Unite Warriors Offshot
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Unite Warriors Offshot (ユナイトウォリアーズオフショット Yunaito Woriāzu Ofushotto) is a series of short stories printed on the back of the instruction booklets of Transformers Unite Warriors toys. Illustrated by Hayato Sakamoto, the chapters consist of a piece of art with a short descriptive caption and depict the various combiner teams just having a good time. They're set in the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity, evidently some 40–50 years after the first two seasons of the original cartoon, to which there are various callbacks, mainly in the form of human cameos. A diagram by Sakamoto shown at BotCon 2016 places Offshot after the events of G-2.
Chapters
Today Is Energon BBQ!
- Packaged with: UW-01 Superion
- Original title: 今日はエネルゴンBBQ! (Kyō wa Energon BBQ!)
- The Aerialbots host one of their usual Energon barbecues on the deck of Scramble City, this time guested by their old friend King Hassan. The classic car he's brought with him bring back fond memories for all of them.
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Today Is Us Stunticons' Annual Holiday Demolition Race!
- Packaged with: UW-02 Menasor
- Original title: 今日は俺達スタントロン部隊の休日恒例ぶっ壊しレース! (Kyō wa Oretachi Stuntron-butai no Kyūjitsu Kōrei Bukkowashi Race!)
- The Stunticons have fun by racing each other atop stolen cars, and Dead End wins using a Symultech Industries car he's nabbed from Auggie Cahnay Jr. They receive a summon from Megatron, but ignore it: not even the boss's orders can halt this race! They may soon change their tune, however, as the Aerialbots are on their way to deal with their mischief...
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Today Is First Aid's Close Friend NUL-A's Birthday!
- Packaged with: UW-03 Guardian
- Original title: 今日はファーストエイドの親友NUL-Aの誕生日! (Kyō wa First Aid no Shin'yū NUL-A no Tanjōbi!)
- In celebration of his baseball-loving friend NUL-A's birthday, First Aid gets his Protectobot friends to play a special five-man night game just for him. NUL-A isn't the only one to get fired up from watching the Transformers play, however, as even Optimus Prime is watching and cheering his "baseball warriors" on from a nearby monitor.
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Notes
- Judging by the details of his faceplate, Optimus Prime is also in his Unite Warriors body.
Crystal City Reconstruction Project
- Packaged with: UW-04 Devastor
- Original title: クリスタルシティ再建計画 (Crystal City Saiken Keikaku)
- Having destroyed Crystal City long ago to prove their loyalty to Megatron, the Constructicons trick Grapple into helping them rebuild the city on Earth. They are joined by their old friends, Hauler and Omega Supreme, as well as the human scientist Chip Chase.
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Crossing the Pacific Ocean!?
- Packaged with: UW-05 Convoy Grand Prime
- Original title: 太平洋を横断ですか!? (Taiheiyō o Ōdan Desu ka!?)
- Having received a new surfboard from his friend, Marissa Faireborn, Optimus Prime takes his Scramble Combination troops and their human friends to Hawaii for "special surfing training" (and definitely not a vacation).
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Notes
- Optimus Prime's friendship with Marissa refers to their relationship in Kiss Players, and his surfboard is based on his Surfblade from that series.
- Daniel wears the exo-suit of his Generations toy.
- Cancer and Wilder appear only as undetailed figures surfing in the background, made up only of color with no lineart. They're largely identifiable by their wetsuits, which match the ones they wore in the Masterforce episode, "Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai." Logically, that would suggest the other figure in the background, a blonde woman, is Minerva, though she's not wearing a recognizable wetsuit design.
- There was some confusion over who the second girl sitting in Optimus Prime's hand in this illustration is. She looks an awful lot like Kiss Players-era Marissa, except she has brown hair instead of blonde, like modern-day Marissa does. As the Offshot stories seem to take place 25+ years after the Japanese third season of the cartoon, Marissa herself would have to be somewhere in her 40s (or maybe even her early 50s, if she was any older than 20 in Kiss Players—though she's lookin' pretty good here). The younger woman was later confirmed at BotCon 2016 to be Marissa's daughter, "Sue", a new character.
Special Training in the Lava Baths of Planet Thrull!
- Packaged with: UW-06 Grand Galvatron
- Original title: 惑星スラルの溶岩風呂で特訓だ! (Wakusei Thrull no Yōgan Furo de Tokkun da!)
- Cyclonus trains his troops by subjecting them to the lava pools of Thrull, to varying responses: Thrust gets dizzy from the heat, Breakdown feels great, Starscream tries to escape but is caught by appointed watchman Doctor Arkeville, and Roller finishes first so that he can relax and enjoy a drink. What burns even hotter than the lava, however, is Cyclonus's conviction as he tells the others of his plan to fully resurrect Galvatron. Will they succeed...?
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- The chapter is a reference to Galvatron's time in Thrull's lava pits as seen in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1" and "Part 2"... but there's a problem with that, as Galvatron destroyed Thrull afterwards!
- A similar thing happened with Mars in the JG1 continuity. Presumably we can justify that in the ten-plus years which have passed, Thrull was somehow restored. This is science fiction, after all.
Shopping at the Dark Bazaar!
- Packaged with: UW-07 Bruticus
- Original title: 闇バザーでショッピング! (Yami Bazaar de Shopping!)
- The Combaticons host an arms trading market at their base, with many unscrupulous humans showing up to do business. While Onslaught and Blast Off assess the goods for sale, Swindle busies himself with selling his own home-made missiles as well as items belonging to Brawl, much to the latter's annoyance. Three scientists, Elise Presser, Martin, and Roland, claim they have come to sell their newest creation, B.O.T. II, but Vortex suspects they're actually trying to sneak a mole into the Combaticons' operations.
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- In addition to the presence of a new B.O.T. and its creators, this chapter references "B.O.T." by having Swindle selling Brawl's parts.
- Dinsmoore must be impossibly old by now.
Surprise Father's Day Party!!
- Packaged with: UW-08 Computicon
- Original title: サプライズな父の日パーティー!! (Surprise na Chichi no Hi Party!!)
- Having learned of the human custom of Father's Day, the Technobots throw a party to honor their equivalent of a father, Grimlock. While they're still preparing, with Scattershot baking energon cake and Nosecone and Afterburner decorating, the guest of honor arrives unexpectedly early, causing chaos as Strafe sprays him with energon champagne at the same time as Lightspeed tries to give him his present. Sue is also there, having given her own dad Dirk Manus a box of chocolate money that he wishes was the real deal.
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