Awaken Sleeping Giants
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| "Awaken Sleeping Giants" | ||||||
| Production company | Allspark Animation | |||||
| Airdate | December 15, 2018 (Singapore) | |||||
| Writer | Zac Atkinson | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
The Autobot team finally discovers the location of the Ark.
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Quotes
Notes
Continuity notes
- Grimlock compares his experiences in Mount St. Hilary to his adventures in the Acid Wastes; he was previously established to be fond of exploring the region back in "Maccadam's".
Transformers references
Mount St. Hilary was the crash site of the Ark in most Generation 1 media.
Real-world references
- The episode's title refers to a, likely apocryphical, quote attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the attack on Pearl Harbor: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
- Teletraan-X notes that Mount St. Hilary is a part of the real-world Ring of Fire.
Trivia
Animation and technical errors
Geological errors
- So Teletraan-X and Grimlock both claim that the Ark crash-landed on Pangaea some 65 million years ago. In real life, however, the supercontinent is believed to have broken apart early on into the Mesozoic era; by about 175 mya—the early Jurassic era—the continent had already split down the middle into Laurasia and Gondwana, and by the Late Cretaceous, 65 million years ago, the continents had further broken apart into something approximating the modern-day world map. It might be possible to no-prize this by saying that Grimlock and Teletraan were simply misinformed about which era of history their ship arrived in, but Teletraan-X also claims that he passed the time by talking to hadrosaurs, which were an exclusively Cretaceous species...
Foreign localization
French
- Title: "Le réveil des géants" ("The awakening of the giants")
- Original airdate: December 16, 2018
Home video releases
- TBA


