Transformers Cards
The Transformers Cards are cards containing barcodes to be used in the Transformers Animated: The Chase and Transformers Animated: The Shooting arcade card-reading games. Most of the cards contain Animated characters, but a few contain Generation 1 characters, often based on their Masterpiece toys.
There are two variations of cards that can be obtained. The first uses images that are based on photos of the toys and can be bought at both machines themselves, the resulting card being random between Autobots, Decepticons, and Masterpiece. The second variation has "P" in their numbering system as part of "Promotion cards", using both character model and style guide artwork with the occasional tech specs, and can be found packaged with their respective toys, DVDs, and/or magazines.
As should be unsurprising, there are varying levels of rarity from those bought via the machines. Sega's site has the rating base from no stars to three stars. The majority of the cards are normal with no star; one star indicates "silver rare" with a silver shine; two stars indicates "gold rare" with a gold shine; and three stars is "master rare" with both gold and silver.
As of October 15, 2010, Sega has released a list of Card Version 2.0 at their site, featuring the same set of cards but with different poses using the game's graphics and backgrounds, as well including Transformers from the live-action film series.
List of cards
Autobots
- A-001 Optimus Prime
- A-002 Bumblebee
- A-003 Ironhide
- A-004 Ratchet
- A-005 Prowl
- A-006 Arcee
- A-007 Chromia
- A-008 Wreck-Gar
- A-009 Autobot Sentinel
- A-010 Autobot Jazz
- A-011 Midnight Jazz
- A-012 Autobot Blurr
- A-013 Super Sonic Blurr
- A-014 Elite Guard Bumblebee
- A-015 Safeguard
- A-016 Rodimus
- A-017 Cliffjumper
- A-018 Grimlock
- A-019 Snarl
- A-020 Autobot Swoop
- A-021 Optimus Prime, gold foil
- A-022 Wingblade Optimus Prime
- A-023 Optimus Prime Cybertron Mode
- A-024 Mudbuster Ironhide
- A-025 Jetpack Bumblebee
- A-026 Samurai Prowl
- A-028 Roadbuster Ultra Magnus
- A-028 Jetfire
- A-029 Jetstorm
- A-030 Eco Wreck-Gar
Decepticons
- D-001 Megatron
- D-002 Starscream
- D-003 Lockdown
- D-004 Blackarachnia
- D-005 Blitzwing
- D-006 Lugnut
- D-007 Soundwave
- D-008 Blackarachnia Elita One Ver.
- D-009 Dirge
- D-010 Shockwave
- D-011 Blackout
- D-012 Skywarp
- D-013 Thundercracker
- D-014 Thundercracker w/ beam
- D-015 Swindle
- D-016 Waspinator
- D-017 Megatron (Cybertron Mode)
- D-019 Blazing Lockdown
- D-020 Atomic Lugnut
- D-021 Soundblaster
- D-022 Oil Slick
- D-023 Waspinator
- D-024 Ramjet
- D-025 Slipstream
- D-026 Lockdown w/ Sawzer Edge
- D-027 Blazing Lockdown w/ Sawzer Edge
- D-028 Desert Swindle
Other
- M-001 Convoy
- M-002 Megatron
- M-003 Convoy Black Ver.
- M-004 Grimlock
- M-005 Starscream
- M-006 Soundwave
- M-007 Thundercracker
- M-008 Skywarp
- M-009 Optimus Prime
- M-010 Bumblebee
- M-011 Ratchet
- M-012 Megatron
- M-013 Fallen
Promotion
- P-001 Optimus Prime
- P-001a Optimus, packaged in Animated's "Sons of Cybertron" 2-pack
- P-001c Optimus, drawn by Naoto Tsushima and packaged with Kerokero Ace's September 2010 issue
- P-001d Optimus with the Autobots behind him, packaged with TV Magazine's September 2010 issue
- P-001e Optimus transforming from truck to robot mode, packaged with TV Kun's September 2010 issue
- P-001f Optimus with a gold background, packaged with the volume 1 DVD as an early pre-order bonus
- P-002 Cybertron-mode Megatron
- P-002a Cybertron-mode Megatron with tech specs, packaged in the Versus 2-pack Cybertron-mode
- P-003 Bumblebee
- P-004 Starscream
- P-005 Bulkhead
- P-006 Ratchet
- P-007 Prowl
- P-008 Lockdown
- P-009 Blackarachnia
- P-010 Earth-mode Megatron
- P-010a Earth-mode Megatron, packaged with the volume 4 DVD as an early pre-order bonus
- P-011 Ultra Magnus
- P-012 Wreck-Gar
- P-013 Sentinel
- P-014 Jazz
- P-015 Blurr
- P-016 Elite Guard Bumblebee
- P-017 Rodimus, packaged in Animated's "Sons of Cybertron" 2-pack
- P-018 Samurai Prowl
- P-019 Sunstorm (with the helmet Swindle gave him)
- P-020 Swindle
- P-021 Waspinator
- P-022 Cybertron-mode Optimus Prime, packaged in the Versus 2-pack Cybertron-mode
- P-023 Wingblade Optimus
- P-024 Jetpack Bumblebee
- P-025 Grimlock, packaged with the volume 2 DVD as an early pre-order bonus
- P-025 Lugnut, packaged with the volume 3 DVD as an early pre-order bonus
