The Transformers Menagerie issue 2
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| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #50 | ||||||||||||
| First published | April/May 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Script | Jim Sorenson | ||||||||||||
| Art | various | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Wings Universe | ||||||||||||
Perceptor goes over the history of the Dinobots.
Synopsis
Perceptor notes that Cybertronians with humanoid robot modes that turn into beast alternate modes are fairly recent, with one of the first groups to do so being the Dinobots. These Autobots were modeled after the fossilized remains of the dinosaurs, prehistoric reptiles from Earth's past, who would go on to serve as the models for other Transformers, such as Trypticon. Nobody had suspected that when the Dinobots were created, the Cybertronian race was taking its first steps into a new route of evolution, combining the mechanical with the organic. Signs of this evolution revolution included the presence of dinosaur transform static, and the sheer brutal efficacy the Dinobots wielded on the battlefields compared to other Autobots. What this could entail for the future, Perceptor muses, he'll just have to wait and see.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Notes
- Characters mentioned include: Trypticon.
Continuity notes
- The Dinobot's origins were seen in The Transformers episode "S.O.S. Dinobots".
- Dinosaur transform static was originally mentioned in "Thief in the Night".
Transformers references
- Like last installment, the Dinobots are illustrated using Studio OX art, and have their Japanese I.D. numbers as part of their labels, with the "C" for "Cybertron" (the Japanese names for the Autobots) changed to an "A".
- Perceptor ponders on the Dinobots being the start of an "evolution-revolution"; "Evolution Revolution" was a song used in a commercial on Fox Kids in 1999 to promote the then-upcoming Beast Machines series.
