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Sumdac Tower

2019-08-31T13:14:59Z

Ethan Zachary: Trivia, maybe explaining a joke too much?

:''Sumdac Tower is a building from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Animated cartoon Sumdac Tower.JPG|right|300px|thumb|It's big, it's bold, it's sassy.]]
'''Sumdac Tower''' (or '''Powell Tower''', depending on who's running the show), a skyscraper in downtown [[Detroit]], is the home of [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] and his daughter [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari]]. It also appears to be the center of [[Sumdac Systems]], Professor Sumdac's corporation. The tower is massive, armed with impressive security features and staffed by both humans and robots. It also happens to be shaped like a giant <strike>[[Sparkplug (disambiguation)|Sparkplug]]</strike> spark plug. Rooms within the tower include main reception, staffed by the [[Reception Bot]], Professor Sumdac's penthouse office and private laboratory, and the Sumdac's living quarters. When under attack, it engages an automatic [[force field]] to protect those inside the building.

Unfortunately, there <strike>is</strike> was [[Megatron (Animated)|evil]] in that tower... evil which does not sleep.

==Fiction==
===Transformers Animated===
The tower was designed by noted architect George R. Apple. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac}} Sumdac had Megatron's head installed in his laboratory. He also kept Megatron's severed hand there, which he used as a chair. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} A [[protoform]] mysteriously appeared in Sumdac's lab one day, and turned into Sari when he touched it. {{storylink|TransWarped}} Shortly after Sumdac unveiled his [[Fully Automated Rapid Transit System]], [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] took part of the train hostage with several humans inside, and placed it on top of Sumdac Tower. He later blasted it off of the tower during his fight with the [[Autobot]]s. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} Megatron eventually came back to life, and discovered the reason for his current bodiless state by tapping into the building's security camera recordings of Starscream's fight. {{storylink|Home Is Where the Spark Is}}

Seeking revenge, [[Meltdown (Animated)|Meltdown]] invaded the tower. The Autobots had a tough time getting inside to help Sumdac, as the building's force field automatically came on. {{storylink|Total Meltdown}} After [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] damaged some robotic dinosaurs, Sumdac had them taken to his lab for repairs. Megatron revealed his new online state and offered to help "repair" the dinosaurs. {{storylink|Blast from the Past}} In an attempt to build a new body, Megatron had [[Nanosec]] try to get [[Destronium]] from a Sumdac laboratory to Sumdac Tower, but the mission was a failure. {{storylink|Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec}} Undeterred, Megatron helped Sumdac create [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]] for Sari. She so neglected her friendship with Bulkhead that at one point he had to scale the side of the tower to visit her. {{storylink|Sound and Fury}}

Sari once disappeared right out of her bedroom, and [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] and the Autobots had to review the security tape to discover she'd been kidnapped by [[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]]. {{storylink|Survival of the Fittest}} Sumdac recovered what remained of Megatron's body from the wilderness and had it taken to his laboratory. The tower suffered quite a bit of damage when Starscream followed a signal back and blasted a hole in the side of it to find Megatron. He and Bumblebee fought atop the tower until [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] and [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] arrived with the [[AllSpark Key]], and Megatron pulled himself together. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 1}} Megatron busted through the roof of the tower, causing even more damage on his escape. Also the Decepticons fired some missiles at the building while [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] picked up the rest of the Autobots in the [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Autobot ship]]. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}

Repairs on the tower continued for some time, with a sizable hole in the upper part of the tower. {{storylink|The Elite Guard}} After [[Porter C. Powell]] took over Sumdac Systems following Sumdac's disappearance, he kicked Sari out of the penthouse and gave her room to [[Headmaster (Animated)|Henry Masterson]]. He also informed [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] that the [[Autobot|Autobots]] were no longer welcome in the tower. The tower was completely repaired by this point. {{storylink|The Return of the Headmaster}}

When [[Slo-Mo]] froze Detroit's automatons, the tower was protected by its emergency force field. Sari, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] and a group of super-criminals temporarily sought refuge inside, and Sari discovered that Powell had had the tower renamed "Powell Tower". {{storylink|SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy}} [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] visited "Powell Tower" to retrieve a [[genetic modifier]] from Prometheus Black's laboratory. {{storylink|Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday}} Blitzwing and Lugnut later broke into the tower to steal a Headmaster unit, once again making a hole in Sumdac Tower and damaging the laboratory. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}}

Once Sumdac was recovered from the Decepticons, he immediately kicked Powell and Masterson out of the tower. {{storylink|TransWarped}} Sumdac and Bulkhead set about constructing a new [[space bridge]] atop Sumdac Tower. There turned out to be a minor problem with the tower's structural fitness, as the floor of Sumdac's lab caved in. Bulkhead tried to get the [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicon]]s to help, which was about as successful as it sounds. {{storylink|Three's a Crowd}} Sumdac's [[Christmas]] gift to Sari of a jetpack meant she could exit the tower through the bay windows in her room. In a virtual simulation of Detroit created by Soundwave, Sumdac Tower was blasted when [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] arrived in Earth's orbit. {{storylink|Human Error, Part I}}

Bulkhead and Professor Sumdac eventually completed their space bridge atop the tower. Optimus used it to [[transwarp]] onto [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]]'s ship. {{storylink|Decepticon Air}}. Fanzone visited the tower to complain about a tech support problem, and instead got transwarped to Cybertron with Ratchet. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}} When the [[Lugnut Supreme]]s arrived on Earth, Megatron directed them to first destroy his old prison, Sumdac Tower. Fortunately the building's force field kept it safe while the Autobots sorted out the problem. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

==Notes==
* The exact location of Sumdac Tower can be deduced from its appearance in "[[The Return of the Headmaster]]"; it's immediately adjacent to the real-life Wayne County Building and the Renaissance Center, placing it on two blocks of Randolph Street which in the present day are occupied by a parking garage and a surface parking lot.
* This is not the first [[Solar_tower|tower]] in Transformers history to be designed by a [[Grapple|"G. R. Apple"]].

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User talk:Ethan Zachary

2009-06-12T23:20:33Z

Ethan Zachary:

... were you also Vivisektor on, uh, the Lost Years Transformers MUSH, or am I mixing you up with someone else? --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 10:09, 12 June 2009 (EDT)

Holy shit, dude. I vaguely remember you from ATT like a decade ago. That's insane. [[User:Hooper X|Hooper_X]] 11:16, 12 June 2009 (EDT)

Someone out there remembers Viv? How delightful, hoom!

You were the only person I'd heard of that I got to meet at this BotCon, Monzo; it's pretty awesome if you remember me from that long ago too.--[[User:Ethan Zachary|Ethan Zachary]] 16:29, 12 June 2009 (EDT)

:Assuming my memory is right, I actually remember you as Coldsnap from the TFW2005 MUSH, but I figured that was going a little *too* far back. I didn't realize you were actually someone I knew at BotCon, or I would've done more than relate [[Ethan Zachary]] trivia at you. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 16:56, 12 June 2009 (EDT)

Wow, you knew me back in 28.8 modem days? Either you're way older than you look, or you were a snot-nosed preteen in those days too! --[[User:Ethan Zachary|Ethan Zachary]] 19:20, 12 June 2009 (EDT)

User talk:Ethan Zachary

2009-06-12T20:29:38Z

Ethan Zachary:

Talk:Masquerade

2009-06-12T13:22:09Z

Ethan Zachary: /* The error of a lifetime? */ new section

I deleted the "cleanup" notice on the Detailed Synopsis portion of this page because I added a better synopsis. Kosher? --[[User:Suzyprime|Suzyprime]] 04:08, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

== Who is that at about 20:10? ==

Sorry if I don't know jack squat on what I'm doing here, but I made an account just to ask all of you TF gods of snark and awesome: JUST WHO IS THIS GUY?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y287/evilauren/WTF.jpg

It looks like some kind of Cybertronian Hound... but what he was doing in the group impersonating the Stunticons is beyond me. I have yet to see this bot in another episode.

[[User:KoPilot|KoPilot]] 03:36, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
:It's just green Windcharger. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 03:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

== The error of a lifetime? ==

This is one of my all-time favorite episodes, so I've thought quite a bit about it.

I'm fairly sure that this episode has one big animation error; the Autobots should be in their vehicle modes BEFORE adopting the disguises. The big clue is Windcharger, who rather than using paint like the other two, has some sort of hologram projected over him-- this is to hide the fact that unlike the other four, he doesn't turn into the same kind of vehicle as the Stunticon he's impersonating. (They didn't have a Ferrari so it could have been anyone impersonating Wildrider, but they needed him to do the Menasor trick.) Also, Optimus doesn't instruct them to transform, he just says to 'roll'. Finally, at the end the camouflage disappears when the Autobots return to robot mode, suggesting that they weren't actually supposed to look like the Stunticons in robot mode anyway.

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Also, have I misheard it all my life, or is Inferno making yet another pun here? "I'll probably ''heat'' myself in the morning, but..."

User:Ethan Zachary

2009-06-12T13:03:57Z

Ethan Zachary: New page: Yes, it's my real name. I used to call myself 'Playground Psychotic'. but my real name is somehow more relevant. I did not kill Optimus Prime. ...A '''memory''' did.

Yes, it's my real name. I used to call myself 'Playground Psychotic'. but my real name is somehow more relevant.

I did not kill Optimus Prime. ...A '''memory''' did.