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Landmine (G1)

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{{disambig3.5|the Hasbro Pretender|his Japanese counterpart from ''Super-God Masterforce''|Lander|Landmine}}
:''Landmine is an [[Autobot]] [[Pretender]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Landmine-backofthebox.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb|Paul McCartney wants to ban this Autobot.]]
'''Landmine''' prefers to believe his life is one big ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' movie. His job takes him into uncharted and dangerous territory, usually after some important artifact, and he's always willing to leap into these situations with sword or blaster in-hand. Unfortunately, the reality is his job isn't quite that glamorous. As an asteroid miner, he's usually after rare minerals his team needs to survive, not damsels in distress or powerful talismans. And while he is brash and hot-headed, unlike [[Hot Rod (G1)|some other brash hotheads]], he's very concerned about making sure he gets his job done ''right'' the first time around. Landmine doesn't brook mistakes, especially not his own. He rarely leaves his extremely durable shell, if he can help it. At the end of the day, he's just a vulnerable guy digging for rocks.

To fill the void, Landmine will keep rewatching those ''Indiana Jones'' films. Even the fourth one.

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
[[File:AutobotPretenderCommercial.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
{{note|Although Landmine never appears in an actual episode of ''The Transformers'', he can be seen in the [[title sequence]] for season 5 alongside [[Cloudburst]] and [[Waverider]]. The title sequence recycled animation from the [[Commercial/Generation 1#1988|Pretenders toy commercial]].}}

Landmine was scheduled to undergo minor retooling. [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] promised he would be there and left [[Tommy Kennedy]] in the middle of a story he was telling. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1#Season 5|Season 5: The Rebirth, Part 1}}
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===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukonly}}
[[File:Pretendertothethrone-landmine.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|Dun da-dundun! Dun dadun! Dun da-dundun! Dun da DUN DUN DUN!]]
Landmine claims at one point to have faced off against 50 [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]]. {{storylink|Recipe for Disaster!}}

A member of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Fortress Maximus]]'s crew aboard the ''[[Steelhaven (G1)|Steelhaven]],'' Landmine volunteered for the synthoplasmic conversion process Optimus Prime had stolen from [[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]], transforming him into an Autobot [[Pretender]]. With Optimus Prime coordinating the Pretenders' first battle with the Decepticons, Landmine and his teammates easily overwhelmed the opposing force. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}}

Landmine was with Fortress Maximus when the ''Steelhaven'' faction first met [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]'s group of Autobots, and Fortress Maximus introduced Landmine to Grimlock as Pretender Group Leader. Grimlock was less than impressed with the new arrivals, and wound up challenging Maximus to a duel in order to maintain control of the Autobot forces. [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] was ultimately the one who battled the Dinobot on Earth's moon for leadership supremacy. The proceedings were interrupted by a Decepticon attack, and the duelists were forced to put their differences aside to lead their troops together against the attackers. {{storylink|Totaled!}}

[[File:Urtuskian.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|You just watch yourself. I have the death sentence on me in twelve systems!]]
After a large number of Autobot troops were critically damaged battling [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], Optimus Prime sent Landmine and [[Cloudburst]] to buy medical supplies. They were to go to [[Grand Central Space Station]] and purchase 500 million [[microchip]]s, necessary components for rebuilding their fallen comrades. The two Pretenders were chosen for the mission due to their outer human shells, as robots weren't welcome at Grand Central.

Canvassing the area at the [[Black Hole Bar and Grill]], Landmine got them involved in a bar fight trying to defend a [[Chromite]] from some angry robophobic patrons. They were beaten, however, and the Chromite was tossed out the airlock. After Cloudburst smoothed things over with the bartender, [[J'oh]], they left to find a reliable source of microchips. They supposedly found this through two brokers (the disguised [[Throttle (G1)|Throttle]] and [[Hi-Test (G1)|Hi-Test]]). The deal seemed sound, but a human named [[Berko]] mentioned how his Autobot friend [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] suddenly went missing after trying to deal with those the two brokers.

[[File:GuessWho-nothuman.jpg|upright=1.1|left|thumb]]
With the idea of saving a potentially endangered fellow Autobot in mind, Landmine insisted on bypassing the middlemen and meeting the sellers directly. Cloudburst was extremely reluctant, but not to worry — Landmine had a plan. Remote-guiding his outer shell into the meeting, Landmine and Cloudburst met with the hungry [[Mecannibal]]s. The disguised Autobots arranged to pay for 500 million microchips. However, they also learned that the Mecannibals were about to eat Sky Lynx. Landmine's inner robot burst in at that moment, assaulting the Mecannibals and freeing Sky Lynx. He then set off a flash of light to hide the moment when his [[robot mode]] entered his shell to hide.

Having successfully acquired their goods and freed a fellow Autobot in the process, Landmine and Cloudburst were sitting pretty. The only remaining glitch was how the hiding Sky Lynx would be able to return to Grand Central to retrieve his friend Berko without being caught. Fortunately, Landmine once more had a plan. A much less successful plan. He grabbed Berko by the collar and tossed him into an alleyway so that he and Cloudburst could reveal themselves as Autobots in privacy. It wasn't total privacy, though — the Mecannibals' brokers saw this revelation, and rushed off to inform J'oh of this fact. When the Autobots headed to the Black Hole Bar and Grill to settle Berko's tab, they were grabbed by the bar's patrons and delivered to the Nebulans, who in turn brought them to the Mecannibals. {{storylink|Guess Who the Mecannibals Are Having for Dinner?}}

[[File:RecipeForDisaster-LandmineSharkticons.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Sharkticons. Why'd it have to be Sharkticons?]]
Things weren't looking too well for the Pretenders until Cloudburst hit upon the idea to negotiate their release from the Mecannibals, in exchange of sharing a recipe. As they were, he convinced Master Mouth, the Autobots would only make for a mediocre snack, but with the right spices they could make for a gourmet meal! The unusual stratagem worked, though only partially. Master Mouth allowed the Autobots to go to the planet [[Femax]] to hunt down some crystals needed for the recipe, however, upon their return, Landmine would still get eaten. If the recipe proved as succulent as Cloudburst made it sound, the latter would get to walk away. In any case, the Mecannibals would hold onto Berko as collateral. Landmine wasn't too keen on these terms, but Cloudburst insisted he trust him, as they would figure out how to get him off the menu later.

Making their way to Femax, the Autobots found their entrance to the mountain kingdom being blocked by a solid steel door. Landmine easily bypassed the door by tunneling through the mountain itself using the astro-blasting power of his [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]]. Upon their intrusion however, the pair discovered that the barrier had been put in place to keep men out. Disguised as they were by their Pretender shells, Landmine and Cloudburst passed for Femaxian males, prompting the local warrior-women to attack them. Though Landmine's inherent hostility nearly escalated their situation, Cloudburst was able to convince the Femaxians' leader, the [[First One]], of their good intentions. But the Femaxians valued physical skill above all else, and Cloudburst was selected to prove himself in a series of challenges, so that the initial misunderstanding could be forgiven. Cloudburst easily passed all tasks sent his way, impressing the First One thoroughly. While she and Cloudburst err... discussed matters more intimately in her bed chamber, Landmine enjoyed regaling several other women with some war stories. His story time was interrupted when the First One erupted back out into the hall, brandishing the decapitated head of Cloudburst's inner robot. Under the impression that she had been deliberately misled by the Autobots, she sicced her warriors on Landmine to slaughter him as well. Though his first impulse was to take up arms, Landmine reminded himself that Cloudburst's methods had worked out better for them so far. By maintaining a cool head, the First One was talked back to her senses, and agreed to repair Cloudburst.

The Autobots finally got a hold of the crystals they needed and left the First One's domain. Before they could leave the planet, they were accosted by [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] and [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]], only for these two to be immediately knocked out by Sky Lynx. Realizing that the Decepticons' binary bonded partners were Master Mouth's robot-spotters, the group returned to the [[Mecannibals' ship]]. There, they modified the deal they had made earlier: by holding Hi-Test and Throttle hostage, they assured both their own and Berko's safe release. In the end, however, their consciences got the best of them and they did not leave with the microchips they had initially purchased. Instead, the Pretenders insisted the Mecannibals rebuild the robots they had "recycled" into the microchips and raw materials they were selling. Their Autobot comrades simply wouldn't have wanted to be revived at the cost of others. However, as bonus information, Landmine and Cloudburst told Master Mouth of the Nebulans' partially-robotic nature, landing the Decepticons in a heap of trouble with their now former employers. {{storylink|Recipe for Disaster!}}

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''At some point, the Decepticon Pretenders [[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]], [[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]] and [[Skullgrin]] captured the [[Keeler Oil Terminal]] in the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. Cloudburst, Landmine and [[Splashdown]] were sent to stop them, though a stray shot from Skullgrin's [[Shrapnel blaster|shrapnel cannon]] sent a human jet hurtling out of control towards the oil rig. Cloudburst convinced Bomb-Burst to help save the jet (as it would also save the rig and coincidentally their lives) and once they had manoeuvred it to safety, he took the Decepticon into custody.'' {{storylink|The Chain Gang!}}

When the [[Air Strike Patrol]] terrorized [[MacDill Air Force Base]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] took the full Autobot force down to confront them. Landmine was seen disembarking their [[All-Terrain Turbo-Transport]] {{storylink|Back from the Dead}} and standing behind Prime beside Cloudburst. When Scorponok's Decepticons arrived, accelerating the confrontation into an all-out battle, Landmine focused his efforts on [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]]. {{storylink|The Resurrection Gambit!}} Prime ordered the Autobots back onto the ATTT to prevent further escalation, but [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] disobeyed orders and returned to Prime's side as the ATTT left the ground, much to Landmine's frustration. {{storylink|All the Familiar Faces!}}

[[File:Landminedies.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Darkness imprisoning me! All that I see! Absolute horror!]]
''When the Autobots received a distress call from Earth's surface, [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] assembled a combat team that included [[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]], [[Siren (G1)|Siren]], Landmine, [[Getaway]], and himself. Under Optimus Prime's command, they rushed to Earth to help their fallen comrades, but there they found the [[Deathbringer (Marvel)|Deathbringer]], who had come to cleanse the planet of life. Landmine and the others fought valiantly, but were getting slaughtered. Nightbeat used its own programming against it, and the Deathbringer destroyed itself, removing Landmine and the others from further danger.'' {{storylink|Deathbringer (issue)|Deathbringer}}

Sometime later, Landmine was the first Autobot to be deactivated battling [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] and his newly-found power while possessing the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. For a Transformer, that's like being literally struck down by the Hand of God, so it probably hurt A LOT. {{storylink|All Fall Down}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 9|The Transformers' Grand Hour: Headmaster of the Dimensions}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 11|Transformers in Action: He Who Laughs Last ...}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 13|The Energon Trap}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 15|The Cosmic Adventure: Memories of Bumblebee}}}}

====''Regeneration One''====
{{NoteRG1}}
More than twenty-one years after the end of the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, Landmine fell victim to [[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]]'s [[Gene Key]] and tried to throw [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] off a balcony. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Three}} He went on to join the party hunting down the rogue [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] [[Sludge (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Sludge]], [[Snarl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Swoop]]. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Four}} Landmine was present at the [[Sonic Canyons]] when the effects of the Gene Key were globally reversed. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Five}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
Landmine was the leader of the Autobot Pretenders. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|Landmine's ''More Than Meets The Eye'' profile}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
:*''First Appearance:'' [[Spotlight: Hardhead]]

[[File:IDWAutobotPretenders.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|X never marks the spot.]]

Landmine, [[Cloudburst]], [[Groundbreaker]], and [[Waverider]] were sent to investigate the [[Benzuli Expanse]], but discovered that any probes or drones entering the area immediately ceased to function. After reporting this to [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]], he volunteered them for the Pretender process as a means of safely entering the expanse. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}}

[[File:ReluctantSpecialist-Landmine.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Hey, I needed an upgrade and this body was cheaper on eBay!]]

[[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Cyclonus]] was later patrolling the Benzuli Expanse with [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]] to look for those who would disturb the [[Expansion]]. Upon spotting Cloudburst's ship, Cyclonus called "dibs" and Galvatron happily let Cyclonus attack the vessel. {{storylink|Spotlight: Doubledealer}} Fortunately Landmine and the rest of the crew were rescued by the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] who transported them to their ship and presented them with new and improved Pretender shells. Now equipped to deal with the [[Dead Universe]] and its denizens, the four warriors finished off Cyclonus and entered the Benzuli Expanse, where they put the [[Nega-Core]]s once they were sent so that they would detonate inside the Dead Universe and destroy it. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}} {{storylink|Everything in Its Right Place}}

Following the end of the war, Landmine became a crew member on the ''[[Lost Light]]''. He helped secure a discarded thumb from Metroplex after it impacted the ship. Later, Landmine along with nearly everyone on board of the ''Lost Light'' were frozen in place due to one of [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]]'s experimental weapons accidentally going off. After he recovered, he was awarded a [[Rodimus Star]] "for exceptional endurance in the face of adversity." {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}} He was hanging around in Shuttle Bay 3 when [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] returned from a reconnaissance mission. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} During [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]'s rampage across the ''Lost Light'', a wounded Landmine hunkered down in [[Swerve's]], which was serving as a makeshift infirmary. {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}

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===''Power of the Primes'' marketing material===
[[File:PowerOfThePrimes-LandmineAlphaTrion-CardArt.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Landmine was a [[Prime Master]] who housed the spark energy of [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], able to grant infinite knowledge abilities to other Transformers. {{storylink|#Generations|''Power of the Primes'' Landmine / Alpha Trion online bio}}
{{note|For a list of powers manifested by Landmine, see [[Prime Master/Combinations|this chart]].}}
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===2019 IDW continuity ===
{{first|[[The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three|''Transformers'' issue #9]] (mentioned) [[The Change In Your Nature Part Two|''Transformers'' issue #14]] (full appearance)}}

[[File:TheChangeInYourNaturePart2-Landmine.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]

Landmine once spearheaded an expedition into Cybertron's [[Sonic Canyons]]. However, their record-breaking descent into the planetary crust went wrong; a third of the way toward Cybertron's core, a cave-in stranded Landmine alone, deep underground. Although he survived and eventually returned to the surface, his adventure left him traumatized. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}} {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I}}

In the years leading up to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], Landmine worked for [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] at the [[Academy of Research]] in [[Crystal City]]. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Tremors|Tremors}} There, he befriended [[Geomotus]], a fellow geologist who looked up to Landmine because of his prior adventures, and the pair regularly worked together. While investigating some unusual readings at the planet's [[Metal Geysers]], a sudden upsurge of tectonic activity provoked a violent eruption that melted their recording equipment. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

After a series of violent groundquake near [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Landmine, Geomotus, [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]], and [[Azimuth (G1)|Azimuth]] went out to explore the newly-formed fissures and encountered an angry [[Leviathan (G1)|Leviathan]], who'd been stranded in one of the chasms. While trying to find a way to rescue the enormous Transformer without transforming her, the scientists encountered the rogue [[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]], who shot Beachcomber. Using his vehicle mode, Landmine was able to trip up the airborne Decepticon before [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] and the rest of her [[Security Operations]] taskforce arrived to dispatch Triggerhappy. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Tremors|Tremors}}

[[File:SeaOfRustI-Landmine.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

Many cycles later, after Megatron had overthrown the [[Senate]] and declared war on [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and his [[Autobot]] followers, Landmine and Geomotus were sent to the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] to investigate potential damage to its impermeable layer. While planting monitoring equipment, the pair encountered [[Termagax]], who'd been hiding from Megatron's forces aboard her [[House (building)|walking fortress]] in the deep wilderness. While the pair made themselves at home inside Termagax's main antechamber, the group came under attack from a swarm of [[Insecticon clone]]s who'd been dispatched specifically to kill Termagax and seize the [[Enigma of Combination]]. Termagax's defenses eventually faltered, and the three might've perished had [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] not arrived with some Autobot reinforcements. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I|Sea of Rust I}} As the Autobots repelled the swarm and dug in for a full-scale siege against [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]'s forces, [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] warned the pair to leave before things got ugly. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust II}} While fleeing the battle, however, Geomotus received a warning that the impermeable strata that divided the Sea of Rust from the rest of Cybertron was about to collapse. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Enigmatic|Enigmatic}}

Despite his misgivings, Landmine was tapped to lead an exploration team into the Sonic Canyons. Reports had surfaced that [[Exarchon]] the Threefold Spark may have returned, and both he and the Rise were known to use bases in the canyons. Landmine knew the terrain as well as anyone, and so the Autobots assigned him to guide Geomotus and [[Zetar (G1)|Zetar]] to investigate, with [[Pointblank]] and [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] running security. Geomotus's probes uncovered hidden defense cannons, forcing the Autobots to dive deeper into the canyons for protection. Landmine and Geomotus soon found another unnatural formation, which turned out to be a hidden entrance. Unfortunately, the entrance then opened to reveal Exarchon in his imposing [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]] body. {{storylink|War's End Part One}} Landmine and the others were caught in a small outcropping until Zetar tunneled them an exit, penetrating deeper into the Rise base they had uncovered. {{storylink|War's End Part Two}} While their security escorts scouted the base, Landmine and Geomotus hid away in a storage depot. Geomotus invited the stressed Landmine to look at his shapes with him, and Landmine was able to calm down with his friend's support. {{storylink|War's End Part Three}}

Their scouting mission became a major emergency as Exarchon fused a piece of his mitotic spark with a tunneling vehicle. He intended to drill down to Cybertron's core and inject his corrupting spark into the Allspark, overtasking the living planet. Landmine and Geomotus guided Zetar on a path to intercept and destroy the tunneler. They were opposed by [[Soundblaster (G1)|Soundblaster]], [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], and [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] of the Rise, but caught up with the drill in a hollowed out chamber. Zetar destroyed the drill in a massive explosion that brought the roof down around them. As the Autobots prepared to escape, Landmine heard cries for help from Frenzy. The infiltration trooper had been trapped under some falling debris, and needed assistance. But Landmine remembered the reports that Frenzy was responsible for killing Brainstorm, the first murder on Cybertron since the war which set in motion the rise of the Decepticons and the fall of the Senate. Remembering his own trauma of being buried, Landmine decided Frenzy deserved to be buried and forgotten, as everything that was wrong with the new Cybertron. {{storylink|War's End Part Four}}

Landmine made his way to Darkmount and was among the Autobots who abandoned Cybertron aboard the last ''Ark''. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}
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==Commercial appearances==
After a string of defeats, the Autobots conceived of the [[Pretender]]s to regain the advantage against the Decepticons. Upon Landmine, Waverider and Cloudburst's activation within an Autobot research facility, the trio came under attack from [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] and [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]]. The Autobot Pretenders quickly retaliated, sending the intruders fleeing after splitting from their shells. The Decepticons were quick to develop their own Pretender warriors however, and Landmine, Cloudburst and Waverider's meddle was once more tested, this time against opponents who also possessed Pretender shells. Landmine squared off against [[Skullgrin]] in the ensuing fight. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Pretenders|Pretenders commercial}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{anchor|Generation 1}}
[[File:G1Landmine toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Landmine''' (Pretender, [[1988]])
**''Accessories'': 2-piece Pretender shell, helmet, belt, [[laser saber]], [[astro blaster]]
:''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'' Landmine's outer Pretender shell resembles a human in a yellow and gray armoured space suit, armed with a gray sword and a gray blaster rifle. The shell's helmet and front-half of the belt are also removable, used to help "lock" the shell-halves together. This shell has very limited articulation, located in his shoulders.

:Landmine's inner robot has good articulation for the period he was released in, owing to his relatively simple transformation and design. The robot transforms into a predominantly gray Cybertronic all terrain vehicle. The gray rifle can be stored on the top of this mode.

:This mold — in exactly the same colors — was used for the ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#Masterforce|Super-God Masterforce]]'' Pretender [[Lander#Toys|Lander]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1988/Autobot/Landmine/landmine.htm More information on Landmine at TFU.info]''

===''Energon''===
[[File:Energon Landmine toy.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|These hands are made fer hurtin'.]]
*'''Landmine''' (Ultra, [[2004]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''SC-15'''
**''Accessories'': trailer/battle station/backpack & gauntlets, missile
{{note|''Energon'' Landmine was [[repurposing|repurposed]] as Generation 1 Landmine.}}
:''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]] transforms into an orange, blue, and grey Cybertronic half-track battlefield recovery vehicle. The front of the vehicle features a large plow while the rear has a rotating crane with a [[Retractable string gimmick|working winch]], accompanied by a spring-loaded [[missile]] launcher. The front half of the vehicle can separate from the tracked portion as a smaller truck cab, and can transform into the standard robot. The tracked portion can then be reconfigured into a mini battle station that Landmine's [[robot mode]] can man. It can also be transformed into a small tank-like vehicle. Most of the crane is detachable, possibly [[for safety reasons]], as it doesn't appear to attach anywhere else.

:In robot mode, Landmine has no weapons, but his standard [[5 mm post|5 mm fist]]s can hold any [[Energon weapon]]s or other weapons sporting a compatible peg system. In the dead center of his chest is his [[spark crystal]], over which an [[energon star]] can be attached. As a red Powerlinx Autobot, Landmine cannot combine with any other Autobot except for the rear "trailer" half of his vehicle, forming his [[Super Mode|brute mode]]. The tracks, with their flip-out digger claws, mount on his arms while the remaining portion forms a weapons backpack. Connecting the backpack to Landmine will depress a button which activates the classic Generation 1 transformation [[Soundbox|sound effect]].

:The Japanese ''Superlink'' release removed the electronics from his brute mode backpack, and uses a different shade of blue plastic.

:The mold was later [[redeco]]ed into "The Powerlinx Battles" [[Landquake (Energon)#Energon|Landquake]] and ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[BotCon 2009]] [[Landshark (G1)#Toys|Landshark]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Autobot/Landmine/landmine.htm More information on Landmine at TFU.info]''
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===''Power of the Primes''===
[[File:TF-POTP-Prime-Master-Alpha-Trion-with-Landmine.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Sadly, he is not shaped like [[G.B. Blackrock|G.B]] [[Sovereign|Blackrock]].]]
*'''Alpha Trion''' (Prime Master, [[2018]])
**''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''PP-32'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': '''[[October 27]], 2018'''
:*''Accessories:'' Landmine decoy armor, cannon
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}
:''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] is a [[Prime Master]] with Landmine decoy armor, visually based on the original [[Pretender]]'s shell. Alpha Trion/Landmine is a [[Retool|retool]] of [[Vector Prime#Power of the Primes|Vector Prime]]/[[Metalhawk (G1)#Power of the Primes|Metalhawk]], with a new [[Prime Master]] sigil and decoy armor front.

:This toy has identical features to the other Prime Masters in the line. The decoy armor has a weapon piece which can fold out to create a weapon mode, or detach and be held in the armor's 3 mm-compatible hand. The [[Titan Master]]-like robot can store inside the decoy armor or ride [[Size class|Legends Class]] figures in vehicle mode, and is fully compatible with toys from the previous ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' line. The "Power Swap" gimmick means its [[spark]] form can plug onto any decoy armor's weapon form (which has a [[5 mm post]] to be held by larger figures), Deluxe Class figures' chest armor, Voyager Class figures' bucklers, Leader Class figures' [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#Power of the Primes|Matrix]] (in place of their Matrix core), [[combiner]]s' torsos (in place of their [[Enigma of Combination]]), or the [[Scepter of Sparks]]. With the power of [[You|your]] imagination, this bestows the Prime Master's [[Prime Master/Combinations|unique power]] on the larger figure.

:Quality control on the Landmine armor varies: many units' arm holes are slightly too small, warping the connector joints in-package and making the arms pop off when posing. Copies with normal-sized holes can be identified by viewing the package sideways to see whether the joints are warped. There have also been some reports of copies with just one flawed arm.
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==Notes==
[[File:ArmadaCameos-RedRoom.jpg|thumb|Secretarymine]]
*Landmine/Lander's animation model shows up in the ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' episode "[[First Encounter]]" as a "[[generic]]", unnamed Cybertronian. He is seen carrying a "clipboard" of some kind and reacting to the [[Mini-Con]] beacon. He's also the only one in that shot seen clearly, the other three ([[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]], [[Wideload (G1)|Wideload]], and [[Sixknight]]) all being seen only from the back and largely obscured.
*Landmine (or maybe Lander, we dunno) is on display at {{w|Disney's Pop Century Resort|the Pop Century resort at Walt Disney World}} sans weapon and pretender shell.
*Due to [[Matt Frank]] being unaware of the Generation 1 toy, Landmine was mistakenly drawn according to the ''Energon'' toy design in the [[2005 IDW continuity|2005 IDW]] story ''[[The Reluctant Specialist|Spotlight: Trailcutter]]''. This trend was followed by [[Beth McGuire-Smith]] in the [[2019 IDW continuity|2019 IDW]] issue [[The Change In Your Nature Part Two|''Transformers'' #14]], where she gave Landmine a new design that combined elements of his original and ''Energon'' looks.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Landmine''' (ランドマイン ''Randomain'')
*''French:'' '''Sapeur''' (Canada, "Sapper")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Gránátfej''' ("Grenadehead")
*''Italian:'' '''Febos''' ("Phoebus")

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[[Image:Kre-O-Bumblebeeandothers.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Car me now!]]
'''Kre-O''' is a new play pattern expression of [[Hasbro]]'s best brands using quality construction bricks and mini-figurines. No, it's not ''[[Built to Rule]]''. It's especially not that thing that begins with an L! But it sure works with that thing that begins with an L.

L employees are asked to please not view this webpage.

Unveiled at [[Toy Fair 2011]], ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' was the first Hasbro brand to be released as Kre-O construction brick kits. The kits center around a Transformers character that can be taken apart and reassembled into a vehicle. Mini-figures called [[Kreon]]s are also included in the larger kits, and these mini-figures are a mix of Transformers characters and human drivers. Prices range from $7.99 to $59.99. The line launched [[June 6]], [[2011]].

The robot/vehicle kits seem inspired by a mix of ''Transformers'' aesthetics, while the most of the Transformer Kreons are strongly based on the [[Sunbow Productions|Sunbow]] animation designs. Though most of the toys feature heads designed directly from their ''Classics''/''Universe''/''Generations'' counterparts, a few kits feature heads taken from other sources, such as Megatron's head inspired by the Cybertronian form of [[Megatron (Animated)|''Animated'' Megatron]]. And while Sentinel Prime's kit is clearly inspired by his ''Dark of the Moon'' appearance, his head takes most of its cues from the vastly different ''Animated'' version of the character.

==Sets==
* '''[[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]]''' (30689) ('''568''' pieces) w/ Optimus Prime, Skywarp, Bluestreak, and two human motorcycle driver Kreons
: Optimus Prime's trailer can stow two motorcycles, which the humans can ride

* '''[[Sentinel Prime (Kre-O)|Sentinel Prime]]''' (30687) ('''381''' pieces) w/ Soundwave, Thundercracker, Sentinel Prime, and driver Kreons
: Sentinel Prime can be rebuilt from a red and black ''Dark of the Moon''-inspired robot mode to a fire truck

* '''[[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]]''' (30668) ('''310''' pieces) w/ Megatron, Shockwave, human "Specialist" and human SWAT "Police" Kreon
: Megatron can be rebuilt into a gray semi-cab, based heavily on his appearance in the live-action movie ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]''. The robot mode head sculpt and overall robot mode coloration, however, is based on his [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|''Animated'']] appearance.

* '''[[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]]''' (30667) ('''316''' pieces) w/ Starscream and human "Pilot" Kreons
: Starscream can transform into a jet somewhat resembling an F-14. His coloration and robot mode are heavily influenced by his original 1984 and Universe (2009) appearance.

* '''[[Sideswipe (Kre-O)|Sideswipe]]''' (31771) ('''220''' pieces) w/ Sideswipe and human "Driver" Kreons
: Sideswipe can be rebuilt into a red sportscar that somewhat homages his original Generation One appearance, but with additional detailing very loosely based on some of his movie-incarnation toys.

* '''[[Ratchet (Kre-O)|Autobot Ratchet]]''' (30662) ('''197''' pieces) w/ Ratchet and human "Medic" Kreons
: Ratchet can be rebuilt into an ambulance that strongly resembles his appearance in Transformers: Animated. The robot mode seems to be a mix of his original Generation One appearance as well as his Animated appearance.

* '''[[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]]''' (36421) ('''336''' pieces) w/ Bumblebee, Red Alert, and human "Driver" Kreons
: Bumblebee can be rebuilt into a Camaro-like muscle car, based on the live-action movies. The head sculpt is a mix of Bumblebee's various incarnations. The human "Driver" is strongly reminiscent of [[Sam Witwicky]] from the live-action movies.

===Basic Series===
* '''[[Mirage (Kre-O)|Mirage]]''' (31145) ('''119''' pieces) w/ Mirage and "Race Driver" Kreons
: Mirage can be rebuilt into an F-1 racer based heavily on Mirage's Generation One appearance.

* '''[[Jazz (Kre-O)|Autobot Jazz]]''' (31146) ('''122''' pieces) w/ Jazz and human "Race Driver" Kreons
: Jazz can be rebuilt into a silver sports car with red/blue stripes. The primary coloration of the car (silver/gray) is the same as the live-action movie, but the coloring of the trim pieces and additional sticker details are from the original Generation One appearance. Though the packaging depicts his head to be gray, like the rest of his body, it is in fact, black.

* '''[[Prowl (Kre-O)|Prowl]]''' (30690) ('''190''' pieces) w/ Prowl and human "SWAT Commander" Kreons
: Prowl can be rebuilt into a white police car with black trim, strongly reminiscent of his original incarnation in Generation One.

===Promotional Series===
* Smaller '''Optimus Prime''' (31143) ('''90''' pieces)
: Optimus can be rebuilt into a flat-nosed semi-tractor strongly reminiscent of his appearance of the Classics toyline. This kit does not include a Kreon.

* Smaller '''Bumblebee''' (31144) ('''74''' pieces)
: Bumblebee can be rebuilt into a small sports coupe. Does not include a Kreon. This form is based most heavily on Bumblebee's appearance in the Classics toyline.

* Matrix '''Optimus Prime''' Kreon
: Promotional item given at Botcon 2011, and as a special mail-in promotion through the Kre-O website. Redeco of Optimus Prime Kreon showing the [[Matrix of Leadership]].

* Clear ''' Energon Bumblebee''' Kreon
: An exclusive [[New York Comic Con|New York Comic Con 2012]] handout, this redeco of the Bumblebee Kreon is done entirely in translucent blue plastic, and comes in its own special little window box with an outer sleeve.

===CostCo Exclusives===
* Megatron with Sideswipe (30668/31771) - a twin-pack of the regular release sets above with no changes.
* Starscream with Prowl (30667/30690) - a twin-pack of the regular release sets above with no changes.

==Quest for Energon==

"Quest for Energon" sets all include part of an Ultimate [[Dark Energon]] Weapon.

* '''Destruction Site [[Devastator (Kre-O)|Devastator]]''' (36914) (560 pieces) w/ Devastator, [[Ironhide (Kre-O)|Ironhide]], human "Foreman" and three human "Construction Worker" Kreons
: A "9 in 1" set that includes '''[[Scrapper (Kre-O)|Scrapper]]''', '''[[Drill Bit (Kre-O)|Drill Bit]]''', '''[[Scavenger (Kre-O)|Scavenger]]''' and '''[[Hightower (Kre-O)|Hightower]]''', each of whom can be rebuilt from construction vehicles into robots, or combined into the super robot Devastator. Devastator takes cues from both his Generation 1 and ''Revenge of the Fallen'' incarnations. The set also contains a buildable "construction site" play environment.

* '''Cycle Chase''' (36954) ('''75''' pieces) w/ [[Barricade (Kre-O)|Barricade]] and three [[Autobot Trooper]] Kreons
: This set includes a Decepticon motorcycle that can be rebuilt as a robot drone and a (very) small buildable "Autobot roadblock" play environment.

* '''Rotor Rage''' (36959) ('''217''' pieces) w/ [[Vortex (Kre-O)|Vortex]], human "Commando" and human "ATV Driver" Kreons
: This set features '''Vortex''', who can be built as a robot or a helicopter, as well as a small red all-terrain vehicle.

* '''Street Showdown''' (38771) ('''273''' pieces) w/ [[Wheeljack (Kre-O)|Wheeljack]], [[Knock Out (Kre-O)|Knock Out]], and two human "Driver" Kreons
: '''Wheeljack''' and '''Knock Out''' can each be built as a car or a robot.

* '''Decepticon Ambush''' (38781) ('''80''' pieces) w/ [[Cliffjumper (Kre-O)|Cliffjumper]] and three [[Vehicon (Kre-O)|Vehicon]] Kreons
: This set includes an Autobot all-terrain vehicle that can be rebuilt as a robot drone and a (very) small buildable "Decepticon checkpoint" play environment.

* '''Battle for Energon''' (98812) ('''379''' pieces) w/ [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]], human "Security Guard" and human "Bank Robber" Kreons
: '''Optimus Prime''' and '''Megatron''' battle around a buildable "bank" play environment in this set. Optimus can be rebuilt as his conventional longnose semi cab mode, whereas Megatron can now be rebuilt as a Cybertronic battle tank. The Optimus and Megatron Kreons included in this set are more ''Prime''-styled than their previous figures.

* '''Stealth [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]]''' (98814) ('''257''' pieces) w/ Bumblebee, human "Driver", and two human "Security Guard" Kreons
: Stealth Bumblebee features a small robot-to-muscle car Bumblebee in his black-with-yellow "Stealth" coloration, as well as a buildable "military checkpoint" play environment and a bright green Decepticon motorcycle. The Bumblebee Kreon in this set is much more ''Prime''-styled than the previous one. The set also for some reason includes a bulldog ([[Bonecrusher (dog)|Bonecrusher]]?).

===Toys R US exclusive===
* '''Autobot Assault [[Devastator (Kre-O)|Devastator]]''' (A1266) ('''781''' pieces) w/ [[Devastator (Kre-O)|Devastator]], [[Ironhide (Kre-O)|Ironhide]], human "Foreman", three human "Construction Workers", and "Gunner" Kreons
: Autobot Assault Devastator is a Toys R Us store exclusive 2-pack set which includes the Kre-O Destruction Site Devastator set as well as an exclusive Ironhide set only available in this 2-pack, which also comes with a small brick house, and a new "Gunner" Kreon. The Devastator Kreon in this set has been switched to a ''Generation 2'' yellow deco.

==Kreon Micro-Changers==
This sub-line adds a new element to Kreon figures; a few extra parts allow each figure to transform.
===Combiners===
;Wave 1
Four Kreons per pack combine into one larger robot.
* [[Superion (Kre-O)|Superion]] ([[Silverbolt (Kre-O)|Silverbolt]], [[Air Raid (Kre-O)|Air Raid]], [[Skydive (Kre-O)|Skydive]], and [[Firestrike (Kre-O)|Firestrike]])
* [[Bruticus (Kre-O)|Bruticus]] ([[Onslaught (Kre-O)|Onslaught]], [[Brawl (Kre-O)|Brawl]], [[Vortex (Kre-O)|Vortex]], and [[Swindle (Kre-O)|Swindle]])
* [[Devastator (Kre-O)|Devastator ]] ([[Scrapper (Kre-O)|Scrapper]], [[Bonecrusher (Kre-O)|Bonecrusher]], [[Mixmaster (Kre-O)|Mixmaster]], and [[Scavenger (Kre-O)|Scavenger]])
* [[Predaking (Kre-O)|Predaking]] ([[Razorclaw (Kre-O)|Razorclaw]], [[Torox]], [[Headlock]], and [[Divebomb (Kre-O)|Divebomb]])

;Wave 2
* [[Defensor (Kre-O)|Defensor ]] ([[Blades (Kre-O)|Blades]], [[First Aid (Kre-O)|First Aid]], [[Hotspot (Kre-O)|Hotspot]], and [[Street Wise (Kre-O)|Street Wise]])
* [[Piranacon (Kre-O)|Piranacon]] ([[Nautilator (Kre-O)|Nautilator]], [[Overbite (Kre-O)|Overbite]], [[Snap Trap (Kre-O)|Snap Trap]], and [[Tentikill (Kre-O)|Tentikill]])
* [[Abominus (Kre-O)|Abominus ]] ([[Cutthroat (Kre-O)|Cutthroat]], [[Hun-Gurr (Kre-O)|Hun-Gurr]], [[Rippersnapper (Kre-O)|Rippersnapper]], and [[Sinnertwin (Kre-O)|Sinnertwin]])

===Blind-bagged figures===
This portion of the line features individual [[blindpacking|blind-packaged]] Kreons.
====Preview Series====
* [[Crankstart (Kre-O)|Crankstart]] (Kit #A1010/Bag #214510)
* [[Galvatron (Kre-O)|Galvatron]] (Kit #A1008/Bag #214518)
* [[Scorponok (Kre-O)|Scorponok]] (Kit #A1011/Bag #214511)
* [[Spinister (Kre-O)|Spinister]] (Kit #A1007/Bag #214517)
* [[Sunstorm (Kre-O)|Sunstorm]] (Kit #A1009/Bag #214519)
* [[Waspinator (Kre-O)|Waspinator]] (Kit #A1012/Bag #214512)

====Series 1====
* [[Singe (Kre-O)|Singe]] (Bag #22981_40)
* [[Inferno (Kre-O)|Inferno]] (Bag #22981_41)
* [[Springer (Kre-O)|Springer]] (Bag #22981_42)
* [[Warpath (Kre-O)|Warpath]] (Bag #22981_43)
* [[Quickslinger (Kre-O)|Quickslinger]] (Bag #22981_44)
* [[Rampage (Kre-O)|Rampage]] (Bag #22981_45)
* [[Insecticon (Kre-O)|Insecticon]] (Bag #22981_46)
* [[Blast Off (Kre-O)|Blast Off]] (Bag #22981_47)
* [[Hook (Kre-O)|Hook]] (Bag #22981_48)
* [[Dirge (Kre-O)|Dirge]] (Bag #22981_49)
* [[Airachnid (Kre-O)|Airachnid]] (Bag #22981_50)
* [[Bludgeon (Kre-O)|Bludgeon]] (Bag #22981_51)

====Series 2====
* [[Bulkhead (Kre-O)|Bulkhead]] (Bag #30751_66)
* [[Hardshell (Kre-O)|Hardshell]] (Bag #30751_67)
* [[Blight (Kre-O)|Blight]] (Bag #30751_68)
* [[Arcee (Kre-O)|Arcee]] (Bag #30751_69)
* [[Acidwing (Kre-O)|Acidwing]] (Bag #30751_70)
* [[Vehicon (Kre-O)|Vehicon]] (Bag #30751_71)
* [[Scourge (Kre-O)|Scourge]] (Bag #30751_72)
* [[Powerglide (Kre-O)|Powerglide]] (Bag #30751_73)
* [[Perceptor (Kre-O)|Perceptor]] (Bag #30751_74)
* [[Lugnut (Kre-O)|Lugnut]] (Bag #30751_75)
* [[Hoist (Kre-O)|Hoist]] (Bag #30751_76)
* [[Groove (Kre-O)|Groove]] (Bag #30751_77)

====Series 3====
* [[Beachcomber (Kre-O)|Beachcomber]]
* [[Cheetor (Kre-O)|Cheetor]]
* [[Guzzle (Kre-O)|Guzzle]]
* [[Huffer (Kre-O)|Huffer]]
* [[Kickback (Kre-O)|Kickback]]
* [[Long Haul (Kre-O)|Long Haul]]
* [[Nemesis Prime (Kre-O)|Nemesis Prime]]
* [[Nosecone (Kre-O)|Nosecone]]
* [[Ramjet (Kre-O)|Ramjet]]
* [[Seawing (Kre-O)|Seawing]]
* [[Sharkticon (Kre-O)|Sharkticon]]
* [[Thrust (Kre-O)|Thrust]]

==Kre-O Beast Hunters==
The third part of the Kre-O line is ''Beast Hunters'', tying in with the third season of Transformers: Prime, which is also subtitled "Beast Hunters".

;Larger Sets
* '''Ripclaw Strike''' (A2201) ('''199''' pieces) w/ [[Ripclaw (Kre-O)|Ripclaw]] and human Colonel [[Daniel Witwicky (Kre-O)|Daniel Witwicky]] Kreons.

* '''Battle Net Bumblebee''' (A2202) ('''178''' pieces) w/ [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] and captain Kreons (the latter based on [[Carmine Fanzone|Captain Fanzone]] from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]''). Includes parts to build the [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] [[Stormrazor (Kre-O)|Stormrazor]].

{{note|At [[New York Comic Con]] 2012, Bumblebee was listed as coming with a human named "Clutch" and a dragon named "Skystalker".}}

* '''Beast Blade Optimus Prime''' (A2203) ('''251''' pieces) w/ [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and Energon Kicker Kreons. Includes parts to build the [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] [[Lazerback (Kre-O)|Lazerback]].

;Beast Force Figure packs
* '''Mech Venom Strike''' (A2235/A2205) ('''49''' pieces) w/ [[Windcharger (Kre-O)|Windcharger]] Kreon. Includes parts to build the [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] [[Corhada (Kre-O)|Corhada]].

* '''Dragon Assault''' (A2234/A2205) ('''42''' pieces) w/ [[Trailcutter (Kre-O)|Trailcutter]] Kreon. Includes parts to build the [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] [[Grimwing (Kre-O)|Grimwing]].

==Media==
===Videos===
A series of videos have been released on Hasbro's ''Kre-O'' website and on YouTube, featuring the wacky antics of the Kre-O Transformers and their Kreons:
*"[[Last Bot Standing]]"
*"[[Bot Stars]]"
*"[[My Ride Is Better than Your Ride]]"
*"[[The Big Race]]"
*"[[A Gift For Megatron]]"
*"[[Megatron's Revenge]]"
*"[[Quest for Energon, Part 1]]"
*"[[Quest for Energon, Part 2]]"

===Games===
*''[[Kre-O Transformers Konquest]]''
*''[[Kre-O Transformers Comic Creator]]''
*''[[Kre-O Prime Defense]]''

===Books===
*''[[Awesome Autobots Activity Book]]''—actually mainly a ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)| Prime]]'' book, but it has four Kre-O bonus pages and is co-branded on the cover, as well as coming with a free Matrix Optimus Prime Kreon.

==Notes==
* Kre-O bricks are manufactured by Korean toy company [http://www.oxfordtoy.co.kr/ Oxford]<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-toy-discussion/415032-transformers-kre-o-thoughts-19.html#post6288246 Transformers Kre-O - Thoughts? on TFW2005]</ref>.
* Kreon [[Hound (Kre-O)|Hound]] was shown loose at Botcon 2011 with no indication on how he'll be released.
* Small images of a ''Transformers'' Kre-O set featuring a big mechanical scorpion and another set featuring a buildable [[Soundwave (Kre-O)|Soundwave]] were shown at [[Toy Fair 2012]] during the slide presentation, as part of the demonstration of the "build a big energon weapon from parts of the different sets" concept. Neither were present in the showroom or mentioned in the press materials. This same slide was shown during a presentation at [[BotCon 2012]], again with no explicit mention of the mechanical scorpion or Soundwave.
* While the Kre-O bricks and such are compatible with L bricks, take care with mixing Kreon and Minifigure parts, particularly helmets. Full-coverage Kreon helmets like Optimus Prime's and Soundwave's are a bit tight, and getting a L Minifigure head out of them is exceedingly difficult. They'll pop off the neck before the helmet relinquishes the head. Open-face helmets like Starscream's, where you can get a "grip" on the head with the pad of your finger, should be fine.
* The L company has since released sets that are explicitly marketed as being able to assemble as robots and various vehicles and aircraft, very similar to the ''Transformers'' Kre-O concept.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.hasbro.com/kre-o/en_US/ Official site]
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/KREO YouTube page]
* [http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/2011-02-12-hasbro-transformers_N.htm Hasbro pushes into L***'s land with new blocks @ USATODAY.com]

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Talk:Megatron (disambiguation)

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==Megaplex==
Since the Megaplex article covers both the MW and e-Hobby toys, should the disambig page have two separate links? --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 13:11, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Ironic that Megaplex appears on this page, given that he exists for the ''sole purpose'' of being confused with Megatron. --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 18:36, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

== Metatron ==

I think Metatron was included in the "should not be confused with" list was for humor. See, in that movie, Metatron was mistaken for Megatron. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 13:49, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
: A huge part of the problem is that whoever wrote it claimed that Metatron was a KEVIN SMITH CREATION. Which is really, really horrible and makes me weep for humanity. C'mon, people! Reminds me of all those times when Dinobot quoted Shakespeare, and fans would get irate at him for stealing lines from Captain Picard.
: Complete lack of knowledge of anything beyond Kevin Smith movies besides, we should not be putting joke entries into the disambig pages. Unless it's Quintessa. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 15:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
:: Canon/Cannon's disambig has a nice joke too. The only other instance it really needs one. --[[User:Terrocon Blot|Terrocon Blot]] 00:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

== Archforce ==

Can an obscure G2 Decepticon get a name drop? --[[User:Terrortron|Terrortron]] 01:08, 8 February 2011 (EST)
* I'd second that! --[[User:Rattrapping|Rattrapping]] 19:43, 12 March 2011 (EST)
::Thirded and applied. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 20:11, 18 April 2011 (EDT)

== Megazarak ''is'' Megatron...? ==
I didn't want to just change this without raising it here first, but is it really kosher to say that Megazarak is '''"an alternate universe's version of Megatron from ''Universe''"'''....? I mean, on a meta level yes, obviously he is, but is there any actual canon basis to verify this claim that he's specifically an alternate ''Megatron'' as opposed to an alternate Zarak, Scorponok or indeed simply a generic alternate-dimension Decepticon leader? It seems especially suss considering that nothing in his actual page-entry currently indicates any diegetic status as an alternate Megs. [[User:Rattrapping|Rattrapping]] 20:02, 12 March 2011 (EST)
:The only thing on [[Megazarak (Universe)|Megazarak's page]] that suggests such a thing is that 3H had originally intended him to be Megatron before Hasbro put the kibosh on it. But that doesn't actually justify the claim in question, and no one has presented any other evidence in the month since you brought this up, so I'm changing the note. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 18:08, 18 April 2011 (EDT)
::[Alt2day.com] (which doesn't seem to be up anymore, but the annotations still exist) states that Megazarak is from Primax cluster, so at least we know that much about him. Sort of. Not really. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:34, 18 April 2011 (EDT)
:::[http://alt2day.dyndns.org/ alt2day.com] archive. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 11:03, 14 August 2011 (EDT)

== Power Core Combiners Decepticon ==

[[Sledge (PCC)|Sledge]]'s bio makes one of these Megatrons a [[:Category:Power Core Combiners Decepticons|Power Core Combiners Decepticon]]. Or none of these Megatrons. Or any of these Megatrons. Or whatever. Unless people think it is a bad idea, I was going to put this page in the [[:Category:Power Core Combiners Decepticons|"Power Core Combiners Decepticons" category]]
with a note explaining the situation. I thought that would be better than making a "Megatron (PCC)" page. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 16:21, 18 April 2011 (EDT)
: Bad idea. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 17:47, 18 April 2011 (EDT)
::Agreed. I get what you're saying, Starfield, but this feels like a tip-of-the-iceberg situation. This certainly isn't the only ambiguous reference in the fiction (off the top of my head, I know that [http://www.botcon.com/images/BetaMaxxProfile.pdf Beta Maxx's profile] mentions an indeterminate Shockwave), and I'm wary of the ripple effects of such elements spreading too wide. I think it would be enough if we treated "PCC Megatron" the same way we treat that Shockwave: mention him by name on Sledge's page and link from there to the disambig. Plus since we DO have [[Power Core Combiners#Place in continuity|a place to talk about PCC continuity]], it might be worth mentioning him there too. Mayyyyyybe even put a note about him somewhere on [[:Category:Power Core Combiners Decepticons]]... but this page feels like a step too far. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 18:08, 18 April 2011 (EDT)
:::It seems like [[:Category:Power Core Combiners Decepticons]] would be incomplete without "Megatron" in there somewhere. And I guess [[:Category:Timelines characters]] without "Shockwave." If putting the (disambiguation) page in the category is to weird, is "Megatron (PCC)" a no-go, too? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 19:25, 18 April 2011 (EDT)
::::Never mind that sounds like a bad idea too. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 19:58, 18 April 2011 (EDT)
:::::Yeah, if PCC were a more closed-off continuity, there'd be more of a call for this, but the fact that PCC has definitely bled into the Movieverse and has a loose connection to G1 makes this whole exercise dubious. Like I said, we already have less impactful channels available to document it. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 20:11, 18 April 2011 (EDT)

== Main pic. ==

I found [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2366/2077872066_270bdf70cd_z.jpg this]. I thought it would make a great main pic for this article.{{unsigned|173.13.112.253}}
: Get a version not taken on a mattress in front of some drapes, maybe. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 09:56, 5 January 2012 (EST)
::It'd also help if there weren't a teeny Deathsaurus and a custom in the pic, too. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 10:00, 5 January 2012 (EST)
:When you get banned, it typically means we don't want you at all, Noob sabiot red. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 14:37, 5 January 2012 (EST)
::Well I found [http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/106/manymegslv3.jpg/ this]. It's a similar one to the one of Optimus Prime's disambiguation page. Sorry for coming back, I just found this pic, and thought it would be a better pic.

== Calvin Johnson ==

Worth listing the fact a well-known NFL player uses the nickname Megatron here? The Optimus Prime disambiguation page has a link to the real-life Optimus Prime. I do realize it's a bit different since Mr. Prime's an actual fan and is otherwise not famous, but was curious if a "real world" reference would fit anywhere on the wiki. [[User:Magnusblitz|Magnusblitz]] 23:11, 25 April 2012 (EDT)

Police Action Part 2: Only Forward

2011-10-12T23:38:17Z

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|next=Chaos Part Three
|title="Police Action Part 2: Only Forward"
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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[October 5]], [[2011]]
|coverdate=October 2011
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Brendan Cahill]]
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]
|letters by=[[Shawn Lee]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2011)]]
}}

'''Prowl and company continue the investigation, only to have it cut short by Spike...'''

==Synopsis==
[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] futilely attempts to crawl out from underneath the collapsing building, when [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] arrives just in time to push him out of harm's way. An artillery shot alerts them that [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] is firing on their position, and Streetwise goes to confront him. Looking around, Prowl realizes that Brawl has another Transformer assisting him as a spotter, but is unable to identify the mystery 'bot due to unknown high-level technology. Prowl and Streetwise take down Brawl, and slap him with a suppressor to take him back to base.

The next day, [[Kyle Pennington|Pennington]] locates [[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]] laying low in her mother's house. Pennington attempts to strongarm her into coming back, but she refuses him, and advises Pennington to leave like she did.

Back at base, Prowl and Streetwise interrogate an incapacitated Brawl. Brawl initially plays dumb, and before he can reveal anything, the suppressor sends him into stasis lock. After conferring with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] via hologram, they learn that Brawl had been booby-trapped to go into stasis lock if he was subjected to suppressor technology.

Streetwise and [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] arrive at Sandra's house in alt-mode, and trick her into coming with them. At the base, she is confronted by Pennington, who tells her she might have betrayed them for the right reasons, but that he can't forgive her disloyalty. [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] take over, explaining that they only want to talk to Sandra about one specific thing: Spike.

Prowl continues his analysis of a piece of asphalt from [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]'s place of death, and comes to the conclusion that Scrapper was killed with something that no Cybertronian would create - giving Prowl "dirt on Spike." Meanwhile, Sandra opens up about Spike, explaining that he acts like the lead in an action movie - reckless, illegal, egotistical and dangerous. Sandra warns the Autobots not to underestimate him, and Spike proves her right: he goes straight to Prowl and admits killing Scrapper...

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (1)
*[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (2)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (6)
*[[Groove (G1)|Groove]] (7)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (9)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (10)

|c2=
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (3)

|c3=
*[[Sandra (G1)|Sandra]] (4)
*[[Kyle Pennington]] (5)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (8)

}}

==Quotes==

==Notes==
* This issue is listed on the Chaos checklist as "The Last Story on Earth Part 2".

===Errors===

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' Ultra Magnus and Bumblebee; art by [[Marcelo Matere]], colors by [[Priscilla Tramontano]].
* '''Cover B:''' Streetwise takes on Brawl; art by Brendan Cahill, colors by Priscilla Tramontano.
* '''Cover RI:''' Black & white version of Cover B; art by Cahill.

<gallery>
Image:TransformersIssue27-CoverA.jpg|
Image:TransformersIssue27-CoverB.jpg|
Image:TransformersIssue27-CoverRI.jpg|Cover RI
</gallery>

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Talk:Heart Like a Wheel

2010-11-12T20:14:02Z

Magnusblitz: /* Meg's New Look */

==Meg's New Look==

There seems to be some disagreement over Meg's new look. Instead of getting into a revert war and debate in the limited comment section for edits, figured we could hash it out here. I was the one who originally noted the Shadow Blade similarity. 110.33.205.174 agreed and added some more. Walky disagrees, and Detour points to the ATB Megatron. Personally, while I recognize the ATB and new Megatron share an alt mode, they don't seem similiar beyond that, since the new Megatron lacks the large amount of grey and purple parts and yellow highlights. This Megatron, like the Shadow Blade one, is almost all black with only some purple and grey highlights here and there. Granted, it may be that Roche's cartoonier style also contributed to the thought of "Shadow Blade!" in my mind, but even looking at it closer, I don't think there's a good argument against the Shadow Blade scheme being the closest fit by a good distance. [[User:Magnusblitz|Magnusblitz]] 03:07, 12 November 2010 (EST)
:Honestly, it appears to me that his altmode and general blackness was inspired by ATB Megatron, but the purple detailing is ''way'' closer to Shadow Blade's than the occasional purple spots on ATB. Plus, ATB has ''much'' more grey. [[Special:Contributions/72.35.60.2|72.35.60.2]] 11:06, 12 November 2010 (EST)
::It's all just coincidence, except MAYBE the stealth bomber altmode. His blackness comes from the fact that he's a STEALTH BOMBER. The purple is either based on WFC's glowy lines, or is just Don trying to liven up his Gappy Movie Robots with some tricked-out neon lights. Either way, I'm going to need actual evidence that he's an homage before I add it to the issue or Megatron's article. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 11:21, 12 November 2010 (EST)
:::Well, in Don's original sketch design on his DeviantArt, the colors were the typical Megatron grey and red... I wonder who made the decision to switch to the black/purple. I wouldn't be surprised by it being coincidence though. [[User:Magnusblitz|Magnusblitz]] 15:14, 12 November 2010 (EST)

Talk:Heart Like a Wheel

2010-11-12T08:07:52Z

Magnusblitz: New page: ==Meg's New Look== There seems to be some disagreement over Meg's new look. Instead of getting into a revert war and debate in the limited comment section for edits, figured we could hash...

Heart Like a Wheel

2010-11-11T20:12:53Z

Magnusblitz: Added formatting line break to synopsis section

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #13
|prev=International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"
|next=The Transformers issue 14
|title=Heart Like a Wheel
|image=Transformers 13B.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[November 10]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=November 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Nick Roche]]
|colors by=[[James Brown|J. Brown]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''Rodimus goes after the Matrix and gets slagged.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Ongoing Issue 13 - Megatron.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Megatron's back, now in new [[Megatron (Animated)|Shadow Blade]] flavor!]]

Still piloting the shuttle he stole from Ultra Magnus for his getaway on Earth, Rodimus begins his daring assault on the Decepticons' asteroid base. On the ground, Acid Storm notices the incoming Autobot craft. Too late to call it in, Shrapnel makes the decision to blow it out of the sky, inadvertently destroying the Decepticon defense grid when the debris of Ultra Magnus' shuttle crashes into the base. Bombshell reports the incident to a withdrawn and disinterested Starscream, still wearing the Matrix around his neck. The Matrix catches Bombshell's eye, but when he reaches out for it, Starscream snaps at him and orders him away.

Back outside, Rodimus emerges from the osmium-alloy safe he hid in to survive the ship's destruction. Bombshell, Acid Storm and Shrapnel show up, looking for useful items to scavenge from the wreckage. Rodimus ambushes them and takes them out in short order, including using part of the safe as armor to block Bombshell's cerebro-shell attack. Thinking himself safe, Rodimus is then ambushed in turn by Razorclaw. Before Razorclaw can eviscerate him, Rodimus grabs the cerebro-shell and stuffs it down Razorclaw's throat, temporarily mind controlling him.

Inside the base, Rodimus sends Razorclaw to attack Starscream. Starscream easily defeats the mind-weakened Razorclaw, and then is confronted by Rodimus. Starscream is unimpressed, noting that his new position as Decepticon leader has led him to armor himself beyond anything Rodimus could damage him with. Without missing a beat, Rodimus shoots the Matrix instead, causing an discharge of energy which sends Starscream to the ground in a crumpled heap. Rodimus grabs the Matrix, feeling the pieces are falling into place for his destined escape...

...When he runs into a fully-rebuilt Megatron. Rodimus holds up the Matrix threateningly, but Megatron blasts him through the torso, then blasts him into space with the Matrix. With Starscream having lost possession of the Matrix, Megatron orders Soundwave to gather the Decepticons, as they have work to do. Rodimus floats adrift in space, Matrix still chained around his neck...
{{-}}

==Featured Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod/"Rodimus Prime"]] (1)
|c2=
*[[Acid Storm]] (2)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (3)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (4)
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (5)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (6)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (7)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (8)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (9)
|c3=
}}

==Quotes==
* TBD

==Errors==
* TBD

==Items of note==
* The issue is likely either named after Linda Ronstadt's 1974 album of the same name or Human League's 1990 single.
* Nick Roche uses [[Don Figueroa]]'s designs for Hot Rod and Magnus's ship, but adapts them to his own cartoonish style.
* For some reason, Razorclaw has been redesigned as his familiar mechanical lion alt-mode.
* Even though, according to AHM, the Matrix was one of Megatron's main motivations for starting the war and then, after he went to so much trouble to take it from Optimus Prime, it is now apparently just a "bauble" of Starscream's.
* Cover A mimics IDW's cover for [[Matrix Quest!]],

===Covers(3)===
* '''Cover A:''' [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], wearing the [[Matrix of Leadership]], throttles Hot Rod; art by [[Don Figueroa]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
* '''Cover B:''' Hot Rod dives off a rock; art by [[Nick Roche]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
* '''Cover RI:''' Concept drawing of [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]; art by Don Figueroa.

<gallery>
Image:Transformers 13A.jpg|This is [[:Image:TFTM-strangle.jpg|bad comedy]].
Image:Transformers 13B.jpg|Here I come to save the daaaayyyyyy!
Image:Transformers 13RI.jpg|He used to be [[Nicholas Fury|Nick Fury]], now he's Mr. Magoo.
</gallery>

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Heart Like a Wheel

2010-11-11T20:11:23Z

Magnusblitz: Added image of Megatron's new body

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #13
|prev=International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"
|next=The Transformers issue 14
|title=Heart Like a Wheel
|image=Transformers 13B.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[November 10]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=November 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Nick Roche]]
|colors by=[[James Brown|J. Brown]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''Rodimus goes after the Matrix and gets slagged.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Ongoing Issue 13 - Megatron.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Megatron's back, now in new [[Megatron (Animated)|Shadow Blade]] flavor!]]

Still piloting the shuttle he stole from Ultra Magnus for his getaway on Earth, Rodimus begins his daring assault on the Decepticons' asteroid base. On the ground, Acid Storm notices the incoming Autobot craft. Too late to call it in, Shrapnel makes the decision to blow it out of the sky, inadvertently destroying the Decepticon defense grid when the debris of Ultra Magnus' shuttle crashes into the base. Bombshell reports the incident to a withdrawn and disinterested Starscream, still wearing the Matrix around his neck. The Matrix catches Bombshell's eye, but when he reaches out for it, Starscream snaps at him and orders him away.

Back outside, Rodimus emerges from the osmium-alloy safe he hid in to survive the ship's destruction. Bombshell, Acid Storm and Shrapnel show up, looking for useful items to scavenge from the wreckage. Rodimus ambushes them and takes them out in short order, including using part of the safe as armor to block Bombshell's cerebro-shell attack. Thinking himself safe, Rodimus is then ambushed in turn by Razorclaw. Before Razorclaw can eviscerate him, Rodimus grabs the cerebro-shell and stuffs it down Razorclaw's throat, temporarily mind controlling him.

Inside the base, Rodimus sends Razorclaw to attack Starscream. Starscream easily defeats the mind-weakened Razorclaw, and then is confronted by Rodimus. Starscream is unimpressed, noting that his new position as Decepticon leader has led him to armor himself beyond anything Rodimus could damage him with. Without missing a beat, Rodimus shoots the Matrix instead, causing an discharge of energy which sends Starscream to the ground in a crumpled heap. Rodimus grabs the Matrix, feeling the pieces are falling into place for his destined escape...

...When he runs into a fully-rebuilt Megatron. Rodimus holds up the Matrix threateningly, but Megatron blasts him through the torso, then blasts him into space with the Matrix. With Starscream having lost possession of the Matrix, Megatron orders Soundwave to gather the Decepticons, as they have work to do. Rodimus floats adrift in space, Matrix still chained around his neck...

==Featured Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod/"Rodimus Prime"]] (1)
|c2=
*[[Acid Storm]] (2)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (3)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (4)
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (5)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (6)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (7)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (8)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (9)
|c3=
}}

==Quotes==
* TBD

==Errors==
* TBD

==Items of note==
* The issue is likely either named after Linda Ronstadt's 1974 album of the same name or Human League's 1990 single.
* Nick Roche uses [[Don Figueroa]]'s designs for Hot Rod and Magnus's ship, but adapts them to his own cartoonish style.
* For some reason, Razorclaw has been redesigned as his familiar mechanical lion alt-mode.
* Even though, according to AHM, the Matrix was one of Megatron's main motivations for starting the war and then, after he went to so much trouble to take it from Optimus Prime, it is now apparently just a "bauble" of Starscream's.
* Cover A mimics IDW's cover for [[Matrix Quest!]],

===Covers(3)===
* '''Cover A:''' [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], wearing the [[Matrix of Leadership]], throttles Hot Rod; art by [[Don Figueroa]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
* '''Cover B:''' Hot Rod dives off a rock; art by [[Nick Roche]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
* '''Cover RI:''' Concept drawing of [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]; art by Don Figueroa.

<gallery>
Image:Transformers 13A.jpg|This is [[:Image:TFTM-strangle.jpg|bad comedy]].
Image:Transformers 13B.jpg|Here I come to save the daaaayyyyyy!
Image:Transformers 13RI.jpg|He used to be [[Nicholas Fury|Nick Fury]], now he's Mr. Magoo.
</gallery>

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File:Ongoing Issue 13 - Megatron.jpg

2010-11-11T20:07:58Z

Magnusblitz: Megatron's new body. Panel from IDW Publishing's ''The Transformers'' issue 13, "Heart Like a Wheel". {{art|script=Mike Costa|line-art=Nick Roche|colors=James Brown}} {{comicinterior}} {{c}} IDW Publishing &

Megatron's new body. Panel from [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' issue 13, "[[Heart Like a Wheel]]".
{{art|script=[[Mike Costa]]|line-art=[[Nick Roche]]|colors=[[James Brown]]}}
{{comicinterior}}
{{c}} IDW Publishing & [[Hasbro]], 2010
[[Category:Images by Nick Roche]]
[[Category:Images by James Brown]]

Heart Like a Wheel

2010-11-10T23:52:04Z

Magnusblitz: Synopsis and character numbering (sorry, thought I was logged in before)

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #13
|prev=International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"
|next=The Transformers issue 14
|title=Heart Like a Wheel
|image=Transformers 13B.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[November 10]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=November 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Nick Roche]]
|colors by=[[James Brown|J. Brown]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''Rodimus goes after the Matrix and gets slagged.'''

==Synopsis==
Still piloting the shuttle he stole from Ultra Magnus for his getaway on Earth, Rodimus begins his daring assault on the Decepticons' asteroid base. On the ground, Acid Storm notices the incoming Autobot craft. Too late to call it in, Shrapnel makes the decision to blow it out of the sky, inadvertently destroying the Decepticon defense grid when the debris of Ultra Magnus' shuttle crashes into the base. Bombshell reports the incident to a withdrawn and disinterested Starscream, still wearing the Matrix around his neck. The Matrix catches Bombshell's eye, but when he reaches out for it, Starscream snaps at him and orders him away.

Back outside, Rodimus emerges from the osmium-alloy safe he hid in to survive the ship's destruction. Bombshell, Acid Storm and Shrapnel show up, looking for useful items to scavenge from the wreckage. Rodimus ambushes them and takes them out in short order, including using part of the safe as armor to block Bombshell's cerebro-shell attack. Thinking himself safe, Rodimus is then ambushed in turn by Razorclaw. Before Razorclaw can eviscerate him, Rodimus grabs the cerebro-shell and stuffs it down Razorclaw's throat, temporarily mind controlling him.

Inside the base, Rodimus sends Razorclaw to attack Starscream. Starscream easily defeats the mind-weakened Razorclaw, and then is confronted by Rodimus. Starscream is unimpressed, noting that his new position as Decepticon leader has led him to armor himself beyond anything Rodimus could damage him with. Without missing a beat, Rodimus shoots the Matrix instead, causing an discharge of energy which sends Starscream to the ground in a crumpled heap. Rodimus grabs the Matrix, feeling the pieces are falling into place for his destined escape...

...When he runs into a fully-rebuilt Megatron. Rodimus holds up the Matrix threateningly, but Megatron blasts him through the torso, then blasts him into space with the Matrix. With Starscream having lost possession of the Matrix, Megatron orders Soundwave to gather the Decepticons, as they have work to do. Rodimus floats adrift in space, Matrix still chained around his neck...

==Featured Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (1)
|c2=
*[[Acid Storm]] (2)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (3)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (4)
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (5)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (6)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (7)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (8)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (9)
|c3=
}}

==Quotes==

==Errors==
*TBD

==Items of Note==
*The issue is likely named after Linda Ronstadt's 1974 album of the same name.

===Covers(3)===
*'''Cover A:''' [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], wearing the [[Matrix of Leadership]], throttles Hot Rod; art by [[Don Figueroa]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
*'''Cover B:''' Hot Rod dives off a rock; art by [[Nick Roche]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
*'''Cover RI:''' Concept drawing of [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]; art by Don Figueroa.

<gallery>
Image:Transformers 13A.jpg|
Image:Transformers 13B.jpg|
Image:Transformers 13RI.jpg|He used to be Nick Fury, now he's Mr. Magoo.
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
*TBD

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Heart Like a Wheel

2010-11-10T23:51:41Z

Magnusblitz: Undo revision 517813 by 69.42.6.231 (Talk)

International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"

2010-10-15T07:27:32Z

Magnusblitz:

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #12
|prev=International Incident Part 3: "Hawk Among the Sparrows"
|next=The Transformers issue 13
|title=International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"
|image=TF12 cvrb.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date= [[October 14]], [[2010]]
|coverdate= October 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|colors by=[[James Brown|J. Brown]]
|letters by=[[Shawn Lee]]
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''The confrontation between Autobots, Combaticons and Predacons boils over.'''

==Synopsis==
At the Chinese-North Korean border, Optimus attempts to convince the Predacons to step down, while Prowl surreptiously reports to Bumblebee. The Predacons agree to leave, until Onslaught shoots Rampage in the back, spurring the Predacons into a full-out brawl with the Autobots.

Back at base, Bumblebee, Pennington and Silverstreak watch on, unsure of what to do. Before they can lend aid, Sandra unilaterally decides to break the encryption on the video feed, broadcasting the Cybertronians' battle to the public. In response, the Russian government announces that has launched a nuclear missile at the battle.

Pennington radios the news to Spike, who attempts to get both sides to stop in light of the threat. Rampage intially disbelieves it, but Onslaught confirms on information from Pyongyang. With Thundercracker already gone, the Autobots are forced to rely on Cosmos to divert the nuclear missile.

Back at the battle site, the Predacons have left, leaving the Combaticons in Autobot hands. Optimus explains that Thundercracker left to destroy the energon plants in Dandong and Pyongyang, effectively cutting off the ability of China and North Korea to provide resources for (and command the loyalty of) any Cybertronians. Thus ends the immediate threat, leaving the new question of how to handle the problem of the Autobot's secret being blown open.

A week later, with the Autobot-U.S. military alliance on shaky ground, Bumblebee makes the decision to go public and confront the media himself, calling on Autobot and human alike to have the courage to work together. His speech seems on the verge of convincing the rioting protestors, when a protestor pulls an energy weapon and blasts Bumblebee, leaving him on the ground, optics black...

==Featured Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (3)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (4)
*[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] (11)
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (12)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (13)
*[[Bluestreak|Silverstreak]] (14)
*[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] (16)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (18)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (19)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (20)
|c2=
*[[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]] (2)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (6)
*[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] (7)
*[[Tantrum]] (8)
*[[Headstrong]] (9)
*[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (10)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (17)
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (20)
|c3=
*[[Pennington]] (5)
*Sandra (12)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (15)
}}

==Errors==
*TBD

==Items of Note==
*TBD

===Covers(4)===
*'''Cover A:''' Bumblebee at a podium speaking to the public; art by [[Don Figueroa]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
*'''Cover B:''' Optimus, Onslaught and Rampage in front of the national flags of their alliances; art by [[Guido Guidi]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
*'''Cover RI:''' Concept drawing of Wheeljack; art by Don Figueroa.
*'''Cover RE:''' Prowl, Sideswipe, Swoop, Brainstorm and First Aid fighting Bombshell, in a homage to Uncanny X-Men #1; art by [[Casey Coller]], colors by John-Paul Bove

<gallery>

</gallery>

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Talk:International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"

2010-10-15T07:25:49Z

Magnusblitz: New page: The blonde guy in this issue we thought was Campologno with a new haircut is repeatedly referred to as Pennington. Which makes me think that the prior appearances are supposed to b...

The blonde guy in this issue we thought was [[Campologno]] with a new haircut is repeatedly referred to as [[Pennington]]. Which makes me think that the prior appearances are supposed to be understood the same way, though I'll need to go back and check past issues when I can dig them out of the stack. [[User:Magnusblitz|Magnusblitz]] 03:25, 15 October 2010 (EDT)

International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"

2010-10-15T07:23:12Z

Magnusblitz: Created bare page, plys character sheet and synopsis page

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #12
|prev=International Incident Part 3: "Hawk Among the Sparrows"
|next=The Transformers issue 13
|title=International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"
|image=TF12 cvrb.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date= [[October 14]], [[2010]]
|coverdate= October 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|colors by=[[James Brown|J. Brown]]
|letters by=[[Shawn Lee]]
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''The confrontation between Autobots, Combaticons and Predacons boils over.'''

==Synopsis==
At the Chinese-North Korean border, Optimus attempts to convince the Predacons to step down, while Prowl surreptiously reports to Bumblebee. The Predacons agree to leave, until Onslaught shoots Rampage in the back, spurring the Predacons into a full-out brawl with the Autobots.

Back at base, Bumblebee, Pennington and Silverstreak watch on, unsure of what to do. Before they can lend aid, Sandra unilaterally decides to break the encryption on the video feed, broadcasting the Cybertronian's battle to the public. In response, the Russian government announces that has launched a nuclear missile at the battle.

Pennington radios the news to Spike, who attempts to get both sides to stop in light of the threat. Rampage intially disbelieves it, but Onslaught confirms on information from Pyongyang. With Thundercracker already gone, the Autobots are forced to rely on Cosmos to divert the nuclear missile.

Back at the battle site, the Predacons have left, leaving the Combaticons in Autobot hands. Optimus explains that Thundercracker left to destroy the energon plants in Dandong and Pyongyang, effectively cutting off the ability of China and North Korea to provide resources for (and command the loyalty of) any Cybertronians. Thus ends the immediate threat, leaving the new question of how to handle the problem of the Autobot's secret being blown open.

A week later, with the Autobot-U.S. military alliance on shaky ground, Bumblebee makes the decision to go public and confront the media himself, calling on Autobot and human alike to have the courage to work together. His speech seems on the verge of convincing the rioting protestors, when a protestor pulls an energy weapon and blasts Bumblebee, leaving him on the ground, optics black...

==Featured Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (3)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (4)
*[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] (11)
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (12)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (13)
*[[Bluestreak|Silverstreak]] (14)
*[[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] (16)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (18)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (19)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (20)
|c2=
*[[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]] (2)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (6)
*[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] (7)
*[[Tantrum]] (8)
*[[Headstrong]] (9)
*[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (10)
*[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (17)
*[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (20)
|c3=
*[[Pennington]] (5)
*Sandra (12)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (15)
}}

==Errors==
*TBD

==Items of Note==
*TBD

===Covers(4)===
*'''Cover A:''' Bumblebee at a podium speaking to the public; art by [[Don Figueroa]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
*'''Cover B:''' Optimus, Onslaught and Rampage in front of the national flags of their alliances; art by [[Guido Guidi]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
*'''Cover RI:''' Concept drawing of Wheeljack; art by Don Figueroa.
*'''Cover RE:''' Prowl, Sideswipe, Swoop, Brainstorm and First Aid fighting Bombshell, in a homage to Uncanny X-Men #1; art by [[Casey Coller]], colors by John-Paul Bove

<gallery>

</gallery>

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Drift issue 3

2010-10-07T00:07:33Z

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{{comicstory|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Drift]]'' #3
|prev=Drift issue 2
|next=Drift issue 4
|title=
|image=
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[October 6]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=October 2010
|written by=[[Shane McCarthy]]
|art by=[[Alex Milne]]
|colors by=[[Josh Perez]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|edits by=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|editorial consultant=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=Unknown
}}
'''Caught between two sides, Drift has a decision to make...'''

==Synopsis==

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters

|c1=
|c2=
* [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (1)
* [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]] (4)
|c4=
* [[Wing (G1)|Wing]] (2)
* [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]] (3)
* Alien slavers (5)

}}

==Quotes==
*TBD

==Transformers references==
*TBD

==Errors==
* Not in the comic itself, but the 5-page preview in the back for the Transformers: Prime comic calls it "Transforms: Prime"

==Items of Note==
* TBD

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

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

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Drift issue 3

2010-10-07T00:06:11Z

Magnusblitz: Patched in some characters, may not be complete

{{comicstory|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Drift]]'' #3
|prev=Drift issue 2
|next=Drift issue 4
|title=
|image=
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[October 6]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=October 2010
|written by=[[Shane McCarthy]]
|art by=[[Alex Milne]]
|colors by=[[Josh Perez]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|edits by=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|editorial consultant=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=Unknown
}}
'''Caught between two sides, Drift has a decision to make...'''

==Synopsis==

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters

|c1=
|c2=
* [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (1)
* [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]] (4)
|c4=
* [[Wing (G1)|Wing]] (2)
* [[Dai Atlas (G1)}Dai Atlas]] (3)
* Alien slavers (5)

}}

==Quotes==
*TBD

==Transformers references==
*TBD

==Errors==
* Not in the comic itself, but the 5-page preview in the back for the Transformers: Prime comic calls it "Transforms: Prime"

==Items of Note==
* TBD

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

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

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Drift issue 3

2010-10-07T00:01:13Z

Magnusblitz: Created bare-bones page

{{comicstory|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Drift]]'' #3
|prev=Drift issue 2
|next=Drift issue 4
|title=
|image=
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[October 6]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=October 2010
|written by=[[Shane McCarthy]]
|art by=[[Alex Milne]]
|colors by=[[Josh Perez]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|edits by=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|editorial consultant=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=Unknown
}}
'''Caught between two sides, Drift has a decision to make...'''

==Synopsis==

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters

|c1=
|c2=
|c4=

}}

==Quotes==
*TBD

==Transformers references==
*TBD

==Errors==
* Not in the comic itself, but the 5-page preview in the back for the Transformers: Prime comic calls it "Transforms: Prime"

==Items of Note==
* TBD

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

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

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The Transformers issue 9

2010-07-17T02:54:01Z

Magnusblitz: The Transformers issue 9 moved to International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads": Changed to reflect title given inside.

#REDIRECT [[International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"]]

International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"

2010-07-17T02:54:01Z

Magnusblitz: The Transformers issue 9 moved to International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads": Changed to reflect title given inside.

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #9
|prev=The Transformers issue 8
|next=The Transformers issue 10
|title=International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"
|image=Transformers 9A.jpg
|caption=Bumble in the rubble
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date= [[July 14]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=July 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|colors by=
|letters by=
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|associate editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''Strange things are afoot in North Korea'''

==Synopsis==

A television news anchor reports that spy satellites show that North Korea is manufacturing energon. Their intent is unknown, although it has left the United States uneasy, as prior to the Cybertronian conflict on Earth, North Korea had been moving towards attaining nuclear weapons.

In the Korean de-militarised zone, [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] drives through the fence separating the North and the South and starts to attack South Korean soldiers. He is struck by a shell from a tank, but the tank is vaporised by another tank—who transforms, revealing himself to be [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]. Jet fighters scrambled to attack the invaders are cut down in the air by [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]], who transforms and joins the others on the ground. Onslaught radios his boss, Kim Jong Du, and reports that the battle is over. Kim, at the head of a large North Korean military force, is pleased, claiming that Seoul will be theirs in hours at this rate.

At Skywatch headquarters, Spike reflects that it was inevitable that North Korea collaborate with the Decepticons eventually. He consults Henderson about the specifics of the situation, but Henderson is unable to reveal anything beyond that there is one further Combaticon in play that has not been sighted yet, and that the North Koreans have seventeen energon production facilities.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the base, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] is explaining to a Skywatch engineer the internal workings of the Cybertronians, using a relaxed Cliffjumper as an example. [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] expresses his hesitancy to Bumblebee about giving their knowledge to the humans, but Bumblebee replies that not only have the humans given them similar access to human information, they've also supplied the Autobots with all the energon they need. Spike enters the room, asking to speak to the leader of the Autobots and deciding that Optimus Prime is a better option after Jetfire, Ratchet and Cliffjumper all gesture to Bumblebee.

Spike finds Optimus Prime sitting in the now-open cell where he was previously detained, which he claims helps him to think. He requests for Prime's help in dealing with the Combaticons, who are more organised and powerful than any Decepticon they've had to bring in before. Bumblebee accepts his request, but before he can assemble a team, Campognolo bursts in to tell them that the President is making a live address.

The President says that there has been an act of aggression from North Korea towards the South, and that Cybertronians were involved on the side of the aggressors. He then declares that any nation collaborating with Cybertronians or using their technology will be considered to be in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Spike is aware of the problems this causes for him and the Autobots, and as the address ends, Spike orders that everyone act as if the base was under communications blackout and no one had heard the address. He then continues preparing for the mission.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters

|c1=
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (10)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (11)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (12)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (14)
|c2=
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (3)
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (4)
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (5)
|c3=
* [[News Anchor]] (1)
* Korean DMZ Soldiers (2)
* [[Kim Jong Du]] (6)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (7)
* [[Skywatch]] Personnel (8)
* [[Joe Henderson]] (9)
* [[Campologno]] (15)
* The [[President of the United States]] (16)

}}

==Quotes==
TBA
==Errors==
*Almost all of the Autobots have changed bodies again between issues. For the first time in a very, very long time, they are drawn to the specifications of their original Generation 1 [[character model]]s, with only slight variations for necessity (Ratchet, for instance, sports electrocardiogram graphics on his shoulders instead of his traditional Red Cross symbols). Bumblebee is the exception, as he is back in the Dodge Challenger body he took on at the conclusion of [[The Transformers: Bumblebee|his mini-series]], after an artistic error depicted him in his traditional Volkswagen body in his [[The Transformers issue 7|last appearance]].

==Items of note==
*Onslaught's license plate reads "D-64", the [[Japanese ID number list|Japanese ID number]] of his original toy.
*The North Korean leader in this issue, Kim Jong Du, while being said to be the son of Kim Jong Il, is clearly based off Il's likeness. The American President, however, looks nothing like Barack Obama.
*Henderson reveals that the North Koreans have been producing enough energon for five Cybertronians to consume. This might suggest that the Combaticons are together for the first time. (While he'd been referred to as a Combaticon previously, Swindle had never been seen with them up to this point.)

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' Bumblebee taking cover behind debris under fire from the Combaticons; art by [[Don Figueroa]] and colors by .
* '''Cover B:''' The Combaticons; art by [[Guido Guidi]] and colors by .
* '''Cover RI:''' Concept art of Optimus Prime; art by Don Figueroa.

<gallery>
Image: Transformers 9A.jpg|Hey, why don't you boss Ultra Magnus around some more, 'Bee? I'm sure he'll come running.
Image: Transformers 9B.jpg|
Image: Transformers 9RI.jpg|Freaky faces are the right of all sentient beings.
</gallery>

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International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"

2010-07-17T02:53:30Z

Magnusblitz: Added title

International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"

2010-07-17T02:52:13Z

Magnusblitz: Fixed numbering after I accidently left off Henderson

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #9
|prev=The Transformers issue 8
|next=The Transformers issue 10
|title=
|image=Transformers 9A.jpg
|caption=Bumble in the rubble
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date= [[July 14]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=July 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|colors by=
|letters by=
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|associate editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''Strange things are afoot in North Korea'''

==Synopsis==

A television news anchor reports that spy satellites show that North Korea is manufacturing energon. Their intent is unknown, although it has left the United States uneasy, as prior to the Cybertronian conflict on Earth, North Korea had been moving towards attaining nuclear weapons.

In the Korean de-militarised zone, [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] drives through the fence separating the North and the South and starts to attack South Korean soldiers. He is struck by a shell from a tank, but the tank is vaporised by another tank—who transforms, revealing himself to be [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]. Jet fighters scrambled to attack the invaders are cut down in the air by [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]], who transforms and joins the others on the ground. Onslaught radios his boss, Kim Jong Du, and reports that the battle is over. Kim, at the head of a large North Korean military force, is pleased, claiming that Seoul will be theirs in hours at this rate.

At Skywatch headquarters, Spike reflects that it was inevitable that North Korea collaborate with the Decepticons eventually. He consults Henderson about the specifics of the situation, but Henderson is unable to reveal anything beyond that there is one further Combaticon in play that has not been sighted yet, and that the North Koreans have seventeen energon production facilities.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the base, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] is explaining to a Skywatch engineer the internal workings of the Cybertronians, using a relaxed Cliffjumper as an example. [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] expresses his hesitancy to Bumblebee about giving their knowledge to the humans, but Bumblebee replies that not only have the humans given them similar access to human information, they've also supplied the Autobots with all the energon they need. Spike enters the room, asking to speak to the leader of the Autobots and deciding that Optimus Prime is a better option after Jetfire, Ratchet and Cliffjumper all gesture to Bumblebee.

Spike finds Optimus Prime sitting in the now-open cell where he was previously detained, which he claims helps him to think. He requests for Prime's help in dealing with the Combaticons, who are more organised and powerful than any Decepticon they've had to bring in before. Bumblebee accepts his request, but before he can assemble a team, Campognolo bursts in to tell them that the President is making a live address.

The President says that there has been an act of aggression from North Korea towards the South, and that Cybertronians were involved on the side of the aggressors. He then declares that any nation collaborating with Cybertronians or using their technology will be considered to be in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Spike is aware of the problems this causes for him and the Autobots, and as the address ends, Spike orders that everyone act as if the base was under communications blackout and no one had heard the address. He then continues preparing for the mission.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters

|c1=
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (10)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (11)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (12)
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (14)
|c2=
* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (3)
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (4)
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (5)
|c3=
* [[News Anchor]] (1)
* Korean DMZ Soldiers (2)
* [[Kim Jong Du]] (6)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (7)
* [[Skywatch]] Personnel (8)
* [[Joe Henderson]] (9)
* [[Campologno]] (15)
* The [[President of the United States]] (16)

}}

==Quotes==
TBA
==Errors==
*Almost all of the Autobots have changed bodies again between issues. For the first time in a very, very long time, they are drawn to the specifications of their original Generation 1 [[character model]]s, with only slight variations for necessity (Ratchet, for instance, sports electrocardiogram graphics on his shoulders instead of his traditional Red Cross symbols). Bumblebee is the exception, as he is back in the Dodge Challenger body he took on at the conclusion of [[The Transformers: Bumblebee|his mini-series]], after an artistic error depicted him in his traditional Volkswagen body in his [[The Transformers issue 7|last appearance]].

==Items of note==
*Onslaught's license plate reads "D-64", the [[Japanese ID number list|Japanese ID number]] of his original toy.
*The North Korean leader in this issue, Kim Jong Du, while being said to be the son of Kim Jong Il, is clearly based off Il's likeness. The American President, however, looks nothing like Barack Obama.
*Henderson reveals that the North Koreans have been producing enough energon for five Cybertronians to consume. This might suggest that the Combaticons are together for the first time. (While he'd been referred to as a Combaticon previously, Swindle had never been seen with them up to this point.)

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' Bumblebee taking cover behind debris under fire from the Combaticons; art by [[Don Figueroa]] and colors by .
* '''Cover B:''' The Combaticons; art by [[Guido Guidi]] and colors by .
* '''Cover RI:''' Concept art of Optimus Prime; art by Don Figueroa.

<gallery>
Image: Transformers 9A.jpg|Hey, why don't you boss Ultra Magnus around some more, 'Bee? I'm sure he'll come running.
Image: Transformers 9B.jpg|
Image: Transformers 9RI.jpg|Freaky faces are the right of all sentient beings.
</gallery>

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International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"

2010-07-16T00:37:14Z

Magnusblitz: Added character list

Streetwise (G1)

2010-04-16T22:18:33Z

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{{factions|autobot|autobotg2}}
{{disambig3|Streetwise}}
{{picsneeded|Toy}}
:''Streetwise is an [[Autobot]] [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Streetwise g1 boxart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|What snakes? What plane? I don't get it.]]
Who's the [[Neon|black]]-and-white [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]]<br>
That knows every street and parking lot?<br>
'''STREETWISE'''!<br>
Ya damn right!<br>
<br>
And who is the bot that would risk his [[spark]]<br>
For his brother bots?<br>
STREETWISE!<br>
Can you dig it?<br>
<br>
What interceptor won't back down<br>
'Til his target's run to ground?<br>
STREETWISE!<br>
Right on!<br>
<br>
They say this cop car is a [[Depth Charge (BW)|bad mother—]]<br>
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!<br>
I'm just talking about Streetwise!<br>
We can dig it!<br>
<br>
He's a [[Combiner|combination]] bot,<br>
But no one gets to use him but [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]!<br>
STREETWISE!<br>

:''French-Canadian name'': '''Aviso'''<br>
:''Italian name'': '''Phantom'''

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (English), [[Yoku Shioya]] (Japanese)

[[Image:G1 RevengeofBruticus FirstAid Streetwise help.jpg|left|170px|thumb|If you see me walking down the street / walk on by, walk on by]]
When the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] attacked an inhabited city on [[Earth]], Optimus Prime called upon the Protectobots to evacuate the civilians caught in the crossfire. Streetwise was carrying civilians when he discovered an injured man and called [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] over to help him. Later, as Earth's orbit was diverted to the [[Sun]] by the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]], Streetwise and [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] commandeered a meat locker to keep the overheated humans cool. Streetwise assured Groove that given the constantly rising temperatures outside, the humans would not freeze to death. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}

Streetwise, as part of Defensor, totally blew up [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. Afterward, he was with the Protectobots when they saved some window-washers from a burning skyscraper, catching the humans when [[Blades (G1)|Blades]] blew them off their platform. Later still, Streetwise and the other Protectobots were ordered to help defend [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] from a Decepticon attack. They merged into Defensor and activated his useless force field, which almost immediately deactivated, allowing the Decepticons to blast Defensor back into his component parts. {{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}

[[Image:G1 UltimateWeapon HotSpotStreetwise covering FirstAid.jpg|right|170px|thumb|Bad Boys / Bad Boys / Watcha gonna do / Watcha gonna do when they come 4 u.]]
In the year 2006, the Autobots were asked to help the Dutch authorities deal with French rebels. After dispersing the human aggressors by crashing a trash can into them, the Protectobots came under attack from the Decepticons. Streetwise expressed concern that the Decepticons didn't care how many innocent humans they killed so long as they destroyed the Protectobots. Later, it turned out the battle was only a diversion to allow [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] to steal [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s [[transformation cog]], First Aid left the Autobots when he failed to stop the theft. Unfortunately, just as First Aid left, the Autobots were called upon to deal with a rampaging [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Hot Spot ordered the remaining Protectobots to combine into Defensor, and they successfully saved a train full of civilians, even without First Aid. {{storylink|The Ultimate Weapon}}

Later in 2006, the Protectobots arrived at the aftermath of the battle between the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobot]]s and [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] at [[Mark Morgan]]'s laboratory. They transported the injured [[Jessica Morgan]] to County General Hospital and watched over her as the doctors restored her ability to walk with an exo-skeletal structure, enraging the robo-phobic senior Morgan. This had [[Hate Plague|negative consequences]]. What a jerkface. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}
{{-}}
===Japanese cartoon continuity===
====Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers====

When the Stunticons attacked a baseball stadium, [[Kenji]] alerted the Autobot combiners that they were needed. As the Protectobots arrived, Streetwise got the humans to safety while Hot Spot extinguished the blaze caused by the Decepticons. They transformed into Defensor, but Hot Spot was damaged in a savage attack by [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and Bruticus, leaving the Protectobots unable to combine. Seizing upon an idea, Kenji told Superion to shoot out the Decepticons' legs. Streetwise and First Aid then swooped in and combined with Bruticus, while their comrades did the same with Menasor. With their own legs out of control, the Decepticon combiners were tossed out over the ocean by their own limbs. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 5}}

Later, Streetwise transported the [[Autobot Mini-Cassette]]s [[Eject]] and [[Rewind]] into battle, pitting them against their Decepticon counterparts, [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 7}}

====''Scramble City'' cartoon====

Streetwise and the Protectobots participated in the Scramble City project under Ultra Magnus's direction, working towards the construction of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. After the Decepticons uncovered their secret building site, the Protectobots rode into battle alongside the newly completed Metroplex. Streetwise and his comrades arrived and formed Defensor just in time to act as the harbinger of Metroplex and his really big gun. {{storylink|Scramble City}}

====The Great Transformer War====

Streetwise and the Protectobots joined forces with the Aerialbots for a raid on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. They intended to rescue [[Doctor Dalton]], a scientist Galvatron had kidnapped in order to force him to use his knowledge to upgrade the Decepticons. The Aerialbots, as Superion, charged in first, but were torn to shreds by the Combaticons and Stunticons. Hot Spot went to work in his repair bay mode fixing them up, and tasked [[Blades (G1)|Blades]] with infiltrating Trypticon to recover the missing scientist. In the meantime, it was up to Streetwise, [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] and [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] to keep Bruticus and Menasor occupied long enough for Hot Spot and Blades to complete their missions. Soon, the revived Aerialbots stepped in to save their Protectobot comrades, and Blades successfully freed the doctor from the Decepticons whle they were distracted watching the battle. {{storylink|The Great Transformer War issue 1}}

====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====

In 2011, Galvatron attacked Cybertron looking to take control of [[Vector Sigma]]. Streetwise and the Protectobots were active in Cybertron's defense as Defensor during the assault. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}} {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} Later, Streetwise's team assembled on Earth at Ultra Magnus's command. Their mission was to stop the Decepticons from interfering with [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, who were searching for the hidden location of the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. On a security sweep, the Protectobots ran across their old nemeses, the Combaticons, and went into battle. The two teams quickly assumed their combined forms as Bruticus and Defensor, as the fighting escalated. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

When Galvatron made another strike on Cybertron, this time to steal the super-metal [[Cybertonuron]], Streetwise and the Protectobots assembled before the [[Space Bridge]] on Earth to be transported into battle. Seeking out the Combaticons on the battlefield, the Protectobots soon formed Defensor and fought once more with Bruticus. {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1}} Defensor and Bruticus's battle continued as Defensor delivered a devastating smash to Bruticus's back. For at least part of the battle, the two teams disassembled again for man-to-man combat, {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2}}

Streetwise and the Protectobots were dispatched to [[Peru]] with the [[Trainbot]]s when a volcano erupted, leaving a mountainside village in dire peril. Their rescue mission was blocked by the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]]. [[Shoki]] and the Trainbots occupied the fiends so that the Protectobots could proceed on to the village and protect the innocent lives. Nevertheless, the Protectobots failed to reach the village, as they were intercepted by the Decepticons' second wave, the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s. Streetwise and the Protectobots briefly struggled with the Headmasters before forming Defensor, but that left them grouped together and vulnerable to an underhanded attack. Defensor was taken out of action by [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]]'s paralysis ray, which was strong enough to force Streetwise and the Protectobots apart and leave them completely immobilized. {{storylink|The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts}}

Streetwise and the Protectobots were part of a strike team that flew to the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] to disrupt Scorponok's gathering of Decepticons. They immediately formed Defensor upon entering the battle. {{storylink|Return of the Immortal Emperor}} When the planet [[Sandra]] sent out a distress call asking for energy, the Autobots of Earth responded. While they were loading the Trainbots full of supplies, however, Galvatron and the Decepticons arrived to take the energy for themselves. Streetwise and the Protectobots fought back against the enemy, and formed Defensor to counter Devastator on the battlefield. {{storylink|SOS from Planet Sandra}}

After the death of Ultra Magnus, the Autobots were desperately trying to pick up the slack during Sixshot's campaign of destruction around the globe. Streetwise and the Protectobots assembled as Defensor to go out and confront Sixshot at one of the attack sites, but they apparently didn't fare too well. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg}} When the Decepticons seemingly abandoned Earth, Streetwise and the Protectobots assisted Spike in rebuilding the planet after the enemy's departure. On one occasion, they located Sixshot's old command base. By combining into Defensor, the Protectobots helped Raiden and Computron obliterate the base, wiping out all trace of the Decepticons' presence. {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)}}

Following a lengthy period of inactivity, the Decepticons renewed their attacks on Earth. With Fortress still off in space, Spike Witwicky dispatched Streetwise and the Protectobots to attend to the threats. In Canberra, [[Australia]], the Protectobots confronted Bruticus at one of Scorponok's new Death Towers. As Defensor, the Protectobots were beaten severely by Bruticus, and First Aid was even knocked out of the arm socket. Using Scramble Power, Defensor switched Streetwise up to his shoulder and reattached First Aid as a leg, still carrying his fireball cannon. Despite this cunning(?) trick, Defensor was defeated by Bruticus. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1)}} As part of Defensor, Streetwise participated in the Autobots final battle with Scorponok's Decepticons at the North Pole. He lent his energies to the Headmasters' [[Head Formation]] to revitalize Fortress Maximus at the critical moment. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
{{noteukonly}}
Streetwise and the other Protectobots were created on Earth by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and the Autobots after they stole a recording of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]'s combiner transformation sequence and modified it ''(and after [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] shared a [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]-induced vision of the future with the [[Special Teams]] in it).'' {{storylink|Second Generation!}}

On their first mission, the Protectobots joined Optimus Prime in protecting [[Energy Futures Industries]] and the [[hydrothermocline]] from [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. After agreeing to battle for the prize in a virtual reality so that neither the hydrothermocline nor innocent bystanders would be harmed, Optimus and the Protectobots entered the bizarre landscape of ''[[Multi-World]]''. Searching for the Combaticons, Streetwise and [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] entered Vineland. On a hunch, Streetwise chose to lift a falling web of vines out of their path instead of blasting through it. This left them open to attack by [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] and [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], but it also earned the respect of the living vines populating Vineland, who entangled the Combaticons long enough for the Protectobots to beat their opponents. Streetwise did so by shattering the enemies with his [[Compression cannon|air-compressor cannon]] after First Aid [[Decrystallizer cannon|crystallized]] them. {{storylink|Afterdeath!}}

[[Image:Streetwise-g1issue35.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Get me Undercover Brother!]]
After the ''Multi-World'' battle led to the death of Optimus Prime, the Protectobots fell under the command of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. They were sent to capture the deserter [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], which led to another confrontation with the Combaticons in a used car lot. During the battle, Streetwise blinded [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] with his [[photon pistol]]. {{storylink|Used Autobots}} They successfully arrested Blaster, but ran into the Combaticons yet again while Streetwise was reporting the mission results to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. This battle went poorly compared to the past ones, as the Protectobots were defeated by [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], the Combaticons' combined form. {{storylink|Child's Play (issue)|Child's Play}}

''Later, Streetwise helped a [[Christmas kid|young boy]] teach [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] the meaning of [[Christmas]]. Okay, so actually he was trying to shoot Starscream. And sure, Starscream didn't actually learn the meaning of Christmas so much as deliberately fake it in order to piss off Streetwise because the humans liked him better than the Autobot. But still... holiday spirit and all that.'' {{storylink|Stargazing}}

====Generation 2====
When Optimus Prime and Grimlock discovered the threat of the [[Cybertronian Empire]], they called in Autobots scattered across the galaxy, including Streetwise. And, when Grimlock chose to disobey Prime's directives and make a tactical first strike against [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'s ships, Streetwise went with him. They were quickly found out and captured, though, leaving it to Optimus to bail them out of trouble. {{storylink|Devices and Desires! (Marvel)|Devices and Desires!}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:Streetwise-warwithin.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hot buttered 'bot]]

During the so-called [[Dark Ages]], when [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] vanished in a [[space bridge]] accident, Streetwise stuck with his Protectobot team after the signing of the [[Crisis Intervention Accord]]. Whilst in their base at [[Iacon]], Streetwise reported the rumour of the [[Ultracon]] [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] having been unleashed in the [[Tagan Heights]] against [[Springer (G1)|Springer's]] [[Wrecker]]s. Deciding that they could not afford to ignore this or let the [[combiner]] arms race begin once again, the Proctectobots rolled out to assist the Wreckers. Arriving in Tagan Heights, they formed the mighty Defensor and the battle of the titans was on. {{storylink|Escalation (Dreamwave)|Escalation}} Unfortunately, they could not control Defensor's dim-witted battle lust, and were forced to separate and find a less destructive means of taking down Devastator. While Devastator manhandled Springer, the Protectobots hooked him up to a nearby power generator. With the Ultracon was distracted, Streetwise threw the switch, overloading the enemy combiner and forcing him to separate into the individual [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. {{storylink|Devastation (Dreamwave)|Devastation}}

Whilst the Protectobots were trying to figure out what went wrong during the battle in their combined form, the [[Chaos Trinity]], minions of the mysterious being known as [[The Fallen]], attacked. As Streetwise drew a bead on [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], he was hypnotized into blasting [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] by [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]]. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}}
{{-}}

===IDW comics continuity===

Streetwise was one of many Autobot survivors who made it through Megatron's all-out attack on their defense network. In the two years following the attack, he made his way to Earth and united with Optimus Prime and the Autobots stationed there. In order to keep an eye on the humans, Streetwise and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] infiltrated the police force in their alternate modes. Both were present for an emergency response to [[Breakdown]] attacking a power plant. The robot hunters of [[Skywatch]] arrived and disabled the Decepticon, but then proceeded as if they were going to execute him on the scene. Despite Streetwise's words of caution, Prowl transformed to stop the execution and was captured. Streetwise maintained his cover and reported the incident back to Prime. {{storylink|...For All Mankind}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Streetwise''' (Protectobot, 1986)
**''Team ID number:'' '''P1'''
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-73'''

: Streetwise transforms into a Nissan 300ZX Turbo police car. In car mode, he has a large, rear-mounted, double-barreled cannon accessory. He can also form a limb of any [[Scramble City]]-style combiner, but his usual place is as [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]'s left leg. He was available both on an individual card or as part of the Defensor gift set.

: This mold was also used to make [[Streetstar]].

===Generation 2===
[[Image:G2 Menasor and G2 Defensor.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Black and red?? G2 toys were so [[neon]]!]]
* '''Streetwise''' (Unreleased)
**''Team ID number:'' '''P4'''

: Streetwise and the other Protectobots were slated to be [[Redeco|redecoed]] and re-released as part of the [[Generation 2 (toyline)|''Generation 2'' toyline]]. However, they and the redecoed [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] were canceled, with less than a half-dozen production samples of each mold known to exist (save the [[BotCon 1994]] [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]], of course). The reason for the cancellation is unclear; it's possible they were considered redundant product due to the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]] and [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] re-releases, especially since [[Hasbro]] was putting out entirely new-mold Transformers then, and would most likely have wanted ''those'' to have as much shelf space in toy aisles as possible.
{{canceledtoy}}
{{-}}

===Timelines===
*'''Generation 2: Redux''' (BotCon 2010 box set)
**''Accessories'':
:Streetwise is part of the [[BotCon 2010]] boxed set, alongside [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]], [[Pyro|Spark]], [[Clench (G1)|Clench]] and [[Skybyte]].

==Trivia==
[[Image:ArmadaCameos-RedRoom.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Ahhhh .. Freak out! Le Freak—c'est chic ... Freak out!]]
* Streetwise's animation model appears in the [[Armada (cartoon)|''Armada'' cartoon]] as a "generic" Cybertron at (presumably) Autobot HQ, alongside [[Wide Load]], [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]]/[[Lander]] and [[Sixknight]]. He is only seen from the back and pretty heavily recolored, making him hard to identify. {{storylink|First Encounter}}

* The Streetwise mold is unique amongst Scramble City-style combiner limbs in that he has a "normal" robot head that does not also function as a connector peg—instead he features a fold-out connector peg to attach him to Hot Spot.
{{-}}

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Streetwise/streetwise.htm Streetwise at TFU.info.]
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Streetwise Streetwise's Universe profile at NTFA.net.]

[[Category:Generation 1 characters]]
[[Category:Headmasters characters]]
[[Category:Interceptors]]
[[Category:Protectobots]]

...For All Mankind

2009-11-19T01:47:46Z

Magnusblitz: Added some author credits and a note

{{Comicstory|
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|next=The Transformers issue 2
|seriesissue2=
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|next2=
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|caption=Autobots, Transform and... ah, you know the drill!
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
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|coverdate=November 2008
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Don Figueroa]]
|colors by=[[J. Brown]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
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|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}

'''The Autobots are on the run and are forced to deal with the loss of one of their own.'''

==Synopsis==
* TBD
{{issuestub}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (1)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (2)
* [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (6)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (7)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (8)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (9)
* [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (10)
* [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (11)
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (12)
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (13)

|c2=
* [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (3)
|c3=
* Various [[Skywatch]] personnel (4)
* Major [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (5)
}}

== Errors ==
* TBD

== Items of note ==
* The new character designs for Optimus Prime and Hot Rod seen on both covers for this issue are completely different from the actual bodies they have in the comic itself. In particular, the design for Prime seen on the cover is based on his original Generation 1 body, while the in-story design owes a lot more to his ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' form.
* Breakdown's design uses the ''[[Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold, but movie-fied. He also has his name on his license plate.
* The fight scene on pages 2 and 3 seems to be a non-literal image of the conflict on Earth, since it features combatants that could never have met during [[All Hail Megatron]] (such as [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], [[Runabout]] and [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]], etc.)

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' The Autobots run toward the reader in an homage to the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]] opening credits; art by Don Figueroa.
* '''Cover B:''' Prime, Hot Rod and Ironhide; art by Don Figueroa.
* '''Cover RI-A:'''

<gallery>
Image:IDW TF 1A.jpg|Cue the GEEWUN theme song!
Image:IDW TF 1B.jpg|''Continuum'' is behind us? Then we go '''this''' way!
Image:IDW TF 1RI.jpg|RI Cover
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
* TBD
* TBD (back cover)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:IDW Generation 1 issues]]

...For All Mankind

2009-11-19T01:38:45Z

Magnusblitz: Updated character list to reflect release of full issue. Should the characters in the spread on pages 2-3 be added?

{{Comicstory|
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|seriesissue2=
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|next2=
|image=IDW TF 1B.jpg
|caption=Autobots, Transform and... ah, you know the drill!
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[November 18]], [[2009]]
|coverdate=November 2008
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Don Figueroa]]
|colors by=???
|letters by=???
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
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|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
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'''The Autobots are on the run and are forced to deal with the loss of one of their own.'''

==Synopsis==
* TBD
{{issuestub}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (1)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (2)
* [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (6)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (7)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (8)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (9)
* [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] (10)
* [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (11)
* [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (12)
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (13)

|c2=
* [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (3)
|c3=
* Various [[Skywatch]] personnel (4)
* Major [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (5)
}}

== Errors ==
* TBD

== Items of note ==
* Breakdown's design uses the ''[[Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold, but movie-fied. He also has his name on his license plate.

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' The Autobots run toward the reader in an homage to the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]] opening credits; art by Don Figueroa.
* '''Cover B:''' Prime, Hot Rod and Ironhide; art by Don Figueroa.
* '''Cover RI-A:'''

<gallery>
Image:IDW TF 1A.jpg|Cue the GEEWUN theme song!
Image:IDW TF 1B.jpg|''Continuum'' is behind us? Then we go '''this''' way!
Image:IDW TF 1RI.jpg|RI Cover
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
* TBD
* TBD (back cover)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:IDW Generation 1 issues]]

Talk:The Transformers Continuum

2009-11-13T08:03:16Z

Magnusblitz:

Jesus fuck, this is awful. Are we going to give lip service to this thing in the fiction articles? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 23:42, 11 November 2009 (EST)
:No. At least, I don't think there is any reason to. With all of the "it is believed that..." and "it may have come from..."s it sets itself up as an unreliable, in-fiction source. It seems the book has an in-fiction author who doesn't know all of the facts as to what really happened so it doesn't actually retcon anything. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 23:48, 11 November 2009 (EST)
: Well, the "new" information that aren't obviously errors or continuity flubs, we can address. Like the awful sentence about how the Seekers were "special" and that they "ruled the skies and were noble," and how their addition to Megatron's insurgence gave it legitimacy. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 23:53, 11 November 2009 (EST)
::I don't see how that works - they buzzed a crowd, shot up dudes and defaced a building. They're basically just 1950s "biker rebels". Given how bad the "noble" crap is, like that crap from the BW source book, I don't think we even need to consider it. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 23:24, 12 November 2009 (EST)

Something tells me, this is going to be my favorite (funniest) IDW page on this wiki...
:This was Denton's work, wasn't it? --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 01:43, 13 November 2009 (EST)
::Denton had nothing to do with this.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 01:45, 13 November 2009 (EST)

==Title==
Does it include the "The" before "Transformers" or not? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 00:48, 12 November 2009 (EST)
: Yeah, there's a The there. Dagnabbit, fixing these redirects will be an ordeal. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 00:56, 12 November 2009 (EST)
::Wasn't that difficult, really. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 01:36, 12 November 2009 (EST)

== An apostrophy error if someone has the book handy. ==

I don't have it with me at work, but I remember there was one part where Decepticon's should be Decepticons' if someone can find it.--[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 10:40, 12 November 2009 (EST)

== IDW Forum outburst ==

The IDW thread for Continuum got gutted from half its posts, and DanielW's outburst is gone... --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 22:16, 12 November 2009 (EST)
:The preview or the main release? --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 22:43, 12 November 2009 (EST)
::Pretty sure it was the main release, but don't quote me. I don't frequent IDW's boards very often. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 22:53, 12 November 2009 (EST)
:::I think it was the preview. I was reading page eight of the thread and I hit F5 and I got a "Page not found" notice. So I hit the back button and instead of an 8-page thread it was suddenly a 6-page thread. --[[User:SuzyP|SuzyP]] 23:11, 12 November 2009 (EST)
::::If anybody wants to archive it somewhere, I predicted this would happen so I saved the page where his outburst occurred. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 23:14, 12 November 2009 (EST)
:::::I also have a copy. They can't rewrite reality!--[[User:SuzyP|SuzyP]] 23:17, 12 November 2009 (EST)
::::::I thinks we should archive it and then link it to this page for posterity. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 23:24, 12 November 2009 (EST)
::::::: Do it. Do the shit out of it. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 23:37, 12 November 2009 (EST)
::::::::Who should we send it to? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 01:17, 13 November 2009 (EST)

== New Avengers ==

Is not including it really an error? Seems more like a small mercy to me... --[[User:Magnusblitz|Magnusblitz]] 03:03, 13 November 2009 (EST)

The Transformers Continuum

2009-11-13T08:01:24Z

Magnusblitz: Added the messups from Stormbringer ~~~~

{{disambig2|the barely-researched IDW recap comic|the extensively-researched TFWiki.net chronology|IDW timeline}}
{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''The Transformers Continuum: The Definitive Chronology''
|title=
|image=Continuum.jpg
|caption=If IDW won't even read their own material when ''they're'' getting ''paid'' for it, why should ''we'' give ''them'' money to read it?
|next=
|prev=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|written by=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|date=[[November 11]], [[2009]]
|illustrated by=Please see individual issues for credits.
|pagecount=32
|ISBN=
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity]]
}}

'''''The Transformers Continuum: The Definitive Chronology''''' is a one-shot comic book set in the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] chronicling the history of the Transformers.

==Summary==
Take the [[IDW timeline]], put it in a blender, add some spelling errors, and you've got ''Transformers Continuum''. New descriptive prose accompanying reused art from appropriate moments leaps wildly between truncated generalization of long arcs with many important plot points left out and over-detailed recollections of irrelevant minutiae. At the very end is what is intended to be a chronological listing of IDW's ''Transformers'' comic books and promotion for their ''Transformers'' trade paperbacks.

==Errors==
Unfortunately, instead of correcting errors, ''Continuum'' presents the reader with ''new'' ones, such as:

* Pre-[[Decepticon]] [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] is said to be a slave, when in actuality, he was a paid [[energon crystal]] miner who lost his job. Apparently, Megatron objected to being freed.

* The [[Autobot]]s' stand against [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] is said to be on [[Nebulos]], when it was actually on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].

* It's implied that Thunderwing was still alive (rather than a reanimated corpse), and no mention is made that he was a puppet under [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s control.

* [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] is misspelled on page 7. Also, it seems to imply that he learned [[Pretender]] technology from [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], when it was actually Thunderwing who discovered it. It's also said that Bludgeon acquired the technology [i]during[/i] the events in [[Stormbringer (comics)|Stormbringer]], when it was actually before it.

* The Autobots befriended "two young humans." [[Jimmy Pink]] no longer exists, even though we see him show up on the page detailing the end of ''[[Maximum Dinobots]]''.

* It is said that the "Autobots believed [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Hunter O'Nion|Hunter]] were dead, and thus did not search for them", despite the immediate discovery that Sunstreaker's "body" was a decoy and the subsequent rescue attempt being half the plot of ''[[Escalation (IDW)|Escalation]]''.

* [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s fight with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] on Nebulos in "[[Spotlight: Ultra Magnus]]" is placed chronologically after ''Maximum Dinobots'', even though it was his run-in with Magnus that decapitated him and led to the events of ''Maximum Dinobots''. (The Reading Chronology in the back orders this correctly.)

* The [[Machination]] and [[Skywatch]] are treated as the same group. In fact, the Machination itself is never mentioned; instead, everything that either organization did is credited to Skywatch.

* The entirety of ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]'' seems to take place before ''All Hail Megatron'', even though [[Viewfinder]] dies in it (he's fine in ''AHM'') and the events of the issue take place over a very long period of time.

* Megatron is said to have died when [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] shot him at the end of ''All Hail Megatron'', despite this never being the case and him being shown to be alive in a later issue.

* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] "fired into <nowiki>[Thundercracker's]</nowiki> back," yet [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] was shot in the face.

* On page 23, there should be a space between "every" and "day."

* [[New Avengers / Transformers]] is omitted from the chronological listing of comic books.

==Notes==
* Events in the past are said to be "legend" and "unknown" when ''almost everyone who experienced those events are still '''alive and on active duty to this day'''''.

* Unfathomably, despite covering ''Spotlight: Wheelie''—one of the most stand-alone ''[[Spotlight (comics)|Spotlight]]'' stories, almost entirely unconnected to ''anything'' else going on in the IDW universe—no coverage is given to highly important, relevant, tied-in ''Spotlight'' stories like [[Spotlight: Nightbeat|Nightbeat]], [[Spotlight: Hot Rod|Hot Rod]], [[Spotlight: Sixshot|Sixshot]], [[Spotlight: Kup|Kup]], [[Spotlight: Soundwave|Soundwave]], [[Spotlight: Optimus Prime|Optimus Prime]]...

* [[Nova Prime]]'s matrix-like "[[Darkness (G1)|Darkness]]" is now the "Heart of Darkness".

* One of IDW's forum moderators quit over the reaction to this issue, calling everyone morons and giving the two-finger salute: [http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=157345#157345]

==Cover==
* Various classic [[1985]]-style Autobots and Decepticons (though with some mild heavier tech detailing) surrounding [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], by [[Ken Christiansen]].

==External links==
* [http://tformers.com/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=1099 Critical review at Tformers.com]

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[[Category:IDW Generation 1 issues]]
[[Category:IDW titles]]
[[Category:Reference texts]]

Darkwing (G1)

2009-04-17T08:18:23Z

Magnusblitz: /* Generation 1 Series */

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{{disambig2|the Decepticon Powermaster|the combined form of the Godmasters Buster and Hydra|Darkwings}}

:''Darkwing is a [[Decepticon]] [[Powermaster]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]. He is sometimes called '''Darkwind'''.''

[[Image:Darkwing boxart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Fun fact: the Panavia Tornado actually is a terror that flaps in the night]]''
'''Darkwing''' has just as dim a view of existence as his partner [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]], he's simply more proactive about it. After all, he figures if everything is pointless, depressing, and inevitably leads to a life of painful and ceaseless suffering ''anyway'', he might at least make sure others are getting it a lot worse than he is. You can always count on Darkwing to attempt to make a bad situation worse for everyone involved, and to complain about it all loudly while he's at it. He's [[Binary-bonding|binary-bonded]] to the hot-headed [[Nebulos|Nebulan]] thief [[Throttle (G1)|Throttle]].

He can combine with his fellow Powermaster Dreadwind to form the superjet [[Dreadwing (G1)|Dreadwing]].

:''French-Canadian name'': '''Ailenoire'''

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
{{note|Events from the [[The Transformers (Marvel Comics)|UK-only]] comic stories are in italics.}}

[[Image:Dreadwinddarkwingpeoplepower.jpg|left|200px|thumb|It's guy love between two guys.]]
Darkwing and [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] were Decepticon mercenaries, affiliated with no army or unit full-time. For their own reasons, however, they were interested in finding the location of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and his crew of Decepticon warriors. Tracking the group to the planet [[Nebulos]], Darkwing demanded the Nebulans give them the information on Scorponok's whereabouts. When they refused, Darkwing and Dreadwind began a campaign of terror on the planet that only stopped due to precautions the Nebulans had taken to poison their fuel supplies, a measure of foresight to prevent Transformers from returning to their world after the last war. Darkwing and Dreadwind froze up, becoming little more than a curiosity and tourist attraction in an open square.

Their luck changed thanks to a jealous and vindictive scientist named [[Hi-Test]], who had worked on the fuel-tainting process but received none of the glory. Working with a thief named [[Throttle (G1)|Throttle]], Hi-Test stole information from his former boss [[Hi-Q]], and used it to create a new form of bio-mechanical engineering called the [[Powermaster]] Process, which would cybernetically enable him and Throttle to [[Binary bonding|binary bond]] with the Decepticons, becoming their engines to restore their ability to move and intake energy. Reaching an agreement with the Nebulans, Darkwing agreed to become binary bonded to Throttle, and the new Decepticon Powermasters began ransacking Nebulos once again. Their antics were eventually stopped only when a group of Autobots arrived on Nebulos, and underwent the same binary bonding procedure with Hi-Q and his staff. Darkwing, Dreadwind and their partners were driven off of Nebulos. {{storylink|People Power!|People Power!}}

Next, they took up a job as middlemen and "robot-spotters" for the [[Mecannibal|Mecannibals]]. Because [[Master Mouth]] and his brood lived off of eating robots, Darkwing and Dreadwind posed as mere jets, allowing Hi-Test and Throttle to act as the primary partners in their dealings. After their ruse was uncovered by [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] and the Autobot [[Pretender|Pretenders]], however, the Powermasters found themselves on the run from their former bosses. {{storylink|Recipe for Disaster!|Recipe for Disaster!}}

[[Image:Dreadwinddarkwingunicron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|And when I say, "I love you Dread," it's not what it implies.]]

Returning to Cybertron, they took a job working for deposed Decepticon leader [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], who hired them to retrieve a special cargo from Earth: the deactivated body of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. ''Or maybe, NOT so deactivated. Upon arriving at Starscream's crash-landing site in South America, Darkwing and Dreadwind found him still up and about. The power of the [[Underbase]] was maintaining a bare minimum of functioning, but enough to make him dangerous. After the Decepticons were trounced, Hi-Test and Throttle managed to siphon the Underbase power directly from Starscream's corpse, taking his dead body off-line while giving them enough power to recharge their partners and make it back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Race with the Devil|Race with the Devil}}'' Megatron planned to use Starscream as an unthinking instrument of destruction, but things just never go as planned. After Starscream was disabled and Megatron vanished in the explosion of his tower, Darkwing and Dreadwind found themselves out of work again. {{storylink|Skin Deep|Skin Deep}}

''The two wandered rather aimlessly after that. They apparently spent quite a bit of time over-energizing at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]. {{storylink|Out to Lunch!|Out to Lunch!}}''

When [[Primus]] gathered all his children to do battle with Unicron on Cybertron, Darkwing marked this solemn occasion by guffawing loudly at something Dreadwind was telling him and thus pissing off several Autobots. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} Despite this frivolity, when the battle began Darkwing and Dreadwind were front and center. They joined the Autobots [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] and [[Cloudburst]] in taking the fight right into Unicron's face, and Darkwing was quite eager to bash him up. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!|On the Edge of Extinction!}} After the planet-eater was destroyed, Darkwing and Dreadwind joined up with the Decepticons under [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s command. They were responsible for killing off their old sparring partner [[Getaway]] on the planet [[Klo]]. Neither were seen for the rest of the battle, but they presumably went into exile with the rest of the Decepticons after the return of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] turned the tide on that planet. {{storylink|End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!}}

{{note|Several UK Annual stories depict Darkwing and Dreadwind as working for different Decepticon groups on Earth, but the continuity of these stories is difficult to wrangle. In one story they work for Scorponok, along with the [[Combaticon|Combaticons]]. This could only have happened after Scorponok took full control of the Decepticons of Earth after the [[Underbase Saga]] but, while the Combaticons were not destroyed on-panel by Starscream, it is generally believed that all non-organic enhanced Transformers were disabled. {{storylink|Prime Bomb!|Prime Bomb!}} A story from the next year's annual starred the two Powermasters alongside the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]], so it could only have taken place before the Underbase Saga, but also the [[Targetmaster]] [[Quake]], who was on Cybertron under the [[Triumverate]]'s command at that time. {{storylink|Dreadwing Down!|Dreadwing Down!}} While some creative massaging of the facts could put these stories in continuity, it's probably best to consider Darkwing and Dreadwind officially unaffiliated with any army until after the war with [[Unicron]]. Their sudden appearances among the various Autobots and Decepticons summoned by Primus does indicate they were on either Earth or Cybertron immediately prior, though. {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}} }}

====Generation 2====
[[Image:Darkwing-surrenderordie.jpg|left|thumb|150px|The first toy [[repurposing]]?]]
Darkwing was badly damaged while defending his commander [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] against the returning [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|The Power and the Glory|The Power and the Glory}} After resuming leadership of the Decepticons, Megatron had Darkwing rebuilt in [[Dreadwing (G2)|a much larger and more powerful form]]. Darkwing made his debut with the new body by obliterating the inoffensive [[Rheanimum]] miners of [[Tykos]]. {{storylink|New Dawn|New Dawn}}

====''Classics''====
{{note|The Classics comic takes place after the end of the original Marvel Comic, but in a [[splinter timeline]] that does not include the events of the Marvel UK-exclusive stories or ''Generation 2''.}}
After the Decepticons' defeat on Klo, Darkwing and Dreadwind retreated with Bludgeon to the corners of the galaxy, where the Decepticons regrouped. Fifteen years later, Dreadwind had left Darkwing behind to join [[Bug Bite]]'s team, and Dreadwind complained about it constantly. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}
{{-}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
Darkwing and Dreadwind were members of the [[Predacon (War Within)|Predacon]] faction during the Dark Ages, working under the command of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. Poor saps. {{storylink|The War Within: The Age of Wrath|The War Within: The Age of Wrath}}

===IDW comics continuity===
[[Image:Stormbringer2 NebulosDecepticons1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|"Launchpad, Megavolt's on the loose!"]]
A few hundred years ago, Darkwing and Dreadwind were part of the last "big push" for control of Cybertron. Shortly after the Battle of [[Thunderhead Pass]], they were led into battle by [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] and the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blaster|Spotlight: Blaster}}

Darkwing was commander of the Decepticon Infiltration Unit on [[Nebulos]], alongside his partner Dreadwind and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], [[Skullcruncher]], [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] and [[Roadgrabber]]. Their infiltration was apparently still in the early stages when the rogue Decepticon juggernaut known as Thunderwing came crashing down on the planet. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2|Stormbringer issue 2}} Darkwing sent most of his troops into battle, knowing the show of resistance was futile but necessary to convince Megatron later that they fought for their territory. Still, he and Dreadwind remained and participated in the fight, but quickly departed after the last of their comrades was deactivated. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 3|Stormbringer issue 3}}

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Darkwing''' (Powermaster, 1988)
**''Accessories'': "Throttle" Powermaster engine, left & right laser guns

: Darkwing transforms into a Panavia Tornado GR1 fighter jet. He is locked in this mode until his packed-in partner Throttle is placed into the engine socket on his back (or until you push down the relevant buttons in said socket). Once "unlocked", he can also form the back half of the "Dreadwing" super-jet.

: This mold was used to make the [[Godmaster]] [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Darkwing/darkwing.htm More information on Darkwing at TFU.info]''

===Generation 2===
*'''Dreadwing''' (Decepticon, 1994)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TRF-10'''
**''Accessories:'' 12 missiles

: Dreadwing transforms into a "flying wing" style stealth bomber with an under-slung six-missile Gatling cannon. He can also transform into a treaded "tank" mode. In jet form, he can combine with his packed-in partner [[Smokescreen (G2)|Smokescreen's]] jet mode to make a complete aircraft.

: The same mold is used by [[BB]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Dreadwind (RID)|Dreadwind]], and [[Gigant Bomb]]. The mold was also intended to be used for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in ''Generation 2'', but was never released.

: Although the ''[[Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[Dreadwing (G2)|Dreadwing]] toy was [[repurposing|repurposed]] as Darkwing's upgraded form in the Marvel comics, the toy's American and Japanese bios leave pretty wide open the possibility of this Dreadwing being a [[Dreadwing (G2)|separate character]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1994/Decepticon/Dreadwing/dreadwing.htm More information on Dreadwing at TFU.info]''

===Universe (2008)===
====Generation 1 Series====
[[Image:UniverseDarkwindToy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|thumb|Proof that photoshop dreams do come true.]]
*'''Darkwind''' (Ultra Class 2009)
**''Accessories:'' "Kinetic Blaster" launcher, projectile

: Darkwind (renamed from Darkwing apparently due to [[trademark]] reasons) is an extensive redeco of the [[Price point|Ultra Class]] ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] toy. He and his casemate [[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]] are "stealth" [[exclusive]] to Toys "R" Us, meaning he appeared in stores before [[Hasbro]] bothered to tell anybody about it.

:Darkwind transforms into a sleek, supersonic jet bomber similar to an XB-70 Valkyrie. As an Ultra-scale toy, he comes with various light and sound [[Gimmick|gimmicks]] (exactly the same ones as ''Universe'' [[Powerglide]] and Silverbolt), including a machine gun type sound when one presses the big red button on the fuselage, and different classic transformation sound effects depending on whether he is being transformed from vehicle mode or vice versa.

:Both Darkwind and Countdown advertised Hasbro's included battery brand, [[Powrfuel]].
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==Trivia==
[[Image:Dreadwinddarkwingcommercials.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Hello, hello, hello!]]
* Dreadwind and Darkwing show up in several commercials.
** They appeared first, of course, in commercials for the [[Powermaster|Powermasters]]. This footage was chopped up and used in several different-but-similar Powermasters commercials, and focused on the new [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], the non-Prime Autobot and Decepticon Powermasters, or their [[People Power!|appearance in Marvel Comics]].
** They appeared again in the animated introduction to the first Pretenders commercial. The narration claims that a series of defeats forces the Autobots to develop Pretender technology, and as the Pretenders rise from their operating tables, Dreadwind and Darkwing break in and approach them. (The Pretenders are considerably smaller than Dreadwind and Darkwing, lending evidence to the idea that the commercials' Pretenders are human-sized.)
** Later, they're the victims of the new [[Micromaster|Micromasters]]. Optimus Prime unleashes an army of Micromasters upon a Decepticon base, they slip past [[Piranacon|the guard]], and once inside they crawl up both Dreadwind and Darkwing and overwhelm them.
** Footage from the first commercial, depicting Dreadwind and Darkwing in vehicle mode chasing [[Getaway]] and [[Joyride (Autobot)|Joyride]] in vehicle mode, was used at the beginning of the commercial for the [[Triggerbot|Triggerbots]] and [[Triggercon|Triggercons]]. This animation seemed to be meant to represent these other toys. Don't pay too close attention, kids!

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Darkwing/darkwing.htm Darkwing at TFU.info]
* [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Darkwing Darkwing's Universe profile at NTFA.net]
* [http://www.transformers-universe.com/popup.php?img=content/images/galerie/pics/43/4313_Darkwing_DreamwaveProfile.jpg Darkwing's MTMTE profile at Transformers-universe.com]

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MediaWiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central

2009-03-31T04:05:19Z

Magnusblitz: question on repairing tags

'''What happened'''<br />
TFWiki.net's database was [[Transformers Wiki:Bookworm Crash|accidentally deleted in an attempt to upgrade the wiki-software]]. And due to a different software failure, the only existing backup was from June 2008. So one day we all logged in and saw that every article was nine months out of date. Our response was to raid [http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:tfwiki.net/wiki/ Google's cache] for more recent versions. The vast majority of articles have now been restored from there, but the Google-caching process has been an imperfect solution: Many articles are now up-to-date but badly-formatted, with garbled lines of code in plain view.

'''What needs to be done'''<br />
The ugliness needs to be fixed, and some articles still need to be restored from Google's cache. Some of the work can be automated, but much will have to be done by hand. See the "[[#Restoration|Restoration]]" section below for resources and advice.

'''Information outside of the wiki'''<br />
Immediately after the crash, discussion sprung up on these Allspark threads, and they have been a continuing source of information (especially as the wiki has been experiencing a lot of downtime lately):
* [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=56439 "TFWiki Problems, Any idea what's going on?"]
* [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=51208&st=400&p=1155749&#entry1155749 "Major Wiki Work, A thread for additions to Transformers wikis."]

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==Restoration==
Basically, if you see an article that looks messed-up, feel free to fix it.
===Useful Resources===
====Files====
If an article is still in its June 2008 state, there is probably a newer version that it should be restored to. Here are places to look:
* [http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:tfwiki.net/wiki/ The Google cache.] Add the name of the page you're looking for to the URL. (Don't click on the links in these pages; those will send you back here.)
As time goes on, the Google cache becomes less relevant because it overwrites itself with the current state of the articles. So several editors downloaded swaths of articles from the cache immediately after the crash:
* Suki Brits's unprocessed cache files: [http://www.scoutshonour.com/files/tfwikicache.tar.gz compressed archive] or [http://www.scoutshonour.com/tfwikicache/ individual downloads]
* G1MarvelBlaster's unprocessed cache files: [http://www.aldenbates.com/g1marvelblaster.zip compressed archive] or [http://www.fileqube.com/shfolder/180305DXXRbmdM individual downloads] (many articles beginning with "O" and "P" that are missing from Suki's cache)
* Lonegamer's unprocessed cache files: [http://miscfile.alienharmony.com/transformers/lonegamers-cache.zip compressed archive] (lots of articles about Japanese stuff)
All of those files were converted by Google from wikicode to HTML. Since the wiki software doesn't understand most HTML, we have used some programs to try to convert the files back. Here are the results:
* Processed pages: [http://tfwiki.net/finished.zip compressed archive]
And here's a program to open all of these archives:
* [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-Zip]

====HTML-to-wikicode processors====
Here are the programs we've been using to convert the files back to wiki-format:
* [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text2.php Derik's online HTML-to-wikicode processor, v2.5] (recommended)
* [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text2.php Derik's online HTML-to-wikicode processor, v3i] (only for specific tasks; see "[[#Too big to wikify?|Too big to wikifiy?]]" below)
* [http://www.aldenbates.com/htmltowiki Abates' online HTML-to-wikicode processor]
* [http://www.aldenbates.com/gallerizer Gallerizer] - converts <table class="gallery">s back into <gallery>s

===Fixing ugly pages===
The simplest thing to do when you see a page with broken code all over it is to call it out. Put the [[Template:Bookworm|Bookworm template]] at the top of the page, adding a severity-number and preferably a description of what's wrong. This will put the page in [[:Category:Recovery|a category]] so everyone can see that it needs to be fixed.

If you'd like to help repair the damage, you'll find that most of the problems with HTML failing to convert back to wikicode have to do with [[:Category:Templates|templates]]. Oftentimes a dozen lines of HTML can be replaced with a single "<nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>" or "<nowiki>{{picsneeded}}</nowiki>". Some templates are more complicated, however. Those are explained in the [[#Template Code You Might Need|next section]].

The other big problem is [[Wikipedia:Help:Footnotes|references]]. These need to be re-created by hand via putting empty <nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki> tags in the proper places in the article, then picking out the actual reference from under the Footnotes/References section and sticking them in the Ref tags, then replacing the leftover messed-up code with the <nowiki><references/></nowiki> element. You may want to check against the unprocessed cache page to make sure it's all correct.

====Template Code You Might Need====
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*<s>[[Optimus Prime (Animated)]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Abates|abates]]
*[[Quick Bow]]
*[[Robot Masters (cartoon)]]
*<s>[[Robot Masters (pack-in comic)]]</s>
*<s>[[Scoop (G1)]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*[[Scoop (Shattered Glass)]]
*[[Seven]]
*[[Showdown (disambiguation)]]
*[[Slaves of the Insecticons]]
*[[Staff Sergeant Tracy]]
*[[Stag Swamp]]
*[[Stalker (G.I. Joe)]]
*<s>[[Studio 4˚C]]</s>
*[[Tentakil (disambiguation)]]
*<s>[[Terrorcon (disambiguation)]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*[[The Big Book of Coloring Fun]]
*[[The New Battle Begins!]]
*[[The Smashing Pumpkins]]
*<s>[[The Treacherous Attack of the Decepticons]]</s>
*<s>[[The Victory Warriors Enter!!]]</s> - 30% (stub) -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*<s>[[Thundercracker (Shattered Glass)]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*[[Tight Shot]]
*<s>[[Tlaloc]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*<s>[[Tsutomu Kashiwakura]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*[[Vector]]
}}

===Not Saved===
*[http://miscfile.alienharmony.com/transformers/alltalkpages.txt Talk] 0500-8599
*Template talk
*Help talk
*Transformers Wiki talk (non-Community Portal pages)

==New Discussion==
Probably the wrong place, but I have to ask this of those that handle coding/templates: Is it possible to fix the Recent Changes page to have the "View (newer 500) (older 500)" usable again? Just a thought. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 22:18, 20 March 2009 (EDT)

So... how does this work? Is it basically if I see a garbled page I should feel free to clean it up? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 00:02, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:Pretty much. If you see something that's really bad, (like the code's all & lt; and & gt; and stuff), try downloading the zip file of unprocessed cache files, going to Abates' converter, choosing the appropriate cache file, and running it through again. That should make it a little more managable. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 00:48, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

== Lost articles ==

I ran my updated script over all of the cache files, so I could restore the ones which didn't update properly the first time. However some of the cache files are blank. Crossed out ones I have redundant copies of.

{{collist|2|
*<s>[[Destined Confrontation - The Children of Good and Evil]]</s>
*<s>[[Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral]]</s>
*<s>[[Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall]]</s>
*<s>[[Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future]]</s>
*<s>[[Generation_2]]</s>
*<small><s>[[Genesis: The Art of Transformers]]</s></small> 100% compliant
*<s>Heroic Legend</s>
*<s>[[Revelations Part I: Discovery]]</s>
*<s>[[Revelations Part II: Descent]]</s>
*<s>[[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]]</s>
}}

There were a couple of others, such as the Q&A which are already on the site, and I'm not sure which of the several "Heroic Legend" articles that one file is for, but perhaps someone has a copy of the other three? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:20, 20 March 2009 (EDT)
:The big unprocessed cache zip has:
*Heroic Legend: 2010 Wars
*Heroic Legend: Head On, Master Warriors!
*Heroic Legend: Optimus Prime VS Megatron!!
:Also, considering that the "proper" Generation 2 article is a redirect, and it looks like we have all of the other main G2 articles, I don't think we need to worry about that one. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 18:50, 20 March 2009 (EDT)
::Cool! And I just grabbed a copy of Destined Confrontation out of MSN's cache, so consider this section closed! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:54, 20 March 2009 (EDT)

===I have no idea where to ask about this===
Are we able to rescue stuff from namespace pages, like sandboxes? I had an article for Bata, maker of licensed transformer footwear, almost raedy to go before the thing. [[User:Hooper X|Hooper_X]] 09:38, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:I was able to salvage the sandboxes that I made links to on my userpage-- because when google spidered my userpage, it saw links to them and spidered them.
:If not... -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:41, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::That's about what I figured. Oh well. GOODBYE, SANDBALLS. [[User:Hooper X|Hooper_X]] 16:57, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

== Template Help ==
<strike>So the second series on "[[A Heroic Battle]]" just isn't showing up. Did I do the code wrong (although I could swear it looks right), or is the template still a little messed up?</strike>
:Never mind, I figured it out, although I should note that RiD, at least, doesn't seem to have the auto-prev and auto-next set up. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 01:43, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

Also, I'm still curious about the Wookiepedia template... should I just erase it if I come across it, for now? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 01:22, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

I see some of the spiffy new templates aren't working, like the new series of nameless characters templates (noname-nickname, etc.) and the faction icons. When I fix a page, should I restore those with the anticipation that the templates will return? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:34, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:That's what I've been doing. At least with the factions one (hopefully I got the faction names right!) Unfortunately I wasn't that familiar with the new nameless character templates, so I've been leaving them as "noname", and I guess once the templates have been sorted out, they'll be easy to spot by looking at the pages which link to noname. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:20, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
::The big tar.gz has the "Nameless Characters" policy in it, as well as many other Help and Transformers Wiki files. I've been finding it useful for templates sometimes. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:51, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

== When a page's code is totally effed... ==

I've discovered that when a page's code is totally effed by the import script, it can usually be re-condition by running it through ''my'' page filter script. (located [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text2.php? here])

The trick is to hit "wickify" not once, but TWICE. The second round ''generally'' sorts out most of the effed-uppingness. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 12:38, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:I tried that with [[Student]] and nothing changed. Are there different kinds of effed-ness? '''Thylacine 2000'''--[[Special:Contributions/74.73.131.210|74.73.131.210]] 14:11, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
::I accuse you of doing it wrong. It made a signifigant difference when I did it.
#Open the student page in editing mode.
#Copy the text out.
#Paste the text into the top text field of the [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text2.php? Rewiki Text Page]
#Click "Wikify"
#Click "Wikify" '''again'''
#Copy the text back out of the <u>bottom</u> text field, and put it into the student article.
#Preview

When I did this, Student went from being a total mess to something with sections, working links and a garbled skeleton that was clearly a notice box at the top of the page. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 14:41, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

== The big sweep ==

Okay- Deceptitran has a list of ~24,000 pages the wiki either has or thinks it OUGHT to have. (There's holes since this was compiled from imperfect lists, but it's what we've got.)

I'm getting ready to start coding a slow sweep over all the pages-- this will take several DAYS. The ''obvious'' edit to make is the removal of all the wikia links (which google has begun to notice.) Can anyone think of any other simple edits that should be added in that mix? (I want to be conservative and not fuck up the code even MORE than it already is.)

I'm probably gonna run a passive (no edits, much faster) sweep first and just try to figure out what pages are missing. -12:52, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:Big sweep is ~2% complete. Loss rate is around 1%. Good news-- most of the "lost" pages are false-positives. (Crap that got onto our paster page-lists by accidents.) ''actual'' flat-out missing pages seems closer to ~0.3%.
:(Of course, the estimate of what's missing is only as good as our original lists. And if they were on the original lists-- then they should have gotten backed up and restored, right?)
:It's something anyway. I'll post an actual list when the sweep finishes. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 13:23, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

Excellent. Excellent excellent. There has just been waaaay too much screwed up stuff to take it on by hand. This is good to hear. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 14:28, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

''Can anyone think of any other simple edits that should be added in that mix?''
:'''Perhaps''', for the sake of argument, replace <nowiki>&lt; and &gt; with < and ></nowiki>? I realise the result wouldn't be ideal, but it would paper over a lot of cracks in one fell swoop. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 18:47, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
::Getting the last of the Wikia links? I'm still finding 'em.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 19:31, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:::I second that both removing Wikia links and converting <nowiki>&lt; and &gt;</nowiki> are the two big ones. Converting over the simpler/more standard templates would also be a plus, but I'm not sure how possible that is without risking further mangling. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 22:00, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:Any line which looks like this:
:<code><nowiki><div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">'''Note:''' ''...''</div></nowiki></code>
:...can be turned into <nowiki>{{note|...}}</nowiki>. There are a ''lot'' of these. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:50, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
::That nice-- except that's not what the Note template actually LOOKS LIKE int he page text. Either it's puer HTML, or the HTML's been escaped or... something, because Deceptitran isn't finding any instances of it when I run tests.
::Can someone find me an example page with the screwed-up "Note" template on it (currently or just in history) so I can figure out how to code a fix? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:54, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:::[http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Megatron_%28Movie%29&diff=prev&oldid=223119 My fixes for Movie Megatron's page]

:::For instance: <tt><nowiki>&lt;div style="width: 90%; margin: 0 auto .2em auto; background-color:#efefef; border: 2px solid #eeeeee; padding: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;'''Note:''' ''[[Defiance]] changes the past relationship between Megatron and Optimus Prime as previously seen in IDW's Prime Directive prequel where they ruled side by side as equals. As presented here, Defiance establishes Optimus Prime as merely the leader of the Cybertronian science sector, and an underling to Megatron.''&lt;/div&gt;</nowiki></tt> --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 20:42, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

===Sweep results===
<nowiki>*yawn*</nowiki> Good nap. 227 missing pages-- some of which is junk and not actually missing, some of which is stuck on Markons, etc. I see that ''some'' of this has been reccover while I slept, yay!
{{collist|3|
#[[']]
#[["]]
#[[(]]
#[[Ireneusz Załóg]]
#[[Jörmungandr]]
#[[Pick-Up (Bat-Robô)]]
#[[Rio Gráfica Editora]]
#[[1]]
#[[1984_media]]
#[[2]]
#[[3]]
#[[4]]
#[[6]]
#[[9]]
#[[A]]
#[[All Fall Down (disambiguation)]]
#[[Banjō Ginga]]
#[[Binbōgami]]
#[[Būpink]]
#[[Bumble Spud|Bumblespud]]
#[[C]]
#[[Charlie Bodin]]
#[[Cheyne]]
#[[Chōkon Power]]
#[[Crown]]
#[[Cybertron (planet)/Gallery]]
#[[Cybertron Redux]]
#[[Daisuke Gōri]]
#[[Dark Designs (Titan)]]
#[[Destined Confrontation: The Children of Good and Evil]]
#[[Do Over]]
#[[Doryū]]
#[[DreamMix TV World Fighters]]
#[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]]
#[[Drench (Shattered Glass)]]
#[[Drift (episode)]]
#[[Drill Bit (Universe)]]
#[[Dropbox]]
#[[Dropshot (Shattered Glass)]]
#[[Dublin James]]
#[[Duel in the Labyrinth]]
#[[Dungeons & Dinobots]]
#[[Durguth]]
#[[Dutch]]
#[[Dynamo]]
#[[E]]
#[[Each One Fights...]]
#[[Echo Across the Galaxy! Bell of Love!!]]
#[[Empire]]
#[[End of the Maximals!?]]
#[[End of the Road (Titan)]]
#[[The Lio Convoy Typhoon Enters|Enter, Lio Convoy Typhoon]]
#[[Esther Scott]]
#[[F]]
#[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics]]
#[[Frederic Doss]]
#[[Fushigi Yamada]]
#[[Gairyū]]
#[[Geonosis]]
#[[Glen's grandmother]]
#[[Gōryū]]
#[[Grimlock (G1) toys]]
#[[H]]
#[[Hasbro Q & A]]
#[[Hasbro Q&A December 2008: Answers]]
#[[Hasbro Q&A December 2008: Question submission]]
#[[Hasbro Q&A March 2009: Answers]]
#[[Hasbro Q&A March 2009: Question submission]]
#[[Hitoshizuku Amaō]]
#[[Hōchū Ōtsuka]]
#[[Hoshinochō]]
#[[Hozumi Gōda]]
#[[I]]
#[[:Image:Autobots+Lets+Make+Out-1836.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Autobots+Lets+Make+Out-6341.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Autobots+Lets+Make+Out-7270.jpg]]
#[[:Image:BergerInc_Tanks&SolarPlant.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Blasterbluesop&mdance.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Coredevastator&prime.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Coremegs&wheeljack.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Dinobotislandratch&spark.jpg]]
#[[:Image:G1_-_Fastlane_&_Cloudraker_-_Boxart.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Gambitastro&crystals.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Gambitastrotrain&scream.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Gambittitans&cosmos.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Insectsyndromeprime&megs.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Jose+santacruz+menor.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Maketrackshoist&huffer.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Nergill_&_Troops.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Omegasupreme&creature.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Search4atelita&prime.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Tfalost&foundbulkheadhocky.gif]]
#[[:Image:Tud2bee&spikeembrace.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Universe_Soundwave&Space-Case_toy.jpg]]
#[[:Industrial Light & Magic]]
#[[:Insecticon Attack!]]
#[[J]]
#[[J. Falconer]]
#[[Jirō Saitō]]
#[[K]]
#[[Kakuryū]]
#[[Kazuhiko Gōdo]]
#[[Kenichirō Tanabe]]
#[[Kensō Katō]]
#[[Kenyū Horiuchi]]
#[[Kōhei Kowada]]
#[[Kōichi Tōchika]]
#[[Kōji Totani]]
#[[Kōji Yusa]]
#[[Kōki Kataoka]]
#[[Kōmoribreast]]
#[[Kōzō Shioya]]
#[[L]]
#[[Lloyd Goldfine]]
#[[M.A.R.B.]]
#[[Mantarō Iwao]]
#[[Masaharu Satō]]
#[[Masashi Endō]]
#[[Matrix Quest (Titan)]]
#[[Matrix Quest(Titan)]]
#[[May 26]]
#[[Maya Klayn]]
#[[Meltdown's Experiments]]
#[[Mini-Vehicle]]
#[[Mirosław_Neinert]]
#[[Momotarō]]
#[[Monster Maezuka]]
#[[Mujō]]
#[[Naoki Tatsuta]]
#[[Nobuyuki Saitō]]
#[[Odette Yustman]]
#[[Off-Road Cycle]]
#[[Ohio]]
#[[Omega Sentinel (disambiguation)]]
#[[Omega Terminus]]
#[[Onslaught (ROTF)]]
#[[Open Fire!]]
#[[Optimus (episode)]]
#[[Optimus Prime (Armada) toys]]
#[[Optimus Prime (Movie) toys]]
#[[Optimus Prime cookie jar]]
#[[Optimus Prime Oral Care Station]]
#[[Osamu Saka]]
#[[Overbite (Shattered Glass)]]
#[[Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado]]
#[[Overlord (rank)]]
#[[Owen Hurley]]
#[[P]]
#[[Pacific Ring of Fire]]
#[[Pack-in material]]
#[[Package art/Gallery]]
#[[Packaging]]
#[[Palace]]
#[[Panini]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 2]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 3]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 4]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 5]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 6]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 7]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 8]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 9]]
#[[Paper Magic Group]]
#[[Paradron communicator]]
#[[PARD]]
#[[Pīpō]]
#[[Press Release: Teletraan-1 Wikia moves to TFWiki.net]]
#[[Professor Gō]]
#[[Q]]
#[[Quick_Bow]]
#[[R]]
#[[Rairyū]]
#[[Ratchet's_EMP_generator]]
#[[Reverb_(Cybertron)]]
#[[Robot_Masters_(cartoon)]]
#[[Ryō Naitō]]
#[[Ryōichi Tanaka]]
#[[Ryōka Yuzuki]]
#[[Sanryō Odaka]]
#[[Save_the_Little_Girl!_The_Chōjin_Warriors,_the_Godmasters]]
#[[Scoop_(Shattered_Glass)]]
#[[Seizō Katō]]
#[[Shinichirō Miki]]
#[[Shizuku Amaō]]
#[[Shōhei Kohara]]
#[[Shōji Kawamori]]
#[[Shōki]]
#[[Showdown_(disambiguation)]]
#[[Shūta Gō]]
#[[Slaves_of_the_Insecticons]]
#[[Smith_(disambiguation)]]
#[[Staff_Sergeant_Tracy]]
#[[Street_Action_Mini-Con_Team|Street_Action_Mini-Con_Team_(Armada)]]
#[[Takurō Kitagawa]]
#[[Talk:Hot_Shot_(Unicron_Trilogy)]]
#[[Teiyū Ichiryūsai]]
#[[Teletran-1:_The_Transformers_Wiki:About]]
#[[Template-episodenav-dev]]
#[[Tesshō Genda]]
#[[The_Big_Book_of_Coloring_Fun]]
#[[The_New_Battle_Begins!]]
#[[The_Smashing_Pumpkins]]
#[[The_Treacherous_Attack_of_the_Decepticons]]
#[[Tight_Shot]]
#[[Toaster_bot]]
#[[Transformers_Mix_&_Match]]
#[[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Cache_Recovery]]
#[[Transformers_Wiki:WikiaBotTests]]
#[[Transformers:_Binaltech_&_TF_Collection_Complete_Guide]]
#[[Trevor_Hutchison]]
#[[Ultra_Magnus_(Universe_Spy_Changer)]]
#[[Ultra_Magnus...to_the_Rescue?]]
#[[Units_of_time/Continuity]]
#[[User:M_Sipher/Sandbox]]
#[[Vector]]
#[[Yōichi Kobiyama]]
#[[Yōji Ietomi]]
#[[Yōko Kawanami]]
#[[Yokuryū]]
#[[Yūgo Ōgami]]
#[[Yūji Kishi]]
#[[Yūji Mikimoto]]
#[[Yūki Ōshima]]
#[[Yūsaku Yara]]
#[[Yūto Kazama]]
#[[Yukiyoshi Ōhashi]]
#[[Yumi Tōma]]
}}

:I've recovered a bunch of those from Google's cache. Many of them are malformed because they have accents (I already went through and reuploaded as many of the accented articles as I could find). A chunk in the middle from [[Off-Road_Cycle]] to [[PARD]] are in G1MarvelBlaster's saved cache stuff. Mini-Vehicles is at [[Mini Vehicles]], Ultra Magnus...to the Rescue? is at [[Ultra Magnus... to the Rescue?]]. I started trying to look for the remaining legit lost articles on yahoo and MSN, but I don't have any more time to work on it tonight. One of the message board people who saved stuff may have some of them? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:06, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

====Filtering the sweep results====
So, just from that list, once you take out (1) the links which have gone blue and (2) obvious errors of one sort or another (as well as the single-character stuff, the Teletran-1...About page was deleted '''after''' the big crash, f'rinstance. I stuck a <nowiki>{{speedy}}</nowiki> on it myself), that leaves these as actual pages which are ''completely missing'', yes? [Not swearing none of these were redirects/etc - if they were, please send them to where they're meant to go and remove them from this list, huh? I've left the disambigs, tho.]

{{collist|3|
#[[Charlie Bodin]] (minor role in live-action movie - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1835107/ )
#[[Cheyne]] (<nowiki>Unrecoverable. Yahoo doesn't have cache, but a search says "The planet Cheyne was one of several worlds explored by the Autobots ... Retrieved from "http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cheyne" Categories: Generation 1 | Planets ..."</nowiki>)
#[[Crown]] (unrecoverable)
#[[Digital Dagger]] (Unrecoverable. [[T.E.C.H.]] toy from first movie's toyline)
#[[End of the Maximals!?]]
#[[End of the Road (Titan)]] (Unrecoverable.)
#[[Esther Scott]]
#[[Frederic Doss]]
#[[Fushigi Yamada]]
#[[Geonosis]]
#[[Hasbro Q&A March 2009: Question submission]]
#[[Insecticon Attack!]]
#[[Kazuhiko Gōdo]]
#[[Lloyd Goldfine]]
#[[Matrix Quest (Titan)]] (Unrecoverable.)
#[[May 26]] (Unrecoverable. Yahoo gives it as a result in a search, but no useful info)
#[[Maya Klayn]]
#[[Odette Yustman]]
#[[Robot Masters (cartoon)]]
#[[Scoop (Shattered Glass)]]
#[[Slaves of the Insecticons]]
#[[Smith (disambiguation)]]
#[[Staff Sergeant Tracy]]
#[[The Big Book of Coloring Fun]]
#[[The Smashing Pumpkins]]
#[[Tight Shot]] (Unrecoverable. [[T.E.C.H.]] toy from first movie's toyline)
#[[Ultra Magnus (Universe Spy Changer)]]
#[[Vector]]
#[[Yukiyoshi Ōhashi]]
}}

63 pages as I type... obviously, this doesn't take account of stuff which exist but was reverted, but... - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 16:42, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:There are certainly more-- this list was generated by from lists of pages from ABates and FortMax we think we're SUPPOSED to have. (and thus pages we were trying to save the cache of.) Literally this is more a compilation of- "Stuff we KNEW we had to save we either fucked up on, or there was no cache of."
:If a page wasn't on the lists in the first place (for a variety of reasons) then it's not gonna be there. Sorta "Known Unknowns" vs. "Unknown Unknowns." -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:27, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

::Yeah, I figured that out pretty quickly after I typed that when I noticed the number of redlinks on extant pages vs. blue links on cached pages, especially around the Japanese stuff (half of the Beast Wars Neo episode articles appear to be gone, for instance). - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 18:33, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Lonegamer has many (if not all, I dunno) of the Beast Wars Neo episodes in her [http://miscfile.alienharmony.com/transformers/lonegamers-cache.zip saved caches], as well as lots of other Japanese article-related stuff, as I posted here earlier, for those folks who typically work on the Japanese articles. *hint*nudge*kick* --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:20, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::::The vast majority of the ''Neo'' episode articles were just skeletons and are available on the Other Place. It's not really that big of a deal. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 20:55, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::So what's the possibility of pulling old versions of these pages from the Wikia version, i.e. the current versions as of when we left? -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 18:45, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::::::Those (currently) 30 pages? Virtually nil - they're all redlinks over there except [[End of the Maximals!?]], which is a virtually-empty shell. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 19:57, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::::ISTR I added [[Kazuhiko Gōdo]] and [[Yukiyoshi Ōhashi]] less than a week before the Event, so I'm not surprised they're unrecoverable. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:14, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

===And so it Begins...===
Deceptitraan has begun to do an edit sweeps. I'm calling this "Pass 1." He will ATTEMPT to;
* Remove the wikia spam
* Fix the <nowiki>{{factions}}</nowiki> template
* properly format the <nowiki>{{disambig2}}</nowiki>'s
* Fix <nowiki>{{note}}</nowiki>s
This is going to be at least fourteen '''thousand''' edits, minimum. It's gonna take awhile. (The 'what's missing' sweep was 20-100 times faster because it didn't have to post edits.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 23:11, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:While I think of it, I'm gonna add those filters to my page-fixer tool too. Let me knwo if that cause it to glitch. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 23:21, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:On-the-fly change-- Deceptitran is now also fixing links like <nowiki>[[Slumdog]]</nowiki> to simply read <nowiki>[[Slumdog]]</nowiki>. (The import script rendered ''everything'' as a two-part link.)
:I'll go back and re-check the 500-or-so articles already edited for this after. '''Note to self:''' ''The articles I want to re-check are the ones <u>lacking</u> flag2 in the database.'' -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 00:10, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::Three little points, based on a '''tiny''' sample of Deceptitran's edits:
::#Careful which side of the <nowiki>[[x]]</nowiki> links you grab. The general rule seems to be that the left hand side always has the first letter capitalised, and I've seen a couple of pages where <nowiki>[[continuity family]] has become [[Continuity family]]</nowiki> when the "c" should have stayed small.
:::Just inadvertently confirmed, because Deceptitran filtered THIS page! (i.e., the "links" above". I reverted :)) It indeed took the capitalised left-hand side. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 01:13, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::#Can you grab the equivalent <nowiki>{{storylink}}</nowiki>s while you're at it? There's a lot of <nowiki>{{storylink|x|x}}</nowiki>s too for much the same reason.
::#On [[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)]], the [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Buzzsaw_(Cybertron)&diff=prev&oldid=223597 <nowiki>{{note}}</nowiki> initially got messed up]. I think it's an edge case, since others seem to have gone through okay, but something to watch if you haven't fixed it.
::Otherwise, keep up the good work :) *wonders aloud if this might fix the article-counting problem - if a page gets edited, or even null-edited, it gets readded to the numbering if it's slipped out, doesn't it?* - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 00:25, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

::What voodoo are you using to spot <nowiki>[[Slumdog]]</nowiki> links? I couldn't get that one worked out. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:37, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:::I ''was'' using a callback-- /\[\[(.+)\|(\1)\]\]/i --> [[$2]].
:::''Find all links where the second term is the same as the first term, using case-insensitive match, and use the second term.'' (I was originally using the first, oops.)
:::Problem is I eventually realized that would turn links to <nowiki>[[Energon Cube|energon cube]] into [[energon cube]]</nowiki>, and only the ''first letter'' can be insensitive. :p
:::Now I'm using a callback function. Like killing flies with a nuke. (And I'm gonna use this page to test that callback.) *sets up some bad links.* -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:42, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
* [[Energon Cube|energon cube]] - no
* [[energon cube]] - yes
* [[energon Cube]] - yes
* [[energon Cube]] - yes
* [[energon cube|energon Cube]] - no
::::Woohoo! It parsed 'em all right, we are good to go!
::::It looks like I ran about 700 pages through the bad version of the filter but... I have a hard time making myself care. That's about 1.2% of our pages, and 98% of the time the difference between the two types of links will be nil or cosmetic. It's '''right''' going forward, but I'm not going back to fix the others.
::::Also, I looked at the buzzsaw link you posted-- the <nowiki>{{note}}</nowiki> part got rewiki'd perfectly! It's just that it had a leftover HTML link in it!
::::There's like 50 variants of <a href=""> on the site right now because browsers tended to save the files as THEY thought they looked.
::::Open a page in firefox and hit "view source." Now highlight a chunk of a page and right-click "view source." '''THE CODE IS DIFFERENT'''. The right-click gives you the HTML as it's been shuffled around by the geko rendering engine, which puts all the classes, titles, hrefs and so on in the SAME ORDER, regardless of what their sequence was in the original HTML.
::::I figure there's gonna be some MONSTER link-parsing function that takes all of this into account for another sweep after this. :p (at which point the anchor tag within that perfectly valid <nowiki>{{note}{</nowiki> template would be correctly wikified.)
::::There's nothing wrong with the <nowiki>{{note}}</nowiki> filter-- it's just that it ''only'' does <nowiki>{{note}}</nowiki>s. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:57, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::FYI, the "BIG SWEEP" is just under 20% complete. About 4000 pages has been edited by Deceptitran, removing wikia spam, fixing links and a couple common templates. Hit "show bots" in recent changes to see him in action! -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:42, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
The Big Sweep ended on, uh... Friday? So the wikia links and some other changes should all be excused. (Sipher has apparently noticed that ''redirects'' still have them in non-rendering form.) Prep-work for sweep 2.0 (which should go faster) may now commence! -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:55, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

== Lonegamer's Cache ==

Lonegamer sent me all of her browser cache files the other day. I've already reposted a few I can recognize as being ones we lost, but there's some other possibly useful stuff in here, lots of Japanese episode and manga-related stuff, especially. I link to it for those who might need such things: http://miscfile.alienharmony.com/transformers/lonegamers-cache.zip --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:30, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:Fantastic! I was able to use some of the files from here to fix a bunch of articles. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:33, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

== G1MarvelBlaster's cache saves ==

It doesn't look like these were part of the original upload of files: [http://www.fileqube.com/shfolder/180305DXXRbmdM]. I can't seem to download the files though. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:19, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:I just downloaded [[Omega bomb]] cache article. Seems to be working alright. Is there some reason why people decided to not upload the files to scout's server so they could be restored en-mass? It seems to me that some people deciding to upload files elsewhere is the reason for so many articles not being updated. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 01:41, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::I know there was a problem with Scout's FTP being down at one point, so it's possible people decided to upload elsewhere during that time. (I personally had just uploaded the pages right after saving as a backup, before Scout set up her FTP, but I offered to reupload if needed... no one told me to, however.)
::I will note that G1MarvelBlaster and other folks linked to their uploads in the original finish summary, though, so they did inform that they uploaded it somewhere else. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 02:04, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::I managed to get [[Paradron communicator]] out by hitting download, copying and pasting the HTML code into a file, saving the file, and then processing it. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:38, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:So does someone want to volunteer to grab these and reprocess them? You can skip all the October files, since I think Derek did those, and several of the Optimus Prime ones have already been done. Should be around 160 in total. I'd do it, but I have 600+ articles which are [[Gort|messes]] to try to reprocess. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:23, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::I'm starting to work on these. I'm currently running them through your conversion script and then pasting the code into the Wiki page. Is this the fastest method?--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 14:26, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

===Zip file===
[http://www.aldenbates.com/g1marvelblaster.zip Here is a 1MB zip file] containing 131 of the cache files. I've left out the ones which I know for sure have already been updated. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:16, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:I've tried to download it, but what I get is only 403 bytes and contains no files. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 14:31, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::His link was incorrect. He had a b instead of a v in G1Marvelblaster. The link is fixed now and I've already done the first 10 files in the zip. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 18:32, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:::D'oh! Thanks for that! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:55, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Thanks! It works fine for me now. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 19:22, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::::No problemo. Updating my status as having the first <s>20</s> 65 files complete (Octopunch to <s>Omega_Supreme_(Animated)</s> Origin). Yay, halfway there.--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 21:55, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

== Why are we blocking the Wayback Machine? ==

I accidentally hit the Wayback Machine rather than MSN when I was trying to grab the cache for a page there, and was informed that:
:''We're sorry, access to http://tfwiki.net/wiki/End_of_the_Road_(Titan) has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.''
Wha-huh?! - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 10:34, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:There was nothing in our robots.txt that ''should'' stop the Internet Archive from viewing us, but there also wasn't anything useful in it anyway, so I've deleted the file. That's weird. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 12:02, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::It's probably Archive.org's default answer-string for "I don't have it."
::Just like YouTube video player informs you a video is no longer available even if it it's just having a timeout error. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:22, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:::No, the default is simply "Sorry, no matches" ([http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.bbc.co.uk/thispagedoesnotexist example]) - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 21:01, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::I believe the Wayback Machine's crawlers simply look for the presence of a robots.txt and not the content of it. At least that's the impression I've gotten from using the Wayback Machine.--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 13:15, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

==Page shrinkage==
I took a stab at cleaning up the loose code on [[Galvatron (G1)]], restoring quotes and notes and whatnot, and now the page seems to be half its normal width. Uh, help? I mentioned this in the Summary box too, but for some reason it didn't appear in Recent Changes. --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 14:17, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

== Too big to wikify? ==

I have attempted to convert [[Optimus Prime (Armada)]] a few times, as recovering that will let us split the toy section out again. It seems to choke Derik's tool, though.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 18:52, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:Do it section-by-section. [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text2.php Derik's tool] DOES have an upper limit, but if you put it through in smaller chunks, it'll work. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 18:56, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::I've restored the toy page from G1MarvelBlaster's cache version. I'd suggest getting Optimus Prime (Armada) from there too, as it looks like that might be a more up-to-date version than was originally imported here. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:29, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

Incidentally, [http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Ftfwiki.net%2Fwiki%2FOptimus_Prime_(Armada)_toys Optimus Prime (Armada) toys] is still in Google's cache in its' own right. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 19:27, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:It's in G1MarvelBlaster's archive of cache files too. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:36, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::Yeah, my took is kinda hacky. I didn't know about the limit... but it doesn't surprise me. I've got an AWFUL LOT of "match everything" Regex's set to Multiline mode, with callbacks. Enough KB of text probably cause that to choke. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:38, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

I noticed Sanity or Madness pulling his hair out over all the garbled talk pages-- both too long for my tool and indented which it doesn't handle.

Well it handles indents now. And '''especially or talk pages''' [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text3i.php Version 3i]. It just does indents and headers, so it can filter long pages. (You'll still have to break 'em up to fix everything else, but at least now they're more comprehensible when you try to.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:18, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

== Working on scrambled pages ==

Some of the pages ended up completely scrambled - IE no HTML conversion and, you'll note, no categories. I've been restoring as many of them as I can, but some of the original cache files have really strange line breaks in them, often in the middle of HTML tags and both mine and Derik's scripts pretty much choke on them. I went through the articles on my list which start with the letter 'D' tonight, saving new copies of them from Google, Yahoo and MSN, however I couldn't recover these four:

{{collist|2|
*<s>[[Decepticon detector]]</s>
*<s>[[Decepticon medic (Devil's Due)]]</s>
*<s>[[Decepticons at the Pole]]</s>
*<s>[[Deepdive]]</s>
}}

So if anyone has spare copies of these, please speak up! :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:46, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:Done, I think. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 05:34, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::Woo! Cool! Having done a mass process of the rest of the files on my list, the following three are the only ones I couldn't retrieve from caches:
:*<s>[[Safeguard (Cybertron)]]</s>
:*<s>[[Safeguard Team]]</s>
:*<s>[[Salvage (Recyclon)]]</s>
::It looks like the other 510 files processed all right, so now I just have to go through them all and paste them into the articles on teh Wiki --[[User:Abates|abates]] 05:45, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:::What did you code your tool in anyway? Do you want copies of my PHP callbacks?
:::I really think Sweep #2 is just going to require a "Find an <a> tag, now pick it apart and put it back together no matter what order the fucker is in." function. Admittedly, this is more-or-less how I wrote the indenter-- it's a progressive parser, just like the Bad Old Days of write-it-yourself XML parsers. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 06:40, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::::It's coded in Perl. Sure, a copy of the callbacks would be useful, thanks!
::::I never could get the indenting right - it doesn't help that the HTML MediaWiki generates doesn't seem to close its <nowiki><li></nowiki> tags all of the time. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:02, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::This is PHP not perl, but the basic concept applies...
<pre>function fixIndents($wiki_text){
$lines = explode("\n", $wiki_text);
$new_text = '';
$options = array( 'down' => '<dl>',
'up' => '</dl>',
'new_sib' => '<dd>',
'end_sib' => '</dd>'
);

$indent = 0;
foreach($lines as $line){
$evaluate_line = true;
$offset = 0;
while ($evaluate_line){
$position = null;
$mode = null;
foreach ($options as $mode_type => $option){
$loc = strpos($line, $option, $offset); //I'm pretty sure $offset is always 0 when it hits this line.
if ($loc !== false){
if (($position === null) || ($loc < $position)){
$position = $loc;
$mode = $mode_type;
}
}
}//End Options
if ($position !== null){
//echo "<p>$mode</p>";
$offset = ($position);
switch ($mode){
case 'down':
$indent++;
$replacement = '';
break;
case 'up':
$indent--;
$replacement = '';
break;
case 'new_sib':
$indent2 = $indent;
if ($indent2 < 0) $indent2 = 0;
$replacement = str_pad('',$indent2,':');
break;
case 'end_sib':
$replacement = '';
break;
}
$line = substr_replace( $line, $replacement, $offset, strlen($options[$mode]) );
$offset=0;
} else {
$evaluate_line = false;
// echo $line;
}
}//Endline
//$problems = array();
//$problems[strpos($line,$begin_parent)];
$new_text .= $line;
}
$wiki_text = $new_text;
$wiki_text = str_replace( '</p><p>', "\n\n", $wiki_text );
$wiki_text = str_replace( '<p>', '', $wiki_text );
$wiki_text = str_replace( "\n</p>", '', $wiki_text );
return $wiki_text;
}</pre>I break it up line-by-line just o to reduce overhead.
Then I scan for DL's and DD's, looking for which is "next." If I encounter a DL, I add one to the #of indents. (DL means you're going 'down' a level, <DL means you're going up one.) The DL and /DL tage themselves you can just erase then.

They each DD represents the start of a new line- which has to be indented with the correct number of :'s (which has been going up and down every time we wan into a DL or /DL.) So i replace the DD with, for example "::::" (four indents.) You can just erase the /DD's.

It sounds really stupid, but it works perfectly. My messy code is really just a reflection of the fact it has to be de-parsed using a state machine instead of stateless regular expressions. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 09:37, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
===Callbacks===
====Link callback====
<pre>preg_replace_callback('/<a href="(.+(#.+)?)"( class="(.+)")? title="(.+)"( rel="(.+)")?>(.+)<\/a>/Ui' , 'fixLinks' );

function fixLinks($matches){
$url = $matches[1];
$anchor = $matches[2];
$specialClass = $matches[4];
$title = $matches[5];
$prettyText = $matches[8];
$returning = '';
if (($title.$anchor) == $prettyText){
$returning = "[[$prettyText]]";
}else{
//Text is different
$returning = "[[$title$anchor|$prettyText]]";
}

if ($specialClass == 'external text'){
$returning = "[$title $prettyText]";
}
return $returning;
}
/* ===========================================================================
Note that this will still return [[Energon cube|energon cube]] because it doesn't
treat the first character as caseless-- but the NEXT callback will fix that...
This function will also correctly parse Wikipedia links, Wookiepedia links, and
external links. Yay!
=============================================================================== */

preg_replace_callback('/\[\[(.+)\|(\1)\]\]/iU' , 'fixLinks2' ); //\1 is a mid-pattern callback to the first() subpattern. "If the text is the same withotu case, refer the link to the callback function."

function fixLinks2 ($matches) {
$one = $matches[1];
$two = $matches[2];
if ( substr($one,1) == substr($two,1)){
return '[[' . $two . ']]';
} else {
return '[[' . $one . '|' . $two . ']]';
}
} //Literally just compares substrings excluding the first character, LOL.
</pre>

...all 3 of these came from, different script files, oddly enough. I don't have ONE script that does them all. ;)
====Header callback====
<pre>preg_replace_callback( '/<a name=".+"><\/a><h([123456])><span class="editsection">\[<a href=".+" title="Edit section:.+">edit<\/a>\]<\/span> <span class="mw-headline">(.+)<\/span><\/h[123456]>/Ui' , 'fixHeaders');

function fixHeaders($matches){
$padding = str_pad( '', $matches[1], '=');
return $padding . $matches[2] . $padding . "";
} //How many ='s? Just count the number on the tag! 1 for H1, 6 for H6.</pre>

Hope that's helpful. Is perl Ecmascript? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 09:53, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:It's from the same family tree as PHP and Ecmascript. The syntax is very similar, in fact! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 15:55, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
====Link rewriting code====
Derik! In case it's helpful, here's my latest code for rewriting the links:
<pre>sub fixlinks {
my $str=shift;
my $pos=0;
while(substr($str,$pos) =~ /(<a ([^>]*?)>(.*?)<\/a>)/i) {
$wholelink=$1;
$builtlinkcode="";
$linkcode=$2;
$text=$3;
$pos=index($str,$wholelink)+1;
next if($linkcode =~ /name=/i); # skip <a name=
$class=""; $title=""; $url="";
$class=$1 if($linkcode =~ /class="(.*?)"/i);
$title=$1 if($linkcode =~ /title="(.*?)"/i);
$url=$1 if($linkcode =~ /href="(.*?)"/i);
if($class eq "extiw") { # interwiki, usually to Wikipedia
if($url =~ /\#(.*)$/) {
$title.='#'.$1;
}
$builtlinkcode = "[[$title|$text]]";
} else {
if($class =~ /^external/i) { #external link
$builtlinkcode = "[$url]" if($class =~ /external autonumber/i);
$builtlinkcode = "[$url $text]" if($class =~ /external text/i);
} else {
if($url =~ /\#(.*)$/) {
$title.='#'.$1;
}
$firstletter=substr($text,0,1);
$matching=((substr($title,1) eq substr($text,1))&&($title =~ /^$firstletter/));
$title = ':'.$title if($title =~ /^(Image|Category)/i);
$builtlinkcode="[[$title]]" if($matching);
$builtlinkcode="[[$title|$text]]" if(!$matching);
}
}
substr($str,index($str,$wholelink),length($wholelink))=$builtlinkcode;
}
$str;
}</pre>

No more <nowiki>[[boing|boing]]</nowiki> links! :P --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:57, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:OK, not quite perfect yet, but it catches most of them! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:33, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

== Faction template ==

Faction template is ''working'', but someone (preferably not me,) needs to go in and fill in all the icons again or it's gonna start sprewing garbate all over page titles. Only a medium level of template competence is require,d it's all copy-and-paste.
# Go here[[Template:Factions/icons]].
# Starting with the Maximal/Predacon entries as a model, add all the other factions.
You can find all the names to use and the image files that go when them only ''slightly'' garbled in the table here; [[Template:Factions]].

Just copy and paste as swap out the names. Volunteers? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 12:44, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:Well, now I know why I've never seen it working... why DOES it require JavaScript? It isn't hard to specify an absolute position to place in the header using CSS alone, surely? - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 12:52, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

:<Raises hand> I'll do it! Shouldn't take me more than a couple hours, if that. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 13:57, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

And it's done. All the symbols in the list Derik linked to have been added to the template. I've verified that all the images are working with one exception: the Blendtron logo. I tried the filename listed on the linked list as well as the [[Blendtron]] page and neither shows up. I'm not sure if the image file listed for predaconrid is right or not. Is it supposed to be the same as the Beast Wars Predacon? Also, some of the mouseover text may need to be changed in order to restore Teh Funny. I can do that myself if someone can provide me with a list of what needs to be tweaked. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 16:32, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:I didn't think we had funny mouseovers on these things.
:Thanks for the work, it was nice not to be attacking it on my own-- I'll take s look at the files to see if some are missing.
:Answering Sanity||Madness's question... absolutely-positioned CSS is unideal because it can obscure long titles. Unlikely to happen with character names... but for some unnamed characters with descriptive titles it could happen. With Javascript everything is inline and will wrap correctly if it gets cramped. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:21, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::You're welcome. The reason I ask about funny stuff is because of the articles/mouseover text present in the [[Template:Factions]] list. Specifically, Mutants links to 'Filthy muties', Cobra to 'Can the world oppose deadly Eskimos?' and Go-Bots to 'Go GO GO-BOTS!'. I couldn't tell if that was supposed to be part of the template or not, considering none of those pages exist.--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 21:02, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

==Bookworm template==
I'd like to use Derik's [[Template:Bookworm|Bookworm template]] to help organize the restoration process as I edit individual pages to varying degrees of completion. But I think a few improvements could go a long way toward making it more relevant, and for the sake of not cluttering this page up, I've [[Template talk:Bookworm#Improvement suggestions|suggested my ideas on its Talk page]]. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 21:13, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:TBH, I'm not sure what the point of using that template is any more... why bother with stages instead of just going ahead and completely cleaning up any messed-up pages you come across? Saves everyone's time that way. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 21:23, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

::Hmm, I already have a list of all pages at "stage 1" (imported, but needs reconverting.), which I'm slowly getting though.
::The tricky ones are those at "stage 0" and identifying which ones should have been updated but weren't (I noticed [[Money Is Everything]] wasn't). Sometimes these are pages which were moved between June last year and now, so the cache version has been uploaded at a different place (All the Reign of Starscream issues). Sometimes it was deleted between June and now.
::So I suspect that if you come across what looks like a legit content page, and it has a Wikia link at the bottom, and you don't know why it hadn't been updated, it might be handy to slap a bookworm template on it? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:06, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

:::Makes sense to me. In answer to Jeysie's question, the value is that I don't always have the time to patiently untangle garbled code, but seldom am I so harried that I can't put a template on a page. And even if I ''do'' have a decent amount of time, the work isn't always worth it at the moment. For instance, I'm restoring Community Portal archives right now, and at first the convertor was messing up the thread-indentation. This was both a minor problem and a major amount of work to fix, so I didn't want to devote the time yet, but I did want to leave an obvious trail so it could be taken care of later when the time was right (or ignored in perpetuity if nobody ended up caring, but at least people would know the issue existed). The Bookworm template, with an option for a comment, would've been perfect. Now, all that having been said, this issue no longer exists, as I've discovered that the other convertor handles indentation fine. But it's hard for me to imagine that there are ''no'' other problems like this scattered throughout our thousands of pages. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 22:36, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::::I guess I figure... I'd rather just be patient and work on things one-by-one... if I come across a page that'll take a while I just dig into it and work on it in bits until I'm done with it, then move on. I'd rather just fix pages as I come across them instead of slapping a template on it and hoping someone else will do it.
::::But if it's a problem where someone really can't figure out the coding, then maybe some of us who are more wikicode-familiar can offer to help. I'm willing to have anyone who comes across a page they totally can't figure out dump a link to it on my talk page. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 22:48, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

::::I agree with Jackpot -- when we come across an article that's just a trainwreck, we need a way to mark it as such. Frankly, I'm not prepared to take on a mess like [[Greg Sepelak]]'s article, but I hate leaving it unmarked. A way to designate "needs major work" would be handy. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 08:03, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::<nowiki>*cough*</nowiki> Done. I just ran the cache page back through Abates' converter, which did the lion's share of the work, tweaked what didn't get fixed, and posted it. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 08:11, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::Addendum: Now, references... I will say that '''those''' suck. *stares at the 2K7 movie page with a sigh and puts it on her to-do list after some sleep* --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 08:22, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

:::::I have a big list of the trainwrecks. Current count: 425 articles, all starting with the letters G, R, or S (LOTS beginning with S), and I've been working at it nightly. I expect to be finished sometime this weekend. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 15:39, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

:::''So I suspect that if you come across what looks like a legit content page, and it has a Wikia link at the bottom, and you don't know why it hadn't been updated, it might be handy to slap a bookworm template on it?''

:::I'm going to repeat this suggestion, because I've noticed a couple of incidents of people removing the wikia crap from pages, but the reason those pages weren't updated was because they were moved before the data loss and they exist under a different name. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:04, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

::::Still agreed, and on a slight tangent: We should encourage the immediate purging of any Wikia-link on sight, but that may be the only obvious indication that a page is massively outdated or occupying a mistranslated namespace or whatever. So rather than feel obligated to deduce the true nature of the page and restore it every time we remove that bread-crumb, we should feel free to slap a <tt><nowiki>{{bookworm|0}}</nowiki></tt> on it and move along. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 20:31, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

== To Anyone Who Works on Marvel US Pages Before I Do... ==

While double-checking links on the main Marvel US page, I noticed that some of the Marvel US pages seem to be sporting the original comicnav... which means they either didn't update properly or the Google cache was old, as I know I updated them all to the Comicstory template. Just an FYI. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 00:58, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:[[Yesterday's Heroes!]], for instance? I'm guessing it got uploaded at the wrong name and someone tagged it for deletion without moving the code over? Also [[Ca$h and Car-nage!]] is now an article about the [[Byacrane]]. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:44, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
::In fairness, kids do need to learn more about Byacrane. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 08:30, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

==Macron issues==
Currently, the Wiki is containing two pages of every article with a macron in its title. One with the macron properly over the letter, and one with the two characters separate. (I.e., the regular version has ō as G%C5%8 in the url. The fucked up version has it as o%CC%84.) I don't know how to handle this issue, since clicking on the title with the characters separate just takes you to the page with the characters together. [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Go%CC%84ryu%CC%84&diff=prev&oldid=201806 Their individual diffs can be accessed, though.] Perhaps somebody with a old browser that doesn't support the macron sign can fix it? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 06:25, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:I don't think an older browser will make any difference - the redirect is occurring at the server end. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:35, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
::Okay, that's annoying. I guess somebody with the ability will have to dig through the Wiki's drive to delete them. Scout, I guess? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 08:22, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Hmm, I wonder what would happen if you tried moving one of the affected pages (not that I'm suggesting anyone try this, at least until we have backups working).
:::My gut instinct is to say we should leave it as a problem until we're back up and running at 100%, since it doesn't seem to be stopping anything from working. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:00, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
::::I don't have a problem with prioritization; I just put this up so I wouldn't forget about it later. The one and only problem arising from them (other than taking up space) is that they show up in categories. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:03, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

== Updating the page counter ==

Not critical I understand, but when we initially did the migration the counter could be corrected by a script an admin could run if I recall.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 12:15, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

== References ==

While there's obviously no way to fully automate these, I do wonder if there's some way to automatically make them more readable.

Like being able to turn:

<tt><nowiki><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[[#cite_note-0|[1]]]</sup></nowiki></tt>

into:

<tt><nowiki><ref>1</ref></nowiki></tt>

Or turn:

<tt><nowiki><sup id="cite_ref-lorenzoiesb_16-1" class="reference">[[#cite_note-lorenzoiesb-16|[17]]]</sup></nowiki></tt>

into:

<tt><nowiki><ref name="lorenzoiesb">17</ref></nowiki></tt>

Then at the bottom, turn:

<tt><nowiki><li id="cite_note-0">[[#cite_ref-0|↑]] The movie had some content cuts to meet the standards of some <strike>oppressive regimes</strike> quaint "developing world" rating boards.</nowiki></tt>

into:

<tt><nowiki>0 The movie had some content cuts to meet the standards of some <strike>oppressive regimes</strike> quaint "developing world" rating boards.</nowiki></tt>

And:

<tt><nowiki><li id="cite_note-tfwtour-12">↑ <sup>[[#cite_ref-tfwtour_12-0|13.0]]</sup> <sup>[[#cite_ref-tfwtour_12-1|13.1]]</sup> <sup>[[#cite_ref-tfwtour_12-2|13.2]]</sup> <sup>[[#cite_ref-tfwtour_12-3|13.3]]</sup> [http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=139273 BotCon 2007 Hasbro tour report.]</nowiki></tt>

into:

<tt><nowiki>tfwtour 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 [http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=139273 BotCon 2007 Hasbro tour report.]</nowiki></tt>

And:

<tt><nowiki><li id="cite_note-murphylatino-3">[[#cite_ref-murphylatino_3-0|↑]] [http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=1502 Latino Review interview with producer Don Murphy.]</nowiki></tt>

into:

<tt><nowiki>murphylatino [http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=1502 Latino Review interview with producer Don Murphy.]</nowiki></tt>

Or just ''something'' like this to turn the mess into as much usable (or at least readable) code as possible.

I don't know if this sort of processing is even ''possible'', but if it is, it would definitely make it easier to clean up pages that have more than just a few references. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:42, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:Oh, you could automate them. Same way my tool automates categories. It's just a fair amount of work. (...I suppose I should take a whack at it at SOME point.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:24, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::I honestly think it might be worth it... it took me literally a number of ''hours'' to untangle the references on the 2K7 movie page, and we have a fair number of similarly reference-heavy pages. (The Japanese Generation 1 Cartoon Timeline, for instance, is sitting in my bookmarks until I have the courage to tackle untangling ~60 references on a giant list. XP) Anything that can make the process even slightly easier would be well-appreciated if it's doable. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 20:32, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

== Nautilator ==

We have [[Nautilator]], [[Nautilator (G1)]] and [[Nautilator (Energon)]]
* Nautilator and Nautilator (G1) are the same guy.
* Nautilator (G1) disambigs to Nautilator (Energon) and vice versa.
* Nautilator is the only one of the three which has a cache version saved for it.
* Neither Nautilator (G1) nor Nautilator (Energon) come up in web searches.

It looks to me as if Nautilator (Energon) was deleted sometime between June and the Crash and Nautilator (G1) was moved to Nautilator. Anyone know the history there? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 21:47, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

:The Energon guy no longer exists, basically. The toy that was going to become ''Energon'' Nautilator eventually found release as a new version of the G1 guy through the fan club. So the Energon guy got absorbed back into the G1 guy's page. I think only Archerbot keeps a separate page, since he's got his own name. Maybe? I'm not sure, actually, but that's how I understand all this. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 22:17, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
::I was the guy who merged them. Archerbot wasn't an exception. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 22:31, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

::Oh! [[Piranhacon|These guys]]! So that's why those pages didn't get updated from the cache results. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:16, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

== Misplaced Pages ==

We have [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)]] and [[Super-God Masterforce]], the latter of which has more information than the former. Which one do I keep? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 04:18, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:The latter one was resurrected with the rollback, by the looks. All the extra info is redundant with what's on [[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)]] anyway. I suggest setting it as a redirect to the franchise page. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:54, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::That's what I figured, but I thought I'd check. OK, this issue is settled. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 04:59, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:::We've got a whole bunch of redundant pages now, ranging from [[Kup]]/[[Kup (G1)]] to [[Detour (Cybertron episode)]]/[[Detour (episode)]]. Good fun! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 06:11, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

[[Transtech]] and [[TransTech]] are both about the canceled franchise. Shouldn't one of them be about the club comic alternate dimension? Where did that info go? --[[User:Crockalley|Crockalley]] 18:50, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
:Looks like Transtech got uploaded at TransTech by accident. Both pages were in the cache zip, so I've restored them to their proper places. Thanks for pointing that out! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:37, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

==Pages in Google cache but not in tfwikicache.tar.gz==
So I noticed that [[Omnibot]] was suspiciously outdated, and it turns out it wasn't included in tfwikicache.tar.gz for some reason, even though it's in the Google cache, dated Mar. 9. I didn't see "Omnibot" under any of the "Lost Pages" or "Sweep" lists, so I wanted to bring it to people's attention that this phenomenon exists. I've updated [[Omnibot]] completely, but I have no idea how many other pages out there might be like this, with Google's clock still ticking on them. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 04:41, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:That's because Omnibot, as well as various other "O" and "P" pages, are in G1MarvelBlaster's cache pile as linked under "[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central#Useful Resources|Useful Resources]]" (and as mentioned several times on this page previously :>). --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 04:47, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::If no one does those by the time I finish going through all the totally slagged pages, I guess I'll be doing them. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:51, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

::Ah, thank you. I knew there was something strange regarding the O's and P's, but I couldn't find the relevant conversation. There's.... a lot to keep up with. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 04:56, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

==Talk-page cache?==
Have the talk-pages been downloaded from the Google cache en masse and put into a .zip somewhere the way the articles have? According to [[#Saved|the stats above]], only a handful have been "saved," whatever that means. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 14:02, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:And when I try to go to any of the pages in the link marked "Saved", they don't work. Google cache just doesn't seem to think they exist at all. Yet I've seen people restore Talk pages. How is this done? - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 01:14, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
::I was only able to do it when the <nowiki>{{bookworm}}</nowiki> template provided an automatic link to the page's Google cache. Now it doesn't. If I wanted to restore my Talk page, I wouldn't know how to do it.
::Edit: Gah, forgot to nowiki-tag the template name.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 03:09, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:::It's <tt><nowiki>http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:tfwiki.net/wiki/(article title with underscores/encodings as needed)</nowiki></tt>
:::So your user talkpage would be http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:tfwiki.net/wiki/User_talk:Apcog for instance.
::::Much obliged. Jackpot too, I'm sure.
:::::Doesn't always work. Can't seem to find mine. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 05:07, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

::::Indeed, I thank you as well. For some reason I couldn't get it to work earlier, but your cache-link is apparently better somehow. The only problem is that the cache is overwriting itself now. For instance, I was trying to get [http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:tfwiki.net/wiki/Talk:Sideways Talk:Sideways,] but that's been overwritten with the March 24 version. I thought that someone had claimed to have downloaded all the Talk pages right after the crash. Am I imagining things? - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 13:52, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

==Attacktix Template==
I went and restored the [[Template:Attacktix]] off the Wikia copy. I know copying from there is frowned upon, but I compared it to the Google's cache of our version and made the appropriate changes. I also figured templates were a bit of a different animal as opposed to normal articles. It looks like it's ready to be used. Not knowing what our template code looked like however, I can't be certain it's exactly what it was. Are there any problems?--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 02:57, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
:As the original template creator, I can verify it is very much as it was when last I saw it.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 03:07, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
::We shouldn't have issues copying over templates from Wikia. All of it is ''our'' work. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 04:05, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

==Midnote template==
Maybe I'm just not looking well enough, but do we still have the midnote template? If so, where is it? If not, can someone restore it, because the regular note really makes some pages look ugly? [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 03:53, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

== Missing images ==

Despite running image import TWICE, the wiki is apparently still 'missing' some images that will have to be re-uploaded by hand. (However we should actually ''have'' them all.)

When you run into missing images, please post them here so someone can tidy them;

<s>Edgeofextinction-someonefight.jpg found on [[On the Edge of Extinction!]]</s><br>
Megatron_generic_marvel_uk_265.jpg found on [[Once Upon a Time...]]<br>
Onslaughtmodelsheetshood.jpg found on [[Onslaught]]<br>
OptimusPrimalvsMegatron.jpg found on [[Optimus Primal vs Megatron!]]<br>
Safeguardriseofsafeguard.jpg found on [[Rise of Safeguard]]<br>
--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 14:10, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

Image:ClubCon Raindance GrandSlam.JPG _ [[Raindance]]/[[Grand Slam]]<br>
Image:RobotTimeMachineSixModes.jpg _ [[Autobot (G2)]]<br>
Image:Madman comic Soundwave ejects tapes.jpg _ [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette]]<br>
Image:Breakdown.jpg _ [[Breakdown (G1)]]
--[[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 10:01, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

<s>[[:Image:SpotlightGrimlock cover2.jpg]]</s> --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 13:58, 29 March 2009 (EDT)

===What to do if you find a image is missing===
#Find a cached version of the page with the image on it (at this stage, it's decreasingly likely Google will have a pre-crash version of the page, so you may be best going for the saved versions linked from the [[#Files]] section of this page).
#Find the image thumbnail which should be present there, and choose to "view image" or "copy image location" (in Firefox, terminology may vary in other browsers, and in IE, you may have to click "Properties" and copy the address from there).
#The URL will be something like <nowiki>http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/</nowiki><font face="monospace" color="red"><u>thumb/</u></font><nowiki>b/b9/Ravageboxart.jpg</nowiki><font face="monospace" color="red"><u>/350px-Ravageboxart.jpg</u></font>. Delete the sections marked in red and go to the altered link (Which should be in the form <nowiki>http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/b/b9/Ravageboxart.jpg</nowiki>. The exact bits after /images2/ will vary, of course) to check that it works.
#Copy that link and go to [[Special:Upload]]. Choose to upload from a URL, and paste that link in the lower "source filename" box. Preferably fill out where it came from/etc at this point, ''but if you don't know'', put '''<nowiki>{{bookworm|5|Needs description and copyright tag}}</nowiki>''' in the lower box and submit it (you may get a "page (but not file) exists"-type message. If so, ignore it and save the file anyway).
- [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 15:37, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

:I think, if the image had descriptive text before, it'll show up again when the image is reuploaded. I had that happen with Image:Tww1_oracle_tank.jpg and Image:Movie_OptimusPrime_MicroIR.jpg. However, it did not happen with the image I crossed off my list above. I'm guessing that one never had a description. It might also be dependent on whether you get to the upload page by clicking on the toolbox link or by clicking the link for the missing image. I've been doing the latter.--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 01:30, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
::What's happened is that some of the PAGES exist, but the database has lost the FILES that are associated with them (The files are still on the server, but MediaWiki is blind to their existence). That leads to the "page (but not file) exists"-type message, and the description which existed before (which may *not* be sufficient, given the rollbacks) will be there when you go to the Image:page. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 14:40, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:I wonder if there's an easy way to search for missing images. Also, when we move servers, are we going to be able to take ''all'' of the files with us and not just the ones that the MediaWiki database knows about? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:55, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

<s>I can't find the source for the Rise of Safeguard one. :\ And I can't find the thumbnail for Image:Stunticons-collectallfive.jpg either.</s> Nevermind. Found them manually. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 07:23, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

== Category link backs ==

I think I removed all the wikia links from the category pages. We could probably remove that bit from the main page now. There is a possibility I may have missed a few, but I did go through systematically.

I had no idea we had that many category pages. Wow. --[[User:Bluestreak7|Bluestreak7]] 12:02, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

== Making things less tedious ==

Because reformatting <gallery>s is tedious, I've made a tool to do it for us.

*[http://www.aldenbates.com/gallerizer Gallerizer]

Copy and paste the gallery code into the form, hit the submit button, copy the reformatted text back out. Will do multiple galleries, though I don't think we have many pages with more than one. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:34, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

===Comic template converter===
I've created a tool to convert the HTML on comic pages to <nowiki>{{comicstory}} and {{comicnav}}</nowiki> templates.

*[http://www.aldenbates.com/htmltocomic Comicnav conversion tool]

I'm pretty sure I managed to get all of the many many parameters the comicstory template can take, but please check to make sure that they match what's on the original page, and, as always, if it fails to convert something, leave a link to it on my talk page. :)

Interrobang, do you want one for the episode template? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:11, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:Wow. That's awesome! - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 11:05, 29 March 2009 (EDT)
::Be careful when using it. I lost a non-standard credit of "Finished Pencils". It was just dropped. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 11:26, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
:::When writing the converter, I was working off the current (ie June 2008) version of the comicstory template, however a number of credit types were added since June 2008, so those won't be supported. This is why I mentioned about checking to make sure the credits match what's on the page. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 14:58, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

== Totally scrambled pages ==

All right, I've fixed all of the pages that failed to convert at all and ended up as HTML mess. At least, all of the ones I could find. If anyone spots any more, feel free to drop a note on my talk page! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 06:56, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

== Infobox template for books? ==

Do we have one for books like do we with comics? I can use the comic ones fine, but I can't figure out how to get the ISBN to show up in the info box and, indeed, how to the get the ISBN function that you can click to search for the book on Amazon and such retailers. Thanks. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 14:57, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
:The ISBN one confused me at first, but it appears if you just write an ISBN, MediaWiki recognises it and turns it into a link: ISBN 1-84023-527-6 --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:22, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
::We used to have a book infobox, but it must have been new enough that it didn't get saved. We need one, though, I find that trying to cram book page info into the comicstory one is just too awkward. (*would rebuild it herself, except that those infoboxes kind of fall into wikivoodoo territory code-wise*) --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 21:32, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

== Redirects ==

Has a bot been set up to find and remove all the Wikia linkbacks? Because by doing a [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Special:Search&ns0=1&redirs=0&searchx=1&search=wikia&limit=500&offset=0 search for the word Wikia], I've noticed that a lot of them are on redirect pages, and that accessing the redirect page doesn't show that link until you're on the Edit page... --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 20:39, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

== Moved/deleted pages ==

We got a lot of pages back which we had in June 2008 which we didn't before the crash. I did a diff on the current list of pages and the one we were saving caches from and have 43 pages left to check. So far, these pages are ones I'm not sure what happened to in the intervening 8 months:

{{collist|3|
# <s>[[Overlord (rank)|Autobot Overlord]]</s>
# [[Clamp]]
# [[Dinocons]]
# [[Gone Forever]]
# [[Holly Kaneko]]
# [[Matrix Buster]]
# [[Monorail transport]]
# <s>[[Seattle-Tacoma area]]</s>
# [[Steamer]]
# [[Taitem Kusunoki]]
# [[Transformers books]]
# <s>[[Transformers in 3D issue 2]]</s>
}}

Dinocons, I'd have assumed was deleted, but our cache copy of [[Dinobot (disambiguation)]] links to it. Holly Kaneko and Taitem Kusunoki are copies of [[Harii Kaneko]] and [[Taiten Kusunoki]] respectively. Someone with a better grasp of Japanese may know where they belong. Matrix buster and Seattle-Tacoma area may have been merged with [[Big Cannon]] and [[Seattle]]. Steamer, I have no idea what happened to, as [[Steamer (G1)]] redirects to [[Chuffer]]... --[[User:Abates|abates]] 00:50, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:Yep, I'd moved "Seattle-Tacoma area" to "Seattle" when I realized there were more specific references to that one city in the canon. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 01:19, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:Dinocons is definitely an unrecovered page, possibly one of G1MarvelBlaster's cache recoveries... It's the Shattered Glass Dinobots who ally themselves with Decepticons in that continuity. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 01:21, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
::Those would be at [[Dinobot (Shattered Glass)]] though! G1MarvelBlaster's pages all start with O and P. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:42, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Well, no. The "Dinobots" that ended up in Decepticon hands following Dungeons & Dinobots got renamed Dinocons once Do Over started. (literally. The first line of Do Over is "Good morning, Dinocons!".) --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 07:00, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
[[Transformers in 3D issue 2]] was moved to [[Transformers in 3-D issue 2]], following the title on the cover. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 13:04, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

==Double redirects==
The restoration process has resulted in [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Special:DoubleRedirects&limit=500&offset=0 quite a lot of double redirects,] and we probably haven't seen the end of it. I've got other projects I want to use my time on right now, but I figured I'd point this out so that anyone interested could tackle it and keep an eye on it in the future. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 14:59, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

== IDW Gen1 issues completed ==

These have all been fixed. Still outstanding (as far as I know) are Hearts of Steel, Beast Wars and Movie continuity. On, and reprint series. --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 11:18, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

== Current status of the wiki ==

So, at the moment how are we? I have read all of this page but I'm still not sure what exactly is left to do at the moment (IE how many pages have we lost, how close are we to being back to normal, what is the extent of the damage to pages etc etc) P.S. how much space does the wiki take up (I'd prefer to have images and articles seperately) because I thought that maybe toghether we could all back up the wiki on our computers (as in we each get a little bit of it). P.P.S. I'll probably be registering soon, any ideas on a good name? [[Special:Contributions/81.108.237.26|81.108.237.26]] 11:25, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

== Big Sweep 2.0 ==

Deceptitran's ''first'' big sweep is done. The Wikia links are (mostly) excised.

Prep now begins for a second sweep-- Scout has dome some prep-stuff that'll let me target Deceptitraan better, as well as giving it a more complete page list-- yay!

===What's Broken===
What's broken? What templates are still mangled HTML you want [[User:Deceptitran]] to try and fix? Provide a page link showing the broken code, and say what template you want it to turn into, and I'll take a poke at the coding, yes? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:00, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

Generally replace '''<nowiki>'</nowiki>''' with '''<nowiki>'</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>&</nowiki>''' with '''<nowiki>&</nowiki>'''. Templates follow in their own sections... - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 19:41, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

====<nowiki>{{charstubfiction}}</nowiki>====
Rendered as the following on [[Soundwave (G1)]]:

<center>
<table cellspacing="0" style="width:80%;">

<tr>
<td style="padding:0 1em 0 1em;text-align:right;"><div class="tti_messageboxdiv" style="width:100%;padding:.5em; background-color:#efefff; border:solid 1px #9f9fff;text-align:center;margin:auto;">[[Image:Rad-sm.gif|left|93px|No, really. HE WANTS TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE TRANSFORMERS.]]
<span style="font-size:125%;font-weight:900;">I want to tell you about the Transformers!</span><hr />
''This character article is a [[:Category:Character stubs missing fiction|stub]] and is missing information on their '''fictional appearances'''. You can help '''Transformers Wiki''' by [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Soundwave_%28G1%29&action=edit expanding it].''

</div>
</td></tr></table>
</center>

Also places in <nowiki>[[Category:Character stubs missing fiction]]</nowiki>, which the import script adds to the list of categories at the bottom, and which should be removed.

====<nowiki>{{ongoing}}</nowiki>====
Rendered as the following on [[Soundwave (G1)]]:

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<span style="font-size:125%;font-weight:900;">Let's see what you can see...</span><hr />
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'''Proceed on your way to oblivion.'''<br />''This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.''

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<span style="font-size:125%;font-weight:900;">I cannot remain in this unacceptable operational status!</span><hr />
''This character article is a [[:Category:Character stubs|stub]] and is missing information. You can help '''Transformers Wiki''' by [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Dinobot_%28G1%29&action=edit expanding it].''

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BotCon 2009

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'''BotCon 2009''' will be held May 28-31 in Pasadena, California.

:''Preceded by: [[BotCon 2008]]''

==Run-up==
In 2008, the club forums were changed from BotCon 2008 to BotCon 2009, with the tag line of "For one young Autobot..."

On [[December 24]], the [http://www.botcon.com BotCon website] was updated with the date and location.

On [[January 6]], 2009, Brian Savage posted a teaser in the club boards:

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</td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> OK, while we are working on finalizing the convention details, brochure and registration forms, we wanted to start the speculation game:
"For one young Autobot..." is all we have revealed so far. While we tend to guard the convention sets and souvenirs closely, I want to let you know that we are very excited about what we have waiting in the wings!

The set we have planned features a select team of Autobots never before featured in G1 in this way. The timeline we are spotlighting is new, yet very familiar...

Let the games begin!

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</td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> But who said I was giving a clue? Maybe I am just here to add a little mayhem, to get my TCC squad all riled up. I know, I know, I will probably get attacked at the show.
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On [[February 20]], 2009 the brochure was posted, revealing the set theme to be the [[Elite Guard]], making Pete Sinclair's posts unrelated.

On [[February 24]], the first figure, Kup was revealed. The [[February 25|next day]], the link to the registration forms were sent to members via email. By [[March 2]], all loose and Iacon sets had sold out.

==Venue==
BotCon 2009 was held at the Pasadena Convention Center.

==Merchandise==
===Convention-exclusive toys===
* '''Convention box set'''
*'''[[Kup]]''', a [[retool]] of ''[[Cybertron]]'' [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]]
*'''[[Flak]]''', a [[retool]] of [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Cybertron Defense Scattorshot]]
*'''[[Landshark]]''', a [[redeco]] of ''[[Energon]]'' [[Landmine (Energon)|Landmine]]
*'''[[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]]''', a [[redeco]] of ''[[Energon]]'' [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]]
*'''[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]''', a [[retool]] of ''[[Cybertron]]'' [[Sideways]]

*'''Attendee-Only Bonus Toy'''

*'''Customization Class Toy'''

*'''At-Show Souvenir Toys'''

===Fiction===
==Guests==
===Hasbro employees===
===Voice actors===
===Comics and animation===
==Events==
Fun Publications scheduled a large number of events to take place over the course of the convention to keep attendees entertained and informed.

===Thursday===
===Friday===
===Saturday===
===Sunday===
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BotCon 2009

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BotCon 2009

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