Mysterious Ancient Document

The Mysterious Ancient Document (謎の古文書 Nazo no Komonjo) is an ancient piece of parchment detailing the capture of Cobrander and the consequences of reviving him.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

After Cobrander was captured and his soul sealed into the Bewitching Serpent Seal, his body turned into stone. The Mysterious Ancient Document was written to detail those events and warn against releasing the "demon". The document was placed by the ruling Lion clan with the seal and Cobrander's stone body within Red Phoenix's prison, and the fortress kept in Beast's vast forest. Mysterious Ancient Document Eons later, when the stone statue was disrupted in a battle between the Autobot and Decepticon Beastformers, the Beastformers looked to the Mysterious Ancient Document for answers as to what the statue was. Series 3 catalog Eventually the specter of Alligatron figured out the secrets of the statue and revived Cobrander as part of his revenge against White Leo and his Beastformers. Burstsun catalog

Text

我々はやっとのことで平和なビースト星を荒らした悪 魔—凶悪なコブランダーを捕えることができた。 そしてライオン族に伝わる妖蛇封印にその魂を閉じ込 め、肉体を石にし、ライオン族を守り続けたビースト 星の3大勇士の1人「火炎要塞・レッドフェニックス」 のおりの中に閉じ込めたのだ。 決して妖蛇封印を取ってはならない。 再びこの悪魔に生をあたえたなら、 ビースト星は滅亡するであろう。

We have finally managed to capture the demon that ravaged the peaceful planet Beast: the vicious Cobrander. We trapped his soul in the Lion Clan's Bewitching Serpent Seal, turned his body to stone, and locked him in the cage of the Flame Fortress Red Phoenix, one of the three heroes of the planet Beast who had been protecting the Lion Clan. Never take the Bewitching Serpent Seal. If you give life to this demon again, the planet Beast will be destroyed.

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Burstsun Special Set (Multi-pack, 1987)
• Flame Fortress Red Phoenix (Fortress, 1987)

The two halves of the Mysterious Ancient Document were packed with the "Burstsun Special Set" ten-pack of figures (right half), and the Flame Fortress Red Phoenix (left half), requiring customers to get both if they wanted the complete document. These halves could then be mailed to Takara, along with a filled-out questionnaire that came with both sets, to be redeemed for an exclusive "Petrified Special Cobrander" figure. The documents needed to be postmarked by January 31st of 1988 to get the figure.

Apparently Takara severely underestimated how many kids would buy the toys and mail the documents in, requiring a second run of the figure.