Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 55: Difference between revisions

	; That's right, it's the Collectors' Club vs BotCon in a battle to the death!
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early February
Cover date	Feb/March 14
MTMTE Profiles	Evan Gauntt
Contributors	David Willis; Greg Black; Jim Sorenson; Bill Forrester; Derrick J. Wyatt; S. Trent Troop; Greg Sepelak; Richard Chang; Benson Yee
Editor	Pete Sinclair
Associate editor	Jesse Wittenrich
Creative Director	Lanny Lathem
Research editor	Karl Hartman
Editor-in-chief	Brian Savage

Latest revision as of 02:55, 18 June 2025

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On the cover: the Star Seeker and Cybertronian Knight faction symbols from BotCon 2014 (p. 1)
Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
"Thrilling 30 interview: Flint Dille" (p. 3)
"Transformers BotCon Pirates vs Knights preview!" images of Cannonball and an entry of Tornado's personal journal (pp. 4–5)
"Transformers at 30: Flashback" by Jim Sorenson (p. 6)
"Alone Together: Prologue" - comic story (pp. 7–12)
"Celebrity Fan Spotlight" by Andrew Hall and featuring professional boxer Marina Isami (p. 13)
Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
- Beast Wars: Uprising Rampage (p. 14)
- Beast Wars: Uprising Trans-Mutate (p. 15)
"The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
- Transformers I.Q.
- Recordicons
- Transformers I.Q. Trivia Bonus

Characters mentioned in Rampage's profile include: Starscream and Depth Charge.
- Some more proto-typical weirdness here with early Uprising fiction: the Builders are the name of the old Autobot factions, rather than both them and the Decepticons.
- Rampage has galva-conductors in his vehicle mode (mentioned on his original toy's packaging) that can burst through solid duranium (a metal from Star Trek).
- Rampage's profile claims he got his name after his escape and re-capture by Depth Charge. However, both this year's storyline and later Beast Wars: Uprising fiction will ignore this, presenting "Rampage" as a name given to Protoform X by Lord Imperious Delirious. Also abandoned is the claim here that, like in the Beast Wars cartoon, Protoform X was an attempt to recreate Starscream's immortal spark.
Characters mentioned in Trans-Mutate's bio include: Cryotek and Rattrap.
Rampage replaces his would-be nemesis Depth Charge as this year's "Where It's At..." mascot.
Bill Forster's last name is still misspelled as "Forrester".
"Transmutate" is her name at the top of her bio, but "Trans-Mutate" (with a hyphen) is her name in the body of the bio and in the comic.

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 ** Some more proto-typical weirdness here with early ''Uprising'' fiction: the Builders are the name of the old Autobot factions, rather than both them and the Decepticons.
 ** Rampage has [[galva-conductor]]s in his vehicle mode (mentioned on his original toy's packaging) that can burst through solid [[duranium]] (a metal from ''[[Star Trek]]'').
-** Rampage's profile claims he got his name after his escape and re-capture by Depth Charge. However, both this year's storyline and later ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' fiction will ignore this, presenting "Rampage" as a name given to Protoform X by [[Lord Imperious Delirious]].
+** Rampage's profile claims he got his name after his escape and re-capture by Depth Charge. However, both this year's storyline and later ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' fiction will ignore this, presenting "Rampage" as a name given to Protoform X by [[Lord Imperious Delirious]]. Also abandoned is the claim here that, like in the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, Protoform X was an attempt to recreate Starscream's immortal [[spark]].
 * Characters mentioned in Trans-Mutate's bio include: [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] and [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]].
 * [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] replaces his would-be nemesis [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] as this year's "Where It's At..." mascot.