Robots in Disguise! The Transformers Are by Your Side!?
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 Well, are they?! | |||||||||||||
| "Robots in Disguise! The Transformers Are by Your Side!?" ロボッツインディスガイズ! トランスフォーマーは君のすぐそばに!?
(Robots in Disguise! Transformer wa Kimi no Sugu Soba ni!?) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | TakaraTomy | ||||||||||||
| First published | May 7, 2014 | ||||||||||||
| By | Makoto Wakabayashi | ||||||||||||
The Kreons find themselves on an alien planet where they're no bigger than toys to the inhabitants!
Synopsis
[edit]During a battle between the Autobots and Decepticons, a space bridge malfunction sends them both to a faraway planet where everything is giant to them, including a cat that Bumblebee mistakes for a monster. The young human owner of the cat is shocked to find his Kreon toys moving about, so Optimus Prime explains that they are in fact Super Block Lifeforms from another world. They are interrupted by Megatron, who announces his intent to just conquer this new planet instead, but Optimus Prime tells him that if they don't go home, his Decepticons back on their own world will forget about him. Not wanting that to happen, Megatron relents, and the Kreons construct a spaceship to return home, accidentally building Bumblebee into it in the process.
As the Kreons leave, Optimus Prime assures the human boy that some day they'll meet again, then tells you that his Kreon friends may be hiding by your side, too. And as long as you believe, you'll always be together.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
[edit]Transformers references
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- The plot of this issue is based on the Generation 1 cartoon episode "Child's Play", only instead of an alien planet, the Kreons end up on our planet.
- The human boy doesn't get named or show his whole face, but is clearly Isami Tatewaki from Transformers Go!. He even has the red Legendisc.
- Isami's other possessions include the original Optimus Prime Kreon, a Cloud Megatron toy, a portable game based on Power Up VT6, Music Label Frenzy/Rumble headphones, and most obscure of all, a Power Cycle.
- The battle in panel 6 is based on the mural artwork printed on the back of Transformers packaging in 1984, right down to the stray Autobot insignia on Optimus Prime's hand. Prowl and Sunstreaker show up for a brief appearance in reference to this (the later of whom had his Micro-Changer toy revealed only a couple of weeks before this was put up!). Starscream is also shown changing forms, something that also appeared on the box mural.
- In panel 8, Bumblebee's torso is submerged halfway between the rocket. However, this is not an error, but a reference to one of the many errors that took place in the rocket launching scene originally in "Child's Play"!
