Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 62

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"... to see a life-long fan clearly over the age of 40 come RUNNING into the exhibit and let out a huge 'WOOOAAHHHHH,' it just makes you smile."
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early April
Cover date	April/May 2015
Contributors	David Willis Greg Black Jim Sorenson Bill Forster Karl Hartman Derrick J. Wyatt Richard Chang Benson Yee
Editor	Pete Sinclair
Associate editor	Jesse Wittenrich
Creative Director	Lanny Lathem
Editor-in-chief	Brian Savage

Transformers: Robots in Disguise Exhibit Featuring 30 Years of the Transformers!

Contents

• On the cover: images from the Transformers Exhibit at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "The Bolts Bite Back", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• "Transformers: Robots in Disguise Q&A with the new Grimlock... Khary Payton" (p. 3)
• "The Children's Museum of Indianapolis and the AmazingTransformers: Robots in Disguise Exhibit." [sic] (pp. 4-6)
• Another Light: "Distant Fissures" - comic story (pp. 7-12)
• "Transformers Collectors' Club Exclusives!" images of Nova Prime and Marissa Faireborn with Afterbreaker (p. 13)
• "Teletraanic History Records: Autobot Military Strategist Prowl", a recap of his history in the Classicsverse so far (p. 14)
• Bio in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Classics Prowl (p. 15)
• "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
  • Hot Shot's Jam Sessions
  • Recordicons
  • Bot on the Street

Notes

• Characters mentioned in Prowl's Teletraanic History Records include: Optimus Prime, Buster Witwicky, Shockwave, Megatron, G.B. Blackrock, Ratchet, Starscream, Grimlock, the Dinobots, Unicron, Bludgeon, the Last Autobot, Rodimus, the Seacons, Ultra Magnus/Mammoth, Ironhide, Silverbolt, Magnaboss, and Depth Charge.
  • Images used to represent Prowl include: his bit during the Autobot "introdump" from issue #1 of the Marvel The Transformers comic (pencils by Frank Springer, inks by Kim DeMulder, colors by Nelson Yomtov); close-ups of Prowl from both issue #76 and issue #80 (pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Stephen Baskerville, colors by Nelson Yomtov); Prowl explaining the process by which the Autobots will prevent energon radiation damage in "Shattered Time"; and Prowl saluting Ultra Mammoth from "Shattered Hope" (pencils and inks by Matt Frank, colors by Thomas Deer).
  • The reference number for Prowl's Teletraanic History Record (itself coming from the Autobot computer from the Sunbow The Transformers cartoon, Teletraan I) is "#CR13//ONOKOU21N4860018A.12-16"; "CR13" is derived from Prowl's original toy's origins in the Diaclone toyline, where it was figure No.13 in the "Car Robots" line; "ONOKOU" comes from Kōjin Ōno, the man who designed his original toy; "4860018A" comes from his original toy's US patent number, "US4680018 A".
  • This file is a overview of Prowl's history from throughout the Classics continuity. Being basically a mini-wiki article, most of the stuff isn't really notable, aside from what's newly introduced: Prowl is confirmed to be one of Starscream's Underbase-fueld casualties from #50, and Optimus specifically ordering Prowl to join up with the Graviton.
• Characters mentioned in Prowl's bio include: Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus/Mammoth, Shattered Glass Optimus Prime, Spinister, and Needlenose.
  • Prowl is noted to now have the holographic abilities and shurikens of his Animated counterpart.

Errors

• The Children's Museum article needs a space between "Amazing" and "Transformers" in its title.