Railroad Rage

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"What - what the hell was that?" "THAT was ten million pounds of train, Mr. Galvin! And THIS is the sound of me saving your ass!"
"Railroad Rage"
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	August 5, 2017 (Canada)
Writer	Len Uhley
Director	Frank Marino
Animation studio	Polygon Pictures

A runaway train's fusion engine is up for grabs and the Stunticons are in pursuit, so the Bee Team must do all it can to prevent them from getting the cargo. An additional threat arises as the train could potentially crash into Crown City Train Station.

Synopsis

"Hey, don't get sentimental on me. Makes me think I'm gonna die."

"It's called a derailer, for Christ's sake! That's what they do!"

"How the hell did this happen?"
"It just got away from me."
"It got away from you? It's a train, Dewey, not a chipmunk!"

"I only got one rule. One rule only: you're gonna do something, you do it right. You don't know how to do it, you ask me, all right? Likewise, if you need anything from me, you'd better speak up."

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans	Others
Jetstorm (1) Slipstream (2) Sideswipe (3) Drift (4) Bumblebee (10) Strongarm (11) Grimlock (12) Fixit (13)	Motormaster (5) Drag Strip (6) Wildbreak (7) Heatseeker (8) Slashmark (9)	Railyard workers (14) Train station evacuees (16)	"Not Hi-Test" (15)

Quotes

"[Sideswipe] prefers to spend his time on childish pranks."
"You mean I like to have fun sometimes? Guilty!"

—Drift and Sideswipe are truly best buds.

"Wow, that is beautiful!"
"You can say that again!"
"Wow, that is-" *punched* "Ow!"

—Wildbreak and Drag Strip admire a bullet train.

"Hey, Drag Strip, do you think Motormaster will be mad when we show up without that engine?"
"Do you think? AT ALL?!"

—Wildbreak and Drag Strip are also best buds.

"It is not fair to define someone because of one mistake. A few mistakes." *turns to Sideswipe* "Several. Many."

—Drift

Notes

Continuity notes

• This is not the first time Autobots have GroundBridged onto a moving train. Ratchet wasn't any happier about it than Fixit is here, either.
• Strongarm finally has her Decepticon Hunter stolen for Soundwave's mysterious project in the Shadowzone, after Hi-Test failed to do so in "Guilty As Charged".
  • After Stuntwing swiped Bumblebee's Hunter in "King of the Hill (Part 2)" and Trickout pilfered Sideswipe's in "The Great Divide", Soundwave observed that he was "more than halfway" to finishing his work. By that math, this should complete the project...

Transformers references

• Jetstorm is seen riding on Grimlock. Where did he get this idea from?

Real-world references

• Heatseeker refers to the Autobots as "toasters".

Errors

• When the Autobots enter the GroundBridge to deploy, the Mini-Cons hang back with Sideswipe for a lengthy moment, but when they exit, they're considerably ahead of Drift.

Trivia

"These kids just keep getting weirder!"

• While one might have expected the remaning Activator Mini-Con from the toyline, Great Byte, to appear working for Soundwave's little project, instead a previously-unknown yellowish-orange Activator is on the job. According to showrunner Adam Beechen, this is because the script actually called for Hi-Test to appear - when after his failure in "Guilty As Charged", he literally ran off the job. This was (thankfully!) caught in time for a new Mini-Con to be substituted in. But not in time for the script to adapt to the change.