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* Sunstreaker has Sideswipe's voice for his "I hope you packed your trunk!" line. | * Sunstreaker has Sideswipe's voice for his "I hope you packed your trunk!" line. | ||
* Sunstreaker and Hound get a very strange non-standard sound effect for their lasers as they try to hold the time warp open. | * Sunstreaker and Hound get a very strange non-standard sound effect for their lasers as they try to hold the time warp open. | ||
* Chip's "I can use lots of help" line is slightly cut off, leaving him saying that he can use lots of " | * Chip's "I can use lots of help" line is slightly cut off, leaving him saying that he can use lots of "hel-". | ||
*When Optimus Prime reacts in surprise to Teletraan I's discovery of two additional time warps, Wheeljack's "ears" flash as Prime speaks, as if he was supposed to speak in unison with Prime, but only Prime's voice is heard. | *When Optimus Prime reacts in surprise to Teletraan I's discovery of two additional time warps, Wheeljack's "ears" flash as Prime speaks, as if he was supposed to speak in unison with Prime, but only Prime's voice is heard. | ||
* Rather than actually coming ''through'' the time warp, the pirate ship just kind of appears out of thin air in front of the warp. | * Rather than actually coming ''through'' the time warp, the pirate ship just kind of appears out of thin air in front of the warp. | ||
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| "Dinobot Island, Part 2" | |||||||||||||
| Production code | #700-30 | ||||||||||||
| Production company | Sunbow Productions | ||||||||||||
| Airdate | September 26, 1985 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Donald F. Glut | ||||||||||||
| Animation studio | Toei | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Generation 1 cartoon continuity | ||||||||||||
The Decepticons' plundering of Dinobot Island's resources causes instabilities in the timestream.
- Japanese title: 対決!! ダイノボット PART II (Taiketsu!! Dinobot PART II, "Showdown!! Dinobots PART II")
- German Generation 2 title: "Die Insel der Dinobots, Teil 2" ("Island of the Dinobots, Part 2")
- Italian title, dub 1: L'isola dei Dinorobot-Seconda parte ("Dinobot Island-Part Two)
- Italian title, dub 2: L'isola dei Dinobots - II ("Dinobots Island - II")
Synopsis
After forcing the Dinobots into a pool of tar, Megatron is convinced he's won. He orders the Decepticons to resume the collection of energon. However, Starscream fears that Megatron's plundering may have disastrous consequences for the island... and the Decepticons.
Meanwhile, the Autobots finish repairing the control room. However, Teletraan I alerts them to a temporal anomaly near the library where Spike and Bumblebee are. While going to investigate, the Autobots find barbarians making a mess of things. Hound locates Spike and Bumblebee under the rubble of the library, where Sideswipe drills them out. Bumblebee is able to cover Spike and prevent any harm, while the Autobots round up the time displaced viking barbarians and woolly mammoths.
Optimus Prime orders the Autobots not to use lethal force, as they are living creatures here by accident. Sunstreaker, Huffer, and Sideswipe manage to round up the mammoths. Ironhide wrangles the barbarians by squirting them with glue and sticking them to the ground. Optimus knows just where to put them, and the Autobot leader has them store the mammoths in his trailer (poor Roller), while Ironhide immobilizes the barbarians. However, the portal is closing fast. The Autobots send the barbarians and mammoths back through the anomaly, which closes just in time.
Returning to the base, Chip Chase, Perceptor, and Beachcomber begin research into what is causing all this. Before they do, however, two more anomalies are discovered: one at sea, one out in the country. Seaspray, Tracks, and Cliffjumper go intercept the sea-based anomaly, which is a pirate ship attacking a man and two women on a yacht. The Autobots free the yacht and push the pirate ship back through the anomaly.
In the country side, Prowl, Jazz, Red Alert, and Inferno find that a group of old west outlaws have encountered a biker gang. After a brief rustle between the two gangs, the Autobots force the outlaws back through the wormhole. Resuming their analysis at Autobot headquarters, Chip learns that the disturbances can be traced to Dinobot Island. Optimus Prime orders his team to fly there using jet packs.
Meanwhile, the Dinobots have managed to free themselves from the tar pit, thanks to Slag setting it on fire, only to see that Dinobot Island is in danger. Concluding that the Decepticons have done "bad stuff" to the Island, the Dinobots decide it's time to do "more badder stuff" to the Decepticons. The Autobots arrive, and attack the Decepticons. Prime and Megatron trade shots while Warpath takes on Blitzwing in a tank-on-tank duel. Just as the Decepticons get the upper hand, Grimlock inspires the island's dinosaur population to attack the Decepticons, forcing them to retreat.
With the Decepticons gone, the Autobots destroy the energon cubes, causing the energy inside to return to the places it was taken from, stabilizing Dinobot Island. Optimus declares that the Dinobots have proven that they can control their powers, and the Autobots and Dinobots return home.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
"But draining those energies might upset the chronological balance of this island! It already drifts precariously in the sea of time."
"Scientific gobbledegook, Starscream! Do as I say."
- —Starscream and Megatron discuss technobabble.
"OORUBBA REEYO! RUMBUBUH RULLY!" [More unintelligible babbling and grunts]
- — The Barbarian on his mammoth, making a thought out and well articulated point.
"Remember those creatures are flesh and blood, not unfeeling machines like the Decepticons."
- —Optimus Prime placing a higher value on woolly mammoths than Decepticons.
"Why, you unwashed primitives! You could have fissured my finish!"
- —Sunstreaker blasts the barbarians for pounding on him with their weapons.
"We be wantin' your treasure, and the wenches too. Hahahahaha!"
"Aww, cool off, Long John!"
- —Pirate captain and Cliffjumper
"I don't care if the entire Earth explodes! We can always relocate."
- —Megatron isn't big on the neighborhood.
"If that stolen energy is taken from this area, this entire galaxy could crumble!"
- —Optimus Prime wonders where Megatron would relocate to then.
"Hey, Blitzwing! Tank you!"
- —Warpath attacks Blitzwing in a tank-versus-tank duel
"No! It is impossible! I saw you buried beneath the tar pits!"
"You wrong. And you ugly, too."
- —Megatron gets some comeuppance from Grimlock, of all mechs
Notes
Animation or technical glitches
- Huffer is drawn mouthing Hound's "New Earth life forms?" line.
- The jewelry store that one of the barbarians smashes into is labeled "Nickel and Dime".
- Sunstreaker has Sideswipe's voice for his "I hope you packed your trunk!" line.
- Sunstreaker and Hound get a very strange non-standard sound effect for their lasers as they try to hold the time warp open.
- Chip's "I can use lots of help" line is slightly cut off, leaving him saying that he can use lots of "hel-".
- When Optimus Prime reacts in surprise to Teletraan I's discovery of two additional time warps, Wheeljack's "ears" flash as Prime speaks, as if he was supposed to speak in unison with Prime, but only Prime's voice is heard.
- Rather than actually coming through the time warp, the pirate ship just kind of appears out of thin air in front of the warp.
- The cowboys suffer the same problem; additionally, when they first appear, they're kind of floating above the ground.
- When the lead cowboy fires his pistol, it makes a truncated version of the Decepticon laser sound effect. This being the one and only time in the show when a human gun is unarguably a conventional projectile firearm, it should really make a traditional gunshot noise. Presumably the sound crew either didn't have an actual gunshot sound effect at their disposal, or the show's general ethos prevented them from using it—all other examples of human weapons on the show seem to be firing lasers.
- Tracks' eyes are yellow when he first transforms.
- Tracks fires his black beam gun energy from his missile launchers, rather than his hand-held weapon.
- Grimlock roars his approval of being de-tarred in Sludge's voice.
- Slag's cheek guards are white instead of red as he proposes melting down the Decepticons. His whole face is light gray instead of red as Grimlock agrees.
- Despite using back-mounted jet packs, the Autobots are shown landing on Dinobot Island with foot thrusters.
- In the pan across the Autobots launching their attack, Beachcomber's whole face is white instead of blue, and Smokescreen is missing all of his reds and yellows.
- When Blitzwing transforms into his tank mode, his head and face are still clearly visible as he drives off-screen. In the next shot, however, his head is concealed.
- When Starscream is shooting Warpath with his null ray, he's colored as Thundercracker.
- Snarl's sword is gray instead of red as Grimlock fires to get the dinosaurs' attention.
- Blitzwing is missing his tank barrel as he fires alongside Soundwave and Starscream.
- Skywarp has no wing insignia as he gets trampled by the dinosaurs.
- Megatron looks human-sized, or even smaller, compared to those dinosaurs rioting above him.
- Somebody forgot that the Dinobots can fly; they're shown flying away from Dinobot Island with jet packs like the rest of the Autobots.
Jurassic errors
Paleontology weeps more in the presence of this episode:
- The size issues are more noticeable than before with animals which topped 16 feet in real life towering over Megatron.
Continuity errors
- Grimlock's means of summoning the dinosaurs to fight... strains credibility.
- The Decepticons' firepower somehow fails to reduce the dinosaurs to puddles of charred flesh.
- Does it really take all the Autobots and Dinobots firing at the highly volatile and explosive energon cubes to destroy them?
Continuity notes
- The empty energon cubes in this episode have little round tubes at the bottom to draw in energy.
- Gadgets and powers:
- Ratchet uses a welding apparatus that slides in/out of his wrist, similar to the ones used by Brawn and Gears, but without the hooked tip.
- Sideswipe uses his pistons to dig out Bumblebee. They slide out from his wrists, similar to how they worked in "A Plague of Insecticons".
- Ironhide fires a white-yellow glue from a tri-barreled wrist attachment, similar to the one he used in "Divide and Conquer".
- Sideswipe fires lasers... from the tip of his missile.
- Sunstreaker discharges electricity from his fingertips to scare off the barbarians.
- A frequently-recurring gadget appears as Cliffjumper uses his hydrofoils to travel out to the pirate ship time warp.
- Seaspray has a bow-mounted radar dish.
- Cliffjumper uses his glass gas, reducing the pirates' swords to shards. He fires it from a gun that emerges from his car-mode front hood.
- Tracks' black-beam gun works on humans!
- Beachcomber fires lasers from his hands.
- Skywarp half-transforms during the battle, extending his legs out from jet mode to get some extra vertical thrust.
- Snarl again fires energy blasts from his sword's tip, as in "Heavy Metal War"
- Where's the trailer go?
- Optimus Prime's trailer just rolls in from off-screen when he needs it to store the mammoths.
- There is now a retractable metal door on the cone of the Autobot Headquarters volcano.
- Flying Autobots:
- Prime's crew of Autobots explicitly requires jetpacks to fly to Dinobot Island.
- The Dinobots display their usual ability to fly as robots.
- Blitzwing and Warpath face off for the first time, but not the last.
- First appearances:
- < < What makes Starscream the leader? Megatron has... uh... maybe made a mistake in draining the island's energy! Maybe! > >
Real-world references
- Barbarians, mammoths, dinosaurs, pirates, motorcycle gangs, cowboys, scantily clad bikini chicks—this episode's got it all!
- Star Wars sound effects:
- Swoop frees himself from the tar pit with a Millennium Falcon engine sound effect.
- Prime's crew arrives at Dinobot Island with the sound of the Millennium Falcon flying toward Yavin.
- A Star Wars laser effect plays as Grimlock fires to get the dinosaurs' attention, possibly Han Solo blowing the prison block communications console to scrap.
Trivia
- The initial dialogue of the "Barbarian Chieftain" was written out in the dialogue script as "Ura manamabirno! Ramballalala uramala! Ya gagga nagonda! Gagga nagonda! Hai, yamaral! Ira, lura lura! Haya, luramala!", and he was supposed to exclaim "Bunga Dorg!" when he confronted Sunstreaker. The actor playing the Barbarian Chieftain does not seem to have stuck to this very closely — but, hey, gibberish is gibberish.
- The dialogue script states elsewhere that the barbarian who robs the jewelry store is supposed to be saying "Gunda nah? Naga gunda?" (CONTENTED GIBBERISH) "Wunga ga dindy! Dindy wah!", which also doesn't quite seem to be what's said in the finished episode. Besides these examples, no other barbarian dialogue in the episode is scripted.
- The explicit character introductions continue in this episode, with Perceptor and Beachcomber both giving self-explanatory spiels.
- The original script for this episode called for Trailbreaker to protect Dinobot Island from any further external threats by shielding it with one of his force fields. Although Optimus Prime's line explaining this was deleted during production, the visuals of the episode itself feature something of a vestigial reference to this, with the Autobots all flying off in large groups and Trailbreaker being the last to depart, taking to the air solo. Ultimately, though, it's probably for the better; Trailbreaker's force fields were never shown to be self-sustaining, which this one would have to have been.
Home video releases
- VHS
1986 — The Transformers — Dinobot Island, also includes The Revenge of Bruticus (St. Michael Video Library)
1987 — Transformers — 1: The Revenge of Bruticus / 2: Dinobot Island (Parts 1 and 2) (Starvision)
1988 — The Transformers — The Revenge of Bruticus and Dinobot Island Parts 1 & 2 (V.I.P. Video Gems)
1991 — Transformers — 1: The Revenge of Bruticus / 2: Dinobot Island (Parts 1 and 2) (The Fun House)
1998 — The Transformers: Generation 2 — Dinobot Island (Behaviour)
- Laserdisc
1994 — Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers — Convoy Set (Takara) — Japanese audio only.
1998 — The Transformers — Autobot Edition (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.
- DVD
2001 — The Transformers — DVD Box 1 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.
2002 — The Original Transformers — Season 2 Part 1 (Rhino Entertainment)
2002 — The Original Transformers — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 3 (Rhino Entertainment)
2003 — Transformers — Season 2 Part 1 (Metrodome)
2004 — Transformers — Collection 2: Series 2.1 (Madman Entertainment)
2006 — Transformers — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)
2007 — The Transformers — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)
2008 — Transformers — Volume 04: Stagione Due Parte Seconda (Medianetwork Communication) — English and Italian audio.
2009 — Transformers — Season Two: Part One (Metrodome)
2009 — The Transformers — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)
2009 — The Transformers — Season Two, Volume One: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)
2009 — The Transformers — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)
