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===Differences with ''Car Robots''=== | ===Differences with ''Car Robots''=== | ||
*In ''Robots in Disguise'', Koji is glum at the start of this episode because of the troubles he's having controlling Fortress Maximus. In ''Car Robots'', however, he's glum because of the "scolding" his dad gave him in the Japanese version of the last episode (though that's a harsh way of describing Onishi's firm but kindly-phrased words). | |||
*Jenny has heard of Fortress Maximus in ''Robots in Disguise'', but not in ''Car Robots'' (Karl has heard of him in both versions). | |||
*When Jenny asks how Koji controlled Maximus, in ''Car Robots'', the boy explains that the giant robot responds to the "heroic spirit of human children". In ''Robots in Disguise'', this is replaced with gag-ish dialogue about how Maximus isn't a lawnmower that one drives, and that he responds to voice commands. ''Robots in Disguise'' does go a little further in describing the mental/spirital natural of the connetion with Koji's next few lines, as he talks about how one has to "really concentrate" on what they want Maximus to do; in ''Car Robots'', these lines involve Koji describing past instances where he and other human children controlled Maximus. | |||
*When Karl talks about how he wants to control Maximus, ''Car Robots'' has him note that he should be able to do it because he's a human child. After Jenny jokes about it, Karl's clenched-fists-shouting-mouth rountine is played as annoyance at her remarks in ''Robots in Disguise'', while in ''Car Robots'', he's having a little rant about how jealous he is that Koji gets to control Maximus. | |||
*When the Autobots talk about how the Decepticons want Koji for his ability to control Maximus, in ''Robots in Disguise'' Koji points out that he doesn't know how he did it, while in ''Car Robots'', he notes that he's not the only one who can do it (on the whole, the opening scene of ''Robots in Disguise'' seems to have forgotten about the climax of the last episode and the other children who got involved, as any reference to anyone other than Koji controlling Maximus has been omitted, though it's probably not a deliberate thing). | |||
*''Robots in Disguise'' extends the scene of Galvatron, Scourge and Sky-Byte by adding a second close-up shot of Galvatron before Scourge starts outlining his plan. | |||
*When Karl and Koji agree to swap outfits, Fortress Maximus is mentioned in different contexts depending on the version: in ''Car Robots'', Karl thinks this stunt will give him a chance to control the giant, while in ''Robots in Disguise'', he tells Koji he has to take him to see Maximus as a favour for going along with the switch. | |||
*When Wedge radios the Autobot base, ''Robots in Disguise'' extends the shot of him reacting to the fact Koji's is safe, and the shot of of Prime ordering the Build Team back to base. | |||
*After Wedge signs off, a ''Car Robots'' scene transition is replaced with a ''Robots in Disguise'' one. | |||
*When Galvatron bellows at Sky-Byte during the split-screen shot after they find out he's captured Karl instead of Koji, ''Robots in Disguise'' loops the footage a little so Galvatron's rant is a bit longer. | |||
*While Galvatron remarks in ''Robots in Disguise'' that he is running out of patience with Scourge's theories, in ''Car Robots'', he's puzzled at the notion Karl could control Maximus, which is what prompts Scourge to point out their similar age. | |||
===Animation and technical errors=== | ===Animation and technical errors=== | ||
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| "Mistaken Identity" (Black Convoy no Yabō) "Black Convoy's Ambition" | |||||||||
| Production company | TV Tokyo, NAS, Studio Gallop | ||||||||
| Airdate | 6 December 2000 (Japanese) March 2, 2002 (English) | ||||||||
| Written by | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi (Japanese) Michael McConnohie (English) | ||||||||
| Director | Akira Katō | ||||||||
| Animation studio | Studio Gallop | ||||||||
Sky-Byte needs Koji
To move Fortress Maximus
Oops, got the wrong kid
Synopsis
Karl and Jenny find their friend Koji in a park, pondering how to control Fortress Maximus. They're both impressed that Koji was able to control the giant robot, but their discussion is interrupted by the arrival of Scourge and Mega-Octane, who attempt to kidnap Koji. Fortunately the Autobot Brothers are nearby and soon chase the two Decepticons off. Back at base, Optimus explains he's detailed the three brothers with protecting Koji since the Decepticons seem to think he's their best bet at controlling Maximus.
Indeed, in the Megastar, Scourge is telling Galvatron the same thing. Sky-Byte questions Scourge's loyalty, but Galvatron will hear nothing of it, and demands that Koji be captured and brought to him.
Meanwhile, Koji and Karl are skateboarding, and Koji laments that the Autobots are keeping him from wandering far, but he has a plan. Soon afterwards, Side Burn follows "Koji", only to find that the two boys have switched clothing, and he's following the wrong one. Side Burn and Prowl quickly catch up with the real Koji and take him back to base to be told off by Optimus. Wedge suddenly calls in to report in panic that Koji has just been kidnapped by Sky-Byte—which Koji quickly realises means that the Predacons have Karl.
Sky-Byte's pride in having successfully done Galvatron's bidding is short-lived, as Scourge points out the captured boy is not actually Koji. Galvatron rages, but Scourge suggests that they should try having Karl attempt to control Fortress Maximus. Movor reports that Maximus is currently located in a forest in Sector Gamma Four, and it doesn't take long for the three evil-doers to arrive there with Karl and Cerebros. Karl is able to command Maximus to transform, and a tractor beam pulls him into Maximus's command centre. At Scourge's order, he makes Maximus punch a mountain, with devastating results.
T-AI manages to trace Maximus's location, and Optimus and the Autobot Brothers set out, with Koji managing to persuade Side Burn to take him along.
Karl finds controlling Maximus exhilarating and realises he can now help the Autobots by destroying the Decepticons. On the ground, Scourge orders Karl to destroy Galvatron and Sky-Byte, much to their respective fury and alarm. Galvatron transforms into "Iron Mammoth" mode and waits. As it turns out, Maximus refuses to obey the command, and stops short of crushing the pair underfoot.
The Autobots arrive and begin attacking Galvatron. Sky-Byte sees his chance to capture Koji, but Karl has Maximus grab the Predacon and toss him away. The giant expels Karl gently onto the ground, and he's reunited with his friend. A second attempt by Sky-Byte to capture Koji is foiled by the newly arrived Ultra Magnus. Omega Prime and the powered-up Autobot Brothers are soon seeing off Galvatron, but not before he disables Scourge and promises pain in the Decepticon's future. Fortress Maximus sinks into the ground once more.
Koji apologises to Karl for letting him get kidnapped, but Karl is just happy to have gotten the chance to command Maximus.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Predacons | Humans |
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Quotes
Karl: Bet I could control it.
Jenny: Who'd do what you'd say?
- —Karl and Jenny will probably end up married someday.
Prowl: Hey! You don't bother kids on my watch.
Side Burn: In fact, you just don't do it at all!
- —The Autobots do not approve of bothering kids. Teleporting them into a desert is all good, though.
"In those clothes, he looked exactly like Koji."
- —Side Burn subtly brings the deficiencies of the character design to our attention.
Scourge: That is not Koji. You failed again!
Sky-Byte: Urrrghhh! I have no idea how this could've happened, sir. I was led astray!
Galvatron: You will pay for this!!
Sky-Byte: Would you... take a check?
Galvatron: Shut your mouth, fool. How'll you fix it? Tell me that.
Sky-Byte: Well, I still have the receipt, I could see about doing an exchange.
- —Sky-Byte attempts to dig himself out of a hole. Even by his standards, it's a poor effort.
"Pompous fool! I am here for Fortress Maximus. When I awoke from protoform stasis, I got more than you planned. I got a heavy dose of your ambition!"
- —Scourge demonstrates the overlooked pitfalls of cloning your spark when you're a ruthless, egotistical megalomaniac.
"Sir, you may not have noticed, but actually, he's just a little bit larger than you..."
- —Sky-Byte, on the other hand, is highly observant.
Galvatron: Sky-Byte, bring Scourge back to base. Don't hurt him... that's something I'm looking forward to.
- —Hell hath no fury like a jet-bat-dragon-hand-car-transport-griffin-mammoth-robot scorned.
Notes
Differences with Car Robots
- In Robots in Disguise, Koji is glum at the start of this episode because of the troubles he's having controlling Fortress Maximus. In Car Robots, however, he's glum because of the "scolding" his dad gave him in the Japanese version of the last episode (though that's a harsh way of describing Onishi's firm but kindly-phrased words).
- Jenny has heard of Fortress Maximus in Robots in Disguise, but not in Car Robots (Karl has heard of him in both versions).
- When Jenny asks how Koji controlled Maximus, in Car Robots, the boy explains that the giant robot responds to the "heroic spirit of human children". In Robots in Disguise, this is replaced with gag-ish dialogue about how Maximus isn't a lawnmower that one drives, and that he responds to voice commands. Robots in Disguise does go a little further in describing the mental/spirital natural of the connetion with Koji's next few lines, as he talks about how one has to "really concentrate" on what they want Maximus to do; in Car Robots, these lines involve Koji describing past instances where he and other human children controlled Maximus.
- When Karl talks about how he wants to control Maximus, Car Robots has him note that he should be able to do it because he's a human child. After Jenny jokes about it, Karl's clenched-fists-shouting-mouth rountine is played as annoyance at her remarks in Robots in Disguise, while in Car Robots, he's having a little rant about how jealous he is that Koji gets to control Maximus.
- When the Autobots talk about how the Decepticons want Koji for his ability to control Maximus, in Robots in Disguise Koji points out that he doesn't know how he did it, while in Car Robots, he notes that he's not the only one who can do it (on the whole, the opening scene of Robots in Disguise seems to have forgotten about the climax of the last episode and the other children who got involved, as any reference to anyone other than Koji controlling Maximus has been omitted, though it's probably not a deliberate thing).
- Robots in Disguise extends the scene of Galvatron, Scourge and Sky-Byte by adding a second close-up shot of Galvatron before Scourge starts outlining his plan.
- When Karl and Koji agree to swap outfits, Fortress Maximus is mentioned in different contexts depending on the version: in Car Robots, Karl thinks this stunt will give him a chance to control the giant, while in Robots in Disguise, he tells Koji he has to take him to see Maximus as a favour for going along with the switch.
- When Wedge radios the Autobot base, Robots in Disguise extends the shot of him reacting to the fact Koji's is safe, and the shot of of Prime ordering the Build Team back to base.
- After Wedge signs off, a Car Robots scene transition is replaced with a Robots in Disguise one.
- When Galvatron bellows at Sky-Byte during the split-screen shot after they find out he's captured Karl instead of Koji, Robots in Disguise loops the footage a little so Galvatron's rant is a bit longer.
- While Galvatron remarks in Robots in Disguise that he is running out of patience with Scourge's theories, in Car Robots, he's puzzled at the notion Karl could control Maximus, which is what prompts Scourge to point out their similar age.
Animation and technical errors
- When Sky-Byte dumps Karl on the ground in front of Galvatron, both his and Sky-Byte's shadows appear purple.
- At the start of the scene where Fortress Maximus transforms into robot mode, Galvatron is coloured as Megatron for a single shot.
Continuity errors
- Scourge appears ignorant of the fact that Fortress Maximus responds to any human biosignature, only realising the truth midway through this episode; apparently, he has totally forgotten that he already worked this out in "The Human Element", and had previously used the knowledge to control Fortress Maximus himself. This is true for the Car Robots version of the episode as well.
Transformers references
- Fortress Maximus appears to be common knowledge among the humans (but then, he did stomp around in a major city and was then yelled at by one thousand small children, so...).
Trivia
- Scourge has new transformation stock footage. Good for him.
- Koji's helmet has a "Y" on the back, which stands for his Japanese name, Yūki, whilst the "K" on Karl's stands for his Japanese name, Kenta, as well as his English one.
- Speaking of names, Scourge seems to have a bit of difficulty remembering Galvatron's. It can be hard to keep up sometimes...
- It's not entirely clear where Cerebros ended up at the end of the episode; he's last seen detaching from Fortress Maximus.
- Wedge isn't designed to chase flying sharks. A completely understandable oversight.
- Judging from the bit of paper he holds up when he says it, it would appear that Sky-Byte genuinely does have a receipt for the child he kidnapped. Commerce works strangely in Metro City...
Home video releases
- DVD
2001 — Transformers: Car Robots — Vol. 9 (Pony Canyon) — Japanese audio only.
2005 — Transformers: Robots in Disguise — Three-Disc Box Set: Part 2 of 2 (Maximum Entertainment)
2007 — Transformers: Robots in Disguise — Season Two (Maximum Entertainment)
2007 — Transformers: Robots in Disguise — Ultimate Collection (Maximum Entertainment)
