The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual

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The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual
Publisher	Grandreams
Cover date	1994
Designed by	Arkadia
Continuity	See Trivia below
Price	£4.99
Printed in	Italy

The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual was published in the United Kingdom by Grandreams.

“	Theirs is now a secret war, played out under the cover of shadows, unnoticed by all by the highest of human authorities, a conflict as endless now as it was eons ago.	”
—Introduction

Content

• From Cybertron to Earth the War Continues...
• Day of the Decepticons
• Crossword
• The Heroic Autobots profiles:
  • Optimus Prime
  • Sizzle
  • Blaze
  • Piranha
  • Sideswipe
  • Jazz
• Quickfire! - a game similar to Battleships
• The Dinobots!
• Wordsearch
• The Evil Decepticons profiles:
  • Megatron
  • Starscream
  • Soundwave
  • Rumble
  • Hotrod
  • Ramjet
• Moving Day Planet Earth

Items of Note

• The G2 annual seemed to occupy its own strange continuity where the Transformers awoke on Earth in 1994, and Megatron's Generation 2 'tank' form was his first body on Earth.
• The crossword is particularly obtuse, and an apparently random numbering system (9 down is at the top, for some reason) doesn't help. For the record, the answers are:
  • Across: 1. Sparkabots 2. Piranha 3. Megatron 4. Sizzle 5. Illuminators 6. Jazz 7. Hotrod 8. Red 9&10. The Ark
  • Down: 1. Optimus Prime 2. Blitz 3. Iacon 4. Green 5. Electro 6. Ramjet 7. Starscream 8. Tank 9. Blaze
  • The clues indicate that Hot Foot and Piranha, and Volt and Electro are brothers.
• Electro and Blitz's packaging art appears on puzzle pages, but the characters don't show up in any of the included stories.
• Of course, the European names for the G2 characters are used throughout.