Central City (Earth)

This article is about the city on Earth. For the city on Cybertron, see Central City (Cybertron).

Central City is a large human settlement near the Autobots' not-so concealed headquarters. It has a mayor.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

More than Meets the Eye, Part 1 Transport to Oblivion Roll for It The Immobilizer Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1 Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1 Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2 Starscream's Brigade The Revenge of Bruticus B.O.T.

Armada cartoon

Central City is a human city some distance from Lincoln, Nebraska by bus. To help the Space Mini-Con Team escape from the Autobots, Rad, Carlos, Alexis, Billy and Fred bought them bus tickets to Central City.

However, they disembarked before the bus reached its destination and instead hid the Mini-Cons in a farm. Runaway

Notable locations

Many buildings in Central City are large enough to accommodate Transformers within their interiors. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2

City Hall

Meanwhile, at Judiciary Square...

This imposing edifice of bureaucratic opulence impresses even the vain Sunstreaker in its majestic brown colour. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1

Berger, Inc. building

The commute's great, but it's hell on the windows.

Standing in Central City's business district, the Berger, Inc. building rises not very high above the other skyscrapers surrounding it. A helipad for Berger's personal helicopter is on the roof of the building, under which his poorly decorated office is located on the seventh of nine floors. It has a lot of windows, which makes Laserbeak's job much easier. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1

Fake Solar Power Plant

Ask your doctor about Viagra™!

This faux solar power plant was donated by Shawn Berger after losing the election, in a scheme to lure the Decepticons into attacking the plant. The inoperative plant hid Berger's private army tanks, which were supposed to defeat the Decepticons in battle, humiliate the real mayor and win Berger his much-cherished adulation of the masses. Unfortunately, they didn't, it didn't and he didn't. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1

Oil field

Despite all this oil, Megs never actually tried to steal any of it.

The lazy and shiftless workers of this oil field don't bother turning up until it is well into the daylight hours, allowing fake Autobots to steal the oil right out of the tanks. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1

Sports Stadium

DUH-NUH-NUH-NUH HEY!

Whether it's football or staging a rigged trial to determine the fate of friendly alien robots, Central City's Sports Team Stadium is there for you!

It's either surrounded by gigantic buildings, or else holds some incredibly tiny humans. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1

Gymnasium

The lady in the pink rushes to BotCon.

This local sports center held a Teen Dance Day later on Decepticon Day (or the day earlier or the day after - who knows). Inside, to go with the seizure-inducing disco lighting, they were playing all the music teenagers love, such as big band music, but no Cold Slither. Soundwave took the cassettes to the dance; Rumble got down with his good self, Ravage was a big hit with the ladies, but some kid dared to offer Laserbeak a cracker. Laserbeak looked at him as if he would have preferred to eat the kid. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1 Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2

Notes

• "Megatron's Master Plan" establishes that Central City is very close to Autobot Headquarters and has legal jurisdiction over it. Though the G1 cartoon was never really big on world-building or continuity, it follows that just about any time the Autobots go "into town" or worry about events in "the city", this is the city they're referring to.
• The same line of reasoning could be used to locate the Protectobots' headquarters there. Considering how often the place gets attacked, it would make sense for the Autobots to want a team permanently stationed in town!