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* When the Decepticons Jump the cliff, Swindle appears first, then followed by Downshift, when Swindle was the one pursuing Downshift. | * When the Decepticons Jump the cliff, Swindle appears first, then followed by Downshift, when Swindle was the one pursuing Downshift. | ||
* As Blurr stops Swindle, when he downs his hands to grab him, his hands show Swindle already on them. | * As Blurr stops Swindle, when he downs his hands to grab him, his hands show Swindle already on them. | ||
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*Demolisor says that he found his very own Mini-Con, [[Blackout (Armada)|although he already has one]] | |||
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| "Reinforcement" (Engun [Arate]) "Reinforcements (New Troops)" | ||||||
| Production code | TF: A-20 | |||||
| Production company | TV Tokyo, NAS | |||||
| Airdate | January 23, 2003 (English) 23 May 2003 (Japanese) | |||||
| Writer | Shōji Tonoike | |||||
| Director | Shigeki Hatayama | |||||
| Animation studio | Actas Inc. | |||||
| Continuity | Unicron Trilogy | |||||
Scavenger introduces the Autobots to Blurr, the Autobot who nobody really gets along with.
- Polish title: "Wsparcie"
Synopsis
Another day at the office wherein the Autobots battle the Decepticons for a Mini-Con. From the Autobots' base, the kids watch (with Billy and Fred also there this time). While Megatron holds off the Autobots, Demolishor digs up the Mini-Con. Cyclonus, in a rare moment of competence, blasts away Red Alert's attempt to snipe at Demolishor. But just as the Decepticons teleport home, the Mini-Con is blasted from Demolishor's hands by a new Autobot, who Scavenger introduces as Blurr. Blurr activates the Mini-Con panel, who turns out to be Incinerator.
Returning home from victory, the Autobots are greeted by the kids, who show interest in their new friend Blurr, who barely acknowledges the kids.
Later, Incinerator makes beepy conversation with the Street Action Mini-Cons. The five kids try to start conversation with Blurr, but are sidetracked by the topic of Fred's big fat stomach. When Hot Shot arrives, Blurr icily departs. Carlos and Billy give chase and Blurr almost mistakes them for the enemy when they jump out and surprise him. Hot Shot tries to break through Blurr's tough guy persona, and Blurr explains that he doesn't need to have a personality.
The Decepticons detect the activation of a new Mini-Con and head out. Demolishor takes extra caution to not lose the Mini-Con at the last minute as he did last time. And Megatron barely registers that the two captured panels containing the components of the Skyboom Shield have started to resonate.
The Decepticons arrive at the general location where the Mini-Con (Downshift) has already activated and begun to run laps around a human-made racetrack. The Autobots show up soon after and try to intercept the Mini-Con. Hot Shot and Blurr give chase, while the rest of the Autobots and Decepticons get into a standing firefight.
On the track, Hot Shot and Blurr have conflicting direction, and impact each other a few times. Blurr, however, is unresponsive. Smokescreen uses his Mini-Con Liftor to blast away Starscream, Sideways, and Cyclonus. Blurr and Hot Shot have to stop and combine with their Mini-Cons to overcome the chasm interrupting the racetrack.
On the other side of the track, Blurr, in car mode, begins to rotate rapidly, blowing away Cyclonus and blowing the Mini-Con into the empty stands. Blurr opens up fire on the Mini-Con, causing it to fall beneath the stands where Hot Shot catches it, to Blurr's confusion. Cyclonus yanks the Mini-Con away and the Decepticons retreat.
At the Autobot base, the kids scold Hot Shot for not getting along with Blurr. Hot Shot heads to apologize to Blurr, who appreciates the sentiment and concedes that he was unaware that the Mini-Cons were more than just tools, and that he doesn't interact with others very smoothly. Hot Shot and Blurr give each other respect knuckles like the first episode, and everybody is happy they made a new special friend.
On the moon, Megatron returns with Downshift to discover that Dirt Boss and Mirage have unlocked on their own, and they combine to form the Skyboom Shield.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Mini-Cons |
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Quotes
"I hate when she's right, but this is one of those times."
- —Rad re: Alexis
"I found my very own Mini-Con! Megatron will love me for this!"
- —Demolishor, head of the Megatron/Demolishor slash club
"Sorry to break up the party."
- —Red Alert, about to take a shot on Demolisher
"Arrogance and pride, a tragic combination, may cause a bot to make mistakes—like this."
- —Blurr, also about to take a shot on Demolisher
"Hey, do you happen to have a website I could check out?"
- —Fred, on meeting Blurr
Fred: "Oh, you're hard as steel. I still have some work to do on this bad boy."
Billy: "Geez, sometimes I'm sure the guy leaves his brains at home."
Carlos: "You know you're not gonna shape up until you stop scarfing up all that junk."
Billy: "Yeah, like that will ever happen."
Alexis: "He's an eating machine."
- —The kids discuss Fred's stomach.
"You idiot! You almost trashed that Mini-Con!"
"I hardly think so."
"You hardly think!"
- —Hot Shot and Blurr
Notes
Differences with Micron Legend
Animation and/or technical glitches
- Incinerator, relative to Blurr, shrinks visibly between his first appearance and the epilogue.
- Once powerlixed, Smokescreen calls Liftor Longarm.
- When the Decepticons Jump the cliff, Swindle appears first, then followed by Downshift, when Swindle was the one pursuing Downshift.
- As Blurr stops Swindle, when he downs his hands to grab him, his hands show Swindle already on them.
Continuity errors
- Demolisor says that he found his very own Mini-Con, although he already has one
Trivia
- Shortly after Blurr fires on Downshift, Hot Shot calls him a "'king psycho". Dude! Keep it G rated!
- Carlos nicknamed the Decepticons the D-cons.
Home video releases
- DVD
2003 — Transformers: Micron Legend — Volume 5 (Columbia Music Entertainment) — Japanese audio only.
2004 — Transformers: Armada — Season One: Part One (Rhino Entertainment)
2008 — Transformers: Armada — Volume One (New KSM) — English and German audio.
