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| '''''Unite Warriors Offshot''''' (ユナイトウォリアーズオフショット ''Yunaito Woriāzu Ofushotto'') is a series of short stories printed on the back of the instruction booklets of ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors]]'' toys. Illustrated by [[Hayato Sakamoto]], the chapters consist of a piece of art with a short descriptive caption and depict the various [[combiner]] teams just having a good time. They're set in the [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]], evidently some 40–50 years after the first two seasons of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]], to which there are various callbacks, mainly in the form of human cameos. A diagram by Sakamoto shown at [[BotCon 2016]] places ''Offshot'' after the events of ''[[Transformers: G-2 (story page)|G-2]]''.
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| | '''''Unite Warriors Offshot''''' (ユナイトウォリアーズオフショット ''Yunaito Woriāzu Ofushotto'') is a series of short stories printed on the back of the instruction booklets of ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors]]'' toys. Illustrated by [[Hayato Sakamoto]], the chapters consist of a piece of art with a short descriptive caption and depict the various [[combiner]] teams just having a good time. They're set in the [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]], with extensive callbacks to specific episodes of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]], mainly in the form of human cameos. The first two installments are set after the events of ''[[Transformers: G-2 (story page)|G-2]]'', while the rest occur earlier, circa [[2021]]. |
| ===Today Is Energon BBQ!===
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| :''Packaged with:'' [[Superion (G1)#Unite Warriors|UW-01 Superion]]
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| :''Original title:'' 今日はエネルゴンBBQ! (''Kyō wa Energon BBQ!'')
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| :The [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] host one of their usual [[Energon]] barbecues on the deck of [[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]], this time guested by their old friend [[Jumal|King Hassan]]. The classic car he's brought with him bring back fond memories for all of them.
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| | *[[Today Is Energon BBQ!|#1]] |
| |c1= | | *[[Today Is Us Stunticons' Annual Holiday Demolition Race!|#2]] |
| *[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (1) | | *[[Today Is First Aid's Close Friend NUL-A's Birthday!|#3]] |
| *[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (2)
| | *[[Crystal City Reconstruction Project!|#4]] |
| *[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (3) | | *[[Crossing the Pacific Ocean!?|#5]] |
| *[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (4)
| | *[[Special Training in the Lava Baths of Planet Thrull!|#6]] |
| *[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (5)
| | *[[Shopping at the Dark Bazaar!|#7]] |
| *[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (6)
| | *[[Surprise Father's Day Party!!|#8]] |
| | | *[[Invitation to the Dress Rehearsal!|#9]] |
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| | *[[Customary Car Wash Meeting in the Bath!|#10]] |
| *[[Jumal|Hassan]] (7)
| | *[[Strategy Meeting in an Earth Bath?!|#11]] |
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| ===Today Is Us Stunticons' Annual Holiday Demolition Race!===
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| :''Packaged with:'' [[Menasor (G1)#Unite Warriors|UW-02 Menasor]]
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| :''Original title:'' 今日は俺達スタントロン部隊の休日恒例ぶっ壊しレース! (''Kyō wa Oretachi Stuntron-butai no Kyūjitsu Kōrei Bukkowashi Race!'')
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| :The [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] have fun by racing each other atop stolen cars, and [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] wins using a [[Symultech Industries]] car he's nabbed from [[Auggie Cahnay Jr.]] They receive a summon from [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], but ignore it: not even the boss's orders can halt ''this'' race! They may soon change their tune, however, as the Aerialbots are on their way to deal with their mischief...
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| *[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (4)
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| *[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (5)
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| *[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (6)
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| *[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (7)
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| *[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (8)
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| *[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (10)
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| *[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (1)
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| *[[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] (2)
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| *[[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]] (3)
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| *[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (9) | |
| *[[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] (12)
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| *[[Auggie Cahnay Jr.]] (11)
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| ===Today Is First Aid's Close Friend NUL-A's Birthday!===
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| :''Packaged with:'' [[Defensor (G1)#Unite Warriors|UW-03 Guardian]]
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| :''Original title:'' 今日はファーストエイドの親友NUL-Aの誕生日! (''Kyō wa First Aid no Shin'yū NUL-A no Tanjōbi!'')
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| :In celebration of his baseball-loving friend [[NUL-A]]'s birthday, [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] gets his [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]] friends to play a special five-man night game just for him. NUL-A isn't the only one to get fired up from watching the Transformers play, however, as even [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] is watching and cheering his "baseball warriors" on from a nearby monitor.
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| *[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)
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| *[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] (3)
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| *[[Blades (G1)|Blades]] (4)
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| *[[Groove (G1)|Groove]] (5) | |
| *[[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] (6)
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| *[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (7)
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| *[[NUL-A]] (2)
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| ====Notes====
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| *Judging by the details of his faceplate, Optimus Prime is also in his ''Unite Warriors'' body.
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| ===Crystal City Reconstruction Project===
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| :''Packaged with:'' [[Devastator (G1)#Unite Warriors|UW-04 Devastor]]
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| :''Original title:'' クリスタルシティ再建計画 (''Crystal City Saiken Keikaku'')
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| :Having destroyed [[Crystal City]] long ago to prove their loyalty to Megatron, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] trick [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] into helping them rebuild the city on Earth. They are joined by their old friends, [[Hauler]] and [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], as well as the human scientist [[Chip Chase]].
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| *[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (1)
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| *[[Hauler]] (5)
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| *[[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] (7)
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| *[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (10)
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| *[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (2)
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| *[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (3)
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| *[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (4)
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| *[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (6)
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| *[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (8) | |
| *[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (9)
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| *[[Chip Chase]] (11)
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| ===Crossing the Pacific Ocean!?===
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| :''Packaged with:'' [[Optimus Maximus (G1)#Unite Warriors|UW-05 Convoy Grand Prime]]
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| :''Original title:'' 太平洋を横断ですか!? (''Taiheiyō o Ōdan Desu ka!?'')
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| :Having received a new surfboard from his friend, [[Marissa Faireborn]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] takes his Scramble Combination troops and their human friends to [[Hawaii]] for "special surfing training" (and definitely not a vacation).
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| *[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (1)
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| *[[Blades (G1)|Blades]] (2)
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| *[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (3)
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| *[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (4)
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| *[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] (7)
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| *[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (13)
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| *[[Cancer (Masterforce)|Cancer]] (5)
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| *[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] (6)
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| *[[Minerva (Masterforce human)|Minerva]]? (8)
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| *[[Marissa Faireborn]] (9)
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| *[[Sue (UW)|Sue]] (10) | |
| *[[Wilder (Masterforce)|Wilder]] (11)
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| *[[Kelly (RID)|Junko Shiragami]] (12)
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| ====Notes====
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| *Optimus Prime's friendship with Marissa refers to their relationship in ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]'', and his surfboard is based on his [[Surfblade]] from that series.
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| *Daniel wears the exo-suit of his ''Generations'' toy.
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| *Cancer and Wilder appear only as undetailed figures surfing in the background, made up only of color with no lineart. They're largely identifiable by their wetsuits, which match the ones they wore in the ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Masterforce]]'' episode, "[[Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai]]." Logically, that would suggest the other figure in the background, a blonde woman, is [[Minerva (Masterforce human)|Minerva]], though she's not wearing a recognizable wetsuit design.
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| *There was some confusion over who the second girl sitting in Optimus Prime's hand in this illustration is. She looks an awful lot like ''Kiss Players''-era Marissa, except she has brown hair instead of blonde, like modern-day Marissa does. As the ''Offshot'' stories seem to take place 25+ years after the Japanese third season of the cartoon, Marissa herself would have to be somewhere in her 40s (or maybe even her early 50s, if she was any older than 20 in ''Kiss Players''—though she's lookin' pretty good here). The younger woman was later confirmed at [[BotCon 2016]] to be Marissa's daughter, "Sue", a new character.
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| ===Special Training in the Lava Baths of Planet Thrull!===
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| :''Packaged with:'' [[Grand Galvatron#Unite Warriors|UW-06 Grand Galvatron]]
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| :''Original title:'' 惑星スラルの溶岩風呂で特訓だ! (''Wakusei Thrull no Yōgan Furo de Tokkun da!'')
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| :[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] trains his troops by subjecting them to the lava pools of [[Thrull]], to varying responses: [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] gets dizzy from the heat, [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] feels great, [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] tries to escape but is caught by appointed watchman [[Doctor Arkeville]], and [[Roller (IDW)|Roller]] finishes first so that he can relax and enjoy a drink. What burns even hotter than the lava, however, is Cyclonus's conviction as he tells the others of his plan to fully resurrect [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]]. Will they succeed...?
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| *[[Roller (IDW)|Roller]] (1)
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| *[[Grand Galvatron]] (hologram, 2)
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| *[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (3)
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| *[[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] (4)
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| *[[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] (5)
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| *[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (6)
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| *[[Doctor Arkeville]] (7)
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| ====Notes====
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| *The chapter is a reference to Galvatron's time in Thrull's lava pits as seen in "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1]]" and "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2|Part 2]]"... but there's a problem with that, as Galvatron ''destroyed'' Thrull afterwards!
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| **A similar thing happened with [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] in the JG1 continuity. Presumably we can justify that in the ten-plus years which have passed, Thrull was somehow restored. This is science fiction, after all. | |
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| ===Shopping at the Dark Bazaar!===
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| :''Packaged with:'' [[Bruticus (G1)#Unite Warriors|UW-07 Bruticus]]
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| :''Original title:'' 闇バザーでショッピング! (''Yami Bazaar de Shopping!'')
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| :The [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] host an arms trading market at [[Combaticons' headquarters|their base]], with many unscrupulous humans showing up to do business. While [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] and [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] assess the goods for sale, [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] busies himself with selling his own home-made missiles as well as items belonging to [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]], much to the latter's annoyance. Three scientists, [[Elise Presser]], [[Martin and Roland|Martin, and Roland]], claim they have come to sell their newest creation, [[B.O.T. II]], but [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] suspects they're actually trying to sneak a mole into the Combaticons' operations.
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| *[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (5)
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| *[[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] (6)
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| *[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (7)
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| *[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (8)
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| *[[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (9)
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| *[[Elise Presser]] (2)
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| *[[Martin and Roland|Roland]] (3)
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| *[[Martin and Roland|Martin]] (4)
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| *[[Ali (Sunbow)|Ali]] (10)
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| *[[Chumley]] (11) | |
| *[[Dinsmoore]] (12)
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| *[[El Presidente]] (13)
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| *In addition to the presence of a new [[B.O.T. (G1)|B.O.T.]] and its creators, this chapter references "[[B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.]]" by having Swindle selling Brawl's parts.
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| *Dinsmoore must be ''impossibly'' old by now.
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| ===Surprise Father's Day Party!!===
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| :''Packaged with:'' [[Computron (G1)#Unite Warriors|UW-08 Computicon]]
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| :''Original title:'' サプライズな父の日パーティー!! (''Surprise na Chichi no Hi Party!!'')
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| :Having learned of the human custom of [[Father's Day]], the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] throw a party to honor their equivalent of a father, [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]]. While they're still preparing, with [[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] baking energon cake and [[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] and [[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] decorating, the guest of honor arrives unexpectedly early, causing chaos as [[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] sprays him with energon champagne at the same time as [[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] tries to give him his present. [[Sue (UW)|Sue]] is also there, having given her own dad [[Dirk Manus]] a box of chocolate money that he wishes was the real deal.
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| *[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (1) | |
| *[[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] (2) | |
| *[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (3)
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| *[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (4)
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| *[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (5)
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| *[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (6)
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| *[[Dirk Manus]] (7)
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| *[[Sue (UW)|Sue]] (8)
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