Transformers: The Ultimate Guide

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Transformers: The Ultimate Guide is an offically licensed guide from DK Publishing published in 2005. written by Simon Furman in 2004. In 2007, a second edition was published, increasing the page count from 144 to 152 (visibly different by having a reflective background on the cover instead of white).

Contents

• Introduction

Generation 1

• • When not explicitly stated otherwise, all information is assumed to apply to the Dreamwave comics continuity.
• Cybertron
• The City of Iacon
• Civil War
• Optimus Prime
• Megatron
• Autobot Officers
• The Decepticons
• Soundwave and Co.
• The Dinobots
• Combiners
• TV Season 1
• TV Season 2
• The Movie
• US Comics 1
• US Comics 2
• UK Comics 1
• UK Comics 2
• TV Season 3 & 4
• Unicron
• Quintessons
• Primus
• Special teams
• Headmasters and Targetmasters
• Powermaster Optimus Prime
• Pretenders
  • On several points this book appears to deliberately favor story material from comic continuities as opposed to animated continuity. This is most conspicuous when dealing with the origin of the Dinobots, as Furman claims the episode in which they were built by Wheeljack is in contradiction with the "historical evidence" from the War Within comic Furman himself wrote nearly 20 years later.
• Japanese G1 Toys
  • This section deals largely with toys that were later recycled into Transformers.
• Generation 1 Toys
• Other G1 Toys

Generation 2

• Transformers Versus G.I. Joe
• G2 Comics
• Beyond G2
• Generation 2 Toys
  • Megatron, Pyro, and Clench are all photographed holding guns that none of them come with. The guns seem to be Hot Spot's.

Beast Wars

• • Aside from the introduction page, all artwork in the Beast Wars and Beast Machines sections was provided by Mainframe Entertainment
• The Arrival
• Optimus Primal
• Megatron
• The Maximals
• Predacons
• TV Season 1
• Fuzors and Transmetal
  • In one caption in this section, Rattrap is mislabeled as Cheetor
• TV Season 2 & 3
• Beast Wars Toys

Beast Machines

• The Reformatting
• Maximals
• Vehicons
• TV Seasons 1 & 2
• Beast Machines Toys

Transformers: Robots In Disguise

• A New Wave
• Autobots and Decepticons
  • The Robots in Disguise show dub was inadvertently bought by Disney in 2002, creating legal problems with images from the series. As a result, RiD's section in The Ultimate Guide was perfunctory, covering only the toys.

Transformers Armada & Energon

• Cybertron Revisited
• Autobots
• Decepticons
• Mini-Cons
• The TV Series
• TRANSFORMERS Armada Toys
  • The image of Super Mode Optimus Prime has several different paint applications than his general release.
• TRANSFORMERS Energon
• Autobots
• Decepticons
• TRANSFORMERS Energon Toys
  • The Energon cartoon did not have a section in the original printing because at the time, it hadn't finished airing.

Dreamwave Comics

• Generation 1
• The War Within
• TRANSFORMERS Armada & Energon

• Index
• Acknowledgements
  
  
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