You Have Been Chosen.

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You Have Been Chosen
Publisher	Hasbro
Cover date	1986
Written by	unknown
Art by	unknown

"You Have Been Chosen." is one in a series of mail-order flyers included with Generation 1 toys, offering various Transformers which had either been discontinued from the main line or had never been available in retail. A small amount of story content helped sell the characters.

Synopsis

This flyer is written in the second person, addressing the reader as a member of an Autobot-allied human organization. Thus, the message itself is considered here to be part of the fiction.

Where previous messages were aimed at mere recruitment into S.T.A.R.S., this one is directed at Ultra Magnus's choice for S.T.A.R.S. Commander. The message is from Magnus directly, who informs the human recipient that he or she must learn more about the Transformers to serve in this new rank. He begins a visualization exercise, giving brief descriptions of nine Transformers and telling the reader to use "the special power you humans call 'imagination'" to picture what it would be like to be those robots.

With that training phase completed, Ultra Magnus returns to the Ark, and an unidentified narrator tells the reader to "requisition" the Transformers he or she wants to command. Some videos are also available for further study, too; they'll let you review the raging Autobot-Decepticon conflict at your leisure. Oddly, the basic S.T.A.R.S. membership kit (described as "top secret") is presented as well, suggesting that Magnus has chosen the S.T.A.R.S. leadership from outside the organization. The reader is especially urged to requisition the Omnibots, as they are "destined to fight a war in another universe on March 31, 1987" if the reader does not order them first.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons
Camshaft (9) Downshift (8) Mirage (7) Overdrive (10) Ratchet (6) Sunstreaker (4) Ultra Magnus (1) Wheeljack (3)	Reflector (2) Thundercracker (3)

Notes

• This continues a loose story that runs through a few years' worth of toy pack-in flyers. The micro-continuity, taken at face value, cannot fit within any known larger continuity; however, the "unreliable narrator" factor prevents any declarations on the matter.
• This is one of the most explicitly-metatextual flyers in the S.T.A.R.S. continuity, wherein the entire text is clearly presented as a message from a Transformer to the reader in a way that brings the reader into the fiction.
• The mail-in form is actually addressed to ULTRA MAGNUS, P.O. Box 7050, Dept. T10, North Hollywood, CA 91609.
• Prices include:
  • $10 + 2 robot points each for Reflector and Thundercracker
  • $8 + 2 robot points for each of the Autobot cars
  • $5 + 2 robot points for each Omnibot, or all three for $12.50.
  • $25 + 3 robot points for "The Ultimate Doom" on VHS
  • $15 + 2 robot points for "S.O.S. Dinobots" on VHS
  • $6.50 for S.T.A.R.S. membership
• This was indeed the last time the Omnibots were made available as mail-order items.