Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 27

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Does that mean breakfast will be ruined? Possibly FOREVER??
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early June 2009
Cover date	June/July 09

This June... Breakfast will NEVER be the same again!

Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #27

Editor-In-Chief: Brian Savage
Editor: Pete Sinclair
Associate Editor: Ben Yee
Research Editor: Karl Hartman
Lead Writer: Rik Alvarez
Creative Director/Layout: Lanny Lathem
Columnist: Rob Meyer
Head Proofreader: Heather Choplin
Proofreader: Mark Baker-Wright
Resident Cartoonist: Jesse Wittenrich
Resident Colorist: Drew Eiden
Resident Artist: Evan Gauntt
Staff: Greg Sepelak, Trent Troop
Contributor: David Willis
Featured Artists: Evan Gauntt, Robby Musso, Josh Perez

Contents

• On the cover: the astonishing debut of Ejector (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• Animated "Bots vs Cons" Tech Specs: (p. 3)
  • Tracks
  • Ratbat
• "Thank You Wisconsin! - Where the Beast Wars began..." by Karl Hartman, a short article about the test-market release of the Beast Wars toyline (p. 3)
• "REVENGE... is HERE!" an interview with Hasbro Design Director Jared Wade about the Revenge of the Fallen toyline (pp. 4-5)
• Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Shattered Glass Aquarius (p. 6)
  • Shattered Glass Computron and the Technobots (pp. 7-8)
  • Shattered Glass Steeljaw (he's dozing!) (p. 8)
• "Shattered Glass: A Recap," a full-page text summary of the Shattered Glass stories so far (p. 9)
• "Reunification: Part 3" - comic story (pp. 10-15)
• "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
  • Around Cybertron
  • "Rob's Hot Pick! JaAM!"
  • Mini Mayhem!

Notes

• Characters mentioned in the Animated tech specs include: Soundwave.
• The Quintesson Collective that Aquarius belongs to is heavily influenced by the Federation of Star Trek, including the dissolution of the concept of material value, and a "Prime Directive" to not mess with developing species (that Aquarius doesn't follow), inverting the positive-universe Quintessons, who are a greedy, capitalistic species.
• The Shattered Glass universe is given a universal stream designation: Primax -408.24 Epsilon.
• Characters mentioned in the Technobot's profiles include: Grimlock, Optimus Prime, and Alpha Trion.
  • Computron used to be a super intelligent genius, but is now a lumbering brute. Computron attempted to grant Grimlock intelligence, reversing the process their positive-universe counterpart's went through in Transformers episode "Grimlock's New Brain". All of the Technobot's personalities are inversions of their positive-universe counterparts as well.
  • Computron's alkaline pellet gun is inverted from his positive universe counterpart's acid pellet gun (alkaline (or basic) being the opposite of acid).
• Characters mentioned in Steeljaw's profile include: Blaster and Ravage.
  • Steeljaw uses the body of his positive-universe counterpart, but in the colors of the Black Lion from the anime series Voltron.
  • Steeljaw is lazy, unlike his tenacious positive-universe counterpart.
• The Shattered Glass recap uses art from all 4 text stories. Unfortunately, "Blitzwing Bop" would not see publication until November, 5 months after publication of this issue.

Errors

• Steeljaw's profile labels him a Decepticon.