Mini Mayhem!

Mini Mayhem! is a series of Fumetti-style comic strips by Jesse Wittenrich and appearing in the Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club magazine, produced by Fun Publications. It features a comical take on Transformers using posed toys from numerous lines, most frequently the MyClone mini-figures.

However, the majority of characters in the strip are not Transformers toys but Minimates, 2" tall multi-property brand mini-block figures developed by Art Asylum and produced by Diamond Select Toys. The use of toys produced by a competitor to Hasbro is grudgingly allowed in the fan club magazine as long as only Minimates from licenses Hasbro also holds, such as Marvel and Battlestar Galactica characters, or generics customized by Wittenrich, are used in fan-club strips.

Despite this and the fact the strip began as a fan project, the strips which appear as part of the official content of the fan club magazine are considered to be some sort of canon for the purposes of this wiki. If you turn your head to the side and squint a bit.

Publications

• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #10
  • Bumblebee and Cyclops are complaining over the fact that they can never get the toys they want off the store shelves! Cyclops is certain it's because the stock boys are taking all the good stuff for themselves! Sure enough, he sees one sneak off with a Primus toy in hand, but is unable to catch him before he dashes off into the stock room.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #11
  • Optimus Prime turns on the lights in the Autobot base, only to find a surprise party waiting for him! Luke Cage, Wolverine, Spider-Woman, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and the Hulk all wish him a happy 20th Anniversary since the release of The Transformers: The Movie. Though Optimus is touched, elsewhere, Arcee, Jazz, Hot Rod, and Grimlock are peeved that they didn't get invited to the party.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #12
  • Bumblebee asks Ultra Magnus for a dollar for the snack machine. Ultra Magnus tells Bumblebee that the health foods machine he's pouring all his money into is just using him, Bumblebee denies it, claiming Magnus just doesn't understand their love. He then reveals that he's been feeding Daniel all the granola bars he's been getting out of the vending machine.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #13
  • Starscream proclaims his greatness, saying all those who oppose him should tremble before his might... only for the cashier of the burger joint he's at to insist that the price of his meal still adds up to $1.36. A cent short, Starscream curses the inventor of the penny.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #14
  • Having been "cast aside" for being a clone of the original, some jerk in a Spider-Man outfit leads an army of Clone troopers... to smash up Bumblebee and Sideswipe's Star Wars/Transformers cross-over toys!
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #15
  • Cyclops is sick of waiting in line for the Transformers movie! He suddenly hits upon an idea though... all he needs to do is make a call. He pulls out his cellphone and... has it transform to robot mode so the little 'bot can hold his spot in the line while he goes to a nearby payphone.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #19
  • In celebration of the brand, the different eras of the Transformers are glossed over; starting with G1 (represented by Optimus Prime, continuing into Beast Wars (represented by Optimus Primal, then into Armada (represented by Perceptor, Sparkplug, Jolt, Leader-1, and Blackout, then into the live-action movie franchise (represented by Bumblebee, and finally into Animated (represented by... Cyclops. Because the Animated toys aren't out yet!)
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #20
  • Jean Grey walks in on Cyclops, catching him watching Transformers Animated on his phone. Furious over the way he looks at Blackarachnia, she kicks him out of the house. Cyclops winds up at Eric Siebenaler's house, and opts to keep on ogling Blackarachnia on his big screen TV.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #21
  • Megatron hatches a devilish scheme: by shrinking himself and his Decepticons, he plans on infiltrating BotCon, gather information on upcoming toys, and use this knowledge to conquer the Autobots once and for all! Along with Starscream, Thundercracker, Shrapnel, Ravage, Skywarp, Shockwave, and Soundwave, he manages to sneak past the convention's guards and tracks down Eric Siebenaler... only to be met with a cardboard cut-out of the toy-designer instead of the real deal! Shockwave informs that the real Eric is currently in Australia, and Megatron curses the human, his plan foiled.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #22 - Two strips
  • Rodimus and Ultra Magnus gang up on Eric Siebenaler in order to teach the human a lesson... in pain!
  • Eric Siebenaler tries to convince Snarl to show up in his magazine, but the Dinobot isn't interested. Eric promises he'll let Snarl punch some Decepticons, but Snarl retorts that he'd rather just punch Eric. And does so. Eric is left buckled over on the ground, groaning in pain.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #23
  • On Megatron's birthday, Starscream hides a bomb in Megatron's cake... but does suck a poor job concealing it that Megatron is left wondering whether Starscream is putting any efforts in his coups anymore.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #24
  • Eric Siebenaler reminds Derrick J. Wyatt that he is supposed to be cooking the turkey for his thanksgiving dinner, only for Derrick to go on a rant of what the Animated version of Metroplex will be like. Turns out, the turkey burned... but pizza's on its way!
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #25
  • Some guy in a Spider-Man outfit and Cyclops ask why Derrick Wyatt and Eric Siebenaler are getting all the attention, when they aren't doing anything interesting; they're just eating pie. Optimus chimes in, saying the Transformers are doing something much more interesting: Sunstreaker, Hot Rod, and himself are... also eating a pie!
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #26
  • Bombshell asks Bludgeon what's the point of his Pretender shell, since a giant skeleton can hardly blend in human society. Turns out, Bludgeon witnessed the opening of the Ark of the Covenant, reducing his once-human face to what it is now.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #27
  • Sam asks Ratchet and Ironhide whether they've ever considered fighting The Fallen with water, considering he's always on fire. The two Autobots are stumped that they've never thought of Sam's idea; instead, they had tried to "fight fire with fire" in the most literal sense.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #28
  • The Autoscout zooms past Blitzwing to deliver an urgent message to Blackarachnia! Blackarachnia opens the note and finds... a letter from Soundwave asking her if she likes him. Skids and Mudflap then arrive, and realize they're too late to be in the comic.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #29
  • Tired of being a king and a warrior, Grimlock exclaims aloud that he's decided to become a waiter so that he can spit in people's drinks. Watching from afar, Perceptor wonders who the Dinobot is addressing, though Sunstreaker is just glad it isn't him.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #30
  • Galvatron unleashes Predaking, boasting that with his combined animal powers, the combiner has no equal! Being confronted by Flykick, Graysharp, White Leo, Golder, and Grayox makes Galvatron change his tune though.
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #39
  • Grimlock, Jazz, and Shockwave discuss how they're shoe-ins for this year's hall of fame when two other "fan-favorites" walk in on them: Waspinator and Erector. The gang mistake Erector for Bumblebee, and so spare him any mockery, but verbally tear into Waspinator; they insist he has no chance of winning. Waspinator counters that he once ruled over all of the "fleshy-bots," but the other 'bots won't hear it. Taking Erector with them, Grimlock, Jazz, and Shockwave walk off, leaving Waspinator desperately insisting that he was really was once a king.

See also

• Lil Formers
• Superdeformers

External links

• Mini Mayhem website (defunct)