Unite Warriors Offshot

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Unite Warriors Offshot (ユナイトウォリアーズオフショット Yunaito Woriāzu Ofushotto) is a series of short stories printed on the back of the instruction booklets of Transformers Unite Warriors toys. Illustrated by Hayato Sakamoto, the chapters consist of a piece of art with a short descriptive caption and depict the various combiner teams just having a good time. They're set in the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity, with extensive callbacks to specific episodes of the original cartoon, mainly in the form of human cameos. The first two installments are set after the events of G-2, while the rest occur earlier, circa 2021.

Chapters

Today Is Energon BBQ!

Packaged with: UW-01 Superion
Original title: 今日はエネルゴンBBQ! (Kyō wa Energon BBQ!)
The Aerialbots host one of their usual Energon barbecues on the deck of Scramble City, this time guested by their old friend King Hassan. The classic car he's brought with him bring back fond memories for all of them.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Humans

Notes

  • Originally, this story was believed to take place in the proper universe of the Japanese G1 cartoon continuity, as no indication to the contrary is given by the story, but Metroplex's pack-in Legends comic later retconed it into instead taking place in the Legends World.

Today Is Us Stunticons' Annual Holiday Demolition Race!

Packaged with: UW-02 Menasor
Original title: 今日は俺達スタントロン部隊の休日恒例ぶっ壊しレース! (Kyō wa Oretachi Stuntron-butai no Kyūjitsu Kōrei Bukkowashi Race!)
The Stunticons have fun by racing each other atop stolen cars, and Dead End wins using a Symultech Industries car he's nabbed from Auggie Cahnay Jr. They receive a summon from Megatron, but ignore it: not even the boss's orders can halt this race! They may soon change their tune, however, as the Aerialbots are on their way to deal with their mischief...

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans

Notes

Today Is First Aid's Close Friend NUL-A's Birthday!

Packaged with: UW-03 Guardian
Original title: 今日はファーストエイドの親友NUL-Aの誕生日! (Kyō wa First Aid no Shin'yū NUL-A no Tanjōbi!)
In celebration of his baseball-loving friend NUL-A's birthday, First Aid gets his Protectobot friends to play a special five-man night game just for him. NUL-A isn't the only one to get fired up from watching the Transformers play, however, as even Optimus Prime is watching and cheering his "baseball warriors" on from a nearby monitor.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Others

Notes

  • Judging by the details of his faceplate, Optimus Prime is also in his Unite Warriors body.
  • "Baldigus Chapter, Part Two" would place this story in 2021. First Aid appears in his Unite Warriors body in this story, but he is supposed to be in his classic G1 body circa 2035 in "Metrowars".

Crystal City Reconstruction Project

Packaged with: UW-04 Devastor
Original title: クリスタルシティ再建計画 (Crystal City Saiken Keikaku)
Having destroyed Crystal City long ago to prove their loyalty to Megatron, the Constructicons trick Grapple into helping them rebuild the city on Earth. They are joined by their old friends, Hauler and Omega Supreme, as well as the human scientist Chip Chase.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans

Crossing the Pacific Ocean!?

Packaged with: UW-05 Convoy Grand Prime
Original title: 太平洋を横断ですか!? (Taiheiyō o Ōdan Desu ka!?)
Having received a new surfboard from his friend, Marissa Faireborn, Optimus Prime takes his Scramble Combination troops and their human friends to Hawaii for "special surfing training" (and definitely not a vacation).

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Humans

Notes

  • Optimus Prime's friendship with Marissa refers to their relationship in Kiss Players, and his surfboard is based on his Surfblade from that series.
  • Daniel wears the exo-suit of his Generations toy.
  • Cancer and Wilder appear only as undetailed figures surfing in the background, made up only of color with no lineart. They're largely identifiable by their wetsuits, which match the ones they wore in the Masterforce episode, "Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai." Logically, that would suggest the other figure in the background, a blonde woman, is Minerva, though she's not wearing a recognizable wetsuit design.
    • "Baldigus Chapter, Part Two" places this story in 2021, creating some issues. Per the concurrent Legends storyline, Cancer, Wilder, and Minerva are supposed to be off in deep space or already in the Legends World. Meanwhile, it is not impossible that Daniel already has his "Train Wars" exo-suit, but that story is set circa 2035, and the accompanying bio implies he acquired it only recently.
  • There was some confusion over who the second girl sitting in Optimus Prime's hand in this illustration is. She looks an awful lot like Kiss Players-era Marissa, except she has brown hair instead of blonde, like modern-day Marissa does. The younger woman was later confirmed at BotCon 2016 to be Marissa's daughter, "Sue", a new character.

Special Training in the Lava Baths of Planet Thrull!

Packaged with: UW-06 Grand Galvatron
Original title: 惑星スラルの溶岩風呂で特訓だ! (Wakusei Thrull no Yōgan Furo de Tokkun da!)
Cyclonus trains his troops by subjecting them to the lava pools of Thrull, to varying responses: Thrust gets dizzy from the heat, Breakdown feels great, Starscream tries to escape but is caught by appointed watchman Doctor Arkeville, and Roller finishes first so that he can relax and enjoy a drink. What burns even hotter than the lava, however, is Cyclonus's conviction as he tells the others of his plan to fully resurrect Galvatron. Will they succeed...?

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans

Notes

  • The chapter is a reference to Galvatron's time in Thrull's lava pits as seen in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1" and "Part 2"... but there's a problem with that, as Galvatron destroyed Thrull afterwards!
    • A similar thing happened with Mars in the JG1 continuity. Presumably we can suppose that in the ten-plus years which have passed, Thrull was somehow restored. This is science fiction, after all.

Shopping at the Dark Bazaar!

Packaged with: UW-07 Bruticus
Original title: 闇バザーでショッピング! (Yami Bazaar de Shopping!)
The Combaticons host an arms trading market at their base, with many unscrupulous humans showing up to do business. While Onslaught and Blast Off assess the goods for sale, Swindle busies himself with selling his own home-made missiles as well as items belonging to Brawl, much to the latter's annoyance. Three scientists, Elise Presser, Martin, and Roland, claim they have come to sell their newest creation, B.O.T. II, but Vortex suspects they're actually trying to sneak a mole into the Combaticons' operations.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Decepticons Humans Others

Notes

  • In addition to the presence of a new B.O.T. and its creators, this chapter references "B.O.T." by having Swindle selling Brawl's parts.
  • Dinsmoore must be impossibly old by now.

Surprise Father's Day Party!!

Packaged with: UW-08 Computicon
Original title: サプライズな父の日パーティー!! (Surprise na Chichi no Hi Party!!)
Having learned of the human custom of Father's Day, the Technobots throw a party to honor their equivalent of a father, Grimlock. While they're still preparing, with Scattershot baking energon cake and Nosecone and Afterburner decorating, the guest of honor arrives unexpectedly early, causing chaos as Strafe sprays him with energon champagne at the same time as Lightspeed tries to give him his present. Sue is also there, having given her own dad Dirk Manus a box of chocolate money that he wishes was the real deal.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Humans

Notes

  • In real life, Father's Day is celebrated in Japan on the third Sunday of June, though whether or not this applies to the story is unknown.

Invitation to the Dress Rehearsal!

Packaged with: UW-EX Lynxmaster
Original title: ゲネプロに御招待! (Genepro ni Goshōtai!)
The Disaster Relief Team is producing a stage musical and invite their friends to come watch their rehearsal. With Eurythmans providing the music and Hound's holograms and Wheeljack's devices together creating a hyper-realistic stage and special effects, Trailbreaker plays a knight who fights a dragon (Sky Lynx) to save a captive princess (Ratchet). Ratchet's costume is a big hit among the audience.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Humans Others

Customary Car Wash Meeting in the Bath!

Packaged with: UW-EX Megatronia
Original title: 恒例、お風呂で洗車会! (Kōrei, Ofuro de Sensha-kai!)
Megaempress and her 4 Guards enjoy some time polishing their bodies at the "car wash". Flowspade washes her leader's back, Lunaclub teases and plays around with a flustered Moonheart, and Trickdiamond, concerned about her weight, spends her time walking back and forth between the sauna and a scale.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Decepticons Others

Notes

  • The 4 Guards have left Megatronia's foot accessories in a basket similar to where you would normally leave your clothes.

Strategy Meeting in an Earth Bath?!

Packaged with: UW-EX Baldigus
Original title: 地球のお風呂で作戦会議?! (Chikyū no Ofuro de Sakusen Kaigi?!)
Having escaped Autobot captivity thanks to their comrades Scourge and Sky-Byte, the Commandos occupy a public bath on Earth to rehabilitate and discuss strategies for breaking Devil Gigatron out as well. Mega-Octane, Ro-Tor, and Movor carefully polish their new bodies, Armorhide savors a steamy bath, and Rollbar enjoys a post-bath drink. In fact, to Scourge's annoyance, the team is having such a good time that the plan to rescue Devil Gigatron doesn't actually seem to be going anywhere.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Predacons Humans

Notes

  • The Commandos' love of baths is pre-established, their individual bathing habits being mentioned in their original Japanese bios.
  • The Predacons have acquired their own evil version of T-AI, Dark Ai. She goes unnamed in the caption, not being named until the next story in this plotline, "LGEX Scourge Prologue".
  • The Predacons were last seen traveling into the future in "Ruination Chapter, Part Two", yet here they are in present-day as evidenced by Kelly. "Scourge Prologue" shows that their reason for visiting Earth first was to recover their starship.
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