Dinobot Island (G1)
Dinobot Island was a name given by Spike Witwicky to an island present on Earth that was engulfed by a strange energy phenomena that allowed an island to be present outside time. It was primordial and consisted of ancient lifeforms such as Dinosaurs being present.
The island itself was rich in energy possessing many geological phenomena from volcanoes to tar pits to geysers. It was also present in a tear in time itself with disruption of the islands environment resulting in the creation of many time warps into Earths history.
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon
After scouting some strange power readings, Bumblebee and Powerglide encounter an unknown island in the middle of the ocean. Bumblebee is attacked by a prehistoric flying dinosaur which Powerglide manages to save him from after which they examine the island briefly before leaving after another dinosaur attempts to attack them.
Returning to Autobot headquarters, they inform Optimus Prime of the find while a test of the Dinobots is made. Its decided that the Dinobots are simply too chaotic to work safely at headquarters but Bumblebee suggests the newly discovered island as a new home for the Dinobots to which Prime agrees. As Spike, Powerglide and the Dinobots head off to the island, they are shadowed by Laserbeak who transmits his findings to Megatron. Megatron takes his Decepticons to the island where they begin to tap the islands energy reserves; much to Starscreams objections noting various instabilities on te island. The Dinobots eventually learn of the Decepticon presence on their island and attack but Megatron uses the Dinosaurs to stampede and force the Dinobots off a cliff and into a tar pit. DI1
The draining of the islands energy reserves results in numerous time rifts forming all around the planet bringing denziens from Earths past into the present which include barbarians on mastadons, pirates and cowboys. The Autobots learn of the Decepticon presence on Dinobot island and lay siege to Megatrons forces there. The Decepticons manage to gain the upper hand and are about to win when the Dinobots return and bring their new friends, the dinosaurs, to the Autobots aid. The Decepticons are defeated by the dinosaurs and retreat. Optimus Prime and the Dinobots destroy the Energon cubes collected which release the enery back to the island thus replenishing it. DI2
