Megatron's Ambition!? The Solar Tower Is Built!
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| "Megatron's Ambition!? The Solar Tower Is Built!" メガトロンの野望!? ソーラータワーを組み立てろ!
(Megatron no Yabō!? Solar Tower o Kumitatero!) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | TakaraTomy | ||||||||||||
| First published | February 4, 2014 | ||||||||||||
| By | Makoto Wakabayashi | ||||||||||||
Megatron has plans.
Synopsis
[edit]The Decepticons have nearly finished building their solar tower, a device that will grant them all the solar energy they need to conquer Earth, after which Megatron will integrate all the world's blocks into his own body and become powerful enough to rule the universe! But first, there is one last step before the tower is completed: the addition of a giant golden effigy of Megatron's head at its apex. Unfortunately the tower is too tall for the Decepticons to climb, and the sculpture is too heavy for Starscream to fly up with, so Megatron leaves the matter to combiners Devastator, Bruticus, and Menasor. However, the three giants have trouble working as a team and end up dropping the Megatron head, destroying the solar tower.
By the time the Autobots arrive to investigate the Decepticon plot, all they find is Megatron and his troops buried in a pile of blocks, much to the confusion of Optimus Prime.
Featured characters
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Notes
[edit]Transformers references
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- The plot of this issue is based on the Generation 1 episode "The Master Builders", specifically the part where Devastator has to place a sun-focusing sphere on the Solar Power Tower. The appearances of Hoist, Grapple, and Optimus Prime with a basketball are further references to the same episode.
- The Constructicon who appears in the first panel is based on one of the two additional Constructicons who appeared in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4" (the bald-looking one on the left, behind the table, in the pic at right). Japanese continuity has retroactively labelled the two extra 'bots in this scene Hauler and Gravedigger; which of those two this is, or if that should even matter for the Kre-O universe, we don't know.
- While envisioning what the power of the solar tower will let him accomplish, Megatron imagines a cyberformed Japan—an image copied straight out of the third issue of the Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers manga.
- The ship floating over a cyberformed Japan alongside Astrotrain is based on the Thunder Arrow from Victory.
- Megatron's plan to integrate Earth into his own body is the same as Galvatron's plan to become Grand Galvatron in the Headmasters episode "The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg".
- The middle panel—featuring Bruticus, Devastator, and Menasor—is a (loving?) homage to a TV Magazine illustration by Shin Matsuo of Studio OX.
