Transformers: Armada (trading cards)

The Transformers: Armada trading cards were released by Fleer in 2003, as part of the general merchandising blitz intended to raise the profile of the series. Like many similar publications from the time, it reuses art assets created by Dreamwave Productions, with the back faces of the character cards featuring bios, all apparently taken from some material provided by Hasbro to various contractors; the wording for many characters is shared with their entries in the Transformers: Armada Official Guidebook, with the minimal editing necessary to fit the format.

They were distributed in packs of five cards, consisting of three sets:

• Regular set
  • 84 Character cards
  • 36 Puzzle cards (one per pack)
  • Checklist cards (one in every six packs)
  • Energon preview cards (one in every four packs)
• Parallel set (one per pack)
  • 122 "Gold Parallel" cards
• Insert set (one in every two packs)
  • 10 Armada posters (one in every nine packs)
  • 9 Autobot / Decepticon cards (one in every six packs)
  • 12 Comic art cards (one in every nine packs)
  • 8 Flappers (one in every eighteen packs)
  • 50 Sketchagraph ("Each is a 1:1")
  • Pat Lee-signed cards (limited to seven-hundred pieces)

Cards

Regular Set

Character Cards Ransack Iceberg Dune Runner Star Saber Dark Star Saber Thunderwing Gunbarrel Terradive DrillBit Dualor Makeshift Prowl Firebot Bonecrusher Knock Out Wreckage Dirt Boss Downshift Mirage Waterlog Oceanglide Stormcloud Astroscope Payload Payload Sky Blast Grindor High Wire Sureshock Perceptor Backtrack Oval Spiral Megatron Leader-1 Starscream Swindle Cyclonus Crumplezone Demolishor Blackout Sideways Rook & Crosswise Thrust Inferno Thundercracker Zapmaster Galvatron Clench Wheeljack Windsheer Skywarp Tidal Wave Ramjet Optimus Prime Super Optimus Prime Sparkplug Red Alert Longarm Laserbeak Smokescreen Liftor Jetfire Comettor Blurr Incinerator Scavenger Rollbar Side Swipe Nightbeat Hoist Refute Overload Rollout Unicron Hot Shot Jolt Terrorsaur Rhinox Airazor Airazor Rad, Carlos, and Alexis

Puzzle Cards Puzzle A Piece 1 Piece 2 Piece 3 Piece 4 Piece 5 Piece 6 Piece 7 Piece 8 Piece 9 Puzzle B Piece 1 Piece 2 Piece 3 Piece 4 Piece 5 Piece 6 Piece 7 Piece 8 Piece 9 Puzzle C Piece 1 Piece 2 Piece 3 Piece 4 Piece 5 Piece 6 Piece 7 Piece 8 Piece 9 Puzzle D Piece 1 Piece 2 Piece 3 Piece 4 Piece 5 Piece 6 Piece 7 Piece 8 Piece 9

Checklist Checklist

Energon Preview Scorponok Energon Preview

Insert set

Posters Starscream Triumphant Armada Heroes and Villains Earth in Peril The Eternal Struggle Struggle for the Minicons The Chase

Autobot / Decepticon Cards Optimus Prime Hot Shot Red Alert Smokescreen Megatron Starscream Demolishor Cyclonus One undocumented card.

Comic Art Issue 4, Jame Raiz Eleven undocumented cards.

Flappers Optimus Prime Super Optimus Prime Starscream Cyclonus

Sketchagraph

Gallery

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  I summon Steel Scorpion in attack position!
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  Optimus struggles to read the side of the card.
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  Armada™️ Heroes and Villains. _{And Blackout.}

Notes

• For some reason, Drill Bit's name is consistently rendered without a space, but keeps the capitalisation: "DrillBit".
• The Scorponok Energon Preview card uses Takara's color scheme; later Dreamwave art would use the Hasbro color scheme.

See also

• Complete bio archive