Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 46

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RANSFOR ORE THAN MEETS
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early August 2012
Cover date	Aug/Sept 12

SDCC! 'Nuff Said!

Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #46

Editor-In-Chief: Brian Savage
Editor: Pete Sinclair
Creative Director/Layout: Lanny Lathem
Associate Editor: Jesse Wittenrich
Research Editor: Karl Hartman
MTMTE Profiles: Matthew Armstrong
Proofreaders: Heather Choplin, Jeremiah McNatt
Contributors: David Willis, Greg Black, Jim Sorenson, Bill Forster, Heather T. Smith, Derrick Wyatt, S. Trent Troop, Greg Sepelak, Rosemary Ward, Richard Chang, Benson Yee, David S. Lane, Terry Wheeler

Contents

• On the cover: photograph of Optimus Prime statue from San Diego Comic-Con 2012, plus an inset of Jerry Jivoin holding a box of Bruticus (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• "HASBRO at SDCC!" (p. 3)
• "INTERVIEW with MR. KOHJIN OHNO" (pp. 4-5)
• "A Flash Forward, Part 4" - comic story (pp. 6-11)
• Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Hubcap (p. 12)
  • Nightracer (p. 13)
• "Coming This Summer! The Transformers Figure Subscription Service (TFSS)" preview, with Circuit and Scourge (pp. 14-15)
• "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
  • Transformers I.Q.
  • Recordicons
  • Transformers I.Q. Last Issue Review

Notes

• Characters mentioned in Hubcap's bio include: Blaster and Cliffjumper.
  • Hubcap has replaced Blaster as Autobot City's Senior Communications Officer; Blaster was the head of Autobot City in the third season of The Transformers.
  • Hubcap's Cybertonium levels need recharged more than most Transformers, or else it will lead to deleterious effects; these effects were seen in the two-part The Transformers episodes "Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1" and "Part 2".
• Characters mentioned in Nightracer's bio include: the original Nightracer and Jhiaxus.
  • Nightracer's profile confirms that she and the other Jhiaxus-aligned Go-Bots are clones; in particular, her source, the original Nightracer, was a Decepticon sharpshooter during the Great War, having been killed at some point. Female Decepticons, in general, are thought to have gone extinct; Shockwave remarked in "The Search for Alpha Trion" that he believed their counterparts, the Female Autobots, had gone extinct as well.