Operation Autobot
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| "Operation Autobot" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers | ||||||||||||
| Imprint | HarperFestival | ||||||||||||
| First published | May 12, 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Susan Korman | ||||||||||||
| Illustrated by | MADA Design, Inc. | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | live-action film series | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | 9780061729669 0061729663 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 24 | ||||||||||||
| Price | $3.99 | ||||||||||||
The Autobots and NEST search for Decepticons in Shanghai.
Synopsis
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Working with the Autobots, a team of soldiers had tracked down some dangerous Decepticons in hiding. Ironhide orders Sideswipe to go ahead, while telling the twins Skids and Mudflap to simply "stay out of trouble." The team first discover Demolisher, who begins to cause destruction as soon as he is found out. He is quickly joined by Sideways. The Autobots deal with the sports car first, and take him out of the fight. But with Demolisher still on the loose, Major Lennox is forced to call in some back-up: Optimus Prime! The Autobot leader and Ironhide work together to bring down the Decepticon before he can further endanger human lives. Demolisher warns the Autobots that "The Fallen shall rise again..."
Featured characters
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Notes
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- The military possesses hand-held tracking devices to detect Decepticons.
- Skids and Mudflap are depicted as already possessing their Chevy forms rather than still being in their ice cream truck form.
- Demolishor's name is rendered as "Demolisher". Sideways goes entirely unnamed, referred only as having a "European sports car" alt mode.
- Sideways puts up much more of a fight in this adaptation, and displays the power to send powerful shock waves tearing through the ground by punching it.
- Although it is stated that Sideways is "[stopped] for good," he appears to merely be incapacitated by Sideswipe, instead of outright killed.
- Alternatively, Demolisher is simply stated to be "captured" rather than executed... But looks decidely like a heap of dead scrap in the book's final illustration.
- Despite presumably taking place in China, all of the civilians running in fear from Demolisher's path of destruction appear to be Caucasian.
Reprints
[edit]- Transformers Ultimate Storybook Collection ISBN 978-0-316-18865-4
