cybertron.

Using the [[energon]] pocket detected by the ''Calabi-Yau'', Bludgeon commences restoring power to Thunderwing, despite Jetfire's protests. Bludgeon reveals that he's not going to directly control Thunderwing; rather, he'll use an [[axis cradle]] to link himself to Thunderwing's blank neural processor. Rather than puppet the comatose Decepticon directly, Bludgeon will give hints and directional prompts to Thunderwing, pointing him toward the sacrificed planets. The rest will be left to Thunderwing's own instincts. Hoping to make one last attempt at stopping Bludgeon, Jetfire easily breaks free of his restraints and overpowers one of his captors, but he's quickly electrocuted by [[Finback]] and dragged off to become raw material for Bludgeon's polydermal grafting experiments...

[[File:Stormbringer2 NebulosDecepticons1.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

Aboard the Wrecker's starship ''[[Xantium (G1)|Xantium]]'', Springer holds a brief meeting with Optimus Prime as the Autobot leader journeys to their staging ground on [[Moonbase Two|Luna Two]]. Springer, doubtful about coming out on top against Thunderwing is adamant that the Autobot leader simply destroy Cybertron entirely. Though hesitant, Prime hesitantly tells the Wrecker commander that he'll ''consider'' it... but flashes back to their last battle against Thunderwing, when [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] advocated the same tactic. Prime's assistant Dogfight is eager to get into the action, but Prime tells him that he'll be lucky to come out the other side feeling that way.

On the surface of Cybertron, [[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] and [[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] leave their escape pod and make their way across the surface of Cybertron and take shelter inside a storage bunker, but the cosmic radiation plays havoc with their systems and they are rounded up by a pair of [[Centurion droid|Centurion drones]].

On Nebulos, the local Decepticon [[Infiltration protocol|infiltration unit]] picks up something big and powerful exiting [[Transwarp|foldspace]]. The people of the planet look to the sky and flee in fear, for the apocalypse has arrived—and its name is Thunderwing!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
{{{!}}border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent"
{{!}}-
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] (1)
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (4)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (5)
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (6)
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (11)
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (12)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] (13)
*[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]] (14)
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] (15)
*[[Pincher (G1)|Pincher]] (16)
*[[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]] (17)
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (18)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (19)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (20)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (21)
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (22)
*[[Twin Twist]] (23)
*[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] (24)
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] (25)
*[[Gunrunner (G1)|Gunrunner]] (26)
*[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]] (27)
*[[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]] (28)
*[[Pointblank]] (29)
*[[Override (G1)|Override]] (30)
{{!}}}
|c2=
*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (2)
*[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] (3)
*[[Finback]] (7)
*[[Skullgrin]] (8)
*[[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]] (9)
*[[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]] (10)
*[[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] (31)
*[[Centurion droid|Centurion Drones]] (32)
*[[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] (34)
*[[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] (35)
*[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] (36)
*[[Roadgrabber]] (37)
*[[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] (38)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (39)
*[[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] (40)
|c4=
*[[Nebulan]]s (33)
}}

==Quotes==
"The '''polydermal abrasion''' process is long, painful, and arduous, Jetfire. You'll have plenty of time to reflect... on your general '''lack''' of faith."
:— '''Bludgeon''' doesn't like atheists

"I, ah, just wanted to say what an '''honor''' it is to serve alongside you on this mission. I'm very excited by the opportunity." 
"Excited? Let us hope, Dogfight... that when, one way or another, this is all '''over'''...that sentiment prevails."
:— '''Dogfight''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*The Autobots' vessel is not named here, but will later be identified as the ''[[Ark-27]]''.
*Bludgeon's team is made up entirely of the Wave 1 and 2 Decepticon Pretenders... except for [[Bugly (G1)|Bugly]] and [[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]]. Bugly would eventually be revealed as a former member of Bludgeon's cult in 2017, when ''[[Revolutionaries]]'' [[When Eagles Scream|#5]] told his story!
*The siege mode armature was first explained in ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]'' [[Infiltration issue 4|#4]], which outlined its significance in the Decepticons' standardized [[infiltration protocol]].
*'''First appearances:''' Springer, Roadbuster, Topspin, Broadside, Whirl, Sandstorm, Scoop, and Twin Twist; Sureshot, Dogfight, and Backstreet; Darkwing, Dreadwind, Ruckus, Skullcruncher, Thrust, Roadgrabber and Crankcase.

===Transformers references===
[[File:Stormbringer2 Finback.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
* The organic planet of [[Nebulos]] first appeared in [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|the Marvel comic series]], a planet whose inhabitants were responsible for inventing the symbiotic [[binary bonding]] process that led to [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]], and [[Powermaster]]s. The native [[Nebulan]]s are depicted with green skin and yellow eyes, hewing closer to their cartoon depictions that appeared in the [[The Rebirth|truncated Season 4]] of the original cartoon.
* Jetfire and Swoop both swear by [[Primacron]], creator of [[Unicron]] from the original cartoon. As neither [[Primus]] nor Unicron had conclusively been established to exist when this issue was first published, Primacron was subbed in as an alternate being to swear by.
* It shouldn't come as a surprise Thunderwing, Bludgeon, and Bludgeon's followers are all Generation 1 [[Pretender]] characters; the "grafting process" that drove Thunderwing to madness is a re-imagining of the iconic "Pretender shells" that was one of the primary [[gimmick]]s in 1988. That said, Bludgeon and his crew have received significant makeovers; their robot modes have been redesigned to incorporate features from their Pretender shells, which they have yet to obtain.
* The Wreckers! The Autobots' go-to team for blowing stuff up was originally created for the Marvel UK comics, utilizing various characters and toys that had not been taken up by the US stories. Furman brings his creation back here with virtually the same lineup, adding [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] as a new addition to the roster.
* The [[Centurion droid]]s are based off the automated defense mechanisms that appeared in the "The Key to Vector Sigma" two-parter episodes. Here, they are reimagined as a mundane security system rather than the secret guardians of the planet's core that they were in their debut. With their shoulder-mounted cannons, they bear a passing resemblance to the [[Centurion (Marvel)|''other'' Centurion]] from the Marvel comics, which was also a non-sentient war robot.

===Errors===
*The inside cover of issue #2, solicited for August 2006, shows the publish date of the issue as June 2006, one month ''before'' the last issue.
* Springer radios [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] to relay battle orders... but just last issue, Bluestreak was hanging around in the Autobots' command post.
*Nosecone's last sentence on page 16 is missing its concluding period.

===Other trivia===
* Cover A depicts a large number of Autobots and Decepticons in conflict with Thunderwing, likely a literal or figurative representation of the Battle of Thunderhead Pass. In practice, it would actually be several years before some of the depicted Transformers were introduced in IDW continuity.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Prime's Autobots and Megatron's Decepticons vs Thunderwing wraparound cover by Don Figueroa and Josh Burcham. This cover can be combined with similar ones from the other three issues to form a giant battle scene. This cover/section of the large image seems to represent the Transformers who tangled with Thunderwing in the past, other than Optimus Prime himself.
*'''Cover B:''' Half colored Thunderwing wraparound cover by Don Figueroa and ???
*'''Cover RI-A:''' Cover A uncolored
<gallery>
File:Stormbringer 2a full.jpg|Thunderwing likes [[Neon]].
File:Stormbringer 2b.jpg|Thunderwing—that's hot! Even without color!
File:Stormbringer 2ria.jpg|Cover RI-A
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
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===Reprints===
In addition to [[The Transformers: Stormbringer#Collections|collections of the full series]].
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Hearts of Steel issue 4

2020-12-05T13:28:54Z

CyRaptor: Undo revision 1467042 by CyRaptor (talk)

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Evolutions]] [[Hearts of Steel]]'' #4
|prev=Hearts of Steel issue 3
|next=Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1
|title=
|image=Hearts_of_Steel_4a.jpg
|caption="If I ever transformed, which I don't, this is what it'd look like."
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[September 27]], 2006
|coverdate=September 2006
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]
|pencils by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|inks by=[[Aaron Leach]]
|colors by=[[Jay Fotos]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor (IDW)|Dan Taylor]] (& [[Justin Eisinger]] for the collection)
|continuity=[[Hearts of Steel]]
}}

'''The Autobots must stop the Decepticons from reaching New York City.'''

==Synopsis==
On a railway in [[Arizona]], the Army has set up a blockade. As the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] approaches, the commander gives the order to fire. However, the Astrotrain is moving too fast for them, and barrels right through the blockade.

Elsewhere, [[Tobias Muldoon]], the Merriweathers and [[Mark Twain]] are driving [[Stanford Merriweather|Standford]]'s private train as fast as they can, to intercept the [[Decepticon]]s. They pull into a station to take on coal and [[water]], and spot "one peculiar-looking locomotive". They confront [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[John Henry]], and the [[Autobot]]s, but they all quickly realize they are on the same side, and the two teams join forces. The telegraph operator at the station, seeing the mechanized giants, telegraphs his boss, [[Jacob Lee Bonaventure]], with the news. Bonaventure is aboard the Astrotrain, but isn't worried, as he has faith that [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] has plans for this eventuality. And, indeed, as Bonaventure and [[Vanflint|Vanfleet]] watch, [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] deploys from one of the boxcars, taking on his [[alternate mode]] of an armed blimp, and sets off to intercept the Autobots.

Aboard Merriweather's private train, Merriweather and Twain commiserate about the joys of fatherhood while shoveling coal into the engine. Aboard Bumblebee, Henry and Muldoon talk about the difference between Autobots and Decepticons (while shoveling coal), until [[Cletus]] notices Scourge approaching. Scourge begins to drop bombs, so the two trains speed toward the protection of a tunnel. Muldoon runs back over the tops of the Autobots, concerned about [[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty]] on the following train, but is halted when [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (or possibly [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], see ''Errors,'' below) partially transforms out of boxcar mode, and shoots holes in Scourge. The two trains make it to the tunnel (and Tobias makes it to Kitty) just as Scourge collides with the cliff above the tunnel, and explodes. Stanford states that he now fully approves of Tobias's interest in Kitty.

As Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots emerge from the tunnel, a shell strikes the cliff overhead, blocking the tunnel entrance with boulders. Merriweather's private train and its passengers are trapped inside. The Autobots set to work clearing the rubble. Some distance away, Starscream orders another salvo of artillery. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] direct the debris-clearing work, mentioning that there are humans and Autobots inside. The next round strikes several of the Autobots directly, temporarily incapacitating them, and John Henry and Bumblebee set off alone to stop the Decepticons. The Astrotrain resumes his progress, but Bumblebee manages to catch up on an adjoining track. He gets ahead of the Astrotrain, and Henry uses his hammer to flip a switch, directing the Astrotrain, the Decepticons, Bonaventure, and Vanflint over a cliff, presumably to fall to their destruction.

Later, John Henry, [[Brawley]], and Cletus clear enough rocks to free the Merriweathers, Muldoon, and Twain. The Autobots have already left, to return to their slumber, and to resume their war in the future.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (7)
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (8)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (9)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (10)
* [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (17)

|c2=
* [[Astrotrain (G1)|The Astrotrain]] (1)
* [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (13)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (16)

|c3=
* [[Mark Twain]] (2)
* [[Tobias Muldoon]] (3)
* [[John Henry]] (4)
* [[Cletus]] (5)
* [[Brawley]] (6)
* [[Jacob Lee Bonaventure]] (11)
* [[Vanflint]] (12)
* [[Kitty Merriweather]] (14)
* [[Stanford Merriweather]] (15)
}}

==Quotes==
"It's a devil train outta Perdition!"
:'''—Anonymous soldier,''' re: the Astrotrain

"The inventiveness of these Decepticons is limitless. A never-ending ''genesis'' of gears and engines and devices."
:'''—Jacob Lee Bonaventure'''

"Now them Decepticons is headin' for the Yampah in a hurry. An' I hope they hit ever' rock on the way down."
:'''—John Henry'''

==Notes==
=== Real-world references ===
* Henry refers to the "Yampah", which is presumably the {{w|Yampa River}} in Colorado.

===Errors===
* Scourge appears to be flying backwards during the entire scene in which he attacks the Autobot train.
* The trade paperback editions of the story ''introduce'' an error, having Ironhide identify himself as Sideswipe after shooting down Scourge. This is particularly baffling considering Ironhide has his name written down the side of his alternate mode in huge letters!
* Ratchet states that there are Autobots, plural, trapped in the tunnel, but only Ironhide is missing from the established party. Ironhide is later seen leaving with the rest of the Autobots, before even a human-sized gap in the rubble has been cleared. (And, hey, it would have been nice if they'd helped some more with that rubble-clearing, y'know?)

=== Other trivia ===
* It was pretty dumb of the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] to be attached to the train when it crashed, instead of just flying above it...
* On the Decepticon train, there is a large cannon that resembles [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], as seen in Guido's sketches.
* The "Decepticomments" section has readers' mail answered by "[[Chris Ryall|Chris Rail]]".
* The sketches of Ratchet on cover B were also in the trade paperback.

===Covers (3)===
— All by Guido Guidi
* '''Cover A:''' Montage of Tobias Muldoon, Astrotrain in train mode, and (possibly) Astrotrain in robot mode by Guido Guidi
* '''Cover B:''' Ratchet sketch by Guido Guidi
* '''Retailer Incentive:''' Cover A uncolored sketch
<gallery>
Image:Hearts of Steel 4a.jpg|"Astrotrain, you have caused confusion and delay."
Image:Hearts of Steel 4b.jpg|"Boxcar Willie" Ratchet.
Image:Hearts of Steel 4ri.jpg|"Egads!"
</gallery>

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Hearts of Steel issue 4

2020-12-05T13:20:14Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Evolutions]] [[Hearts of Steel]]'' #4
|prev=Hearts of Steel issue 3
|next=Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1
|title=
|image=Hearts_of_Steel_4a.jpg
|caption="If I ever transformed, which I don't, this is what it'd look like."
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[September 27]], 2006
|coverdate=September 2006
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]
|pencils by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|inks by=[[Aaron Leach]]
|colors by=[[Jay Fotos]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor (IDW)|Dan Taylor]] (& [[Justin Eisinger]] for the collection)
|continuity=[[Hearts of Steel]]
}}

'''The Autobots must stop the Decepticons from reaching New York City.'''

==Synopsis==
On a railway in [[Arizona]], the Army has set up a blockade. As the [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] approaches, the commander gives the order to fire. However, the Astrotrain is moving too fast for them, and barrels right through the blockade.

Elsewhere, [[Tobias Muldoon]], the Merriweathers and [[Mark Twain]] are driving [[Stanford Merriweather|Standford]]'s private train as fast as they can, to intercept the [[Decepticon]]s. They pull into a station to take on coal and [[water]], and spot "one peculiar-looking locomotive". They confront [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[John Henry]], and the [[Autobot]]s, but they all quickly realize they are on the same side, and the two teams join forces. The telegraph operator at the station, seeing the mechanized giants, telegraphs his boss, [[Jacob Lee Bonaventure]], with the news. Bonaventure is aboard the Astrotrain, but isn't worried, as he has faith that [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] has plans for this eventuality. And, indeed, as Bonaventure and [[Vanflint|Vanfleet]] watch, [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] deploys from one of the boxcars, taking on his [[alternate mode]] of an armed blimp, and sets off to intercept the Autobots.

Aboard Merriweather's private train, Merriweather and Twain commiserate about the joys of fatherhood while shoveling coal into the engine. Aboard Bumblebee, Henry and Muldoon talk about the difference between Autobots and Decepticons (while shoveling coal), until [[Cletus]] notices Scourge approaching. Scourge begins to drop bombs, so the two trains speed toward the protection of a tunnel. Muldoon runs back over the tops of the Autobots, concerned about [[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty]] on the following train, but is halted when [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (or possibly [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], see ''Errors,'' below) partially transforms out of boxcar mode, and shoots holes in Scourge. The two trains make it to the tunnel (and Tobias makes it to Kitty) just as Scourge collides with the cliff above the tunnel, and explodes. Stanford states that he now fully approves of Tobias's interest in Kitty.

As Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots emerge from the tunnel, a shell strikes the cliff overhead, blocking the tunnel entrance with boulders. Merriweather's private train and its passengers are trapped inside. The Autobots set to work clearing the rubble. Some distance away, Starscream orders another salvo of artillery. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] direct the debris-clearing work, mentioning that there are humans and Autobots inside. The next round strikes several of the Autobots directly, temporarily incapacitating them, and John Henry and Bumblebee set off alone to stop the Decepticons. The Astrotrain resumes his progress, but Bumblebee manages to catch up on an adjoining track. He gets ahead of the Astrotrain, and Henry uses his hammer to flip a switch, directing the Astrotrain, the Decepticons, Bonaventure, and Vanflint over a cliff, presumably to fall to their destruction.

Later, John Henry, [[Brawley]], and Cletus clear enough rocks to free the Merriweathers, Muldoon, and Twain. The Autobots have already left, to return to their slumber, and to resume their war in the future.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (7)
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (8)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (9)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (10)
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (16)
* [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (18)

|c2=
* [[Astrotrain (G1)|The Astrotrain]] (1)
* [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (13)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (17)

|c3=
* [[Mark Twain]] (2)
* [[Tobias Muldoon]] (3)
* [[John Henry]] (4)
* [[Cletus]] (5)
* [[Brawley]] (6)
* [[Jacob Lee Bonaventure]] (11)
* [[Vanflint]] (12)
* [[Kitty Merriweather]] (14)
* [[Stanford Merriweather]] (15)
}}

==Quotes==
"It's a devil train outta Perdition!"
:'''—Anonymous soldier,''' re: the Astrotrain

"The inventiveness of these Decepticons is limitless. A never-ending ''genesis'' of gears and engines and devices."
:'''—Jacob Lee Bonaventure'''

"Now them Decepticons is headin' for the Yampah in a hurry. An' I hope they hit ever' rock on the way down."
:'''—John Henry'''

==Notes==
=== Real-world references ===
* Henry refers to the "Yampah", which is presumably the {{w|Yampa River}} in Colorado.

===Errors===
* Scourge appears to be flying backwards during the entire scene in which he attacks the Autobot train.
* The trade paperback editions of the story ''introduce'' an error, having Ironhide identify himself as Sideswipe after shooting down Scourge. This is particularly baffling considering Ironhide has his name written down the side of his alternate mode in huge letters!
* Ratchet states that there are Autobots, plural, trapped in the tunnel, but only Ironhide is missing from the established party. Ironhide is later seen leaving with the rest of the Autobots, before even a human-sized gap in the rubble has been cleared. (And, hey, it would have been nice if they'd helped some more with that rubble-clearing, y'know?)

=== Other trivia ===
* It was pretty dumb of the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] to be attached to the train when it crashed, instead of just flying above it...
* On the Decepticon train, there is a large cannon that resembles [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], as seen in Guido's sketches.
* The "Decepticomments" section has readers' mail answered by "[[Chris Ryall|Chris Rail]]".
* The sketches of Ratchet on cover B were also in the trade paperback.

===Covers (3)===
— All by Guido Guidi
* '''Cover A:''' Montage of Tobias Muldoon, Astrotrain in train mode, and (possibly) Astrotrain in robot mode by Guido Guidi
* '''Cover B:''' Ratchet sketch by Guido Guidi
* '''Retailer Incentive:''' Cover A uncolored sketch
<gallery>
Image:Hearts of Steel 4a.jpg|"Astrotrain, you have caused confusion and delay."
Image:Hearts of Steel 4b.jpg|"Boxcar Willie" Ratchet.
Image:Hearts of Steel 4ri.jpg|"Egads!"
</gallery>

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Hearts of Steel issue 3

2020-12-05T13:03:09Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Evolutions]] [[Hearts of Steel]]'' #3
|prev=Hearts of Steel issue 2
|next=Hearts of Steel issue 4
|title=
|image=Hearts_of_Steel_3a.jpg
|caption=In how many comics do you get to see Starscream and Ravage working together? Not enough, I say.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[August 30]], 2006
|coverdate=August 2006
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]
|art by=[[Antonio Vasquez]], [[Luis Czerniawski]], & [[Sulaco Studios]]
|colors by=[[Jay Fotos]] & [[Josh Burcham]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor (IDW)|Dan Taylor]] (& [[Justin Eisinger]] for the collection)
|continuity=[[Hearts of Steel]]
}}

'''Ravage attacks Mark Twain... 'nuff said!'''

==Synopsis==
In the "high, arid wastes of [[Death Valley]]", a lonely stagecoach encounters [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], who is standing guard near the [[Decepticon]] factory. He rather politely tells them to turn around and leave, but the occupant of the stage, [[Jacob Lee Bonaventure]], tells him he may have business with Frenzy's employer.

Frenzy escorts him to [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. Bonaventure, while trying to track down [[Bumblebee (G1)|the yellow machine]]'s origins, has learned a great deal about the [[Decepticon]]s' activities, though he has apparently not realized that there are two factions of [[Transformer]]s. He offers to be Starscream's intermediary in dealings with humans. As Starscream no longer has [[Tobias Muldoon]] to serve in that role, he accepts. Bonaventure states that he doesn't really care about Starscream's long-term goals, so long as he makes a profit.

[[Image:Marktwainvsravage.jpg|left|250px|thumb|In how many comics do you get to see Mark Twain fighting a giant robot cat? Not enough, I say.]]
Meanwhile, in [[San Francisco]], Muldoon is telling his story to [[Stanford Merriweather]], [[Kitty Merriweather]], and [[Mark Twain]]. The Merriweathers think he's delirious; Twain is slightly more credulous. The conversation is interrupted by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], who bursts through the window, apparently intending to kill Muldoon. Twain fends off Ravage with a chair while Muldoon makes sure the Merriweathers (and their [[Cleveland (human)|servants]]) get to safety. Muldoon then covers their retreat with a decorative sword and shield, until Ravage pitches him through a window. Ravage briefly gets caught in debris while exiting the house, which is rapidly filling with gas. Twain uses that moment to (apparently) flick his [[cigar]] at Ravage, which causes an explosion that flings Ravage into the bay. Merriweather is shocked, but now fully believes Muldoon's story, and promises to use his connections to get the Army and the [[President of the United States|President]] involved.

[[Image:Sb hos.jpg|left|200px|thumb|In how many comics do you get to see Squawkbox doing ''anything at all?'' Not enough, I say.]]
Back at the Decepticon factory, Bonaventure and Mister [[Vanflint|Vanfleet]] watch new Decepticons being assembled (or modified), and marvel that all this came from investigating one little yellow locomotive. Starscream overhears, and demands more information. Vanflint recounts how they investigated (the deliveries to the middle of nowhere were the primary clue). Starscream concludes that the yellow locomotive is Bumblebee, and that the [[Autobot]]s are active. He orders [[Squawkbox]] to telegraph the news to all Decepticons.

Elsewhere, a lone [[Autobot]] crouches by a telegraph line. He intercepts a signal, and goes running off to convey the signal to the rest of the Autobots (badly startling a human and his horse).

At [[John Henry]]'s camp, [[Brawley]] and [[Cletus]] are singing a song about Henry. He acts displeased, but is smiling. Bumblebee comes to tell Henry that he and the Autobots are leaving, to fight the Decepticons. Henry says that humans have a stake in this fight too, and wakes his crew, telling them they're riding with a new gang now.

At the Decepticon factory, an Army company arrives, to find it deserted. They telegraph their findings to Muldoon and his companions, who are aboard Merriweather's private train. Tobias correctly deduces the Decepticons' plans, and they set out to intercept them (and, apparently, send instructions to the Army).

Meanwhile, the Autobots, Henry, and his crew, are barreling east, as Brawley adds a new verse about Bumblebee to his song.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* Wandering Autobot (17)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (21)
* [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (22)
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (23)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (24)

|c2=
* [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (1)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (3)
* [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (5)
* [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (6)
* [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (12)
* [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (13)
* [[Squawkbox]] (14)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (15)
* [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (16)
* [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] trio (26-28)

|c3=
* [[Jacob Lee Bonaventure (G1)|Jacob Lee Bonaventure]] (2)
* [[Vanflint|Vanfleet]] (4)
* [[Tobias Muldoon]] (7)
* [[Cleveland (human)|Cleveland]] (8)
* [[Stanford Merriweather]] (9)
* [[Kitty Merriweather]] (10)
* [[Mark Twain]] (11)
* [[Brawley and Cletus|Brawley]] (18)
* [[Brawley and Cletus|Cletus]] (19)
* [[John Henry]] (20)
* [[Quincannon]] (25)
}}

==Quotes==
"Soon, and with your aid, the Earth will become as our homeworld of ''Cybertron'' — a ''technoarchy'' ruled by efficiency, logic, mathematics, and science." 
"And profit. Let us not disregard the benefits of ''profit.''"
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Jacob Lee Bonaventure'''

"If seeing clockwork ''pumas'' is a symptom of dementia, then we are ''all'' bound for Bedlam, sir."
:—'''Mark Twain'''

"I ''never'' let a man fight my fights for me. You just let me get my ''hammer,'' friend. You're gonna need some ''muscle'' with your iron."
:—'''John Henry'''

"We stop their train's progress or ''surrender'' our will to their mechanical ministry."
:—'''Tobias Muldoon'''

"Bumblebee was an engine forged from Pittsburgh iron 
Had a furnace for a heart and a bellyful of coal 
And he'd win or he'd die tryin' 
Lawd Lawd 
He'd win or he'd die tryin'"
:—'''Brawley'''

==Notes==
===Errors===
* Death Valley is arid, but it's not "high". It, in fact, includes the ''lowest'' spot in North America.
* Bonaventure offers to be Starscream's "discrete" agent. He means "discreet".
* Starscream talks about his "long, term" plans. He means "long-term".
* Muldoon's speech bubble where he says "I understand your incredulity" is missing punctuation.
* Twain's line about Ravage is "The creature is momentarily thwarted as you home fills with gas." "You" should be "your" here.
* His line right after that is once again missing punctuation.
* Mister Vanflint is called "Vanfleet" here.
* Some of the rail cars being pulled by the Astrotrain incorrectly bear the Autobot logo.
* Timing is once again weird. Presumably the events "Squawkbox sends a signal" and "an Autobot intercepts it" through to the end of the issue happen in very short order, which means that the Decepticons must have abandoned their factory ''very'' quickly. Also, since mobilizing the Army would take some time, several days at least must have passed between Ravage's attack on the Merriweather household, and the cavalry arriving at the factory. (These days apparently fit into the story right after Ravage's attack.)
* In one scene, Starscream wears a body with two engines per wing, as opposed to the one-engine-per-wing body he wears previously and afterward.

=== Other trivia ===
* The "Decepticomments" section features readers' mail answered by [[Chris Ryall]].

===Covers (3)===
— All by [[Guido Guidi]]
* '''Cover A:''' Starscream and Ravage
* '''Cover B:''' Squawkbox sketch
* '''Retailer Incentive:''' Starscream sketch
<gallery>
Image:Hearts of Steel 3a.jpg|"Don't steal my cover, Ravage!"
Image:Hearts of Steel 3b.jpg|Squawkin' the box.
Image:Hearts of Steel 3ri.jpg|"That's better!"
</gallery>

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Dissolution Part 5: Modes of Production

2017-08-30T10:41:34Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{Comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Lost Light|The Transformers: Lost Light]]'' #5
|prev=Dissolution Part 4: Bad Moon Rising
|next=Dissolution Part 6: This Machine Kills Fascists
|image=LL5_regcvr.jpg
|title="Dissolution Part 5: Modes of Production"
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[May 10]], [[2017]]
|coverdate=April 2017
|written by=[[James Roberts]]
|art by=[[Jack Lawrence]]
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era]]
}}
'''Rung's purpose is revealed at last as the Functionist Council's plan enters its endgame.'''

==Synopsis==
On [[Necroworld]], [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] requests a psychiatric session with [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]. Rung is hesitant, having retired from the profession, but as it turns out, Nightbeat doesn't actually want to talk about ''himself'' at all—the "session" is an excuse to get Rung to talk about his own problems. Rung doesn't even resist; he is soon telling Nightbeat everything, confiding that, since his retirement, he has never felt less necessary. When Nightbeat asks if psychiatry had always been Rung's calling, Rung reveals that he has recently learned something new about his own past, something he had long since forgotten thanks to [[information creep]]... he has learned what he was ''for''.

In the [[Vector Sigma]] chamber deep inside [[Functionist Universe|Functionist-controlled]] [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the [[Autobot]]s confront the [[Functionist Council]], and stare in horror as [[Six-of-Twelve]] uses the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] built into his head casing to suspend [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] in a beam of agonizing energy. Familiar with the sensation of Matrix energy, Rodimus claims that it is ''not'' the real Matrix, but Six merely claims to have bent it to his will, as he does all things. To force the Council into standing down, the native Rung has [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] pretend to threaten his life; given Rung's importance to their mysterious plan, the Council has no choice but to let the Autobots go. The Autobots and Rung take the matter transporter back to the surface, but not before Rung delivers one last stinging barb to the Council: as they have discovered, it is possible to activate Vector Sigma ''without'' the [[Key to Vector Sigma|key]] they all transform and combine into, which means that, just like they always claimed about him, their [[alternate mode]] is a useless ornament.

[[File:Modesw of production or is it edge of extinction??.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Planet-destroying moon? [[Planet Buster|That's]] [[Death Star|new]].]]

In [[Kalis|Adaptica]], [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] continues to co-ordinate the [[Anti-Vocationist League]]'s counter-attack against [[Moonbase Two|Luna 2]], which is in the process of razing the city with its tractor beams. His display of leadership reminds [[Roller (IDW)|Roller]] of his old friend [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]], whose fate in the Functionist Universe he wonders about. Megatron doubts that Orion is still alive—if he were, he would almost certainly be part of the [[Anti-Vocationist League]]—and Roller is forced to agree, as he has been trying Pax's personal frequency and had no response. As Luna 2's beams intensify and begin ripping buildings to shreds, Megatron confirms that all surviving refugees have been evacuated and orders the AVL to stand down and join them in escaping. Once he and [[Terminus (G1)|Terminus]] are the only two left in the building, however, Terminus blocks his exit, insisting that they take a moment to talk now that they are alone. Terminus tells Megatron that he believes the two of them should ''stay'' in the Functionist universe to help in the constant fight against the Council; Megatron refuses, insisting that he needs to make amends in their home universe, but before they can argue any further, Luna 2's beams begin ripping the AVL's statue-headquarters to pieces. Caught in the beams' pull, Megatron grabs the wall and fights to hold on...

Back on Necroworld, the repaired [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] watches as [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Brainstorm]] successfully reverses the effects of [[Killmaster]]'s wand to summon [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] and [[Ten]] back from the "pocket prison" it displaced them to. [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] arrives with [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] a moment later, as Brainstorm sets about tracking down the exact ''location'' of said prison, and gets very excited by what he discovers.

On Cybertron, at Rung's suggestion, Rodimus's team uses the matter transport to get aboard the Functionist Council's floating ship-headquarters, [[Cog (base)|The Cog]]. After defeating the guards, they seize control of the giant vessel and set course for Adaptica, after which, now that they finally have a moment to breathe, Rodimus asks Rung to explain everything. Concurrent with Rung's revelations to Nightbeat back on Necroworld, Rung at last reveals his true purpose: his body is designed to manufacture [[photonic crystal]]s, the storage crystals used to contain bodiless [[spark]]s for use in [[Reproduction|cold construction]]. After years of study, the Council wound up inadvertently discovering this when the janitor cleaning Rung's cell, [[Sweep (IDW)|Sweep]], discovered some of the crystals littering the floor, having been spontaneously generated by Rung in response to the mental trauma of endless torture. The Council had always touted cold construction as heretical, but as with all things, they twisted this new discovery to fit their religious interpretation of the world; if a Transformer possessed the ability to generate photonic crystals, they reasoned, then that must mean that [[Primus]] actually endorsed cold construction, and so they would embrace it too. They forced Rung to generate countless crystals, but Six-of-Twelve proved unable to use the captured Matrix to generate any sparks to fill them, and so they turned to Vector Sigma instead, using an [[ununtrium]] drill to easily cut through the wall surrounding it. Upon discovering that their key mode was ''not'' required to activate the mega-computer, the Council put their plan in motion, concocting a phony story about Rung's alt mode that would not contradict the narrative they had fed the public for millions of years. The Council, Rung concludes, have decided that their own function is Functionism itself, and they will use the materials harvested by Luna 2 together with his crystals and the sparks from Vector Sigma to cold-construct an army of new Transformers that will sweep across the galaxy to spread the Functionist gospel by exterminating every race that does not serve a function in the eyes of Primus—or in other words, every single race other than Cybertronians.

On Necroworld, [[Anode]] bursts into the medibay, where [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] and [[Kaput]] are repairing the wounds Tailgate inflicted on [[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]]. She tells everyone she is looking for [[Lug (IDW)|Lug]]... but nobody has any idea who she is talking about. Anode explains, and in response to her story, the medical staff pulls up security footage of her emerging from her stasis pod—alone. Crushing realization begins to dawn, but it takes a consultation of the names on the [[Censere|Necrobot]]'s monument to the Disappeared before Anode is willing to accept it: Lug was ''never'' there, and was, in fact, only a hallucination she experienced due to timesickness.

Back aboard the Cog, Rung directs everyone to abandon ship while he sets it on collision course with Luna 2, in order to destroy the moon and set the Council's plan back decades. Before anyone leaves, Brainstorm makes contact via Rodimus's communicator to deliver a revelation of his own: Killmaster's "pocket prison" is located back in the Autobots' home universe, meaning they can use the wand—supercharged with temporal energy—to teleport Necroworld back home. Rodimus instructs Rung to put his plan on temporary hold so that the Autobots can use the moon's teleporter to get themselves back to Necroworld... but Rung refuses! They cannot risk a delay; if the Autobots want to go home, Rung grimaces, they're going to have to go through him!

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashback. 
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*[[Rung (G1)|Rung]] (1)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (2)
*[[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (3)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] (4)
*[[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]] (10)
*[[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rewind]] (12)
*[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] (13)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Minimus Ambus]] (22)
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*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (23)
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] (27)
*[[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Brainstorm]] (29)
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] (31)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (32)
*[[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] (37)
*[[Kaput]] (39)
*[[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] (40)

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*[[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]] (36)
*[[Rapidfire]] (38)

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*[[Twelve-of-Twelve]] (5)
*[[Six-of-Twelve]] (6)
*[[One-of-Twelve]] (7)
*[[Ten-of-Twelve]] (8)
*[[Four-of-Twelve]] (9)
*[[Three-of-Twelve]] (15)
*[[Eleven-of-Twelve]] (16)
*[[Five-of-Twelve]] (17)
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*[[Two-of-Twelve]] (18)
*[[Seven-of-Twelve]] (19)
*[[Eight-of-Twelve]] (20)
*Multiple [[Functionary|Functionaries]] (33)
*''[[Sweep (IDW)|Sweep]]'' (34)
*[[Nine-of-Twelve]] (41)
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* [[Clicker]] (11)
*Functionist Universe [[Rung (G1)#The_Functionist_Universe|Rung]] (14)
*Various [[Anti-Vocationist League|AVL]] members (21)
*[[Roller (IDW)|Roller]] (24)
*[[Terminus (G1)|Terminus]] (25)
*Functionist Univere [[Anode#The_Functionist_Universe|Anode]] (26)
*[[Ten]] (28)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] (30)
*[[Anode]] (35)
}}

==Quotes==
"Rung. I '''know''' you. I know when you're '''troubled'''. And I also know that you '''never''' open up, you '''never''' reach out, and you never, '''ever''' ask for help. You only engage if you think '''someone else''' is suffering."
:—'''Nightbeat''' analyses Rung from the latter's couch.

"Vector Sigma is unlocked, and your worst suspicions are confirmed... the key is '''unnecessary'''. It's a piece of '''religious paraphernalia'''. A '''decoration.''' You turn—you '''all''' turn—into an '''ornament'''. Or to put it another way... '''all hail the Useless Ones.'''"
:—The Functionist Universe's '''Rung''' rips the Council a new one

"You remind me of someone—a friend of mine. You met him once, I think. Orion Pax?" 
"Orion. Optimus. Yes. Yes, we know each other quite well." 
"It wasn't an insult..." 
"No, no. I know it's not an insult. It's the highest compliment."
:—'''Roller''' and '''Megatron'''

"And to think—'''to think!'''—you said it couldn't be done!" 
"On the contrary, I said I was confident you'd find a way to bring them back. In fact, I've been nothing but supportive since I brought you the wand." 
"Oh. Yeah. Sorry. Thanks to '''Rodimus''', I'm conditioned to expect '''incomprehension, mockery, and boredom'''—usually in the space of thirty seconds."
:—'''Brainstorm''' and '''Cyclonus'''

"Are you okay?" 
"'''Physically,''' no. Mentally, also no."
:—'''Cyclonus''' and '''Swerve'''

"[Killmaster] was quite the '''innovator.''' Specialized in '''bi-locational weaponry:''' shunt bombs, displacement mines... all sorts of racy '''cut-and-paste tech.'''" 
"Yeah, it was his favorite thing after, you know, being a master of killing."
:—'''Brainstorm''' and '''Whirl'''

"In '''our''' universe, the people need to see you punished. Here, they just '''need''' you." 
"But the others... Rodimus. '''Minimus.''' They wouldn't understand." 
"Of all reasons to leave, '''that''' is the worst. You're not accountable to them—you're accountable to your '''conscience.'''" 
"They '''are''' my conscience."
:—'''Terminus''' and '''Megatron'''

"If it's not the Decepticons, it's the Functionists... we can't help turning our hate '''outwards'''."
:—'''Rewind'''

"The Necrobot was there to save ''me''. Just me."
:—'''Anode''' fails to find Lug's name on the memorial to the Disappeared, and shatters.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Whirl's story to Tailgate at the end of last issue is not spoken of here but it's implied Tailgate knows Cyclonus has been keeping quiet.
*Rung retired from practicing psychiatry back in [[Speak, Memory! (Part 2)|''More than Meets the Eye'' #49]].
*Though Six-of-Twelve denies Rodimus's claim that what he is carrying is "not the Matrix," the later revelation that the Council tried and failed to tap the Matrix to produce new sparks lends credence to the allegation, and leads us toward the conclusion we preemptively drew in our notes for [[Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|issue #2]]: it is, of course, not the ''real'' Matrix at all, because, as we know from the mainstream timeline, [[Nominus Prime]] ''never'' held it, and only ever carried a facsimile. As the Functionist Universe only diverges from the mainstream timeline at a point in time well ''after'' Nominus took power, there's no evidence yet to suggested the real Matrix ever found its way out of the [[Undergrid]], where (per [[Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|''More than Meets the Eye'' #19]]) it was hidden by a scientist during the era of [[Nova Prime]].
*Rodimus knows this because he "carried the Matrix," referring to the brief time it was bonded to him during the "Space Opera" storyline in issues [[Space Opera Part 1: The Stars My Destination|#19]]-[[Space Opera—Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix|21]] of the [[The Transformers (IDW)|2009-2011 ongoing series]].
*Rung scornfully calls the Council a collective "ornament"; this was the classification they applied to his apparently-useless alternate mode, as we learned in [[Little Victories|''More than Meets the Eye'' #22]].
*Killmaster's preference for displacement weaponry fits in with the crew's predicament, as we know from [[Animals|issue #46]] that he created the design for the [[geobomb]] the [[Galactic Council]] used to shunt Necroworld into the Functionist Universe.
*Rung raises the specter of [[information creep]] when discussing his early years, a condition introduced in [[Twenty Plus One|''More than Meets the Eye'' #31]].
*Back in [[Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|issue #1]], we saw Rung unexpectedly retch into his hand and stare in alarm at the contents of his palm. It's obvious now that he was producing a crystal for the first time, "a physiological response" to the "intolerable psychological burden" of Skids' death.
*Upon seeing the crystals, Drift recalls his dream from [[Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|issue #1]]. He had mentioned in [[Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|issue #2]] that, in the vision, it was "raining," but that what was falling from the sky was "too heavy, too hard" to be rain; it turns out it was crystals.
*As noted in a footnote, it was in [[Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|''More than Meets the Eye'' #38]] that, thanks to the janitor Sweep, the Functionist Council discovered what Rung was for, and threatened to kill him. Rung notes that his taunting in that issue, trying to get [[One-of-Twelve]] to pull the trigger, was genuinely an attempt to martyr himself.
*Fans copped to the truth about Lug pretty early on. If you go back and read over every previous issue of ''Lost Light'', you'll notice nobody other than Anode ever speaks to her, since she's not actually there. Additionally, back in issue #1, when the Necrobot arrives to save the pair, we see Anode reaching for Lug's hand just before their force field gives out -- but not actually making contact with her.
** All this means that Kaput's happening by to rescue the impaled Anode in issue #2, and her thusly not ''dying'' as a result of Tailgate's tantrum at Fangry, was down to pure, random chance. Ouch.
Speaking of Fangry, Kaput mentions he'd come across the guy outside left for dead. Even though Rapidfire is at the bedside, it's clear that neither he nor any other Decepticon in #2 bothered to get help! When they decided Fangry wasn't worth tangling with Tailgate, they ''meant'' it! Cyclonus hadn't reported it either, so he's covering for Tailgate.
* The panel of Brainstorm and Cyclonus hearing Rodimus squeal is a direct callback (and third in the Rule-of-Three joke structure) to Rodimus hearing Brainstorm and Nightbeat do it in #3.
* Back in ''More than Meets the Eye'' #38, Rewind's justification for shooting the yet-to-be-activated Megatron - one of the actions essentially ''creating'' the Functionist Universe in the end - was that sacrificing Cybertron to the Functionist dystopia would spare the rest of the universe from becoming collateral damage of the Autobots' and Decepticons' endless war. But if the Council's plans revealed here were to succeed, that devastation (and the ensuing backlash against Cybertronians by the rest of the galaxy) would prove not to have been prevented at all - only delayed. All this has happened before...

===Real life references===
*This issue takes its title from the {{w|mode of production|Marxist concept of "modes of production."}}
*Rewind calls the Council's plan to spread Functionism across the galaxy a "crusade," evoking the real-life {{w|Crusades}}, a series of religious wars that took place during the medieval era, mostly consisting of Western Europeans going over to the Near East and trying to conquer it for themselves.

===Errors===
*The members of the Functionist Council are not easy to quickly identify, as their colours do not precisely match their previous appearance in issue #35 (but we won't call that an error, since both Six and Nine have consistently been shown to have new colour schemes throughout this arc). That said, the robot we've identified as [[Four-of-Twelve]] is miscoloured ''somewhere'' along the way; he's got a red head with a grey torso and purple cape on page 2, but his head is yellow on page 4. He was yellow in issue #35, so we'll ''assume'' that's the color he's supposed to be. Additionally, [[Twelve-of-Twelve]] has gone from being the teal he was in Parts 1 and 2 of this story to a bright green.
*In the flashback to issue #37, [[Sweep (IDW)|Sweep]] is brown with red optics as opposed to his blue colour scheme and optics from that issue.

===Other trivia===
*Originally solicited for release in April, this issue continues IDW's ongoing series of delays and arrives in the second week of May.
*It's still not totally clear what Rung's alt-mode ''is'', given that he's still perfectly capable of creating photonic crystals in robot mode.

===Soundtrack===
For all of "Dissolution":
*"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEI75kn9FTc Neither Here Nor There]" by {{w|Lost in the Trees}}

For this issue alone:
*"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5PXLf45V9M Just For a Second]" by {{w|Orlando (band)|Orlando}}
*"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoIsraEnTmk Of Up and Coming Monrachs]" by {{w|Pedro the Lion}}
*"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_7J_U3MmoY All of the Ants Left Paris]" by {{w|Tarwater (band)|Tarwater}}

===Covers (4)===
*'''Regular cover:''' The Functionist Council, by [[Jack Lawrence]] and [[Joana Lafuente]]
*'''Subscription cover A:''' Anode reaches for the bloom of [[living metal|sentio metallico]], by [[Nick Roche]] and [[Josh Burcham]]
*'''Subscription cover B:''' A pair of [[Functionary|Functionaries]] stand beneath [[Cog (base)|The Cog]], by [[Alex Milne]] and [[Josh Perez]]
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' Rodimus, Magnus, Nautica, and Drift, by [[Jin Kim]]; part of a series of incentive covers by Kim for April's Transformers titles.

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===Advertisements===
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*''Jem and the Holograms'' #26
*[[Wrath of Karza issue 1|''Micronauts: Wrath of Karza'' #1]]
*''Judge Dredd: The Blessed Earth'' #1
*''Atomic Robo Presents: Real Science Adventures''
*[[Free Comic Book Day]] 2017 (which had, uh, already passed by the time this issue shipped late...)
*IDW ''Yokai Watch'' comic book (back cover)

==External links==
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[[Category: Lost Light issues]]

Thundercracker & Buster Save the World

2017-04-18T10:27:06Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */ Wrong Jones! Preemptively naming the prospective article "Jones (cat)", feel free to change it to something more suitable if need be!

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|next=New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen
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|title="Thundercracker & Buster Save the World (And Marissa Faireborn Helps, Too)"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[October 26]], [[2016]]
|coverdate=October 2016
|written by=[[John Barber]]
|art by=[[Andrew Griffith]]
|colors by=[[Thomas Deer]]
|letters by=[[Gilberto Lazcano]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era]]
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'''When Dire Wraiths attack the White House, Thundercracker learns it's time to stop trying to ''write'' a movie and start ''living'' one!'''

==Synopsis==
Called to the [[White House]] for a meeting with the [[President of the United States|President]], [[Marissa Faireborn]] is not happy to learn that the commander-in-chief wants her to courier a briefcase. While she is protesting the president's assorted criticisms of her tenure as director of the [[Earth Defense Command]], her phone goes off with an emergency alert: [[Scarlett]] and the forces of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] have launched an attack on the former E.D.C. [[Bikini Atoll]] facility, which has been captured by the shape-shifting [[Dire Wraith]] aliens that were recently discovered to have infiltrated the Joe ranks. This news serves as the cue for the president's security team to reveal that they, too, are Dire Wraiths in disguise, as they shed their deception and shift into their true forms to attack!

In [[Pittsburgh]], [[Thundercracker (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Thundercracker]] (now with a new arm to replace the one he recently lost), [[Buster (IDW)|Buster]], [[Bob (IDW)|Bob]], and [[D.0.C.]] are helping to evacuate the residents of a tenement building that has caught fire. Thundercracker juggles this with talking to [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] over his comm, and also his continued efforts to write his "Susan Journeyer" screenplay, which he is starting to find harder and harder. Once the humans have all been saved, Thundercracker's comm goes off again; this time, it's Marissa, calling him for help because he is the only Transformer she knows she can trust. The ex-Decepticon takes to the air with his animal buddies clinging on and rockets straight for [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]... but as soon as he arrives on the lawn of the White House, the [[Seeker clone]]s standing guard open fire on him!

Inside, armed with armor-piercing ammo, Marissa is able to kill the Dire Wraiths and attempts to get the president to safety, but more Wraiths lurk all throughout the building. The two women run into aide [[Rashid Nasir]], who guides them to the vice president's office, where the other staff have been gathered—but unfortunately, Nasir's vetting process proves to have been insufficient as two more people in the room reveal themselves to be Wraiths! Just then, Thundercracker crashes through the wall, knocked backwards by the last Seeker clone standing, crushing one of the Wraiths beneath him. He greets Marissa and sics Bob on the remaining Wraith, while he and D.0.C. combine their efforts to destroy the clone. The group quickly catches each other up and takes stock: at Marissa's behest, the president explains the briefcase she is carrying contains [[Joe Colton]]'s supply of [[Ore-13]], while another White House staffer concludes that if the Seeker clones were under the Wraiths' control, that means the situation room has been seized. Marissa laments their inability to identify Wraiths, at which point Buster begins viciously barking at the staffer, clearly smelling that something is amiss with her. Her ruse exposed, the staffer reveals herself as yet another Wraith, who Thundercracker immediately blasts into goo with the weapons systems built into his new arm.

Leaving Buster, Bob, and D.0.C. to guard the president, Marissa takes the Ore-13 and orders Thundercracker and Rashid to accompany her to the situation room. They blast their way through Wraith after Wraith to get there, but once they smash their way in, a Wraith posing as White House staff member "Ms. Jimenez" immediately senses the Ore-13 in their possession. She tears the briefcase from Rashid's hands (taking most of his fingers with it) and immediately combines the powerful mineral with her own black magics, infusing it into her body and transforming herself into a gigantic, winged Wraith-form. The giant Wraith opens fire on Marissa with beams of energy, prompting Marissa to switch opponents with Thundercracker so he can tackle the giant while she picks off the small ones. Still writing his screenplay in his head as he fights and unable to accomplish anything that satisfies him, an increasingly annoyed Thundercracker flies the Wraith miles up into the sky, claiming he's going to throw it into the [[sun]]... until the energy from the Wraith's hands damages his new arm enough that it breaks off. As the creature plummets Earthward, it continues to pontificate about its superiority, ''riiiiight'' up until its burning touch detonates the ammunition stored in the arm's weapons. The explosion incinerates the Wraith's wings, and, unable to fly, it lands right on the point of the [[Washington Monument]], graphically impaling itself to death.

With the day saved, Thundercracker touches down and reunites with Marissa and his animal buddies. The victory has led Thundercracker to a personal revelation: he has lost the ability to write about Susan Journeyer because he doesn't truly understand her as a character, having always been a "seeker" of targets, never "seeking" for himself. As Buster licks his face, Thundercracker resolves to embark on a journey toward something new for himself. And that means one thing: ROAD TRIP!

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
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*[[President of the United States|The President]] (2)
*[[Marissa Faireborn]] (3)
*[[Rashid Nasir]] (10)
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*[[Seeker clone]]s (1)
*[[Dire Wraith]]s (4)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Thundercracker]] (5)
*[[Jones (cat)|Jones]] (6)
*[[Bob (IDW)|Bob]] (7)
*[[Buster (IDW)|Buster]] (8)
*[[D.0.C.]] (9)
*"[[Mitch Johnson]]" (11)
*"[[Jimenez]]" (12)
}}

==Quotes==
"'''Thundercracker!''' The '''White House''' is '''under siege'''—my team is '''down''', and God help me—'''you're the only one I can trust!'''" 
"Who '''is''' this?" 
"'''Will you stop that?!'''"
:—'''Marissa''' is not enjoying things quite as much as '''Thundercracker'''

"I swear to God, '''Taft''' never had to deal with this '''crap.'''"
:—The '''President'''

"Should we be worried about '''blasting aliens''' without '''asking questions'''?" 
"Eh. '''Probably.'''"
:—'''Thundercracker''' and '''Marissa'''

"'''Thundercracker'''—we go in '''calmly''' and '''professionally''' and '''assess''' the situation." 
''BRATAT BRATAT BRATAT'' 
"'''Die, alien invaders!'''" 
:—'''Marissa's''' got a plan, but '''Thundercracker's''' got one of his own

"I just '''got''' this arm. I'm gonna complain to '''Jetfire''' about this. He's not gonna wanna '''hear''' it, but I'm gonna '''say''' it." 
"EARTH DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU, CYBERTRONIAN!" 
"Yeah, no duh. Hey, watch out, that's where I keep the '''ammo'''. That '''burning''' arm." 
"YOU MECHANICAL OGRE, I'LL--" 
(...) 
"...AMMO?" 
''KABOOM!''
:—'''Thundercracker''' and the '''Dire Wraith'''

"Hey, '''Faireborn!''' Looks like that thing—" 
"Got the '''point''', yeah." 
"That's '''good!''' I was going to say "That thing's got '''organs''' when it's in '''solid form'''." But I like '''yours.'''"
:—A Dire Wraith getting impaled on the Washington Monument is an easy set-up, but '''Thundercracker''' proves to '''Marissa''' that he lacks the dry-cool wit to be an action hero

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*This issues occurs roughly concurrently with the ''[[D.T.A.|G.I. Joe: Revolution]]'' one-shot, in which the Joes' attack on the Bikini Atoll facility takes place. That issue was supposed to have been released before this one, but unfortunately, due to delays, it wasn't.
*The President refers to the "loss" of [[Monument Valley]], which happened in [[All Hail Optimus Part 5: As Above...So Below|''The Transformers'' #54]] when Optimus Prime raised a [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]] from beneath it. It was in this same issue that Thundercracker lost his arm to a cannon blast from [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]].
*As noted in this issue, following the loss of Monument Valley, Marissa was replaced as head of the [[Earth Defense Command]] by [[Joe Colton]], as seen in [[White Light|''The Transformers'' #56]]. It was also in that issue that [[G.B. Blackrock|Garrison Blackrock]] was abducted from EDC custody, to which the President here makes reference.
*Colton was slain by [[Rom]] in [[Concorde Hymn|''Revolution'' #1]], because—as the Joes discovered in [[O Ship of State|''Revolution'' #3]]—he had been replaced with a Dire Wraith.
*Colton's briefcase of Ore-13 previously appeared in [[Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|the ''Revolution'' prelude]]. He was also carrying one around in the ''{{i|Field Test|ROM: Revolution}}'' one-shot (in which it was established that the Wraiths could boost their powers by combining Ore-13 with their magicks); it looked different, but presumably it's supposed to be the same one.

===Real-life references===
*The cat belonging to the family who Thundercracker rescues from the burning building is named "Jones", in what—given the whole "Hollywood movie" vibe of this issue—is presumably a reference to the cat of the same name from the movie {{w|Alien (film)|''Alien''}}.
*Dogs being able to detect disguised monsters is a wildly prolific Hollywood sci-fi trope, with the ''{{w|Terminator (series)|Terminator}}'' series being a famous example.
*Marissa compares D.0.C. to the robotic character [http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/V.I.N.CENT V.I.N.CENT] from the movie ''{{w|The Black Hole}}''.
*While trying to suggesting switching opponents, Marissa names the movies ''{{w|Strangers on a Train}}'' and ''{{w|Throw Momma From the Train}}'', which are both (put rather simply) about people using others to solve their problems for them. Thundercracker's main point of reference for such a plot, though, is noir film ''{{w|Criss-Cross}}''; it's no surprise that such a movie would be his favorite, given the fondness we learned he has for noirs and their tropes in ''[[The Thirteenth Day of Christmas|The Transformers Holiday Special]]''.

===Errors===
*[[Joana Lafuente]]'s first name is misspelled with two Ns on the inside-front cover.
*On page 15, after his ''left'' hand gets mutilated, Rashid is seen clutching his ''right'' hand.
*Despite having just lost his right arm, Thundercracker's got two hands in the last panel of the issue!

===Covers (9)===
*'''Regular cover:''' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]], Thundercracker, and [[Rom]] versus the Dire Wraiths, by [[Marcelo Matere]]
*'''Subscription cover A:''' Our heroes and villains in a movie-poster-style image for the story, by [[Andrew Griffith]] and [[Joana Lafuente]]
*'''Subscription cover B:''' Blank cover for sketches
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' Thundercracker, Buster, Bob, and D.0.C., by [[Ken Christiansen]]

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*'''Giant Robot Comics exclusive cover:''' [[Hot Rod]], [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] defend the Halifax Public Gardens in Halifax, Nova Scotia against [[Unicron]], [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], and the [[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]], by [[Casey Coller]] and [[John-Paul Bove]]. Available exclusively from [http://www.giantrobotcomics.com/ Giant Robot Comics], who are based in Halifax; fourth in [[Less Than Zero|in]] [[The World of Tomorrow|a]] [[Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots|series]] of exclusive covers for the retailer by Coller and Bove, which all feature Halifax landmarks.
*'''Zing exclusive cover:''' [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and [[Cobra Commander]], by [[Livio Ramondelli]]; available exclusively from Australian retailer [https://www.zingpopculture.com.au/ Zing Pop Culture].
*'''Dallas Fan Days convention exclusive cover:''' [[Scarlett]], Optimus Prime, and [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]], by [[Jamie Tyndall]] and [[Ula Moss]]; available exclusively from [http://fanexpostore.com Fan Expo Store] at the [http://dallascomiccon.com/ Dallas Fan Days] comic con.
*'''Dallas Fan Days convention exclusive variant cover:''' A metallic foil-stamped version of the regular Dallas Fan Days exclusive, available from the same reatiler.
*'''Local Comic Shop Day exclusive cover:''' Partially-colored variant of Marceleo Matere's regular cover, available only at select retailers participating in [http://localcomicshopday.com/ Local Comic Shop Day].

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*''Revolution'' checklist
*''Revolution'' tie-in one-shots
*''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'' TV series

==External links==
*[http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2016/10/preview-of-transformers-revolution-1/ Preview]

[[Category: IDW Robots in Disguise (2012) issues]]
[[Category: Revolution issues]]

Transformers Figure Subscription Service

2016-08-22T20:20:36Z

CyRaptor: /* Series 4.0 (2016) */

[[File:TCCSSlogo.jpg|right|thumb|400px]]

In [[2012]], [[Fun Publications]] revealed the '''Transformers Figure Subscription Service'''. With this, a greater number and variety of [[exclusive]] toys from the [[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|''Timelines'' toyline]] could be made and sent out to members of the [[Transformers Collectors' Club]].

==Subscription details==
The Subscription Service is an optional add-on to Fan Club membership. Each year's lineup consists of six [[exclusive]] Transformers. As they are not part of a themed box set like [[BotCon]] toys, they can pull from a variety of universes and styles. Toys are shipped out one per month for six months, though the order the toys are shipped in is kept a secret.

Payment for each year can be made in one lump sum, or split into three smaller payments on a regular schedule. Obviously, missing a payment deadline means no more toys get shipped to the delinquent until things are caught up.

Any toys left over from each shipment are subsequently put up on the Fan Club's store (except for the 2014 "bonus" figure) for individual purchase by anyone with a Fan Club membership, though at a slightly higher price tag than the per-unit cost of the full subscription.

==Toys==
===Series 1.0 (2013)===
[[File:Timelinestoy-SlipstreamPrime.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Prime'' Slipstream]]
The initial year had some hiccups in its delivery. Meant to start shipping in early 2013, the toys did not actually get shipped from the factory until summer, under the mistaken notion that they were part of the [[BotCon 2013]] toy assortment. Thus, they ended up shipping in the latter half of the year.
{{collist|2|
*'''1:''' [[Scourge (RID)#Timelines|Scourge]]
*'''2:''' [[Slipstream (WFC)#Timelines|Slipstream]]
*'''3:''' [[Circuit (Movie)#Timelines|Circuit]]
*'''4:''' [[Breakdown (G1)#Timelines|Breakdown]]
*'''5:''' [[Jackpot (Animated)#Timelines|Jackpot]]
*'''6:''' [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Timelines|Ultra Mammoth]]
}}
{{-}}

===Series 2.0 (2014)===
[[File:TCCSS2-Rewind.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Rewind]]
For 2014, the Service changed things up quite a bit. First by offering a seventh "bonus" figure for subscribers that was ''not'' made available for individual purchase, and then by adding [[Mini-Con]] partners to three of the toys by making use of the [[Arms Micron]] molds which had previously not been available in the U.S. Another manufacturer's delay occurred, causing the initial shipment to be scheduled to arrive in Dallas in the final week of May 2014 and start shipping to customers in the first week of June 2014.
{{collist|2|
*'''1:''' [[Barricade (WFC)#Timelines|Barricade]] (with [[Frenzy (WFC)#Timelines|Frenzy]])
*'''2:''' [[Fisitron (Timelines)#Timelines|Fisitron]]
*'''3:''' [[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Thrustinator|Thrustinator]]
*'''4:''' [[Treadshot (G1)#Timelines|Treadshot]] (with [[Catgut#Timelines|Catgut]])
*'''5:''' [[Chromedome (G1)#Timelines|Chromedome]] (with [[Stylor#Timelines|Stylor]])
*'''6:''' [[Rewind (G1)#Timelines|Rewind]]
*'''7:''' [[Eject (G1)#Timelines|Eject]]
}}
{{-}}

===Series 3.0 (2015)===
[[File:TFSS3 Serpent O R.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Serpent O.R.]]
{{collist|2|
*'''1:''' [[Carzap (BT)#Timelines|Carzap]] (with [[G.B. Blackrock#Timelines|G.B. Blackrock]])
*'''2:''' [[Nacelle (G1)#Timelines|Nacelle]]
*'''3:''' [[Serpentor#Timelines|Serpent O.R.]]
*'''4:''' [[Tarantulas (BW)#Timelines 2|Tarantulas]] (with two [[Arachnoid#Timelines|Spider Drones]])
*'''5:''' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Timelines|G2 Starscream]]
*'''6:''' [[Krok (G1)#Timelines|Krok]] (with [[Gatoraider#Timelines|Gatoraider]])
*'''7:''' [[Nightracer (G2)#Timelines|Nightracer]] (with [[Shakar#Timelines|Shakar]])
}}
{{-}}

===Series 4.0 (2016)===
In a change from the previous lineups, the fourth edition of the service will feature a unifying theme based on ''[[Transformers: Generations#Combiner Wars|Combiner Wars]]'' with individual figures mainly derived from the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and at least one underrepresented-in-toy-form [[Wrecker]]. Five of the figures combine into [[Thunder Mayhem]].
{{collist|2|
*'''1:''' [[Needlenose (G1)#Combiner Wars|Needlenose]] (with [[Sunbeam (G1)#Combiner Wars|Sunbeam]] and [[Zigzag#Combiner Wars|Zputty]])
*'''2:''' [[Ruckus (G1)#Combiner Wars|Grabuge]]
*'''3:''' [[Spinister (G1)#CombinerWars|Spinister]] (with [[Hairsplitter#Combiner Wars|Shrute]] and [[Singe (G1)#Combiner Wars|Singe]])
*'''4:''' [[Windsweeper#Combiner Wars|Windsweeper]]
*'''5:''' [[Bludgeon (G1)#Combiner Wars|Bludgeon]]
*'''6:''' [[Impactor (G1)#Combiner Wars|Impactor]]
*'''7:''' [[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Bluestreak]]
}}
{{-}}

===Series 5.0 (2016)===
Yup. The fifth series features '''''2''''' [[Pretender]]s!

Meanwhile, Toxitron, Counterpunch, and Fractyl can combine into [[Wreckage (G1)|Wreckage]].
{{collist|2|
*'''?:''' [[Punch (G1)#Combiner Wars|Counterpunch]]
*'''?:''' [[Fractyl#Combiner Wars|Fractyl]] (with [[Scorponok (BW)#Combiner Wars|Scorponok]])
*'''?:''' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Timelines|Double Pretender Megatron]] (with [[Spacewarp#Timelines|Spacewarp]])
*'''?:''' [[Toxitron (G1)#Combiner Wars|Toxitron]]
*'''?:''' [[Lifeline (G1)#Timelines|Lifeline]] (with [[Quickslinger (G1)#Timelines|Quickslinger]])
*'''?:''' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#DoublePretender|Double Pretender Optimus Prime]] (with [[Hi-Q#Timelines|Hi-Q]])
*'''7:''' ???
}}
{{-}}

==Notes==
*The Transformers Subscription Service was preceded a year earlier by a similar service for the ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' Fan Club, also run by Fun Publications. That Service though has 12 toys a year, due to the much lower cost per figure to manufacture.

==External links==
*[http://transformersclub.com/TCC_FSS2_FAQ.cfm Figure Subscription Service 2.0 FAQ]

[[Category:Fun Publications]]
[[Category:Timelines]]

MediaWiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Character

2016-03-09T10:07:47Z

CyRaptor: /* Poll entries */

This is the page for the '''TFWiki.net Transformers Hall of Fame Favorite Character Auditions''' entries. The rules are as follows:

#You must pick your top '''three''' ''Transformers'' characters, from any era. They must actually '''be''' Transformers; sorry, but no humans, non-Transformer aliens, non-Transformer robots, or anything else of the sort are being considered for the Hall of Fame. Any votes for such entities will '''not''' be tabulated. It is the sole discretion of the contest organizers to decide what does and does not count.
##"Underrated Transformers Character" (fictional robot character) votes '''[[Transformers Wiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Underrated|go here!]]'''
##Do not vote for the same characters in both categories.
#Take your top three list and '''put it in alphabetical order'''. Order of preference does not matter. Feel free to denote the character's franchise of origin, although these distinctions may or may not figure into the final results.
#You '''cannot''' pick a specific version of '''Arcee, Bumblebee, Dinobot, Grimlock, Ironhide, Jazz, Megatron, ''Beast Wars'' Megatron, Optimus Prime, Predaking (combiner), Prowl, Ratchet, Rodimus, Shockwave, Soundwave, Starscream, Ultra Magnus, Waspinator, or Wheeljack.''' They've already been inducted!
#However, '''you CAN vote''' for [[Optimus Primal]]'''! Hasbro considers him separate!
#Only one entry per user.

Please put your characters of choice and user name below in the following manner:

*Blackarachnia, Bulkhead, Hot Shot--<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>

Poll entry period ends at 3pm on '''[[March 9]]th, 2016'''. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] ([[User talk:Monzo|talk]]) 13:05, 2 March 2016 (EST)

==Poll entries==


*Bulkhead (Animated and on), Optimus Primal, Ravage --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] ([[User talk:FortMax|talk]]) 13:18, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Lockdown, Sky-Byte --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 13:35, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Kup, Nightbeat, Scorponok -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 13:41, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade-Bayverse, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker-regdog
*Fortress Maximus, Metroplex, Scorponok - [[User:Ironhold|Ironhold]] ([[User talk:Ironhold|talk]]) 13:53, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lockdown, Nightbeat, Swindle - [[User:Sky Shadow|Sky Shadow]] ([[User talk:Sky Shadow|talk]]) 14:00, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Tarantulas --[[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 14:02, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Ravage --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 14:20, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blaster, Scorponok, Tarantulas --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] ([[User talk:Ascendron|talk]]) 14:25, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Devastator, Optimus Primal --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 14:27, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Optimus Primal, Rattrap, Springer [[User:Danja|Danja]] ([[User talk:Danja|talk]]) 14:31, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*The Beast, Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal--[[User:Aitherion|Aitherion]] ([[User talk:Aitherion|talk]]) 14:34, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Cheetor, Optimus Primal --[[User:Munkky|Munkky]] ([[User talk:Munkky|talk]]) 15:03, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Lockdown, Swindle [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 15:04, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus (IDW), Galvatron, Lockdown (Animated) --[[User:Stranded With Autobots|Stranded With Autobots]] ([[User talk:Stranded With Autobots|talk]]) 15:14, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Star Saber--[[User:NanoxVox|My Sarcasm Is Undeniable]] ([[User talk:NanoxVox|talk]]) 15:32, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Galvatron, Hot Shot, Thundercracker --[[User:Wasp-shot23|Wasp-shot23]] ([[User talk:Wasp-shot23|talk]]) 15:43, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Mirage, Scourge, Swindle --[[User:Phantom Dusclops'92|Phantom Dusclops'92]] ([[User talk:Phantom Dusclops'92|talk]]) 15:47, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus, Skywarp, Thundercracker --[[User:Misfire 78|Misfire78]] ([[User talk: Misfire 78|talk]] 16:16, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Swindle [[User:Awa64|Awa64]] ([[User talk:Awa64|talk]]) 16:23, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus, Scorponok, Whirl [[User:Carprillo|Carprillo]] ([[User talk:Carprillo|talk]]) 16:34, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Lockdown, Swindle --[[User:TeionneAi|TeionneAi]] ([[User talk:TeionneAi|talk]]) 17:05, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Computron, Omega Supreme, Sky Lynx--[[User:Omegatron|omegatron]] ([[User talk:Omegatron|talk]]) 17:08, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Demolishor, Hot Shot, Sideways--[[User:Stardust262|Stardust262]] ([[User talk:Stardust262|talk]]) 18:06, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lockdown, Perceptor, Tarantulas--[[User:SoundJack426|SoundJack426]] ([[User talk:SoundJack426|talk]]) 18:30, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blaster, Swindle, Thundercracker - [[User:Magaroja|Magaroja]] ([[User talk:Magaroja|talk]]) 18:49, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Scourge (RID 2001) - [[User:Queso|¡Usa El Queso!]] [[User talk:Queso|Complain here]] 21:02, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Jetfire, Superion, Thundercracker [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 21:35, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*First Aid, Perceptor, Swindle - [[User:Nebay|Nebay]] ([[User talk:Nebay|talk]]) 21:43, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Sky-Byte [[User:LordTacos|LordTacos]] ([[User talk:LordTacos|talk]]) 21:54, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cheetor (BW), Optimus Primal, Sky-Byte --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:15, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Swindle [[User:NovaSaber|NovaSaber]] ([[User talk:NovaSaber|talk]]) 22:48, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Breakdown,Knock Out (TFP),Windblade [[User: Knock Out]]
*Galvatron, Laserbeak, Sky-Byte --[[User:Flicky1991|flicky]][[User talk:Flicky1991|1991]] 01:21, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Jetfire, Optimus Primal, Sideways --[[User:AkibaSilver|AkibaSilver]] ([[User talk:AkibaSilver|talk]]) 02:20, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Devastator, Impactor, Jetfire -[[User:BattleBlade|BattleBlade]] ([[User talk:BattleBlade|talk]]) 02:49, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Blaster, Ravage --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] ([[User talk:Emvee|talk]]) 06:22, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Jetfire, Lockdown, Optimus Primal --[[User:Bobpiecheese|Bobpiecheese]] ([[User talk:Bobpiecheese|talk]]) 08:04, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Wreck-Gar -- [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 08:10, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Tarantulas -- [[User:DalekSupreme13|DalekSupreme13]] ([[User talk:DalekSupreme13|talk]]) 09:54, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Bulkhead (Animated), Sky-Byte, Windblade -- [[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]). 15:15, 3 March 2016 (GMT)
*Brainstorm, Sideswipe, Thundercracker -- [[User:Genitus|Genitus]] ([[User talk:Genitus|talk]]) 10:50, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Ironfist, Knock Out (Prime), Straxus -- [[User:HunterCham|HunterCham]] ([[User talk:HunterCham|talk]]) 12:51, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Knock Out (Prime), Optimus Primal, Rampage (BW) [[User:RevTibe|RevTibe]] ([[User talk:RevTibe|talk]]) 13:14, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus, Scorponok, Swindle - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] ([[User talk:Cattleprod|talk]]) 13:23, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Kup, Perceptor -[[User: TFPWrecker]]
*Impactor, Sky-Byte, Windblade - --[[User:Projectus|Projectus]] ([[User talk:Projectus|talk]]) 15:00, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Heatwave (RB), Sky-Byte --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 15:54, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blades (RB), Heatwave (RB,Tailgate -- [[user:Lozalot|Lozalot]] ([[User talk:Lozalot|talk]]) 21:59, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Galvatron, Sky-Byte, Ravage --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 17:22, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Airazor(BW), Rewind, Windblade --[[User:Crowork|Crowork]] ([[User talk:Crowork|talk]]) 19:48, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Bulkhead, Cliffjumper, Thundercracker--[[User:Arazyr|Arazyr]] ([[User talk:Arazyr|talk]]) 19:51, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Devastator, Galvatron, Optimus Primal--[[User:Autobot62695|Autobot62695]] ([[User talk:Autobo62695|talk]]) 19:32, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Optimus Primal, Sky-Byte, Swoop --[[User:MaximalBroadjaw|MaximalBroadjaw]] ([[User talk:MaximalBroadjaw|talk]]) 22:22, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Knock Out (Prime), Sunstreaker, Windblade--[[User:Glowingsupernova|Glowingsupernova]] ([[User talk:Glowingsupernova|talk]]) 22:26, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus, Knock Out (prime), Swindle--[[User:RAKninja|RAKninja]] ([[User talk:RAKninja|talk]]) 00:34, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Overlord, Scorponok (G1), Thunderwing -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 02:33, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Rumble (blue), Silverbolt (BW) -- [[User:JediFlaherty|JediFlaherty]] 10:54, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Delta Magnus, Deszaras, Star Saber -- [[User:S-NFS|S-NFS]] ([[User talk:S-NFS|talk]]) 0:10, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
*Cliffjumper, Knock-Out (Prime), Lugnut [[User:Stealthyboy|Stealthyboy]] ([[User talk:Stealthyboy|talk]]) 18:19, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus (IDW), Knock Out (Prime), Thundercracker (IDW) -- [[User:OvermanXAN|OvermanXAN]] ([[User talk:OvermanXAN|talk]]) 15:22, 4 March 2016 (PST)
*Knock Out (Prime), Rattrap (Beast Wars), Thundercracker (IDW) --[[User:EpsilonMagnus|EpsilonMagnus]] ([[User talk:EpsilonMagnus|talk]]) 01:05, 5 March 2016 (GMT)
*Jetfire, Superion, Thundercracker -- [[User:Knightsword|Knightsword]] ([[User talk:Knightsword|talk]]) 11:17, 5 March 2016 (CST)
*Bulkead, Sky-Byte, Wreck-Gar -- [[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 17:15, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Sideways, Spacewarp, Vector Prime -- [[User:AmazingMrCat|AmazingMrCat]] ([[User talk:AmazingMrCat|talk]]) 17:22, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Chromedome, Sunstreaker, Tarn -- [[User:Wheelpath|Wheelpath]] ([[User talk:Wheelpath|talk]]) 23:18, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Bulkhead, Fortress Maximus, Heatwave -[[User:Ookalf|Ookalf]] ([[User talk:Ookalf|talk]]) 00:04, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Knock Out, Rattrap, Tarantulas -[[User:jknight74|jknight74]] ([[User talk:jknight74|talk]]) 22:38, 5 March 2016 (PST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Wreck-Gar--[[User:Cr85747|Cr85747]] ([[User talk:Cr85747|talk]]) 05:33, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Cheetor, Sideswipe, Windblade --[[User:Koshkina|Koshkina]] ([[User talk:Koshkina|talk]]) 04:00, 6 March 2016 (EET)
*Bluestreak, Hound, Rumble (blue) --[[User:Nom|Nom]] ([[User talk:Nom|talk]]) 08:42, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
*Knock Out (Prime), Sideswipe, Silverbolt (G1 and Aligned) -- [[User:HardyGal|HardyGal]] ([[User talk:HardyGal|talk]]) 19:52, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Devastator, Sideswipe, Thundercracker [[User:Energizer|Energizer]] ([[User talk:Energizer|talk]]) 20:34, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Airazor (BW), Optimus Primal, Thundercracker --[[User:PaulAgnew|PaulAgnew]] ([[User talk:PaulAgnew|talk]]) 23:03, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Airazor (BW), Blackarachnia, Rhinox [[User:Acidforblood|Acidforblood]] ([[User talk:Acidforblood|talk]]) 16:24, 7 March 2016 (EST)
*Rumble,Swindle,Thundercracker [[User:clownface|clownface]] ([[User talk:clownface|talk]]) 22:04,8 march 2016
*Blackarachnia, Lockdown, Scorponok [[User:Cydra|Cydra]] ([[User talk:Cydra|talk]]) 10:16, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Bulkhead, Demolishor, Optimus Primal - [[User:RolonBolon|RolonBolon]] ([[User talk:RolonBolon|talk]]) 14:04, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Knock Out (Prime), Rattrap, Windblade - [[User:CyRaptor|CyRaptor]] ([[User talk:CyRaptor|talk]]) 14:13, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Ravage [[User:Kyojikasshu|Kyojikasshu]] ([[User talk:Kyojikasshu|talk]]) 16:34, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Elita One, Windblade -- [[User:Dorca|Dorca]] 18:11, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Optimus Primal (BW), Rattrap (BW), Whirl (MTMTE) [[User:Crazyworks|Crazyworks]] ([[User talk:Crazyworks|talk]]) 18:31, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Cosmos, Sky-Byte, Warpath --[[User:Sockie|Sockie]] ([[User talk:Sockie|talk]]) 20:50, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Bulkhead, Ravage -- [[User:FirebrandPhlox|FirebrandPhlox]] ([[User talk: FirebrandPhlox|talk]]) 16:20, 9 March 2016 (UTC+9:00)
*Blackarachnia, Rattrap, Ravage--[[User:Strangefour|Strangefour]] ([[User talk:Strangefour|talk]]) 03:58, 9 March 2016 (EST)





[[Category: TFWiki.net]]

MediaWiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Underrated

2016-03-09T10:05:56Z

CyRaptor: /* Poll entries */

This is the page for the '''TFWiki.net Transformers Hall of Fame Underrated Character Auditions''' entries. The rules are as follows:

#You must pick your top '''three''' UNDERRATED ''Transformers'' characters, from any era. They must actually '''be''' Transformers; sorry, but no humans, non-Transformer aliens, non-Transformer robots, or anything else of the sort are being considered for the Hall of Fame. Any votes for such entities will '''not''' be tabulated. It is the sole discretion of the contest organizers to decide what does and does not count.
##"Favorite Transformers Character" (fictional robot character) votes '''[[Transformers Wiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Character|go here!]]'''
##Do not vote for the same characters in both categories.
#Take your top three list and '''put it in alphabetical order'''. Order of preference does not matter. Feel free to denote the character's franchise of origin, although these distinctions may or may not figure into the final results.
#You '''cannot''' pick a specific version of '''Arcee, Bumblebee, Dinobot, Grimlock, Ironhide, Jazz, Megatron, ''Beast Wars'' Megatron, Optimus Prime, Predaking (combiner), Prowl, Ratchet, Rodimus, Shockwave, Soundwave, Starscream, Ultra Magnus, Waspinator, or Wheeljack.''' They've already been inducted!
#However, '''you CAN vote''' for [[Optimus Primal]]'''! Hasbro considers him separate!
#Only one entry per user.

Please put your characters of choice and user name below in the following manner:

*Emirate Xaaron, Strika, Thunderblast--<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>

Poll entry period ends at 3pm on '''[[March 9]]th, 2016'''. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] ([[User talk:Monzo|talk]]) 13:01, 2 March 2016 (EST)

==Poll entries==







*Botanica, [[Fasttrack (Scorponok)|Fasttrack]], [[Slammer]] --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] ([[User talk:FortMax|talk]]) 13:23, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Broadside, Elita One --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 13:36, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade-Bayverse,Hound, Mirage -regdog
*Override (Cybertron), Scrounge, Under-3 -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 13:48, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cy-Kill, Nickel, Spacewarp. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 13:50, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Hot Spot (G1), Scrapper (G1), Skids (G1) - [[User:Ironhold|Ironhold]] ([[User talk:Ironhold|talk]]) 14:05, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Brainstorm, Rampage (BW), Sixshot --[[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 14:07, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita One, Nautica, Sideways - [[User:Sky Shadow|Sky Shadow]] ([[User talk:Sky Shadow|talk]]) 14:13, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cryotek, Shokaract, Under-3 --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 14:23, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Computron, Steeljaw (RID), Thunderhoof -- [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 14:34, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Heinlad, Nightbeat, Skids -- [[User:Danja|Danja]] ([[User talk:Danja|talk]]) 14:38, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Dion, Shokaract, Star Dust --[[User:Aitherion|Aitherion]] ([[User talk:Aitherion|talk]]) 14:42, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Scrounge, Spacewarp, Under-3 [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 15:04, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Heinlad, [[Nightstrike]], Tigatron --[[User:Munkky|Munkky]] ([[User talk:Munkky|talk]]) 15:08, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade (Tyran), [[Devcon (G1) |Devcon]], Scourge --[[User:Stranded With Autobots|Stranded With Autobots]] ([[User talk:Stranded With Autobots|talk]]) 15:16, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Scrounge, Signal Lancer--[[User:NanoxVox|My Sarcasm Is Undeniable]] ([[User talk:NanoxVox|talk]]) 15:34, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Hoist, Tow-Line (RID), Whirl--[[User:Phantom Dusclops'92|Phantom Dusclops'92]] ([[User talk:Phantom Dusclops'92|talk]]) 15:46, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blades, Brushguard, Hot Shot --[[User:Wasp-shot23|Wasp-shot23]] ([[User talk:Wasp-shot23|talk]]) 15:50, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lugnut, Misfire, Sideways --[[User:Misfire78|Misfire78]] ([[User talk:Misfire78|talk]]) 16:12, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita-One, Swerve, Trailbreaker --[[User:Wtrz|Wtrz]] ([[User talk:Wtrz|talk]]) 16:26, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lord Imperious Delirious, Sari Sumdac, Signal Lancer [[User:Awa64|Awa64]] ([[User talk:Awa64|talk]]) 16:27, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Scrounge, Skids, Transquito [[User:Carprillo|Carprillo]] ([[User talk:Carprillo|talk]]) 16:37, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blitzwing, Sari Sumdac, Wreck-Gar --[[User:TeionneAi|TeionneAi]] ([[User talk:TeionneAi|talk]]) 17:12, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Crosswise, Override, Signal Lancer--[[User:Stardust262|Stardust262]] ([[User talk:Stardust262|talk]]) 18:10, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*High Wire, Longrack, Signal Lancer--[[User:SoundJack426|SoundJack426]] ([[User talk:SoundJack426|talk]]) 18:31, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Misfire, Scrounge, Signal Lancer ----[[User:Projectus|Projectus]] ([[User talk:Projectus|talk]]) 18:40, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Nautica, Rung, Tarn - [[User:Queso|¡Usa El Queso!]] [[User talk:Queso|Complain here]] 21:00, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Air Hammer, Evac (Cybertron), Spacewarp, [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 21:36, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Nautica, Override (Cybertron) [[User:LordTacos|LordTacos]] ([[User talk:LordTacos|talk]]) 21:58, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Ginrai, Thunderwing (G1), Vector Prime --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:17, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Leobreaker, Override (Cybertron), Signal Lancer [[User:NovaSaber|NovaSaber]] ([[User talk:NovaSaber|talk]]) 22:55, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Broadside, Signal Lancer, Tow-Line (RID) --[[User:Flicky1991|flicky]][[User talk:Flicky1991|1991]] 01:28, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Nightbeat, Trailbreaker, Vector Prime --[[User:AkibaSilver|AkibaSilver]] ([[User talk:AkibaSilver|talk]])) 02:22 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade, Depth Charge, Roadbuster --[[User:BattleBlade|BattleBlade]] ([[User talk:BattleBlade|talk]]) 02:52, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Flywheels, Guzzle, Trailbreaker --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] ([[User talk:Emvee|talk]]) 06:26, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Hound, Scrounge, Seaspray --[[User:Bobpiecheese|Bobpiecheese]] ([[User talk:Bobpiecheese|talk]]) 08:04, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Alpha Trion, Tigatron, Vector Prime -- [[User:DalekSupreme13|DalekSupreme13]] ([[User talk:DalekSupreme13|talk]]) 09:59, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Nautica, Rampage (Beast Wars), Stockade (Movie/Titan Magazines) -- [[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]). 15:17, 3 March 2016 (GMT)
*Doubledealer, Quickswitch, Scrounge -- [[User:HunterCham|HunterCham]] ([[User talk:HunterCham|talk]]) 12:53, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Impactor, Nautica, Rung - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] ([[User talk:Cattleprod|talk]]) 13:24, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Spacewarp, Transmutate [[User:RevTibe|RevTibe]] ([[User talk:RevTibe|talk]]) 13:50, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Ironfist, Rung, Sari Sumdac -- [[User:JediFlaherty|JediFlaherty]] 14:32, 3 March 2016 (CST)
*Drift, Rung, Swerve -- [[User:Lozalot|Lozalot]] ([[User talk:Lozalot|talk]]) 22:10, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Scourge (RID), Shokaract, Under-3 --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 17:20, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Nickel, Scrounge (G1), Skids (G1)--[[User:Arazyr|Arazyr]] ([[User talk:Arazyr|talk]]) 19:49, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita One, Sideways, Sky-Byte--[[User:Autobot62695|Autobot62695]] ([[User talk:Autobot62695|talk]]) 19:40, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blitzwing, Wheelie, Wreck-Gar--[[User:Glowingsupernova|Glowingsupernova]] ([[User talk:Glowingsupernova|talk]]) 22:19, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Doublecross, Swindler, Vector Prime --[[User:MaximalBroadjaw|MaximalBroadjaw]] ([[User talk:MaximalBroadjaw|talk]]) 22:21, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Cy-Kill, Ratbat, Thundercracker--[[User:RAKninja|RAKninja]] ([[User talk:RAKninja|talk]]) 00:37, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Brainstorm, Rewind, Swerve -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 02:36, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Alpha Trion, Overlord, Double Punch -- [[User:S-NFS|S-NFS]] ([[User talk:S-NFS|talk]]) 0:14, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
*Deszaras, Nautica, Overlord -- [[User:OvermanXAN|OvermanXAN]] ([[User talk:OvermanXAN|talk]]) 15:29, 4 March 2016 (PST)
*Countdown, Flame (Motorvator), Stalker -- [[User:Stealthyboy|Stealthyboy]] ([[User talk:Stealthyboy|talk]]) 18:54, 4 March 2016 (GMT)
*Drift (IDW), Rung (IDW), Overlord (IDW) --[[User:EpsilonMagnus|EpsilonMagnus]] ([[User talk:EpsilonMagnus|talk]]) 01:07, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Ammo, Buzzsaw, Ravage (SG) -- [[User:Ravagekitteh|Ravagekitteh]] ([[User talk:Ravagekitteh|talk]]) 03:42, 5 March 2016 (EST)
* Hubcap, Rapido, Strongarm (RID) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 17:15, 5 March 2016 (EST)
* Alpha Trion, Rung, Spinister --[[User:AmazingMrCat|AmazingMrCat]] ([[User talk:AmazingMrCat|talk]]) 17:24, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackcat, Eject, Turbo Master --[[User:Nom|Nom]] ([[User talk:Nom|talk]]) 4:27, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
*Elita One, Laserbeak, Whirl (G1) -- [[User:Wheelpath|Wheelpath]] ([[User talk:Wheelpath|talk]]) 23:23, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Ginrai, Lugnut, Sixshot -[[User:Ookalf|Ookalf]] ([[User talk:Ookalf|talk]]) 00:03, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Ironfist, Nightbeat, Swerve -[[User:jknight74|jknight74]] ([[User talk:jknight74|talk]]) 22:43, 5 March 2016 (PST)
*Beachcomber, Elita One, Ravage --[[User:Cr85747|Cr85747]] ([[User talk:Cr85747|talk]]) 05:37, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Drift, Elita One, Whirl --[[User:Koshkina|Koshkina]] ([[User talk:Koshkina|talk]]) 03:35, 6 March 2016 (EET)
*Pharma, Smokescreen, Strongarm (Aligned) --[[User:HardyGal|HardyGal]] ([[User talk:HardyGal|talk]]) 19:45, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Crosshairs, Devcon, Thunderwing [[User:Energizer|Energizer]] ([[User talk:Energizer|talk]]) 20:35, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita One, Nova Prime, Cy-Kill --[[User:PaulAgnew|PaulAgnew]] ([[User talk:PaulAgnew|talk]]) 23:05, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Chromia, Overkill, Sky-Byte [[User:Acidforblood|Acidforblood]] ([[User talk:Acidforblood|talk]]) 16:32, 7 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita One,Laserbeak,Misfire [[User:clownface|clownface]] ([[User talk:clownface|talk]]) 22:04,8 march 2016
*Demolishor (Armada), Noble (BM), Sideways (Armada) [[User:Cydra|Cydra]] ([[User talk:Cydra|talk]]) 10:14, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade, Monstructor, Scrounge - [[User:RolonBolon|RolonBolon]] ([[User talk:RolonBolon|talk]]) 14:08, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackout (Movie), Devcon (G1), Nautica - [[User:CyRaptor|CyRaptor]] ([[User talk:CyRaptor|talk]]) 14:17, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Buzzsaw, Thundercracker, Thunderwing - [[User:Kyojikasshu|Kyojikasshu]] ([[User talk:Kyojikasshu|talk]]) 16:36, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Galaxy Shuttle, Ginrai, Kakuryu --[[User:Nacelle|Nacelle]] ([[User talk:Nacelle|talk]]) 17:55, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Blitzwing, Chromia, Elita One --[[User:Dorca|Dorca]] 18:14, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Scalp, Swerve (MTMTE), Toaster [[User:Crazyworks|Crazyworks]] ([[User talk:Crazyworks|talk]]) 18:53, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Rung, Swerve, Whirl --[[User:FirebrandPhlox|FirebrandPhlox]] ([[User talk: FirebrandPhlox|talk]]) 16:24, 9 March 2016 (UTC+9:00)
*Crumplezone (Cybertron), Scorponok (BW), Thunderblast--[[User:Strangefour|Strangefour]] ([[User talk:Strangefour|talk]]) 04:02, 9 March 2016 (EST)






[[Category: TFWiki.net]]

MediaWiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Underrated

2016-03-08T19:17:22Z

CyRaptor: /* Poll entries */

This is the page for the '''TFWiki.net Transformers Hall of Fame Underrated Character Auditions''' entries. The rules are as follows:

#You must pick your top '''three''' UNDERRATED ''Transformers'' characters, from any era. They must actually '''be''' Transformers; sorry, but no humans, non-Transformer aliens, non-Transformer robots, or anything else of the sort are being considered for the Hall of Fame. Any votes for such entities will '''not''' be tabulated. It is the sole discretion of the contest organizers to decide what does and does not count.
##"Favorite Transformers Character" (fictional robot character) votes '''[[Transformers Wiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Character|go here!]]'''
##Do not vote for the same characters in both categories.
#Take your top three list and '''put it in alphabetical order'''. Order of preference does not matter. Feel free to denote the character's franchise of origin, although these distinctions may or may not figure into the final results.
#You '''cannot''' pick a specific version of '''Arcee, Bumblebee, Dinobot, Grimlock, Ironhide, Jazz, Megatron, ''Beast Wars'' Megatron, Optimus Prime, Predaking (combiner), Prowl, Ratchet, Rodimus, Shockwave, Soundwave, Starscream, Ultra Magnus, Waspinator, or Wheeljack.''' They've already been inducted!
#However, '''you CAN vote''' for [[Optimus Primal]]'''! Hasbro considers him separate!
#Only one entry per user.

Please put your characters of choice and user name below in the following manner:

*Emirate Xaaron, Strika, Thunderblast--<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>

Poll entry period ends at 3pm on '''[[March 9]]th, 2016'''. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] ([[User talk:Monzo|talk]]) 13:01, 2 March 2016 (EST)

==Poll entries==







*Botanica, [[Fasttrack (Scorponok)|Fasttrack]], [[Slammer]] --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] ([[User talk:FortMax|talk]]) 13:23, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Broadside, Elita One --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 13:36, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade-Bayverse,Hound, Mirage -regdog
*Override (Cybertron), Scrounge, Under-3 -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 13:48, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cy-Kill, Nickel, Spacewarp. --[[User:Giggidy|Giggidy]] ([[User talk:Giggidy|talk]]) 13:50, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Hot Spot (G1), Scrapper (G1), Skids (G1) - [[User:Ironhold|Ironhold]] ([[User talk:Ironhold|talk]]) 14:05, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Brainstorm, Rampage (BW), Sixshot --[[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 14:07, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita One, Nautica, Sideways - [[User:Sky Shadow|Sky Shadow]] ([[User talk:Sky Shadow|talk]]) 14:13, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cryotek, Shokaract, Under-3 --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 14:23, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Computron, Steeljaw (RID), Thunderhoof -- [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 14:34, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Heinlad, Nightbeat, Skids -- [[User:Danja|Danja]] ([[User talk:Danja|talk]]) 14:38, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Dion, Shokaract, Star Dust --[[User:Aitherion|Aitherion]] ([[User talk:Aitherion|talk]]) 14:42, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Scrounge, Spacewarp, Under-3 [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 15:04, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Heinlad, [[Nightstrike]], Tigatron --[[User:Munkky|Munkky]] ([[User talk:Munkky|talk]]) 15:08, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade (Tyran), [[Devcon (G1) |Devcon]], Scourge --[[User:Stranded With Autobots|Stranded With Autobots]] ([[User talk:Stranded With Autobots|talk]]) 15:16, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Scrounge, Signal Lancer--[[User:NanoxVox|My Sarcasm Is Undeniable]] ([[User talk:NanoxVox|talk]]) 15:34, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Hoist, Tow-Line (RID), Whirl--[[User:Phantom Dusclops'92|Phantom Dusclops'92]] ([[User talk:Phantom Dusclops'92|talk]]) 15:46, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blades, Brushguard, Hot Shot --[[User:Wasp-shot23|Wasp-shot23]] ([[User talk:Wasp-shot23|talk]]) 15:50, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lugnut, Misfire, Sideways --[[User:Misfire78|Misfire78]] ([[User talk:Misfire78|talk]]) 16:12, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita-One, Swerve, Trailbreaker --[[User:Wtrz|Wtrz]] ([[User talk:Wtrz|talk]]) 16:26, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lord Imperious Delirious, Sari Sumdac, Signal Lancer [[User:Awa64|Awa64]] ([[User talk:Awa64|talk]]) 16:27, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Scrounge, Skids, Transquito [[User:Carprillo|Carprillo]] ([[User talk:Carprillo|talk]]) 16:37, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blitzwing, Sari Sumdac, Wreck-Gar --[[User:TeionneAi|TeionneAi]] ([[User talk:TeionneAi|talk]]) 17:12, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Crosswise, Override, Signal Lancer--[[User:Stardust262|Stardust262]] ([[User talk:Stardust262|talk]]) 18:10, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*High Wire, Longrack, Signal Lancer--[[User:SoundJack426|SoundJack426]] ([[User talk:SoundJack426|talk]]) 18:31, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Misfire, Scrounge, Signal Lancer ----[[User:Projectus|Projectus]] ([[User talk:Projectus|talk]]) 18:40, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Nautica, Rung, Tarn - [[User:Queso|¡Usa El Queso!]] [[User talk:Queso|Complain here]] 21:00, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Air Hammer, Evac (Cybertron), Spacewarp, [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 21:36, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Nautica, Override (Cybertron) [[User:LordTacos|LordTacos]] ([[User talk:LordTacos|talk]]) 21:58, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Ginrai, Thunderwing (G1), Vector Prime --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:17, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Leobreaker, Override (Cybertron), Signal Lancer [[User:NovaSaber|NovaSaber]] ([[User talk:NovaSaber|talk]]) 22:55, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Broadside, Signal Lancer, Tow-Line (RID) --[[User:Flicky1991|flicky]][[User talk:Flicky1991|1991]] 01:28, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Nightbeat, Trailbreaker, Vector Prime --[[User:AkibaSilver|AkibaSilver]] ([[User talk:AkibaSilver|talk]])) 02:22 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade, Depth Charge, Roadbuster --[[User:BattleBlade|BattleBlade]] ([[User talk:BattleBlade|talk]]) 02:52, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Flywheels, Guzzle, Trailbreaker --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] ([[User talk:Emvee|talk]]) 06:26, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Hound, Scrounge, Seaspray --[[User:Bobpiecheese|Bobpiecheese]] ([[User talk:Bobpiecheese|talk]]) 08:04, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Alpha Trion, Tigatron, Vector Prime -- [[User:DalekSupreme13|DalekSupreme13]] ([[User talk:DalekSupreme13|talk]]) 09:59, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Nautica, Rampage (Beast Wars), Stockade (Movie/Titan Magazines) -- [[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]). 15:17, 3 March 2016 (GMT)
*Doubledealer, Quickswitch, Scrounge -- [[User:HunterCham|HunterCham]] ([[User talk:HunterCham|talk]]) 12:53, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Impactor, Nautica, Rung - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] ([[User talk:Cattleprod|talk]]) 13:24, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Botanica, Spacewarp, Transmutate [[User:RevTibe|RevTibe]] ([[User talk:RevTibe|talk]]) 13:50, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Ironfist, Rung, Sari Sumdac -- [[User:JediFlaherty|JediFlaherty]] 14:32, 3 March 2016 (CST)
*Drift, Rung, Swerve -- [[User:Lozalot|Lozalot]] ([[User talk:Lozalot|talk]]) 22:10, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Scourge (RID), Shokaract, Under-3 --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 17:20, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Nickel, Scrounge (G1), Skids (G1)--[[User:Arazyr|Arazyr]] ([[User talk:Arazyr|talk]]) 19:49, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita One, Sideways, Sky-Byte--[[User:Autobot62695|Autobot62695]] ([[User talk:Autobot62695|talk]]) 19:40, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blitzwing, Wheelie, Wreck-Gar--[[User:Glowingsupernova|Glowingsupernova]] ([[User talk:Glowingsupernova|talk]]) 22:19, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Doublecross, Swindler, Vector Prime --[[User:MaximalBroadjaw|MaximalBroadjaw]] ([[User talk:MaximalBroadjaw|talk]]) 22:21, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Cy-Kill, Ratbat, Thundercracker--[[User:RAKninja|RAKninja]] ([[User talk:RAKninja|talk]]) 00:37, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Brainstorm, Rewind, Swerve -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 02:36, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Alpha Trion, Overlord, Double Punch -- [[User:S-NFS|S-NFS]] ([[User talk:S-NFS|talk]]) 0:14, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
*Deszaras, Nautica, Overlord -- [[User:OvermanXAN|OvermanXAN]] ([[User talk:OvermanXAN|talk]]) 15:29, 4 March 2016 (PST)
*Countdown, Flame (Motorvator), Stalker -- [[User:Stealthyboy|Stealthyboy]] ([[User talk:Stealthyboy|talk]]) 18:54, 4 March 2016 (GMT)
*Drift (IDW), Rung (IDW), Overlord (IDW) --[[User:EpsilonMagnus|EpsilonMagnus]] ([[User talk:EpsilonMagnus|talk]]) 01:07, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Ammo, Buzzsaw, Ravage (SG) -- [[User:Ravagekitteh|Ravagekitteh]] ([[User talk:Ravagekitteh|talk]]) 03:42, 5 March 2016 (EST)
* Hubcap, Rapido, Strongarm (RID) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 17:15, 5 March 2016 (EST)
* Alpha Trion, Rung, Spinister --[[User:AmazingMrCat|AmazingMrCat]] ([[User talk:AmazingMrCat|talk]]) 17:24, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackcat, Eject, Turbo Master --[[User:Nom|Nom]] ([[User talk:Nom|talk]]) 4:27, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
*Elita One, Laserbeak, Whirl (G1) -- [[User:Wheelpath|Wheelpath]] ([[User talk:Wheelpath|talk]]) 23:23, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Ginrai, Lugnut, Sixshot -[[User:Ookalf|Ookalf]] ([[User talk:Ookalf|talk]]) 00:03, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Ironfist, Nightbeat, Swerve -[[User:jknight74|jknight74]] ([[User talk:jknight74|talk]]) 22:43, 5 March 2016 (PST)
*Beachcomber, Elita One, Ravage --[[User:Cr85747|Cr85747]] ([[User talk:Cr85747|talk]]) 05:37, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Drift, Elita One, Whirl --[[User:Koshkina|Koshkina]] ([[User talk:Koshkina|talk]]) 03:35, 6 March 2016 (EET)
*Pharma, Smokescreen, Strongarm (Aligned) --[[User:HardyGal|HardyGal]] ([[User talk:HardyGal|talk]]) 19:45, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Crosshairs, Devcon, Thunderwing [[User:Energizer|Energizer]] ([[User talk:Energizer|talk]]) 20:35, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita One, Nova Prime, Cy-Kill --[[User:PaulAgnew|PaulAgnew]] ([[User talk:PaulAgnew|talk]]) 23:05, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Chromia, Overkill, Sky-Byte [[User:Acidforblood|Acidforblood]] ([[User talk:Acidforblood|talk]]) 16:32, 7 March 2016 (EST)
*Elita One,Laserbeak,Misfire [[User:clownface|clownface]] ([[User talk:clownface|talk]]) 22:04,8 march 2016
*Demolishor (Armada), Noble (BM), Sideways (Armada) [[User:Cydra|Cydra]] ([[User talk:Cydra|talk]]) 10:14, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade, Monstructor, Scrounge - [[User:RolonBolon|RolonBolon]] ([[User talk:RolonBolon|talk]]) 14:08, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackout (Movie), Devcon (G1), Ironfist (G1) - [[User:CyRaptor|CyRaptor]] ([[User talk:CyRaptor|talk]]) 14:17, 8 March 2016 (EST)





[[Category: TFWiki.net]]

MediaWiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Musician

2016-03-08T19:14:53Z

CyRaptor: /* Poll entries */

This is the page for the '''TFWiki.net Transformers Hall of Fame Best Musical Act Used In Transformers Branded Production''' entries. The rules are as follows:

#Pick your top three musicians whose work has appeared in an official ''Transformers'' production, from any era.
#Take your top three list and '''put it in alphabetical order'''. Order of preference does not matter.
#You '''cannot''' vote for '''Stan Bush''' or '''Vince DiCola'''. They've already been inducted!
#Only one entry per user.

Please put your characters of choice and user name below in the following manner:

*Anne Bryant & Ford Kinder, Linkin Park, Weird Al Yankovic--<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>

Poll entry period ends at 3pm on '''[[March 9]]th, 2016'''. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] ([[User talk:Monzo|talk]]) 12:58, 2 March 2016 (EST)

==Poll entries==

*Anne Bryant/Ford Kinder, JAM Project, Sebastian Evans II --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 13:37, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lion, NRG, "Weird" Al Yankovic - [[User:Ironhold|Ironhold]] ([[User talk:Ironhold|talk]]) 14:15, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant and Ford Kinder, Robert Buckley, Steve Jablonsky --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 14:26, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Johnny Douglas & Robert J. Walsh, NRG, Weird Al -- [[User:Danja|Danja]] ([[User talk:Danja|talk]]) 14:37, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*JAM Project, Spectre General, Weird Al --[[User:Aitherion|Aitherion]] ([[User talk:Aitherion|talk]]) 14:49, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Leftfield, Linkin Park, Weird Al --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] ([[User talk:Ascendron|talk]]) 14:51, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant and Ford Kinder, Steve Jablonsky, Weird Al [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 15:03, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Jam Project, Steve Jablonski, Weird Al Yankovic--[[User:NanoxVox|My Sarcasm Is Undeniable]] ([[User talk:NanoxVox|talk]]) 15:42, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant and Ford Kinder, Steve Jablonsky, "Weird Al" Yankovic -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 15:48, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*JAM Project, Satoko Shimonari, "Weird Al" Yankovic --[[User:Phantom Dusclops'92|Phantom Dusclops'92]] ([[User talk:Phantom Dusclops'92|talk]]) 15:48, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*JAM Project, Linkin Park, Steve Jablonsky --[[User:Misfire 78|Misfire 78]] ([[User talk:Misfire 78|talk]]) 16:20, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lion, Steve Jablonsky, "Weird Al" Yankovic --[[User:Wtrz|Wtrz]] ([[User talk:Wtrz|talk]]) 16:27, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*"Weird Al" Yankovic, no other vote, no other vote [[User:Awa64|Awa64]] ([[User talk:Awa64|talk]]) 16:30, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant & Ford Kinder, NRG, "Weird" Al Yankovic -- [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 16:51, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*JAM Project, "Weird Al" Yankovic, no other vote [[User:TeionneAi|TeionneAi]] ([[User talk:TeionneAi|talk]]) 17:01, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Garry Chalk ("There He Is (My Little Guy)") --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 17:54, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lion, Steve Jablonsky, "Weird Al" Yankovic --[[User:SoundJack426|SoundJack426]] ([[User talk:SoundJack426|talk]]) 18:32, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant/Ford Kinder, Megumi Ohashi, Steve Jablonsky - [[User:Queso|¡Usa El Queso!]] [[User talk:Queso|Complain here]] 20:57, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant, Ford Kinder, "Weird Al" Yankovic [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] ([[User talk:Alientraveller|talk]]) 21:24, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant/Ford Kinder, Linkin Park, Steve Jablonsky [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 21:37, 2 March 2016 (EST)
* Linkin Park, Starr Parodi, "Weird Al" Yankovic [[User:LordTacos|LordTacos]] ([[User talk:LordTacos|talk]]) 22:05, 2 March 2016 (EST)
* Anne Bryant & Ford Kinder, Robert Buckley, Hironobu Kagayama --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:26, 2 March 2016 (EST)
* Anne Bryant and Ford Kinder, JAM Project, Lion [[User:NovaSaber|NovaSaber]] ([[User talk:NovaSaber|talk]]) 22:59, 2 March 2016 (EST)
* Brian Tyler, Steve Jablonsky, Weird Al --[[User:BattleBlade|BattleBlade]] ([[User talk:BattleBlade|talk]]) 03:03, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Linkin Park, Lion, "Weird Al" Yankovic --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] ([[User talk:Emvee|talk]]) 06:28, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Imagine Dragons, Linkin Park, "Weird Al" Yankovic --[[User:Bobpiecheese|Bobpiecheese]] ([[User talk:Bobpiecheese|talk]]) 08:05, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Hironobu Kageyama, JAM Project, "Weird Al" Yankovic -- [[User:DalekSupreme13|DalekSupreme13]] ([[User talk:DalekSupreme13|talk]]) 10:07, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Robert Buckley, Paul Oakenfield, "Weird Al" Yankovic -- [[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]). 15:15, 3 March 2016 (GMT)
*NRG, Spectre General, "Weird Al" Yankovic -- [[User:HunterCham|HunterCham]] ([[User talk:HunterCham|talk]]) 12:55, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Robert Buckley, Spectre General, Steve Jablonsky - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] ([[User talk:Cattleprod|talk]]) 13:27, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Imagin Dragons, Josh Ramsay (Rescuebots Theme), Linkin Park -- [[User:Lozalot|Lozalot]] ([[User: talk:Lozalot|talk]]) 22:39, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant & Ford Kinder, NRG, Weird Al Yankovic --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 18:24, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*"Weird" Al Yankovic no other vote no ther vote-regdog
*Lion, NRG, "Weird" Al Yankovic--[[User:Arazyr|Arazyr]] ([[User talk:Arazyr|talk]]) 19:44, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Brian Tyler, Imagine Dragons, Steve Jablonsky--[[User:Autobot62695|Autobot62695]] ([[User talk:Autobot62695|talk]]) 19:47, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Lion, NRG, "Weird" Al Yankovic--[[User:MaximalBroadjaw|MaximalBroadjaw]] ([[User talk:MaximalBroadjaw|talk]]) 22:22, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*"Weird" Al Yankovic--[[User:Adam16bit]] ([[User talk:Adam16bit|talk]]) 00:08, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant & Ford Kinder, JAM project, Lion--[[User:RAKninja|RAKninja]] ([[User talk:RAKninja|talk]]) 00:40, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Satoko Shimonari, NRG, "Weird" Al Yankovic -- [[User:S-NFS|S-NFS]] ([[User talk:S-NFS|talk]]) 0:25, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
*JAM Project, Lion, "Weird" Al Yankovic -- [[User:OvermanXAN|OvermanXAN]] ([[User talk:OvermanXAN|talk]]) 15:34, 4 March 2016 (PST)
*Anne Bryant & Ford Kinder, JAM Project, Robert Buckley -- [[User:Stealthyboy|Stealthyboy]] ([[User talk:Stealthyboy|talk]]) 19:09, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*NRG, Okkervil River, Steve Jablonsky --[[User:EpsilonMagnus|EpsilonMagnus]] ([[User talk:EpsilonMagnus|talk]]) 01:02, 5 March 2016 (GMT)
*Anne Bryant & Ford Kinder, Lion, Weird Al -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 20:21, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*JAM Project, Lion, Weird Al --[[User:AmazingMrCat|AmazingMrCat]] ([[User talk:AmazingMrCat|talk]]) 17:26, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*JAM Project, Lion, "Weird" Al Yankovic -- [[User:Wheelpath|Wheelpath]] ([[User talk:Wheelpath|talk]]) 23:24, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant/Ford Kinder, Hironobu Kageyama, JAM Project -[[User:Ookalf|Ookalf]] ([[User talk:Ookalf|talk]]) 00:01, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant & Ford Kinder, Lion, Paul Oakenfold--[[User:Omegatron|Omegatron]] ([[User talk:Omegatron|talk]]) 16:45, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Hironobu Kageyama, Steve Jablonsky, "Weird" Al Yankovic [[User:Energizer|Energizer]] ([[User talk:Energizer|talk]]) 20:37, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Robert J. Walsh, Lion, Steve Jablonsky --[[User:PaulAgnew|PaulAgnew]] ([[User talk:PaulAgnew|talk]]) 23:07, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Black Veil Brides, Linkin Park, Staind -- [[User:StarWars_Jedi|StarWars_Jedi]] 09:49, 7 March (MSK)
*Lion, Steve Jablonsky, "Weird" Al Yankovic [[User:Acidforblood|Acidforblood]] ([[User talk:Acidforblood|talk]]) 16:33, 7 March 2016 (EST)
*Imagine Dragon, Linkin Park, "Weird" Al Yankovic --[[User:Cydra|Cydra]] ([[User talk:Cydra|talk]]) 10:26, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Anne Bryant/Ford Kinder, Robert Buckley, Steve Jablonsky - [[User:RolonBolon|RolonBolon]] ([[User talk:RolonBolon|talk]]) 14:11, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Goo Goo Dolls, Leftfield, "Weird Al" Yankovic - [[User:CyRaptor|CyRaptor]] ([[User talk:CyRaptor|talk]]) 14:14, 8 March 2016 (EST)


[[Category: TFWiki.net]]

MediaWiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Character

2016-03-08T19:13:53Z

CyRaptor: /* Poll entries */

This is the page for the '''TFWiki.net Transformers Hall of Fame Favorite Character Auditions''' entries. The rules are as follows:

#You must pick your top '''three''' ''Transformers'' characters, from any era. They must actually '''be''' Transformers; sorry, but no humans, non-Transformer aliens, non-Transformer robots, or anything else of the sort are being considered for the Hall of Fame. Any votes for such entities will '''not''' be tabulated. It is the sole discretion of the contest organizers to decide what does and does not count.
##"Underrated Transformers Character" (fictional robot character) votes '''[[Transformers Wiki:TFWiki.net 2016 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Underrated|go here!]]'''
##Do not vote for the same characters in both categories.
#Take your top three list and '''put it in alphabetical order'''. Order of preference does not matter. Feel free to denote the character's franchise of origin, although these distinctions may or may not figure into the final results.
#You '''cannot''' pick a specific version of '''Arcee, Bumblebee, Dinobot, Grimlock, Ironhide, Jazz, Megatron, ''Beast Wars'' Megatron, Optimus Prime, Predaking (combiner), Prowl, Ratchet, Rodimus, Shockwave, Soundwave, Starscream, Ultra Magnus, Waspinator, or Wheeljack.''' They've already been inducted!
#However, '''you CAN vote''' for [[Optimus Primal]]'''! Hasbro considers him separate!
#Only one entry per user.

Please put your characters of choice and user name below in the following manner:

*Blackarachnia, Bulkhead, Hot Shot--<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>

Poll entry period ends at 3pm on '''[[March 9]]th, 2016'''. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] ([[User talk:Monzo|talk]]) 13:05, 2 March 2016 (EST)

==Poll entries==


*Bulkhead (Animated and on), Optimus Primal, Ravage --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] ([[User talk:FortMax|talk]]) 13:18, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Lockdown, Sky-Byte --[[User:Riptide|Riptide]] ([[User talk:Riptide|talk]]) 13:35, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Kup, Nightbeat, Scorponok -[[User:Foffy the Sheep|Foffy the Sheep]] ([[User talk:Foffy the Sheep|talk]]) 13:41, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Barricade-Bayverse, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker-regdog
*Fortress Maximus, Metroplex, Scorponok - [[User:Ironhold|Ironhold]] ([[User talk:Ironhold|talk]]) 13:53, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lockdown, Nightbeat, Swindle - [[User:Sky Shadow|Sky Shadow]] ([[User talk:Sky Shadow|talk]]) 14:00, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Tarantulas --[[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 14:02, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Ravage --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] ([[User talk:ItsWalky|talk]]) 14:20, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blaster, Scorponok, Tarantulas --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] ([[User talk:Ascendron|talk]]) 14:25, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Devastator, Optimus Primal --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha|talk]]) 14:27, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Optimus Primal, Rattrap, Springer [[User:Danja|Danja]] ([[User talk:Danja|talk]]) 14:31, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*The Beast, Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal--[[User:Aitherion|Aitherion]] ([[User talk:Aitherion|talk]]) 14:34, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Cheetor, Optimus Primal --[[User:Munkky|Munkky]] ([[User talk:Munkky|talk]]) 15:03, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Lockdown, Swindle [[User:Escargon|Escargon]] ([[User talk:Escargon|talk]]) 15:04, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus (IDW), Galvatron, Lockdown (Animated) --[[User:Stranded With Autobots|Stranded With Autobots]] ([[User talk:Stranded With Autobots|talk]]) 15:14, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Star Saber--[[User:NanoxVox|My Sarcasm Is Undeniable]] ([[User talk:NanoxVox|talk]]) 15:32, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Galvatron, Hot Shot, Thundercracker --[[User:Wasp-shot23|Wasp-shot23]] ([[User talk:Wasp-shot23|talk]]) 15:43, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Mirage, Scourge, Swindle --[[User:Phantom Dusclops'92|Phantom Dusclops'92]] ([[User talk:Phantom Dusclops'92|talk]]) 15:47, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus, Skywarp, Thundercracker --[[User:Misfire 78|Misfire78]] ([[User talk: Misfire 78|talk]] 16:16, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Swindle [[User:Awa64|Awa64]] ([[User talk:Awa64|talk]]) 16:23, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus, Scorponok, Whirl [[User:Carprillo|Carprillo]] ([[User talk:Carprillo|talk]]) 16:34, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Lockdown, Swindle --[[User:TeionneAi|TeionneAi]] ([[User talk:TeionneAi|talk]]) 17:05, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Computron, Omega Supreme, Sky Lynx--[[User:Omegatron|omegatron]] ([[User talk:Omegatron|talk]]) 17:08, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Demolishor, Hot Shot, Sideways--[[User:Stardust262|Stardust262]] ([[User talk:Stardust262|talk]]) 18:06, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Lockdown, Perceptor, Tarantulas--[[User:SoundJack426|SoundJack426]] ([[User talk:SoundJack426|talk]]) 18:30, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blaster, Swindle, Thundercracker - [[User:Magaroja|Magaroja]] ([[User talk:Magaroja|talk]]) 18:49, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Scourge (RID 2001) - [[User:Queso|¡Usa El Queso!]] [[User talk:Queso|Complain here]] 21:02, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Jetfire, Superion, Thundercracker [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 21:35, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*First Aid, Perceptor, Swindle - [[User:Nebay|Nebay]] ([[User talk:Nebay|talk]]) 21:43, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Sky-Byte [[User:LordTacos|LordTacos]] ([[User talk:LordTacos|talk]]) 21:54, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Cheetor (BW), Optimus Primal, Sky-Byte --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] ([[User talk:Sabrblade|talk]]) 22:15, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Swindle [[User:NovaSaber|NovaSaber]] ([[User talk:NovaSaber|talk]]) 22:48, 2 March 2016 (EST)
*Breakdown,Knock Out (TFP),Windblade [[User: Knock Out]]
*Galvatron, Laserbeak, Sky-Byte --[[User:Flicky1991|flicky]][[User talk:Flicky1991|1991]] 01:21, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Jetfire, Optimus Primal, Sideways --[[User:AkibaSilver|AkibaSilver]] ([[User talk:AkibaSilver|talk]]) 02:20, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Devastator, Impactor, Jetfire -[[User:BattleBlade|BattleBlade]] ([[User talk:BattleBlade|talk]]) 02:49, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Blaster, Ravage --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] ([[User talk:Emvee|talk]]) 06:22, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Jetfire, Lockdown, Optimus Primal --[[User:Bobpiecheese|Bobpiecheese]] ([[User talk:Bobpiecheese|talk]]) 08:04, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Wreck-Gar -- [[User:Grum|Grum]] ([[User talk:Grum|talk]]) 08:10, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Tarantulas -- [[User:DalekSupreme13|DalekSupreme13]] ([[User talk:DalekSupreme13|talk]]) 09:54, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Bulkhead (Animated), Sky-Byte, Windblade -- [[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] ([[User talk:Charles RB|talk]]). 15:15, 3 March 2016 (GMT)
*Brainstorm, Sideswipe, Thundercracker -- [[User:Genitus|Genitus]] ([[User talk:Genitus|talk]]) 10:50, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Ironfist, Knock Out (Prime), Straxus -- [[User:HunterCham|HunterCham]] ([[User talk:HunterCham|talk]]) 12:51, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Knock Out (Prime), Optimus Primal, Rampage (BW) [[User:RevTibe|RevTibe]] ([[User talk:RevTibe|talk]]) 13:14, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus, Scorponok, Swindle - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] ([[User talk:Cattleprod|talk]]) 13:23, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Kup, Perceptor -[[User: TFPWrecker]]
*Impactor, Sky-Byte, Windblade - --[[User:Projectus|Projectus]] ([[User talk:Projectus|talk]]) 15:00, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Heatwave (RB), Sky-Byte --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 15:54, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Blades (RB), Heatwave (RB,Tailgate -- [[user:Lozalot|Lozalot]] ([[User talk:Lozalot|talk]]) 21:59, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Galvatron, Sky-Byte, Ravage --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] ([[User talk:Thylacine 2000|talk]]) 17:22, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Airazor(BW), Rewind, Windblade --[[User:Crowork|Crowork]] ([[User talk:Crowork|talk]]) 19:48, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Bulkhead, Cliffjumper, Thundercracker--[[User:Arazyr|Arazyr]] ([[User talk:Arazyr|talk]]) 19:51, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Devastator, Galvatron, Optimus Primal--[[User:Autobot62695|Autobot62695]] ([[User talk:Autobo62695|talk]]) 19:32, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Optimus Primal, Sky-Byte, Swoop --[[User:MaximalBroadjaw|MaximalBroadjaw]] ([[User talk:MaximalBroadjaw|talk]]) 22:22, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Knock Out (Prime), Sunstreaker, Windblade--[[User:Glowingsupernova|Glowingsupernova]] ([[User talk:Glowingsupernova|talk]]) 22:26, 3 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus, Knock Out (prime), Swindle--[[User:RAKninja|RAKninja]] ([[User talk:RAKninja|talk]]) 00:34, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Overlord, Scorponok (G1), Thunderwing -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] ([[User talk:Dark T Zeratul|talk]]) 02:33, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Blackarachnia, Rumble (blue), Silverbolt (BW) -- [[User:JediFlaherty|JediFlaherty]] 10:54, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Delta Magnus, Deszaras, Star Saber -- [[User:S-NFS|S-NFS]] ([[User talk:S-NFS|talk]]) 0:10, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
*Cliffjumper, Knock-Out (Prime), Lugnut [[User:Stealthyboy|Stealthyboy]] ([[User talk:Stealthyboy|talk]]) 18:19, 4 March 2016 (EST)
*Cyclonus (IDW), Knock Out (Prime), Thundercracker (IDW) -- [[User:OvermanXAN|OvermanXAN]] ([[User talk:OvermanXAN|talk]]) 15:22, 4 March 2016 (PST)
*Knock Out (Prime), Rattrap (Beast Wars), Thundercracker (IDW) --[[User:EpsilonMagnus|EpsilonMagnus]] ([[User talk:EpsilonMagnus|talk]]) 01:05, 5 March 2016 (GMT)
*Jetfire, Superion, Thundercracker -- [[User:Knightsword|Knightsword]] ([[User talk:Knightsword|talk]]) 11:17, 5 March 2016 (CST)
*Bulkead, Sky-Byte, Wreck-Gar -- [[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 17:15, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Sideways, Spacewarp, Vector Prime -- [[User:AmazingMrCat|AmazingMrCat]] ([[User talk:AmazingMrCat|talk]]) 17:22, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Chromedome, Sunstreaker, Tarn -- [[User:Wheelpath|Wheelpath]] ([[User talk:Wheelpath|talk]]) 23:18, 5 March 2016 (EST)
*Bulkhead, Fortress Maximus, Heatwave -[[User:Ookalf|Ookalf]] ([[User talk:Ookalf|talk]]) 00:04, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Knock Out, Rattrap, Tarantulas -[[User:jknight74|jknight74]] ([[User talk:jknight74|talk]]) 22:38, 5 March 2016 (PST)
*Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, Wreck-Gar--[[User:Cr85747|Cr85747]] ([[User talk:Cr85747|talk]]) 05:33, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Cheetor, Sideswipe, Windblade --[[User:Koshkina|Koshkina]] ([[User talk:Koshkina|talk]]) 04:00, 6 March 2016 (EET)
*Bluestreak, Hound, Rumble (blue) --[[User:Nom|Nom]] ([[User talk:Nom|talk]]) 08:42, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
*Knock Out (Prime), Sideswipe, Silverbolt (G1 and Aligned) -- [[User:HardyGal|HardyGal]] ([[User talk:HardyGal|talk]]) 19:52, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Devastator, Sideswipe, Thundercracker [[User:Energizer|Energizer]] ([[User talk:Energizer|talk]]) 20:34, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Airazor (BW), Optimus Primal, Thundercracker --[[User:PaulAgnew|PaulAgnew]] ([[User talk:PaulAgnew|talk]]) 23:03, 6 March 2016 (EST)
*Airazor (BW), Blackarachnia, Rhinox [[User:Acidforblood|Acidforblood]] ([[User talk:Acidforblood|talk]]) 16:24, 7 March 2016 (EST)
*Rumble,Swindle,Thundercracker [[User:clownface|clownface]] ([[User talk:clownface|talk]]) 22:04,8 march 2016
*Blackarachnia, Lockdown, Scorponok [[User:Cydra|Cydra]] ([[User talk:Cydra|talk]]) 10:16, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Bulkhead, Demolishor, Optimus Primal - [[User:RolonBolon|RolonBolon]] ([[User talk:RolonBolon|talk]]) 14:04, 8 March 2016 (EST)
*Knock Out (Prime), Rattrap (BW), Nightbeat (G1) - [[User:CyRaptor|CyRaptor]] ([[User talk:CyRaptor|talk]]) 14:13, 8 March 2016 (EST)




[[Category: TFWiki.net]]

The One Where They Go to Earth

2016-03-04T13:25:01Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{Comicstory
|series=mtmte|issueno=43
|prev=The Frail Gaze
|next=The Not Knowing
|image=MTMTE43_subcvr.jpg
|title="The One Where They Go to Earth"
|caption=Red Alert took one look at these guys and ''ran like hell''.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[July 29]], [[2015]]
|coverdate=July 2015
|written by=[[James Roberts]]
|pencils by=[[Alex Milne]]
|inks by=Alex Milne and [[Brian Shearer]]
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[John Barber]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2015)]]
}}
'''A dying Swerve's mind retreats to a holomatter replica of Earth constructed out of sitcom tropes, and his friends must transmit their own avatars down to the planet in order to find him and save his life. Can the ''Lost Light''ers survive... Swearth?'''

==Synopsis==
Today is an even weirder day than usual for the ''[[Lost Light]]'', as the ship has suddenly found itself being chased by the planet [[Earth]]. Attempting to make contact, the only response the ship receives is a catchy song about "[[Swerve's]]", so [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] tries to call the bartender to the bridge, with no success. The reason why is soon made horrifyingly apparent: just as [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] is giving [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] a going-away present for his trip back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] bursts into the medibay with the comatose Swerve in his arms. A quick examination by First Aid and [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] can detect no surface wounds, but Swerve is so weak that exploratory surgery to find the cause of his condition will kill him. Everyone recalls that Swerve was fine just the previous day at his bar, but [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] deduces that the Swerve they all saw there, who disappeared, was actually a [[holomatter]] projection—and morever, so is the ''entire Earth'', all somehow being impossibly generated by Swerve, where his mind has taken refuge. Tailgate, Skids, [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] project their own avatars down to "[[Swearth]]" (as [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] dubs it) to set up a base of operations and begin searching for Swerve so he can tell them where he is injured, and his life can be saved.

The team finds that the facsimile Earth is constructed out of tropes from Earth sitcoms, a product of Swerve's recent consumption of the entirety of Earth's arts and literature. Setting up base in a [[New York City|New York]] apartment, Rung, Bluestreak, and Skids go out searching, but get waylaid dealing with the escapades of their wacky neighbours. Tailgate, meanwhile, busies himself reading the only piece of literature on the planet, ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'', a comic book version of the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s adventures. Just as he reaches a part of the story unfamiliar to the others—the fact that Swerve opened [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]'s [[Time case|briefcase]] in [[Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|issue #21]]—neighbours Ted the priest, Sheldon the dermatologist, and Jerry the stand-up comedian pay a visit to meet Cyclonus and Tailgate. They soon start bickering about past episodes, and Skids is grateful of the chance to shut them up when Rodimus calls in to check up. He, Megatron, Nightbeat, and [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] have also projected their avatars into the city to help with the search, and after getting up to speed with the farcical ways the planet functions—including its own laugh track—they begin searching nearby bars for any leads to Swerve's location.

Ted, Sheldon, and Jerry, it turns out, have locked themselves out of their apartment, and as Bluestreak works on opening their door for them, Skids confides to Rung that he did not even know what room Swerve lived in onboard the ship; he had only found him by remembering which hab-suite Swerve's old roommate [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] had lived in. Swerve had, he reveals, actually been locked in his room for ''months'', his body slowly degrading, interacting with others only through avatars, and nobody ever came to visit him. Hoping for a clue, Tailgate jumps to the newest issue of ''More than Meets the Eye'', where the recap page narrated by Swerve explains what happened: exposure to the energies of Brainstorm's time-machine briefcase have created a time-loop in Swerve's holomatter systems, giving him the notionally impossible ability to project something as complex as the planet, which has been shaped into a world of fiction-made-real due to the metafictional awareness Swerve has been increasingly suffering from since he was hit with Brainstorm's [[metafictional bomb|meta-bomb]]. Realizing that the comic is a case of Swerve's subconscious trying to reach out to them, Rung looks for more such subtle clues... and finds one staring him right in the face, as Ted, Sheldon, and Jerry's apartment turns out to have the same number as Swerve's hab-suite. Rung speaks Swerve's name aloud, and the three men ''all'' turn around, then suddenly blur together, condensing into Swerve's familiar—if very surprised-looking—avatar.

Rodimus's team is in a nearby bar, talking about Earth and humans; Megatron is struggling to get to grips with the human condition, never having used an avatar before, and is struck by the fragility of the body when he cuts his hand on a broken glass after Nautica tries to tickle him. Rodimus gets an update from Cyclonus's team, but it's not good news: Swerve is unable to tell them ''where'' his real body is injured, so that the life-saving surgery can be performed. Rung theorizes that the three avatars were a program glitch that split the different facets of his personality into separate individuals while Tailgate realizes that Swerve is suppressing his pain because he's found his "happy place" and doesn't want to leave. Swerve glumly explains that he has been thinking a lot about sitcoms lately, and how the "sitcom" of his life has changed since the beginning of "season 2", with him no longer playing the role of a "main character", causing him to retreat into isolation. Cyclonus saves the day by revealing that the ''entire crew'' of the ''Lost Light'' is actually helping to search "Swearth" for him—that while Swerve may not feel like a "main character", he is important to ''everyone''. Elated with this news, Swerve finds that his shoulder is suddenly beginning to bleed in the shape of an Autobot symbol, denoting the location of his real-life wound.

A little later, "Swearth" fades away after everyone has returned to the ''Lost Light'' and Swerve's injury—an infection in his [[energon]] stream from a years-old shoulder wound—is treated. Velocity reports on the successful surgery to First Aid over a radio, as the medical officer has already departed for Cybertron aboard [[O Fortuna|a shuttle]]. As they talk, First Aid looks through his present, a datapad of photos and other media put together by [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]], but stops when he finds a picture of Swerve in an older body design, standing with [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]]. Suddenly putting two and two together, First Aid realizes that Swerve's infection was caused by a foreign object that still remains inside his body, which he has Velocity remove with all due haste: a message bullet from [[Agent 113]], the Autobot mole within the [[Decepticon Justice Division]], fired years ago into the Autobot symbol that ''used'' to be on Swerve's shoulder!

==Featured characters==
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*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] (1)
*[[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] (3)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (4)
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]] (5)
*[[Rung (G1)|Rung]] (6)
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (7)
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (8)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (9)
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*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] (10)
*[[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] (11)
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] (12)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (13)
*[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] (14)
*[[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] (18)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (19)
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*[[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] (20)
*[[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] (21)
*[[Groove (G1)|Groove]] (22)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (23)
*[[Ambulon (G1)|Ambulon]] (photograph, 24)
*[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] (photograph, 25)
*[[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] (photograph, 27)
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*[[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] (2)
*Ted (15)
*Sheldon (16)
*Jerry (17)
*[[Diagnostic Drone]] (photograph, 26)
}}

==Quotes==
"I suppose there's always the '''Wiki'''. Or Tumblr..." 
"I told you to stay off Tumblr." 
"You're right: spoilers."
:—'''Tailgate''' and '''Cyclonus''' grapple with resources to understand the continuity of ''MTMTE''

"TALK 2 ME. WHAT R U DOING? TIME IS RUNNING OUT. THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE OBV. HASHTAG PISSED." 
"Even '''I''' know you don't '''write''' hashtag."
:'''Rodimus''' sends a text, but '''Tailgate''' critiques his form

"'sup?" 
"We're being chased by a planet." 
"Cool." 
... 
"Sorry, what?"
:—'''Rodimus''' and '''Megatron'''

"Makin' your way on a quest today takes everythin' you got 
Takin' a break from all that '''war stuff''' sure has helped a lot 
Maybe one day we'll find the knights 
But 'til then you wanna go 
Down to '''D Deck''' and to '''Swerve's''' 
You'll have more fun than you deserve 
You wanna go where Megs won't go 
Where the drinks all taste the same 
You wanna go where Ten can't even say your name."
:—The Swearth theme song

'''Brainstorm:''' "Please bear in mind that "Earth" is 400 miles away. Projecting over that sort of distance is likely to result in a rather '''disagreeable''' sensory experience." 
'''Rung:''' "Might this type of sensory experience be better described as 'pain'?" 
'''Brainstorm:''' "Pain, agony, torment, take your pick. Plus there's a slight risk of ''(cough cough)''" 
'''Skids:''' "A slight risk of...?" 
'''Brainstorm:''' "Excuse me?" 
'''Skids:''' "Just then, you said there was a slight risk of..." 
'''Brainstorm:''' "Of feedback-induced spark burnout." 
'''Skids:''' "'''Death''', in other words. A slight risk of death."

"I heard people laughing. Lots of people. Are you having a party?" 
"Oh wait—that'll be the '''canned laughter'''." 
"The what?" 
"'Swearth' isn't like normal planets. It's... how can I put this? It's got its own '''laughter''' track." 
"There it is again! I didn't even say anything funny!" 
"You probably made a face. '''Reactions''' get big laughs too. And don't be freaked out if you walk into a room and there's a round of applause and cheering." 
"Eh. That's what happens '''normally.'''"
:—'''Rodimus''' and '''Bluestreak'''

"They're all out there, spread out across the city, across the world, desperate to find you." 
"Really?" 
"Yes. They need to know where you keep the keys to the bar." 
... 
"Tetrahexian humor. Very dry."
:—'''Cyclonus''' and '''Swerve'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Rung is using the holomatter avatar design from the cover of [[Cybertronian Homesick Blues|issue #13]], rather than the less-glamorous version from inside the issue itself. The earlier design appears in the "title sequence". On the other hand, Ultra Magnus uses the avatar based on [[Verity Carlo]]'s [[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]-era design he used in issue #13 and [[Twenty Plus One|issue #31]], instead of the ''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' Verity design used on the issue #13 cover. Swerve's avatar is now wearing a white shirt instead of a red one, but that's for plot purposes so the bloodstain can show up properly on it.
*And speaking of Rung, poor ol' fella... even the title sequence spells his name "Rong"! This particular mis-spelling is a callback to [[Little Victories|issue #22]] and Rung's old I.D. card, where we first learned his full name...which is spelled wrong.
*Tailgate's avatar is a ''bigger'' baby than last time (bordering on toddler), reflecting that he's aged up a few years.
*Rodimus and Bluestreak discuss that the former sounds different "in human mode", indicating that Transformers will alter their voices to fit their avatars. This hadn't been stated either way before, raising questions; for example, if IDW Bumblebee [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity#Notes|sounded like Lindsey Lohan]] or if [[Dan Gilvezan]]'s voice came out of her holo-mouth.
*First Aid is departing to go and be in "[[Combiner Wars]]" crossover over in ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|The Transformers]]'' and ''[[The Transformers: Windblade|Windblade]]'', which took place a couple of months before this issue was published. Though not mentioned in dialogue, we also see the sick [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] go with him, and [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] is sitting on the shuttle too; the other [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]]-to-be are off-panel.
*Tailgate references the departures of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (both in [[The Sound of Breaking Glass|issue #21]]), [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] ([[The Gloaming|issue #16]]), [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] ([[Our Steps Will Always Rhyme|issue #41]]), and even [[Bob (IDW)|Bob]], who left in the big reshuffle after "[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]".
*Swerve opening Brainstorm's briefcase never happened on panel, but Brainstorm did express concern that someone had opened the case after it was blasted off his wrist in issue #21. Swerve had previously vowed to see what was inside the case in issue #16.
*Ted, Sheldon, and Jerry (see "Real-life references", below) each reflect a fact of Swerve's personality: Ted the priest is an embodiment of his intermittently-mentioned religiosity (most prominently featured in [[Twenty Plus One|issue #31]]), Sheldon the dermatologist refers to his function as a metallurgist, the equivalent of "skin" for a Transformer (Tailgate knew the job by the title "skin specialist" all the way back in [[Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|issue #2]]), and Jerry the stand-up comedian is his joking slacker side. Jerry really lays into Ted and Sheldon, accusing the former's faith of not being strong enough and the latter of not doing anything important with his skills, encapsulating Swerve's self-worth issues.
*Swerve activated Brainstorm's meta-bomb back in [[Under Cold Blue Stars|issue #15]].
*Nightbeat mentions having been to Earth's orbit, back in ''[[The Transformers: Escalation|Escalation]]''. However, see "Errors", below.
*Swerve has been used for the "Previously" recaps since [[World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|issue #29]]. We now learn these pages are not just a joke but that Swerve has actually been delivering these in the world of the comic, a side effect of the meta-bomb. This would also explain the two pages of recap last issue: not just reminding us about them, but subtly telling us Swerve is getting worse.
*Tailgate realizes that Swerve has used "Rungian Re-Experience Therapy" (aka "finding your happy place"), first mentioned in a discussion beteen the pair in [[Before & After|issue #12]].
*First Aid learned about Agent 113 and his method of delivering messages in "[[Bullets]]".
*Okay, step back a second. ALL THE WAY BACK in frigging "[[Chaos (IDW)|Chaos]]", the ''first time'' Roberts wrote Swerve in a comic scene (he'd written him earlier in the prose-only "Bullets"), Swerve's left shoulder had a piece of metal riveted over it. Nothing was made of it at the time, but later references were made to him having an "old injury" in [[The Sound of Breaking Glass|issue #21]] and [[World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|issue #29]]—the issues, you'll note, in which we now know he opened Brainstorm's briefcase, and in which the first "Swerve recap page" first appeared, respectively. We now know that metal patch was his own quick-and-dirty fix job for this old wound. In addition to ''that'', back in [[Cybertronian Homesick Blues|issue #13]], Swerve mentioned (in response to Ultra Magnus asking where his badge was) that his insignia "got damaged". And on top of ''all that'', we were made aware that Swerve had encountered the D.J.D. in [[Life After the Big Bang|issue #4]] when [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] mentioned it to [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] offhandedly. Phew. ''Pheeeeeeeeeeeew.''
*As a sidebar, Swerve's design throughout ''More than Meets the Eye'' has precluded him from having a symbol on his shoulder, since his shoulders are wheels. Milne makes sure to draw his old body with a distinct design of its own in the picture we see of it this issue; when [[Guido Guidi]] drew a younger Swerve in flashback in issue #13, there was no visible difference, but the panels in the scene had clearly been laid out to subtly obscure Swerve's shoulders, so the symbol's presence (and hence, present-day absence) wouldn't be obvious at the time.

===Pop-culture references===
''(cracks knuckles)''
*The title of this issue uses the same naming scheme as the TV show ''{{w|Friends}}'', where nearly every episode was "The One..." in which something happened. The apartment Cyclonus's team use as a home base is also the main ''Friends'' set, recreated with some stunning accuracy by Milne. While the street name and number ("495 Grove Street") is taken from the show, the apartment ''number'' is not.
*Swerve's apartment number and room number on the ship, 43, is the same as the number of this issue.
*The apartment used by Cyclonus's team is numbered 42, necessary for it to be opposite Swerve's apartment. It's also the number used for {{W|Phrases from The Hitchhiker%27s Guide to the Galaxy#Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life.2C the Universe.2C and Everything .2842.29|The Answer}} in ''{{w|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}''.
*One of the neighbors' outrageous activities sees settling an argument with a game of paintball, a reference to ''[[Community]]'', in which huge paintball games that got out of control were a running gag. Jerry wears a shirt emblazoned with the logo of the college from the series, Greendale.
*When last we saw it, Skids's avatar resembled the {{w|Eleventh Doctor|Eleventh incarnation}} of the [[Doctor]] from ''{{w|Doctor Who}}''. In this issue, it's based on the {{w|Ninth Doctor|Ninth}}.
*The font used on the "title sequence" is based on that used from the opening sequence of ''{{w|Cheers}}'', while the "theme song" transmission is based on the ''Cheers'' theme tune. ''Cheers'' was about a bar, so it's especially fitting.
*While listing off his knowledge of Earth, Bluestreak mentions the movie ''{{w|Inception}}'', the internet meme {{w|Double Rainbow (viral video)|Double Rainbow}}, {{w|Justin Bieber|beliebers}}, and {{w|mansplaining}}.
*Confused over the expression "Humanity 101" (the number being used in the manner of a university course, meaning "introductory") in reference to the "bluffer's guide" that Rewind puts together for them, Rung believes it refers to "Room 101" from the novel ''{{w|Nineteen Eighty-Four}}'', while Cyclonus thinks it's about the British TV series ''{{w|Room 101 (TV series)|Room 101}}'', which took its name from the novel. Bluestreak insists it comes from ''{{w|101 Dalmatians}}'' (which he calls "101 Damnations", perhaps getting it confused with the {{w|101 Damnations (album)|album}} by {{w|Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine}}); Tailgate isn't quite sure what a dog is.
*Each of Swerve's three personalities is a reference to a famous sitcom character in name and occupation, though not physical appearance. Ted the priest is {{w|Father Ted Crilly}} from ''{{w|Father Ted}}''; Sheldon the scientist (a bit of a push, but the comic lampshades it, as Sheldon corrects Bluestreak's claim that he is a scientist with a "Kind of.") is {{w|Sheldon Cooper}} from ''{{w|The Big Bang Theory}}''; and Jerry the stand-up comedian is {{w|Jerry Seinfeld (character)|Jerry Seinfeld}} from ''{{w|Seinfeld}}''.
*The clients that Sheldon and Ted refer to while arguing with Jerry are also references to sitcom characters; Sheldon mentions a "Mrs. Simpson", alluding to ''{{w|The Simpsons}}'' while Ted brings up "The Bluths", the family from ''{{w|Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development}}''.
*Rodimus's avatar is ''ungodly'' 1980s, a kind of mash-up of John Bender from ''{{w|The Breakfast Club}}'' (played by [[Judd Nelson]], who voiced Rodimus in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'') and {{w|Marty McFly}} from the ''{{w|Back to the Future (franchise)|Back to the Future series}}'' (specifically, Marty's orange-red down vest).
*Rather than the Benedict Cumberbatch you may have expected, Nightbeat's avatar is based on Idris Elba's eponymous detective in ''{{w|Luther (TV series)|Luther}}''.
*The bar Rodimus's team visits is named "The Jumping Shark", after the phenomenon of {{w|jumping the shark}}, the point at which a piece of entertainment begins a decline in quality, appropriately derived from TV show ''{{w|Happy Days}}''. Perhaps something of a meta-commentary joke on the outlandish nature of this issue?
*The table (well, two tables pushed together) that Ultra Magnus, Chromedome, and Rewind's avatars are shown standing around when Cyclonus tells Swerve that everyone is looking for him is the table used by the study group from ''Community''. Magnus and Rewind are pretty deliberate choices for this scene, being a straight-laced rule-follower like {{w|Annie Edison}}, and a media-buff film-maker like {{w|Abed Nadir}}, respectively.

===Other real-life references===
*On page 2, the mugs hanging on the shelves are decorated with a caricature of colorist [[Josh Perez]]!
*Just above the mugs are boxes of "Jii Puffs" and "Andy-Os", references to Transformers podcasters [https://twitter.com/JiiDee Jii Dee] and [https://twitter.com/CCTFW Andy Millman] of the [http://moonbase2.libsyn.com/ Moonbase 2 Podcast].

===Errors===
*First Aid claims he's going to "Earth and back"; he's actually going to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].
*In panel 5 on page 8, the caption box reads: "The Earth is a made of holomatter too?!" This is corrected for the trade paperback.
*Nightbeat says that he's only been to Earth's orbit, but he actually spent some time on the planet's surface in ''[[The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]''.
*Ambulon's photograph in First Aid's "leaving present" shows him with blue eyes, not their proper yellow.

===Crew Manifest===
*First Aid, Groove, [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]], [[Blades (G1)|Blades]], [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]], and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] leave the ''Lost Light'' to go star in a [[Combiner Wars#Comics|crossover]].

===Other trivia===
*The first page of the issue (Cover E from [[Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|issue #1]], with speech balloon from Tailgate remarking that he is "lost already") was missing from at least some regional copies of the digital version. Comixology updated the issue later on the day of release to include the missing page.
*Being made up entirely of re-used art, the first page of the issue, the two-page "title sequence", and the mid-story Swerve recap page all come in addition to the comic's 20 standard story pages.
*This issue's story is, fittingly, structured like a standard sitcom teleplay: a brief cold open, a title sequence, three basic 4-8 page acts (act one being the flashback to the ''Lost Light'', and act 2 culminating with the "ad-break cliffhanger" of Swerve's avatar consolidating), and a short "credits scene".

===Soundtrack===
*"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb2_o7cxb6U I Love Pop Music]" by {{w|Ben Lee}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMNVNRybluQ ''Cheers'' theme tune]
*"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0303UwKLVbU There Will Always Be]" by {{w|Adem Ilhan}}

===Covers (4)===
*'''Regular cover:''' Cyclonus and his avatar, by [[Alex Milne]] and [[Josh Perez]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' Multiple Swerves act out another homage to ''Justice League'' #1, by [[Nick Roche]] and [[Josh Burcham]]. Charting the homage's history, the cover is signed "Roche after Milne after Roche after Maguire".
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' One of a series of "[[Pan Cybertronian Spaceways]]" travel posters by [[James Biggie]] that make up the Retailer Incentive covers on IDW's July Transformers titles; this one promotes the [[Unicron]]'s head, which orbited Cybertron after ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
*'''Convention cover:''' [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] versus [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], by [[Casey Coller]] and [[John-Paul Bove]], available exclusively at Texas Comicon.

<gallery>
File:MTMTE43 regcvr.jpg|
File:MTMTE43 subcvr.jpg|Guess what? Now you get to hunt down countless Swerve toys on eBay and Amazon to recreate this scene! Yay!
File:MTMTE43 cvrRI.jpg|Now, if you look ''overhead'', folks... *gets booed*
File:MTMTE43 concvr.jpg|"Digital!" "Paper!"
</gallery>

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==External links==
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All That Remains

2016-02-28T23:08:19Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

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|next=Windblade vol. 2 issue 4
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|title="All That Remains"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[June 10]], [[2015]]
|coverdate=May 2015
|story by=[[Mairghread Scott]] and [[John Barber]]
|written by=[[Mairghread Scott]]
|pencils by=[[Marcelo Ferreira]] (pg 1-2, 8-19) and [[Corin Howell]] (pg 3-7, 20-22)
|inks by=[[Corin Howell]], [[Brian Shearer]] and [[John Wycough]]
|colors by=[[Yamaishi]] (pg 1-2, 8-19) and [[Thomas Deer]] (pg 3-7, 20-22)
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2015)]]
}}

'''Now merged as a combiner, Optimus Prime and Prowl must finally come to terms with one another if they are to stop Devastator from ravaging all of Cybertron's colony worlds.'''

==Synopsis==
Instantly recognizing the presence of [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] within the [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|new Optimus combiner]], [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] is furious at being "rejected" by the [[Autobot]] who was once part of him, and attacks. Even before the first punch lands, the Optimus combiner collapses due to the five minds which make it up being unable to synchronize, so [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] come to his aid. Superion tries to remind Devastator that [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] had tasked him with stopping [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], but Devastator refuses to be controlled by anyone's whim, and the battle between the four combiners resumes.

On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] are trying to defend the [[space bridge]] against [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] and the [[Decepticon]]s when help arrives in the form of Starscream and his [[Badgeless]] troops. Starscream himself blasts Swindle through the chest, and while everyone is fighting, Wheeljack and Windblade recalibrate the bridge for [[Caminus]], allowing [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] and the other Decepticons on the colony world to return and lend their aid. With the help of Chromia's forceful personality, the melee is brought to an end... but not without a casualty. Swindle succumbs to his injuries and dies, but before he passes, he whispers to [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] that there is proof that Starscream was responsible for Menasor's attack on Caminus.

While the other combiners battle around them, within the Optimus combiner, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] struggles to maintain his sense of self in the face of Prowl's experience in controlling a combiner mind. Prowl restates his belief that destroying the space bridge and sacrificing the future of Cybertron and the colony worlds is the only way to stop Starscream, but one by one, Optimus, [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] rally, refusing to look at the world only as numbers and statistics the way Prowl does. Instead, they all believe in the power of ''people'' to change that: people who may fail, but who will be there to help pick one another up if they do. Synchronized by this shared belief, the four 'bots' minds slowly come together, and while Prowl refuses to accept their way of thinking, in that refusal, he finally ''understands'' them... and in that ''understanding'', five become one, and [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] is born! Surging back to life, the newborn Autobot combiner takes his place beside Superion and Defensor as they prepare to force Devastator and Menasor back through the space bridge.

On Cybertron, Wheeljack discovers that the fluctuating space bridge is trying to lock on to multiple locations at the same time, as [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] attempts to reach all of the colony worlds at once. No sooner has this discovery been made than the five combiners suddenly come tumbling through the portal; Menasor has been knocked out, but the other four continue to fight. The titanic brawl carries across the universe, as the combatants repeatedly fall in and out of the portal, jumping to a different location each time: first to a [[Velocitron|desert planet]], near a [[Delta|giant mobile city]]; then to the bow of a [[Carcer|huge Metrotitan]], somewhere in the depths of space. While Windblade, Chromia, and Starscream keep Menasor down, Optimus Maximus, Superion, and Defensor finally manage to surround Devastator, and with an almighty pull, tear him into his component [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] with their bare hands. As the Constructicons are arrested, [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] apologizes to Starscream for being unable to control them. Knowing that they cannot consider themselves above the law, Optimus Maximus willingly separates and surrenders Prowl to Starscream's custody. Superion is saddened to think that Optimus Maximus will never form again, but some bonds are not easily broken, as proven when Optimus Prime later visits Prowl in his cell.

Sometime later, on Caminus, Windblade reports to the [[Mistress of Flame]]: the [[Council of Worlds]] has successfully been formed, with Rattrap acting as Cybertron's representative, but Windblade cannot rest easy, since, with Menasor and Devastator imprisoned, all functional combiners still remain under Starscream's control.

Across the galaxy, on the colony worlds, the aftermath of the combiner wars is surveyed by the far-off planets' inhabitants. On [[Velocitron]], [[Knock Out (G1)|Knock Out]] and [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] prepare to tell [[Override (BW)|Override]] of the devastation, while on [[Eukaris]], [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] is not so keen to share what she and [[Tigatron]] have found. And within the huge starship, [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] reports on the appearance of the space bridge, and the readings detected from it that point the way to Cybertron... readings of great interest to the listener, who sits on a throne made of the remains of other Transformers... Obsidian's captain, [[Elita One]]!

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
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*[[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] (1)
*[[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (2)
*[[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (5)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (6)
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (7)
*[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] (13)
*[[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] (16)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] (17)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ironhide]] (18)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (19)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (20)

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*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (3)
*[[Octane|Tall Tankor]] (12)
*[[Sparkstalker]] (14)
*[[Tankor (BM)|Fat Tankor]] (15)
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (21)

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*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (4)
*[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (8)
*[[Badgeless]] officers (9)
*[[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (10)
*[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (11)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (22)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (23)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (!!!, 24, see Errors)
*[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] (25)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (26)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (27)
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*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (28)
*[[Mistress of Flame]] (29)
*[[Red Leader (Caminus)|"Red Leader"]] (30)
*[[Strafe (IDW)|Strafe]] (31)
*[[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] (32)
*[[Knock Out (G1)|Knock Out]] (33)
*[[Tigatron]] (34)
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (35)
*[[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] (36)
*[[Elita One]] (37)
{{!}}}
}}

==Quotes==
"This is how you see the world, Prowl? Numbers? Percentages?" 
"This '''is''' how the world is, Optimus. Everything else is people trying to convince themselves otherwise."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Prowl'''

"You are so concerned with who leads our nation, Prowl, that you do not see who '''makes up''' our nation... and '''that''' is where change comes from. Can you not see these people as we do? '''As''' people? Can you not see the valiance in their actions? The determination of their struggle? We are not speaking of merely numbers, Prowl... but '''people.'''" 
"People will always fail you, Optimus. '''Always'''."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Prowl'''

"When we fail together, we pick each other up. When we fail alone, there is '''no one''' there to help."
:—'''Optimus Prime'''

"I have seen the heart of Devastator. And the duplicitousness of humans. I offered you enlightenment. '''And still you refuse to see it?!'''" 
"We do. We must." 
"I understand. I finally understand."
:—'''Prowl''' and '''Optimus Maximus'''

"We are not Optimus Prime. We are '''OPTIMUS MAXIMUS!''' The '''defender''' of all '''sentient beings!'''"
:—'''Optimus Maximus'''

==Notes==
===Transformers references===
* Windblade swears "Sweet [[Solus Prime]]!", taking the name of one of the [[Thirteen]] in vain with an oath that has been used a few times in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon]].
* Velocitron was one of Cybertron's colony worlds central to the plot of the [[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|''Transformers: Cybertron'' series]]. In IDW continuity, we briefly glimpsed it back in [[Windblade issue 4|issue #4]] of the first ''Windblade'' mini-series, a scene also gave us a look at a vehicle-mode Knock Out. He appears in robot mode here and is officially named, confirming him as being based on the [[Knock Out (Prime)|''Prime'' character]]. His companion goes without a name this issue, but as a turquoise and grey female Autobot, we feel pretty confident in identifying her as [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] (she's got those thingies with the yellow bits on the side of her helmet). Her identity would be confirmed in the following issue.
* Knock Out mentions reporting their discovery to [[Override (BW)|Override]]; obviously, this is a version of [[Override (Cybertron)|''Cybertron'' Override]], who was the ruler of Velocitron in that series. This isn't the first time Override's appeared in Generation 1 continuity family fiction: an incarnation of her was recently introduced in the ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' prose story "[[Broken Windshields]]", but the one who inevitably appears in this series is liable to be a lot more traditional than that one.
* The planet Eukaris was also briefly glimpsed in ''Windblade'' vol. 1 #4; the two inhabitants we see here are [[Tigatron]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] of [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|''Beast Wars'']] fame, suggesting this new world may play home to a series of battles similar to the [[Beast Wars (event)|titular conflict]]. A colony planet of beast-formers also references the ''Cybertron'' "Jungle Planet" [[Animatron]].
* [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] leaps right out of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'', still fulfilling his role as a dedicated number two beneath his master. Of course, the identity of his master is very different here...
* ...it is [[Elita One]], Cybertronian rebel cell leader and Optimus Prime's paramour from the original [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] episode "[[The Search for Alpha Trion]]". Save for the [[Games of Deception|BotCon 2007 comic]], this marks the beginning of Elita's first major role in Generation 1 fiction since that episode's broadcast, with only a scattering of cameos and aborted storylines to her name otherwise. In this appearance, she appears in her quite recognizable G1 cartoon character model. In the single panel she appears in, however, her personality appears drastically different than her incarnation of almost 30 years previous—sitting on a throne/chair made of Transformer bodies, which is on a floor made of Transformer ''heads'', and sporting a broken helmet and a somewhat demented smile.

===Errors===
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* Last chapter, Optimus Maximus was colored like [[Ultra Prime]], and this issues ''tries'' to fix that by making his blue parts white. He's still not supposed to have a red chest, however.
* Devastator is, inexplicably, drawn to the specifications of [http://www.deviantart.com/art/Transformers-DEVASTATOR-329330063 somebody's fan art], notably causing him to lose his visor and tread-forearms.
* Not ''strictly'' an error, but all the recognisable Decepticons who were with Swindle last issues have disappeared, and a horde of [[generic]]s has taken their place.
* Fat Tankor is looking pretty off-model, with long, proper legs instead of squat treads, and hands with opposable thumbs instead of pincer-claws.
* Optimus Prime's head and limbs are on-model, but his torso is drawn as that of his MP-10 ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' figure.
* All of the Constructicons have incorrect body designs, appearing with their classic Generation 1 designs rather than the redesigned Earth modes they've been sporting since [[Earthfall Part 2: Detonation Boulevard|''Robots in Disguise'' #29]]. Perhaps this is a deliberate effort to bring them closer in appearance to their new ''Combiner Wars'' toys that could be written off on the reconfiguring effects of the Enigma, but '''Scrapper'''—friggin' '''''SCRAPPER!!!'''''—is standing with them! Scrapper was erased from the art for the trade paperback.
* Page 20 is cropped a ''teeeeny'' bit too high—at the very bottom, Optimus Prime and the silhouetted figures in the distance disappear where the lineart stops, which ought to have been cropped off the page. This was adjusted for the trade paperback.

===Other trivia===
* This issue was originally solicited for release in May 2015, with [[Sarah Stone]] on art, but unspecified production delays caused it to slip into June, with a six-person art team taking Stone's place.
* This story's title was missing from the individual issue, but was added back in for the trade.
* Starscream projects laser-swords from his forearms; while it's entirely possible that this is a power he has in his new body, given that said body is expressly based on a new toy that ''doesn't'' have swords as a feature, this feels like it might be a script goof, since Starscream's ''previous'' body did feature deployable forearm-blades.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Regular cover:''' Prowl holds the Enigma of Combination, by [[Casey Coller]] and [[Joana Lafuente]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' One half of Optimus Maximus, with Defensor and Superion behind him, by [[Livio Ramondelli]]; connects to the subscription cover of [[You, Me, and the Universe|''The Transformers'' #41]] to form a complete image
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' ''Combiner Wars'' Optimus Maximus [[package art]] by [[Marcelo Matere]], "courtesy of [[Hasbro]]"
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[[Category:Combiner Wars issues]]

You, Me, and the Universe

2016-02-28T11:52:13Z

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|next=Now and On Earth
|next2=All That Remains
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|title="You, Me, and the Universe"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[May 20]], [[2015]]
|coverdate=May 2015
|story by=[[Mairghread Scott]] and [[John Barber]]
|written by=[[John Barber]]
|art by=[[Livio Ramondelli]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
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'''Everything seems to be coming up Starscream until Prowl's contingency plan goes into action, and the most incredible combiner of all is born!'''

==Synopsis==
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] visits the imprisoned [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] to talk over recent events, attempting to explain that he and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] are putting a system in place to curb [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]]'s ambition. Prowl is unconvinced, and begins drawing pictures of the [[combiner]]s on his cell forcefield with his fingertip to illustrate his point: all the other prisoners Starscream has taken—specifically, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]—have been hidden away somewhere, and Prowl is certain this means Starscream is going to attempt to recruit [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] to his side, since he knows that [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] are sure to stand with Prime when the turning point comes. Prowl insists that he has always been the one to make the tough calls Optimus couldn't, but Optimus believes Prowl has been twisted by a list of numerous betrayals he feels he has suffered in his life; Prowl retorts that Optimus can add himself to that list.

After stationing Superion and Defensor on [[Caminus]], and happily taking in the sight of Cybertronians and Camiens working together, Starscream returns to Cybertron through the [[space bridge]]. He urges [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] to use the bridge to make contact with the other colony worlds as quickly as possible, but Wheeljack requires Windblade's help to communicate with [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], and she is busy with her duties as representative. After promising to speak to her, Starscream heads off to his secret prison with [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] and [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], where he makes the incarcerated Constructicons an offer...

At [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] talk about their visions, and realize that they were seeing the same thing. Though they laugh it off, and make peace with each other over past misunderstandings, [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] cuts in, offering an insight afforded him by his time as a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]: what if, rather than seeing a "vision", Mirage and Ironhide were somehow sharing "mindspace", like Sunstreaker did with [[Hunter O'Nion]], seeing into someone else's mind and witnessing their intentions for the future. Ironhide considers it plausible, and they decide to take the news to Optimus.

While Windblade helps Wheeljack, and together they grimly mull over what contacting the colonies will mean, Starscream uses the [[Enigma of Combination]] to merge Scoop with the Constructicons, using Scoop's dedication to his "chosen one" to influence the combined mind of Devastator and make the giant loyal to him. Starscream turns to Rattrap to gloat, only to find that Rattrap is not there... and has, in fact, sneaked back to the prison, where he kills a guard and frees Swindle, requesting that he set up a "distraction" for him. Swindle is happy to comply, liberating the Stunticons so they can combine into [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] once more, then rounding up a handful of other Decepticons and leading both them and the combiner in an attack on the space bridge chamber, with the false claim that "a better life" awaits them on Caminus. Amid the chaos, Rattrap steals the Enigma of Combination and brings it to Prowl's cell, just as Ironhide, Mirage, and Sunstreaker arrive to tell Prime what they have deduced. Prime tries to stop the rat, but it is too late: at Prowl's command, Rattrap activates the Enigma...

As Menasor heads through the portal to Caminus, Devastator tackles him, and both fall through. Defensor, remembering Devastator's recent rampage, unthinkingly attacks the Constructicon combiner, and Superion soon joins the fray for a four-way free-for-all combiner throwdown. Meanwhile, in the space bridge chamber, a stray laser blast from Swindle destroys the bridge control panel and destabilizes the portal... so when Menasor and Superion fall through it while they are grappling, they wind up on an entirely different, unknown, alien planet! Devastator hurls Defensor through after them, then joins them on this new world, instructing them all to calm down—and that he'll calm them down ''permanently'' if they don't get with the program. Then, a new voice echoes out of the portal, and a fifth giant figure enters the combat: thanks to the Enigma, Optimus Prime, Prowl, Sunstreaker, Ironhide, and Mirage have been [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|merged into a combiner]] too!

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] (2)
*[[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (3)
*[[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (4)
*[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] (5)
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (9)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (14)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ironhide]] (22)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (23)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (24)
*[[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] (34)

|c2=
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (11)
*[[Sparkstalker]] (12)
*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (29)
*[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] (30)
*[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]] (31)
*[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]] (32)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (33)

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*"[[Red Leader (Caminus)|Red Leader]]" (6)
*[[Strafe (IDW)|Strafe]] (7)
*[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (8)
*[[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (10)
*[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] (13)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (15)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (16)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (17)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (18)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (19)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (20)
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*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (21)
*[[Bob (IDW)|Bob]] (25)
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (26)
*A [[Badgeless]] (27)
*[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (28)
{{!}}}
}}

==Quotes==
'''Wheeljack:''' "'''Welcome back to Cybertron!''' Things went okay, Starscream?" 
'''Starscream:''' "We did our best to represent our '''homeland''' as we '''expand''' our partnership." 
'''Chromia:''' "'''I''' just wanted to make sure nobody started shooting." 
'''Starscream:''' "Ha ha, '''delightful''', Chromia. Yes. Good idea."

"I need somebody I can '''trust'''. Somebody who'll '''stick with me'''." 
"And that's '''me?''' I don't even '''like''' you." 
"Who does?"
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Scoop'''

"I '''thought''' I understood you. I thought you were you... an '''open wound'''." 
"What?" 
"You'd been '''hurt''' so much. Your '''functionist''' upbringing. A never-ending series of '''betrayals'''...or what you '''see''' as personal betrayals, anyway. The Senate, Zeta, Megatron, the Neutrals, the Wreckers, Arcee, Chromedome... '''Spike'''. 
"Is that all?" 
"Did I '''forget''' someone?" 
"My history of betrayals proves one thing: '''Cybertronians cannot be trusted.''' The power Starscream has... the '''spacebridge''', the '''enigma'''... you '''have''' to see it. And '''you''' can stop it. You're the '''one true Prime''' to the colony worlds. They'll believe '''anything''' you tell them. Did your '''list''' leave off somebody that '''betrayed''' me? '''Yeah,''' Prime. It '''did.'''"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Prowl'''

"'''Green''' is the new '''orange'''."
:—'''Starscream''' on Scoop's addition to Devastator

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Prowl makes the ''"PFFT"'' sound during his conversation with Prime, a "talent" his ex-partner [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] long coveted and finally learned how to do in [[Little Victories|''More than Meets the Eye'' #22]].
*Scoop wants to know what a particular prisoner is guilty of; the prisoner doesn't get called out by name, but it's [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]], who—as Starscream so delicately puts it—"killed a bunch of people" in the [[The Transformers: Punishment|''Punishment'' mini-series]].
*Ironhide apologizes for trying to kill Mirage, an event that took place in [[All Hail Megatron issue 7|''All Hail Megatron'' #7]], when Ironhide mistakenly believed Mirage was the traitor who had sold the Autobots out (as Sunstreaker points out in the next panel, he was actually the one responsible). Ironhide notes that he had to "remember" that he did this, as it was a memory he had lost following his death and resurrection in the [[The Transformers: Ironhide|''Ironhide'' mini-series]], which is something that hasn't really come up much in the present era. Interestingly, the idea was supposed to be that Ironhide didn't have those memories because he had been "reborn" from an outdated copy of his data that those memories were simply not ''part'' of, so how he could have regained them is a big question.
*Sunstreaker mentions [[Outlier]]s, the IDW description of the phenomenon of Transformers with "super-powers", introduced in [[Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|''More than Meets the Eye'' #10]].
*When describing the "tough calls" he's made, Prowl mentions "figuring out how to make a [[Phase Sixer]]" (a plot seen in [[Remembrance Day|''More than Meets the Eye'' #14]] that had dire repercussions for that book) and "taking care of [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]]'s secret weaponry" (from [[Endgame|''Autocracy'' #12]]).
*Optimus Prime refers to Prowl's Functionist upbringing, which we know from [[Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|''More than Meets the Eye'' #9]] was in the town of [[Petrex]].
*Prowl's list of betrayals includes: the [[Senate]] (for whom Prowl worked circa ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]''), Zeta Prime (who went nuts in ''[[The Transformers: Autocracy|Autocracy]]'', forcing Prowl and the Autobots to stand against him), Megatron (who allied with the Autobots against Zeta then betrayed them in [[Overthrown|''Autocracy'' #8]]), the [[NAIL|neutrals]] (Prowl was originally a neutral himself, as we learned in ''[[Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime]]'', and came to hate them for running away from the war), the [[Wrecker]]s (team leader [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] went against Prowl's express orders and executed [[Squadron X]] in [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #5]] and [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], Impactor's successor, who ignored Prowl's direct orders to abandon his mission to rescue a deranged [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] during his [[Spotlight: Kup|Spotlight]] issue, resulting in the deaths of countless Autobots, and then physically assaulted Prowl in "[[All Hail Megatron issue 15#"Everything in Its Right Place"|Everything in Its Right Place]]" for moving his mentor without informing the Wrecker leader beforehand), [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (Prowl and Arcee's alliance and falling out has been gradually happening over the course of this series), [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] (Prowl's former lover, with whom he broke up when he refused to join the Senate's security forces with him according to [[Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|''More than Meets the Eye'' #36]]; Chromedome also [[shadowplay]]ed Prowl in #14 of that book, which had far-reaching consequences), and of course, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], who needs no explanation at this point. Phew!
*With Scoop's addition to Devastator, Hook regains his position as the combiner's head-and-shoulders. Scoop takes the deceased [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]'s place as right leg, which Hook has been filling in for since [[Before the Dawn|issue #14]].

===Transformers references===
*When Sparkstalker grumbles that Starscream is "prancing around like the king of the universe," Waspinator replies: "Wazzpinator ''hatezz'' univerzze"—an inversion of his classic lament, "Why univerzze hate Wazzpinator?", from the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode, "[[Deep Metal]]".
*Blast Off is among the crowd of Decepticons who Swindle frees, having shed the [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|''Fall of Cybertron'']] design he had last time we saw him in [[City on Fire|issue #12]] and taken on his original Generation 1 body. Specifically, it's the interpretation of his Generation 1 form that appeared in [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s [[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|''More than Meets the Eye'' profile series]], which features his shuttle-windows on his upper arms, and which we use as his article's main picture here on TFWiki.
*It's combinin' time! Optimus Prime's combined form doesn't get a name this issue, but next issue will reveal that it is "Optimus Maximus". However, see "Errors", below.
*Devastator's makeover returns him to a more classic configuration for the first time since he became "Prowlastator" in [[Before the Dawn|issue #14]], to tie in with his new ''Combiner Wars'' toy. Unlike other combiners featured in this event, however, he is not drawn to the specifications of his new toy, instead retaining his design that debuted in [[Earthfall Part 2: Detonation Boulevard|issue #29]], with his new Scoop-leg and Hook-upper-torso being the only updated parts.

===Errors===
[[File:YouMeAndTheUniverse-Scoopcolors.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Comixology version left, print version right]]
*Scoop does not recognize the secret prison, and has to have Starscream explain to him what it is—except he's been there before, back in [[The Possible Light|Chapter 2]], and was left with no misunderstanding of what the facility was. This is sort-of corrected for the trade; rather than ask ''what'' the prison is, he asks why he's been brought there. He haltingly refers to it as "this place", unwilling to call it what it is, which leads in to Rattrap and Starscream's unchanged dialogue, which now plays as a "correction" of Scoop's remark.
*On page 6, Optimus expresses concern over Superion not returning to its "normal" form after combining, even though the Aerialbots broke down into their component parts [[Mistakes and Mayhem|just last issue]].
*On page 8, "[[Maccadam]]" is misspelled "Macaddam". This is corrected for the trade.
*In the digital version of the book, Scoop's color as Devastator's leg remains orange while in the print version Scoop-as-leg has been corrected to being green. The edit is retained in the collected version, although Scoop is (possibly intentionally) a slightly different shade of green than the rest of Devastator.
*On page 17, Starscream asks [[Blackjack]] if he can "diffuse" the Menasor situation, when he almost certainly means "defuse".
*Optimus Maximus's torso is colored in the standard red-and-blue Optimus coloration of [[Ultra Prime]], rather than in the redecoed color scheme of the (then-unreleased) Maximus toy. The next chapter will make a move to partially correct this. What it can't correct, unfortunately, is the fact that Maximus's limbs have clearly been drawn without reference to the (also then-unreleased) ''Combiner Wars'' Ironhide, Prowl, Sunstreaker, or Mirage toys—Ironhide and Mirage ''try'' to look like leg-shaped lumps, but rather than reimagine Sunstreaker and Prowl as arms, the art simply gives Optimus one of each of the two characters' ''actual'' arms.

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===Covers (4)===
*'''Regular cover:''' Starscream looking pleased with himself as Superion and Menasor go at it in the background, by [[Casey Coller]] and [[Joana Lafuente]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' One half of Optimus Maximus, with Menasor and Devastator behind him, by [[Livio Ramondelli]]; connects to the subscription cover of ''Windblade'' #3 to form a complete image
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' Optimus Prime by [[Marcelo Matere]], "courtesy of [[Hasbro]]"
*'''Hasbro Pulse exclusive cover:''' A recreation of the regular cover to [[The Sum and Its Parts|''Windblade'' #1]] using the ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Windblade and ''Combiner Wars'' Superion toys, available exclusively from Hasbro Pulse.
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[[Category:Combiner Wars issues]]

You, Me, and the Universe

2016-02-28T11:32:43Z

CyRaptor: /* Errors */

{{Comicstory
|series=exrid|issueno=41
|seriesissue2=[[Combiner Wars]] Part 4
|prev=The Possible Light
|prev2=Mistakes and Mayhem
|next=Now and On Earth
|next2=All That Remains
|caption=
|image=TF41 regcvr.jpg
|title="You, Me, and the Universe"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[May 20]], [[2015]]
|coverdate=May 2015
|story by=[[Mairghread Scott]] and [[John Barber]]
|written by=[[John Barber]]
|art by=[[Livio Ramondelli]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era]]
}}

'''Everything seems to be coming up Starscream until Prowl's contingency plan goes into action, and the most incredible combiner of all is born!'''

==Synopsis==
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] visits the imprisoned [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] to talk over recent events, attempting to explain that he and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] are putting a system in place to curb [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]]'s ambition. Prowl is unconvinced, and begins drawing pictures of the [[combiner]]s on his cell forcefield with his fingertip to illustrate his point: all the other prisoners Starscream has taken—specifically, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]—have been hidden away somewhere, and Prowl is certain this means Starscream is going to attempt to recruit [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] to his side, since he knows that [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] are sure to stand with Prime when the turning point comes. Prowl insists that he has always been the one to make the tough calls Optimus couldn't, but Optimus believes Prowl has been twisted by a list of numerous betrayals he feels he has suffered in his life; Prowl retorts that Optimus can add himself to that list.

After stationing Superion and Defensor on [[Caminus]], and happily taking in the sight of Cybertronians and Camiens working together, Starscream returns to Cybertron through the [[space bridge]]. He urges [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] to use the bridge to make contact with the other colony worlds as quickly as possible, but Wheeljack requires Windblade's help to communicate with [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], and she is busy with her duties as representative. After promising to speak to her, Starscream heads off to his secret prison with [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] and [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], where he makes the incarcerated Constructicons an offer...

At [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] talk about their visions, and realize that they were seeing the same thing. Though they laugh it off, and make peace with each other over past misunderstandings, [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] cuts in, offering an insight afforded him by his time as a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]: what if, rather than seeing a "vision", Mirage and Ironhide were somehow sharing "mindspace", like Sunstreaker did with [[Hunter O'Nion]], seeing into someone else's mind and witnessing their intentions for the future. Ironhide considers it plausible, and they decide to take the news to Optimus.

While Windblade helps Wheeljack, and together they grimly mull over what contacting the colonies will mean, Starscream uses the [[Enigma of Combination]] to merge Scoop with the Constructicons, using Scoop's dedication to his "chosen one" to influence the combined mind of Devastator and make the giant loyal to him. Starscream turns to Rattrap to gloat, only to find that Rattrap is not there... and has, in fact, sneaked back to the prison, where he kills a guard and frees Swindle, requesting that he set up a "distraction" for him. Swindle is happy to comply, liberating the Stunticons so they can combine into [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] once more, then rounding up a handful of other Decepticons and leading both them and the combiner in an attack on the space bridge chamber, with the false claim that "a better life" awaits them on Caminus. Amid the chaos, Rattrap steals the Enigma of Combination and brings it to Prowl's cell, just as Ironhide, Mirage, and Sunstreaker arrive to tell Prime what they have deduced. Prime tries to stop the rat, but it is too late: at Prowl's command, Rattrap activates the Enigma...

As Menasor heads through the portal to Caminus, Devastator tackles him, and both fall through. Defensor, remembering Devastator's recent rampage, unthinkingly attacks the Constructicon combiner, and Superion soon joins the fray for a four-way free-for-all combiner throwdown. Meanwhile, in the space bridge chamber, a stray laser blast from Swindle destroys the bridge control panel and destabilizes the portal... so when Menasor and Superion fall through it while they are grappling, they wind up on an entirely different, unknown, alien planet! Devastator hurls Defensor through after them, then joins them on this new world, instructing them all to calm down—and that he'll calm them down ''permanently'' if they don't get with the program. Then, a new voice echoes out of the portal, and a fifth giant figure enters the combat: thanks to the Enigma, Optimus Prime, Prowl, Sunstreaker, Ironhide, and Mirage have been [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|merged into a combiner]] too!

==Featured characters==
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*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] (2)
*[[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (3)
*[[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (4)
*[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] (5)
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (9)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (14)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ironhide]] (22)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (23)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (24)
*[[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] (33)

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*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (11)
*[[Sparkstalker]] (12)
*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (28)
*[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] (29)
*[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]] (30)
*[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]] (31)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (32)

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*"[[Red Leader (Caminus)|Red Leader]]" (6)
*[[Strafe (IDW)|Strafe]] (7)
*[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (8)
*[[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (10)
*[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] (13)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (15)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (16)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (17)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (18)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (19)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (20)
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*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (21)
*[[Bob (IDW)|Bob]] (25)
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (26)
*[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (27)
{{!}}}
}}

==Quotes==
'''Wheeljack:''' "'''Welcome back to Cybertron!''' Things went okay, Starscream?" 
'''Starscream:''' "We did our best to represent our '''homeland''' as we '''expand''' our partnership." 
'''Chromia:''' "'''I''' just wanted to make sure nobody started shooting." 
'''Starscream:''' "Ha ha, '''delightful''', Chromia. Yes. Good idea."

"I need somebody I can '''trust'''. Somebody who'll '''stick with me'''." 
"And that's '''me?''' I don't even '''like''' you." 
"Who does?"
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Scoop'''

"I '''thought''' I understood you. I thought you were you... an '''open wound'''." 
"What?" 
"You'd been '''hurt''' so much. Your '''functionist''' upbringing. A never-ending series of '''betrayals'''...or what you '''see''' as personal betrayals, anyway. The Senate, Zeta, Megatron, the Neutrals, the Wreckers, Arcee, Chromedome... '''Spike'''. 
"Is that all?" 
"Did I '''forget''' someone?" 
"My history of betrayals proves one thing: '''Cybertronians cannot be trusted.''' The power Starscream has... the '''spacebridge''', the '''enigma'''... you '''have''' to see it. And '''you''' can stop it. You're the '''one true Prime''' to the colony worlds. They'll believe '''anything''' you tell them. Did your '''list''' leave off somebody that '''betrayed''' me? '''Yeah,''' Prime. It '''did.'''"
:—'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Prowl'''

"'''Green''' is the new '''orange'''."
:—'''Starscream''' on Scoop's addition to Devastator

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Prowl makes the ''"PFFT"'' sound during his conversation with Prime, a "talent" his ex-partner [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] long coveted and finally learned how to do in [[Little Victories|''More than Meets the Eye'' #22]].
*Scoop wants to know what a particular prisoner is guilty of; the prisoner doesn't get called out by name, but it's [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]], who—as Starscream so delicately puts it—"killed a bunch of people" in the [[The Transformers: Punishment|''Punishment'' mini-series]].
*Ironhide apologizes for trying to kill Mirage, an event that took place in [[All Hail Megatron issue 7|''All Hail Megatron'' #7]], when Ironhide mistakenly believed Mirage was the traitor who had sold the Autobots out (as Sunstreaker points out in the next panel, he was actually the one responsible). Ironhide notes that he had to "remember" that he did this, as it was a memory he had lost following his death and resurrection in the [[The Transformers: Ironhide|''Ironhide'' mini-series]], which is something that hasn't really come up much in the present era. Interestingly, the idea was supposed to be that Ironhide didn't have those memories because he had been "reborn" from an outdated copy of his data that those memories were simply not ''part'' of, so how he could have regained them is a big question.
*Sunstreaker mentions [[Outlier]]s, the IDW description of the phenomenon of Transformers with "super-powers", introduced in [[Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|''More than Meets the Eye'' #10]].
*When describing the "tough calls" he's made, Prowl mentions "figuring out how to make a [[Phase Sixer]]" (a plot seen in [[Remembrance Day|''More than Meets the Eye'' #14]] that had dire repercussions for that book) and "taking care of [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]]'s secret weaponry" (from [[Endgame|''Autocracy'' #12]]).
*Optimus Prime refers to Prowl's Functionist upbringing, which we know from [[Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|''More than Meets the Eye'' #9]] was in the town of [[Petrex]].
*Prowl's list of betrayals includes: the [[Senate]] (for whom Prowl worked circa ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]''), Zeta Prime (who went nuts in ''[[The Transformers: Autocracy|Autocracy]]'', forcing Prowl and the Autobots to stand against him), Megatron (who allied with the Autobots against Zeta then betrayed them in [[Overthrown|''Autocracy'' #8]]), the [[NAIL|neutrals]] (Prowl was originally a neutral himself, as we learned in ''[[Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime]]'', and came to hate them for running away from the war), the [[Wrecker]]s (team leader [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] went against Prowl's express orders and executed [[Squadron X]] in [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #5]] and [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], Impactor's successor, who ignored Prowl's direct orders to abandon his mission to rescue a deranged [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] during his [[Spotlight: Kup|Spotlight]] issue, resulting in the deaths of countless Autobots, and then physically assaulted Prowl in "[[All Hail Megatron issue 15#"Everything in Its Right Place"|Everything in Its Right Place]]" for moving his mentor without informing the Wrecker leader beforehand), [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (Prowl and Arcee's alliance and falling out has been gradually happening over the course of this series), [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] (Prowl's former lover, with whom he broke up when he refused to join the Senate's security forces with him according to [[Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|''More than Meets the Eye'' #36]]; Chromedome also [[shadowplay]]ed Prowl in #14 of that book, which had far-reaching consequences), and of course, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], who needs no explanation at this point. Phew!
*With Scoop's addition to Devastator, Hook regains his position as the combiner's head-and-shoulders. Scoop takes the deceased [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]'s place as right leg, which Hook has been filling in for since [[Before the Dawn|issue #14]].

===Transformers references===
*When Sparkstalker grumbles that Starscream is "prancing around like the king of the universe," Waspinator replies: "Wazzpinator ''hatezz'' univerzze"—an inversion of his classic lament, "Why univerzze hate Wazzpinator?", from the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode, "[[Deep Metal]]".
*Blast Off is among the crowd of Decepticons who Swindle frees, having shed the [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|''Fall of Cybertron'']] design he had last time we saw him in [[City on Fire|issue #12]] and taken on his original Generation 1 body. Specifically, it's the interpretation of his Generation 1 form that appeared in [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s [[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|''More than Meets the Eye'' profile series]], which features his shuttle-windows on his upper arms, and which we use as his article's main picture here on TFWiki.
*It's combinin' time! Optimus Prime's combined form doesn't get a name this issue, but next issue will reveal that it is "Optimus Maximus". However, see "Errors", below.
*Devastator's makeover returns him to a more classic configuration for the first time since he became "Prowlastator" in [[Before the Dawn|issue #14]], to tie in with his new ''Combiner Wars'' toy. Unlike other combiners featured in this event, however, he is not drawn to the specifications of his new toy, instead retaining his design that debuted in [[Earthfall Part 2: Detonation Boulevard|issue #29]], with his new Scoop-leg and Hook-upper-torso being the only updated parts.

===Errors===
[[File:YouMeAndTheUniverse-Scoopcolors.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Comixology version left, print version right]]
*Scoop does not recognize the secret prison, and has to have Starscream explain to him what it is—except he's been there before, back in [[The Possible Light|Chapter 2]], and was left with no misunderstanding of what the facility was. This is sort-of corrected for the trade; rather than ask ''what'' the prison is, he asks why he's been brought there. He haltingly refers to it as "this place", unwilling to call it what it is, which leads in to Rattrap and Starscream's unchanged dialogue, which now plays as a "correction" of Scoop's remark.
*On page 6, Optimus expresses concern over Superion not returning to its "normal" form after combining, even though the Aerialbots broke down into their component parts [[Mistakes and Mayhem|just last issue]].
*On page 8, "[[Maccadam]]" is misspelled "Macaddam". This is corrected for the trade.
*In the digital version of the book, Scoop's color as Devastator's leg remains orange while in the print version Scoop-as-leg has been corrected to being green. The edit is retained in the collected version, although Scoop is (possibly intentionally) a slightly different shade of green than the rest of Devastator.
*On page 17, Starscream asks [[Blackjack]] if he can "diffuse" the Menasor situation, when he almost certainly means "defuse".
*Optimus Maximus's torso is colored in the standard red-and-blue Optimus coloration of [[Ultra Prime]], rather than in the redecoed color scheme of the (then-unreleased) Maximus toy. The next chapter will make a move to partially correct this. What it can't correct, unfortunately, is the fact that Maximus's limbs have clearly been drawn without reference to the (also then-unreleased) ''Combiner Wars'' Ironhide, Prowl, Sunstreaker, or Mirage toys—Ironhide and Mirage ''try'' to look like leg-shaped lumps, but rather than reimagine Sunstreaker and Prowl as arms, the art simply gives Optimus one of each of the two characters' ''actual'' arms.

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===Covers (4)===
*'''Regular cover:''' Starscream looking pleased with himself as Superion and Menasor go at it in the background, by [[Casey Coller]] and [[Joana Lafuente]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' One half of Optimus Maximus, with Menasor and Devastator behind him, by [[Livio Ramondelli]]; connects to the subscription cover of ''Windblade'' #3 to form a complete image
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' Optimus Prime by [[Marcelo Matere]], "courtesy of [[Hasbro]]"
*'''Hasbro Pulse exclusive cover:''' A recreation of the regular cover to [[The Sum and Its Parts|''Windblade'' #1]] using the ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Windblade and ''Combiner Wars'' Superion toys, available exclusively from Hasbro Pulse.
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[[Category:Combiner Wars issues]]

The World of Tomorrow

2015-12-30T07:20:09Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{Comicstory|
|series=rid|issueno=33
|prev=Earthfall Chapter 5: I Dream of Wires
|next=The Crucible
|seriesissue2=''[[Combiner Wars]]'' #9
|prev2=Heavy Is the Head
|caption= "Shut up, Terry."
|image=RID33 regcvr.jpg
|title="The World of Tomorrow"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[September 24]], [[2014]]
|coverdate=September 2014
|written by=[[John Barber]]
|art by=[[Sarah Stone]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2014)]]
}}

'''Repaired and reactivated, Wheeljack is faced with a Cybertron unfamiliar to him, and must decide where his loyalties lie in this new world.'''

==Synopsis==
After months offline, the fully-repaired [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] awakens at last, unceremoniously toppling out of his stasis tube in front of a waiting crowd. [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] is legitimately happy to see Wheeljack up and about again; that doesn't immediately endear the scientist to [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]], but Wheeljack is less concerned with her opinion of him, and more with the startling revelation that Starscream is now the ruler of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]!

After being caught up on the last six months, Wheeljack is shown around a shanty-town being built outside of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] by those who have elected to leave the city after the recent bombing—unfortunately, they are mostly [[Decepticon]]s, angry at what they see as the failings of Starscream's leadership, and Starscream and Wheeljack quickly find themselves being "encouraged" out of the area by a hail of debris thrown by furious civilians. Unfazed, Starscream proceeds to lead Wheeljack to a facility containing the bodies of [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], explaining the [[combiner]]'s origins to the shocked scientist and how he came to be injured by [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] and the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. Wheeljack swears to do what he can to help save the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]' lives, but Starscream needs more: in order to protect his Cybertron against any potential threat that the Prowl-controlled [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] might pose, he requires a combiner that will serve him. Already unconvinced that his friend Prowl could really be as dangerous as Starscream says, Wheeljack further points out that [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] seems beyond saving; in response, Starscream introduces him to [[Alpha Bravo]] and [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], who have volunteered to become part of Superion in order to ensure the success of the project.

[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] throws a party to celebrate Wheeljack's return at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], but the scientist is distracted throughout, surrounded by strangers and feeling very alone. Rising early the next morning, he pays a visit to Starscream in order to hash the matter out, but finds his way barred by [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]. The smaller 'bot lets him pass with noticeably little argument... allowing Wheeljack to overhear Starscream seemingly arguing furiously with ''himself''. [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] appears, already aware of Starscream's apparent descent into insanity; she and Wheeljack properly introduce themselves to one another, and she takes him to Metroplex's damaged [[space bridge]], telling him a little more about recent events and her attempts to repair the bridge and help Cybertron's colony worlds. They both realize that it is difficult to trust Starscream, but that the current situation means that to help him is to help Cybertron, and that means they are both on the same side.

Seeking perspective, Wheeljack heads out to the badlands to regard the tiny singularity that [[Crystal City]] collapsed into when [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]]'s "[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]" plot was foiled. There, he meets [[Ironhide (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ironhide]], who has become withdrawn now that the vision of the future he saw has been rendered impossible by Shockwave's machinations. He despairs over the loss of the surety in the future that the vision had granted him, but with good humour, Wheeljack tells him that that state of uncertainty is just called "being alive".

Returning to Metroplex, Wheeljack walks into Starscream's chambers as he is in the middle of another rant... only to discover that this one isn't to himself, he's simply communicating with [[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]], his agent on [[Earth]], over a comm channel. Starscream shows Wheeljack a selection of images sent from Earth by Scoop of Devastator on the rampage, and gives one final speech: whatever anyone else may say about Starscream, whatever Wheeljack may ''think'' about him, his ''point'' is still true, and Cybertron needs a combiner on its side because all its potential enemies have one already. Wheeljack cannot disagree, and gets to work on Superion... because however untrustworthy Starscream may be, Wheeljack knows he has his friends Windblade and Ironhide to watch his back.

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks or recorded images. 
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*[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] (1)
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (2)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ironhide]] (3)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (7)
*''[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'' (9)
*''[[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]]'' (10)
*''[[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]]'' (11)
*[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (12)
*[[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (13)
*[[Alpha Bravo]] (14)
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*[[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]] (15)
*''[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]'' (23)
*''[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]'' (24)
*''[[Prowl_(G1)/IDW_Generation_1_continuity|Prowl]]'' (25)
{{!}}}
|c2=
*''[[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]]'' (8)
*''[[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]]'' (26)
*''[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]'' (27)

|c4=
*[[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (4)
*[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (5)
*[[Flatline (G1)|Flatline]] (6)
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (16)
*[[Sky-Byte (G2)|Sky-Byte]] (17)
*[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (18)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (19)
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (20)
*[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] (21)
*''[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]'' (22)

}}

==Quotes==
"So, ah, should I call you 'glorious leader'? ''Ha ha''." 
"Please, just '''Lord Starscream.'''" 
"Uh ''huh''."
:—'''Wheeljack''' and '''Starscream'''

"'''Slingshot.''' We used to listen to '''Nebulon rock operas''' together. They were '''terrible.''' He had '''terrible''' taste in '''music'''."
:—'''Wheeljack''' laments

"The future you saw... was it '''good?'''" 
"I... I don't know. I can't tell anymore. I can't tell what's '''good''' or '''bad'''... and I don't know what's gonna '''happen.'''" 
"''Heh.'' Pal. You just described '''bein' alive.'''"
:—'''Wheeljack''' and '''Ironhide'''

"There's a '''war''' coming, and you can trust me on '''exactly''' one thing: I won't let Cybertron fall again."
:—'''Starscream'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Wheeljack mentions his friendship with [[Ferak]], an old relationship mentioned just once before, in Ferak's profile in the ''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' hardcover. However, see "Errors", below.
*Wheeljack also recalls the time he built a new body for Orion Pax, as seen in ''[[Omega's Conundrum|Spotlight: Orion Pax]]''.
*He also brings up a "trip to [[Las Vegas]]", which happened in ''[[Infestation (IDW)|The Transformers: Infestation]]''. He describes the experience as "kinda fuzzy", likely a reference to the story being a crossover with another property, or a gag about Wheeljack's non-presence in the story, as he essentially only ever appears on-panel during it in order to do something science-y, then disappears again. Of course, it could also be a reference to {{w|Sin City (description)|the kind of weekends}} that the city is well known for providing.
*Wheeljack appeared to die back in [[Before the Dawn|issue #14]]. He was revealed to have survived in [[Three Monologues|issue #20]].
*This story takes place a few weeks after the conclusion of the ''[[The Transformers: Windblade|Windblade]]'' mini-series; nobody really wants to tell Wheeljack exactly what went down during it, for obvious reasons (seriously, Chromia might want to check her 'tude).
*The Decepticon slums outside Metroplex were seen in the previously-released but chronologically-later ''[[The Transformers: Punishment|Punishment]]'' mini-series.
*Omega Supreme has been injured and offline since [[The End of the Beginning of the World|issue #11]]; Superion has been out of action since [[Plan for Everything|issue #15]].
*Slingshot is noted to have a fondness for Nebulon rock operas; [[Nebulos]], homeworld of the Transformers' [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]], [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]], and [[Powermaster]]s in other fiction, hasn't appeared in IDW continuity since its early days, when it was ravaged in an attack by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] during ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]''.
*Powerglide was formerly a member of the ''[[Lost Light]]'' crew; here we see he left the ship to remain on Cybertron after "[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]".
*Dirge turns up in Maccadam's, having last been seen back in issue #20. It's nice to see he's gettin' along okay!
*Crystal City was consumed by a black hole in ''[[...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|Dark Cybertron Finale]]''.
*The precise specifics of how Shockwave's actions altered the future Ironhide saw aren't gone into on-panel, but we as an audience know that the Decepticon's plan resulted in the destruction of [[Gorlam Prime]], which was the ''setting'' for Ironhide's future vision, rendering it impossible.
*Scoop is revealed to be with the Decepticons on Earth; he was last seen among their number on Cybertron in a flashback in [[Earthfall Chapter 4: Full Fathom Five|issue #31]].
*The images Starscream shows Wheeljack are of the Autobots' attack on the EDC's Bikini Atoll base last issue.
*Monstructor is revealed to still be at large; his components were last seen doing battle with the female Autobots during ''Dark Cybertron Finale''.
*Starscream recalls Swindle's creation of Menasor from the first arc of the [[The Transformers (IDW)|2009-2011 ongoing series]]. The Stunticons haven't combined again since that first story. As will be revealed later, they're pretty pissed about it, too.

===Transformers references===
*The build-up to ''[[Combiner Wars]]'' begins here; new Superion component [[Alpha Bravo]], whose toy was debuted at [[Hasbro's Transformers 30th Anniversary San Diego Comic-Con Press Breakfast|San Diego Comic Con 2014]], is introduced, and Powerglide, whose new ''Generations'' toy becomes an extra piece for Superion's gun, puts in an appearance.
*Powerglide's got his [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original ''The Transformers'' cartoon]] speech patterns, dropping his Jackie Gleason-inspired catchphrase, "Awaaaaay we go!"
*Whilst he retains his pre-existing IDW design above the waist, Superion's legs (i.e. [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] and [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]]) have already been rebuilt to the specifications of the ''Combiner Wars'' toys, with forward-facing jet parts.

===Real-life references===
*The title of this issue seems to be a reference to ''{{w|Futurama}}''; in the debut episode "{{w|Space Pilot 3000}}", upon emerging from stasis to find that the world has changed, like Wheeljack does in this issue, series protagonist {{w|Fry (Futurama)|Philip J. Fry}} is greeted by [http://theinfosphere.org/Terry a cryogenic scientist] who proclaims "WELCOME TO THE WOOOORLD OF TOMORROOOW!"

===Errors===
*Ferak is misspelled "Ferax". This is fixed for the trade and the version of this comic included with the ''Generations'' Deluxe Class Streetwise toy.
*On page three, as the water in Wheeljack's tube drains away, it drains ''upward''.
*In the flashback of Starscream's coronation, he is depicted in his Armada body. Of course, he doesn't get this body until the [[Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|first issue of Dark Cybertron]].
*That Slingshot, Superion's left arm, has suffered the greatest injuries perhaps stretches credulity, considering that Devastator tore through the combiner from the ''right'' side in issue #15. Not to mention that Silverbolt, the torso, was explicitly ''ripped in half''... Well, what can we say? [[Hasbro]]'s just [[To sell toys|being itself.]]
*In the final panel of page 14 (page 13 without the "Previously" page), Windblade is misspelled "Windblae". This is also fixed in the trade, but is still present in the version of this comic included with the ''Generations'' Deluxe Class Streetwise toy.
*Menasor appears in his new ''Combiner Wars'' design, which he logically shouldn't have yet.

===Edits===
[[File:TheWorldofTomorrowP1-2Comp.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|Decompressed storytelling vs. compressed storytelling.]]
Similar to the [[pack-in material|pack-in]] versions of various other existing IDW comics, the version of this issue available with the ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]] Combiner Wars'' Deluxe Class [[Streetwise (G1)#Generations|Streetwise]] toy was also subject to some changes:
*The first page (not counting the "Previously" page that's also missing in the trade paperback collection and the pack-in version), featuring four completely black panels with captions containing Wheeljack's inner monologue, is omitted entirely. The captions are moved to what's originally the second page in the original version (but page 1 in the pack-in version), with all the captions rearranged so that two panels' worth of captions are contracted into one panel each.
*Two edits on the double page 5/6 (pages 4/5 in the pack-in version): Wheeljack's eighth caption has "He died '''savin'''' the '''universe'''" changed to "He went out '''savin'''' the '''universe'''", and Starscream's fifth speech bubble in the lower double-page panel has "Somebody '''blew up''' some people, tried to '''kill''' Metroplex." changed to "Somebody '''blew up''' some people, tried to '''destroy''' Metroplex."
*On page 8 (page 7 in the pack-in version), Wheeljack's speech bubble in panel 1 is changed from "Shot in the head?" to "Blasted in the head?"
*On page 12 (page 11 in the pack-in version), Wheeljack's third caption in panel 1 is changed from "I mean, '''Bee's''' dead." to "I mean, '''Bee's''' gone."
*On page 13 (page 12 in the pack-in version), Starscream's second speech bubble in panel 6 has "Rattrap wants me '''dead'''" changed to "Rattrap wants me '''out of the way'''", with the speech bubble itself resized accordingly.

===Covers (4)===
*'''Regular cover:''' Wheeljack's hand emerges as Ironhide, Blurr, Starscream, and Windblade look on, by [[Andrew Griffith]] and [[Josh Perez]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' Starscream and Rattrap perch on the fallen Superion, by [[Casey Coller]] and [[Priscilla Tramontano]]
*'''30th Anniversary cover:''' Ironfist declares "Bang", as seen during his showdown with [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] in [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #5]], by Sarah Stone; the third in September's series of 30th Anniversary covers commemorating moments from IDW history.
*'''Giant Robot Comics exclusive cover:''' Optimus Prime, Arcee, Ironhide, Prowl, Jazz, and Sideswipe on {{w|Angus L. Macdonald Bridge}} in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by Casey Coller and [[John-Paul Bove]]. Exclusive to Giant Robot Comics (who are based in Halifax); a companion piece to their exclusive cover to [[Less Than Zero|''Regeneration One'' #0]] from the previous September.
* '''Hasbro exclusive cover:''' Artwork of [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile game, exclusively available with ''Generations'' Deluxe Streetwise. Rebranded as ''[[Combiner Wars]]'' #9.
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*IDW Transformers graphic novel library
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==External links==
*[http://www.comicosity.com/preview-transformers-robots-in-disguise-33/ Preview]
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[[Category:Combiner Wars issues]]

Transformers Figure Subscription Service

2015-07-21T19:49:42Z

CyRaptor: /* Series 4.0 (2016) */

[[File:TCCSSlogo.jpg|right|thumb|400px|]]

In [[2012]], [[Fun Publications]] revealed the '''Transformers Figure Subscription Service'''. With this, a greater number and variety of [[exclusive]] toys from the [[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|''Timelines'' toyline]] could be made and sent out to members of the [[Transformers Collectors' Club]].

==Subscription details==
The Subscription Service is an optional add-on to Fan Club membership. Each year's lineup consists of six [[exclusive]] Transformers. As they are not part of a themed box set like [[BotCon]] toys, they can pull from a variety of universes and styles. Toys are shipped out one per month for six months, though the order the toys are shipped in is kept a secret.

Payment for each year can be made in one lump sum, or split into three smaller payments on a regular schedule. Obviously, missing a payment deadline means no more toys get shipped to the delinquent until things are caught up.

Any toys left over from each shipment are subsequently put up on the Fan Club's store (except for the 2014 "bonus" figure) for individual purchase by anyone with a Fan Club membership, though at a slightly higher price tag than the per-unit cost of the full subscription.

==Toys==
===Series 1.0 (2013)===
[[File:Timelinestoy-SlipstreamPrime.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Prime'' Slipstream]]
The initial year had some hiccups in its delivery. Meant to start shipping in early 2013, the toys did not actually get shipped from the factory until summer, under the mistaken notion that they were part of the [[BotCon 2013]] toy assortment. Thus, they ended up shipping in the latter half of the year.
{{collist|2|
*'''1:''' [[Scourge (RID)#Timelines|Scourge]]
*'''2:''' [[Slipstream (WFC)#Toys|Slipstream]]
*'''3:''' [[Circuit (Movie)#Toys|Circuit]]
*'''4:''' [[Breakdown (G1)#Timelines|Breakdown]]
*'''5:''' [[Jackpot (Animated)#Toys|Jackpot]]
*'''6:''' [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Timelines|Ultra Mammoth]]
}}
{{-}}

===Series 2.0 (2014)===
[[File:TCCSS2-Rewind.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Rewind]]
For 2014, the Service changed things up quite a bit. First by offering a seventh "bonus" figure for subscribers that was ''not'' made available for individual purchase, and then by adding [[Mini-Con]] partners to three of the toys by making use of the [[Arms Micron]] molds that had previously not been available in the US. Another manufacturer's delay occurred, causing the initial shipment to be scheduled to arrive in Dallas in the final week of May 2014 and start shipping to customers in the first week of June 2014.
{{collist|2|
*'''1:''' [[Barricade (WFC)#Toys|Barricade]] (with [[Frenzy (WFC)#Timelines|Frenzy]])
*'''2:''' [[Fisitron (Timelines)|Fisitron]]
*'''3:''' [[Waspinator (BW)|Thrustinator]]
*'''4:''' [[Treadshot (G1)#Timelines|Treadshot]] (with [[Catgut#Timelines|Catgut]])
*'''5:''' [[Chromedome (G1)#Timelines|Chromedome]] (with [[Stylor#Timelines|Stylor]])
*'''6:''' [[Rewind (G1)#Timelines|Rewind]]
*'''7:''' [[Eject (G1)#Timelines|Eject]]
}}
{{-}}

===Series 3.0 (2015)===
[[File:TFSS3 Serpent O R.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Serpent O.R.]]
{{collist|2|
*'''1:''' [[Carzap (BT)#Timelines|Carzap]] (with [[G.B. Blackrock#Timelines|G.B. Blackrock]])
*'''2:''' [[Nacelle (G1)|Nacelle]]
*'''?:''' [[Krok (G1)#Timelines|Krok]] (with [[Gatoraider]])
*'''?:''' [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Timelines|G2 Starscream]]
*'''?:''' [[Serpentor#Timelines|Serpent O.R.]]
*'''?:''' [[Tarantulas (BW)#Timelines|Tarantulas]] (with two [[Arachnoid#Timelines|Spider Drones]])
*'''7:''' ???
}}
{{-}}

===Series 4.0 (2016)===
{{collist|2|
*'''?:''' [[Bludgeon (G1)#Timelines|Bludgeon]]
*'''?:''' [[Needlenose#Timelines|Needlenose]] (with [[Sunbeam (G1)#Timelines|Sunbeam]] and [[Zigzag#Timelines|Zigzag]])
*'''?:''' [[Ruckus (G1)#Timelines|Ruckus]]
*'''?:''' [[Spinister (G1)#Timelines|Spinister]] (with [[Hairsplitter#Timelines|Hairsplitter]] and [[Singe (G1)#Timelines|Singe]])
*'''?:''' [[Windsweeper#Timelines|Windsweeper]]
*'''?:''' [[Impactor (G1)#Timelines|Impactor]]
*'''7:''' ???
}}
{{-}}

==Notes==
* The Transformers Subscription Service was preceded a year earlier by a similar service for the ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' Fan Club, also run by Fun Publications. That Service though has 12 toys a year, due to the much lower cost per figure to manufacture.

==External links==
*[http://transformersclub.com/TCC_FSS2_FAQ.cfm Figure Subscription Service 2.0 FAQ]

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[[Category:Timelines]]

Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8

2015-06-25T18:18:26Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

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|prev=No Exit: Dark Cybertron Chapter 6
|next=The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10
|seriesissue2=[[Dark Cybertron]] Chapter 8
|prev2=The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7
|next2=Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9
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|image=MTMTE26 cvrA.jpg
|title="Burning Bright" Dark Cybertron Chapter 8
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[February 5]], [[2014]]
|coverdate=February 2014
|written by=[[James Roberts]] and [[John Barber]]
|art by=[[James Raiz]], [[Atilio Rojo]], and [[Livio Ramondelli]]
|colors by=[[Josh Perez]] and Livio Ramondelli
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2014)]]
}}

'''The Autobots and Decepticons mobilize against the Necrotitan in Iacon, the ''Lost Light''ers work with Windblade's team to save Metroplex, and it's showdown time in the Dead Universe!'''

==Synopsis==

On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] carries [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] toward [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. The [[Decepticon]] leader does not seem especially hopeful of their chances in defeating the [[Necrotitan]] razing the city, given that they can't ''kill'' it since it isn't ''alive'', but Bumblebee interprets this as a desire to not fight at all; in actuality, Megatron explains, he seeks to put saving the populace ahead of fighting their enemy.

In Iacon, [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] has thrown in the towel, and congratulates [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] on out-scheming him. Rattrap, however, isn't very interested in taking charge of a burned-out city, and has allied with the combined [[Autobot]] and Decepticon forces under [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s command. Recognizing that [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] is relying on them in-fighting, Prowl takes charge of the situation and decides to play things logically, organizing the treatment of the wounded, the evacuation of the survivors, and a counter-strike against the Titan by [[Ironhide (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ironhide]], [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]].

Within [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], [[Getaway]] defuses the standoff between his crewmates and the newly arrived [[Nautica]] and [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] by observing that the two [[female Transformer]]s are also wearing Autobot insignias. As the [[Ammonite]]s come smashing into the room, the two females lead [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]], [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] and [[Brainstorm]] back up the cable they entered the room on, while the others hold off their attackers. On the way, Nautica recognizes Ratchet from her recent studies; the medi-bot attempts to raise the subject of their gender, but Chromia's nonplussed response convinces him to table the matter. Following the arrows on Metroplex's walls—painted by Chromia and Nautica—they arrive in Metroplex's left shoulder blade, now housing his relocated [[brain module]] and Nautica and Chromia's leader, [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]].

In the [[Dead Universe]], [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] leads [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]]'s team through a [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]] horde to the chamber holding [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. As the weakening [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] stands guard, the others set to work freeing the old-timer, and [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] explains to Orion the meaning of the numbers on his hand. After he revealed to his crew his role in the presence of [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] on their ship, he invoked the [[Crisis Act]] and had them vote on whether or not he should stay on as captain; the majority voted for him, but 89 wanted him out, and he carved the numbers on his hand as a personal reminder. Instead of the "standard Optimus pep talk" he is expecting, Rodimus is instead greeted with scorn from Orion, who angrily points out that if he was actually ashamed of his actions, he would have simply resigned, and that he only invoked the Crisis Act because he thought he would win. The team subsequently sets Kup free, but just as the old 'bot is giving a speech about how he's ready for anything, [[Nova Prime]] appears, hurls the unconscious Cyclonus into Kup, and challenges Orion to a showdown.

Windblade explains the current situation to Magnus's team; infected with the [[alchemical virus]], Metroplex transported himself to the alien planet they are now on, knowing its oceans would slow the disease's spread, then relocated his brain to hide it from any subsequent attempts on his life. As she and her team are only recent arrivals themselves, Windblade has been informed of this by Metroplex himself, who communicates in patterns of color and light that flash on his brain—the trio are actually members of [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]]'s crew who came to Metroplex's aid at the request of [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], who was unable to help his longtime partner because he was "close to finding the Holy Grail". Remembering the ''[[Lost Light]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s own previous encounter with Thunderclash and how they used its quantum engines to give his ship the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]'' a power boost, Magnus organizes a repeat of that procedure, with Metroplex as the recipient of the quantum energy. Using the alien sea as a conduit for the energy, Magnus tries to wake Metroplex, calling on him to use the ship's power to teleport them all home.

Things aren't going too well back on Cybertron, where doctors [[Flatline (G1)|Flatline]] and [[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]] are arguing, the attack on the Necrotitan isn't even registering (much to [[Slag (G1)|Slug]]'s annoyance), and an [[energon]] leak in a burning building causes an explosion that takes out Arcee and Ironhide. Unable to follow the logic of Shockwave's moves, Prowl questions Soundwave in hopes of gaining more information, but the spymaster has no clue as to his goals, only a belief they can defeat him. Prowl, on the other hand, believes that they will need a miracle... at which point, having chosen his moment rather carefully for maximum drama, Megatron has Bumblebee carry him into view. Prowl is ready to start shooting, but Megatron offers up a plan: evacuate all survivors to [[Moonbase Two|Luna-2]], gather all other Decepticon soldiers out in space, and strike back. Bumblebee refuses to retreat, scoffing at Megatron's attestation that he fights for freedom, and insists they will make a stand... and just as his speech concludes, the familiar light of a quantum jump appears in the sky, and the ''Lost Light'' and a functioning Metroplex appear!

==Featured characters==
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*[[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] (2)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (6)
*[[Slag (G1)|Slug]] (7)
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (9)
*[[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] (10)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ironhide]] (11)
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (12)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (13)
*[[Nautica]] (14)
*[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] (15)
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]] (16)
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*[[Getaway]] (17)
*[[Brainstorm]] (18)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (19)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (20)
*[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] (21)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (22)
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (24)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (26)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]] (28)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] (29)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (30)
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*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (32)
*[[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]] (34)
{{!}}}
|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (8)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (37)
*[[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] (38)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (39)
*[[Acid Storm (G1)|Acid Storm]] (40)

|c4=
*[[Necrotitan]] (3)
*[[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (4)
*[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (5)
*[[Ammonite]]s (23)
*[[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] (25)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] (27)
*[[Nova Prime]] (31)
*[[Flatline (G1)|Flatline]] (33)
*[[Sky-Byte (G2)|Sky-Byte]] (35)
*[[Scoop (G1)|Scoop]] (36)
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (41)

}}

==Quotes==

"Easy does it, Kup. Are you alright? Can you stand?" 
"Can I stand? Can I '''stand?''' Kid, I've been standin' since before it was '''fashionable.'''" 
"But are you '''feeling''' okay?" 
"I've had worse than '''this'''. I've been spiked by '''Squadron X''', dipped in the '''smeltin' pool''', framed for treason, shot into the sun—and I was the only 'bot still trapped inside the '''Nightmare Engine''' when everyone else '''woke up.''' I've seen off every rinky-dink, two-bit, catchpenny Decepticon rust-poker, and I got the dents in my knuckles to prove it. End of the day? I'm ready for anything you can throw at me."
:—'''Nightbeat''' sets up '''Kup''' up for a pretty badass speech.

"I get the feeling that every second we're not on Cybertron, we're playing into Shockwave's hands." 
''(pause)'' 
"Hand."
:—'''Ultra Magnus'''. Dohohohoho!

"Trion was '''flustered.''' He could feel Metroplex was '''hurting''' but couldn't go to his aid because... what was it he said, Chromia?" 
"I wasn't listening. He was being all '''faux-enigmatic''' and I wanted to lamp him."
:—'''Nautica''' and '''Chromia'''

'''Prowl:''' "Unless your faith can conjure up a '''miracle''', Cybertron is going to fall." 
'''Megatron:''' "I've been called many things... but never '''that'''. Not by an '''Autobot''', anyway." 
'''Bumblebee:''' "He had me waiting there for like '''twenty seconds''' for a '''dramatic''' entrance."

"The '''people''' are my utmost concern. I've led an army battling for '''freedom''' for '''millions''' of years—" 
"No, that's '''not''' what you led '''at all'''. You were a gang of '''destroyers''', ravaging the galaxy in the name of a '''cause''' you'd '''forgotten'''—except when you needed an '''excuse.'''"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Bumblebee'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Nautica initially mistakes Ratchet for his fellow medical practitioner [[Pharma (G1)|Pharma]], who has put in previous appearances in issues [[Life After the Big Bang|#4]]-[[How Ratchet Got His Hands Back|5]] and [[Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|#17]]-[[Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|21]]. In fact, in real life Alex Milne based Pharma's head off of Ratchet's, giving an intentional similarity to signify their shared history.
*Overlord's rampage took place in [[Under Cold Blue Stars|issue #15]]; Rodimus's involvement in his presence was revealed in issue #21. We didn't see him reveal this secret to the rest of the crew on-panel, but the voting was hinted at back in [[Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|Chapter 3]] of the event, when a large "VOTE" appeared on the ship's noticeboard.
*Kup references [[Squadron X]], the Decepticon commando group featured in ''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'', and the mysterious [[Nightmare Engine]], also mentioned in that series and in [[The Gloaming|issue #16]].
*Thunderclash, the ''Vis Vitalis'', and the quantum engine boosting procedure appeared in [[Little Victories|issue #22]].
*Alpha Trion chronologically last appeared in the ''[[The Transformers: Ironhide|Ironhide]]'' mini-series, in which he was first seen working with Metroplex; ''[[Omega's Conundrum|Spotlight: Orion Pax]]'' expanded on the pair's relationship to show how long they had been working together.
*Flatline is not impressed with Fixit's med-trailer, which we saw in ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Second Exodus|issue #18]].
*Flatline also references the plights of [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], who has been offline since [[The End of the Beginning of the World|''Robots in Disguise'' #11]], and the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], who were gravely wounded in [[Plan for Everything|issue #15]].
*Megatron notes that he has other soldiers out in space in addition to the [[Decepticon Justice Division]]; it's unlikely he's referring to them specifically, but we saw that there were indeed groups of other Decepticons who hadn't returned to Cybertron when we met the [[Scavenger (group)|Scavengers]] in [[Rules of Disengagement (issue)|issue #7]], and then later with the group occupying [[Temptoria]] in [[Before & After|issue #12]].

===Transformers references===
*[[Simon Furman]] created the idea of the Crisis Act in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel Comics]] issue "[[The Pri¢e of Life!]]", in which Kup threatened to invoke it and relieve Optimus Prime of command. James Roberts made use of the concept once before, in his unofficial novel, ''Eugenesis'', in which it was Prowl's leadership put to the vote.

===Real-world references===
*This issue takes its title from the [[Wikipedia:William Blake|William Blake]] poem, "[[Wikipedia: The Tyger|The Tyger]]", which contains the line: "Tyger, Tyger, burning bright/In the forests of the night."
*Brainstorm scans Metroplex's brain module with a P.K.E. Meter from the [[wikipedia:Ghostbusters|Ghostbusters]] franchise.
*When she and Nautica are leading Ratchet and Ultra Magnus to Metroplex's brain, Chromia sarcastically refers to her commander, Windblade, as "She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named", a reference to the character of Voldemort, the primary antagonist in the ''Harry Potter'' series, who is often referred to in-story as "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named."

===Errors===
*The final page informs readers the story "Continues in Transformers: Robots in Disguise #27!", but Chapter 9 is actually Transformers: Robots in Disguise #26.
*Being that they are from a colony world that was settled before the great war, when the Autobots and Decepticons didn't exist as factions, Nautica, Chromia and Windblade '''shouldn't have''' Autobrands. It's possible that they took them when they joined with Thunderclash, but it has not, as yet, been explained how the [[Caminus|Camiens]] became Autobots.
*On the penultimate page, Starscream suddenly appears for a single panel behind Megatron. The next issue shows that he's still at the medcenter in Iacon.

===Edits===
Similar to the [[pack-in material|pack-in]] versions of various other existing IDW comics, the version of this issue available with the ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Deluxe Class [[Windblade (G1)#Generations|Windblade]] toy was also subject to some changes:
*Multiple edits right on page 1 (not counting the "previously" page): In panel 3, Megatron's first speech bubble completely omits the sentence "I'd say we're '''both''' full of something.", with the speech bubble itself resized accordingly; in the same panel, Bumblebee's speech bubble has the sentence "If it's '''alive''', we can '''kill''' it." changed to "If it's '''alive''', we can '''destroy''' it.", without the speech bubble itself being resized; in panel 4, Megatron's second speech bubble is changed from "Shockwave's ores control '''life''' and '''death'''—and his monster has '''both''' running through its veins." to "Shockwave's ores control '''life'''—and his monster has more than '''that''' running through its veins.", with the speech bubble itself resized accordingly; Megatron's subsequent speech bubble in the same panel is shortened from "We '''can't''' kill it because it '''isn't''' alive. It isn't '''anything'''." to simply "It '''isn't''' alive. It isn't '''anything'''.", with the speech bubble itself resized accordingly; and lastly, in panel 5, Bumblebee's speech bubble is changed from "So you just want to let everybody '''die''', let Cybertron '''fall'''?" to "So you just want to let everybody down, let Cybertron '''fall'''?", without the speech bubble itself being resized.
*Three edits on page 3: Rattrap's second speech bubble in panel 2 (with panel 1 being the two-page spread across pages 2 and 3) is changed from "Guys're dyin' out dere." to "It's lookin' bad out dere.", with the speech bubble itself resized accordingly; Starscream's second speech bubble in panel 3 has "guessing '''what's''' going to kill me" changed to "guessing '''what's''' going to destroy me", without the speech bubble itself being resized; and his third speech bubble in the same panel has "you putting a '''bullet''' in my spark" changed to "you '''blasting''' my spark", also without the speech bubble itself being resized.
*On page 4, Starscream's first speech bubble in panel 2 has "big purple '''killing machine'''" changed to "big purple '''destruction machine'''", with the speech bubble itself resized accordingly.
*On page 5, Prowl's first speech bubble in panel 3 has "Starscream—either lay down and '''die'''" changed to "Starscream—either give up", with the speech bubble itself resized accordingly.
*On page 7, Ultra Magnus's speech bubble in panel 1 is changed from "Ammonites…" to "Minicons…", without the speech bubble itself being resized.
*Three edits on page 10, all of them without the speech bubbles themselves being resized: In panel 1, Cyclonus's first speech bubble is changed from "Shoot on—*kaff*—sight?" to "Blast on—*kaff*—sight?"; Optimus Prime's second speech bubble in the same panel is changed from "I can't imaginge anything trying to enter this room that doesn't want to kill us…" to "I can't imaginge anything trying to enter this room that doesn't want to destroy us…"; and Rodimus's third speech bubble in panel 3 completely omits the words "and people died".
*One small edit and one major edit on page 15: In panel 1, Brainstorm's first speech bubble has "In fact, here '''sucks'''." changed to "In fact, here '''stinks'''."; and in panel 3, Windblade's first speech bubble completely omits the sentence "At this rate, Metroplex is going to die out here, millions of miles from home.", with the speech bubble massively resized and both Ultra Magnus's first speech bubble and Windblade's second speech bubble moved further up. Because the sentence it would have followed up on is now missing, Ultra Magnus's speech bubble also begins with "Maybe. But" instead of "Maybe not." On the other hand, the name "Ammonites" in Brainstorm's second speech bubble in panel 1 ''isn't'' changed to "Minicons", as it was on page 7.
*On page 17, Fixit's first speech bubble in panel 4 has "this flatline idiot" shortened to simply "this '''flatline'''", with the word boldfaced for emphasis and the speech bubble itself not resized.
*On page 18, Slag/Slug's second speech bubble in panel 2 is changed from "Hey"! '''Hey, jerk!'''" to "Hey! '''Hey, you!'''"
*On page 20, Prowl's speech bubble in panel 3 has "convince me not to start '''shooting'''" changed to "convince me not to start '''blasting'''".

===Trivia===
*Artist breakdown: No surprises here—Rojo on Cybertron, Raiz on the ''Lost Light'', Ramondelli on the Dead Universe.
*This issue marks the first appearance of Windblade, the first "Fan-Built Bot", who received her own [[Windblade (G1)#Generations|toy]] in the ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' line as part of Hasbro'''s [[Thrilling 30]]'' celebration, and unsurprisingly, this issue came packaged with her figure. However, this issue would begin a trend that carried through to the end of "Dark Cybertron", where the packaging art of other, unrelated characters was featured on one of the variant covers, rather than the relevant character the comic was packed with, as had been the case for the first half of the crossover—perhaps suggesting that the planned order for the toys had become uncertain, requiring "emergency" fill-ins. For this issue, Jiminez's packaging art of Legends Class ''Generations'' Tailgate is used for the subscription cover.

===Covers (4)===
*'''Cover A:''' Prowl and Soundwave stare up at the Necrotitan as Iacon burns, by [[Casey Coller]] and [[Joana Lafuente]]
*'''Sub cover:''' A rather beefy Tailgate by [[Phil Jimenez]] and [[Romulo Fajardo Jr.]]
*'''Cover RI:''' Windblade, Nautica and Chromia, by [[Alex Milne]] and [[Josh Perez]]
*'''Hasbro exclusive cover:''' Windblade by [[Phil Jimenez]] and [[Romulo Fajardo Jr.]], exclusively available with ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Deluxe Class [[Windblade (G1)#Generations|Windblade]].
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The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 2

2015-03-04T05:07:57Z

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{{comicstory|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection]]''
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|next=The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 3
|image=IDWCollectionP2V2.jpg
|title=''The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 2''
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[August 4]], [[2015]] <ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-IDW-Collection-Phase-Two/dp/1631403648 Amazon Listing]</ref>
|writers=[[Chris Metzen]], [[Flint Dille]], [[James Roberts]] and [[John Barber]]
|artists=[[Livio Ramondelli]], [[Matt Frank]], [[Agustin Padilla]], [[Alex Milne]], [[Brendan Cahill]] and [[Andrew Griffith]]
|pencils=[[Steve Kurth]]
|inks=[[Juan Castro]]
|colours=[[Thomas Deer]], [[Joana Lafuente]], [[Josh Burcham]], [[Josh Perez]], [[Jesus Aburtov]] and [[Graphikslava]]
|letterers=[[Robbie Robbins]], [[Shawn Lee]] and [[Chris Mowry]]
|editors=John Barber and [[Carlos Guzman]]
|pagecount=332
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity]]
|price=$49.99 USD
|ISBN=ISBN 1631403648 ISBN 978-1631403644
}}
'''''The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 2''''', published by [[IDW Publishing]], is the tenth in a series of hardcovers aiming to reprint the IDW G1 Transformers stories in a "suggested reading order".

==Contents==
*"[[The Transformers: Autocracy]]"
*"[[The Reluctant Specialist|The Transformers Spotlight: Trailcutter]]"
*"[[The Waiting Game|The Transformers Spotlight: Hoist]]"
*''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye]]'' #6–8
*''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' #7–9
*"[[Omega's Conundrum|The Transformers Spotlight: Orion Pax]]"

==References==
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All Hail Megatron issue 6

2014-09-07T16:52:06Z

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|caption=Kid friendly, mother approved!
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[January 2]], [[2009]]
|coverdate=January 2009
|written by=[[Shane McCarthy]]
|art by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|colors by=[[Josh Burcham]]
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]] & [[Chris Mowry]]
|edits by=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
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'''Man, conquest and victory can be short and very bitter!'''

==Synopsis==
On [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] discuss the [[Autobot]]s' dire situation, with Kup mentioning to Jazz how the ''[[Trion]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s computer systems were hacked by the [[Decepticon]]s' secret Autobot informant. Kup also mentions that before the crash, he received messages from other Autobots being attacked. After that, he makes the decision to merge the two Autobot groups into one, also making Jazz as his second-in-command. [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] comes in, mentioning that [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] should be second-in-command, but Kup says that Springer can handle not being selected. Jazz tries to question the decision, but Kup tells him to save it. Prowl tells Jazz that he was trying to help, but it appears it did more harm than good.

On [[Earth]], [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] is in [[Israel]], thinking back to a conversation he had with [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]], who said that although they had managed to attack and conquer much of Earth, Megatron's speeches weren't enough and it wasn't clear what they should do next. Megatron told Starscream that the Decepticons should embrace their victory, but Starscream pointed out that he himself was the fool, because the victory looked more like a distraction. Megatron's thoughts are interrupted by an Israeli air strike against him.

In [[Beijing]], [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] is having an argument with [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] about how he has killed just under half of Beijing's population and now doesn't mind killing Bombshell next. Bombshell replies by trying to play mind games with Skywarp, but it doesn't work. Skywarp hasn't liked Bombshell from day one and says that if Bombshell wanted attention, he isn't going to get it. Bombshell retorts that [[Constructicon (G1)|new favorites]] have replaced the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] in Megatron's eyes, to which Skywarp responds by blasting him.

Skywarp dares Bombshell to fire back, but before Bombshell does so, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] aims his weapon at the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]'s head. [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] and [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] arrive to save Bombshell, but Skywarp appears behind them, thanks to his teleportation skills. The Insecticons flee, and Skywarp is thrilled that he scared them off, but Thundercracker isn't impressed. Skywarp is upset at Thundercracker, saying that it felt like old times, but he transforms and flies away, noting that with Thundercracker being unhappy and Starscream being absent all the time, he's starting to feel alone.

Back on Cybertron, Prowl asks Kup if he's going to tell the Autobots about the [[Matrix of Leadership]] being stolen from [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] by Megatron. Kup decides not to for now, fearing that all the years of endless fighting, with no homeland and no rest, are starting to wear them thin. The only thing that holds the Autobots together is purity from the Matrix. Kup says that the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] started over the Matrix and what it represented. Although they don't have the Matrix, they still have Prime, and Megatron can't destroy the Matrix because of how old it is; as long as the Autobots have Prime, the line can't be broken. Throughout Cybertronian history, a Prime has guided Cybertron, representing their highest ideal, which they believe is something greater than the Decepticons.

[[File:Allhailmegatron6-omgdriftomg.jpg|left|200px|thumb|He's totally in my face!]]

The Matrix is their connection and their way back, and without it, old arguments will escalate into feuds, feuds into battles, and battles will lead to new factions. Kup says that they were storing the ''Trion''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[energon]] for rebuilding the ship, but their focus now is Optimus Prime. The decision is made to fix Prime and regroup, while Kup tells Jazz to sort himself out and follow the chain of command. Outside, [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] have a chat. Ironhide is just about to mention something, when they both notice something watching them. It's a [[Insecticon swarm|swarm]] scout, a group of Insecticon clones horrifyingly mishmashed into one monstrosity. Jazz wants to send some Autobots to take care of it, but [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] and [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] handle it. Kup decides that being outside is dangerous and that Drift will handle patrol duties.

Back on Earth, Megatron swiftly decimates the Israeli Air Force with ease, while thinking about the conversation with Starscream again. Starscream tried to tell Megatron that he only has himself to blame for building an army and feeding his doctrine to them, but Megatron interrupted by saying that even in victory, one can't contain content. Starscream wondered how long it would be before the Decepticons realized that the battle was going nowhere for them, to which Megatron replied that Cybertron is gone and that Earth will be their new seat of power and galactic domination. They had managed to conquer [[New York City]], which was one of their strategic placements, and to hold the world hostage. Starscream walked away, saying that Megatron was stalling, wryly noting Megatron's worst move was to win. Blitzwing interrupts Megatron's thoughts, saying that the others have been looking for him. Megatron tells him that he wanted to be alone to think and to prepare. Blitzwing tries to tell him that Soundwave's cassettes should have helped, but Megatron is Megatron, and the humans were of no threat to him.

In [[Versailles]], [[France]], a group of world leaders are casually enjoying tea and discussing their [[Anton|families]] before turning their attentions to the threat that the world faces. With New York, Beijing, and Israel gone, the world's countries have decided to unite and plan a powerful counterattack. Faced with little alternative, the world leaders have reached a decision: New York City is to be nuked!

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*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (1)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (2)
*[[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] (3)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (11)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hot Rod]] (12)
*[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] (13)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] (14)
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (15)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (16)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (17)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (18)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (19)
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (20)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (21)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (22)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (23)
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (24)
*[[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (26)

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*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (4)
*[[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (5)
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (6)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (7)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (8)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (9)
*[[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (10)
*[[Insecticon swarm]] (25)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (27)
}}

==Notes==
* This issue was released in Canada on December 31. It was released in the United States on January 2, due to Christmas and New Year's Day.
* [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] exists in this continuity and is a Decepticon; this is all that remains of a plot Hasbro wouldn't let Shane do.<ref>[http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=11723 The Moonbase 2 presents an interview with Shane McCarthy]</ref> In #14 of this series, the latter part will be contradicted.
* Skywarp says that in an hour, he has killed just under half the population of Beijing on his own. That's just under 8,715,000 people. ''Holy crap!'' You better hope he was exaggerating to look big!

===Errors===
* On page 8, Shrapnel is to Kickback's left at first, but on the next panel he is suddenly to Kickback's right.
* On page 12, the word "feuds" is misspelled "fueds" twice.
* Page 12 also sees a tense error: the feud is meant to be in the possible future, yet 'gave' is used rather than 'give'.
* Kup claims the Great War started over the Matrix and what it represented, contradicting the war origin as given in ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]'', where it began over widespread institutional corruption in Cybertron's society and oppression of a sub-class. This would be smoothed over and made to work together a few years later in "[[Chaos Theory Part 2]]", in which the aforementioned excessive oppression was revealed to be an effect of draconian security measures introduced by the [[Senate]] as part of their attempt to sequester Matrix bearer [[Nominus Prime]] and gain control over the Matrix's power, indirectly making the talisman responsible for the war.

===Covers===
*'''Cover A''': Drift kneeling, while Hot Rod and Springer fire away; art by [[Casey Coller]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].
*'''Cover B''': Swarm of Insecticons; art by [[Trevor Hutchison]].
*'''Cover RI''': Pencil sketch of Kup by Guido Guidi.

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Image:All_Hail_Megatron_06_B.jpg|Where's the [[robotic insecticide]]?
Image:All_Hail_Megatron_06_RI.jpg|Kup's so old, he was around before color.
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Drift issue 3

2014-09-05T17:08:46Z

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|caption=Lockdown ate all my Energon Pocky. He must pay.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[October 6]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=October 2010
|written by=[[Shane McCarthy]]
|art by=[[Alex Milne]]
|colors by=[[Josh Perez]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|edits by=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|editorial consultant=[[Andy Schmidt]]
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'''Caught between two sides, Drift has a decision to make...'''

==Synopsis==

After his meeting with [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]] and the slavers, [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] heads back to the [[Crystal City]]. In an internal monologue, he questions why people fight and what it actually achieves. In the tunnels he's confronted by [[Wing (G1)|Wing]] who expresses his disappointment that Drift escaped to the surface. Drift reminds him that he's a [[Decepticon]]. Drift then questions Wing's motives and points out he's a knight but he breaks the knights' rules. Wing states that his highest aspiration is helping others, and that he thinks it's the right thing to do. Drift then transforms and speeds off to the council chamber. Confronting the council, Drift states that they're all in danger from the army of slavers waiting to take the city. When [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]] asks how he could know this, Drift admits to making a deal to sell them out in exchange for his freedom.

In a flashback to the night before, [[Braid]] and Lockdown discuss how Drift was formerly a great Decepticon warrior who fought by [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s side. Deadlock then tells how Megatron is aware of Drift's (then Deadlock) spat with [[Turmoil]] so he dispatched Deadlock to bring him in unharmed, revealing he's too valuable to let go. Drift is dubious of the deal. Braid explains how the slavers have similarities with Cybertronians. After many years of war, the Slavers emerged victorious with the one ambition of achieving immortality. They do this by combing the galaxy in search of lifeforms they can study and use to upgrade their own bodies. The Slavers have set their targets on Cybertronians after observing their resilience under war-time conditions. Noting that Drift has undergone extensive repairs since their last meeting, Braid concludes there's a large number of other Cybertronians on the planet. If Drift will reveal their location, Braid promises him freedom in exchange. Together with Lockdown, they plan an ambush.

Back in the council chamber, Dai Atlas is distrustful of Drift's explanation, pulling his sword on the one-time Decepticon. Explaining what happened, Drift urges the council to prepare for war, only to get backhanded by Dai Atlas who orders Drift be locked up. When one of the council members questions Drift's loyalty to the knights, Drift explains that he had an epiphany about how Crystal City represents everything he's ever been searching for. He also explains that the city's time is running out and they need to fight. Dai Atlas still refuses to fight, while Wing and some of the other members are coming round to Drift's suggestion.

Drift confronts Dai Atlas over his refusal to protect the city and goes so far as to accuse him of cowardice. Dai Atlas admits he'd rather hide than risk turning out like Drift. Wing then summons Drift to ask him to send the false coordinates. The rest of the Cybertronians position a crashed ship they can use as a distraction from the real city. The decoy rises to the desert surface with Braid, Lockdown and the Slaver army marching down on it. Axe announces a rebuilt Drift as the group's final member. Drift reflects that although he's fought in countless battles, none are like the one he's about to face.

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|c2=
* [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (1)
*[[Octane (G1)|Octane]] (5)
*[[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (6)
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (7)
* [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]] (8)
|c4=
* [[Wing (G1)|Wing]] (2)
* [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]] (3)
* [[Axe (G1)|Axe]] (4)
* [[Braid]] (9)
}}

==Quotes==
"Megatron clearly has faith in you. Let's hope it's not misplaced."
:—'''Lockdown''' has his doubts.

"I '''had''' to do it. I'm not '''going''' to do it, but I had to make them '''think''' that I would." 
"Confusing statements aren’t exactly in your best interest right now."
:—'''Drift''' tries to explain his plan to '''Dai Atlas''' and fails

"What has all that fighting done to you, Dai Atlas? Made you a coward?" 
"Maybe…But I'll take that over the alternative. Look what it did to you."
:—'''Drift''' tries to goad '''Dai Atlas''' into action and fails.

==Notes==
===Errors===
* Not in the comic itself, but the 5-page preview in the back for the [[Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|''Transformers: Prime'' comic]] calls it "Transforms: Prime".

===Covers(2)===
*'''Cover A:''' Drift and Lockdown standing back-to-back; art by [[Alex Milne]], colors by [[Josh Perez]].
*'''Cover RI:''' Dai Atlas standing over Drift; art by [[Guido Guidi]], colors by Josh Perez.

<gallery>
Image:Transformers Drift Issue 3 Cover A.jpg
Image:Transformers Drift Issue 3 Cover RI.jpg
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
*''[[Drift issue 4|Drift'' #4]]
*IDW comics on iPhone
* ''[[Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime]]'' comic 5-page preview

===Reprints===
*[[2011]] — ''[[The Transformers: Drift]]''
*[[2011]] — ''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Four]]''
*[[2013]] — ''[[The Transformers: Complete Drift]]''

[[Category:Drift issues]]

Spotlight: Grimlock

2014-09-02T05:29:26Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{comicstory|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Spotlight]]'' #14
|prev=Spotlight: Mirage
|next=Spotlight: Wheelie
|title="The Transformers: Spotlight: Grimlock"
|image=Spotlightgrimlock.jpg
|caption=Me Grimlock star, Scorponok. Slag off!!!!!
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[April 23]], [[2008]]
|coverdate=March 2008
|written by=[[Simon Furman]]
|art by=[[Marcelo Matere]]
|colors by=[[Zac Atkinson (colorist)|Zac Atkinson]], [[Liam Shalloo]] and [[Andrew Elder]]
|letters by=[[Amauri Osorio]]
|edits by=[[Andrew Steven Harris]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline#Revelation|Revelation]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
}}
'''If even Grimlock gets a Spotlight, what chance then, do we have?'''

==Synopsis==
[[Joshua Red|Agent Red]] and [[Skywatch]] scientist [[Weston]] discuss activating [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Red feels the recent [[Transformer|extraterrestrial robotic]] activity is a precursor for an invasion and wants Grimlock under their control to help counter the threat. Weston urges caution, stating that the [[Ravage (G1)|other]] [[Laserbeak (G1)|robots]] under their control have gone rogue and fears the same with "Thunder-Lizard 1". Red considers this but gives the orders to begin the process.

Grimlock is zapped with electricity, which activates his memories—one where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] lambastes him for insubordination, one where he tells his [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]] not to mind Prime since their controversial methods work, and one of the battle against [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] and their subsequent entombment in lava. With this, Grimlock awakens and breaks his restraints; after a brief skirmish with security, he escapes the facility. Agent Red tells Weston to find out what went wrong and "fix it" so that they can try again with the other "Thunder Lizards". A Skywatch employee named [[Kloss]] ducks into a room and calls the [[Machination]], revealing that a planted virus has had the desired effect on Grimlock and that he is "yours for the taking",

As Grimlock makes his way down the streets and through inhabited areas, he wonders what the local [[human]]s are, and notes that his vocal processor is damaged and his internal chronometer and sensors are not fully functional. He does, however have a transporter chip he can use to recall him to his ship, the ''[[Skyfire (ship)|Skyfire]]'', but he assumes it's been destroyed.

[[Abraham Dante]] combines with [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and transports to the [[Lahontan Dam]], where Grimlock has arrived. Grimlock takes an aggressive stance, but Scorponok tells him that his Dynobots are dead and that [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] has him on the list of wanted [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronians]]. He asks Grimlock to join him in the Machination plot to dominate [[Earth]] by running interference and delaying [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s plans long enough for the Machination to put their plans into action.

Grimlock considers for a second, but smashes Scorponok in the face. He refuses the offer for two reasons: he could turn Scorponok in to Ultra Magnus for redemption, and as revenge for Scorponok once robbing an installation the Dynobots were guarding. The two do battle and Scorponok quickly gains the upper hand, mostly due to his [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] upgrade. To be fair, though, Grimlock's out of ammo.

As Scorponok chokes Grimlock, Grimlock nearly passes out, but remembers having betrayed the Dynobots in their battle with Shockwave, dooming them to a living death. He activates his transporter chip, which remarkably still works, beaming him back to the ''Skyfire'', which is somewhere buried in ice. He hopes he can use the ship to find the other Dynobots, make his peace, and bring the Machination down.

As scientists repair the damage to Dante, he is informed that Skywatch have begun work on the remaining Dynobots. He instructs Kloss to install software that will let Skywatch believe they have control of the robots, while they will be used to dispose of their former leader.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] (5)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (9)
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (10)
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (11)
*[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (12)
|c2=
*[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] (4)
*[[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (6)
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (7)
*[[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] (13)
*[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (16)
*[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] (17)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (18)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (19)
|c3=
*[[Joshua Red]] (2)
*[[Weston]] (3)
*[[Kloss]] (14)
*[[Abraham Dante]] (15)
|c4=
*[[Reaper]]s (8)
}}

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
* Despite a rather purposeful moment commenting on a damaged vocal processor, Grimlock speaks in perfectly normal speech here, as he did in ''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]''.
* Joshua Red bluntly states that, following ''[[The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'', the Transformers are public knowledge. Turns out [[All Hail Megatron issue 1|he didn't clear this with IDW]].

===Transformers references===
* The Dynobots' ship is named the ''Skyfire'', a homage to [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]'s name in the cartoon, and like Skyfire in that continuity, it ends up frozen beneath polar ice.

===Real-life references===
*Whilst on his rampage, Grimlock passes a jeep with the [[Jurassic Park]] logo on its spare tyre.

===Trivia===
* After the story is an [[IDWords]] section about ''[[Transformers: The Reign of Starscream|The Reign of Starscream]]''.
* Contains the ''[[Transformers: Mosaic]]'' "Rank".
* Advertisements originally stated that Grimlock and Mirage's ''Spotlight''s were "1 of 2" and "2 of 2", respectively, due in March 2008. Due to a delay in Grimlock's, Mirage's was released first (March 5) and Grimlock's was pushed back to 7 weeks later.<ref>http://idwpublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=64871#64871 IDW forums, Mar 24, 2008</ref> Amusingly, both the Mirage ad and the "[[Focus on: Decepticons!]]" ad retain their "March 2008" notes. Even the IDWords section features releases for March.
* It is a common misconception that all of the pages that were of an inferior visual quality were done by Liam Shalloo who, by his own admission, was drunk when working on this issue. However, the pages in question were colored by one of the other colorists on the book.<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55750 Liam Shalloo points out the misconception on the Allspark forums.]</ref>

===Errors===
* The door that Kloss walks through has a hand-scrawled "Control Room" sign on it, with a still-visible artist's note below to "put better font".
* Grimlock's internal monologue, speculating about taking the captive Scorponok back to Cybertron, is incorrectly shown as a speech balloon attributed to Scorponok.
* One of Grimlock's captions typos "strength" as "strenght" (amusingly, it's shortly after he notes damage to his vocal processor). This was corrected for the trade paperback release.
* As Scorponok boasts about his upgraded speed, his speech balloon is partially cut off at the edge of the page, truncating some words. This was fixed for the trade paperback release.

===Covers (2)===
* '''Cover A:''' Grimlock in front of Scorponok's shadow; art by Marcelo Matere.
* '''Cover RI:''' B&W sketch of cover A.

{{note|A second cover image by Marcelo Matere (third image in gallery) was solicited, featuring Grimlock's dinosaur head breaking through an image of the Dynobots' robot heads. However, this cover was apparently not released at retail, and is not included on the cover checklist on the inside front cover. The cover was recycled and used for the third Spotlight trade paperback, though.}}

<gallery>
Image:Spotlightgrimlock.jpg|
Image:SpotlightGrimlock_cover_RI.jpg|
Image:SpotlightGrimlock cover2.jpg|Now we know where BotCon got the idea for Shattered Glass.
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
* ''[[Spotlight: Mirage]]''
* "[[Focus on: Decepticons!]]"
* ''[[Transformers: The Reign of Starscream|The Reign of Starscream]]''
* ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' [[Classic Transformers Volume 1|Volume 1]] TPB
* ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending|The Ascending]]'' and ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering]]'' TPBs
* ''[[Target: 2006]]'' TPB
* ''[[The Art of IDW's Transformers]]''
* ''Obscure: The Aftermath'' game
* ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' books (back cover)

===Reprints===
*[[2008]] — ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight|The Transformers: Spotlight Volume 3]]''
*[[2009]] — ''[[The Transformers: The Premiere Collection Volume 2]]''
*[[2010]] — ''[[The Transformers: Best of Grimlock]]''
*[[2011]] — ''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Three]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Spotlight issues|Grimlock]]

Spotlight: Grimlock

2014-09-02T05:29:13Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{comicstory|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Spotlight]]'' #14
|prev=Spotlight: Mirage
|next=Spotlight: Wheelie
|title="The Transformers: Spotlight: Grimlock"
|image=Spotlightgrimlock.jpg
|caption=Me Grimlock star, Scorponok. Slag off!!!!!
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[April 23]], [[2008]]
|coverdate=March 2008
|written by=[[Simon Furman]]
|art by=[[Marcelo Matere]]
|colors by=[[Zac Atkinson (colorist)|Zac Atkinson]], [[Liam Shalloo]] and [[Andrew Elder]]
|letters by=[[Amauri Osorio]]
|edits by=[[Andrew Steven Harris]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline#Revelation|Revelation]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
}}
'''If even Grimlock gets a Spotlight, what chance then, do we have?'''

==Synopsis==
[[Joshua Red|Agent Red]] and [[Skywatch]] scientist [[Weston]] discuss activating [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. Red feels the recent [[Transformer|extraterrestrial robotic]] activity is a precursor for an invasion and wants Grimlock under their control to help counter the threat. Weston urges caution, stating that the [[Ravage (G1)|other]] [[Laserbeak (G1)|robots]] under their control have gone rogue and fears the same with "Thunder-Lizard 1". Red considers this but gives the orders to begin the process.

Grimlock is zapped with electricity, which activates his memories—one where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] lambastes him for insubordination, one where he tells his [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]] not to mind Prime since their controversial methods work, and one of the battle against [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] and their subsequent entombment in lava. With this, Grimlock awakens and breaks his restraints; after a brief skirmish with security, he escapes the facility. Agent Red tells Weston to find out what went wrong and "fix it" so that they can try again with the other "Thunder Lizards". A Skywatch employee named [[Kloss]] ducks into a room and calls the [[Machination]], revealing that a planted virus has had the desired effect on Grimlock and that he is "yours for the taking",

As Grimlock makes his way down the streets and through inhabited areas, he wonders what the local [[human]]s are, and notes that his vocal processor is damaged and his internal chronometer and sensors are not fully functional. He does, however have a transporter chip he can use to recall him to his ship, the ''[[Skyfire (ship)|Skyfire]]'', but he assumes it's been destroyed.

[[Abraham Dante]] combines with [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and transports to the [[Lahontan Dam]], where Grimlock has arrived. Grimlock takes an aggressive stance, but Scorponok tells him that his Dynobots are dead and that [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] has him on the list of wanted [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronians]]. He asks Grimlock to join him in the Machination plot to dominate [[Earth]] by running interference and delaying [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s plans long enough for the Machination to put their plans into action.

Grimlock considers for a second, but smashes Scorponok in the face. He refuses the offer for two reasons: he could turn Scorponok in to Ultra Magnus for redemption, and as revenge for Scorponok once robbing an installation the Dynobots were guarding. The two do battle and Scorponok quickly gains the upper hand, mostly due to his [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] upgrade. To be fair, though, Grimlock's out of ammo.

As Scorponok chokes Grimlock, Grimlock nearly passes out, but remembers having betrayed the Dynobots in their battle with Shockwave, dooming them to a living death. He activates his transporter chip, which remarkably still works, beaming him back to the ''Skyfire'', which is somewhere buried in ice. He hopes he can use the ship to find the other Dynobots, make his peace, and bring the Machination down.

As scientists repair the damage to Dante, he is informed that Skywatch have begun work on the remaining Dynobots. He instructs Kloss to install software that will let Skywatch believe they have control of the robots, while they will be used to dispose of their former leader.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] (5)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (9)
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (10)
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (11)
*[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (12)
|c2=
*[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] (4)
*[[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] (6)
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (7)
*[[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] (13)
*[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (16)
*[[Runamuck (G1)/Runamuck]] (17)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (18)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (19)
|c3=
*[[Joshua Red]] (2)
*[[Weston]] (3)
*[[Kloss]] (14)
*[[Abraham Dante]] (15)
|c4=
*[[Reaper]]s (8)
}}

==Notes==

===Continuity notes===
* Despite a rather purposeful moment commenting on a damaged vocal processor, Grimlock speaks in perfectly normal speech here, as he did in ''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]''.
* Joshua Red bluntly states that, following ''[[The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'', the Transformers are public knowledge. Turns out [[All Hail Megatron issue 1|he didn't clear this with IDW]].

===Transformers references===
* The Dynobots' ship is named the ''Skyfire'', a homage to [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]'s name in the cartoon, and like Skyfire in that continuity, it ends up frozen beneath polar ice.

===Real-life references===
*Whilst on his rampage, Grimlock passes a jeep with the [[Jurassic Park]] logo on its spare tyre.

===Trivia===
* After the story is an [[IDWords]] section about ''[[Transformers: The Reign of Starscream|The Reign of Starscream]]''.
* Contains the ''[[Transformers: Mosaic]]'' "Rank".
* Advertisements originally stated that Grimlock and Mirage's ''Spotlight''s were "1 of 2" and "2 of 2", respectively, due in March 2008. Due to a delay in Grimlock's, Mirage's was released first (March 5) and Grimlock's was pushed back to 7 weeks later.<ref>http://idwpublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=64871#64871 IDW forums, Mar 24, 2008</ref> Amusingly, both the Mirage ad and the "[[Focus on: Decepticons!]]" ad retain their "March 2008" notes. Even the IDWords section features releases for March.
* It is a common misconception that all of the pages that were of an inferior visual quality were done by Liam Shalloo who, by his own admission, was drunk when working on this issue. However, the pages in question were colored by one of the other colorists on the book.<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55750 Liam Shalloo points out the misconception on the Allspark forums.]</ref>

===Errors===
* The door that Kloss walks through has a hand-scrawled "Control Room" sign on it, with a still-visible artist's note below to "put better font".
* Grimlock's internal monologue, speculating about taking the captive Scorponok back to Cybertron, is incorrectly shown as a speech balloon attributed to Scorponok.
* One of Grimlock's captions typos "strength" as "strenght" (amusingly, it's shortly after he notes damage to his vocal processor). This was corrected for the trade paperback release.
* As Scorponok boasts about his upgraded speed, his speech balloon is partially cut off at the edge of the page, truncating some words. This was fixed for the trade paperback release.

===Covers (2)===
* '''Cover A:''' Grimlock in front of Scorponok's shadow; art by Marcelo Matere.
* '''Cover RI:''' B&W sketch of cover A.

{{note|A second cover image by Marcelo Matere (third image in gallery) was solicited, featuring Grimlock's dinosaur head breaking through an image of the Dynobots' robot heads. However, this cover was apparently not released at retail, and is not included on the cover checklist on the inside front cover. The cover was recycled and used for the third Spotlight trade paperback, though.}}

<gallery>
Image:Spotlightgrimlock.jpg|
Image:SpotlightGrimlock_cover_RI.jpg|
Image:SpotlightGrimlock cover2.jpg|Now we know where BotCon got the idea for Shattered Glass.
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
* ''[[Spotlight: Mirage]]''
* "[[Focus on: Decepticons!]]"
* ''[[Transformers: The Reign of Starscream|The Reign of Starscream]]''
* ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' [[Classic Transformers Volume 1|Volume 1]] TPB
* ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending|The Ascending]]'' and ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering]]'' TPBs
* ''[[Target: 2006]]'' TPB
* ''[[The Art of IDW's Transformers]]''
* ''Obscure: The Aftermath'' game
* ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' books (back cover)

===Reprints===
*[[2008]] — ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight|The Transformers: Spotlight Volume 3]]''
*[[2009]] — ''[[The Transformers: The Premiere Collection Volume 2]]''
*[[2010]] — ''[[The Transformers: Best of Grimlock]]''
*[[2011]] — ''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Three]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Spotlight issues|Grimlock]]

Spotlight: Optimus Prime

2014-08-27T18:33:15Z

CyRaptor: /* Featured characters */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Spotlight]]'' #9
|prev=Spotlight: Galvatron
|next=Spotlight: Ramjet
|seriesissue2
|prev2
|next2
|image=Spotlight_OptimusPrime_a.jpg
|title="The Transformers: Spotlight Optimus Prime"
|caption=[[Elita One|Does your man have an ass like mine?]]
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[August 29]], [[2007]]
|coverdate=August 2007
|written by=[[Simon Furman]]
|art by=[[Don Figueroa]]
|colors by=[[Josh Burcham]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|edits by=[[Dan Taylor (IDW)|Dan Taylor]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline#Escalation|Escalation]]
}}

'''Optimus Prime's search for answers about his predecessors leads to a dark discovery.'''

==Synopsis==
In the wake of his brush with death at [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s hands, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] is pensive. To find out more about [[Nova Prime|the sinister presence]] he felt while transferring his [[spark]] through [[infraspace]], he takes ''[[Ark-32]]'' and journeys to the [[Muta-Gaath Nebula]]—secret home of [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. Unfortunately, another ship observes his transit, its [[Pretender Monster|inhabitants]] vowing to destroy whoever is inside the asteroid base that Omega calls home.

Optimus Prime quizzes Omega Supreme about [[Nova Prime]]. He believes that he encountered Nova while in infraspace, and was filled with a sense of dread, something only Megatron and [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] normally cause. Omega explains that Nova Prime felt that Cybertronians were superior to other life forms and had a duty to impress their likeness on the rest of the universe. Optimus surmises that the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' was not an exploratory vessel, but part of Nova's expansion, something Omega also suspected.

[[File:Monstructor-idw1.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Seriously. Forget Sunstreaker or Prowl. Give '''this''' guy a [[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]] toy.]]
But before they can further pursue the matter, [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] smashes his way in to Omega Supreme's domain. The enraged combiner robot has come for Omega Supreme; Monstructor makes short work of him, ripping off his cannon arm within seconds and nearly crushing him with a shuttlecraft. Optimus Prime's weapons are repelled by an energy-dampening field, so Prime blasts open an airlock, sucking all three of them into space.

Omega Supreme uses his rocket-engine arm to transport himself and Optimus Prime as far away as he can, but they both know Monstructor is hot on their heels. Prime demands answers, and Omega explains that Monstructor was an attempt by [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], at Nova Prime's behest, to combine minds and bodies of a group of Transformers to enhance strength and intellect. But the process failed, and the combined form "devolved into a monster". After Jhiaxus and Nova Prime disappeared aboard the original ''Ark'', Omega locked Monstructor away in a dimensionally-displaced prison, an act which Prime finds reprehensible.

Further debate is ended as Monstructor's ship arrives, and the monster dives at them. Omega Supreme tells Optimus Prime that Monstructor has one weak spot, an area of his chest; unable to reason with the giant, Prime strikes the area, and Monstructor breaks apart into his components. Prime swears to the fallen robots that he will help them.

An Autobot cleanup crew arrives later, to restore Omega Supreme and take the Monstructor team prisoner. Omega warns Optimus Prime that if the gestalt technology falls into Megatron's hands, the result will be an all-consuming war. [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] takes the combiner robots away, leaving Optimus to reflect on the tarnished legacy of the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] lineage.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] (2)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (3)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (4)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (5)
*[[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] (6)
*[[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] (9)
*[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (10)
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] (18)
*[[Gunrunner (G1)|Gunrunner]] (19)
*[[Override (G1)|Override]] (20)
*[[Pointblank (G1)|Pointblank]] (21)
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] (22)
*[[Dogfight]] (23)
*[[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]] (24)
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (25)
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (26)
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (27)
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (28)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (29)
|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] (7)

|c4=
* [[Nova Prime|Nemesis Prime/Nova Prime]] (8)
* [[Birdbrain]] (11)
* [[Bristleback]] (12)
* [[Icepick (G1)|Icepick]] (13)
* [[Scowl]] (14)
* [[Slog]] (15)
* [[Wildfly]] (16)
* [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] (17)
}}

==Notes==

===Continuity Notes===
[[File:Sentineltruck.gif|150px|thumb|Being Prime requires that your altmode has at least six wheels and a trailer. It's tradition.]]
* When Optimus talks about the Primes, we see a picture of their lineage (the ones before Nova are shadowed). This caused some confusion among fans when "[[Spotlight: Blurr]]" introduced the concept of [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]], Sentinel's successor, even though this issue showed no Primes between Sentinel and Optimus; later, [[James Roberts]] would add in [[Nominus Prime]] between Nova and Sentinel!
* Among the Autobots reporting in to Prime at the issue's opening are:
:* [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], presumably the one reporting on [[Spotlight: Kup|Kup's status]].
:* [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]], with a new lead on [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]—possibly implying that he [[Spotlight: Ultra Magnus|cut another deal with Swindle]].
:* [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], making his first appearance in the IDWverse, wondering if anyone can hear him. The reason for his transmission would be shown almost a year later in [[Spotlight: Wheelie|his own ''Spotlight'']].
:* [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] reporting [[Spotlight: Galvatron|Sideswipe's desire to follow up]] on [[Escalation issue 1|Sunstreaker's disappearance]].
* A similar scene starts off [[Escalation issue 1|''Escalation'' #1]].
* This issue establishes that the various combiner teams shown to date in the IDW universe ([[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]]s, [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], the odd [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]] and [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]) aren't actually combiners yet.
* Also, the [[Pretender Monster]]s are not [[Pretender]]s nor [[Decepticon]]s, as they were locked away before the Pretender process and factions were developed. {{storylink|The Transformers: Stormbringer |Stormbringer}} ''See [[IDW timeline]].''

===Trivia===
* The issue includes 2 pages of sketches by [[Don Figueroa]]—one of Optimus Prime in several stages of transformation (though it's the transformation design of Masterpiece/Dreamwave Optimus, not the IDW one), and the other of the various alternate modes of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Nova Prime]].
* Colorist Josh Burcham made the vents on the butt of Optimus Prime's [[Ion blaster]] a sort of ammo gauge, based upon an idea from [[fandom]]. After each subsequent blast, the blue glow dips lower.
* This issue further establishes that the Pretender Monsters are AWESOME and that Monstructor is a total bad-ass death machine. We already knew that, though.
* This issue was reissued in December 2008 as a special 3-D edition, including a pair of cardboard unfoldable 3-D glasses.
* Ironically, Monstructor, the final combiner released by Hasbro, predates Devastator, the first combiner released by Hasbro, in the IDW continuity.

===Errors===
* A strange conversation occurs among the Monstructor bots:

''Panel 1:''
:'''Unknown:''' Is it him?

''Panel 2:''
:'''Birdbrain:''' Only one sure way to find out.
:'''Bristleback:''' Which is?
:'''Birdbrain:''' ''Smash'' our way in...

''Panel 3:''
:'''Bristleback:''' ...and kill ''whoever'' and ''whatever'' we find inside!

*It's ''possible'' that Bristleback did indeed chime in with his two cents' worth (particularly given the intertwined nature of this team), but considering IDW's history of mis-attributed speech balloons, it also seems likely that Birdbrain and Bristleback's speech balloons got switched in the second panel. Whatever the case, the conversation was not altered for the trade paperback version.

===Covers (5)===
* '''Cover A:''' Optimus in spotlight; art by [[Don Figueroa]] and [[Josh Burcham]] (colors).
* '''Cover B:''' Optimus with gun; art by [[Gabriel Rodriguez]].
* '''Cover RI:''' Uncolored cover A
* '''Cover ComicNewsi.com:''' Optimus at console; art by [[Don Perlin]].
* '''3-D Cover:''' Optimus vs Monstructor; art by [[Hoon]].

<gallery>
Image:Spotlight_OptimusPrime_a.jpg|Spotlight: Optimus Prime's ass
Image:Spotlight_OptimusPrime_b.jpg|I need some low-fat Energon.
Image:Spotlight_OptimusPrime_ri.jpg|Cover RI
Image:Spotlight_OptimusPrime_perlin.jpg|Don Perlin cover
Image:Spotlight_OptimusPrime_3D.jpg|3D cover
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
* ''[[The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'', including a 6-page preview
* ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending|The Ascending]]''
* ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]'' (back cover)

===Reprints===
*[[2008]] — ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight|The Transformers: Spotlight Volume 2]]''
*[[2009]] — ''[[The Transformers: The Premiere Collection Volume 2]]''
*[[2010]] — ''[[The Transformers: Best of Optimus Prime]]''
*[[2010]] — ''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Two]]''

[[Category:Spotlight issues|Optimus Prime]]

Transformers Legends (mobile game)

2013-04-26T02:52:45Z

CyRaptor:

{{nav-G1|logo=TheTransformers_Logo.jpg}}
{{videogame
|title=''Transformers Legends (mobile game)''
|image=LegendsLogo.jpg
|caption=From cars to cards.
|developer=ngmoco
|publisher=Mobage
|date=[[December 13]], 2012
|platform=[[Android]], [[iOS]]
}}

'''''Transformers Legends''''' (parsed as "TRANSFORMERS Legends" on the Play Store) is a multiplayer card-based battle game published by Mobage for mobile devices. Released for Android devices on [[December 13]], 2012 and iOS devices on [[April 25]], 2013, the the game features almost all of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] cast, with the campaign including elements from many storylines.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Autobot]]s|c1=
;Common
* [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]
* [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
* [[Grapple|Grappel]]
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]]
* [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]]
* [[Tracks (G1)|Autobot Tracks]]
* [[Gears (G1)|Autobot Gears]]
* [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
* [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
* [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]]
* [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]]
* [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]
* [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]
* [[Ramhorn (G1)|Ramhorn]]
;Uncommon
* [[Rewind (G1)|Autobot Rewind]]
* [[Eject (G1)|Eject]]
* [[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]]
* [[Kup (G1)|Sergeant Kup]]
* [[Bluestreak (G1)|Silverstreak]]
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]
* [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]
* [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]
* [[Hound (G1)|Autobot Hound]]
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]
* [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]]
* [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]
* [[Slag (G1)|Slug]]
* [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]
* [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
;Rare
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]
* [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]
* [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]
* [[Jazz (G1)|Autobot Jazz]]
* [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
;Super Rare
* Elite Bumblebee
* Elite Prowl
* [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]
* Elite Ironhide
* Elite Autobot Jazz
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]
* Elite Grimlock
* Elite Optimus Prime
* [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]

|h2=[[Decepticon]]s|c2=
;Common
* [[Bombshell (G1)|Hardshell]]
* [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]
* [[Venom (G1)|Venom]]
* [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]]
* [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]]
* [[Ransack (G1)|Ransack]]
* [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]]
* [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]]
* [[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]]
* [[Shrapnel (G1)|Sharpshot]]
* [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]]
* [[Headstrong]]
* [[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]]
* [[Chop Shop|Chopshop]]
;Uncommon
* [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]]
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]
* [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]
* [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]
* [[Brawl (G1)|Decepticon Brawl]]
* [[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]]
* [[Hook (G1)|Hook]]
* [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]
* [[Rumble (G1)|Decepticon Rumble]]
* [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]]
* [[Frenzy (G1)|Decepticon Frenzy]]
* [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]
* [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]]
* [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]
* [[Acid Storm (G1)|Acid Storm]]
;Rare
* [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]
* [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]
* [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]]
* [[Slipstream (WFC)|Slipstream]]
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]
;Super Rare
* [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]]
* Elite Skywarp
* Elite Thundercracker
* Elite Soundwave
* Elite Starscream
* Elite Shockwave
* [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]
* Elite Megatron
* [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]
}}

==Notes==
* Although the designs of most characters are based on their original G1 or (where applicable) [[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]/[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]/[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]] appearances, Chromia and Arcee draw much more heavily from their [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]] and [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]] incarnations, respectively. While Megatron's robot mode resembles his G1 self, his alternate mode is a tank.
* [[Barrage (Insecticon)|Barrage]], [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]], [[Tantrum]], and [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] are all mysteriously absent from the Decepticon roster, despite the remainder of their respective teams appearing.

{{gamestub}}

[[Category:Video games]]

Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)

2006-06-01T16:50:13Z

CyRaptor: /* Minicon */

==Overview==
Autobots and Decepticons face their ongoing battle to destroy each
other's forces in a world where once-fundamental rules are valid no
longer. The do not feud over Energon; now they fight to recover four
ancient artifacts of great power: the Cyber Planet Keys, dormant
for ages on Earth, Speed, Jungle, and Giant Planets. Unicron is no
more; in his place, sheer empty Void without will or being, in the
form of a massive black hole, threatens to devour the entire universe.
The conflict, too, draws many to itself, as whole worlds of previously
unknown neutrals join forces with either side. Even time proves no
barrier, and figures from the forgotten past appear to join the fight
against universal extinction!

==Toyline overview==
There are five planets, two factions, and one unifying feature: the
cyber key. These clear-plastic disks with key-like projections now
activate special weapons and hidden features, much like the Minicons
of Armada, even on figures remolded from previous lines. The gimmicks
are less intrusive than Armada; articulation suffers far less for their
inclusion, though some lower-priced figures do lack a little when
compared to Energon. Combination has all but disappeared -- but not
completely. Each toy is assigned a planet. This determines which
Cyber Key is included, but also seems to correlate with some design
choices, as will be seen below. Each Cyber Key comes with a code printed on the back. For a list of codes, go to [[Cyber Key Codes]].

==Earth Planet toy overview==
These generally convert into fairly normal Earth vehicles. Robot
modes are angular and normally proportioned for humanoid Transformers.
Faces are traditionally styled.

==Speed Planet toy overview==
Alternate modes are fantasy racing vehicles, with transparent plastic tires. Vehicle modes are futuristic and occasionally Vehicon-like in appearance. The Speed Planet robots have their own unique body proportions, generally featuring large upper bodies, long thighs and thin waists.

==Jungle Planet toy overview==
Alternate modes are robotic beasts. Styling is sometimes very organic
in shape and even in texture, but not really to the point of techno-
organism. Robot modes and faces are widely varied, and hark back to
the Beast Era in creative differences from the 'standard' humanoid
model. Jungle Planet designs : BW Transmetals, per the above analogy.

==Giant Planet toy overview==
Giant Planet robots are gargantuan in appearance, relying on detail
and proportion to create an impression of massive size.

In general, the more alien the planet's culture is to our Earthen
existence, the more unfamiliar its figure designs are.

==Autobot==

===Legends of Cybertron===
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Cybertron Defense Red Alert]] (rocket transport truck)
*[[Evac (UT)|Evac]] (rescue helicopter)
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar)
*[[Excellion (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar)
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Jetfire]] (cargo jet)
*[[Leobreaker (UT)|Leobreaker]] (lion)
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Optimus Prime]] (fire engine)
*[[Vector Prime (UT)|Vector Prime]] (space cruiser)

===Scout Class===
====Cybertron Planet Scouts====
*[[Recon Team (UT)|Recon Team]]
**[[Jolt (UT)|Jolt]] (helicopter)
**[[Reverb (UT)|Reverb]] (offroad pickup truck)
**[[Sixspeed (UT)|Sixspeed]] (formula racer)
====Earth Planet Scouts====
*[[Armorhide (UT) (Autobot)|Armorhide]] (tractor trailer cab)
*[[Scattorshot (UT)|Scattorshot]] (halftrack APC)

====Jungle Planet Scouts====
*[[Backstop (UT)|Backstop]] (rhinoceros)
*[[Overhaul (UT)|Overhaul]] (offroad jeep)
*[[Repugnus (UT)|Repugnus]] (''Spinosaurus'')
====Speed Planet Scouts====
*[[Brakedown (UT)|Brakedown]] (drag racer)
*[[Clocker (UT)|Clocker]] (race car)
*[[Street Speed Team (UT)|Street Speed Team]]
**[[Backtrack (UT)|Backtrack]] (sportscare)
**[[Oval (UT)|Oval]] (sportscar)
**[[Spiral (UT)|Spiral]] (sportscar)
*[[Swerve (UT)|Swerve]] (race car)

===Deluxe===
====Cybertron Deluxes====
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Cybertron Defense Hot Shot]] (armored combat vehicle)
*[[Longrack (UT)|Longrack]] (power shovel)
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Red Alert]] (rescue SUV)
====Earth Planet Deluxes====
*[[Crosswise (UT) (Autobot)|Crosswise]] (sportscar)
*[[Downshift (UT) (Autobot)|Downshift]] (muscle car)
*[[Landmine (UT)|Landmine]] (front-end loader)
====Giant Planet Deluxes====
====Jungle Planet Deluxes====
*[[Snarl (UT)|Snarl]] (wolf)
====Planet X Deluxes====
*[[Sideways (UT)|Sideways]] (space fighter)
====Speed Planet Deluxes====
*[[Blurr (UT)|Blurr]] (sportscar)
*[[Excellion (UT)|Excellion]] (sportscar)
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar)
*[[Override (UT)|Override]] (race car)
*[[Override (UT)|Override GTS]] (race car)

===Voyager Class===
====Cybertron Voyagers====
*[[Scattorshot (UT)|Cybertron Defense Scattorshot]] (tracked missile platform)
*[[Vector Prime (UT)|Vector Prime]] (space cruiser) w/[[Mini-Con]] [[Safeguard]] (space fighter)

====Earth Planet Voyagers====
*[[Evac (UT)|Evac]] (rescue helicopter)
====Giant Planet Voyagers====
*[[Quickmix (UT)|Quickmix]] (cement mixer) w/[[Minicon]] [[Stripmine (UT)|Stripmine]] (drill tank)
====Jungle Planet Voyagers====
*[[Leobreaker (UT)|Leobreaker]] (lion)

===Ultra Class===
====Cybertron Ultras====
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Cybertron Defense Red Alert]] (rocket transport truck)
*[[Wing Saber (UT)|Wing Saber]] (fighter jet)
====Earth Planet Ultras====
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Jetfire]] (cargo jet)

===Leader Class===
====Earth Planet Leaders====
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Optimus Prime]] (fire engine)
====Giant Planet Leaders====
*[[Metroplex (UT)|Metroplex]] (bucket wheel excavator) w/[[Mini-Con]] [[Drill Bit (UT Giant)|Drill Bit]] (drilling vehicle)

==Decepticon==

===Legends of Cybertron===
*[[Megatron (UT)|Galvatron]] (race car/fighter jet)
*[[Megatron (UT)|Megatron]] (race car/fighter jet)
*[[Scourge (UT)|Scourge]] (dragon)
*[[Soundwave (UT)|Soundwave]] (stealth fighter)
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet)
*[[Sunstorm (UT) (Decepticon)|Sunstorm]] (fighter jet)
*[[Thundercracker (UT)|Thundercracker]] (fighter jet)

===Scout Class===
====Cybertron Scouts====
*[[Scrapmetal (UT)|Scrapmetal]] (spider tank)
====Earth Planet Scouts====
*[[Brushguard (UT)|Brushguard]] (offroad jeep)
*[[Hardtop (UT)|Hardtop]] (combat dune buggy)
*[[Lugnutz (UT)|Lugnutz]] (touring motorcycle)
*[[Shortround (UT)|Shortround]] (hovercraft)
*[[Swindle (UT) (Decepticon)|Swindle]] (combat dune buggy)
====Jungle Planet Scouts====
*[[Undermine (UT)|Undermine]] (''Spinosaurus'')
*[[Wreckloose(UT)|Wreckloose]] (frilled lizard)
====Speed Planet Scouts====
*[[Ransack (UT)|Ransack]] (racing motorcycle)

===Deluxe===
====Cybertron Deluxes====
*[[Buzzsaw (UT) (Decepticon)|Buzzsaw]] (helicopter)
====Earth Planet Deluxes====
*[[Runamuck (UT)|Runamuck]] (muscle car)
*[[Thunderblast (UT) (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]]
*[[Thundercracker (UT)|Thundercracker]] (combat speedboat)
====Giant Planet Deluxes====
====Jungle Planet Deluxes====
*[[Brimstone (UT)|Brimstone]] (''Pteranodon'')
====Planet X Deluxes====
*[[Sideways (UT)|Sideways]] (space fighter)
====Speed Planet Deluxes====
*[[Dirt Boss (UT) (Decepticon)|Dirt Boss]] (monster truck)
*[[Dark Nitro Convoy (UT)|Dark Nitro Convoy]] (race car)

===Voyager Class===
====Cybertron Voyagers====
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet)
**(Toys 'R' US exlusive two-pack w/Vector Prime)
====Earth Planet Voyagers====
*[[Mudflap (UT)|Mudflap]] (crane truck)
====Planet X Voyager====
*[[Soundwave (UT)|Soundwave]] (stealth fighter) w/[[Mini-Con]] [[Laserbeak (UT) (Mini-Con)|Laserbeak]] (condor)
====Speed Planet Voyagers====
*[[Crumplezone (UT)|Crumplezone]] (trike racer)
*[[Crumplezone (UT)|Dark Crumplezone]] (trike racer)

===Ultra===
====Earth Planet Ultras====
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Sky Shadow]] (cargo jet)
====Giant Planet Ultras====
*[[Menasor (UT)|Menasor]] (drill tank) w/[[Minicon]] [[Heavy Load (UT)|Heavy Load]] (dump truck)
====Jungle Planet Ultras====
*[[Scorponok (UT)|Dark Scorponok]] (construction vehicle/jet)
*[[Scourge (UT)|Scourge]] (dragon)

===Leader Class===
====Earth Planet Leaders====
[[Megatron (UT)|Megatron]] (race car/fighter jet)
====Giant Planet Leaders====
[[Megatron (UT)|Galvatron]] (race car/fighter jet)

===Supreme===
====Earth Planet Supremes====
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet)

==Minicon==
===Versus Packs===
====Sky Attack Team v. Air Defense Team====
*[[Razorclaw (UT)|Razorclaw]] (stealth bomber) vs. [[Steamhammer (UT) (Mini-Con)|Steamhammer]] (armored personnel carrier)
*[[Shockwave (UT)|Shockwave]] (recon jet) vs. [[Tankor (UT)|Tankor]] (tracked missile platform)
*[[Sky Lynx (UT)|Sky Lynx]] (cargo jet) vs. [[Thunderblast (UT) (Mini-Con)|Thunderblast]] (missile transport)
====Lunar Assault Team v. Exploration Team====
*[[Kobushi (UT)|Kobushi]] (dune buggy) vs. [[Landslide (UT)|Landslide]] (excavator)
*[[Payload (UT)|Payload]] (jeep) vs. [[Ascentor (UT)|Ascentor]] (tank)
*[[Scattorbrain (UT)|Scattorbrain]] (snowcat) vs. [[Monocle (UT)|Monocle]] (mining vehicle)
====Sky Terror Team v. Unnamed Emergency Team Recolor====
*[[Ramjet (UT Decepticon)|Ramjet]] (space shuttle) vs. [[Scythe (UT)|Scythe]] (VTOL plane)
*[[Sunstorm (UT) (Mini-Con)|Sunstorm]] (supersonic bomber) vs. [[Checkpoint (UT)|Checkpoint]] (police cruiser)
*[[Thrust (UT) (Mini-Con)|Thrust]] (Concorde) vs. [[Anti-Blaze (UT)|Anti-Blaze]] (fire engine)

[[Category: Toys]]
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Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)

2006-06-01T16:42:19Z

CyRaptor: /* Decepticon */

==Overview==
Autobots and Decepticons face their ongoing battle to destroy each
other's forces in a world where once-fundamental rules are valid no
longer. The do not feud over Energon; now they fight to recover four
ancient artifacts of great power: the Cyber Planet Keys, dormant
for ages on Earth, Speed, Jungle, and Giant Planets. Unicron is no
more; in his place, sheer empty Void without will or being, in the
form of a massive black hole, threatens to devour the entire universe.
The conflict, too, draws many to itself, as whole worlds of previously
unknown neutrals join forces with either side. Even time proves no
barrier, and figures from the forgotten past appear to join the fight
against universal extinction!

==Toyline overview==
There are five planets, two factions, and one unifying feature: the
cyber key. These clear-plastic disks with key-like projections now
activate special weapons and hidden features, much like the Minicons
of Armada, even on figures remolded from previous lines. The gimmicks
are less intrusive than Armada; articulation suffers far less for their
inclusion, though some lower-priced figures do lack a little when
compared to Energon. Combination has all but disappeared -- but not
completely. Each toy is assigned a planet. This determines which
Cyber Key is included, but also seems to correlate with some design
choices, as will be seen below. Each Cyber Key comes with a code printed on the back. For a list of codes, go to [[Cyber Key Codes]].

==Earth Planet toy overview==
These generally convert into fairly normal Earth vehicles. Robot
modes are angular and normally proportioned for humanoid Transformers.
Faces are traditionally styled.

==Speed Planet toy overview==
Alternate modes are fantasy racing vehicles, with transparent plastic tires. Vehicle modes are futuristic and occasionally Vehicon-like in appearance. The Speed Planet robots have their own unique body proportions, generally featuring large upper bodies, long thighs and thin waists.

==Jungle Planet toy overview==
Alternate modes are robotic beasts. Styling is sometimes very organic
in shape and even in texture, but not really to the point of techno-
organism. Robot modes and faces are widely varied, and hark back to
the Beast Era in creative differences from the 'standard' humanoid
model. Jungle Planet designs : BW Transmetals, per the above analogy.

==Giant Planet toy overview==
Giant Planet robots are gargantuan in appearance, relying on detail
and proportion to create an impression of massive size.

In general, the more alien the planet's culture is to our Earthen
existence, the more unfamiliar its figure designs are.

==Autobot==

===Legends of Cybertron===
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Cybertron Defense Red Alert]] (rocket transport truck)
*[[Evac (UT)|Evac]] (rescue helicopter)
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar)
*[[Excellion (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar)
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Jetfire]] (cargo jet)
*[[Leobreaker (UT)|Leobreaker]] (lion)
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Optimus Prime]] (fire engine)
*[[Vector Prime (UT)|Vector Prime]] (space cruiser)

===Scout Class===
====Cybertron Planet Scouts====
*[[Recon Team (UT)|Recon Team]]
**[[Jolt (UT)|Jolt]] (helicopter)
**[[Reverb (UT)|Reverb]] (offroad pickup truck)
**[[Sixspeed (UT)|Sixspeed]] (formula racer)
====Earth Planet Scouts====
*[[Armorhide (UT) (Autobot)|Armorhide]] (tractor trailer cab)
*[[Scattorshot (UT)|Scattorshot]] (halftrack APC)

====Jungle Planet Scouts====
*[[Backstop (UT)|Backstop]] (rhinoceros)
*[[Overhaul (UT)|Overhaul]] (offroad jeep)
*[[Repugnus (UT)|Repugnus]] (''Spinosaurus'')
====Speed Planet Scouts====
*[[Brakedown (UT)|Brakedown]] (drag racer)
*[[Clocker (UT)|Clocker]] (race car)
*[[Street Speed Team (UT)|Street Speed Team]]
**[[Backtrack (UT)|Backtrack]] (sportscare)
**[[Oval (UT)|Oval]] (sportscar)
**[[Spiral (UT)|Spiral]] (sportscar)
*[[Swerve (UT)|Swerve]] (race car)

===Deluxe===
====Cybertron Deluxes====
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Cybertron Defense Hot Shot]] (armored combat vehicle)
*[[Longrack (UT)|Longrack]] (power shovel)
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Red Alert]] (rescue SUV)
====Earth Planet Deluxes====
*[[Crosswise (UT) (Autobot)|Crosswise]] (sportscar)
*[[Downshift (UT) (Autobot)|Downshift]] (muscle car)
*[[Landmine (UT)|Landmine]] (front-end loader)
====Giant Planet Deluxes====
====Jungle Planet Deluxes====
*[[Snarl (UT)|Snarl]] (wolf)
====Planet X Deluxes====
*[[Sideways (UT)|Sideways]] (space fighter)
====Speed Planet Deluxes====
*[[Blurr (UT)|Blurr]] (sportscar)
*[[Excellion (UT)|Excellion]] (sportscar)
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar)
*[[Override (UT)|Override]] (race car)
*[[Override (UT)|Override GTS]] (race car)

===Voyager Class===
====Cybertron Voyagers====
*[[Scattorshot (UT)|Cybertron Defense Scattorshot]] (tracked missile platform)
*[[Vector Prime (UT)|Vector Prime]] (space cruiser) w/[[Mini-Con]] [[Safeguard]] (space fighter)

====Earth Planet Voyagers====
*[[Evac (UT)|Evac]] (rescue helicopter)
====Giant Planet Voyagers====
*[[Quickmix (UT)|Quickmix]] (cement mixer) w/[[Minicon]] [[Stripmine (UT)|Stripmine]] (drill tank)
====Jungle Planet Voyagers====
*[[Leobreaker (UT)|Leobreaker]] (lion)

===Ultra Class===
====Cybertron Ultras====
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Cybertron Defense Red Alert]] (rocket transport truck)
*[[Wing Saber (UT)|Wing Saber]] (fighter jet)
====Earth Planet Ultras====
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Jetfire]] (cargo jet)

===Leader Class===
====Earth Planet Leaders====
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Optimus Prime]] (fire engine)
====Giant Planet Leaders====
*[[Metroplex (UT)|Metroplex]] (bucket wheel excavator) w/[[Mini-Con]] [[Drill Bit (UT Giant)|Drill Bit]] (drilling vehicle)

==Decepticon==

===Legends of Cybertron===
*[[Megatron (UT)|Galvatron]] (race car/fighter jet)
*[[Megatron (UT)|Megatron]] (race car/fighter jet)
*[[Scourge (UT)|Scourge]] (dragon)
*[[Soundwave (UT)|Soundwave]] (stealth fighter)
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet)
*[[Sunstorm (UT) (Decepticon)|Sunstorm]] (fighter jet)
*[[Thundercracker (UT)|Thundercracker]] (fighter jet)

===Scout Class===
====Cybertron Scouts====
*[[Scrapmetal (UT)|Scrapmetal]] (spider tank)
====Earth Planet Scouts====
*[[Brushguard (UT)|Brushguard]] (offroad jeep)
*[[Hardtop (UT)|Hardtop]] (combat dune buggy)
*[[Lugnutz (UT)|Lugnutz]] (touring motorcycle)
*[[Shortround (UT)|Shortround]] (hovercraft)
*[[Swindle (UT) (Decepticon)|Swindle]] (combat dune buggy)
====Jungle Planet Scouts====
*[[Undermine (UT)|Undermine]] (''Spinosaurus'')
*[[Wreckloose(UT)|Wreckloose]] (frilled lizard)
====Speed Planet Scouts====
*[[Ransack (UT)|Ransack]] (racing motorcycle)

===Deluxe===
====Cybertron Deluxes====
*[[Buzzsaw (UT) (Decepticon)|Buzzsaw]] (helicopter)
====Earth Planet Deluxes====
*[[Runamuck (UT)|Runamuck]] (muscle car)
*[[Thunderblast (UT) (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]]
*[[Thundercracker (UT)|Thundercracker]] (combat speedboat)
====Giant Planet Deluxes====
====Jungle Planet Deluxes====
*[[Brimstone (UT)|Brimstone]] (''Pteranodon'')
====Planet X Deluxes====
*[[Sideways (UT)|Sideways]] (space fighter)
====Speed Planet Deluxes====
*[[Dirt Boss (UT) (Decepticon)|Dirt Boss]] (monster truck)
*[[Dark Nitro Convoy (UT)|Dark Nitro Convoy]] (race car)

===Voyager Class===
====Cybertron Voyagers====
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet)
**(Toys 'R' US exlusive two-pack w/Vector Prime)
====Earth Planet Voyagers====
*[[Mudflap (UT)|Mudflap]] (crane truck)
====Planet X Voyager====
*[[Soundwave (UT)|Soundwave]] (stealth fighter) w/[[Mini-Con]] [[Laserbeak (UT) (Mini-Con)|Laserbeak]] (condor)
====Speed Planet Voyagers====
*[[Crumplezone (UT)|Crumplezone]] (trike racer)
*[[Crumplezone (UT)|Dark Crumplezone]] (trike racer)

===Ultra===
====Earth Planet Ultras====
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Sky Shadow]] (cargo jet)
====Giant Planet Ultras====
*[[Menasor (UT)|Menasor]] (drill tank) w/[[Minicon]] [[Heavy Load (UT)|Heavy Load]] (dump truck)
====Jungle Planet Ultras====
*[[Scorponok (UT)|Dark Scorponok]] (construction vehicle/jet)
*[[Scourge (UT)|Scourge]] (dragon)

===Leader Class===
====Earth Planet Leaders====
[[Megatron (UT)|Megatron]] (race car/fighter jet)
====Giant Planet Leaders====
[[Megatron (UT)|Galvatron]] (race car/fighter jet)

===Supreme===
====Earth Planet Supremes====
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet)

==Minicon==
===Versus Packs===
====Sky Attack Team v. Air Defense Team====
*[[Razorclaw (UT)|Razorclaw]] vs. [[Steamhammer (UT) (Mini-Con)|Steamhammer]]
*[[Shockwave (UT)|Shockwave]] vs. [[Tankor (UT)|Tankor]]
*[[Sky Lynx (UT)|Sky Lynx]] vs. [[Thunderblast (UT) (Mini-Con)|Thunderblast]]
====Lunar Assault Team v. Exploration Team====
*[[Kobushi (UT)|Kobushi]] vs. [[Landslide (UT)|Landslide]]
*[[Payload (UT)|Payload]] vs. [[Ascentor (UT)|Ascentor]]
*[[Scattorbrain (UT)|Scattorbrain]] vs. [[Monocle (UT)|Monocle]]
====Sky Terror Team v. Unnamed Emergency Team Recolor====
*[[Ramjet (UT Decepticon)|Ramjet]] vs. [[Scythe (UT)|Scythe]]
*[[Sunstorm (UT) (Mini-Con)|Sunstorm]] vs. [[Checkpoint (UT)|Checkpoint]]
*[[Thrust (UT) (Mini-Con)|Thrust]] vs. [[Anti-Blaze (UT)|Anti-Blaze]]

[[Category: Toys]]
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Toys

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One of the things that makes the [[Transformers]] so incredible is the wide variety of toys. Complex transformations and classic characters make the toys one of the most memorable facets of the Transformers universe.

==American Toys==
*[[Generation 1 (toyline)|Generation 1]] 
*[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]] 
*[[Beast Wars (toyline)|Beast Wars]] 
*[[Machine Wars]] 
*[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]] 
*[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]] 
*[[Armada (toyline)|Armada]] 
*[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]] 
*[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]] 
*[[Universe (toyline)|Universe]] 
*[[Alternators]] 
*[[Titanium]]
*[[Attacktix]]
*[[Heroes of Cybertron]] 
*[[Go-Bots (toyline)|Go-Bots]] 
*[[1-2-3 Transformers]]
*[[Built to Rule]]

==Japanese Toys==

==European Toys==
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Optimus Prime (G1)

2006-03-08T21:10:04Z

CyRaptor:

[[Image:Optimus Prime.jpg|right|thumb|Optimus Prime, Supreme Comander]]
==Generation One==
Optimus Prime is the leader of the heroic Autobots, and it is not hard to understand why he is so suited to the task. Had he been born a human, he could have been a [[Physician|doctor]], a [[mechanic]], a [[scientist]] or a [[warrior]] - but on [[Cybertron]], there is no difference in these professions, and Prime puts all his talent to use to improve the world around him. Immensely kind and compassionate, Prime has dedicated himself to the protection of all life, particularly the inhabitants of Earth, and will battle his foes with unyielding resolve to uphold this belief. In power and intelligence, Optimus Prime has no equal.

Optimus Prime transforms into a 1980s style Cab-Over [[semi-trailer]], comprising three components. The truck's cab transforms into the robot mode of Prime himself, with vast strength and armed with a laser rifle. Within his chest is contained the mystic talisman known as the [[Creation Matrix]] or [[Autobot Matrix of Leadership]], carried by all Autobot leaders and passed down through the ages. The truck's trailer disconnects and transforms into the '''Combat Deck''', a mobile battle-station/command headquarters with an "Auto-Launcher" robot armed with assorted artillery and beam weapons. It can also serve as a radio antennae for battlefield communications between the Autobots. The Combat Deck can launch Prime's third component, '''Roller''', a mobile scout buggy that can easily slip behind enemy lines; when Roller is present somewhere, it is as if Prime is there himself. Injury to one component is felt by each of the others, and while Prime could survive the destruction of either, despite the slight degree of autonomy they possess, the Combat Deck and Roller would not be able to survive without him.

Additional powers included in the animated series (somewhat inconsistently) included short-range optic blasts and holographic map projections, and deployable hydro-foils designed by Wheeljack which allowed Prime and the other Autobots to traverse bodies of water with ease. Although used only once, one of Prime's more memorable abilities from the animated series was the ability to retract his right hand and replace it with a glowing energy axe, which has since been rendered in toy form for Super Collection Figures (including the Mega Super Collection Figure), the Transformers Collection #0 reissue of the original Convoy toy, and the Masterpiece Convoy and 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime toys.

Across the assorted continuities of the "Generation One" universe(s), there have been various interpretations of Optimus Prime; the cartoon leant towards Optimus Prime as a straightforward, wise and essentially upbeat battlefield general, while the [[Marvel Comics]] series, in addition to these more obvious characteristics, suggested a Prime secretly plagued by self-doubt and, more importantly, a conflicted sense of [[pacifism]]. One of Prime's most notable characteristics was his adamant commitment to leadership by example, and avoidance of any hypocrisy in his command.

The above mentioned pacifism was not always readily apparent, but Prime's craving for peace is generally palpable. He was an extremely reluctant warrior, and it was at times implied (particularly in the Movie, albeit in a subtle manner) that the conflict with the Decepticons lasted as long as it did primarily due to his unwillingness to take a more aggressive stance. Consistent with his appearance, he had an aura of tremendous size, strength, and authority, but which at the same time was overlaid with a sense of equally great compassion and benevolence, and at times, sorrow and fatigue. Archetypically speaking, Prime was a somewhat tragic [[paladin]] whose primary motivations were both his desire for peaceful existence, and his sacrificial concern for the welfare of those other than himself. Although his massive shoulders were able to carry it, the burden of his command weighed very heavily.

A tragic constant of the character is his predilection for self-sacrifice - across all continuities and depictions of him (and later, his modern namesakes), it is almost a certainty that Prime will meet his end and later return to life (sometimes to repeat the process).

The original toy that was to become Optimus Prime was originally released by [[Takara]] in October of 1983, and designed by [[Hiroyuki Obara]] as part of the [[Diaclone]] toyline, there named ''Battle Convoy''. The figure's definitive mouth-plate has become a constant design element in most incarnations and variants of Prime down the years (bar a few exceptions, noted individually below), although a 1984 children's book omitted it to what is now considered humorous effect. Integrated into the first year of the ''Transformers'' toyline, the toy was given its new name, Optimus Prime, by comic book writer/editor [[Dennis O'Neil]].

===Animated series===

Optimus Prime began his life as a robot named [[Orion Pax]], a simple dock worker during the Golden Age of Cybertron nine million years ago, with a [[Female Transformers|girlfriend]] named Ariel, and a best friend named Dion. At the time, a new breed of robot had recently appeared on the planet - ones with new robot-mode flight powers that made Orion idolize them. Unfortunately for Orion, when [[Megatron]], the leader of these robots, approached him with inquiries about using one of the dock warehouses, Orion fell for the deception and he and Ariel were fatally wounded when [[Megatron]] and his forces then attacked in order to claim the energy stored there. Searching for someone to help them, the time-displaced [[Aerialbots]] took Orion and Ariel to the ancient Autobot, [[Alpha Trion]], who used them as the first subjects for the new reconstruction process he had developed - rebuilding the frail Autobot frames into battle-hardy configurations. With this reconstruction, Orion Pax became Optimus Prime, the first of the Autobot warriors, who took the mantle of leadership as the civil war against Megatron and Decepticons erupted, while Ariel was rebuilt into [[Elita One]], the commander of the Autobot resistance on Cybertron.

As leader of the Autobots, Prime headed up the Autobots' mission to search out new worlds with new sources of energy to revitalise the depleted Cybertron. However, shortly after its launch, the Autobots' craft was attacked by the Decepticon space cruiser and boarded by Megatron and the Decepticons. In the ensuing struggle, the g-forces of a nearby planet pulled both crafts down, and the Autobots' ship crashed into a volcano, thrusting all the occupants of the ship into emergency stasis. Four million years later, in the Earth year [[1984]]C.E., a volcanic eruption jarred the ship's computer, [[Teletraan I]] back to life, and it reactivated the Decepticons, programming them with new Earth-based disguise modes. As a petty parting gesture, [[Starscream]] fired upon the Autobot ship, creating a landslide that knocked Prime into the path of the computer's restoration beam, restoring him to life, and beginning the war anew on Earth.

Prime was perpetually at the forefront of the action throughout the early years of the war on Earth, usually confronting Megatron, and, in some rare instances, being forced to team up with him for the greater good (or the lesser evil). He has suffered his fair share of battlefield scrapes, almost meeting his end when his vital cosmotron component was critically damaged by the Decepticon jets and [[Laserbeak]], and suffering a severe - though unfair - defeat when Megatron challenged him to one-on-one comabt while imbued with the different powers of all the Decepticons.

Generally, Prime acting in a commanding role as part of larger battles and event, but played prominent and solo roles in a few, also. In 1985, Megatron created a perfect duplicate of him, leaving the Autobots unable to differentiate between the two until the clone disregarded the safety of their human companion, [[Spike Witwicky]], exposing the deception. Later in the same year, Prime's fame and prowess led him to become the target of the dementing big-game hunter, Lord Chumley, who sought his head to go along with his other rare trophies. Entering the hunter's estate alone, Prime defeated all the traps and beasts lying in wait and brought Chumley to justice. The same year also saw Elita One captured by the Decepticons on Cybertron and used to lure Prime there alone; although knowing it was a trap, he ventured in solo and was defeated by the Decepticons and nearly destroyed, until Elita's stasis-field powers froze time long enough for them to escape. Prime was forced to seek out Alpha Trion to save the wounded Elita's life, and in the process, rediscovered his forgotten connection to his creator.

Over the course of the next twenty years, the Decepticons succeeded in seizing control of all of Cybertron, forcing the Autobots to operate from their new city on Earth, and from two bases on Cybertron's moons. In the Earth year [[2005]]C.E., Prime was stationed on Moonbase One, and dispatched troops to Earth to acquire energy for an upcoming strike on Cybertron. The Decepticons, however, got wind of the plan and used the shuttle run to attack Autobot City; a distress call summoned Prime and support troops to Earth, and in the ensuing battle with Megatron, Optimus Prime sustained fatal injuries, but not before turning the tide of battle and forcing the Decepticon to flee. Despite the efforts of [[Perceptor]], Optimus Prime died. The Matrix, and with it leadership of the Autobots, fell into the hands of [[Ultra Magnus]], and subsequently to Rodimus Prime.

Prime's body was entombed in a massive deep-space mausoleum with the many other fallen Autobots, but his corpse was desecrated by the [[Quintessons]] in 2006, when they reanimated it as part of an attempt to destroy the Autobots by using Prime to lure their space fleet into a trap. However, the Matrix was able to purify Prime of the Quintesson influence, and he got the other Autobots clear while he piloted his flagship into the Quintessons' detonator, triggering the explosion of a nearby sun. Prime was believed to have been destroyed in the explosion, but in reality, before the flagship impacted with the detonator, his body was recovered from the craft by two human scientists, Jessica Morgan and Gregory Swofford. However, as their ship departed, it was coated in solar spores released by the explosion of the sun. Jessica's father, Mark Morgan, loathed the Autobots, and his hatred only grew when an attempt by the Decepticons to steal a heat-resistant alloy he had developed resulted in Jessica being paralysed. Swofford and Morgan reconstructed Optimus Prime's body in an attempt to use it as a delivery system for the spores, which induced hatred and madness, in order to destroy the Transformers. However, when they could not reanimate him, they used his body as a lure instead, bringing the Autobots to their lab, where they were infected. As this "[[Hate Plague]]" proceeded to spread across the galaxy, [[Sky Lynx]] retrieved a Quintesson, who fully restored Optimus Prime to life. Coating himself in Morgan's heat-resistant alloy, Prime reclaimed the Matrix from Rodimus and unleashed its concentrated wisdom to destroy the Hate Plague.

In 2007 - in the show's fourth season, consisting entirely of a three-part miniseries titled ''The Rebirth'' - Prime began to suffer visions following the release of the Matrix's energy, which foretold a great transformation for Cybertron. Events began with the Decepticons' theft of the key to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], which forced Prime to consult Alpha Trion within [[Vector Sigma]], learning that the mega-computer had orchestrated events in order to restore Cybertron's Golden Age. When the Plasma Energy Chamber was opened and threatened to drive Earth's Sun supernova, [[Spike Witwicky]] and the other organic [[Nebulans]] who had become involved in the conflict as a result of these events were able to drain off the excess solar energy and revitalize Cybertron.

Optimus Prime was voiced by [[Peter Cullen]] in America, and by [[Tesshō Genda]] in Japan.

====Transformers: Headmasters====
While the ''Transformers'' animated series came to an end in America with "The Rebirth" in 1987, across the [[Pacific]], in Japan, it was decided to continue production of new, exclusive animated series to continue the story. The first of these series, ''[[Transformers: Headmasters]]'', supplanted the events of "The Rebirth", picking up one year after the events that saw Optimus Prime's return to life.

In the interim year, with the Decepticons not having been heard from, the Autobots had entered into an even closer relationship with Earth, and begun the colonization of other worlds, the first of which was the planet Athenia, where Optimus Prime was stationed. It soon became apparent, however, that when Prime had released the energy of the Matrix to cure the Hate Plague, the consequences were more far-reaching than he had anticipated - without the energy of the Matrix to act as a balancing factor, Vector Sigma had become destabilized, and the Decepticons suddenly returned to exploit this, assaulting Cybertron in order to seize control of the mega-computer. Prime took a squad of troops to aid in the battle on the planet, and when the arrival of the Autobot [[Headmasters]] tipped the battle in their favor, Prime broke off from the main attack and headed down into the depths of the planet, planning on stabilizing Vector Sigma at any cost.

Guided through the dangers of the planet's catacombs by the spirit of Alpha Trion while the other Autobots searched for the Matrix on Earth, Prime eventually arrived at the computer, only to find his way barred by [[Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (Transformers)|Scourge]]. Hot Rod then arrived with the Matrix, with which Alpha Trion merged, re-energizing it and transforming Hot Rod back into Rodimus Prime; for the first time, the two Primes fought side-by-side and defeated Galvatron.

Before Rodimus could implement the Matrix to stabilize Vector Sigma, however, Optimus Prime sacrificed himself to perform the task, merging with the computer and restoring its balance to save the planet - dying again only a few short episodes after his rebirth.

====Super-God Masterforce====
The second of the Japanese-exclusive ''Transformers'' series, 1988's ''Super God Masterforce'' did not actually feature Optimus Prime himself, but it did feature one of his bodies. This series sees human truck driver [[Ginrai]] merge with and control a Transtector ''(a lifeless Transformer body)'' which bears a striking resemblance to Optimus Prime - although not revealed in the main 42 episodes of the series, an additional clips episode produced after the fact explained that this was because the body was intended to be used by Prime, only to be stolen and hidden on Earth by the series antagonist, [[Devil Z]]. Ginrai can merge with his trailer, becoming '''Super Ginrai''', and can then merge again with his additional transforming drone trailer, Godbomber, becoming '''God Ginrai.''' This toy was released in America as '''Powermaster Optimus Prime''', with appropriately different accompanying fiction in the pages of Marvel Comics (see below). Godbomber, however, was not released outside of Japan until Powermaster Prime was reissued in [[2003]], and Godbomber - renamed Apex Bomber - came included.

====Battlestars: Return of Convoy====
Although this particular piece of Japanese-exclusive fiction was not actually an animated series, it remains part of the animated series continuity. Here, Optimus Prime is finally brought back to life through the use of [[Zone Energy]], as the mighty '''Star Convoy'''. As another truck/trailer combination, Star Convoy transforms into a Micromaster base, and can combine with fellow Autobots Grandus and Sky Garry. Prime can combine with Grandus and Sky Garry in base mode. Grandus can also attach to the back of Prime's trailer while the two are in vehicle mode; Sky Garry can then land on Grandus. This combination, similar to the vehicle combination of Armada Optimus Prime, Overload and Jetfire, is called the Battlestars.

===Marvel Comics===
In [[Marvel Comics]]' comic series, before the Great War broke out on Cybertron, the robot who would be Optimus Prime (his name before becoming the Prime Autobot remains unknown) was a Transformer of note, displaying his skills in the Infraformers Sharpshooting Competition. Subsequently, when the war began, Prime quickly made a name for himself as a combat leader. On a mission with the [[Triggerbots]] to stop Megatron from claiming the [[Underbase]], Prime was forced to jettison the massive databank into space to prevent anyone acquiring its power, but with this action, proved his wisdom and skill to the Autobot Council of Elders. The outbreak of the Great War saw Autobot territories falling under Decepticon dominion, one City-State at a time. The last City-State to be taken was the Autobot capital of [[Iacon]]. As Decepticons besieged Iacon, the Council of Elders prepared to surrender. Councillor Xaaron suggested that High Councillor Traachon step down and allow a military officer to assume Autobot leadership. Traachon then used his powers of veto and effectively elected himself out of office, allowing Optimus Prime to assume supreme command of the Autobots, becoming the first soldier to ever hold the mantle of Autobot leadership.

Four million years ago, Cybertron - shaken from its orbit and drifting through space - came under threat when it floated into the path of a massive asteroid swarm that could potentially devastate the planet. Prime led a group of his most powerful Autobot warriors on the Autobot starship, the Ark, on a mission to destroy the asteroids, and although successful, in the aftermath of this mission the Ark was attacked by Decepticons, hoping to overcome their weakened foes. Intent on keeping the secrets of the Ark's computer, A.U.N.T.I.E., from the Decepticons, Prime set the craft on a suicide course, crashing it into the prehistoric planet Earth.

In 1984C.E., a volcanic eruption reactivated A.U.N.T.I.E., which in turn brought the Transformers back on-line. Prime led the Autobots in their opening battles to prevent the Decepticons from plundering Earth's resources, but following their initial victory, the Autobots were all deactivated by [[Shockwave (Transformers)|Shockwave]]. Prime was decapitated by Shockwave, and had the energy of the Creation Matrix leeched from his mind to give life to Shockwave's creations, the [[Constructicons]] (although Shockwave was unaware that the Matrix was not merely a program in Prime's mind, but a physical object in his chest). Before Shockwave could give life to his next Decepticon, [[Jetfire]], Prime transferred the Matrix energy into the mind of [[Witwicky Family|Buster Witwicky]], who used the energy to turn Jetfire on Shockwave, allowing Prime to reclaim his body and retake leadership of the Autobots, giving Jetfire true life as a reward.

After a period of effective leadership which saw the activation of several new Autobots including the [[Aerialbots]], who Prime infused with life using the Matrix, Prime engaged Megatron in a [[video game]] duel for possession of a super fuel. Prime was victorious, but Megatron implemented a cheat code, allowing him to re-enter the game. Prime was able to defeat him yet again, but in doing so, he also destroyed several of the game sprites, and refused to accept his victory, as he had performed an action that compromised his beliefs about the preservation of life, which he would never have done, had the duel been real. In accordance with the rules of the game, Prime's body exploded and he died. Autobot surgeon [[Ratchet (Transformers)|Ratchet]]'s subsequent efforts to restore him were unsuccessful, and his body was launched into space. The funeral barge eventually crashed on giant moon where it lay for untold time. At one stage, an alien ship crashed near the barge. The dying alien reached out toward the Matrix, with the Matrix choosing to revive the being as Death Bringer. Much later, the Matrix would revive a small predatory animal which would prove instrumental to the conclusion of the Matrix Quest.

Prime's personality had been copied onto a [[floppy disk]] by the technician running the game, [[Ethan Zachary]], who employed him in various video game scenarios he developed. Prime's damaged mind led him to belive that he himself was a video game character, and in an attempt to bring him back to life, [[Bumblebee (Transformers)|Goldbug]], Joyride, Slapdash and Getaway took the disk to the planet [[Nebulos]], where a new body was constructed for Prime. They built a new body for Optimus Prime, and even upgraded it with the ability to combine with the trailer to form a larger robot. In an effort to keep Transformers off their planet, however, the Nebulans had poisoned their fuel, and the sensation of dying convinced Prime that he was truly alive, and not a game character. To save his life, the Nebulan scientist Hi-Q [[binary-bonding|bonded]] with him, creating '''[[Powermasters (Transformers)|Powermaster]] Optimus Prime'''.

Powermaster Prime and his Autobots later battled Death Bringer. Optimus Prime immediately senseed Matrix energies eminating from Death Bringer, and realised that the undead reaper was a creation of the Matrix. Proving invulnerable, Optimus Prime was finally able to defeat Death Bringer by convincing it to self-destruct in concordance with its primary function. Prime salvaged a sliver of Matrix energy from Death Bringer's remains, which he later used to restore a rainforest destroyed during a battle between the Autobot Rescue Patrol and the Decepticon Air Strike Patrol member Whisper. The battle with Death Bringer alerted Optimus Prime to the fact that his old body was still out there somewhere in space, and more importantly, that the Matrix that it carried was also with it. With a war to win, the location of the Matrix was not a high priority.

With the subsequent threat of [[Unicron]] looming, priorites quickly changed and Prime began a quest to locate his old body and the physical Matrix object within it. When the Matrix was successfully reacquired, Prime sacrificed his life one more time to destroy Unicron by plunging the Matrix into his maw. However, the Powermaster process had been working to fully bond Prime and Hi-Q, and with Prime now destroyed, the process completed itself in Hi-Q's body, and the two minds and souls became one. Hi-Q's biomechanical body was stripped down and reconstructed by the Last Autobot, creating a brand new Optimus Prime (visually based on his [[Action Master]] toy).

===Dreamwave Comics===
In the 21st century reimaging of the ''Generation One'' continuity by [[Dreamwave]] Productions, Optimus Prime started life as Optronix (Orion to his friends), a data archivist. After taking note of a battle in which the Autobot leader [[Sentinel Prime]] had been defeated by Megatron, he was summoned to the council of elders and informed that the Matrix had chosen him to be the next leader of the Autobots. He received the Matrix of Leadership shortly thereafter, and almost arranged for the Autobot evacuation of Cybertron, intending to leave the Decepticons to their own devices, until a battle with Megatron beneath the planet's surface, accompanied by visions from the Matrix, stirred him on to fight for the safety of his homeworld. It is interesting to note that in this reimagining, Optimus actually ''was'' physically changed in appearance and size by the Matrix during the events of the first volume of ''War Within''.
Some time into his role as leader, Prime disappeared in a spacebridge experiment along with Megatron, but returned some time later, having spent a period of time on Quintessa. Events during this period have gone unrecorded as a result of Dreamwave's closure.

Following the awakening of the Transformers on Earth, the Autobots allied with humankind and eventually defeated the Decepticons at the turn of the century. They planned to return to Cybertron aboard the newly constructed "Ark II," but the ship was destroyed as part of a military conspiracy to take control of the Transformers. However, a terrorist organization run by the enigmatic Lazarus was able to seize control of several of the Transformers that fell back to Earth, while the U.S. military located Prime's body. Before his departure, Prime had entrusted a small portion of the Matrix to Spike Witwicky, who was forced by the product chief, General Hallo, to use it to reactivate Prime. Functional again, Prime used the Matrix to reactivate more of his fallen comrades, and then faced off against Megatron in [[San Francisco]].

Following this, Prime began to experience subconscious urgings, leading both the Autobots and the Decepticons to the Arctic Circle, where Shockwave arrived to greet them - and arrest them as war criminals. Shockwave had succeeded in ending the war on Cybertron, but Prime soon fell in with a rebel Autobot group that had discovered Shockwave had a greater agenda. Rallying Autobots across Cybertron to the cause, Prime faced Shockwave in battle but was defeated and had the Matrix ripped from him and used to activate Vector Sigma. Before Shockwave could make full use of the mega-computer's data, however, Ultra Magnus (in this continuity, Prime's brother) arrived and bested him. The injuries Prime took in this conflicted necessitated a prolonged restoration period in stasis but Dreamwave's closure meant that Prime never appeared in their pages again.

==Generation 2==
===Marvel Comics===
[[image:Optimusprime-g2.jpg|right|thumb|280px|Generation Two Optimus Prime from the Marvel Comics.]]
When the ''Transformers'' line was revived in the early '90s as ''[[Generation 2]]'', Marvel released an accompanying comic book series which followed on the events of the last issue from the original. Set an undisclosed period of time after his rebirth, Prime appeared in a form matching his original body - fitting, as the G2 toyline's first Prime figure was the original Prime toy, with added missile launchers and a recolored trailer. Prime was plagued by visions of the [[Swarm (Transformers)|Swarm]] - a destructive by-product of Transformer reproduction - entering into an alliance with Megatron against it and the forces of the second-generation Cybertronians led by [[Jhiaxus]]. [[image:csoptimusprimeg2g.jpg|left|thumb|Optimus Prime as a Generation 2 Go-Bot.]] Prime's body was destroyed yet again when he confronted the Swarm, but upon releasing the energy of the Matrix into it, purifying it, Prime was reborn by the repentant creature, recreated in a new body based on his Generation 2 "Hero Optimus Prime" figure. At the end of the battle, Prime’s dream of reuniting the two races of Transformers into a single force for good seemed to be a possibility when the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s fought side by side against a common foe.

===Generation 2 Toys===
Although these were the only two versions of Prime to appear in the ''Generation 2'' comics, the ''G2'' toyline featured additional Optimus Prime toys which did not appear in the comic book series. These included "Laser Optimus Prime", part of the "Laser Rod" subgroup who transformed into a tanker truck, and featured a light-up sword (later repainted for the ''Robots in Disguise'' line as [[Scourge (Transformers)|Scourge]]), and "Go-Bot Optimus Prime", part of another sub-group of smaller, simpler figures, who was a repaint of an earlier figure named Firecracker, who turned into a red [[Lamborghini]] (the first Prime toy to lack the character's definitive mouth-plate, being a repaint of another character). Additionally, there was an unreleased "General Optimus Prime" figure, a repaint of Dirtbag from the auto-transforming "Autorollers" subgroup, who turned into a dump truck. Go-Bot Prime's tech spec offered an explanation for Prime's numerous bodies, crediting an "internal reconfiguration matrix" as the reason behind his multiple forms.
===Generation 2 Manga===
After battlestars, Megatron suposably turned a new leaf and joined with Convoy to form the Saibertron Alliance, but after human solders killed one of his troops, he adopted a new body and started the war anew. In order to counter this new threat Convoy adopted a new body as well. After he was fataly wounded by Megatron he used his Reconfiguration Matrix(link pz) to reapear himself as Battle Convoy. Battle Convoy managed to drive the decepticon forces into retreat.

==Machine Wars==
The short-lived ''[[Machine Wars]]'' toy line from Hasbro featured an Optimus Prime figure that was a recolored and retooled (missile launcher gimmick was completely changed) version of Thunderclash, a [[1992]] Turbomaster - part of a line of Transformers exclusive to [[Europe]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]]. As a repaint of an existing character, this incarnation of Prime also lacked the characteristic mouth-plate. No comic book or television series was ever produced for this toy line. Like most of the toys in this line, the box art was recycled. However, unlike the other mega and ultra Machine Wars releases, which recolored 1992 European box art, Prime had edited Laser Optimus Prime box art.

==Beast Wars==
It is important to note that [[Optimus Primal]], leader of the Maximal faction in the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' animated series and toyline, was not Optimus Prime - he was a descendant of his, who took the name to honor the Autobot leader. The same applies to the Megatron of this universe. However, before the animated series began, Hasbro did actually envision Prime and Megatron as their beast counterparts - design elements such as Prime's mouthplate (slitted to add an actual mouth for the animated series) suggest it, and the first mini-comic that came packaged with the toys makes it clear. However, once the animated series began, this was forgotten. Primal's characterization, though, remained generally consistent with the G1 depiction of Prime in terms of his explicit insistence on leading by example and avoiding issuing an order that he would not follow himself, and Prime's occasional self-doubt and sense of weariness. Overall, however, Primal is not and was never the battlefield leader that Prime was, as a scientist and explorer by nature, unaccustomed to waging a war.

The Beast Wars were raged on prehistoric Earth, eventually leading to the discovery of the buried [[The Ark (Transformers)|Ark]]. Megatron, in a desperate gambit, decided to attempt to change history by killing Optimus Prime, who was still laying in the Ark in Stasis Lock. Megatron hoped that this would result in the Decepticons winning the Great Wars and eventually the rule of Cybertron by the Predacons, the descendents of the Decepticons. Megatron unleashed a full-power weapon blast at Optimus Prime's face, near-fatally injuring him. However, Optimus Primal proceeded to take Prime's spark into his body to protect it from surgical trauma while his injuries were repaired. The subsequent power increase caused by Prime's spark's connection to the Matrix mutated Primal into an the large, Transmetal "Optimal Optimus" form with two additional transformations (jet and land vehicle). Then, with the repairs complete, Prime's spark was restored, and he briefly activated before sinking back into normal stasis.

When animating the scene in which Primal removes Prime's spark, Mainframe's animators consulted [[Transformers: The Movie]] for reference on the interior of Prime's chest. However, not realizing the importance of the Matrix of Leadership, they rendered it as a container for Prime's spark. Although Beast Wars writers Larry DiTillio and Bob Forward claimed that in their view, Prime had not received the Matrix from Alpha Trion at this point, one of the comics produced for [[Botcon]] indicated that the Matrix was in fact stored in a secondary compartment, hidden behind Prime's spark.

==Transformers: Universe==

''[[Transformers: Universe]]'' is a toyline that consists solely of "redecos", already-produced toys fitted with a different color schemes. A comic book series was produced to promote the line. Although the main Autobot leader in this series is [[Optimus Primal]], several versions of Optimus Prime exist in the toy line or have been seen in the comic book.

*A yellow repaint of the ''Robots in Disguise'' Optimus Prime toy, who, according to his biography, is the same character from the animated series and now heads a group of dimensional traveling Autobots, which includes a black repaint of [[Ultra Magnus]]. These two characters appeared in their combined form, [[Omega Prime]], in the Transformers: Universe comic book.
*In the same vein, a yellow repaint of the smaller version of ''Robots in Disguise'' Prime was also released. He appeared in the 2004 Botcon voice actor play, and was seemingly yet another new Optimus Prime taken from a parallel dimension to that of the ''Robots in Disguise'' fiction.
*A repaint of the smaller [[Scourge]] from the ''Robots in Disguise'' line, painted to resemble Generation One Optimus Prime. First released as part of an unnamed sub-line exclusive to KayBee toys, the figure was later integrated into Universe when it was released to other stores. His function is Leader and his motto is "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" Dedicated to protecting all life, Optimus Prime leads the Autobots in unceasing battle against the evil Decepticons. His courage and wisdom know no bounds, and he is respected throughout the universe as a powerful champion of peace. Carries a blaster rifle as well as the ancient Autobot Matrix of Leadership.

Several Transformers: Universe toys use molds from older Optimus Prime toys. "Battle In a Box" [[Ultra Magnus]] is a white repaint of the deluxe-sized ''Armada'' Optimus Prime mold, while an unreleased Universe [[Hot Spot]] would have been a repaint of the ''Robots in Disguise'' Prime toy. Similarly, [[Nemesis Prime]] was a repaint of the Prime-themed Japanese [[Big Convoy]] toy, never having been released in the Hasbro markets before.<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Transformers: Go-Bots (toyline)

2006-03-08T21:00:39Z

CyRaptor:

==Basic==
'''Wave 1'''
*[[Cheetor (Go-Bots)|Cheetor]] (cheetah)
*[[Gorillabot]] (gorilla)
*[[Mototron]] (sportscar)
*[[Speed-Bot]] (sportscar)

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Aero-Bot|Aero-Bot II]] (sportscar)
*[[Beast-Bot|Beast-Bot II]] (cheetah)
*[[Buzzer-Bot]] (wasp)
*[[Dino-Bot (Go-Bots)|Dino-Bot]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Fire-Bot (Go-Bots)|Fire-Bot]] (fire chief car)
*[[Prowl-Bot]] (police cruiser)
*[[Reptron]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Strong-Bot]] (bulldozer)

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Beast-Bot]] (gorilla)
*[[Buzzer-Bot]] (motorcycle)
*[[Cop-Bot]] (police cruiser)
*[[Flash-Bot]] (truck)
*[[Reptron]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Scrap-Bot]] (bulldozer)
*[[Strong-Bot]] (dump truck)
*[[Tigertron (Go-Bots)|Tigertron]] (tiger)

'''Wave 4'''
*[[Buzzer-Bot]] (wasp Glow-Bot)
*[[Racer-Bot BETA]] (muscle car Glow-Bot)
*[[Taxi-Bot]] (taxi Glow-Bot)
*[[Truck-Bot]] (truck Glow-Bot)

'''Wave 5'''
*[[Beast-Bot|Beast-Bot Dinosaur]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Buzzer-Bot|Buzzer-Bot Convertible]] (convertible)
*[[Cop-Bot|Cop-Bot Motorcycle]] (motorcycle)
*[[Fire-Bot (Go-Bots)|Fire-Bot]] (fire chief car)
*[[Gorilla-Bot]] (gorilla)
*[[Preditron]] (wolf)
*[[Racer-Bot BETA]] (muscle car)
*[[Speed-Bot|Speed-Bot Muscle Car]] (muscle car)
*[[Speed-Bot|Speed-Bot Race-Car]] (sportscar)
*[[Strong-Bot|Strong-Bot All Terrain]] (jeep)
*[[Strong-Bot|Strong-Bot Cement Mixer]] (cement mixer)
*[[Strong-Bot|Strong-Bot Pickup Truck]] (pickup truck)

'''Wave 6'''
*[[Racer-Bot ALPHA]] (muscle car)
*[[Reptron]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Speed-Bot]] (sportscar)
*[[Strong-Bot]] (jeep)

==Deluxe==
*[[Aero-Bot|Aero-Bot Racer]] (Formula 1 racer)
*[[Fast-Bot]] (Formula 1 racer)
*[[Mirage-Bot]] (Formula 1 racer)
*[[Mototron]] (sportscar)
*[[Speed-Bot|Speed-Bot II]] (Formula 1 racer)
*[[Speed-Bot|Speed-Bot Racer]] (sportscar)
*[[Speed-Bot|Speed-Bot Racer]] (Formula 5 racer)

==Mega==
*[[Aero-Bot]] (jet)
*[[Aero-Bot]] (jet) - repaint
*[[Aero-Bot|Chrome Aero-Bot]] (jet)
*[[Silver-Bot|Chrome Silver-Bot]] (jet)
*[[Aero-Bot|Flying-Fists Aero-Bot]] (jet)
*[[Silver-Bot|Flying-Fists Silver-Bot]] (jet)
*[[Silver-Bot]] (jet)
*[[Silver-Bot]] (jet) - repaint

==Ultra==
*[[Speed-Bot|Speed-Bot Dragster]] (drag racer)

==Super==
*[[Hauler-Bot]] (tractor trailer)<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

1-2-3 Transformers

2006-03-08T20:30:38Z

CyRaptor:

*[[Charlie Chopper]]
*[[Policeman Pete]]
*[[Rescue Roy]]<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)

2006-03-08T20:28:44Z

CyRaptor:

==Autobot==

'''Scout Class'''
*[[Armorhide (Cybertron)|Armorhide]] (semi cab) - ''Earth''
*[[Backstop]] (rhinoceros) - ''Jungle''
*[[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]] (drag racer) - ''Speed''
*[[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]] (sportscar) - ''Speed''
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] (SUV) - ''Jungle''
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (missile truck) - ''Earth''
*[[Swerve (Cybertron)|Swerve]] (sportscar) - ''Speed''

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Blurr (UT)|Blurr]] (sportscar) - ''Speed''
*[[Crosswise (Cybertron)]] (sportscar) - ''Earth''
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Cybertron Defense Hot Shot]] (armored car) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] (muscle car) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar) - ''Speed''
*[[Landmine (UT)|Landmine]] (front-end loader) - ''Earth''
*[[Longrack (Cybertron)|Longrack]] (power shovel) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (race car) - ''Speed''
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Red Alert]] (rescue SUV) - ''Earth''
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (wolf) - ''Jungle''

'''Voyager Class'''
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Cybertron Defense Scattorshot]] (missile truck) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Evac]] (rescue helicopter) - ''Earth''
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (lion) - ''Jungle''
*[[Vector Prime]] (space cruiser) w/ Minicon [[Safeguard]] (space fighter) - ''Universal''

'''Ultra'''
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Cybertron Defense Red Alert]] (missile transport) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Jetfire]] (cargo jet) - ''Earth''

'''Leader Class'''
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Optimus Prime]] (fire engine) - ''Earth''

'''Legends of Cybertron'''
*[[Evac]] (rescue helicopter)
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar)
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Jetfire]] (cargo jet)
*[[Leobreaker]] (lion)
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Optimus Prime]] (fire engine cab)

==Decepticon==

'''Scout Class'''
*[[Brushguard]] (SUV) - ''Earth''
*[[Hardtop]] (dune buggy) - ''Earth''
*[[Lugnutz]] (motorcycle) - ''Earth''
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (motorcycle) - ''Speed''
*[[Scrapmetal (Cybertron)|Cybertron]] (spider tank) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Swindle (Cybertron)|Swindle]] (dune buggy) - ''Earth'''
*[[Undermine]] (''Spinosaurus'') - ''Jungle''
*[[Wreckloose]] (lizard) - ''Jungle''

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Brimstone]] (''Pteranodon'') - ''Jungle''
*[[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)|Buzzsaw]] (helicopter) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Dirt Boss (Cybertron)|Dirt Boss]] (monster truck) - ''Speed''
*[[Runamuck (Cybertron)|Runamuck]] (sedan) - ''Earth''
*[[Thunderblast (Cybertron)|Thunderblast]] (attack boat) - ''Earth''
*[[Thundercracker (UT)|Thundercracker]] (fighter jet) - ''Earth''

'''Voyager Class'''
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (drag racer) - ''Speed''
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Dark Crumplezone]] (drag racer) - ''Speed''
*[[Mudflap]] (crane truck) - ''Earth''
*[[Starscream (UT)|Voyager Starscream]] (fighter jet) - ''Earth'' (Toys 'R' US exlusive pack-in w/ Vector Prime)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] (construction vehicle/jet) - ''Jungle''
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (dragon) - ''Jungle''

'''Leader Class'''
*[[Galvatron (UT)|Galvatron]] (race car/jet) - ''Earth''
*[[Megatron (UT)|Megatron]] (race car/jet) - ''Earth''

'''Supreme'''
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet) - ''Earth''

'''Legends of Cybertron'''
*[[Megatron (UT)|Megatron]] (race car)
*[[Scourge (UT)|Scourge]] (dragon)
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet)

==Minicon==

'''Versus Packs'''
*[[Kobushi]] (dune buggy) vs. [[Landslide (Minicon)|Landslide]] (excavator)
*[[Payload (Cybertron)|Payload]] (jeep) vs. [[Ascentor]] (tank)
*[[Razorclaw (Minicon)|Razorclaw]] (stealth bomber) vs. [[Steamhammer (Minicon)|Steamhammer]] (armored personnel carrier)
*[[Scattorbrain]] (snowcat) vs. [[Monocle]] (mining vehicle)
*[[Shockwave (Minicon)|Shockwave]] (reconnaisance jet) vs. [[Tankor (Minicon)|Tankor]] (tracked missile platform)
*[[Sky Lynx (Minicon)|Sky Lynx]] (cargo jet) vs. [[Thunderblast (Minicon)|Thunderblast]] (missile transport)

'''[[Recon Team]]''' - ''Universal''
*[[Jolt (UT)|Jolt]] (helicopter)
*[[Reverb]] (truck)
*[[Sixspeed]] (formula racer)

'''[[Street Speed Team]]''' - ''Speed''
*Backtrack (sportscar)
*Oval (sportscar)
*Spiral (sportscar)

==Miscellaneous==

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Sideways (UT)|Sideways]] (space fighter) - ''Planet X''<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)

2006-03-07T21:28:04Z

CyRaptor:

==Autobot==

'''Scout Class'''
*[[Armorhide (Cybertron)|Armorhide]] (semi cab) - ''Earth''
*[[Backstop]] (rhinoceros) - ''Jungle''
*[[Brakedown (Cybertron)|Brakedown]] (drag racer) - ''Speed''
*[[Clocker (Cybertron)|Clocker]] (sportscar) - ''Speed''
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] (SUV) - ''Jungle''
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (missile truck) - ''Earth''
*[[Swerve (Cybertron)|Swerve]] (sportscar) - ''Speed''

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Blurr (UT)|Blurr]] (sportscar) - ''Speed''
*[[Crosswise (Cybertron)]] (sportscar) - ''Earth''
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Cybertron Defense Hot Shot]] (armored car) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] (muscle car) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar) - ''Speed''
*[[Landmine (UT)|Landmine]] (front-end loader) - ''Earth''
*[[Longrack (Cybertron)|Longrack]] (power shovel) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] (race car) - ''Speed''
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Red Alert]] (rescue SUV) - ''Earth''
*[[Snarl (Cybertron)|Snarl]] (wolf) - ''Jungle''

'''Voyager Class'''
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Cybertron Defense Scattorshot]] (missile truck) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Evac]] (rescue helicopter) - ''Earth''
*[[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]] (lion) - ''Jungle''
*[[Vector Prime]] (space cruiser) w/ Minicon [[Safeguard]] (space fighter) - ''Universal''

'''Ultra'''
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Cybertron Defense Red Alert]] (missile transport) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Jetfire]] (cargo jet) - ''Earth''

'''Leader Class'''
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Optimus Prime]] (fire engine) - ''Earth''

==Decepticon==

'''Scout Class'''
*[[Brushguard]] (SUV) - ''Earth''
*[[Hardtop]] (dune buggy) - ''Earth''
*[[Lugnutz]] (motorcycle) - ''Earth''
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] (motorcycle) - ''Speed''
*[[Scrapmetal (Cybertron)|Cybertron]] (spider tank) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Swindle (Cybertron)|Swindle]] (dune buggy) - ''Earth'''
*[[Undermine]] (''Spinosaurus'') - ''Jungle''
*[[Wreckloose]] (lizard) - ''Jungle''

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Brimstone]] (''Pteranodon'') - ''Jungle''
*[[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)|Buzzsaw]] (helicopter) - ''Cybertron''
*[[Dirt Boss (Cybertron)|Dirt Boss]] (monster truck) - ''Speed''
*[[Runamuck (Cybertron)|Runamuck]] (sedan) - ''Earth''
*[[Thunderblast (Cybertron)|Thunderblast]] (attack boat) - ''Earth''
*[[Thundercracker (UT)|Thundercracker]] (fighter jet) - ''Earth''

'''Voyager Class'''
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] (drag racer) - ''Speed''
*[[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Dark Crumplezone]] (drag racer) - ''Speed''
*[[Mudflap]] (crane truck) - ''Earth''
*[[Starscream (UT)|Voyager Starscream]] (fighter jet) - ''Earth'' (Toys 'R' US exlusive pack-in w/ Vector Prime)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] (construction vehicle/jet) - ''Jungle''
*[[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] (dragon) - ''Jungle''

'''Leader Class'''
*[[Galvatron (UT)|Galvatron]] (race car/jet) - ''Earth''
*[[Megatron (UT)|Megatron]] (race car/jet) - ''Earth''

'''Supreme'''
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet) - ''Earth''

==Minicon==

'''Versus Packs'''
*[[Kobushi]] (dune buggy) vs. [[Landslide (Minicon)|Landslide]] (excavator)
*[[Payload (Cybertron)|Payload]] (jeep) vs. [[Ascentor]] (tank)
*[[Razorclaw (Minicon)|Razorclaw]] (stealth bomber) vs. [[Steamhammer (Minicon)|Steamhammer]] (armored personnel carrier)
*[[Scattorbrain]] (snowcat) vs. [[Monocle]] (mining vehicle)
*[[Shockwave (Minicon)|Shockwave]] (reconnaisance jet) vs. [[Tankor (Minicon)|Tankor]] (tracked missile platform)
*[[Sky Lynx (Minicon)|Sky Lynx]] (cargo jet) vs. [[Thunderblast (Minicon)|Thunderblast]] (missile transport)

'''[[Recon Team]]''' - ''Universal''
*[[Jolt (UT)|Jolt]] (helicopter)
*[[Reverb]] (truck)
*[[Sixspeed]] (formula racer)

'''[[Street Speed Team]]''' - ''Speed''
*Backtrack (sportscar)
*Oval (sportscar)
*Spiral (sportscar)

==Miscellaneous==

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Sideways (UT)|Sideways]] (space fighter) - ''Planet X''<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)

2006-03-07T20:31:30Z

CyRaptor: /* Dinobots */

Starting in 1996, the Beast Wars toy line was made after the lukewarm reaction during G2. Introducing the new factions of Maximal and Predacon, the well known vehicles were replaced by highly organic animals in what many to consider a bold and revolutionary move.

== 1996 ==

===Maximal===

'''Basic'''
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (falcon)
*[[Armordillo]] (armadillo)
*[[Claw Jaw]] (squid)
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (bat)
*[[Rattrap]] (rat)
*[[Razorbeast]] (warthog)
*[[Snarl (BW)|Snarl]] (Tasmanian Devil)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (cheetah)
*[[Cybershark]] (hammerhead shark)
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Grimlock (BW)|Grimlock]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[K-9]] (German Shepherd)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (rhinoceros)
*[[Tigatron]] (Siberian tiger)
*[[Wolfang]] (wolf)

'''Mega'''
*[[B'Boom]] (mandrill)
*[[Polar Claw]] (polar bear)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (gorilla)

'''Ultra Combiner [[Magnaboss (BW)|Magnaboss]]'''
*[[Ironhide (BW)|Ironhide]] (elephant)
*[[Prowl (BW Magnaboss)|Prowl]] (lion)
*[[Silverbolt (BW Magnaboss)|Silverbolt]] (bald eagle)

*[[Magnaboss (BW)|Magnaboss]]

'''Microverse'''
*Orcanoch (orca whale/Maximal base)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*"Lion" (under-3 toy)
*"Panther"
*"Rhino"

===Predacon===

'''Basic'''
*[[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]] (boll weevil)
*[[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] (frilled lizard)
*[[Insecticon (BW)|Insecticon]] (stag beetle)
*[[Lazorbeak]] (''Pteranodon'')
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (crocodile)
*[[Powerpinch]] (earwig)
*[[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]] (fiddler crab)
*[[Snapper]] (snapping turtle)
*[[Spittor]] (poison arrow frog)
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (''Pteranodon'')

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Bonecrusher (BW)|Bonecrusher]] (bison)
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)]] (black widow spider)
*[[Buzzsaw (BW)|Buzzsaw]] (wasp)
*[[Jetstorm (BW)|Jetstorm]] (dragonfly)
*[[Manterror]] (praying mantis)
*[[Retrax]] (pill bug)
*[[Tarantulas]] (tarantula)
*[[Waspinator]] (hornet)

'''Mega'''
*[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (fire ant)
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (scorpion)
*[[Transquito]] (mosquito)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'')

'''Ultra Combiner [[Tripredacus (BW)|Tripredacus]]'''
*[[Cicadacon]] (cicada)
*[[Ram Horn (BW)|Ram Horn]] (rhinoceros beetle)
*[[Sea Clamp]] (lobster)

'''Microverse'''
*Arachnid (spider/Predacon base)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*"Beetle"
*"Manta Ray"

==1997==

===Maximal===

'''Basic'''
*[[Air Hammer]] (hammerhead shark/hawk [[Fuzor]])
*[[Bantor]] (baboon/tiger Fuzor)
*[[Noctorro]] (bull/bat Fuzor)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] ([[Transmetal]] falcon)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (Transmetal cheetah)
*[[Rattrap]] (Transmetal rat)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (Transmetal rhinoceros)
*[[Silverbolt (BW Fuzor)]] (wolf/eagle Fuzor)
*[[Torca]] (orca whale/elephant Fuzor)

'''Mega'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (Transmetal gorilla)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Depth Charge]] (Transmetal manta ray)

'''Super'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimal Optimus]] (Transmetal gorilla)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toy'''
*[[Dinobot]] (Transmetal ''Velociraptor'')

===Predacon===

'''Basic'''
*[[Buzzclaw (BW)|Buzzclaw]] (praying mantis/lizard Fuzor)
*[[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] (scorpion/cobra Fuzor)
*[[Terragator]] (alligator/terrapin Fuzor)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Injector]] (lionfish/wasp Fuzor)
*[[Sky Shadow (BW)|Sky Shadow]] (iguana/dragonfly Fuzor)
*[[Tarantulas]] (Transmetal tarantula)
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (Transmetal ''Pteranodon'')
*[[Waspinator]] (Transmetal hornet)

'''Mega'''
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (Transmetal ''Tyrannosaurus rex'')
*[[Scavenger (BW)|Scavenger]] (Transmetal fire ant)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] (Transmetal crab)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)]] (Transmetal black widow spider)
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (Transmetal scorpion)

==1998==

===Maximal===

'''Basic'''
*[[Optimus Minor]] ([[Transmetal 2]] monkey)
*[[Nightglider]] (Transmetal 2 flying squirrel)
*[[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]] (Transmetal 2 bat)
*[[Stinkbomb]] (Transmetal 2 skunk)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (Transmetal 2 cheetah)
*[[Jawbreaker]] (Transmetal 2 hyena)
*[[Prowl (BW Transmetal 2)|Prowl]] (Transmetal 2 owl)
*[[Ramulus]] (Transmetal 2 ram)

'''Mega'''
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)]] (Transmetal 2 black widow spider)
*[[Cybershark]] (Transmetal 2 great white shark)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Tigerhawk]] (Transmetal 2 tiger/hawk Fuzor)

===Predacon===

'''Basic'''
*[[Scarem]] (Transmetal 2 scarab beetle)
*[[Spittor]] (Transmetal 2 poison arrow frog)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Dinobot 2]] (Transmetal 2 ''Velociraptor'')
*[[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] (Transmetal 2 frilled lizard)
*[[Scourge (BW)|Scourge]] (Transmetal 2 locust)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Tripredacus Agent]] (Transmetal 2 panther)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (Transmetal 2 dragon)

==1999==

===Mutants===

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Icebird]] (polar bear/snowy owl [[Mutant]])
*[[Poison Bite]] (barracuda/scorpion Mutant)
*[[Razor Claw]] (''Velociraptor''/wolverine Mutant)
*[[Soundwave (BW)|Soundwave]] (alligator/bat Mutant)

===Dinobots===

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Airraptor]] (''Archaeopteryx'')
*[[Dinotron]] (''Pachycephalosaurus'')
*[[Rapticon]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Striker]] (''Stegosaurus'')
*[[Terranotron]] (''Pteranodon'')
*[[Triceradon]] (''Triceratops'')

'''Ultra'''
*[[Magmatron (BW Dinobot)|Magmatron]] (''Giganotosaurus''/''Elasmosaurus''/''Quetzalcoatlus'')
*[[T-Wrecks]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'')

==2006 (10th Anniversary)==

===Maximal===
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (cheetah)
*[[Dinobot]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (gorilla) w/ [[Axalon]] model
*[[Rattrap]] (Transmetal rat)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (rhinoceros)

===Predacon===
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'') w/ [[Darkside]] model
*[[Tarantulas|Predacon Tarantulas]] (tarantula)
*[[Waspinator]] (hornet)<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Transformers: Energon (toyline)

2006-03-07T17:06:15Z

CyRaptor:

==Autobots==

'''Omnicons'''
*[[Arcee (UT)|Arcee]] (motorcycle)
*[[Offshoot]] (communications truck)
*[[Strongarm (UT)|Energon Strongarm]] (jeep)
*[[Signal Flare]] (communications truck)
*[[Sky Blast (Energon)|Sky Blast]] (space fighter)
*[[Strongarm (UT)|Strongarm]] (jeep)

'''Air Team'''
*[[Sky Shadow (UT)|Sky Shadow]] (attack jet)
*[[Storm Jet (UT)|Storm Jet]] (bomber jet)
*[[Terradive (Energon)|Terradive]] (attack jet)
*[[Treadshot (UT)|Treadshot]] (fighter jet)
*[[Windrazor (UT)|Windrazor]] (fighter jet)

*[[Superion Maximus]]

'''Supercons'''
*[[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] (rally car)
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Energon Hot Shot]] (sportscar)
*[[Kicker|Energon Kicker]] w/ [[Highwire]]
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar)
*[[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]] (fire engine)
*[[Prowl (Energon)|Prowl]] (police racer)
*[[Roadblock (UT)|Roadblock]] (utility vehicle)
*[[Rodimus (UT)|Rodimus]] (tractor trailer)
*[[Tow-Line]] (TV van)

'''Dinobot 2-Pack'''
*[[Grimlock (UT)|Grimlock]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'')
*[[Swoop (UT)|Swoop]] (''Pteranodon'')

'''SWAT Team 2-Pack''' - ''K-Mart exclusive''
*[[Checkpoint]] (rally tractor trailer)
*[[Prowl (Energon)|Prowl]] (police racer)

'''Maxcons'''
*[[Beachcomber (UT)|Beachcomber]] (dune buggy)
*[[Cliffjumper (Energon)|Cliffjumper]] (dune buggy)
*[[Ironhide (Energon)|Energon Ironhide]] (SUV)
*[[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]] (SUV)
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Jetfire]] (space shuttle)
*[[Overcast (UT)|Overcast]] (space shuttle)
*[[Treadbolt (Energon)|Treadbolt]] (construction vehicle) w/ Minicon [[Rollbar (UT)|Rollbar]] (buggy)
*[[Wing Saber]] (stealth bomber)

'''Gigacons'''
*[[Bulkhead]] (helicopter)
*[[Landmine (UT)|Landmine]] (construction vehicle)
*[[Landquake]] (construction vehicle)
*[[Quickstrike (UT)|Quickstrike]] (helicopter)
*[[Ultra Magnus (UT)|Ultra Magnus]] (shuttle carrier) w/ Minicons [[Roll-Out]] (tractor cab), Astroscope (space station), Payload (rocket transporter) and Override (rocket)

'''Leader'''
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Optimus Prime]] (tractor trailer)

'''Supreme'''
*[[Omega Sentinel]] (battleship/crane truck)
*[[Omega Supreme (UT)|Omega Supreme]] (battleship/crane truck)

'''Roleplay'''
*[[Energon Blaster]]
*[[Energon Saber]]

==Decepticons==

'''Terrorcons'''
*[[Battle Ravage (Energon)|Battle Ravage]] (jaguar)
*[[Command Ravage]] (jaguar)
*[[Cruellock]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Divebomb (UT)|Divebomb]] (hawk)
*[[Doom-Lock]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Insecticon (UT)|Insecticon]] (Hercules beetle)

'''Construction Team'''
*[[Bonecrusher (UT)|Bonecrusher]] (power shovel)
*[[Duststorm (UT)|Duststorm]] (crane)
*[[Sledge (UT)|Sledge]] (power shovel)
*[[Steamhammer]] (steamshovel)
*[[Wideload (UT)|Wideload]] (crane)

*[[Constructicon Maximus]]

'''Destruction Team'''
*[[Barricade (UT)|Barricade]] (missile truck)
*[[Blackout (Energon)|Blackout]] (helicopter)
*[[Blight (UT)|Blight]] (anti-aircraft tank)
*[[Kickback (UT)|Kickback]] (anti-aircraft tank)
*[[Stormcloud (Energon)|Stormcloud]] (helicopter)

*[[Bruticus Maximus]]

'''Supercons'''
*[[Cyclonus (UT)|Cyclonus]] (helicopter) w/ Minicon [[Crumplezone (Armada)|Crumplezone]] (tank) - ''Kay Bee Toys exclusive''
*[[Demolishor]] (dump truck)
*[[Demolishor]] (tank) w/ Minicon [[Blackout (Armada)|Blackout]] (comabt car) - ''Kay Bee toys exclusive''
*[[Starscream (UT)|Energon Starscream]] (fighter jet)
*[[Rapid Run (Energon)|Rapid Run]] (motorcycle) w/ Minicons Nightcruz and Nightscream (Headmaster)
*[[Sharkticon (UT)|Sharkticon]] (submarine)
*[[Slugslinger (UT)|Slugslinger]] (dual-cockpit fighter jet)
*[[Snow Cat]] (snowcat)
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet)

'''Maxcons'''
*[[Alpha Quintesson]]
*[[Dreadwing (UT)|Dreadwing]] (battle speedboat)
*[[Mirage (Energon)|Energon]] (battle speedboat)
*[[Shockblast (UT)|Shockblast]] (hover tank/satellite)
*[[Six Shot (UT)|Six Shot]] (hover tank/satellite)

'''Gigacons'''
*[[Scorponok (UT)|Scorponok]] (construction vehicle/jet)
*[[Tidal Wave]] (Dark Fleet) w/ Minicon [[Ramjet (UT)|Ramjet]] (fighter jet)

'''Leader'''
*[[Galvatron (UT)|Galvatron]] (space jet)
*[[Megatron (UT)|Megatron]] (space jet)

==Minicons==

'''[[Energon Saber Team]]'''
*Scattorshot (Concorde)
*Skyboom (space shuttle)
*Wreckage (supersonic bomber)

*[[Energon Saber]]

'''[[Street Action Team|Perceptor Team]]'''
*[[Grindor]] (hoverboard)
*[[Highwire]] (motorbike)
*[[Sureshock]] (four-wheeler)

*[[Perceptor (UT)|Perceptor]]

==Miscellaneous==

'''Leader 2-Pack''' - ''Toys 'R' Us exclusive''
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Supercon Optimus Prime]] (semi cab)
*[[Megatron (UT)|Maxcon Megatron]] (space jet)

'''Unicron'''
*[[Unicron (UT)|Unicron]] (planet) w/ Minicon [[Dead End (UT)|Dead End]] (moon)<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Toys

2006-03-07T01:34:31Z

CyRaptor:

One of the things that makes the [[Transformers]] so incredible is the wide variety of toys. Complex transformations and classic characters make the toys one of the most memorable facets of the Transformers universe.

==American Toys==
*[[Generation 1 (toyline)|Generation 1]] 
*[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]] 
*[[Beast Wars (toyline)|Beast Wars]] 
*[[Machine Wars]] 
*[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]] 
*[[Robots in Disguise (toyline)|Robots in Disguise]] 
*[[Armada (toyline)|Armada]] 
*[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]] 
*[[Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]] 
*[[Universe (toyline)|Universe]] 
*[[Alternators]] 
*[[Heroes of Cybertron]] 
*[[Go-Bots (toyline)|Go-Bots]] 
*[[1-2-3 Transformers]]
*[[Built to Rule]]

==Japanese Toys==

==European Toys==
[[Category:Lists]]<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Transformers: Armada (toyline)

2006-03-07T01:33:52Z

CyRaptor:

==Autobots==

'''Supercon'''
*[[Airazor (UT)|Airazor]] (falcon) w/ Minicon [[Nightscream (Armada)|Nightscream]] (sportscar)
*[[Blurr (UT)|Blurr]] (sportscar) w/ Minicon [[Incinerator]] (drag racer)
*[[Cheetor (UT)|Cheetor]] (cheetah) w/ Minicon [[Cliffjumper (UT)|Cliffjumper]] (jeep)
*[[Hoist (UT)|Hoist]] (power shovel) w/ Minicon [[Refute]] (mining vehicle)
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Hot Shot]] (sportscar) w/ Minicon [[Jolt (UT)|Jolt]] (helicopter)
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Optimus Prime]] (semi cab) w/ Minicon [[Over-run]] (space fighter)
*[[Hot Shot (UT)|Powerlinx Hot Shot]] (sportscar) w/ Minicon [[Jolt (UT)|Jolt]] (helicopter)
*[[Rhinox (UT)|Rhinox]] (rhinoceros) w/ Minicon [[Armorhide (UT)|Armorhide]] (snowcat)
*[[Sideswipe (UT)|Sideswipe]] (sedan) w/ Minicon [[Nightbeat (UT)|Nightbeat]] (motorcycle)
*[[Smokescreen (UT)|Smokescreen]] (utility truck) w/ Minicon [[Liftor]] (forklift)

'''Maxcon'''
*[[Overload]] (shuttle carrier) w/ Minicon [[Roll-Out]] (tractor cab)
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Powerlinx Red Alert]] (rescue SUV) w/ Minicon [[Longarm (UT)|Longarm]] (crane truck]]
*[[Red Alert (UT)|Red Alert]] (rescue SUV) w/ Minicon [[Longarm (UT)|Longarm]] (crane truck)
*[[Scavenger (UT)|Scavenger]] (construction vehicle) w/ Minicon [[Rollbar (UT)|Rollbar]] (buggy)

'''Gigacon'''
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Jetfire]] (space shuttle) w/ Minicon [[Comettor]] (space rover)
*[[Jetfire (UT)|Powerlinx Jetfire]] (space shuttle w/ Minicon [[Comettor]] (space rover)

'''Super'''
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Optimus Prime]] (tractor trailer) w/ Minicon [[Sparkplug (UT)|Sparkplug]] (sportscar)
*[[Optimus Prime (UT)|Powerlinx Optimus Prime]] (tractor trailer) w/ Minicon [[Sparkplug (UT)|Corona Sparkplug]] (sportscar)

'''Roleplay'''
*[[Laserbeak (UT)|Laserbeak]] (video camera)
*[[Star Saber]]

==Decepticons==

'''Supercon'''
*[[Cyclonus (UT)|Cyclonus]] (helicopter) w/ Minicon [[Crumplezone (Armada)|Crumplezone]] (tank)
*[[Demolishor]] (tank) w/ Minicon [[Blackout (UT)|Blackout]] (combat car)
*[[Nemesis Prime (UT)|Nemesis Prime]] (semi cab) w/ Minicon [[Run-over]] (space fighter)
*[[Cyclonus (UT)|Powerlinx Cyclonus]] (helicopter) w/ Minicon [[Crumplezone (Armada)|Crumplezone]] (tank)
*[[Demolishor|Powerlinx Demolishor]] (tank) w/ Minicon [[Blackout (UT)|Blackout]] (combat car)
*[[Thrust (UT)|Powerlinx Thrust]] (fighter jet) w/ Minicon [[Inferno (Armada)|Inferno]] (missile truck)
*[[Terrorsaur (UT)|Terrorsaur]] (''Pteranodon'') w/ Minicon [[Ironhide (Armada)|Ironhide]] (dune buggy)
*[[Thrust (UT)|Thrust]] (fighter jet) w/ Minicon [[Inferno (Armada)|Inferno]] (missile truck)
*[[Wheeljack (UT)|Wheeljack]] (sportscar) w/ Minicon [[Wind Sheer (UT)|Wind Sheer]] (stealth fighter)

'''Maxcon'''
*[[Predacon (UT)|Predacon]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'') w/ Minicons [[Skid-Z (UT)|Skid-Z]] and [[Sideburn (UT)|Sideburn]] (sportscar)
*[[Skywarp (UT)|Skywarp]] (VTOL fighter jet) w/ Minicon [[Thunderclash (UT)|Thunderclash]] (space fighter)
*[[Starscream (UT)|Starscream]] (fighter jet) w/ Minicon [[Swindle (UT)|Swindle]] (Indy racer)
*[[Thundercracker (UT)|Thundercracker]] (fighter jet) w/ Minicon [[Zapmaster]] (Indy racer)

'''Gigacon'''
*[[Galvatron (UT)|Galvatron]] (tank) w/ Minicon [[Clench (UT)|Clench]]
*[[Megatron (UT)|Megatron]] (tank) w/ Minicon [[Leader-1]]
*[[Tidal Wave]] (Dark Fleet w/ Minicon [[Ramjet (UT)|Ramjet]] (fighter jet)

'''Roleplay'''
*[[Dark Saber]]

==Minicons==

'''[[Adventure Team]]'''
*Dune Runner (dune buggy)
*Iceberg (snowcat)
*Ransack (jeep)

'''[[Air Assault Team]]'''
*Jetstorm (Concorde jet)
*Runway (supersonic bomber)
*Sonar (space shuttle)

*[[Dark Saber]]

'''[[Air Defense Team]]'''
*Jetstorm (Concorde jet)
*Runway (supersonic bomber)
*Sonar (space shuttle)

*[[Star Saber]]

'''[[Air Military Team]]'''
*Gunbarrel (cargo jet)
*Terradive (recon jet)
*Thunderwing (stealth bomber)

'''[[Destruction Team]]'''
*Buzzsaw (excavator)
*Drill Bit (mining vehicle)
*Dualor (tank)

'''[[Emergency Team]]'''
*Firebot (fire engine)
*Makeshift (VTOL plane)
*Prowl (police cruiser)

'''[[Land Military Team]]'''
*Bonecrusher (missile transport)
*Knock Out (armored personnel carrier)
*Wreckage (tracked missile platform)

'''[[Night Attack Team]]'''
*Broadside (armored personnel carrier)
*Fetch (tracked missile platform)
*Scattor (missile transport)

'''[[Destruction Team|Powerlinx Destruction Team]]'''
*Buzzsaw (excavator)
*Drill Bit (mining vehicle)
*Dualor (tank)

'''[[Emergency Team|Powerlinx Emergency Team]]'''
*Firebot (fire engine)
*Makeshift (VTOL plane)
*Prowl (police cruiser)

'''[[Race Team|Powerlinx Race Team]]'''
*Dirt Boss (rally SUV)
*Downshift (Formula racer)
*Mirage (Indy racer)

*[[Skyboom Shield]]

'''[[Sea Team|Powerlinx Sea Team]]'''
*Oceanglide (solar-powered boat)
*Stormcloud (speedboat)
*Waterlog (hovercraft)

'''[[Race Team]]'''
*Dirt Boss (rally SUV)
*Downshift (Formula racer)
*Mirage (Indy racer)

*[[Skyboom Shield]]

'''[[Sea Team]]'''
*Oceanglide (solar-powered boat)
*Stormcloud (speedboat)
*Waterlog (hovercraft)

'''[[Space Team]]'''
*Astroscope (space station)
*Payload (rocket transporter)
*Sky Blast (rocket)

*[[Requiem Blaster]]

'''[[Street Action Team]]'''
*[[Grindor]] (skateboard)
*[[Highwire]] (dirtbike)
*[[Sureshock]] (motor scooter)

*[[Perceptor (UT)|Perceptor]]

'''[[Street Speed Team]]'''
*Backtrack (sportscar)
*Oval (sportscar)
*Spiral (sportscar)

==Miscellaneous==

'''Supercon'''
*[[Sideways (UT)|Sideways]] (motorcycle) w/ Minicons [[Rook (UT)|Rook]] and [[Crosswise (UT)|Crosswise]] (Headmasters)

'''Supreme'''
*[[Unicron (UT)|Unicron]] (planet) w/ [[Dead End (UT)|Dead End]] (moon)<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)

2006-03-06T21:53:35Z

CyRaptor:

==Maximal==

'''Deployers'''
*[[Dillo]] (armadillo) repaint
*[[Dillo]] (armadillo)
*[[Mol]] (mole)
*[[Mol]] (mole) repaint
*[[Rav]] (raven)
*[[Rav]] (raven) repaint

'''Basic'''
*[[Battle Unicorn]] (unicorn)
*[[Buzzsaw (BM)|Buzzsaw]] (hornet)
*[[Geckobot]] (flying lizard)
*[[Hammerstrike]] (hammerhead shark)
*[[Longhorn]] (bull)
*[[Nightviper]] (cobra)
*[[Quickstrike (BM)|Quickstrike]] (wolf)
*[[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] (condor)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Noble/Savage|Beast Changer]] (Noble wolf/Savage dragon)
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)]] (black widow spider)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Night Slash Cheetor]] (cheetah)
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (gorilla)
*[[Skydive (BM)|Skydive]] (''Quetzalcoatlus'')
*[[Snarl (BM)|Snarl]] (lion)

'''Mega'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Blast Punch Optimus Primal]] (gorilla)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (cheetah)
*[[Rattrap]] (rat)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] (bat)

'''Super'''
*[[Primal Prime]] (Transmetal gorilla)

'''Supreme'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Air Attack Optimus Primal]] (gorilla)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Supreme Cheetor]] (cheetah)

'''Beast Riders'''
*[[Che]] (cheetah chariot)
*[[Che]] (cheetah chariot) repaint

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (black widow spider)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (cheetah)
*[[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] (bat)
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (gorilla)
*[[Rattrap]] (rat)

==Vehicon==

'''Basic'''
*[[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]] (Formula racer)
*[[Thrust (BM)|Motorcycle Drone]]
*[[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] (VTOL plane)
*[[Scavenger (BM)|Scavenger]] (construction vehicle)
*[[Spy Streak]] (recon jet)
*[[Tankor (BM)|Tank Drone]]

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Blastcharge]] (six-wheeled tank)
*[[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] (jet)
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megabolt Megatron]] (floating head)
*[[Jetstorm (BM)|Sonic Attack Jet]]
*[[Strika]] (6-wheeler)
*[[Thrust (BM)|Thurst]] (motorcycle)

'''Mega'''
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (dragon)
*[[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] (tank)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] (jet)

'''Beast Riders'''
*[[Mechatron]] (dragon chariot)
*[[Mechatron]] (dragon chariot) repaint

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*[[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] (jet)
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (dragon)
*[[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] (tank)
*[[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] (motorcycle)<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)

2006-03-06T21:33:07Z

CyRaptor:

Starting in 1996, the Beast Wars toy line was made after the lukewarm reaction during G2. Introducing the new factions of Maximal and Predacon, the well known vehicles were replaced by highly organic animals in what many to consider a bold and revolutionary move.

== 1996 ==

===Maximal===

'''Basic'''
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (falcon)
*[[Armordillo]] (armadillo)
*[[Claw Jaw]] (squid)
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (bat)
*[[Rattrap]] (rat)
*[[Razorbeast]] (warthog)
*[[Snarl (BW)|Snarl]] (Tasmanian Devil)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (cheetah)
*[[Cybershark]] (hammerhead shark)
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Grimlock (BW)|Grimlock]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[K-9]] (German Shepherd)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (rhinoceros)
*[[Tigatron]] (Siberian tiger)
*[[Wolfang]] (wolf)

'''Mega'''
*[[B'Boom]] (mandrill)
*[[Polar Claw]] (polar bear)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (gorilla)

'''Ultra Combiner [[Magnaboss (BW)|Magnaboss]]'''
*[[Ironhide (BW)|Ironhide]] (elephant)
*[[Prowl (BW Magnaboss)|Prowl]] (lion)
*[[Silverbolt (BW Magnaboss)|Silverbolt]] (bald eagle)

*[[Magnaboss (BW)|Magnaboss]]

'''Microverse'''
*Orcanoch (orca whale/Maximal base)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*"Lion" (under-3 toy)
*"Panther"
*"Rhino"

===Predacon===

'''Basic'''
*[[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]] (boll weevil)
*[[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] (frilled lizard)
*[[Insecticon (BW)|Insecticon]] (stag beetle)
*[[Lazorbeak]] (''Pteranodon'')
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (crocodile)
*[[Powerpinch]] (earwig)
*[[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]] (fiddler crab)
*[[Snapper]] (snapping turtle)
*[[Spittor]] (poison arrow frog)
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (''Pteranodon'')

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Bonecrusher (BW)|Bonecrusher]] (bison)
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)]] (black widow spider)
*[[Buzzsaw (BW)|Buzzsaw]] (wasp)
*[[Jetstorm (BW)|Jetstorm]] (dragonfly)
*[[Manterror]] (praying mantis)
*[[Retrax]] (pill bug)
*[[Tarantulas]] (tarantula)
*[[Waspinator]] (hornet)

'''Mega'''
*[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (fire ant)
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (scorpion)
*[[Transquito]] (mosquito)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'')

'''Ultra Combiner [[Tripredacus (BW)|Tripredacus]]'''
*[[Cicadacon]] (cicada)
*[[Ram Horn (BW)|Ram Horn]] (rhinoceros beetle)
*[[Sea Clamp]] (lobster)

'''Microverse'''
*Arachnid (spider/Predacon base)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*"Beetle"
*"Manta Ray"

==1997==

===Maximal===

'''Basic'''
*[[Air Hammer]] (hammerhead shark/hawk [[Fuzor]])
*[[Bantor]] (baboon/tiger Fuzor)
*[[Noctorro]] (bull/bat Fuzor)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] ([[Transmetal]] falcon)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (Transmetal cheetah)
*[[Rattrap]] (Transmetal rat)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (Transmetal rhinoceros)
*[[Silverbolt (BW Fuzor)]] (wolf/eagle Fuzor)
*[[Torca]] (orca whale/elephant Fuzor)

'''Mega'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (Transmetal gorilla)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Depth Charge]] (Transmetal manta ray)

'''Super'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimal Optimus]] (Transmetal gorilla)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toy'''
*[[Dinobot]] (Transmetal ''Velociraptor'')

===Predacon===

'''Basic'''
*[[Buzzclaw (BW)|Buzzclaw]] (praying mantis/lizard Fuzor)
*[[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] (scorpion/cobra Fuzor)
*[[Terragator]] (alligator/terrapin Fuzor)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Injector]] (lionfish/wasp Fuzor)
*[[Sky Shadow (BW)|Sky Shadow]] (iguana/dragonfly Fuzor)
*[[Tarantulas]] (Transmetal tarantula)
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (Transmetal ''Pteranodon'')
*[[Waspinator]] (Transmetal hornet)

'''Mega'''
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (Transmetal ''Tyrannosaurus rex'')
*[[Scavenger (BW)|Scavenger]] (Transmetal fire ant)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] (Transmetal crab)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)]] (Transmetal black widow spider)
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (Transmetal scorpion)

==1998==

===Maximal===

'''Basic'''
*[[Optimus Minor]] ([[Transmetal 2]] monkey)
*[[Nightglider]] (Transmetal 2 flying squirrel)
*[[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]] (Transmetal 2 bat)
*[[Stinkbomb]] (Transmetal 2 skunk)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (Transmetal 2 cheetah)
*[[Jawbreaker]] (Transmetal 2 hyena)
*[[Prowl (BW Transmetal 2)|Prowl]] (Transmetal 2 owl)
*[[Ramulus]] (Transmetal 2 ram)

'''Mega'''
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)]] (Transmetal 2 black widow spider)
*[[Cybershark]] (Transmetal 2 great white shark)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Tigerhawk]] (Transmetal 2 tiger/hawk Fuzor)

===Predacon===

'''Basic'''
*[[Scarem]] (Transmetal 2 scarab beetle)
*[[Spittor]] (Transmetal 2 poison arrow frog)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Dinobot 2]] (Transmetal 2 ''Velociraptor'')
*[[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] (Transmetal 2 frilled lizard)
*[[Scourge (BW)|Scourge]] (Transmetal 2 locust)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Tripredacus Agent]] (Transmetal 2 panther)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (Transmetal 2 dragon)

==1999==

===Mutants===

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Icebird]] (polar bear/snowy owl [[Mutant]])
*[[Poison Bite]] (barracuda/scorpion Mutant)
*[[Razor Claw]] (''Velociraptor''/wolverine Mutant)
*[[Soundwave (BW)|Soundwave]] (alligator/bat Mutant)

===Dinobots===

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Airraptor]] (''Archaeopteryx'')
*[[Dinotron]] (''Pachycephalosaurus'')
*[[Striker]] (''Stegosaurus'')
*[[Triceradon]] (''Triceratops'')

'''Ultra'''
*[[Magmatron (BW Dinobot)|Magmatron]] (''Giganotosaurus''/''Elasmosaurus''/''Quetzalcoatlus'')
*[[T-Wrecks]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'')

==2006 (10th Anniversary)==

===Maximal===
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (cheetah)
*[[Dinobot]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (gorilla) w/ [[Axalon]] model
*[[Rattrap]] (Transmetal rat)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (rhinoceros)

===Predacon===
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'') w/ [[Darkside]] model
*[[Tarantulas|Predacon Tarantulas]] (tarantula)
*[[Waspinator]] (hornet)<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)

2006-03-06T21:19:49Z

CyRaptor:

Starting in 1996, the Beast Wars toy line was made after the lukewarm reaction during G2. Introducing the new factions of Maximal and Predacon, the well known vehicles were replaced by highly organic animals in what many to consider a bold and revolutionary move.

== 1996 ==

===Maximal===

'''Basic'''
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (falcon)
*[[Armordillo]] (armadillo)
*[[Claw Jaw]] (squid)
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (bat)
*[[Rattrap]] (rat)
*[[Razorbeast]] (warthog)
*[[Snarl (BW)|Snarl]] (Tasmanian Devil)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (cheetah)
*[[Cybershark]] (hammerhead shark)
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Grimlock (BW)|Grimlock]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[K-9]] (German Shepherd)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (rhinoceros)
*[[Tigatron]] (Siberian tiger)
*[[Wolfang]] (wolf)

'''Mega'''
*[[B'Boom]] (mandrill)
*[[Polar Claw]] (polar bear)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (gorilla)

'''Ultra Combiner [[Magnaboss (BW)|Magnaboss]]'''
*[[Ironhide (BW)|Ironhide]] (elephant)
*[[Prowl (BW Magnaboss)|Prowl]] (lion)
*[[Silverbolt (BW Magnaboss)|Silverbolt]] (bald eagle)

*[[Magnaboss (BW)|Magnaboss]]

'''Microverse'''
*Orcanoch (orca whale/Maximal base)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*"Lion" (under-3 toy)
*"Panther"
*"Rhino"

===Predacon===

'''Basic'''
*[[Drill Bit (BW)|Drill Bit]] (boll weevil)
*[[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] (frilled lizard)
*[[Insecticon (BW)|Insecticon]] (stag beetle)
*[[Lazorbeak]] (''Pteranodon'')
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (crocodile)
*[[Powerpinch]] (earwig)
*[[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]] (fiddler crab)
*[[Snapper]] (snapping turtle)
*[[Spittor]] (poison arrow frog)
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (''Pteranodon'')

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Bonecrusher (BW)|Bonecrusher]] (bison)
*[[Blackarachnia]] (black widow spider)
*[[Buzzsaw (BW)|Buzzsaw]] (wasp)
*[[Jetstorm (BW)|Jetstorm]] (dragonfly)
*[[Manterror]] (praying mantis)
*[[Retrax]] (pill bug)
*[[Tarantulas]] (tarantula)
*[[Waspinator]] (hornet)

'''Mega'''
*[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (fire ant)
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (scorpion)
*[[Transquito]] (mosquito)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'')

'''Ultra Combiner [[Tripredacus (BW)|Tripredacus]]'''
*[[Cicadacon]] (cicada)
*[[Ram Horn (BW)|Ram Horn]] (rhinoceros beetle)
*[[Sea Clamp]] (lobster)

'''Microverse'''
*Arachnid (spider/Predacon base)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*"Beetle"
*"Manta Ray"

==1997==

===Maximal===

'''Basic'''
*[[Air Hammer]] (hammerhead shark/hawk [[Fuzor]])
*[[Bantor]] (baboon/tiger Fuzor)
*[[Noctorro]] (bull/bat Fuzor)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] ([[Transmetal]] falcon)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (Transmetal cheetah)
*[[Rattrap]] (Transmetal rat)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (Transmetal rhinoceros)
*[[Silverbolt (BW Fuzor)]] (wolf/eagle Fuzor)
*[[Torca]] (orca whale/elephant Fuzor)

'''Mega'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (Transmetal gorilla)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Depth Charge]] (Transmetal manta ray)

'''Super'''
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimal Optimus]] (Transmetal gorilla)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toy'''
*[[Dinobot]] (Transmetal ''Velociraptor'')

===Predacon===

'''Basic'''
*[[Buzzclaw (BW)|Buzzclaw]] (praying mantis/lizard Fuzor)
*[[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] (scorpion/cobra Fuzor)
*[[Terragator]] (alligator/terrapin Fuzor)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Injector]] (lionfish/wasp Fuzor)
*[[Sky Shadow (BW)|Sky Shadow]] (iguana/dragonfly Fuzor)
*[[Tarantulas]] (Transmetal tarantula)
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (Transmetal ''Pteranodon'')
*[[Waspinator]] (Transmetal hornet)

'''Mega'''
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (Transmetal ''Tyrannosaurus rex'')
*[[Scavenger (BW)|Scavenger]] (Transmetal fire ant)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] (Transmetal crab)

'''McDonald's Happy Meal Toys'''
*[[Blackarachnia]] (Transmetal black widow spider)
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (Transmetal scorpion)

==1998==

===Maximal===

'''Basic'''
*[[Optimus Minor]] ([[Transmetal 2]] monkey)
*[[Nightglider]] (Transmetal 2 flying squirrel)
*[[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]] (Transmetal 2 bat)
*[[Stinkbomb]] (Transmetal 2 skunk)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (Transmetal 2 cheetah)
*[[Jawbreaker]] (Transmetal 2 hyena)
*[[Prowl (BW Transmetal 2)|Prowl]] (Transmetal 2 owl)
*[[Ramulus]] (Transmetal 2 ram)

'''Mega'''
*[[Blackarachnia]] (Transmetal 2 black widow spider)
*[[Cybershark]] (Transmetal 2 great white shark)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Tigerhawk]] (Transmetal 2 tiger/hawk Fuzor)

===Predacon===

'''Basic'''
*[[Scarem]] (Transmetal 2 scarab beetle)
*[[Spittor]] (Transmetal 2 poison arrow frog)

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Dinobot 2]] (Transmetal 2 ''Velociraptor'')
*[[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] (Transmetal 2 frilled lizard)
*[[Scourge (BW)|Scourge]] (Transmetal 2 locust)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Tripredacus Agent]] (Transmetal 2 panther)

'''Ultra'''
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (Transmetal 2 dragon)

==1999==

===Mutants===

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Icebird]] (polar bear/snowy owl [[Mutant]])
*[[Poison Bite]] (barracuda/scorpion Mutant)
*[[Razor Claw]] (''Velociraptor''/wolverine Mutant)
*[[Soundwave (BW)|Soundwave]] (alligator/bat Mutant)

===Dinobots===

'''Deluxe'''
*[[Airraptor]] (''Archaeopteryx'')
*[[Dinotron]] (''Pachycephalosaurus'')
*[[Striker]] (''Stegosaurus'')
*[[Triceradon]] (''Triceratops'')

'''Ultra'''
*[[Magmatron (BW Dinobot)|Magmatron]] (''Giganotosaurus''/''Elasmosaurus''/''Quetzalcoatlus'')
*[[T-Wrecks]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'')

==2006 (10th Anniversary)==

===Maximal===
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (cheetah)
*[[Dinobot]] (''Velociraptor'')
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (gorilla) w/ [[Axalon]] model
*[[Rattrap]] (Transmetal rat)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (rhinoceros)

===Predacon===
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (''Tyrannosaurus rex'') w/ [[Darkside]] model
*[[Tarantulas|Predacon Tarantulas]] (tarantula)
*[[Waspinator]] (hornet)<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Talk:Trailbreaker (G1)

2006-03-06T16:02:42Z

CyRaptor: Talk:Trailbreaker moved to Talk:Trailbreaker (G1)

I wrote this page on Wikipedia a week or so ago, so I thought I'd put it here too. [[user talk:Mathewignash]]

Shouldn't we have a blurb on how there was going to be an X-Brawn(DLX) redeco named Trailbreaker, hence his inclusion in the comics? -Bobby<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>