Editing The Big Operation to Help Santa!

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|seriesissue=''[[Transformers Go! Go!]]'' print issue 15
|prev=The Villains' Strategy Conference, Indeed!
|next=The Transformers' Explosive New Years' Battle!
|caption=
|image=Go!Go! print15.jpg
|title="The Big Operation to Help Santa!"
|japanese=サンタさんおたすけ大作戦!
|romaji=
|publisher=[[Kodansha]]
|published in=''[[TV Magazine]]''
|date=
|coverdate=December 2022/January 2023
|manga=[[Haruka Oda]]
|editor=[[Minoko]]
}}

'''The Autobots ensure there'll be no year without a Santa Claus!'''

==Synopsis==
'Twas the night before [[Christmas]], and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] marvel at the winter weather as they conduct a regular patrol... only for their routine mission to take a turn for the ''ir''regular when they come across [[Santa Claus]], who's crashed his sleigh. With Santa out of commission, Optimus and the other Autobots agree to help out and save Christmas!

One by one, Bumblebee, Optimus, [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]], [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] race against the clock to deliver presents to all the sleeping children, dodging hazards all the while—and, at the crack of dawn, the whole team bands together to form a bridge so that Bumblebee can deliver presents to a remote island cottage. With the job done and Santa's sleigh repaired, the jolly old man takes flight once more—but not before giving the Autobots some Christmas presents of their own! 

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
*[[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] (5)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (8)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (9)

|c4=
*[[Santa Claus]] (3)
*Red-nosed reindeer (4)
*Sleeping children (6,7,11)
*Yappy dog (10)
}}

==Notes==
* This comic was published in the December 2022/January 2023 issue of ''TV Magazine'' and advertised the [[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy (TakaraTomy)|''Legacy'']] [[Elita One (G1)#Legacy|Elita One]]  and [[Studio Series#Studio Series (TakaraTomy)|''Studio Series'']] [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS90|Galvatron]] toys.

===Real-world references===
* To deliver presents on time, Grimlock uses his [[fire-breath]] to quickly rocket himself backwards, a la [[Godzilla]] in ''{{w|Godzilla vs. Hedorah}}''.
* Although he's not named in the comic itself, Santa's sleigh is shown being pulled by a single {{w|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer|red-nosed reindeer}}.

===Other trivia===
* The toy callout for this issue advertises Elita's 2022 [[Elita One (G1)#Legacy|''Legacy'' toy]], but in the comic itself she's still sporting a body she's used up til this point, based on the dark red ''[[Elita One (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy|War for Cybertron]]'' toy. The first page of the story also features [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS90|''Studio Series'' Galvatron]] for some reason, although his inclusion in the story would've probably made things much more interesting.

==External links==
*[https://www.tfraw.com/p/episode-15-santa-sans-great-help.html Scans of "The Big Rescue Operation for Santa!"] at TFRaw
*[https://transformers-translations.tumblr.com/post/704754433622441984/my-fan-translation-of-transformers-go-go-vol-15 Translation of "The Big Rescue Operation for Santa!"] at the TF Translations blog

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