Transformers: The Ultimate Guide

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Transformers: The Ultimate Guide is an offically licensed guide from DK Publishing published in 2005. written by Simon Furman in 2004. In 2007, a second edition was published, increasing the page count from 144 to 152 (visibly different by having a grey background on the cover instead of white).

Contents

• Introduction

Generation 1

• • When not explicitly stated otherwise, all information is assumed to apply to the Dreamwave comics continuity.
• Cybertron
• The City of Iacon
• Civil War
• Optimus Prime
• Megatron
• Autobot Officers
• The Decepticons
• Soundwave and Co.
• The Dinobots
• Combiners
• TV Season 1
• TV Season 2
• The Movie
• US Comics 1
• US Comics 2
• UK Comics 1
• UK Comics 2
• TV Season 3 & 4
• Unicron
• Quintessons
• Primus
• Special teams
• Headmasters and Targetmasters
• Powermaster Optimus Prime
• Pretenders
• Japanese G1 Toys
  • This section deals largely with toys that were later recycled into Transformers.
• Generation 1 Toys
• Other G1 Toys

Generation 2

• Transformers Versus G.I. Joe
• G2 Comics
• Beyond G2
• Generation 2 Toys
  • Megatron, Pyro, and Clench are all photographed holding guns that none of them come with. The guns seem to be Hot Spot's.

Beast Wars

• • Aside from the introduction page, all artwork in the Beast Wars and Beast Machines sections was provided by Mainframe Entertainment
• The Arrival
• Optimus Primal
• Megatron
• The Maximals
• Predacons
• TV Season 1
• Fuzors and Transmetal
  • In one caption in this section, Rattrap is mislabeled as Cheetor
• TV Season 2 & 3
• Beast Wars Toys

Beast Machines

• The Reformatting
• Maximals
• Vehicons
• TV Seasons 1 & 2
• Beast Machines Toys

Transformers: Robots In Disguise

• A New Wave
• Autobots and Decepticons
  • The Robots in Disguise show dub was inadvertently bought by Disney in 2002, creating legal problems with images from the series. As a result, RiD's section in The Ultimate Guide was perfunctory, covering only the toys.

Transformers Armada & Energon

• Cybertron Revisited
• Autobots
• Decepticons
• Mini-Cons
• The TV Series
• TRANSFORMERS Armada Toys
  • The image of Super Mode Optimus Prime has several different paint applications than his general release.
• TRANSFORMERS Energon
• Autobots
• Decepticons
• TRANSFORMERS Energon Toys
  • The Energon cartoon did not have a section in the original printing because at the time, it hadn't finished airing.

Dreamwave Comics

• Generation 1
• The War Within
• TRANSFORMERS Armada & Energon

• Index
• Acknowledgements
  
  
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