Terminal Velocity

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"Terminal Velocity"
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	October 7, 2018 (Canada)
Writer	Gavin Hignight
Director	Jean Texier
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio

Bumblebee explores a nightmarish memory of his visit to Velocitron while Windblade pilots the shuttle in a relentless dogfight with the Decepticon Seekers.

Featured characters

Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Others
Windblade (2) Bumblebee (3) Hot Rod (5) Blurr (6)	Acid Storm (8) Thrust (9) Slipstream (11)	Velocitronian racers (1) Velocitronian civilians (4) Plague of Rust carrier (7) Plague of Rust victims (10)

Notes

Continuity notes

• Bumblebee has kept the Cube he and Windblade found in the scoutship's stores in "Cube".

Transformers references

• Blurr calls Hot Rod by the nickname "Hot Shot". Believe it or not, "Aligned" Rodimus went by "Hot Shot" in the Nintendo DS version of the War for Cybertron videogame.
• The plague victim's cry of "red rust" is also the name of another nasty rusting disease.

Real-world references

• With its wings retracted, the Decepticon scout ship bears a distinct resemblance to the Millennium Falcon, and some of the maneuvers Windblade pulls with it evoke the Falcon's nimbleness as well.
• The Plague of Rust victim in Blurr's hideout babbles "red rust", his voice making it sound a lot like "redrum".

Trivia

• Blurr's character bio on the Cyberverse site notes that he speaks remarkably fast, not unlike his G1 and Animated counterparts. However, he speaks normally here.
• The Plague of Rust carrier uses a color changed version of Wheeljack's design.

Animation and technical errors

• The deployment and retraction of the scout ship's wings is wildly inconsistent between cuts.

Home video releases

• TBA