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* | ===Differences with ''Car Robots''=== | ||
* | *''Robots in Disguise'' regularly adds dialogue where ''Car Robots'' is silent, though this episode's open scene provides a particularly thorough example, as a chatter from the astronauts, mission control, and Optimus runs over the top of the shuttle launch sequence where only a countdown was heard in the Japanese version. After the shuttle has launched and Koji voices his desire to be an astronaut, ''Robots in Disguise'' has Optimus point out how much work it will take, and he groans at the prospect; in ''Car Robots'', Optimus just tells him to keep reaching for the dream and that's all. | ||
*All of Movor's first-person-perspective shots are given the standard CGI POV overlay treatment for ''Robots in Disguise''. Notably, the original ''Car Robots'' footage is actually of an angled view of a screen ''inside'' Movor's cockpit, rather than a literal POV shot; the overlay mostly hides this, but sometimes the crosshairs of his screen is still left visible, or the very edges of his screen sneak in, and both continue to be at angle, rather at odds with what the overlay is trying to convey. | |||
*In ''Car Robots'', there's a joke about how Prowl feels like someone is watching him. In ''Robots in Disguise'', this dialogue is replaced with the content of the emergency call he then speeds off to respond to. | |||
*In ''Car Robots'', it's Scourge who informs Megatron they have not heard from Movor yet; ''Robots in Disguise'' gives this line to Mega Octane, and instead changes Scourge's exchange with Megatron into a gag in which he doesn't understanding Megatron's overly florid language. | |||
*In ''Car Robots'', the Predacons are drawing Megatron's face in the sand because Sky-Byte thinks it'll impress him. In ''Robots in Disguise'', this rather odd little stunt is reinterpreted as the creation of a rendezvous point for the villains, which Sky-Byte has chosen to have rendered in this form because the Decepticons jokingly suggested the over-the-top idea to him. Where ''Robots in Disguise'' has Darkscream mutter to himself about the Decepticons' trick, ''Car Robots'' has him remarking to himself that actually defeating some Autobots is likely to impress Megatron a lot more than the drawing ever will. | |||
*''Robots in Disguise'' tries to take the edge off the fact that the Autobots are able to gain access to the shuttle's transmission by adding in some dialogue from T-AI that says the Space Agency actually ''gave'' the Autobots the frequency. That's... odd. When ''Car Robots'' has T-AI re-check the frequency, ''Robots in Disguise'' instead has her try bouncing their signal off a satellite at Optimus's suggestion. | |||
*In ''Car Robots'', X-Brawn sings {{w|El Cóndor Pasa (song)|El Cóndor Pasa}}. In ''Robots in Disguise'', he sings a made-up song (quoted above), followed by the American National Anthem. | |||
*In ''Car Robots'', Movor realizes that someone has hacked into his transmission briefly. ''Robots in Disguise'', on the other hand, has him confused to be receiving images of X-Brawn, as he wasn't previously locked onto him; though not expanded on, this is presumably due to the satellite signal bounce ''RiD'' added into the proceedings. But that doesn't make a ton of sense because X-Brawn is right next to where the Predacons are, and that's where Movor is looking at the time. | |||
*After X-Brawn stumbles onto the Predacons, ''Robots in Disguise'' goes into commercial break, so an extra shot using footage of X-Brawn from a moment before when he pulled up in front of the villains is added for an into-break cliffhanger, and a shot of the villains standing in front of him is added to begin the second act when the break ends. | |||
*''Robots in Disguise'' shortens Darkscream's pre-transformation threat to X-Brawn, then shortly after also cuts down an exchange between X-Brawn and Sky-Byte in which the villain explains they're "turning the area into a monument". | |||
*After X-Brawn escapes the Predacons, the short scene of Movor scanning the area is extended for ''Robots in Disguise'' by adding some reused footage of him floating around in orbit to the start. | |||
*Scenes extended for ''Robots in Disguise'' include: | |||
* Movor's first- | **Optimus watching the launch (to incorporate new dialogue from him that wasn't in the original) | ||
**Optimus telling Koji to work hard at being an astronaut | |||
**Movor watching Tow-Line | |||
**Multiple shots during Movor's first report to the Decepticon base | |||
**Two shots of Optimus asking T-AI questions about their trouble getting a picture from the shuttle | |||
**Optimus responding to T-AI's problems getting a transmission from the shuttle | |||
===Animation or technical errors=== | ===Animation or technical errors=== | ||
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===Trivia=== | ===Trivia=== | ||
[[Image:Attack from Outer Space Megaface.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hey! That's not [[Nazca Lines|those lines]]!]] | [[Image:Attack from Outer Space Megaface.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hey! That's not [[Nazca Lines|those lines]]!]] | ||
This episode was one of three that never aired on television in the United States as a result of post-[[wikipedia:September_11,_2001_attacks|9/11]] sensitivity, this episode never aired on television in the United States because of a fear that the gratuitous destruction of buildings would have a disturbing effect on people. | |||
*Mega-Octane claims that Megatron did not like the sand sculpture Sky-Byte made. | *Mega-Octane claims that Megatron did not like the sand sculpture Sky-Byte made. | ||
* How could the human space agency (never explicitly referred to as [[NASA]]) not have noticed that their shuttle had been replaced with an evil duplicate? Space agency security in the ''Robots in Disguise'' universe must be pretty lax. | * How could the human space agency (never explicitly referred to as [[NASA]]) not have noticed that their shuttle had been replaced with an evil duplicate? Space agency security in the ''Robots in Disguise'' universe must be pretty lax. | ||
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 I can see my house from here! | ||||||
| "Attack from Outer Space" (Uchū kara Nerae! Shuttler!!) "Aiming from Space! Shuttler!!" | ||||||
| Production company | TV Tokyo, NAS, Studio Gallop | |||||
| Airdate | 26 July 2000 (Japanese) January 12, 2002 (English) | |||||
| Written by | Kazuhiko Gōdo (Japanese) Matthew V. Lewis (English) | |||||
| Director | Yoshiaki Tsutsui | |||||
| Animation studio | Studio Gallop | |||||
Side Burn chases love
Decepticons destroy stuff
Movor is to blame
Synopsis
A human space agency launches a space shuttle into orbit. The Predacons and Autobots watch a broadcast of the launch with fascination. What the humans and Autobots are unaware of is that the shuttle is actually the Decepticon Movor. Movor begins tracking Autobot movement. Following Tow-Line is fruitless, as he is too preoccupied towing vehicles away. Tracking Prowl, who's in hot pursuit of a criminal, is equally pointless. Megatron is impatient with Movor's inability to discern the location of the Autobot base.
Distracted from his mission, Movor watches Sky-Byte and his underlings carve a giant image of Megatron's face in the ground, Sky-Byte having taken a sarcastic suggestion from the Decepticons a bit too literally. As Movor watches from orbit, X-Brawn soon finds the four Predacons, and after a brief scuffle, he escapes and reports back to the Autobots.
Movor loses track of X-Brawn because of the Predacons, so he then starts to track Side Burn, who is doing what he does to whom he usually does it. The object of his affection only turns each of his pick-up lines back on him, however. Side Burn happens to drive by Sky-Byte and company, but a laser blast from Movor discourages the shark from interfering. Side Burn leads Movor to conclude the Autobot base is in Sector 12, which the rest of the Decepticons quickly destroy.
Finding nothing but an old soda bottle, a comb, and a (now destroyed) graveyard in Sector 12, the Decepticons follow Movor's report to where Side Burn was seen last, Sector 14. They quickly detonate ten empty summer homes, but soon notice Side Burn has already moved on, still chasing the car of his dreams. The Decepticons later raze a power plant, blow up an airport, and soon after destroy a shipyard, all of which gets on Mega-Octane's nerves, as none of the sectors were anywhere near the Autobots' base. Side Burn doesn't notice the carnage trailing behind him, as he's too busy following his heart. His would-be lady-friend eventually ditches him by driving into a hole.
The Autobots, who have been trying to figure out why the launched shuttle isn't responding to them, determine that Movor has been tracking their movements. Learning that the Decepticons are tracking Side Burn, they trick the gullible Autobot into going to Pier 7B for a date with the red car. Giving the shuttle one last chance, the Decepticons follow Movor's report and head to the pier.
Side Burn waits at the pier, hoping to meet his car of his dreams. Instead, he meets the five Decepticons. Optimus and the other Autobots arrive nearby. At first confident, the Decepticons become hopelessly outnumbered when Team Bullet Train arrives. However, Scourge looks forward to fighting Optimus. Movor attempts to use his Argon Ray to help his leader, but instead of hitting Scourge's opponent, he hits Scourge right in the back. Another attempt at helping Scourge has pretty much the same results. Seeing how the battle isn't going too well, the Decepticons retreat.
In the aftermath, the Autobots have an intervention to help Side Burn deal with his addiction to red sport cars, even if it was useful this one time. As they have a big, manly laugh, miles above, Movor is knocked out of orbit by a satellite and lands in the ocean.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Predacons | Humans |
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Quotes
Sky-Byte: Hahahaha! Can't you just see the look in Megatron's eyes as he flies into the rendezvous point?!
Dark Scream: Somehow when the Decepticons said "try drawing Megatron's face in the ground," I thought they were kidding.
Movor: Ha! They actually did it. That is so lame!
"I knew a gal, name'a Dirty McGall, who was always happy to SEEEEEE me!"
- —X-Brawn sings worse than Strong Bad.
"Man, I think I might have been having battery palpitations there for a while."
- —X-Brawn
"I do have a sensitive side. I can cry at movies. Especially during car crashes. And all of my doors dent surprisingly easily. You know, maybe we can go see one of those movies about actually really falling in love! ...if it doesn't go on too long."
"Thank you, but I'd rather eat a mouthful of thumb tacks."
- —Side Burn unsurprisingly fails to win Kelly over.
"This is exciting. I had front row tickets to a heavy metal concert once, but this is way better. I'll just sit back and watch the action."
- —Movor
"You metal maggot, you just zapped your own chief!"
- —Mega-Octane on Movor
"Lasers from space? Look, that's hardly sporting."
"I hate this guy, I really hate this guy."
- —Midnight Express and Scourge, on Movor
"I don't think I'm real popular right now. I never found the base, I blew up the wrong stuff, and I shot Scourge twice."
- —Movor will probably not be putting this episode in his resume.
Notes
Differences with Car Robots
- Robots in Disguise regularly adds dialogue where Car Robots is silent, though this episode's open scene provides a particularly thorough example, as a chatter from the astronauts, mission control, and Optimus runs over the top of the shuttle launch sequence where only a countdown was heard in the Japanese version. After the shuttle has launched and Koji voices his desire to be an astronaut, Robots in Disguise has Optimus point out how much work it will take, and he groans at the prospect; in Car Robots, Optimus just tells him to keep reaching for the dream and that's all.
- All of Movor's first-person-perspective shots are given the standard CGI POV overlay treatment for Robots in Disguise. Notably, the original Car Robots footage is actually of an angled view of a screen inside Movor's cockpit, rather than a literal POV shot; the overlay mostly hides this, but sometimes the crosshairs of his screen is still left visible, or the very edges of his screen sneak in, and both continue to be at angle, rather at odds with what the overlay is trying to convey.
- In Car Robots, there's a joke about how Prowl feels like someone is watching him. In Robots in Disguise, this dialogue is replaced with the content of the emergency call he then speeds off to respond to.
- In Car Robots, it's Scourge who informs Megatron they have not heard from Movor yet; Robots in Disguise gives this line to Mega Octane, and instead changes Scourge's exchange with Megatron into a gag in which he doesn't understanding Megatron's overly florid language.
- In Car Robots, the Predacons are drawing Megatron's face in the sand because Sky-Byte thinks it'll impress him. In Robots in Disguise, this rather odd little stunt is reinterpreted as the creation of a rendezvous point for the villains, which Sky-Byte has chosen to have rendered in this form because the Decepticons jokingly suggested the over-the-top idea to him. Where Robots in Disguise has Darkscream mutter to himself about the Decepticons' trick, Car Robots has him remarking to himself that actually defeating some Autobots is likely to impress Megatron a lot more than the drawing ever will.
- Robots in Disguise tries to take the edge off the fact that the Autobots are able to gain access to the shuttle's transmission by adding in some dialogue from T-AI that says the Space Agency actually gave the Autobots the frequency. That's... odd. When Car Robots has T-AI re-check the frequency, Robots in Disguise instead has her try bouncing their signal off a satellite at Optimus's suggestion.
- In Car Robots, X-Brawn sings El Cóndor Pasa. In Robots in Disguise, he sings a made-up song (quoted above), followed by the American National Anthem.
- In Car Robots, Movor realizes that someone has hacked into his transmission briefly. Robots in Disguise, on the other hand, has him confused to be receiving images of X-Brawn, as he wasn't previously locked onto him; though not expanded on, this is presumably due to the satellite signal bounce RiD added into the proceedings. But that doesn't make a ton of sense because X-Brawn is right next to where the Predacons are, and that's where Movor is looking at the time.
- After X-Brawn stumbles onto the Predacons, Robots in Disguise goes into commercial break, so an extra shot using footage of X-Brawn from a moment before when he pulled up in front of the villains is added for an into-break cliffhanger, and a shot of the villains standing in front of him is added to begin the second act when the break ends.
- Robots in Disguise shortens Darkscream's pre-transformation threat to X-Brawn, then shortly after also cuts down an exchange between X-Brawn and Sky-Byte in which the villain explains they're "turning the area into a monument".
- After X-Brawn escapes the Predacons, the short scene of Movor scanning the area is extended for Robots in Disguise by adding some reused footage of him floating around in orbit to the start.
- Scenes extended for Robots in Disguise include:
- Optimus watching the launch (to incorporate new dialogue from him that wasn't in the original)
- Optimus telling Koji to work hard at being an astronaut
- Movor watching Tow-Line
- Multiple shots during Movor's first report to the Decepticon base
- Two shots of Optimus asking T-AI questions about their trouble getting a picture from the shuttle
- Optimus responding to T-AI's problems getting a transmission from the shuttle
Animation or technical errors
- When Movor starts to track Tow-Line, the display shows a Predacon symbol at bottom left. It then turns into the Decepticon symbol.
- When the Decepticons are at the graveyard, careful observation shows Movor with the group, when he should still be in space, while there is no sign of Rollbar. When the Decepticons attack the silo, Rollbar is seen in the attack while Movor is gone.
- The shot of Mega-Octane that is used following the destruction of the ten empty summer homes is used again when Mega-Octane's patience is beginning to wear thin.
Continuity errors
- While generally Movor's vehicle mode is depicted as around the same size as the other Decepticons, this would make him a very tiny space shuttle indeed—and so suddenly in this episode he's a full-sized space shuttle.
Real-world references
- Side Burn's reference to a movie "About a big ship that started to sink" could be a reference to the film Titanic.
- His reference to a film about dinosaurs eating cars might be a reference to Jurassic Park.
- The movie about aliens that take over people's minds is maybe a reference to Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.
Trivia
This episode was one of three that never aired on television in the United States as a result of post-9/11 sensitivity, this episode never aired on television in the United States because of a fear that the gratuitous destruction of buildings would have a disturbing effect on people.
- Mega-Octane claims that Megatron did not like the sand sculpture Sky-Byte made.
- How could the human space agency (never explicitly referred to as NASA) not have noticed that their shuttle had been replaced with an evil duplicate? Space agency security in the Robots in Disguise universe must be pretty lax.
- Prowl is designated "unit #3" by the Metro City police and can broadcast on their radio frequency. Whether this is part of his car disguise or if the police have actually given official status to an Autobot is not stated.
- Movor is an idiot.
Home video releases
- DVD
2000 — Transformers: Car Robots — Vol. 5 (Pony Canyon) — Japanese audio only.
2004 — Transformers: Robots in Disguise — Three-Disc Box Set: Part 1 of 2 (Maximum Entertainment)
2007 — Transformers: Robots in Disguise — Season One (Maximum Entertainment)
2007 — Transformers: Robots in Disguise — Ultimate Collection (Maximum Entertainment)
