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
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"It just got away from me."
"It got away from you? It's a train, Dewey, not a chipmunk!"
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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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...
Prisoner manifest
- In stasis: Crustacion, Ragebyte, Zorillor, Springload, Boostwing, Jacknab, Pilfer, Shadow Raker, Flamesnort, Simacore.
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".
- Hydrofluoric acid is a real thing (and what in the Pit are the 'bots keeping a bottle around Denny's scrapyard for?!), but, see "Errors" below.
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.
- Sideswipe clearly states that the bottle of chemicals that Slipstream accidentally used on Drift's sword is "hydrofluoric acid". While undiluted hydrofluoric acid is a nasty poison and is indeed corrosive to flesh, it's only moderately reactive towards metal. Hydrochloric acid, on the other hand, is notorious for its metal-dissolving properties, and would be the much more likely acid to produce the observed effect. (And either way, if it was so concentrated that it shattered the sword in seconds why wasn't it eating up the polishing pad and Slipstream's hand?)
Trivia
- While one might have expected the remaining 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 used in the actual animation.
