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*[[Five Servos of Doom]] as an Autobot Incident Report by Prowl
*[[Five Servos of Doom]] as an Autobot Incident Report by Prowl
*[[Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising]] as an Autobot Incident Report by Sentinel Prime and a message in a bottle by Waspinator
*[[Predacons Rising (Animated)|Predacons Rising]] as an Autobot Incident Report by Sentinel Prime and a message in a bottle by Waspinator
*[[Human Error, Part I]] as an Autobot Incident Reprot by Optimus Prime
*[[Human Error, Part I]] as an Autobot Incident Report by Optimus Prime
*[[Human Error, Part II]] as a fairy tale/"Wizard of Oz" type of story
*[[Human Error, Part II]] as a fairy tale/"Wizard of Oz" type of story
*[[Decepticon Air]] as Sentinel Prime's Private Journal
*[[Decepticon Air]] as Sentinel Prime's Private Journal

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« Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published March 4, 2015
Written by Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster
Continuity Animated cartoon continuity
ISBN ISBN 1631402102

ISBN 978-1631402104

Page count 472
Price $39.99 USD

Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac is a compilation of The AllSpark Almanac, The AllSpark Almanac II, and The AllSpark Almanac Addendum with approximately ten pages of extra material and some minor revisions.

Contents

  • Part One
  • Part Two
    • Forewords by Eric Siebenaler and Matt Youngberg
    • Section I: Toy Design
    • Section II: Animation
    • Section III: Season Four
    • Section IV: Toy Gallery
    • Section V: Hero
    • Section VI: Packaging Art
    • Section VII: Expanded Universe
    • Section VIII: The Cast
    • Afterwords by Aaron Archer and Marty Isenberg
    • Acknowledgement

Chapter 1 - Autobots

Chapter 1 covers every Autobot to ever appear on the show as well as some who only appear in this book or in supplementary materials.

Chapter 2 - Decepticons

Chapter 2 covers every Decepticon to appear in the show as well as Decepticons exclusive to this book and supplementary material.

Chapter 3 - Humans

Covers every human character in the series.

Chapter 4 - Events

The episodes and comics that make up the primary Animated continuity, in order.

Chapter 5 - Culture

A catch-all for other aspects of Animated including ships, monsters and customs

Chapter 6 - Detroit

People, places and things in and about Detroit.

Chapter 7 - Cybertron

Inhabitants and locations on Cybertron or places near Cybertron.

Chapter 8 - Settings

Miscellaneous locations on the show

Chapter 9 - Project Omega

More information regarding Project Omega

  • Omega Laboratory by Ratchet
  • Autobot workers by Blitzwing
  • Omega Supreme by Ratchet
  • Steelhaven by Ultra Magnus
  • Steelhaven cargo by Swindle
  • Steelhaven brig by Sunstorm
  • Steelhaven infrastructure by Optimus Prime
  • Steelhaven Energon storage by Jazz
  • Steelhaven schematics by Perceptor
  • Lugnut Supreme by Starscream

Section I - Toy Design

Details the processes behind designing each toy, and how Hasbro, Takara, and Cartoon Network worked together to make them possible.

Section II - Animation

This section is about the general production of the series, including design, the first treatment of the show, how the show evolved from season to season, casting, scripts, post-production, and of course, animation.

Section III - Season Four

Contains info on what would have happened if season four was made. Hasbro and Cartoon Network collaborated extensively on what such a thing would be like.

  • The season's theme would be energon, since the Allspark left energon deposits all over Detroit and the surrounding area.
  • There would be more on Sari's origin and Blackarachnia would have a growing army of Predacons.
  • Sari and Bulkhead would stay on Cybertron to continue Sari's education and to protect the energon farms from Decepticons.
  • Among the main characters, Ironhide would receive an Earth mode and replace Bulkhead, and Jazz would replace Prowl.
  • Bludgeon would have appeared, as a pirate.
  • Ultra Magnus was planned to go offline after being attacked by our favorite double agent back in Season 3.
  • Some episode proposals were listed:
    • "The Trial of Megatron" - Three-part season premiere; Sari wants to learn more about her origins, Sentinel tries to become Magnus, Bulkhead's hometown is targeted by Decepticons, Megatron relocates Kaon to Earth using is trial as a destraction, and there is a spectacular prison break.
    • "Allspark-alypse Now!" - Sentinel comes to Earth and intends to use the AllSpark to kill Megatron, as Prowl's ghost inhabits Cybertronians empowered by AllSpark fragments, telling Optimus about the consequences of his ideas.
    • "S.T.E.A.M." - The Autobots are forced to save their detractors when the steampunk tool-using, anti-technological Luddites of "Save The Earth And Mankind" run afoul of Soundwave.
    • "Mirror, Mirror" - Bulkhead and Sari enter a mirror universe with evil Autobots and heroic Decepticons.
    • "Gremlins in the Geers" - The Minicons who run Kaon disassemble all machinery in Detroit, and Ratchet and Fanzone have to stop them.
    • "It Came from Planet Cybertron" - Cosmos has an important message for Optimus, and comes to Earth to tell him. He loses his memory after scanning a prop flying saucer from a B-movie's set, and hi-jinks ensue.
    • "Turf War" - The Constructicons battle the Decepticons over control of the energon in Detroit.
    • "Megatron Must Be Destroyed!" - The two-part season finale (series finale?) would have had Megatron's machinations threaten the entire planet. Optimus gathers as many allies as imaginable to defeat Megatron once and for all.

Three rejected toy concepts were shown: Marauder Megatron (Megatron in a new body, and as a Triple Changer), Hot Shot (an Earth-mode toy based on his 2008 Universe figure, and a Powermaster Optimus Prime (would have combined with a trailer and a Minicon to improve his size and power, looking similar to the original Powermaster Prime). Hot Shot and Megatron made it as far as the prototype stage, but Powermaster Prime existed only as concept art. There is a note from Hasbro outright stating that they will never be released, despite their wishes.

Section IV - Toy Gallery

Stock photography of every toy released in the Animated toyline, including some that were completed, yet not released.

Section V - Hero

Concept art and information for Transformers: Hero, a proposed successor to the Unicron Trilogy that ended up becoming Transformers Animated.

Section VI - Packaging Art

Discusses and shows off each toy's "action" package art (mass released and otherwise), drawn by Derrick J. Wyatt and Marcelo Matere.

Section VII - Expanded Universe

Covers information regarding the live script readings, the video game, the show's tie-in comic Transformers Animated: The Arrival, and the short-lived Titan Magazine comic.

Section VIII- The Cast

Presents information and photos of the main members of the voice cast: David Kaye, Tara Strong, Corey Burton, Bumper Robinson, Jeff Bennett, Bill Fagerbakke, Tom Kenny, Cree Summer, Townsend Coleman, and Phil LaMarr.

Interstitials

The only place where out-of-universe information is presented, the interstitial pages covered divergent continuities as well as select aspects of the animation process. These appear at the end of a chapter.

  • Chapter 1: Lighting
  • Chapter 2: Transformations
  • Chapter 3: Studio 4°C
  • Chapter 4: Deleted Scenes
  • Chapter 5: Design Evolution
  • Chapter 6: Style Guides
  • Chapter 7: Backgrounds
  • Chapter 8: Size Comparison
  • Chapter 9: Japan
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