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The Art of War issue 5

2023-09-22T18:44:20Z

KJ 81: /* Errors */

{{Comicstory
|series=joevstfaow|issueno=5
|prev=The Art of War issue 4
|next=Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2
|title=
|image=Art_of_War_5a.jpg
|caption=Arise, Hawktimus Prime.
|publisher=[[Devil's Due Press]]
|date=[[August 30]], [[2006]]
|coverdate=July 2006
|script=[[Tim Seeley]]
|pencils=[[Alex Milne]], [[Joe Ng]], & [[James Raiz]]
|inks=[[Rob Ross]]
|colors=[[Rob Ruffolo]] & [[Kevin Yan]]
|letters=[[Brian Crowley]]
|editor=[[Michael O'Sullivan|Mike O'Sullivan]]
|continuity=[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity]]
}}

'''The Autobots and G.I. Joe fight on Cybertron against the reunited Decepticons, while Serpent O.R. makes contact with the Matrix.'''

==Synopsis==
Having escaped from his chains, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] attacks [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] Prime has a strong advantage, being much larger than Serpent O.R., but several [[Decepticon]]s, including [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] and [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]], rush to the aid of their leader. While Prime individually fights off his attackers, a recovering Serpent O.R. notices a wound in the back of his neck.

Outmatched by his opponents' combined might, Prime signals [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] to attack. Now joined by the forces of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], the [[Autobot]]s storm the Decepticon base.

Inside, [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]]'s group defend themselves. [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] attempts to consume Hawk, but is disabled when [[Snake-Eyes]] blinds him. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] proceeds to beat Prime's location out of [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]].

With Prime almost beaten to death, Serpent O.R. calls off the Decepticons and uses his tendrils to pry open Prime's chest and steal the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], which he feels will grant himself the spark of life.

Outside, the Decepticons continue to fight the Autobots and G.I. Joes. In the midst of the battle, [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] and Hot Rod see the light of the opened Matrix shine from the Decepticon base.

Serpent O.R., having accessed the Matrix, arises as the robotic Serpentor Prime. Regretting the military actions he has taken to bring himself to this point, he takes Motormaster's gun so that he can kill himself. But before he can fire upon himself, his body is appropriated by [[Cobra Commander]], using the device placed on Serpent O.R's neck to gain remote control of Serpentor Prime.

Hawk and Perceptor's party of soldiers arrives to aid Optimus and engage in combat against the [[Cobra]]-controlled Serpentor Prime. Grimlock and [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] are knocked aside, but [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] is able to remove a piece from Serpentor Prime's chest. With an opening presented, Optimus literally tosses Hawk towards Serpentor. Hawk hopes for the best as he grabs the Matrix away from Serpentor Prime. His eyes opened to the universe, both Serpentor Prime and Hawk fall inert. [[Lady Jaye]] and Hot Rod arrive to announce that the Decepticons have fallen.

Cobra Commander, still strapped into the machine that let him control Serpentor Prime, is catatonic.

Back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the Autobots rebuild. [[Scarlett]] and Snake-Eyes flirt while Grimlock concedes that G.I. Joes are valiant warriors. A mourning Hot Rod, Arcee, and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] attend a [[Transformer funerary practices|memorial]] for [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]. Optimus Prime, having reclaimed the Matrix and been repaired, makes an entry into his log. He anticipates that the G.I. Joes and Autobots will continue to defend their respective civilizations, and that Hawk, now connected to the Matrix, will lead [[human]]ity to a new golden age.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (8)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (9)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (10)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (11)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (12)
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (13)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (23)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (30)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (32)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (43)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (46)
*[[Paradron Medic]] (49)

|c2=
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (3)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (4)
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Grrr]] (5)
*[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (6)
*[[Octane]] (7)
*[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]] (24)
*[[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] (27)
*[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] (31)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (33)
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (34)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (35)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (36)
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (37)
*[[Barrage (Insecticon)|Barrage]] (38)
*[[Venom (G1)|Venom]] (39)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (40)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (41)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (42)

|h3=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c3=
*[[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] (14)
*[[Lady Jaye]] (15)
*[[Dusty]] (16)
*[[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] (17)
*[[Fast Draw]] (18)
*[[Flash (G.I. Joe)|Flash]] (19)
*[[Beachhead]] (20)
*[[Rock 'n Roll]] (21)
*[[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (22)
*[[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] (25)
*[[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] (26)
*[[Snake-Eyes]] (28)
*[[Scarlett]] (29)
*[[Cover Girl]] (44)
*[[Storm Shadow]] (45)
*[[Sgt. Savage]] (54)

|h4=[[Cobra]]|c4=
*[[Cobra Commander]] (47)
*[[Knox]] (48)
*[[Doctor Mindbender]] (53)

|h5=Others|c5=
*[[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] (2)
*[[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] (50)
*Cobra-La [[Royal Guard]]s (51)
*[[Nemesis Enforcer]] (52)
*[[Iron Klaw]] (55)
}}

==Notes==
*The image of a human soldier on the final page of an issue is a picture of Sgt. Savage fighting Iron Klaw. The two were the central characters on the series ''G.I. Joe Extreme'', a mid-'90s attempt to reinvigorate the G.I. Joe license. As the previous image was later used in Volume 4's ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: Black Horizon|Black Horizon]]'', this '''may''' have been a planned fifth volume. With the loss of the license to IDW, we'll probably never know.
**A decade later, we would find out some of the details in [[Source:Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter#May 1, 2016|an entry]] of [[Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|the Andromeda Facebook page]]

==Errors==
*On the page featuring the Autobots and the GIJOE team readying to assault Serpent O.R. and the Decepticons, where the JOEs are shouting "Yo JOE!", Prowl is miscoloured as Sideswipe.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Hawk with the Matrix, surrounded by Decepticons by [[Joe Ng]], [[Espen Grundetjern]] and [[Tom Liu]]. Combines with the Cover A variant covers for issues 1–5 to form a single image.
*'''Cover B:''' Joes and Autobots by [[Steven Cummings]] & [[Rob Ruffolo]].
*'''[[UDON Entertainment|UDON]] Exclusive Cover:''' Megatron, Shockwave and Cobra by [[Joe Ng]]: Available at Conventions and on the Club Udon website. Combines with Club Udon variant covers for issues 1–5 to form a single image.
<gallery>
Image:Art of War 5a.jpg|Arise, Hawktimus Prime.
Image:Art_of_War_5b.jpg|Joes'n'Bots
Image:Art_of_War_5u.jpg|Who can unite Megatron and Shockwave? Cobraaaaaaaa!
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
*''Dungeons & Dragons''
*Cobra Commander bust
*''Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of the Dwarven Depths'' #1
*''Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of Winter Night'' #2
*''Forgotten Realms' Crystal Shard'' #2
*''Nightwolf: The Price'' #2
*''G.I. Joe Special Missions: Tokyo''
*''G.I. Joe'' #15
*''G.I. Joe Declassified'' #3
*''G.I. Joe: Sigma 6'' TPB
*''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War'' TPB
*''G.I. Joe: Phoenix Guard''
*''Forgotten Realms' Crystal Shard'' #1
*''DDP Quarterly''
*''Eberron'' #1
*Devil's Due's RIPPED OFFer
*''G.I. Joe'' comic featuring the [[Baroness]] (back cover)

===Reprints===
Other than [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War#Collections|collections of the full series]]
*'''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Volume 97: G.I. Joe vs Transformers, Part 3''''' ([[September 23]], [[2020]])
:*Collects ''The Art of War'' issues #3–5 and both issues of ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: Black Horizon|Black Horizon]]''
:*Bonus material includes a cover gallery and an intro by [[Simon Furman]].

<gallery>
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v97.jpg|'''''Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 97: G.I. Joe vs Transformers, Part 3'''''; art by [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] (Wildfly) and Andrew Wildman
</gallery>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Art of War issue 5}}

The Art of War issue 5

2023-09-22T18:43:08Z

KJ 81: /* Errors */

{{Comicstory
|series=joevstfaow|issueno=5
|prev=The Art of War issue 4
|next=Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2
|title=
|image=Art_of_War_5a.jpg
|caption=Arise, Hawktimus Prime.
|publisher=[[Devil's Due Press]]
|date=[[August 30]], [[2006]]
|coverdate=July 2006
|script=[[Tim Seeley]]
|pencils=[[Alex Milne]], [[Joe Ng]], & [[James Raiz]]
|inks=[[Rob Ross]]
|colors=[[Rob Ruffolo]] & [[Kevin Yan]]
|letters=[[Brian Crowley]]
|editor=[[Michael O'Sullivan|Mike O'Sullivan]]
|continuity=[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity]]
}}

'''The Autobots and G.I. Joe fight on Cybertron against the reunited Decepticons, while Serpent O.R. makes contact with the Matrix.'''

==Synopsis==
Having escaped from his chains, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] attacks [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] Prime has a strong advantage, being much larger than Serpent O.R., but several [[Decepticon]]s, including [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] and [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]], rush to the aid of their leader. While Prime individually fights off his attackers, a recovering Serpent O.R. notices a wound in the back of his neck.

Outmatched by his opponents' combined might, Prime signals [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] to attack. Now joined by the forces of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], the [[Autobot]]s storm the Decepticon base.

Inside, [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]]'s group defend themselves. [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] attempts to consume Hawk, but is disabled when [[Snake-Eyes]] blinds him. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] proceeds to beat Prime's location out of [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]].

With Prime almost beaten to death, Serpent O.R. calls off the Decepticons and uses his tendrils to pry open Prime's chest and steal the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], which he feels will grant himself the spark of life.

Outside, the Decepticons continue to fight the Autobots and G.I. Joes. In the midst of the battle, [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] and Hot Rod see the light of the opened Matrix shine from the Decepticon base.

Serpent O.R., having accessed the Matrix, arises as the robotic Serpentor Prime. Regretting the military actions he has taken to bring himself to this point, he takes Motormaster's gun so that he can kill himself. But before he can fire upon himself, his body is appropriated by [[Cobra Commander]], using the device placed on Serpent O.R's neck to gain remote control of Serpentor Prime.

Hawk and Perceptor's party of soldiers arrives to aid Optimus and engage in combat against the [[Cobra]]-controlled Serpentor Prime. Grimlock and [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] are knocked aside, but [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] is able to remove a piece from Serpentor Prime's chest. With an opening presented, Optimus literally tosses Hawk towards Serpentor. Hawk hopes for the best as he grabs the Matrix away from Serpentor Prime. His eyes opened to the universe, both Serpentor Prime and Hawk fall inert. [[Lady Jaye]] and Hot Rod arrive to announce that the Decepticons have fallen.

Cobra Commander, still strapped into the machine that let him control Serpentor Prime, is catatonic.

Back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the Autobots rebuild. [[Scarlett]] and Snake-Eyes flirt while Grimlock concedes that G.I. Joes are valiant warriors. A mourning Hot Rod, Arcee, and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] attend a [[Transformer funerary practices|memorial]] for [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]. Optimus Prime, having reclaimed the Matrix and been repaired, makes an entry into his log. He anticipates that the G.I. Joes and Autobots will continue to defend their respective civilizations, and that Hawk, now connected to the Matrix, will lead [[human]]ity to a new golden age.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (8)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (9)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (10)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (11)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (12)
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (13)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (23)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (30)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (32)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (43)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (46)
*[[Paradron Medic]] (49)

|c2=
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (3)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (4)
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Grrr]] (5)
*[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (6)
*[[Octane]] (7)
*[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]] (24)
*[[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] (27)
*[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] (31)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (33)
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (34)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (35)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (36)
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (37)
*[[Barrage (Insecticon)|Barrage]] (38)
*[[Venom (G1)|Venom]] (39)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (40)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (41)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (42)

|h3=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c3=
*[[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] (14)
*[[Lady Jaye]] (15)
*[[Dusty]] (16)
*[[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] (17)
*[[Fast Draw]] (18)
*[[Flash (G.I. Joe)|Flash]] (19)
*[[Beachhead]] (20)
*[[Rock 'n Roll]] (21)
*[[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (22)
*[[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] (25)
*[[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] (26)
*[[Snake-Eyes]] (28)
*[[Scarlett]] (29)
*[[Cover Girl]] (44)
*[[Storm Shadow]] (45)
*[[Sgt. Savage]] (54)

|h4=[[Cobra]]|c4=
*[[Cobra Commander]] (47)
*[[Knox]] (48)
*[[Doctor Mindbender]] (53)

|h5=Others|c5=
*[[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] (2)
*[[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] (50)
*Cobra-La [[Royal Guard]]s (51)
*[[Nemesis Enforcer]] (52)
*[[Iron Klaw]] (55)
}}

==Notes==
*The image of a human soldier on the final page of an issue is a picture of Sgt. Savage fighting Iron Klaw. The two were the central characters on the series ''G.I. Joe Extreme'', a mid-'90s attempt to reinvigorate the G.I. Joe license. As the previous image was later used in Volume 4's ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: Black Horizon|Black Horizon]]'', this '''may''' have been a planned fifth volume. With the loss of the license to IDW, we'll probably never know.
**A decade later, we would find out some of the details in [[Source:Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter#May 1, 2016|an entry]] of [[Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|the Andromeda Facebook page]]

==Errors==
*On the page featuring the Autobots and the GIJOE team readying to assault Serpent O.R. and the Decepticons, where the JOEs are shouting "Yo JOE!", Prowl is miscolored as Sideswipe.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Hawk with the Matrix, surrounded by Decepticons by [[Joe Ng]], [[Espen Grundetjern]] and [[Tom Liu]]. Combines with the Cover A variant covers for issues 1–5 to form a single image.
*'''Cover B:''' Joes and Autobots by [[Steven Cummings]] & [[Rob Ruffolo]].
*'''[[UDON Entertainment|UDON]] Exclusive Cover:''' Megatron, Shockwave and Cobra by [[Joe Ng]]: Available at Conventions and on the Club Udon website. Combines with Club Udon variant covers for issues 1–5 to form a single image.
<gallery>
Image:Art of War 5a.jpg|Arise, Hawktimus Prime.
Image:Art_of_War_5b.jpg|Joes'n'Bots
Image:Art_of_War_5u.jpg|Who can unite Megatron and Shockwave? Cobraaaaaaaa!
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
*''Dungeons & Dragons''
*Cobra Commander bust
*''Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of the Dwarven Depths'' #1
*''Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of Winter Night'' #2
*''Forgotten Realms' Crystal Shard'' #2
*''Nightwolf: The Price'' #2
*''G.I. Joe Special Missions: Tokyo''
*''G.I. Joe'' #15
*''G.I. Joe Declassified'' #3
*''G.I. Joe: Sigma 6'' TPB
*''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War'' TPB
*''G.I. Joe: Phoenix Guard''
*''Forgotten Realms' Crystal Shard'' #1
*''DDP Quarterly''
*''Eberron'' #1
*Devil's Due's RIPPED OFFer
*''G.I. Joe'' comic featuring the [[Baroness]] (back cover)

===Reprints===
Other than [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War#Collections|collections of the full series]]
*'''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Volume 97: G.I. Joe vs Transformers, Part 3''''' ([[September 23]], [[2020]])
:*Collects ''The Art of War'' issues #3–5 and both issues of ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: Black Horizon|Black Horizon]]''
:*Bonus material includes a cover gallery and an intro by [[Simon Furman]].

<gallery>
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v97.jpg|'''''Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 97: G.I. Joe vs Transformers, Part 3'''''; art by [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] (Wildfly) and Andrew Wildman
</gallery>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Art of War issue 5}}

The Art of War issue 5

2023-09-22T18:41:19Z

KJ 81: /* Errors */

{{Comicstory
|series=joevstfaow|issueno=5
|prev=The Art of War issue 4
|next=Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2
|title=
|image=Art_of_War_5a.jpg
|caption=Arise, Hawktimus Prime.
|publisher=[[Devil's Due Press]]
|date=[[August 30]], [[2006]]
|coverdate=July 2006
|script=[[Tim Seeley]]
|pencils=[[Alex Milne]], [[Joe Ng]], & [[James Raiz]]
|inks=[[Rob Ross]]
|colors=[[Rob Ruffolo]] & [[Kevin Yan]]
|letters=[[Brian Crowley]]
|editor=[[Michael O'Sullivan|Mike O'Sullivan]]
|continuity=[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity]]
}}

'''The Autobots and G.I. Joe fight on Cybertron against the reunited Decepticons, while Serpent O.R. makes contact with the Matrix.'''

==Synopsis==
Having escaped from his chains, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] attacks [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] Prime has a strong advantage, being much larger than Serpent O.R., but several [[Decepticon]]s, including [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] and [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]], rush to the aid of their leader. While Prime individually fights off his attackers, a recovering Serpent O.R. notices a wound in the back of his neck.

Outmatched by his opponents' combined might, Prime signals [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] to attack. Now joined by the forces of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], the [[Autobot]]s storm the Decepticon base.

Inside, [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]]'s group defend themselves. [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] attempts to consume Hawk, but is disabled when [[Snake-Eyes]] blinds him. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] proceeds to beat Prime's location out of [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]].

With Prime almost beaten to death, Serpent O.R. calls off the Decepticons and uses his tendrils to pry open Prime's chest and steal the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], which he feels will grant himself the spark of life.

Outside, the Decepticons continue to fight the Autobots and G.I. Joes. In the midst of the battle, [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] and Hot Rod see the light of the opened Matrix shine from the Decepticon base.

Serpent O.R., having accessed the Matrix, arises as the robotic Serpentor Prime. Regretting the military actions he has taken to bring himself to this point, he takes Motormaster's gun so that he can kill himself. But before he can fire upon himself, his body is appropriated by [[Cobra Commander]], using the device placed on Serpent O.R's neck to gain remote control of Serpentor Prime.

Hawk and Perceptor's party of soldiers arrives to aid Optimus and engage in combat against the [[Cobra]]-controlled Serpentor Prime. Grimlock and [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] are knocked aside, but [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] is able to remove a piece from Serpentor Prime's chest. With an opening presented, Optimus literally tosses Hawk towards Serpentor. Hawk hopes for the best as he grabs the Matrix away from Serpentor Prime. His eyes opened to the universe, both Serpentor Prime and Hawk fall inert. [[Lady Jaye]] and Hot Rod arrive to announce that the Decepticons have fallen.

Cobra Commander, still strapped into the machine that let him control Serpentor Prime, is catatonic.

Back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the Autobots rebuild. [[Scarlett]] and Snake-Eyes flirt while Grimlock concedes that G.I. Joes are valiant warriors. A mourning Hot Rod, Arcee, and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] attend a [[Transformer funerary practices|memorial]] for [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]. Optimus Prime, having reclaimed the Matrix and been repaired, makes an entry into his log. He anticipates that the G.I. Joes and Autobots will continue to defend their respective civilizations, and that Hawk, now connected to the Matrix, will lead [[human]]ity to a new golden age.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (8)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (9)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (10)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (11)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (12)
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (13)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (23)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (30)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (32)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (43)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (46)
*[[Paradron Medic]] (49)

|c2=
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (3)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (4)
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Grrr]] (5)
*[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (6)
*[[Octane]] (7)
*[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]] (24)
*[[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] (27)
*[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] (31)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (33)
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (34)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (35)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (36)
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (37)
*[[Barrage (Insecticon)|Barrage]] (38)
*[[Venom (G1)|Venom]] (39)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (40)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (41)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (42)

|h3=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c3=
*[[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] (14)
*[[Lady Jaye]] (15)
*[[Dusty]] (16)
*[[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] (17)
*[[Fast Draw]] (18)
*[[Flash (G.I. Joe)|Flash]] (19)
*[[Beachhead]] (20)
*[[Rock 'n Roll]] (21)
*[[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (22)
*[[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] (25)
*[[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] (26)
*[[Snake-Eyes]] (28)
*[[Scarlett]] (29)
*[[Cover Girl]] (44)
*[[Storm Shadow]] (45)
*[[Sgt. Savage]] (54)

|h4=[[Cobra]]|c4=
*[[Cobra Commander]] (47)
*[[Knox]] (48)
*[[Doctor Mindbender]] (53)

|h5=Others|c5=
*[[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] (2)
*[[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] (50)
*Cobra-La [[Royal Guard]]s (51)
*[[Nemesis Enforcer]] (52)
*[[Iron Klaw]] (55)
}}

==Notes==
*The image of a human soldier on the final page of an issue is a picture of Sgt. Savage fighting Iron Klaw. The two were the central characters on the series ''G.I. Joe Extreme'', a mid-'90s attempt to reinvigorate the G.I. Joe license. As the previous image was later used in Volume 4's ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: Black Horizon|Black Horizon]]'', this '''may''' have been a planned fifth volume. With the loss of the license to IDW, we'll probably never know.
**A decade later, we would find out some of the details in [[Source:Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter#May 1, 2016|an entry]] of [[Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|the Andromeda Facebook page]]

==Errors==
*On the page featuring the Autobots and the GIJOE team readying to assault SerpentOR and the Decepticons, where the JOEs are shouting "Yo JOE!", Prowl is miscolored as Sideswipe.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Hawk with the Matrix, surrounded by Decepticons by [[Joe Ng]], [[Espen Grundetjern]] and [[Tom Liu]]. Combines with the Cover A variant covers for issues 1–5 to form a single image.
*'''Cover B:''' Joes and Autobots by [[Steven Cummings]] & [[Rob Ruffolo]].
*'''[[UDON Entertainment|UDON]] Exclusive Cover:''' Megatron, Shockwave and Cobra by [[Joe Ng]]: Available at Conventions and on the Club Udon website. Combines with Club Udon variant covers for issues 1–5 to form a single image.
<gallery>
Image:Art of War 5a.jpg|Arise, Hawktimus Prime.
Image:Art_of_War_5b.jpg|Joes'n'Bots
Image:Art_of_War_5u.jpg|Who can unite Megatron and Shockwave? Cobraaaaaaaa!
</gallery>

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The Art of War issue 5

2023-09-22T18:40:42Z

KJ 81: /* Notes */

{{Comicstory
|series=joevstfaow|issueno=5
|prev=The Art of War issue 4
|next=Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2
|title=
|image=Art_of_War_5a.jpg
|caption=Arise, Hawktimus Prime.
|publisher=[[Devil's Due Press]]
|date=[[August 30]], [[2006]]
|coverdate=July 2006
|script=[[Tim Seeley]]
|pencils=[[Alex Milne]], [[Joe Ng]], & [[James Raiz]]
|inks=[[Rob Ross]]
|colors=[[Rob Ruffolo]] & [[Kevin Yan]]
|letters=[[Brian Crowley]]
|editor=[[Michael O'Sullivan|Mike O'Sullivan]]
|continuity=[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity]]
}}

'''The Autobots and G.I. Joe fight on Cybertron against the reunited Decepticons, while Serpent O.R. makes contact with the Matrix.'''

==Synopsis==
Having escaped from his chains, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] attacks [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] Prime has a strong advantage, being much larger than Serpent O.R., but several [[Decepticon]]s, including [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] and [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]], rush to the aid of their leader. While Prime individually fights off his attackers, a recovering Serpent O.R. notices a wound in the back of his neck.

Outmatched by his opponents' combined might, Prime signals [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] to attack. Now joined by the forces of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], the [[Autobot]]s storm the Decepticon base.

Inside, [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]]'s group defend themselves. [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] attempts to consume Hawk, but is disabled when [[Snake-Eyes]] blinds him. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] proceeds to beat Prime's location out of [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]].

With Prime almost beaten to death, Serpent O.R. calls off the Decepticons and uses his tendrils to pry open Prime's chest and steal the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], which he feels will grant himself the spark of life.

Outside, the Decepticons continue to fight the Autobots and G.I. Joes. In the midst of the battle, [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] and Hot Rod see the light of the opened Matrix shine from the Decepticon base.

Serpent O.R., having accessed the Matrix, arises as the robotic Serpentor Prime. Regretting the military actions he has taken to bring himself to this point, he takes Motormaster's gun so that he can kill himself. But before he can fire upon himself, his body is appropriated by [[Cobra Commander]], using the device placed on Serpent O.R's neck to gain remote control of Serpentor Prime.

Hawk and Perceptor's party of soldiers arrives to aid Optimus and engage in combat against the [[Cobra]]-controlled Serpentor Prime. Grimlock and [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] are knocked aside, but [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] is able to remove a piece from Serpentor Prime's chest. With an opening presented, Optimus literally tosses Hawk towards Serpentor. Hawk hopes for the best as he grabs the Matrix away from Serpentor Prime. His eyes opened to the universe, both Serpentor Prime and Hawk fall inert. [[Lady Jaye]] and Hot Rod arrive to announce that the Decepticons have fallen.

Cobra Commander, still strapped into the machine that let him control Serpentor Prime, is catatonic.

Back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the Autobots rebuild. [[Scarlett]] and Snake-Eyes flirt while Grimlock concedes that G.I. Joes are valiant warriors. A mourning Hot Rod, Arcee, and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] attend a [[Transformer funerary practices|memorial]] for [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]. Optimus Prime, having reclaimed the Matrix and been repaired, makes an entry into his log. He anticipates that the G.I. Joes and Autobots will continue to defend their respective civilizations, and that Hawk, now connected to the Matrix, will lead [[human]]ity to a new golden age.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (8)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (9)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (10)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (11)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (12)
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (13)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (23)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (30)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (32)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (43)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (46)
*[[Paradron Medic]] (49)

|c2=
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (3)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (4)
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Grrr]] (5)
*[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (6)
*[[Octane]] (7)
*[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]] (24)
*[[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] (27)
*[[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] (31)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (33)
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (34)
*[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (35)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (36)
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (37)
*[[Barrage (Insecticon)|Barrage]] (38)
*[[Venom (G1)|Venom]] (39)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (40)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (41)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (42)

|h3=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c3=
*[[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] (14)
*[[Lady Jaye]] (15)
*[[Dusty]] (16)
*[[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] (17)
*[[Fast Draw]] (18)
*[[Flash (G.I. Joe)|Flash]] (19)
*[[Beachhead]] (20)
*[[Rock 'n Roll]] (21)
*[[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (22)
*[[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] (25)
*[[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] (26)
*[[Snake-Eyes]] (28)
*[[Scarlett]] (29)
*[[Cover Girl]] (44)
*[[Storm Shadow]] (45)
*[[Sgt. Savage]] (54)

|h4=[[Cobra]]|c4=
*[[Cobra Commander]] (47)
*[[Knox]] (48)
*[[Doctor Mindbender]] (53)

|h5=Others|c5=
*[[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] (2)
*[[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] (50)
*Cobra-La [[Royal Guard]]s (51)
*[[Nemesis Enforcer]] (52)
*[[Iron Klaw]] (55)
}}

==Notes==
*The image of a human soldier on the final page of an issue is a picture of Sgt. Savage fighting Iron Klaw. The two were the central characters on the series ''G.I. Joe Extreme'', a mid-'90s attempt to reinvigorate the G.I. Joe license. As the previous image was later used in Volume 4's ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: Black Horizon|Black Horizon]]'', this '''may''' have been a planned fifth volume. With the loss of the license to IDW, we'll probably never know.
**A decade later, we would find out some of the details in [[Source:Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter#May 1, 2016|an entry]] of [[Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|the Andromeda Facebook page]]

==Errors==
*On the page featuring the Autobots and the GIJOE team readying to assault SerpentOR and the Decepticons, where the JOEs are shouting "Yo JOE!", Prowl is miscolored as Sideswipe.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Hawk with the Matrix, surrounded by Decepticons by [[Joe Ng]], [[Espen Grundetjern]] and [[Tom Liu]]. Combines with the Cover A variant covers for issues 1–5 to form a single image.
*'''Cover B:''' Joes and Autobots by [[Steven Cummings]] & [[Rob Ruffolo]].
*'''[[UDON Entertainment|UDON]] Exclusive Cover:''' Megatron, Shockwave and Cobra by [[Joe Ng]]: Available at Conventions and on the Club Udon website. Combines with Club Udon variant covers for issues 1–5 to form a single image.
<gallery>
Image:Art of War 5a.jpg|Arise, Hawktimus Prime.
Image:Art_of_War_5b.jpg|Joes'n'Bots
Image:Art_of_War_5u.jpg|Who can unite Megatron and Shockwave? Cobraaaaaaaa!
</gallery>

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:*Bonus material includes a cover gallery and an intro by [[Simon Furman]].

<gallery>
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v97.jpg|'''''Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 97: G.I. Joe vs Transformers, Part 3'''''; art by [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] (Wildfly) and Andrew Wildman
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Transformers: Fusion

2023-09-17T19:49:52Z

KJ 81: /* Notes */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers Trilogy]]'' Book 3
|prev=Transformers: Annihilation
|title=''Transformers: Fusion''
|image=Novel Transformers Fusion.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[ibooks]]
|date=[[January 1]], [[2004]]
|coverdate=April 2004
|writer=[[David Cian]]
|continuity=[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]]
|ISBN=ISBN 0743479742 ISBN 9780743479745
|pagecount=224
}}
'''The Autobots and Decepticons team up against the humans.'''

==Synopsis==
In the ruins of [[Las Vegas]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] meet again under a truce. They discuss the aftermath of their battle with the [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]: [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] has been fused into a single entity, the [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]] is reportedly dead, and the apparent healthy return of [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. Megatron tells Prime that he plans to make Starscream squirm a little bit by naming [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] his second-in-command for a time. Optimus tells Megatron that he cannot name him "Prime", as only the [[Council of Ancients]] can do that. He does, however, agree to relinquish the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to Megatron, and with it, much of the Autobots' power. After Optimus leaves, Megatron approaches Omega Sentinel, whose survival he kept a secret from Optimus. Since the Omega Sentinel is not technically a Decepticon, he is able to interface with the Matrix and use it to magnify his power, giving Megatron a new weapon in his plans.

[[Allister Greaves]] is trying to extract something meaningful from the mess created by the Keepers and his brush with the US government. He decides that becoming a public figure again will be the best way to protect himself from retaliation from the White House. He instructs [[Carl Lomax]], a former [[Follower]] and LVPD chief of police previously under Starscream's command, to extend an invitation to the Transformer-friendly news reporter, [[Isolde Holden]]. In the meantime, he meets with [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] to discuss [[Franklin Townsend]]'s betrayal and a possible technological alliance with the Autobots.

Megatron has his own plans for dealing with the government. He leads the Decepticons in an open attack on Washington down Constitution Avenue, stopping in front of the White House. After the [[President of the United States|President]] refuses his challenge to meet face-to-face, Megatron summons Omega Sentinel to break open the mansion like a lobster shell, retrieving the President from his reinforced bunker underneath it. Megatron confronts the President with his involvement in the [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear strike]] on Las Vegas and, with the help of [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]], records the entire exchange and sends it to the media, as a warning to the government against future interference.

Meanwhile, Franklin and the Keepers were not dead, but had survived in a pocket dimensional space known as the Void. The Keepers send Franklin back to Earth to once again prepare it for their arrival. As the Autobots are watching the President make a plea for their assistance on television after the Decepticon attack on Washington, Franklin rushes into the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and somehow takes control of Bluestreak. The Autobots are unable to stop him from fleeing with Bluestreak, and are forced to consider meeting with the President (the very man who tried to blow them up a month earlier in Las Vegas) in order to present a united front against the dual threats of the Keepers and Megatron with his Matrix-empowered Sentinel. The President, however, is planning treachery. After helping the Autobots orchestrate a battle with the Decepticons, he plans on unleashing a new weapon on the united Transformers: the [[deconstructionite]]s. These weaponized nanites are created from Allister Greaves' work in reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology, and will conceivably break down the Transformers' systems at a molecular level, ridding America once and for all of these "dangerous aliens".

After Allister Greaves meets with Isolde Holden and sends out his message of cooperation to both the Autobots and Decepticons, he soon receives a visit from Megatron and Starscream. Before Allister can fully respond to Megatron's demand for control of the Followers in exchange for the technology Greaves sought, Franklin arrives with Bluestreak and manages to take control of Starscream again as well. The two brain-washed Transformers begin attacking Megatron, who summons the Omega Sentinel as reinforcements. Unfortunately, the Matrix has done more than empower Omega Sentinel: it has altered his programming so that he can no longer carry out Megatron's command to destroy Bluestreak and Starscream. He removes the Matrix and tosses it away in order to stop the programming block, but this tactical error only gives Franklin a chance to acquire the Matrix for his own purposes. As Megatron and the Omega Sentinel flee, Franklin takes Allister hostage and begins forcing him to construct the gateway which will bring the Keepers back to Earth. By a stroke of luck, Spike Witwicky returns to Allister's mansion and quickly takes stock of the situation. He manages to get close enough to Franklin to steal the crystal key needed for opening the gateway, and leaves before Franklin notices it.

Optimus Prime meets with the President to consider a battle strategy against Megatron and the Decepticons. He brings [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] with him to judge the strategic value of the plan, and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] to judge the demeanor and motives of the humans suggesting it. By the time they left the meeting, the Autobots had worked out a viable ambush scenario by which they and the US armed forces could eliminate the Decepticons. They had also realized that the President intended to wipe them out at the same time. After hearing Spike's news about the Keepers' scheme to return to Earth, Optimus Prime decides the best allies for the time being would be Megatron and the Decepticons, against both the President's forces and the Keepers. With some reticence, Megatron agrees to meet with Prime and they forge a new alliance against their common enemies.

At the same time, Spike and Bumblebee leave on a mission of their own. Spike plans on convincing Isolde Holden of the threats they face, and using her influence with the public to shame the President into backing down and consolidate the world against the threat of the Keepers. His plan for doing so surprises even Bumblebee, however: to use the crystal key and travel into the Void with Isolde, where he expected the Keepers were holding the Matrix. As the three pass into the portal opened by the key, though, the gate destabilizes before Bumblebee can make it through, leaving the two humans to face the Keepers alone. By focusing on the news story, Isolde manages to convince the Keepers that it is her driving motivation, and so they let her and Spike return to Earth to spread word of their coming triumphant return. Spike and Isolde reappear a full four days after they left, although it felt like less than an hour while they were in the Void.

Out in the desert, the Autobots and Decepticons play their respective parts in the battle orchestrated by Optimus Prime and the President, awaiting the ambush by the human forces when the Transformers would turn as one and disable the threat. Naturally, Megatron had not informed Optimus in advance that his soldiers would be shooting to kill once the humans did reveal themselves. When the moment comes, however, the Army's deconstructionite pellets prove more effective than the Transformers had anticipated. Several robots fall quickly due to malfunctions caused by the attack. Also, during the battle, Megatron is incensed by Omega Sentinel, who uses nothing more than a non-lethal sleep-inducing beam against the human forces. Still, Reflector manages to capture enough footage of the armed forces clearly acting as the aggressors, and so the Autobots and Decepticons break off the attack, planning to turn the media against the President later. Sure enough, a news story with Reflector's footage hits the airwaves less than 24 hours later, painting the President's actions as an assassination attempt, pure and simple. The President is forced to disavow knowledge of the incident, passing blame onto the general in charge of the forces in the field, and break off any further immediate plans to destroy the Transformers in order to avoid any more public scrutiny.

When Franklin notices the crystal key was missing, he orders Bluestreak to hunt down Spike Witwicky with him. They find Spike and Bumblebee just outside Las Vegas, where they had just dropped off Isolde. The battle is short but fierce, with Bluestreak reluctantly causing serious damage to Bumblebee. Franklin also proves to be more powerful than even his augmentation should have allowed, as Bumblebee plunges the crystal into his chest with little effect. Still, Bluestreak manages to work around the Keepers' control enough to lie to Franklin about incoming Autobot forces, compelling the crazed human to leave before killing Spike and Bumblebee. Knowing Franklin now has what he needs to open the gateway, Spike and the wounded Bumblebee begin making their way back to Greaves' estate.

At the estate, Megatron and Optimus Prime are already present, with Devastator and Omega Sentinel prepared to act as back-up. As Franklin returns with the key and activates the completed gateway, Prime rushes forward to enter the Void and confront the Keepers, while Megatron, Devastator and the Omega Sentinel keep Franklin and his pawns busy. Of course, Megatron takes the first opportunity to remove the crystal key from the device, trapping Optimus Prime in the Void with the Keepers for all of eternity. Somehow, Bluestreak and Starscream break free of the Keepers' control at this point, and the dance partners change. Bluestreak goes after Franklin in revenge over all he's done, and Starscream takes yet another shot at destroying Megatron once and for all. These new skirmishes are interrupted, as Bumblebee tries to stop Bluestreak from committing murder, and the Omega Sentinel steps in to protect Megatron from Starscream.

During the melee, the crystal key has fallen loose again, and Spike Witwicky gains possession of it. Spike tries to stick the key back into the gateway to allow Prime's return to Earth, and his actions draw the attention of all the other combatants. Megatron tries to send Devastator to stop Spike, but the gateway is reactivated. Franklin eludes the arguing Bluestreak and Bumblebee and assaults Spike so that he can retake control of the gateway, but is blasted straight through the chest by Bluestreak's [[electron rifle]]. In the meantime, the Omega Sentinel has now shaken off the last bit of artificial programming instilled in him long ago by Megatron, and has resumed his original function as a guardian and protector. As Omega Sentinel begins fighting Devastator and Starscream returns ready and willing to fight...well, everybody, the situation degenerates even further, and the combatants lose immediate interest in the growing portal that is active once more.

On the other side of the Void, Optimus Prime confronts the Keepers, and finds that their power is much weaker outside of normal space. Able to overcome their manipulations by force of will alone, Optimus locates the Matrix within the Void and recovers it. He is prepared for a suicidal ploy, unleashing the full power of the Matrix to destroy himself and the Keepers to ensure they never threaten Earth or Cybertron again. Once the portal reopens, though, Optimus is content to repel the Keepers with the Matrix's light as he makes his way back through the gateway, Once he returns to Earth, however, Optimus realizes he's stuck — the power of the Matrix is the only thing keeping the Keepers out of real space, yet if he tries to back up or move aside the energies of the Matrix will mix with the gateway, with probably disastrous results. Someone else is needed to shut down the portal for him, yet no one is available. Megatron was planning to gun him down as he exited the portal, and now Bumblebee is locked in a decidedly one-sided combat with the Decepticon leader to prevent that, while Bluestreak is off hunting the absent Starscream. The power of the Matrix is flickering, and something needs to change, soon.

Seeing Omega Sentinel grappling with Devastator off in the distance, Optimus Prime plays a hunch and radioes the former Decepticon for assistance. The Omega Sentinel acknowledges, and carries his battle with Devastator back towards the gateway. Just as Optimus shuts down the Matrix, the Omega Sentinel plunges himself and Devastator through the portal to block the Keepers' passage, and the gate collapses around them just as Prime tosses the crystal key through, sealing the Void forever. As the Omega Sentinel faces the furious Keepers on the other side, he crushes the crystal key with his claw, eliminating the main source of the Keepers' power and destroying them forever. The resultant energy discharge shatters the Void itself, leaving the inactive Omega Sentinel and Devastator floating alone in the depths of space. A top secret human spacecraft called ''[[Bounty]]'' runs across Devastator in the great expanse, and prepares to return him to Earth...

==Featured characters==
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==Quotes==

==Notes==
* This book leads into [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s ''[[War and Peace]]'' mini-series.

* Sideswipe is mentioned as a casualty of the Las Vegas battle, having to be rebuilt after said destruction. This is unusual, as he was not a combatant in the battle, and this is the first time we've heard his name in the entire trilogy so far. Whoops!

* Throughout the entirety of this book, Spike's surname, Witwicky, is CONSTANTLY misspelled as 'Witwickey.' it's not spelled correctly a single time in this instalment. First it happened to Paul Charteris/Chateris in book Two, then Spike Witwicky/Witwickey in book Three, who knows what a hypothetical book Four would have given us? "This is your last chance, Legotron"...

===Continuity notes===
*The presence of two Reflectors originally arose as a continuity error; when the ''Annihilation'' novel depicted Reflector on Earth while [[Brothers' Burden|a concurrently published comic]] showed him to be on Cybertron. Like a couple of other errors in the novels, this was paved over in ''Fusion'', with the true, Earth-bound Reflector making a "inferior copy" remark regarding the one on Cybertron.

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Transformers: Annihilation

2023-09-17T19:37:36Z

KJ 81: /* Notes */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers Trilogy]]'' Book 2
|prev=Transformers: Hardwired
|next=Transformers: Fusion
|title=''Transformers: Annihilation''
|image=TFAnnihilation-cover.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[ibooks]]
|date=[[September 5]], [[2003]]
|coverdate=November 2003
|writer=[[David Cian]]
|continuity=[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]]
|ISBN=ISBN 0743474422 ISBN 978-0743474429
|pagecount=240
}}

'''While Megatron finds himself deposed as Decepticon leader, the Autobots try to deal with the Keepers.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Las Vegas]] is in chaos, as everyone present begins reacting to the sudden appearance of the missing Transformers and the awe-inspiring [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] are attempting to preserve the lives of the various assorted aliens who also arrived from the Keepers' world. [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] is searching for [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] to reclaim his throne, and the other Autobots and Decepticons present continue to battle as best they can. Unnoticed to most anyone, the human hostages from the Keepers' world also begin trickling back into the population, including [[Paul Charteris]] and [[Melony Harcourt]], two of the [[Followers]].

Megatron confronts Starscream and learns the extent of his traitorous ex-lieutenant's plans. However, due to his own severe injuries battling against the Keepers, Megatron finds that he is in no position to quash Starscream's rebellion at this time. Megatron is reluctantly forced to cede leadership of the Decepticons to Starscream, but he refuses to bow before the new "leader". Instead, he tears off his insignia and officially quits the Decepticon forces, planning to seek his own means of dealing with the threat of the Keepers. Many other Decepticons follow suit, splitting their ranks in two: [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]], [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], and the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] remain with Starscream, while [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], [[Spyglass]], [[Viewfinder]], and the [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]] leave with Megatron.

With the aliens properly cared for, Optimus Prime confronts the Keepers in the new humanoid and semi-humanoid host bodies they have taken for themselves. A spokesperson for the group, referred to only as [[The Voice]], informs Prime of their intention to conquer the entire planet within three days' time, if it is not surrendered to them beforehand. When Optimus physically assaults the Voice for his arrogance, the Keepers unleash a wave of nullfying darkness over the city of [[Los Angeles]], apparently destroying it and all who live in its boundaries.

Throughout these games and powerplays, [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'s secret human army had been continuing their fight with the Decepticons to retake Las Vegas. Recognizing the threat of the Keepers and the consolidated Decepticon forces, Optimus Prime orders a retreat to outside the city before any further action could be taken. Grimlock was locked in combat with Devastator and could not be evacuated, but Optimus Prime, Jazz, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], along with Spike Witwicky leave Vegas to regroup with the other Autobots. Spike's ally Agent [[Franklin Townsend|Franklin]] remains behind to guard their escape.

Meanwhile, Paul and Melony are taken hostage again, this time by the LVPD operating under Starscream's discretion. Starscream is interested in sending a message to the Followers, inviting them to flock to his city and truly become "Followers" of the Transformers. He has Melony scheduled for execution when she speaks out of turn, but lets Paul go free to convey the message to his superiors. That superior would be [[Allister Greaves]], founder of the Followers, who was already aware of the message thanks to Franklin, his double agent in the NSA who observed Paul's confrontation with the Decepticons. Franklin approaches Paul on the street and invites him back to Greaves' base of operations to discuss what the Followers should do next.

Starscream's offer is quickly rendered moot, though, as he has a confrontation with the Keepers. The Keeper formerly known as Bluestreak approaches Starscream under a flag of truce, but then overloads the Decepticon leader's circuitry with a surge of energy, leaving him on the brink of death and a perfectly-fitting host for another of the Keepers to possess. The other remaining Decepticons attempt to flee, but are caught in an impenetrable energy barrier cast by the Keepers, and held prisoner.

Outside the city, Autobot reinforcements have arrived in the form of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]. At Soundwave's approach, Optimus Prime leaves to make contact with Megatron, and the two agree to join forces against the Keepers. Elsewhere, Allister Greaves and the Followers make their plans as well. Contacts from inside the government have informed Greaves that a two-stage military assault is being planned against the Keepers, with a wave of combat vehicles to be followed by an all-out nuclear strike if the first strike is unsuccessful. Horrified, Greaves sends Paul back to Las Vegas to try to save Melony and evacuate as many of their people as possible, while directing Franklin to reconnect with the Autobots and offer any assistance he can to their inevitable counter-strike as well.

The Keepers were hardly idle all this time, though, and were more than aware that various factions were conspiring against them. They make an attempt at "shock and awe" to cow the planet's populace into submission by grotesquely mutilating and transforming Melony into a new Keeper, casting her soul into the same endless void that Bluestreak and Starscream have been reduced to since giving up their forms.

As Optimus Prime and Megatron enter the city with their troops and the first wave of US military forces, they join up with Skywarp and the remaining Decepticons from Starscream's faction, and so the war with the Keepers begins. Spike is still trying to reactivate the gateway key, in the hopes of sending the Keepers back where they came from. As the other Transformers strike out at the aliens, Bumblebee and Agent Franklin remain with Spike until the key can be activated. Devastator and Omega Sentinel begin fighting with Keeper-Starscream and Keeper-Bluestreak, as the others fall in behind them.

Then a bunch of things start to happen at once.

First, the US government deliberately steps up their timetable, launching the nuke at Las Vegas early in the hopes of obliterating the Transformers along with the alien threat. The Keepers controlling Bluestreak and Starscream are suffering damage in their battles, and so physically and mentally join forces to become a more powerful gestalt being. The other Keepers are busy, however, as Melony Harcourt manages to retake control of her physical body and begins violently lashing out at the Keepers. Grimlock re-emerges as well, having found a vein of pure [[energon]] running underneath Las Vegas after his climactic fight with Devastator a day earlier. And, as a final twist, Franklin Townsend reveals himself as a triple agent who was been working for the Keepers all along, and threatens to kill Spike if he doesn't hand over the gateway key that his masters desire.

As Optimus Prime comes upon the pool of energon, he conceives a plan to manipulate the Matrix to use against the Keepers. Infusing himself and the Matrix with pure energon to temporarily become super-powerful, Optimus then asks his fellow Autobots to give up the majority of their own life-energies to merge with his own. Bumblebee, who had left Spike's side to inform Optimus of the energon pool, realizes his mistake and returns just in time to stop Franklin from murdering Spike. Still, Franklin recovers the gateway key and brings it to his masters in the hopes of escaping. Time, however, has run out. The [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear warhead]] strikes earth, and the massive radioactive shockwave begins to race over the land. Devastator, Omega Sentinel and Bumblebee are too far away, but the super-charged Prime manages to protect the other Autobots and Decepticons from the onslaught. He then gathers the nuclear fire up in a net of Matrix energy, casting it all back at Franklin and the Keepers just as they open the gate, blasting them to atoms and out of our solar system.

In the aftermath, those outside Prime's protective bubble are heavily damaged, including Spike Witwicky who was hiding under Bumblebee and needs to be rushed for medical treatment. Devastator and Omega Sentinel may never be reactivated. Bluestreak and Starscream had combined mental force at the last moment and overwhelmed the Keeper who controlled them, destroying their captor and shattering their bodies back into separate pieces, with the possibility of revival still open. Paul Charteris and the Melony-Keeper both apparently died fighting against the Keepers before the blast. And, as the dust settles, Megatron calls Prime on the favor he is honorbound to grant from their time on the Keepers' world:

Megatron wants to be named the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]].

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==Notes==
* The cover art is taken from a piece done by [[Don Figueroa]] showcasing all of the Megatrons (at the time) from across the franchise, with most of the piece motion blurred behind the original Megatron. As such, you can see details such as ''Beast Wars'' [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' hand. (It's by the bottom of the page, just under the author's name.)

* Unusally, Wheeljack has some kind of aerial altmode. We're never specifically told what kind of vehicle, but it's one with offensive capabilities. This is a direct contradiction from the Dreamwave comics this is a sequel to, where he clearly had his Lancia Stratos race-car alternate mode, and also just something very rarely seen before for Wheeljack.

* The character Paul Charteris from Book One has had his surname spelling readjusted to 'Chateris' for the entirety of Annihilation.

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Transformers: Annihilation

2023-09-15T16:52:23Z

KJ 81:

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|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers Trilogy]]'' Book 2
|prev=Transformers: Hardwired
|next=Transformers: Fusion
|title=''Transformers: Annihilation''
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|publisher=[[ibooks]]
|date=[[September 5]], [[2003]]
|coverdate=November 2003
|writer=[[David Cian]]
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|ISBN=ISBN 0743474422 ISBN 978-0743474429
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'''While Megatron finds himself deposed as Decepticon leader, the Autobots try to deal with the Keepers.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Las Vegas]] is in chaos, as everyone present begins reacting to the sudden appearance of the missing Transformers and the awe-inspiring [[Keeper (species)|Keepers]]. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] are attempting to preserve the lives of the various assorted aliens who also arrived from the Keepers' world. [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] is searching for [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] to reclaim his throne, and the other Autobots and Decepticons present continue to battle as best they can. Unnoticed to most anyone, the human hostages from the Keepers' world also begin trickling back into the population, including [[Paul Charteris]] and [[Melony Harcourt]], two of the [[Followers]].

Megatron confronts Starscream and learns the extent of his traitorous ex-lieutenant's plans. However, due to his own severe injuries battling against the Keepers, Megatron finds that he is in no position to quash Starscream's rebellion at this time. Megatron is reluctantly forced to cede leadership of the Decepticons to Starscream, but he refuses to bow before the new "leader". Instead, he tears off his insignia and officially quits the Decepticon forces, planning to seek his own means of dealing with the threat of the Keepers. Many other Decepticons follow suit, splitting their ranks in two: [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]], [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], and the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] remain with Starscream, while [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], [[Spyglass]], [[Viewfinder]], and the [[Omega Sentinel (G1)|Omega Sentinel]] leave with Megatron.

With the aliens properly cared for, Optimus Prime confronts the Keepers in the new humanoid and semi-humanoid host bodies they have taken for themselves. A spokesperson for the group, referred to only as [[The Voice]], informs Prime of their intention to conquer the entire planet within three days' time, if it is not surrendered to them beforehand. When Optimus physically assaults the Voice for his arrogance, the Keepers unleash a wave of nullfying darkness over the city of [[Los Angeles]], apparently destroying it and all who live in its boundaries.

Throughout these games and powerplays, [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'s secret human army had been continuing their fight with the Decepticons to retake Las Vegas. Recognizing the threat of the Keepers and the consolidated Decepticon forces, Optimus Prime orders a retreat to outside the city before any further action could be taken. Grimlock was locked in combat with Devastator and could not be evacuated, but Optimus Prime, Jazz, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], along with Spike Witwicky leave Vegas to regroup with the other Autobots. Spike's ally Agent [[Franklin Townsend|Franklin]] remains behind to guard their escape.

Meanwhile, Paul and Melony are taken hostage again, this time by the LVPD operating under Starscream's discretion. Starscream is interested in sending a message to the Followers, inviting them to flock to his city and truly become "Followers" of the Transformers. He has Melony scheduled for execution when she speaks out of turn, but lets Paul go free to convey the message to his superiors. That superior would be [[Allister Greaves]], founder of the Followers, who was already aware of the message thanks to Franklin, his double agent in the NSA who observed Paul's confrontation with the Decepticons. Franklin approaches Paul on the street and invites him back to Greaves' base of operations to discuss what the Followers should do next.

Starscream's offer is quickly rendered moot, though, as he has a confrontation with the Keepers. The Keeper formerly known as Bluestreak approaches Starscream under a flag of truce, but then overloads the Decepticon leader's circuitry with a surge of energy, leaving him on the brink of death and a perfectly-fitting host for another of the Keepers to possess. The other remaining Decepticons attempt to flee, but are caught in an impenetrable energy barrier cast by the Keepers, and held prisoner.

Outside the city, Autobot reinforcements have arrived in the form of [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]. At Soundwave's approach, Optimus Prime leaves to make contact with Megatron, and the two agree to join forces against the Keepers. Elsewhere, Allister Greaves and the Followers make their plans as well. Contacts from inside the government have informed Greaves that a two-stage military assault is being planned against the Keepers, with a wave of combat vehicles to be followed by an all-out nuclear strike if the first strike is unsuccessful. Horrified, Greaves sends Paul back to Las Vegas to try to save Melony and evacuate as many of their people as possible, while directing Franklin to reconnect with the Autobots and offer any assistance he can to their inevitable counter-strike as well.

The Keepers were hardly idle all this time, though, and were more than aware that various factions were conspiring against them. They make an attempt at "shock and awe" to cow the planet's populace into submission by grotesquely mutilating and transforming Melony into a new Keeper, casting her soul into the same endless void that Bluestreak and Starscream have been reduced to since giving up their forms.

As Optimus Prime and Megatron enter the city with their troops and the first wave of US military forces, they join up with Skywarp and the remaining Decepticons from Starscream's faction, and so the war with the Keepers begins. Spike is still trying to reactivate the gateway key, in the hopes of sending the Keepers back where they came from. As the other Transformers strike out at the aliens, Bumblebee and Agent Franklin remain with Spike until the key can be activated. Devastator and Omega Sentinel begin fighting with Keeper-Starscream and Keeper-Bluestreak, as the others fall in behind them.

Then a bunch of things start to happen at once.

First, the US government deliberately steps up their timetable, launching the nuke at Las Vegas early in the hopes of obliterating the Transformers along with the alien threat. The Keepers controlling Bluestreak and Starscream are suffering damage in their battles, and so physically and mentally join forces to become a more powerful gestalt being. The other Keepers are busy, however, as Melony Harcourt manages to retake control of her physical body and begins violently lashing out at the Keepers. Grimlock re-emerges as well, having found a vein of pure [[energon]] running underneath Las Vegas after his climactic fight with Devastator a day earlier. And, as a final twist, Franklin Townsend reveals himself as a triple agent who was been working for the Keepers all along, and threatens to kill Spike if he doesn't hand over the gateway key that his masters desire.

As Optimus Prime comes upon the pool of energon, he conceives a plan to manipulate the Matrix to use against the Keepers. Infusing himself and the Matrix with pure energon to temporarily become super-powerful, Optimus then asks his fellow Autobots to give up the majority of their own life-energies to merge with his own. Bumblebee, who had left Spike's side to inform Optimus of the energon pool, realizes his mistake and returns just in time to stop Franklin from murdering Spike. Still, Franklin recovers the gateway key and brings it to his masters in the hopes of escaping. Time, however, has run out. The [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear warhead]] strikes earth, and the massive radioactive shockwave begins to race over the land. Devastator, Omega Sentinel and Bumblebee are too far away, but the super-charged Prime manages to protect the other Autobots and Decepticons from the onslaught. He then gathers the nuclear fire up in a net of Matrix energy, casting it all back at Franklin and the Keepers just as they open the gate, blasting them to atoms and out of our solar system.

In the aftermath, those outside Prime's protective bubble are heavily damaged, including Spike Witwicky who was hiding under Bumblebee and needs to be rushed for medical treatment. Devastator and Omega Sentinel may never be reactivated. Bluestreak and Starscream had combined mental force at the last moment and overwhelmed the Keeper who controlled them, destroying their captor and shattering their bodies back into separate pieces, with the possibility of revival still open. Paul Charteris and the Melony-Keeper both apparently died fighting against the Keepers before the blast. And, as the dust settles, Megatron calls Prime on the favor he is honorbound to grant from their time on the Keepers' world:

Megatron wants to be named the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]].

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==Notes==
* The cover art is taken from a piece done by [[Don Figueroa]] showcasing all of the Megatrons (at the time) from across the franchise, with most of the piece motion blurred behind the original Megatron. As such, you can see details such as ''Beast Wars'' [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' hand. (It's by the bottom of the page, just under the author's name.)

* Unusally, Wheeljack has some kind of aerial altmode. We're never specifically told what kind of vehicle, but it's one with offensive capabilities.

* The character Paul Charteris from Book One has had his surname spelling readjusted to 'Chateris' for the entirety of Annihilation.

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Talk:The Transformers: The Premiere Collection

2023-07-24T16:54:23Z

KJ 81: /* reading order */

==reading order==
Does anyone know how were the spotlights positioned, in consideration of the -tions series? What was the suggested reading order of the Premiere collection? -GUIGUI (sign your posts)
:Premiere Edition 1:
:*Infiltration, Stormbringer, Shockwave, Nightbeat, Hot Rod, Sixshot, Magnus, Escalation
:Premiere Edition 2:
:*Spotlight Volume 2 (Soundwave, Kup, Galvatron, Optimus, Ramjet), Devastation, Spotlight Volume 3 (Blaster, Arcee, Grimlock, Mirage, Wheelie), Revelation
:-[[User:LV|LV]] 10:52, 27 August 2013 (EDT)

==signed tip-in plate==
It's probably worth noting that volume 1 came with a signed tip-in plate signed by many of the IDW creators involved with the first volume. All the big names, iirc. That was a pretty big draw of getting it. You also got an exclusive Don Figueroa print, unsigned, and quite small, from memory, but still a cool extra. Volume 2 came with no additional extras like that.
:-[[User:KJ_81|KJ_81]

Talk:Optimus Prime (G1)

2023-01-31T19:16:57Z

KJ 81:

==Splitting==
I am proposing that we split Optimus Prime's toy section off into a separate article - "See list of Optimus Prime (G1) toys" or something equivalent, as Wikipedia does. The article as a whole is really long and is only going to get longer, and it seems like a logical place for a split. Thoughts? --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 11:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

:As long as I get to create it, since I largely wrote the toy section myself. You're not stealing my pointless Internet Glory, you jerkfaces. You have the faces of several jerks! --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 12:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

::I vote "Optimus Prime (G1) toys", rather than List of X. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 16:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
:::A disambig ''prior'' to the end of the article? That's crazy-talk!
:::(Of course, the alternative is Optimus Prime toys (G1), which is just plain wrong.) -[[User:69.88.91.218|69.88.91.218]] 16:30, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
::::Shall I create the new article now? I think its moot if Walky (an admin) votes in favour of it. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:32, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
:::::Alright, I made the G1 Prime toy article anyway, since scrolling down to make edits in the big Prime page is annoying, and I always need to check to see how pics I use in one section affect the section before or after. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

===Splitting Part 2===
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And neither his cartoon nor Marvel sections are remotely close to finished. We need to consider a way to split a character fiction page. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:43, 13 April 2009 (EDT)
: As of right now, his Marvel G1 section alone is too long to be its own page. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 10:38, 18 April 2009 (EDT)
:: Done with Marvel G1 section, pretty sure. Phew! It is now, by itself, 54kb. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:04, 20 April 2009 (EDT)

:My first thought would be to break out the Marvel Comics continuity and G1 cartoon continuity sections into their own pages, as they're likely to be the longest bits. ("Optimus Prime (G1 Marvel Comics)" and "Optimus Prime (G1 cartoon)", perhaps? I don't like the implicaiton of those page names, though, which make it sound like we're designating each of these as separate characters.) A ''See main article:'' link under each header would cover it, similar to what we do for toys and merchandise. (It'd be a nice touch if we could leave like maybe one image alongside each link, so they aren't quite so lost in the shuffle.) -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 21:00, 20 April 2009 (EDT)
::How about "Optimus Prime (G1) Marvel Comics" and "Optimus Prime (G1) cartoon". It doesn't give the impression (as much) that it is a different character and is more like "Optimus Prime (G1) toys". - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 21:13, 20 April 2009 (EDT)
::: Yeah, that scheme definitely works better. Maybe "Sunbow cartoon" just to make it absolutely clear? -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 21:15, 20 April 2009 (EDT)
:::: Would the Japanese cartoon continuity stuff go in that article as well? --[[User:Apoc|Apoc]] 21:23, 20 April 2009 (EDT)
:Scout assures us that by "some browsers" it means "Netscape 6 or older," which 0% of our readers are using. However, there's still a practical problem, what with having to scroll past 10 pages to get to other content. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 21:36, 20 April 2009 (EDT)

::Maybe Japanese stuff should go with the Sunbow stuff, since some part of them are common. But if that happens, the title may become "Optimus Prime (G1) Subow/Japan" or something like that. --'''[[User:TX55|TX55]]'''''[[User talk:TX55|TALK]]'' 02:52, 24 April 2009 (EDT)
:::"Optimus Prime (G1) cartoon continuity". -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 02:54, 24 April 2009 (EDT)
::::I'd go with something more like "Optimus Prime in the G1 cartoon." --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 15:27, 24 April 2009 (EDT)
:::::"Optimus Prime (G1) fiction (cartoon)" or similar? Character, series identifier, fiction, subfiction identifier. [[User:Hooper X|Hooper_X]] 19:56, 27 April 2009 (EDT)

===Splitting Part 3===
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This is a joke now. With the server problems, most of the time it doesn't even fully load. It '''''needs''''' to be split. Urgently. "Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics" and...? - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 15:43, 1 June 2009 (EDT)
:"Optimus Prime (G1)/Cartoon continuity"? Including all the Japanese stuff? - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 15:47, 1 June 2009 (EDT)
:::The cartoon section adds up to 91 kilobytes, apparently. With change for categories, etc, that would put it alone (excluding the MSTF transcripts) somewhere between third and fifth in the Long pages list behind only [[Starscream (G1)]] [112 kilobytes, another one we should probably look at splitting], Megatron (G1), possibly Kup (G1) and probably the residue of this page. Not entirely sure about working "continuity" into the page title either - it's, to pick one random example, [[Tap-Out (Animated)]] not "Tap-Out (Animated continuity)", after all. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 16:20, 1 June 2009 (EDT)

:: I'm not trying to say that all previously options for splitting this article are bad ideas (I support them, as a matter of fact) but I'm just going to pitch another idea in case we need to go to a plan B or something like that... Maybe we could even split his fiction into seperate time periods? As in "Optimus Prime (G1)/Fiction: 1988-2000" (and yes, I just made up random years up for my example.) I don't know how good an idea that would be, but in any case, even if it's a horrible idea, I always find suggesting alternative solutions to problems like this helps, regardless of whether or not they end up being used... --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 16:09, 1 June 2009 (EDT)
:Personally, I think it'd be best to split it into "Optimus Prime (G1)" and "Convoy", and to do the same with the other huge character pages, too. - [[User:Magnus Maximus|Magnus Maximus]] 17:52, 1 June 2009 (EDT)

===Splitting Part 4===
Excluding the MSTF transcripts, this is [[Special:Longpages|again the longest page on TFWiki]] (the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|toys sub-page]] is right up there too, whereafter there's a 10kb gap back to [[Kup (G1)]]). About the only section long enough to split out and make a page by itself is the IDW continuity - should that be split? Also, should the Marvel colouring book be moved to [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|the Marvel page]], which is long but not super-super-long? - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] 11:26, 10 July 2012 (EDT)
: I totally agree, IDW has more issues than Marvel now and will likely continue for some time, especially as he didn't die in The Death of Optimus Prime. Alternatively Orion Pax could be split off, Megatron and Galvatron have different articles so why not? [[User:Mister Jazzz|Mister Jazz]] 11:38, 10 July 2012 (EDT)

==Old crap==
I vote that we keep this article blank untill the last possible moment

This isn't a democracy, X-BoB. It's the Internet.
You fail at wiki.

I think this article should be done as soon as possible. Because of, y'know its massive importance and stuff.
[[User:BeastWarrior|BeastWarrior]] 08:12, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't we refeare to Optimus Prime as Convoy in the articles on the JPN shows?

Sentenial Prime shouldn't be in the first paragraphs, as he's not in all contuities
JMO-X-BoB58

It warrants discussion - after all, he is the most powerful of the Go-Bots...
* save that for Bayformers.

==Dreamwave Continuity==
The article says: "Optimus Prime started life as Optronix (Orion to his friends)"

Does anyone have an issue reference for this (the Orion part)? I admit that my DW knowledge isn't too great, but I don't recall this.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 15:16, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

It's from the Keepers Trilogy. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:03, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
:That explains it, then. I don't really consider the Keepers Trilogy as canon, never having bothered to read it. However, since it ''is'' official, it's appropriate here.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 17:33, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

::Canon's a tough call witht he Keepers Trilogy. The Optronix thing, for instance, was originally drafted for Optimus Prime's MTMTE profile (IIRC) but the MTMTE thing was drasticly retooled midway through, and so it didn't make it into the entry-- but apparently Scott Ciencen had access to a draft of it which he used for Prime's backstory.

::As for the Keepers Trilogy's overall continuity... it doesn't mesh any WORSE than the first Dreamwave mini-series. (Faint praise though that be.) Plus it made some definite motions to align itself more closely to the comics continuity at the end of the 3rd book. ...and if I remember my timeline right, Superion's head showed up in Annihilation before it would have been written into TF#0. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 00:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

==Stuff==
"Auntie" was, so far as I know, not an acronym. As well, it was definitely the name for the Ark's computer in the US, so I removed the italics as I didn't think those events/reasonings were UK-specific.

As well, the Intraformers competition is not from the UK - it's from Sureshot's Transformers: Universe profile. But as I didn't look it up yet, I wasn't sure if I should un-italize the mention of "before he was named Optimus Prime" that's mentioned with it. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 03:14, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

:Marvel continuity, from the intraformers sharpshooting competition arose, never had a 'pre optimus Prime.' He was always just Optimus Prime. (And was called such even when a junior officer, as seen in the Underbase saga.)
:Optimus Prime was a gifted athlete beginning to study for a medical profession when the war broke out. Presumably the shooting competition was part of Prime's athlete days- shooting is an Olympic sport after all. (Well,part of one.)
:If you want to split the difference on the entry, I suggest changing 'before he was named Optimsu Prime' to either ''before the war began'' or ''before the war began in earnest.'' The latter is only loosely justified by the text of comics continuities (the city-ststes had standaign armies and apparently fought- the great games were suppsoed to be a formalized sublimation of this) but it does have the marit of fitting well with War Dawn (and thus fits the new post* continuities which've come along that smosh both continuities together) without actually being '''wrong''' in the context of its original occourence. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
::And it's not like civilians don't do shooting sports as a hobby or anything. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 04:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

== Beast Wars Primal ==

Do we want to include the BW Bat Primal and the first MUNKY Primal as toys of Prime? In all one piece of media Bat Primal appeared in, he was definintly Prime with a new name, and the same can be said for Ultra MUNKY's specs. I can't remember if it's been brought up before, but if it has, I can't find it.
: It's been a topic of discussion, but I think most of it has kept to IRC so far. The red/blue "Convobat" from Japan may even have text on the back that says it's the original Prime, and the purple alligator Megatron that came with it has text that mentions a Walther P38, but we haven't pursued further translation. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 00:56, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, we did, and it specifically says on both of them that they used to have those modes and are now animals. The problem, of course, is whether that makes them any more "really" Prime and Megatron than the US versions, or for that matter the Ultra toys in either country. Remember that Japan didn't even get a yes-or-no on whether they were the same guys until Metals. My personal preference would probably be to consider all of them Primal and BW Megs toys, despite how much I want the CD guys to be the G1 characters, or else we get into a bizarre continuum of "bat is Prime/ape is both/TM is Primal" which is confusing and not helpful, I think. -[[User:LV|LV]] 01:44, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Reviving this topic from the Bush administration to call attention to the fact that we ended up with the relevant beast toys on Prime's page but the microcontinuity where they actually represent Prime entirely localized to Primal's. Now the solution we ended up workshopping on the Discord was porting the info over here and leaving mainlinks to it on Primal's page or vice versa. Thoughts? -[[User:AzimuthAcolyte|AzimuthAcolyte]] ([[User talk:AzimuthAcolyte|talk]]) 13:43, 26 June 2021 (EDT)
:I know I said this on Discord already, but I am all for "Move fiction here, leave a mainlink on Primal's page."-- [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 13:46, 26 June 2021 (EDT)
I'm all in for a migration of the relevant info. [[User:MrRald|MrRald]] ([[User talk:MrRald|talk]]) 15:35, 19 July 2021 (EDT)
:I know I already agreed on Discord, but just for the wiki's record: I am for the migration. [[User:Fanofcoolstuff27|Fanofcoolstuff27]] ([[User talk:Fanofcoolstuff27|talk]]) 15:54, 19 July 2021 (EDT)

== Kiss Players ==

This bio says the EDC was bringing Convoy's remains from the battle of Autobot City. I hadnt' seen this in any of the other stuff i read, so could someone confirm that for me? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 04:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
: That info was put in by Swift, who seriously knows his Kiss Players stuff. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 06:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

::Thank you Walky. To express my gratitude, I shall try to be less of a dumbass in the future. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 07:56, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

::I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that reputation, but I suppose I brought it on myself. And yeah, lots of KP story material places it as a direct follow-up to the movie.--[[User:Swift|Swift]] 16:39, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
:::Follows the movie- but not trying to be compatale with season 3, right? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 16:53, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
::::Wait, naughty-surfer Marissa Fairborne. That was a stupid question. '''I recind it!''' -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 16:56, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
:::::I think it helps that Japanese season 3 takes place 4 years after this, since it's all up in 2010 instead of 2006. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 17:05, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
::::::Oh, right, I forgot, the 5-years-in-which-Daniel-does-not-appear-to-age. That DOES change things. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
:::::::They do seem to be taking pains to make it all sort of fit in. Hot Rod's backstory says he gave up the Matrix and reverted from Rodimus, too. --[[User:Swift|Swift]] 19:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

==Pudding==
MSTF running gag. "First darkness... then... light... then, pudding, I don't know why." Since then, PUDDING has come up in regards to Prime a bit frequently. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 00:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

== Parody trivia ==

I don't think we should include in trivia (or anywhere else) all statements done in all the parody. I know the family Guy Jewish Prime is notorious, but if we start including that, we should as well mention Prime turned a movie for prostate cancer prevention. I think canon is difficult enough to determine by itself.
Also, if we had to seriously think about Optimus's religious orientation, he is most probably a [[Primus]] believer. Unless being Jewish for a transformers is about not believing [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] is the new Primus incarnation, but in that case, most of the Transformers are probably Jewish.

:: ... who the fuck put that in there? The idea of Family Guy being TF canon has made me physically ill, thank you. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 23:00, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

::::Agreed. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 00:02, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

== John Wayne & Abe Lincolln ==

The [[David Wise]] interview on the Kid Rhino DVD's includes a fairly lengthy tangent on why he thinks Optimus Prime was the greatest of the 80's bumper crop of heroic characters, where he says that it's because Prime is a mash-up of Lincoln's ideals and John Wayne's methodology. He was discussing RoOP (which he didn't write) but ''this'' comparison seems to be 'about' his work in season 2. Thing is, I couldn't tell- is the Wayne-Lincoln thing Wise's way of looking at Prime? Something the Sunbow writers room had synthesized by the time season 2 was ramping up? (Prime was much blander in season 1...) Or was it ''always'' part of his character? The original character bios of Prime have it in spades- was there a margin-note that Budinsky (or whoever) jotted down somewhere for Prime 'John Wayne + Lincoln' that other writers followed, or did this realization/synthesis come later?

[http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/expo/speaker_detail.cfm?speakerID=1209 Tom Pope] has a fascinating theory on heroes and societies, and it caught my eye that he thinks the most recent set of heroic archetypes (they come in pairs,) were Wyatt Earp and Lincoln. I ''see'' Tom on occasion, and I think he'd get a kick out of the Optimus Prime thing, but I want to get it right. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:19, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

==Cartoon section confusion==
I was advised against segmenting G1 Soundwave's article to reflect his appearance in the Madman comic as it would be a bad trend of splitting established continuities every time a new story or dubious retcon emerges. After viewing the cartoon section of this page, I can see what JW means, because I couldn't tell what the hell was going on. Why are the Japanese comics (even if they are set within their alternate cartoon continuity) directly inserted between G1 Season 1/2 and the 1986 Movie? And then the Teletraan Go Go and Kiss Players crap in between the movie and Season 3/4, which, funnily enough, also uses the Japanese 2010 title, which, as far as I know, we have never used as I am so often reminded that this is a American Transformers wiki. As it stands, the cartoon section of arguably the most important character on this wiki is very confusing. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 18:33, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
:Ichh, didnt see this talk post and talked about this on the Soundwave talk page... yeah, I'm all agreeing with this, and stuff. As the American and Japanese animated continuities have just recently become ''very'' different animals as a result of all the extra stuff that's been jammed into the Japanese timeline lately, I'm more in favour of "American animated continuity" and "Japanese animated continuity" being two separate headers. I did this with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] recently (I remember between posts!), and I think it's the tidiest way of representing the information. I'm not doing anything this evening, so I might take a crack at re-working Prime's page to see what we all think... - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]]
::A lot of the stuff on Optimus Prime's page is a product of the wiki's very early work. When Japanese/English stuff gets this crazy, it should be separated accordingly. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 22:26, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
:::Roight, I've taken a stab at reorganizing it all. What say we all? - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 23:32, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
::::Thanks man, I forgot all about this as I was blocking out the mess of this page from my mind. I think we should have some sort of 'review' policy where we check articles that were created in full in 2006 to see if they still adhere to our current requirements. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 20:27, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

== Weapon ==

Any other weapon he uses other than his standard Rifle?([[User:MARV 2000|MARV 2000]] 23:44, 10 March 2008 (UTC))
:Do his [[Furmanism]]s count? --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 15:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
:Depends on the continuity. In ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer |Stormbringer]]'' he uses bunches and bunches of weapons. [[User:JW|JW]] 15:49, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

==Name==

Just curious but is a plural version of his name Optimuses or Optimi?
[[User:Proconix|Proconix]]
:"[[Optimus (disambiguation)|Optimuses]]", per [[Megatron (BW)]]. [[User:JW|JW]] 15:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Okeydoke.[[User:Proconix|Proconix]]

==Cullen in Later Commercials==

Has this been verified? Back in either BotCon 2004 or BotCon 2006 (I don't recall which at the moment), Cullen claimed NOT to have done those late commercials (post-movie). I'm perfectly willing to believe that this is just faulty memory, but wanted to check.--[[Special:Contributions/71.110.188.13|71.110.188.13]] 09:56, 21 April 2009 (EDT)
: Everybody in those later commercials sounded like either Cullen or Michael Bell, so unless they got two imitators of their voices exactly, who couldn't do other voices... --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 10:45, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

== Robot Masters sub-headings ==

The Robot Masters sub-headings are h6s (six =s). They're SMALLER THAN THE BODY TEXT! I think some significant rearrangement of that bit should be considered... - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 18:54, 26 April 2009 (EDT)
:I ''hate'' those little things, but really, there's not a lot that ''can'' be logically done. About the only thing to do is bump the whole Japanese cartoon cotinuity up by one header size, but then it ceases to be a sub-header of the "Generation 1 cartoon continuity" (I've done it like that in a few places in the past, purely for... well, ''this very'' aesthetic reason, actually, but I'm pretty sour on the idea now). It ceases to be an issue, mind you, if we split the cartoon off into its own article, where the headers can all move up one (or even two) sizes because of the reduced need for them. And that's looking more and more like something we should really do. Because... well, goddamn. There are still three continuities that need written up, and more that need fleshed out to full! - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 20:39, 26 April 2009 (EDT)
::If this is happening in several articles, then perhaps tweaking the site CSS to increase the size of h5s and h6s should be considered... - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 08:36, 27 April 2009 (EDT)
::[http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=User:SanityOrMadness/test&oldid=281657 Possible suggestion?] - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 08:59, 27 April 2009 (EDT)

== Italian Dubbing ==

Hi, I'm Italian and I'm trying to track the italian Optimus Prime voices.
Yes, I said voices: the "italian Prime" had – at least – 4 different voices thru the four cartoon seasons and the animated movie (maybe 5 voices!). Traking the story of Optimus italian voices is a little bit difficult because of a lack of infos about italian '80 dubbing of the G1 series (saying that is chaotic is an euphemism: we have characters that actually change their voice in a single episode, for example Bumblebee/Maggiolino).
I would like to add a note in Optimus G1 page about this (in my opinion is a nice curiosity about Optimus), but in wich section can I add it?

Moreover, I think that the whole italian '80 dubbing is interesting, because of this "voices chaos": not a single character has the same voice thru the G1 continuity (Megatron/Galvatron at least 2 voices, Starscream at least 3 voices, and so on).

What do you guys think about?

== Alternity ==

Wouldn't it be better to separate the Alternity Optimus from this one? Noting that he used to be G1 Prime? As he does look a fair bit different and has all these crazy powers and stuff. Just an idea. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 10:40, 3 August 2009 (EDT)
:From what i get from the story, he's both G1 Optimus Prime and every other optimus prime that joined Alternity...that's the hard part, i think he sould stay here and link other primes(who actualy get fiction) join.--[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 15:56, 27 September 2009 (EDT)

== Universe 2.0/action blast ==

Should it be placed here, or will we give that Prime his own article?--[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 15:39, 26 September 2009 (EDT)
:Here. His toy was from the Classic series which is part of the G1 continuity family. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 16:08, 26 September 2009 (EDT)
::Only problem is, i can't add anything because the page is protected.--[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 15:53, 27 September 2009 (EDT)

== To Die Game! ==

I'm just wondering why has my addition of the "To Die Game!" fiction been removed? Are we making a separate page for the Silver Alternity Prime or something? --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 23:22, 15 October 2009 (EDT)
:For unknown reasons, we appear to be putting the red auto-avatar on this page, and the silver one on his G1 cartoon continuity subpage, where the Binaltech stories reside. I can ''sort of'' see why, but I also think it's going to confuse a lot of folks.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 23:25, 15 October 2009 (EDT)
::Ah, I see... Maybe we should add a note at the end of the Alternity section then? Something along the lines of "Alternity beings are both individuals and a collective of separate entities. More fiction about Optimus Prime's Alternity collective can be found here." And link to the other section where there's more fiction on him? --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 23:30, 15 October 2009 (EDT)
:::It was my understanding that the red one was specifically G1 Optimus Prime, and the silver one was a distinct Prime that's of the Alternity collective. So, yeah, the silver one wouldn't go on this page. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 00:29, 16 October 2009 (EDT)
::::Actually, they're ''both'' G1 Prime. Specifically, the silver one is Binaltech Optimus Prime.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 01:10, 16 October 2009 (EDT)
:::::Yeah, the Silver Prime is specifically G1-cartoon Optimus Prime, hailing from the branched-off Binaltech timeline, so I put his exploits on that article. The red one is from Primax 109.0 Beta, so he shouldn't go on the cartoon continuity page, if you see what I mean. It is, of course, entirely possible that we'll get more Primes and Megatrons down the line, too, who would all go under the basic "Alternity" header of the main character page, unless they were specifically from another pre-existing universe. The addition of a note is a good idea. Alternity is... complicated to write up, I think. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 05:58, 16 October 2009 (EDT)
::::::It certainly does strain our fiction writeup method when multiple characters are not only all the same guy (IE all Optimus Prime) but all the same guy ''from the same continuity family''. Yeah, from an in-universe perspective an alternate universe is an alternate universe, but our continuity family grouping of character articles makes it especially tricky.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 21:57, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
:::::::Do an <nowiki>[[Optimus Prime (Alternity)]]</nowiki> (possibly Convoy, since it's Japanese exclusive) and redirect from both here and any other pages (like the G1toon page) to that with Main article: tags; then split that page by universe-of-origin with explanation where necessary. They're simultaneously merged into one and distinct from each other, yes?
:::::::(Since it's not only multiversal, but - with Elita Seven - there are already non G1 characters, it's not really GEEWUN, per se) -[[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] 22:41, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
::::::::If we were to do that, it wouldn't need a parenthetical. The article would reside at <nowiki>[[Masterlord Convoy]]</nowiki>, as he already has an English name that's distinct from Optimus Prime's Japanese name.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 22:45, 18 October 2009 (EDT)

== Transformer with three modes? ==

Prime is in the [[:Category:Transformers with three modes|Transformers with three modes]] category. I'm trying to think what version of him has three modes. Do we count the Powermaster Prime's super robot as a third mode? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 11:34, 22 January 2010 (EST)
:Going down the list, it looks like Star Convoy is the main reason. He has robot, truck and base modes without a separate cab robot. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 12:47, 22 January 2010 (EST)
::Of course. I didn't realize he didn't have a trailer. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:55, 22 January 2010 (EST)

== New statue/bust ==

A newly solicited Powermaster Optimus bust describes as follows..."As depicted in the ''Transformers: Armada'' animated series, ''Power Master Optimus'' shed his merged form and went on to sacrifice himself to defeat Unicron and save all of mankind." It's Diamond Select/Art Asylum, but more importantly, what the hell does that mean for the continuity? Previews April 2010 edition, page 371. [[User:Hida Atarasi|Hida Atarasi]] 00:47, 18 April 2010 (EDT)
:It means that whoever wrote that solicitation copy doesn't know what they're talking about? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 01:04, 18 April 2010 (EDT)
::Is a Previews considered an official source? Is this gonna be another microcontinuity entry? I'd be tickled pink if the ''Armada'' franchise got tacked onto G1 because of a badly written ad selling a bust that, as likely as not these days, could get cancelled. [[User:Hida Atarasi|Hida Atarasi]] 18:07, 18 April 2010 (EDT)

== Battle Convoy ==

Just curious, in Japan is "Battle Convoy" (Laser Optimus Prime) a different guy? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 10:15, 6 July 2010 (EDT)
:Not according to the G-2 comics and story pages. Convoy was changed into Battle Convoy by the [[Reconfiguration Matrix]]. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 10:22, 6 July 2010 (EDT)

== Taiwanese names ==

[http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Optimus_Prime_%28G1%29&diff=7288&oldid=7287 They were both added by TX55.] So you'll have to ask him just what exactly the difference is. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 07:14, 21 February 2011 (EST)

== Ongoing ==

Could someone update Prime's appearances in the IDW ongoing fiction please? The current page is at least 5 issues behind the times. [[User:Durge|Durge]] 11:46, 9 March 2011 (EST)
:And why can't you do it? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 12:00, 9 March 2011 (EST)
::Perhaps he is himself five or more issues behind the times, and his reason for wanting the section updated is so he'll know what's going on? --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 14:41, 9 March 2011 (EST)
:Because I suck at this editing lark and half of what I put up gets taken down for not being good enough. I'd rather a wiki veteran could do it and get it right for those who might just be starting with ongoing and need to know whats happened thus far with prime specifically then for me to put up a half arsed summary that isn't any good to anyone. This is G1 Optimus' page, rookies like me aren't usually welcome. [[User:Durge|Durge]] 12:12, 16 March 2011 (EDT)

== IDW comics continuity ==

Can someone edit Optimus Prime's comic continuity? It's way behind

== IDW Optimus timeline ==

So how does all of Optimus Prime's early chronology fit together? We've got:

* ''Megatron Origin'' (Unnamed)
* ''Spotlight: Blurr'' (Optimus)
* ''All Hail Megatron'' #13 (...?)
* ''Chaos Theory'' (Orion Pax)
* ''Autocracy'' (Orion Pax)

''Chaos Theory'' must come first, because it takes place during the reign of [[Nominus Prime]]. Then ''Megatron Origin'' and ''Autocracy'' take place during the times of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]], respectively, so that progression is clear. Now comes the hard parts.

In ''Autocracy'', Optimus is working alongside Ironhide, which means the flashback from ''All Hail Megatron'' #13 where they first met must take place earlier. But in that issue, Optimus recalls that from the very first, Ironhide thought he was some punk "who didn't deserve to ''call himself Prime''". That implies Optimus was already ''Optimus Prime'' in #13. This could possibly be ignored as a turn of phrase -- after all, in the flashback itself he is never directly called "Optimus", "Prime", or even "Orion Pax".

''Spotlight: Blurr'' is trickier. If ''Autocracy'' is going to chronicle the fall of Zeta Prime and the rise of Optimus Prime, as it seems bound to do, that means the Spotlight must take place first. But Kup calls him Optimus, and he should be known as Orion Pax during this timeframe.

Is the best way to build a chronology to ignore any reference to Optimus Prime's current name (and body-type) and just base things on surrounding events, or is there some way to legitimately tie this all together? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 08:38, 4 April 2012 (EDT)

:Brain has melted. Cannot compute.––[[User:Mojotron|Mojotron]] 11:12, 13 May 2012 (EDT)

== Intro ==

At this point, it seems a little ridiculous to note every single incarnation that's slightly different. Optimus Prime is going to show up everywhere, and the resulting text is turning into an ugly tumor. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 08:19, 13 July 2017 (EDT)
:In fact, I'm not sure why the "split into three components" gobbleygook is even there, because it's never shown up in real fiction. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 08:27, 13 July 2017 (EDT)

== Another split? ==

I've started to notice how slow the main page is to load and save when editing and I feel it's probably not just me having this issue.

I was taking a look at what we could possibly look into, in terms of making another split to help relieve our poor browsers for the next little while and the [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Games|Games section]] is the one I think could be a good place to start. Any thoughts?

Also, feel free to bring up any other ideas. I did look at the fiction section, since it is the obvious monster that is slowing everything down, but I can't see any other continuities that could be considered large enough to split out, unless we wanna try the IDW2 stuff in another year or so?

It's obviously not an urgent thing, just thought it might be something worth looking into. [[User:Fanofcoolstuff27|Fanofcoolstuff27]] ([[User talk:Fanofcoolstuff27|talk]]) 08:59, 14 July 2021 (EDT)
:Games makes sense, although I think the PS2 game should be on the cartoon continuity page since it's clearly based on it. [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 11:07, 14 July 2021 (EDT)

:I noticed that the Games section is missing a lot of info. I don't think there should be a split until most, if not all, of the information is added. --[[User:GobotsFanForever|GobotsFanForever]] ([[User talk:GobotsFanForever|talk]]) 16:55, 6 October 2021 (EDT)

== Yet another suggestion for a split ==

Maybe there can be a separate page for the [[IDW Publishing#Crossovers|IDW crossover]] continuities? --[[User:GobotsFanForever|GobotsFanForever]] ([[User talk:GobotsFanForever|talk]]) 10:39, 6 October 2021 (EDT)
:Not that I think this makes real sense, but surely it'd be better to do all crossovers instead of just IDW? [[User:Saix|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix|talk]]) 17:50, 6 October 2021 (EDT)
::Perhaps but I was thinking just the IDW ones because they are at least loosely affiliated. But yeah, adding all of them would be more efficient. --[[User:GobotsFanForever|GobotsFanForever]] ([[User talk:GobotsFanForever|talk]]) 18:01, 6 October 2021 (EDT)

== Missing Item ==

Hi, please forgive the formatting, I'm new to the Wiki. I've just noticed a Diamond Select Toys bust from around 2007 does not have an entry. I can verify it's real as I have one, purchased through my local comic shop, back when it came out years ago in the 2000's. Here's a link to an article on it from TFW2005 where it talks about it getting downsized, and indeed, the version I have is a typical small minibust size. They did Megatron too, and you've got his listed, but not Prime's. I don't know how to put together the paragraph on it, but here's the link with the article confirming its being released in downsized form. https://news.tfw2005.com/2007/01/09/14-optimus-prime-head-replica-cancelled-replaced-with-mini-bust-5795 and even better, here it's actual Previewsworld solicitation listing, showing it had a RRP of $50USD, and it's release date of May 31 2007. https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG064290

Hope that helps someone, as it really does deserve a mention. [[user :KJ_81|KJ_81]]

Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise

2023-01-29T11:18:06Z

KJ 81:

{{suite}}

'''Bumblebee''' has a lot of merchandise.

==Happy Meal Toy==
[[File:1985 happymeal bumblebee.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (1985)

:Non-poseable, non-transforming figurines of Bumblebee and three of his Mini-Vehicle chums (Cliffjumper, [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], and [[Brawn (G1)/toys|Brawn]]) comprised the very first line of Transformers [[List of Transformers restaurant promotions|Happy Meal toys]], but alas, the figures did not see a full release, and were only test-marketed in St. Louis, Missouri. The two-tone figures were available in a variety of colour variations, with at least six different combinations for each of the four characters: Bumblebee is known to have been available in blue and red, red and black, green and black, blue and black, black and yellow, and black and red... yet not his traditional yellow and black!

::*''[http://tfwiki.net/~fortmax/artifacts/featuredart3.html More information on Happy Meal Bumblebee at the TF Artifacts List]''
{{-}}

==Transformers Milk Caramel==
[[File:Caramel bumblebee.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Bumble''' (1985)
:A soft rubber figurine—known in Japan as a ''keshigomu''— of Bumblebee was released as part of the first wave of [[Kabaya]]'s earliest [[candy toy]] line, ''[[Transformers Milk Caramel]]''. Based more on his toy than his animation model, Bumblebee came packaged with chocolate-covered caramel candies, and was available in various colours, including white, blue, sky blue, yellow, green, and orange.

==Transformers Choco==
*'''Bumble''' (1985)
:A small solid-color, transforming snap-together model kit of Bumblebee was released as part of Kabaya's ''[[Transformers Choco]]'' line of candy toys.
{{-}}

==Decoy==
[[File:Decoy bumblebee.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Cybertron Hero Collection 9''' (multi-pack, 1986)
*'''Defeat Dinosaurer Strategy Game''' (board game, 1986)
:Bumblebee was among the many characters rendered by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] as part of their series of 1.5" ''keshigomu'' figurines. Like all the Autobots in the series, Bumblebee was molded in soft red rubber, and featured a number sculpted into his back that was the sum total of his [[Tech Spec]]s, for use in the various games that could be played with the figurines. Bumblebee was available as part of a nine-piece box set of Autobot figures, as a playing piece in the Defeat Dinosauruer Strategy Game and later, in a peach coloration randomly packed as part of various other box sets.

*'''Bumblebee''' (1987)
**''Decoy number:'' '''26'''

:The Bumblebee figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number (26, in Bumblebee's case). Like all Autobot Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] and [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Decoys/Bumblebee/bumblebee.htm More information on Decoy Bumblebee at TFU.info]''
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==Super Collection Figure==
[[File:SCF Bumblebee.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"ACT NATURAL."]]
*'''Bumble''' (2001)
**''Act'': '''3'''
**''Accessories'': Stand

:A 2-inch PVC of Bumblebee with his best human friend [[Spike Witwicky (G1)#Super Collection Figure|Spike]] was released in the third "Act" of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' series. He carries the tiny little pistol he had in the opening of "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]". The figure was available in both full color and clear plastic versions, one of each available in a standard case of twelve [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] figures.

: In two out of every ten cases, the color version of Bumblebee came packaged with the torso of the Act's collectible "build-a-figure" [[Fortress Maximus (G1)/toys#Super Collection Figure|Fortress Maximus]]. This part could also be either full-color or clear-plastic, packed at an equal 1:1 ratio.

: In one out of every ten cases (that didn't have a Fortress Maximus part), the clear version of Bumblebee was replaced with the [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#SCFdamage|battle-damaged Optimus Prime]] "[[chase figure|Secret Figure]]".

::*''[http://tfu.info/2001/Cybertron/SCFBumble/bumble.htm More information on Super Collection Figure Bumble at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://tfu.info/2001/Cybertron/ClearBumble/bumble.htm More information on clear Super Collection Figure Bumble at TFU.info]''

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==''Heroes of Cybertron''==
[[File:HOC Bumblebee.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Both of Spike's thumbs got stung by bees before the photo was taken.]]
*'''Autobot Espionage Team''' (2003)

:The Bumblebee and Spike figurines were later sold in the fourth wave of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' line, but since Hasbro didn't have the [[trademark]] on Bumblebee's name at the time, the set was simply collectively named the "Autobot Espionage Team". This version of the duo was cast in clear-blue plastic then painted over, with Bumblebee's eyes and the back of his head unpainted to attempt a [[light-piping]] gimmick.

: The pair were sold on a blister card, packaged with a character card and the right leg of the wave's collectible [[Fortress Maximus (G1)/toys#Heroes of Cybertron|Fortress Maximus]] "build-a-figure".

::*''[http://tfu.info/2002/Autobot/HoCBumblebee/bumblebee.htm More information on Heroes of Cybertron Bumblebee at TFU.info]''
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==''MyClone''==
[[File:MyClone Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|Oh wow they managed to let the kid friendly character look like a fat, grumpy old man.]]
*'''Bumble''' (2003)
** ''Japanese ID number:'' '''MTF010'''
** ''Accessories:'' Yellow display stand

:Released in the second wave of the ''[[MyClone]]'' line of Transformers PVC figures, this [[super deformed]] Bumblebee comes with a hexagonal yellow display stand, which can link up with the identical stands included with other MyClone figures. His modular design allows his parts to be mixed and matched with those of any other MyClone figure.
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==''Q-Robo Collection''==
[[File:Qrobo bumblebee.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Bumble''' (2003)

:A super-deformed PVC of Bumblebee was released as part of the''[[Q-Robo Collection Figure]]''. Like all the figures in the series, it was sold blindpacked in a plastic capsule, featured articulation in the neck and shoulders, and was also available in a translucent red color scheme.

::*''[http://snakas.web.fc2.com/figure/q_robo1.htm More information on the Q-Robo Collection at Autobase Aichi]''
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==Generation 1 Figure-Collection==
[[File:Bottlecap bumblebee.JPG|thumb]]

*'''Bumble''' (2003)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-4'''
**''Accessories:'' Display base

:At only one inch in height, this Bumblebee "bottlecap" figurine (so named because its display base is the size of a bottlecap) was one of fourteen blindpacked figures available in Kabaya's Transformers [[Generation 1 Figure-Collection]]. The figure was rendered in a "retro" black and white color scheme, and came with a leaflet, personalized with cartoon screen captures.
::*''[http://snakas.web.fc2.com/misc_item/kabaya_bottle.htm More information on the Generation 1 collection at Autobase Aichi]''
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==History Collection==
[[File:History collection bbee.jpg|thumb]]

*'''Bumble''' (2004)
**''Accessories:'' Display base

:Takara produced this PVC figurine of Bumblebee as part of their [[History Collection]] set. Despite its diminutive size, this two-piece full-color figure features articulated shoulders.

::*''[http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act234/ More information on the History Collection at TFKenkon.com]''
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==Hard Hero==
[[File:Hardhero bumblebees.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (mini-statue, 2004)

:Standing at seven inches tall, [[Hard Hero]]'s Bumblebee cold cast porcelain mini-statue was limited to 1500 pieces and could link up with the company's previous [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise|Optimus Prime statue]] to form a small diorama. Notionally, he was supposed to be the "first in the Minibot series", though no more Minibot statues were produced.

*'''Bumblebee''' (metallic chrome exclusive, 2004)

:A metallic golden chrome version of Hard Hero's Bumblebee statue, in homage to the original toy's Generation 2 chrome redeco, was offered as an exclusive by Coalition Comics in December 2004, limited to only 250 pieces.
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==Gummy Candy==
[[File:ClassicsGummies.jpg|thumb|He's Bumblelicious!]]
*'''Transformers Gummy Candy''' (2006)

:Large [[Gummy Candy|gummy candies]] resembling his ''Classics'' toy packaged in a blister bubble.
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==''Titanium Series''==
[[File:TitaniumRM-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|22 years and five Robot Points later, he finally gets a gun. Revenge time!]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (Robot Master, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Gun, display stand

:''[[Titanium Series]]'' Bumblebee is a small, 3-inch mostly-die-cast-metal statue of the little guy in a design that's surprisingly close to the original toy, with two wheels on each arm, a plate behind his head and sculpted details on his legs that are also based on the original toy. The only part where the cartoon model is given a preference is the head, including the face.

:''Titanium'' Bumblebee has joints at the waist, neck and shoulders, plus a removable pistol. He even comes with a little Autobot-sigil display base.

:This sculpt would've been used to make [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys|Cliffjumper]], but the ''Titanium'' line was canceled before that figure could be released.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2006/Autobot/TitBumblebee/bumblebee.htm More information on Titanium Bumblebee at TFU.info]''
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[[File:Titanium-Series-Optimus-Prime-and-Bumblebee-2pack.jpg|upright=1.11|thumb|"Umm...He did it!" "What?"]]
*'''Optimus Prime & Bumblebee''' (2-pack, 2007)
**''Accessories:'' Gun, display stand

:A Toys 'R' Us [[exclusive]] two-pack, this set features "Supermetal Finish" (read: shiny) versions of the "Robot Master" ''Titaniums'' Optimus Prime and Bumblebee.
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==Palisades==
[[File:Palisades bumblebee.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (mini-statue, 2006)

:Initially intended to be an exclusive for [[BotCon 2005]], [[Palisades Toys]]' 4" Bumblebee mini-statue fell victim to a scheduling conflict and was instead released by NonStop Toys in 2006, with leftover stock also being allocated to Diamond Previews in some countries. This stock tended to have a cracked crotch, a common defect with this piece. One of the last four statues to come out of the Palisades Transformers range, Bumblebee was limited to 1000 pieces.
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==Diamond Select==
[[File:Art asylum bumblebees.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (statue, 2007)

:This six-inch tall mini-bust of Bumblebee was sculpted by [[Art Asylum]] and limited to 1000 pieces.

*'''Bumblebee Roto-Bank''' (money bank, 2009)

:Art Asylum also produced a Bumblebee money bank, equipped with poseable, rotating arms and head.
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==''Robot Heroes''==
[[File:G1 RobotHeroes BumblebeeVsSoundwave.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I wiw punch Soundwave into obwivion.]]
*'''Bumblebee & Soundwave''' (Two-pack, 2007)
{{toydesigner|[[Bill Rawley]] (Hasbro)}}

:''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' Bumblebee is another piece of absolute adorableness. A soft-plastic figurine that combines the cartoon and toy elements of the original Bumblebee with a "super-deformed" style, he is jointed at the neck and shoulders. He came in a two-pack with [[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#Robot Heroes|Soundwave]].

:This mold was also used to make ''Robot Heroes'' [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Robot Heroes|Cliffjumper]], of course.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2007/Autobot/RHBumblebee/bumblebee.htm More information on Robot Heroes Bumblebee at TFU.info]''

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*'''Bumblebee''' (Single-pack, 2008)

: In some countries outside of North America, Bumblebee was released individually in a blindpack with no notable changes.
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==''Transformers'' (2007)==
[[File:Mov2007-toy Slumblebee.JPG|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Slumblebee''' (2007)

:Slumblebee is, as his name suggests, a plush Bumblebee toy based on his original [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] form. Obviously he has no problems with articulation and passes the drop test with flying colors. You can transform him into his car mode (which is totally '''''not''''' a Beetle, as far as Volkswagen can prove) by turning him inside out. Truly he is a new zenith of cuteness.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2007/Autobot/Slumblebee/bumblebee.htm More information on Slumblebee at TFU.info]''
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==3D Battle-Card Game==
[[File:3DBattleCard ClassicBumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Classic Bumblebee''' (2007)

:A 22-point character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]]'s "Energon Wars" expansion, "Classic" Bumblebee "transforms" into a yellow sports coupe, based on his ''Classics'' design. He uses the same parts layout as [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]] and [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]].
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==Sota Toys==
*'''Transformers Chess Set''' (<s>2007</s>)
:Eight identical Bumblebee pieces were to be the Autobot-side Pawns on a [[Chess#Sota Toys|chess set]] based on Generation 1, but the set apparently never saw release.
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==Boss Coffee==
[[File:Boss coffee bumblebee.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Bumble''' (2008)

:A non-transforming PVC figure of Bumblebee was released as part of a promotion by [[Boss Coffee]]. The small figure was randomly included with single cans of the company's "Rainbow Mountain Blend" coffee, contained in a plastic capsule affixed to the top of can which then became a display base for the figurine once removed. Bumblebee features articulation at the shoulders and waist, and came with a small catalog leaflet that could be folded up and attached to the lid/base to form a diorama background for added display value.
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==''Attacktix''==
[[File:AttacktixBumblebee.jpg|thumb|Well, if people are gonna keep drawing him carrying gigantic guns....]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (Booster, 200?)
**''Attacktix ID number'': '''TF06'''

:Part of the second-series ''Transformers [[Attacktix]]'' Boosters, Bumblebee is a "Rare" 10-point "Specialist" that fires a standard missile. His Special Power, "Infiltrate" allows Bumblebee, after being defeated and turning up white, to be placed anywhere on the opponents starting line. He also has an always-active power that lets him take a free turn if he defeats another "Specialist"-ranked piece with a higher point value than his own. Holy schneikies, he's a ''monster'' on the board.

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==''Universe'' (2008)==
[[File:TFU08-toy BumblebeeSuperSoaker.jpg|thumb|Electric charger not included!]]
*'''Bumblebee Super Soaker''' (2009)

:The Bumblebee {{w|Super Soaker}} is a yellow and black redeco of Hasbro's earlier "Sneak Attack 4-Way" water gun. The gun has several nozzle settings that allow it to fire a stream or fan of water straight forward, or streams in four other directions to surprise people and "soak 'em sideways".
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==''Mighty Muggs''==
[[File:MightyMuggs Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|Tubby lil' muggy all stuffed with <s>fluff</s> energon.]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (2009)

:[[Mighty Muggs]] Bumblebee is a [[Super deformed|super-deformed]], non-transformable PVC figure with swiveling arms and head. His mold is different from the standard template used by most ''Transformers'' Muggs, as it is extra short and has Bumblebee's trademark "horns". On the other hand, he doesn't come with any weapons.
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[[File:MightyMuggs 2018 Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.44|Smug little bug.]]
*'''Bumblebee''' ([[2018]])
**''ID number:'' '''03'''

: Heavily influenced by his [[evergreen]] design, this Bumblebee Mugg is part of the line's relaunch in 2018. This new mold features sculpted wings, and a unique helmet that changes Bee's expression when pressed. He has three different faces: smug, surprised, and silly.
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==''Transformers Wacky Wobblers''==
[[File:WackyWobblers G1Bumblebee.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (2009)

:This Bumblebee {{w|bobblehead}} is part of the popular ''[[Wacky Wobblers]]'' line produced by {{w|Funko}}. Aside from the standard-issue big wobbling head, he also features arms that swivel at the shoulders. Bumblebee is affixed to a base with his name on it.
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==Transformers x Mimobot==
[[File:Mimobot Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Bumblebee Mimobot''' (Mimoco, 2012)
:Produced by [[Mimoco]] as part of their multi-brand line of designer USB "Mimobot" flash drives, this Bumblebee memory stick comes in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB sizes, and comes pre-loaded with "digital editions of classic comics, videos, and scripts", as well as a suite of screensavers, avatars, and more standard to all Mimobots.
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==''The Loyal Subjects''==
*'''Bumblebee''' (2013)
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*'''Cybertron Bumblebee''' (2013)
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==''Thrilling 30''==
*'''Bumblebee''' (Collectible Figurine, 2014)
**''Series / Number:'' '''2 / #16'''
**''Accessories:'' Collector's base
:A super-deformed Bumblebee was released among the blindpacked [[Thrilling 30#Collectible Figurines|''Thrilling 30'' Collectible Figurines]] by [[Goldie Marketing]]. He comes with a base to help him stand, a collector's card that doubles as a puzzle piece, and a checklist.

*'''Collectible Figurines''' (5-pack, 2014)
**''Series:'' '''2'''
**''Accessories:'' 5 collector's bases
:The same Bumblebee figurine was also available in a 5-pack alongside [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Thrilling 30|Shockwave]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/merchandise#Thrilling 30|Ultra Magnus]], [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Thrilling 30|Grimlock]] and [[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#Thrilling 30|Rodimus]].
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==''Tiny Titans''==
[[File:TinyTitans_G1Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (Tiny Titans, 2015)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''11/12'''

: Part of the second assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'' [[blindpacking|blindpacks]], this version of Bumblebee is a very small, soft-plastic figure of him in robot mode... cast in gray plastic with copious amounts of golden-yellow paint on him, more than most Tiny Titans get.

: He includes a collectible card that renders him in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|2015 ''Robots in Disguise'']] styling. The card includes a scan-badge for the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], which unlocks a random amount of Energon "currency" and a randomized bonus power-up item.

: This wave saw fairly minimal release at "big box" retailers, but unlike other waves, was ''not'' picked up by drug stores and the like later, making them particularly hard to find.

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==''Hikari Mark Sofubi''==
[[File:HikariMarkSofubi Bumbles.jpg|thumb|]]

Drawing from a number of franchises including Star Wars, Marvel and Godzilla, Funko released a line of 6.6 inch/17 centimetre tall deformed soft vinyl figures with limited articulation. Hikari, meaning ‘light’, came in a variety of colors and included a hand-numbered card of authenticity. Individual pieces ranged from 500 to 5000, depending on the character and variation. Eight versions of Bumblebeee were released in 2014:

*'''Battle Ready Bumblebee''' (2014)
:A yellow distressed rendering of Bumblebee in the Sunbow-style, limited to 1000.

*'''Clear Glitter Bumblebee''' (2014)
:A yellow and black translucent rendering of Bumblebee in the Sunbow-style, limited to 3000.

*'''Dangerous Bumblebee''' (2014)
:A black with grey streaks rendering of Bumblebee in the Sunbow-style, limited to 600.

*'''Distressed Bumblebee''' (2014)
:A lighter yellow distressed rendering of Bumblebee in the Sunbow-style, limited to 1000.

*'''Grey Skull Bumblebee''' (2014)
:A black and white rendering of Bumblebee in the Sunbow-style, limited to 1000.

*'''Ice Bumblebee''' (2014)
:A blue and white two-tone translucent rendering of Bumblebee in the Sunbow-style, limited to 1000.

*'''Metallic Bumblebee''' (2014)
:A metallic yellow and black rendering of Bumblebee in the Sunbow-style, limited to 1000.

*'''24K Gold Bumblebee''' (2014)
:An all-gold rendering of Bumblebee in the Sunbow-style, limited to 600.

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==''Mecha Nations''==
[[File:Mn07-bumblebee.jpg|thumb|150px]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (2015)
**''ID Number:'' '''MN07'''
**''Accessories:'' Alternate hands, gun, battle-damaged armor (left arm, chest, right foot, face).

:Created by [[Kids Logic]], this [[super deformed]] Bumblebee, with G1 "Beetle"-style appearance, stands 6" tall and is articulated, featuring a shiny metallic color scheme, replacement hands, LED light up eyes, weapon and Autobot insignias on his chest. He also includes alternate parts for his chest, right foot and a mangled left arm for that [[Transformers (film)|movie-inspired]] battle-damaged look. Bumblebee's deco, with more black than traditionally found on G1 Bumblebee, and included weapon also appear to draw from his [[Bumblebee (Movie)|live-action counterpart]].

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==''Metal Earth''==
[[File:Metal Earth Bumblebee.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (2015)
**''ID number:'' '''MMS301'''
:''[[Metal Earth]]'' Bumblebee is a DIY 3D Metal Model kit. The kit's difficulty rating is given as "expert".
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[[File:Metal Earth Gold Bumblebee.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Gold Bumblebee''' (2015?)
**''ID number:'' '''MMS301G'''
:''Metal Earth'' Gold Bumblebee is a redeco of the kit above. He most likely represents Goldbug, though he is not named as such.
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[[File:Metal Earth Legends Bumblebee.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (Legends, 2019)
**''ID number:'' '''MEM052'''
:''Metal Earth Legends'' Bumblebee is a DIY 3D steel model kit in the shape of a super deformed version of the [[evergreen]] Bumblebee design. The kit's difficulty rating is given as "moderate".
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==''Block Wars''==
*'''Bumblebee''' (2016)
**''Number:'' '''2'''

:Part of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers Block Wars]]'' candy toy line, this Bumblebee kit is based on his [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Cyber Series|Cyber Series Commander toy]]. Molded entirely in yellow plastic with detailing from stickers, he transforms into a super car when finished and is armed with a large sword with interchangeable handles. He can also be taken apart and combined with ''Block Wars'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Block Wars|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Block Wars|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Block Wars|Starscream]] in various configurations, the ones involving Bumblebee shown on the packaging being:

:*Giving Bumblebee Megatron's arms and Starscream's wings and arming him with Optimus Prime's spear.
:*Attaching Starscream's wings and Megatron's cannon to Bumblebee's vehicle mode, making him a flying death car.
:*Having Starscream wield Bumblebee's sword and use his car roof as a shield.
:*Combining all four into an unnamed combiner, with Bumblebee forming the arms.

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==''Transformers Figure Collection''==
[[File:TF-Transformers-Figure-Collection-Bumblebee-Decoy.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Bumble''' (01-2016)

:Standing 42mm tall, ''Transformers Figure Collection'' Bumble is a non-poseable soft-rubber figure greatly based on a [[Decoy]] figure.
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==My Busy Books==
[[File:TF-My-Busy-Books-Transformers-Bumblebee-figurine.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Transformers: My Busy Book''' (2017)

:Available with the [[Transformers: My Busy Book|10-page board book]] and a box filled with 12 figurines & a playmat depicting a destructed city & Cybertron, this Bumblebee is a pair of small, PVC non-transforming figurines consists of his robot mode (in his [[evergreen]] design) and his yellow car alternate mode that is inspired by his [[Bumblebee (Movie)|live-action film counterpart]]'s Camaro Concept vehicle. Like most of the land-based vehicle figurines, his wheels do not roll.

:In terms of quality control, the figurines' paint applications can be...well, a ''wee bit but not almost entirely'' shoddy (notably the wheels, as seen in the photo on the right). If you're a collector who prefers to display them, you should resign yourself from buying it or try to [[customizing|customize]] the figures with better paint applications if you have the skills.

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==Kidrobot==
[[File:Kidrobot GIJoe Enamel Pin Series.jpg|thumb|250px]]
===Enamel Pin Series===
*'''Bumblebee''' ([[November 3]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 2 in 20
:Released by [[Kidrobot]] in their Enamel Pin Series, this is a flat, enamel pin badge of Bumblebee inspired by the art of [[Tom Scioli]]'s ''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]'', albeit with [[Super deformed|cutesy proportions]]. The pin series was [[Blindpacking|blindboxed]], with some pins being rarer than others.
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===Vinyl Mini Series===
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Bumblebee mini.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Bumblebee''' ([[November 14]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 3 in 48
:The same character design was reused for the Vinyl Mini Series, with Bumblebee receiving a three-inch tall, blindboxed figurine retaining the vibrant colours and exaggerated proportions. He featured articulation in each shoulder.
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===Vinyl Keychain Series===
[[File:Kidrobot GI Joe Bumblebee keychain.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*'''Bumblebee''' ([[December 1]], [[2017]])
:*''Rarity:'' 3 in 24
:Bumblebee was also released as part of the once again blindboxed Vinyl Keychain Series, now standing at about one to two inches. He included a keychain molded into his head and, due to his small scale, did not feature any articulation.
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==Hauck==
[[File:Hauck Go Kart Bee.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|In case a VW Beetle was too big for you.]]
*'''Bumblebee Go Kart''' (2017)
:Manufactured by [[Hauck toys]], the Bumblebee go-kart is a small, pedal-operated vehicle for kids aged 4-8 years old. Cast in the image of Bumblebee (even featuring his head sculpted on the front), the kart features an adjustable seat as well as a brake.

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==Fidget Its==
[[File:Fidget its bumblebee.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The [[AllSpark|cube]] was merely a vessel; its power, its knowledge—can never be destroyed.]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (2017)

:Arriving a little late to the fidget toy craze, [[Fidget Its]] Bumblebee is a cube-shaped Bumblebee with rubber horns and (non-poseable) feet. He has five features to fidget with: button eyes, a larger and clickier button, a slidable "arm", a clicky dial, and a pressable rolling metal ball on his back.
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==Bouncing Ball Heads==
[[File:BouncingBallHead Bumblebee.jpg|upright=1.22|thumb]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (2017)
:"Bouncing Ball Head" Bumblebee is a small, super deformed figurine with a removable head that doubles as a bouncy ball. An Autobot logo is tampographed on the back of his head and his name is written under his feet.

:He is (apparently) available in both gacha-style machines and in an 8-pack with the whole collection, and comes inside a spherical capsule with a unique yellow color.

:Despite clearly representing Generation 1 characters, the collection is advertised as a 2015 ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' product.
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==''Playskool Friends''==
[[File:Playskool-Friends-TF-Bumblebee.jpg|upright=1.88|thumb]]
*'''Transformers Collector Pack''' (Canceled)

:Intended to be released as part of the 7-pack for the Playskool Friends lineup, this Bumblebee is a very adorable non-transforming figurine. He comes packed with Optimus Prime, Arcee, and 4 Rescue Bots: Heatwave, Chase, Boulder and Blades.

:Given the inclusion of the four Rescue Bots, it was ''probably'' unclear if this Bumblebee is mean to represent his ''Generation 1'' counterpart or his ''[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Aligned]]'' counterpart.
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==''Uglydolls''==
[[File:Uglydolls plush collab.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Ice-Bat as Bumblebee''' (2018)
:A collaboration with ''[[Uglydolls]]'' for the 2018 [[San Diego Comic-Con]], the character Ice-Bat is dressed as Bumblebee. He is a limited run exclusive plush, along with Ox as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise|Optimus Prime]].

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==''Keshi Surprise''==
*'''Autobots''' (2018)

:The ''[[Keshi Surprise]]'' series by [[Super7]] consisted of 1.75" soft rubber figures in a style deliberately resembling the 1980s [[Decoy]]s. These [[blind-packed]] figures were sold individually or in cases depicting only their faction. Bumblebee was available in red, yellow, blue, and purple, and included a foil trading card / sticker.
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==McDonald's==
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*'''Bumblebee''' (Happy Meal Toy, 2018)
:Released as part of the [[McDonald's]] June 2018 Happy Meal Toys along with [[My Little Pony]], McDonald's Bumblebee is a [[super deformed]], non-poseable toy, except at the right arm, which is a little missile launcher. It's pretty big. That's it.

:The toy was available in South Korea, Italy, Russia, and Malaysia. This toy was rereleased in the US as [[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#McDonald's 2|Bumblebee]] for the ''[[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]]'' promotion.

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*'''Bumblebee Racer''' (Happy Meal Toy, 2018)
:Part of the same Happy Meal collection as the toy above, this toy represents Bumblebee in his car mode with a pull-back motor. It was also rereleased as [[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#McDonaldsCar|Bumblebee Racer]] for the ''Bumblebee'' promotion.

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==''Transformers Trading Card Game''==
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*'''Bumblebee, Brave Warrior''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1S: Starter Set'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number:''''' T01/T04'''
**''Stars: ''6
:Bumblebee, Brave Warrior is one of four double-sided character cards available in the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]'' Starter Set.

:The artwork for the card is reused from the ''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]'' mobile game, and is based on the '''Legacy of Bumblebee''' redeco of the ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Bumblebee toy.
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*'''Bumblebee, Courageous Scout''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity:'' '''CT'''
**''Card Number:''''' T08/T40'''
**''Stars: ''9
:Bumblebee, Courageous Scout is one of forty double-sided character cards available in Wave 1 of the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]''.

:The artwork for the card reuses different artwork from the ''Transformers Legends'' mobile game, and is based on the '''Legacy of Bumblebee''' redeco of the ''Classics'' Bumblebee toy.
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*'''Bumblebee, Legendary Warrior''' (2018)
**'''Wave 1'''
**''Rarity:'' '''SRT'''
**''Card Number:''''' T09/T40'''
**''Stars: ''10
:Bumblebee, Legendary Warrior is one of forty double-sided character cards available in Wave 1 of the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]''.

:The artwork for the card reuses more artwork from the ''Transformers Legends'' mobile game, and is based on the '''Legacy of Bumblebee''' redeco of the ''Classics'' Bumblebee toy.
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*'''Bumblebee, Trusted Lieutenant''' (2019)
**'''Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners'''
**''Rarity: '''''CT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T14/T46'''
**''Stars: ''10

:Bumblebee, Trusted Lieutenant is one of forty-six character cards released in Wave 2 of the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]'', Rise of the Combiners.

:The artwork for the card features another set of reused artwork from the ''Transformers Legends'' mobile game, and is once again based on the '''Legacy of Bumblebee''' redeco of the ''Classics'' Bumblebee toy.
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*'''Bumblebee, Least Likely, Most Dangerous''' (2019)
**'''Wave 2S: Bumblebee vs. Megatron Starter Set'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T01/T04'''
**''Stars: ''7

:Bumblebee, Least Likely, Most Dangerous was released as part of the ''Transformers Trading Card Game's'' Bumblebee vs. Megatron Starter Set. The card was packaged alongside [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Cybertronian Tyrant, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], Decepticon Lieutenant, [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], Defender of Truth, and a 40 card ready-to-play deck of Battle Cards.

:The line-art for the card was done by [[Dan Khanna]], and like the other Bumblebee cards in the Transformers TCG is based on the '''Legacy of Bumblebee''' Classics Bumblebee toy.
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*'''Bumblebee, Trusted Lieutenant''' (2019)
**'''Wave 2P'''
**''Rarity: '''''CT'''
**''Card Number: '''''P5/2019'''
**''Stars: ''10
::A reprint of Bumblebee, Trusted Lieutenant was made available as an in-store play promo card for the release of Wave 3: War for Cybertron: Siege I. The card is identical to the original release, printed with gold-foil on the Robot Mode side.
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*'''Bumblebee, Legendary Warrior''' (2019)
**'''Wave 1: Energon Edition'''
**''Rarity: '''''SRT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T01/T06'''
**''Stars: ''10

:Released as part of the TCG's Wave 1: Energon Edition, this card is a reprint of Wave 1's Bumblebee, Legendary Warrior. Printed on semi-transparent plastic instead of a normal Character Card, this version features new art by [[Ken Christiansen]]

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==Flame Toys==
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===Furai Model===
*'''Bumblebee''' (May 2019)
**''Number:'' '''04'''
**''Accessories'': Gun, Heli-pack, Hammer
:Bumblebee is released as part of the ''Furai Model'' line of articulated {{w|Gundam model|Gunpla}}-based model kits from [[Flame Toys]]. Bumblebee also comes with a gun, a heli-pack inspired by his Action Master toy, and a hammer based on his live-action film counterpart's weapon seen in ''The Last Knight''. Using parts made of hard ABS plastic and some polycaps, Bumblebee is approximately Deluxe-sized in height.

:Though not meant to be fully clipped together, Bumblebee's torso, feet, and wheel parts can be rearranged into a Volkswagen Beetle-like alt mode.<ref>https://twitter.com/flametoys_staff/status/1129266947550355456</ref>
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*'''Bumblebee (Red ver.)''' (<s>2020</s> 20??)
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==''ReAction''==
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*'''Bumblebee''' (2020)
**''Accessories'': Blaster pistol

: Released in the first wave of [[Super7]]'s line of multi-property 3.75-inch action figures, ''[[ReAction]]'' Bumblebee is a non-converting "retro-style" action figure with 5 points of articulation, based on his appearance in the original cartoon. He comes with a small blaster which can only be held in his right hand. He has holes on the bottom of his feet for mounting him on some manner of figure stand.

: As with all releases in the ''ReAction'' toyline, Bumblebee comes packaged in a small cardback that emulates the nostalgic packaging style of [[Kenner]] ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' action figures of the late 1970s and early '80s, the figure format the entire line is based around.

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*'''Gold Armor Bumblebee''' (2020)
**''Accessories'': Blaster pistol

:This is a [[Target]]-exclusive redeco of ''ReAction'' Bumblebee, now in ''Generation 2''-inspired metallic gold and black. The gold parts of the card-art are printed with a ''very'' reflective metallic-gold, which often ends up looking black in photography if there's not direct light on it (as seen in the stock imagery at right).

:This figure was something of a [[shelfwarmer|pegwarmer]], eventually getting clearanced out and going from cluttering Target pegs to cluttering [[eBay]] "ReAction" searches.
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==Jada Toys==
===''Metalfigs''===
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*'''Bumblebee''' (4" Die Cast Figure, 2020)
**''Accessories'': Big blaster, small blaster
:Released by [[Jada Toys]], ''Metalfigs'' Bumblebee is a 4 inches tall non-transforming super deformed die-cast figure with three points of articulation and light-up eyes. His design blends elements from both his original toy and cartoon appearance.

:He comes with two different blasters as accessories.

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*'''Diorama Scene''' (2 3/4" Die Cast Figure 4-pack, 2020)
**''Accessories'': Display backdrop
:A static die-cast figurine of Bumblebee measuring approximately 2 3/4 inches tall is available as part of a "Diorama Scene" 4-pack alongside [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#DioramaScene|Optimus Prime]], [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Jada Toys|Starscream]] and [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Jada Toys|Megatron]].

:The packaging backdrop can be used as an additional display piece for the set.

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*'''Optimus Prime / Bumblebee / Optimus Primal / Megatron''' (2 3/4" Die Cast Figure 4-pack, 2022)
:This static Bumblebee figurine is directly designed after the 4" figure above, but measures half the size and lacks the accessories. He is available in a 4-pack alongside [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Metalfigs4pack|Optimus Prime]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#Metalfigs|Optimus Primal]] and [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Metalfigs4pack|Megatron]].
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===''Nano Hollywood Rides''===
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*'''Starscream / Bumblebee / Optimus Prime''' (1.65" Die Cast Vehicle 3-pack, 2020)
:''Nano Hollywood Rides'' Bumblebee is a small non-transforming die-cast licensed Volkswagen Beetle measuring approximately 1.65 inches long. He was released in a 3-pack alongside [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Nano Hollywood Rides|Starscream]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Nano Hollywood Rides|Optimus Prime]]. Unfortunately, he doesn't feature a sculpted robot mode underneath like most other Jada vehicles do.

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===''Nano Metalfigs''===
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*'''Transformers Series 1 18-pack''' (4cm Die Cast Figure Multipack, 2022)
:''Nano Metalfigs'' Series 1 Bumblebee is an incredibly small die-cast figurine molded with his hands on his waist. He has a little base attached to his feet for balancing reasons.

:He comes in an impressive multipack with [[Jada Toys#Nano Metalfigs|seventeen other figurines]]. This mold was later redecoed as Series 2 [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#NanoMetalfigs2|Cliffjumper]].

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*'''Transformers Series 2 18-pack''' (4cm Die Cast Figure Multipack, 2022)
:A second ''Nano Metalfigs'' Bumblebee was released in Series 2, this time a redeco of Series 1 [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Jada Toys|Cliffjumper]] who is doing a bit more of an action pose.

:He comes in ''another'' impressive multipack with [[Jada Toys#Nano Metalfigs|seventeen other figurines]].
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==Figural Bag Clip==
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*'''Bumblebee''' (2020)
:Released by [[Monogram]], this 2.5" 3D foam bag clip takes the form of a chibi Bumblebee.

:It was available only as part of a [[Blindpacking|mystery blind bag]] collection.
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*'''Bumblebee''' (2021)
:A non-articulated, non-transforming 3" figure of Bumblebee with an attached clip, also released by Monogram.

:Unlike the previous year's release it was sold on a standard cardback.

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==D'elicce==
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*'''Transformers Easter egg''' (2020)

:In 2020, [[Brazil|Brazilian]] chocolate manufacturer D'elicce released a ''Transformers''-themed [[Easter|Easter]] egg exclusive to Lojas Americanas (a popular Brazilian chain store) that came inside a relatively large hard plastic handbag based on Bumblebee's evergreen head design. Also available were smaller chocolate eggs that included random stickers of characters and insignias.

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*'''Transformers Easter egg''' (2021)

:In 2021, D'elicce released another ''Transformers''-themed Easter egg exclusive to Lojas Americanas, this time including a popcorn bucket of [[super deformed|cutesy proportions]] based on either Optimus Prime or Bumblebee. Smaller chocolate eggs, this time including temporary tattoos for children, were also available as well.

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*'''Transformers Easter egg''' (2022)
**''Accessories:'' Egg holder/obstacle piece

:D'elicce once again released a ''Transformers''-themed Easter egg exclusive to Lojas Americanas in 2022. The included toy is now an evergreen Bumblebee car with the robot mode head sticking out of the roof, creating the illusion that Bumblebee is driving himself.

:The car is made of pure yellow plastic (except for the wheels which are black) and is completely hollow underneath due to the egg being stored inside of it in-packaging. It does come with a curved piece made of black plastic attached to its underside that helps to keep the egg in place, but it's not supposed to stay attached after removing the egg since it prevents the car from touching the ground with its own wheels. The piece can be loosely stuck inside the car for improvised storage, but it's clearly not designed to attach in any other way. Instead, the piece itself features a phrase (written in Portuguese) embossed on its inner side suggesting that it should be used as an "obstacle" for the car to play with. Hey, at least they tried to get creative with it. Meanwhile, an Autobot logo is embossed on the outer side of the piece.

:The toy features no paint applications and instead comes with a sticker sheet with 16 stickers—including the car's front grille, headlights, windows and decorative stripes—and instructions on where to apply them. Attention must be paid while applying the stickers, however, as the instructions incorrectly show the headlights and the rear side windows being applied to the opposite side to the one they were actually intended. The transparent plastic used as packaging tries (and fails) to give the impression that the windows come pre-applied, but in reality only the robot's face actually comes as a pre-applied sticker.

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==''Super Cyborg''==
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*'''Bumblebee''' (2021)
**''Accessories'': Blaster, torso plate

:''Super Cyborg'' Bumblebee is an 11-inch-tall non-transforming vinyl figure produced by [[Super7]]. Its most significant feature is the ability to remove the entire front of the torso to reveal sculpted inner mechanical detailing.

*'''Bumblebee (Clear)''' (2021)
**''Accessories'': Blaster, torso plate

:Another version of ''Super Cyborg'' Bumblebee was available in mostly transparent plastic, with only some black and yellow on the inner torso parts to make the "x-ray" feature more distinct.
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==''Minimates''==
*'''Bumblebee''' (Series 1, 2021)
**''Accessories'': Pistol, alternate head

:Part of the first wave of Transformers [[Minimates]] from [[Diamond Select]], this Bumblebee is a 2-inch-tall figurine featuring metallic paint, 12-14 points of articulation, and accessories and body parts interchangeable with other Minimates. The set also includes an alternate head for Bumblebee styled after his Generation 1 toy. Due to their small size, all 4 figures in each series are sold in the same blister card.

*'''VHS Minimates Box Set''' (2022)

:''Minimates'' Bumblebee was rereleased as part of a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2022 exclusive 4-pack, featuring more cartoon-accurate matte painted deco. The packaging for this set resembles a VHS tape. Only 2500 of this set were produced.
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==''R.E.D. [Robot Enhanced Design]''==
[[File:TF-R.E.D.-Bumblebee.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Put me with your Marvel Legends and I'm [[B.O.T. (episode)#Animation and technical errors|perfectly scaled!]]]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (2021)
**''Accessories'': blaster, 2 alternate hands, 2 [[Fire Blast effect|blast effects]], [[Energon cube]]
:Released as part of the third wave of ''[[Transformers R.E.D.]]'' toys, Bumblebee is a non-transforming 6-inch action figure akin to the ones from the ''[[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] Legends'' and ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] The Black Series'' lines. He features 26 points of articulation and is decoed in an attempt at [[show-accuracy]], with an extra smattering of ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]''-style battle damage. His robot mode is based on [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLo1eYQASuE/ concept art] by [[Ken Christiansen]], which had earlier influenced Bumblebee's look in the [[Transformers (2019 comic)|2019 IDW ongoing comic]] and the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' animated series.

:Bumblebee's chest plate can be removed to reveal details meant to represent his "inner workings". He comes with two sets of hands: one pair of closed fists, and one pair of open hands for holding weaponry and accessories. Speaking of which, he also includes a small blaster accessory (though his product description claims he has two), along with a pair of fire blast effects to simulate weapons discharge. He also comes with an Energon cube.

:As with all ''R.E.D.'' toys, Bumblebee was a Walmart exclusive in Canada and the United States, and was later made available on [[Hasbro Pulse]] in limited quantities.
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==''Pop!''==
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*'''Bumblebee''' (2021)
**''ID number:'' '''23'''

:Released as part of the ''Pop! Retro Toys'' segment, [[Funko Pop!|Funko]]'s ''Pop!'' Bumblebee is a super deformed vinyl figure based on his original Generation 1 toy, although with a more cartoon-accurate face and carrying a small blaster on his right hand.

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*'''Bumblebee''' (2021)
**''ID number:'' '''28'''

:Exclusive to [[Target]], this version of Bumblebee is instead based on his [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Classics|''Classics'' toy]], complete with the [[Wave Crusher]] attached to his back.

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*'''Bumblebee''' (Pocket ''Pop!'' Keychain, 2021)

:A smaller version of the G1-toy ''Pop!'' Bumblebee with a keychain attached to his head.

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*'''Bumblebee''' ([[Funko Pop!#Digital Pop! NFTs|Digital ''Pop!'']], 2022)
**''Rarity:''
***''Monochrome:'' '''Common'''
***''Static:'' '''Common'''
***''Glowing:'' '''Uncommon'''
***''Chrome:'' '''Rare'''
***''Original:''Epic''
:{{W|Non-fungible token|NFT}}s depicting Bumblebee in the Funko style. Interestingly, the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] seems to be mobile on Earth's surface, something which it never was while Bumblebee was conscious during the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|G1 cartoon]] the figure is likely based on.
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*'''Freddy Funko as Bumblebee''' (2022)
**''ID number:'' '''50'''

:Part of the ''Pop! Digital'' segment, this regular-sized vinyl figure portrays [[Freddy Funko]] cosplaying as Bumblebee. The body of this figure is the same as the G1-toy version of Bumblebee, while the head has been modified to incorporate Freddy's face and a crown on its top. It could only be acquired by redeeming [[Freddy Funko#Digital Pop!|one of the three 1-of-1 NFTs]] featuring this figure.

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*'''Bumblebee''' (''Pop!'' Pin, 2022)
**''ID number:'' '''17'''
**''Accessories:'' Display stand
:A metallic enamel pin based on Bumblebee's ''Classics'' vinyl figure measuring 4-inches tall, approximately the same as a regular vinyl.

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==''Zōteki''==
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*'''Bumblebee''' ([[2021]])
**''ID number'': '''026'''

:A collaboration between [[Hasbro]] and statue/replica brand [[Jazware]], ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|The Transformers]]'' was added as a part of the ''[[Zōteki]]'' line alongside other iconic brands such as [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]], to recreate some of the main "Generation 1" characters. The 26th figure of the ''Zōteki'' line is Bumblebee.

:Each statue of the line features a connection point for it to be connected to the others, in order to form a battle scene.
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==Eaglemoss==
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* '''Transformers Gen-1 Chess Set''' (<s>2021</s>)
:In the planned [[Chess#Eaglemoss|Transformers Chess Set]] by [[Eaglemoss]], a relatively large and very well detailed statue of Bumblebee was slated to be one of the Pawn pieces on the Autobot side.

:A Kickstarter campaign to raise the necessary funds for this project was launched, but failed to meet its goal by September 24, 2021 and the whole thing was canceled.
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==Prime 1 Studio==
===''Cutie1''===
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*'''Bumblebee''' (2022)
**''ID Number'': '''No:057'''
**''Accessories'': Stand

:[[Prime 1 Studio]]'s ''Cutie1'' Bumblebee is a lovable (if not somewhat scary looking) soft vinyl figure stylized as a button-eyed doll with chibi proportions.

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*'''Bumblebee''' (Keychain, 2021)
**''Accessories'': Stand, chain

:Part of a marketing push following the announcement of the figure above, an acrylic keychain of ''Cutie1'' Bumblebee was released, along with other products such as stickers, T-shirts, hand towels and totebags using its design. The keychain comes with a small stand so that you can display it when not carrying it around with your keys.
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==Acrylic keychain series==
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*'''Convoy & Bumble''' ([[October]], [[2022]])

:Released as part of the first wave of an [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive series, this pair of keychains depicts character art and assets re-used from [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and Bumblebee's [[The Transformers: Masterpiece|''Masterpiece'']] releases, namely [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MP44|MP-44 Convoy]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#MP45|MP-45 Bumble and Spike 2.0]] respectively.

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==Icon Heroes==
*'''Optimus Prime X Bumblebee Retro Pin Set''' (2022)
: A hard enamel pin based on Bumblebee's original G1 package art made by Icon Heroes. It comes carded with an [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Icon Heroes|Optimus Prime]] pin.

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==''Magic: The Gathering''==
[[File:MTG-Goldbug.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Pairs well with the Equipment Artifact [[Hard hat|Hard Hat]].]]
*'''Goldbug, Humanity's Ally / Goldbug, Scrappy Scout''' (2022)
**''ID number:'' '''011/015'''
**''Set code:'' '''BOT'''
**''Color identity:'' '''White/Blue'''
**''Casting cost:'' '''{1}{W}{U}''' (front), '''{W}{U}''' (back)
**''Artist:'' [[Andrew Griffith]]
:"Goldbug, Humanity's Ally" is part of the 2022 ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' ''[[wikia:mtg:Universes Beyond|Universes Beyond]]'' ''[[wikia:mtg:Transformers|Transformers]]'' card set, found in Set Booster and Collector Booster packs of ''Magic''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> ''[[wikia:mtg:The Brothers' War|The Brothers' War]]'' set. It can be reversed to become "Goldbug, Scrappy Scout", representing Goldbug in vehicle mode.
:A variant of this card was available solely in Collector Booster packs, depicting [[Goldbug (SG)#Magic: The Gathering|''Shattered Glass'' Goldbug]].

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==XM Studios==
[[File:XMStudiosBumblebeeStatue.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Cute and kid-friendly... ''to the extreme!'']]
*'''Bumblebee''' (2022)

:[[XM Studios]]' statue of Bumblebee is 13" tall, made of hand-painted porcelain. Bumblebee has [[LED|light-up eyes]] and two different head sculpts, one with his standard face and one with his battle mask. Bumblebee is accompanied by Spike, wearing an exo-suit. The set also includes a sculpted representation of Bumblebee's car mode that can be displayed next to the robot.

:258 pieces were produced, with a suggested price of about $1,200 US.

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==References==
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[[Category:3D Battle-Cards]]
[[Category:Attacktix]]
[[Category:Decoys]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:MyClone]]
[[Category:Robot Heroes]]