Detroit
Detroit, Michigan is a city in the United States of America. It is located near Lake Erie.
Animated
Once the automobile manufacturing capital of the world, in the 22nd Century, Detroit has once again become a leading manufacturing hub -- for robots. As for what happened to the city between those two periods, well, who knows?
The city has a newly unveiled mass transit system.
The city has more recently become home to a team of five robotic superheroes, the Autobots. Having crashed aboard their ship some fifty years earlier in Lake Erie, they awoke and appointed themselves guardians and defenders of the city's humanity; though when one of their old foes showed up in town, they ended up trashing a lot of the city, though they latter help rebuild it. They make their home in an abandoned factory. Transform and Roll Out!
Notable Locations
Actual Detroit landmarks featured in Animated include:
- Grand Circus Park, featuring the statue of Governor Hazen S. Pengree (where Prowl gets birdpooped on) Transform and Roll Out!
- Michigan Central Station (where Isaac Sumdac reveals his new train) Transform and Roll Out!
- Highland Park Ford Plant -- though not an exact likeness, the abandoned factory used by the Autobots bears a strong resemblance to the original Ford Model T manufacturing plant where the assembly line was first implemented. Transform and Roll Out!
- Interstate 94 -- the main US Interstate highway westbound from Detroit to Chicago. One of its marker signs adorns the interior of the Autobots' headquarters. Total Meltdown
Fictional Detroit landmarks featured in Animated include:
- Burger Bot, home of the Big Bot Burger
- Sumdac Systems manufacturing plants
Trivia
- Part of the final battle in the live-action Transformers film, set in the fictional location of Mission City, was filmed in the real-life Detroit: the empty building that Sam runs into with the All Spark is actually Detroit's long-abandoned Michigan Central Station.
