Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 61

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Two full pages of this issue are devoted to pictures of just this guy.
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early February
Cover date	Feb/March 2015
MTMTE Profiles	Dan Khanna, Jim Sorenson
Contributors	David Willis Greg Black Jim Sorenson Bill Forster Karl Hartman Derrick J. Wyatt Richard Chang Benson Yee
Editor	Pete Sinclair
Associate editor	Jesse Wittenrich
Creative Director	Lanny Lathem
Editor-in-chief	Brian Savage

Legends of Awesomeness at Toy Fair 2015!

Contents

• On the cover: stock photography of Legends Class Combiner Wars Warpath
• Inside cover: "The Bolts Bite Back", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• "Rubber Soul: Caramel Flavored Chaos" by Andrew Hall (p. 3)
• "TOY FAIR: February 14–17, 2015" a sneak peek at Warpath, as shown on the cover (p. 4)
• "Transformers Collectors' Club EXCLUSIVE: Lio Convoy" (p. 5)
• "Cliffjumper's Cliff Notes!" a summary of the Shattered Glass stories thus far by Cliffjumper (p. 6)
• Another Light: "Falling into Place" - comic story (pp. 7–12)
• "Meet Fun Publications' Transformers Creative Team for 2015!" an introduction to some of this year's contributors (p. 13)
• Bio in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Beast Wars: Uprising Lio Convoy (p. 14)
• "'Broken Windshields': A prose story starring Lio Convoy of universal stream Primax 209.0 Gamma (Also known as Beast Wars: Uprising)" a preview by Jim Sorenson (p. 15)
• "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
  • Hot Shot's Bot Thoughts
  • Recordicons
  • Bot on the Street

Notes

• Characters mentioned in Cliffjumper's Cliff Notes include: Optronix/Optimus Prime, Megatron/Galvatron, Cliffjumper's Optimus Prime, Cliffjumper's Megatron, Skyfall, Landquake, Breakaway, Topspin, Heatwave, Omega Doom, Alpha Trion, Cyclonus, Nexus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Wheeljack, Scourge, Cliffjumper's Ultra Magnus, Cliffjumper's Wheeljack, Cliffjumper's Perceptor, and Aquarius.
  • Cliffjumper's Cliff Notes recaps the history of the Shattered Glass universe thus far, written in-universe by Cliffjumper. The datapad that they're written on is actually seen in this issue's installments of "Another Light".
  • Images used in this recap include art of Cliffjumper from his profile in issue #17 (art by Thomas Deer); art of Optimus Prime from his original BotCon 2008 toy's tech specs (art by Greg Sepelak); the profile art of Galvatron and Nexus Prime, from issue #30 (pencils and inks for Galvatron by Makoto Ono, colors by Jesse Wittenrich, pencils and inks for Nexus Prime by Robby Musso, colors by Thomas Deer); and art of Ultra Magnus from a promotional ad for BotCon 2012 (pencils and inks by Robby Musso, colors by Jesse Wittenrich).
  • Specific events and ideas brought up include the early years of the Shattered Glass war, as laid out in the various tech specs of BotCon 2008; Cliffjumper's arrival in the universe and his assistance in pushing back the launch of the Ark from the original "Shattered Glass" comic; the eventual journey to Earth and the war's continuation there in the various Shattered Glass prose stories; the death and rebirth of Megatron, the reuniting of Nexus Prime, and the threat of Omega Doom from the "Reunification" storyline; the destruction of Cliffjumper's home universe at the hands of Ultra Magnus in "Invasion"; and Ultra Magnus and Megatron and their troops arrival in the distant past, from the "Beast Wars Shattered Glass" storyline.
  • Wheeljack is noted to have stolen the Terminus Blade from Scourge's Vaults of the Unknown, a detail having previously only been briefly mentioned in the recap of the "Classicsverse" from issue #49.
  • Cliffjumper notes that archeologists on the Shattered Glass Earth have discovered strange technology in digsites, which Wheeljack and Perceptor theorize to be from Magnus and Megatron's battles; perhaps this dig site is where Classics Ravage found a piece of Megatron's Gigastorm Armor, as seen in the 24th installment of Recordicons.
  • Cliffjumper thinks the universal stream names (which he's heard from the Quintesson Aquarius), are stupid and long.
• Characters mentioned in Lio Convoy's profile include: Eject.
  • Lio Convoy's bio sets up much for "Broken Windshields", the first Beast Wars: Uprising prose story, including Lio Convoy's role in the games, his mentorship by Eject, his Class-A Status, his Solipsistic Staff, his Energon Matrix, and his ability to self heal. However, some details from this bio would eventually be ignored or retconned right out.
  • Lio Convoy's Energon Matrix was built at a place called "Artemis", presumably named for the Beast Wars II gynoid.
  • Lio Convoy is equipped with an Angolmois Blaster that taps into the Dark Energon still suffused into Cybertron to fire concussive blasts; Angolmois Energy and Dark Energon are the lifeblood of Unicron, from Beast Wars II and the "Aligned" continuity, respectively, and are linked here as one and the same. The blast is enough to punch through solid dutronium, a metal mentioned in TransTech prose story "Withered Hope".
• For this year, "Brian's Bytes and Bolts" is replaced by "The Bolts Bite Back". It's written by Lio Convoy himself! He also replaces Rampage as this year's "Where It's At..." mascot.
• Karl Hartman is no longer listed as "research editor" and is now a "contributor". Trent Troop and Greg Sepelak are gone from the list of contributors.
• Transformers I.Q. is gone from the back page, replaced by Hot Shot's Bot Thoughts and Bot on the Street. That means David Willis gets the whole back page to himself!