Transformers Dark of the Moon Annual 2012

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Transformers Dark of the Moon Annual 2012
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint	HarperCollins Children's Books
First published	September 1, 2011
Cover date	2012
Writer	Paddy Kempshall
Continuity	Movie continuity
ISBN	0007436246 978-0007436248
Page count	64
Price	£7.99

The Transformers Dark of the Moon Annual 2012 was published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins Children's Books to tie in with Dark of the Moon. It contained a text adaptation of the movie, scattered throughout the book in parts, and a whole lot of puzzles and games.

Contents

• The Flight of the Ark — adaptation part 1: Optimus Prime witnesses the launch and apparent destruction of the Ark.
• Data Delivery — a DOTM word find.
• Bits and Bytes — match the pieces of Shockwave with shadowed-out parts of his stock image.
• The Battle for Cybertron — Tic Tac Toe.
• The Dark Side of the Moon — adaptation part 2: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon and investigate the crashed Ark.
• Moon Maze — a maze. Avoid the craters!
• Optimus Prime Art
• Megatron Art
• Patchwork Parts — a crazy monster made of parts of other Transformers.
• Colour Optimus Prime
• Robo Repair — find the wire leading from Megatron's head to his chest.
• Double-Crossed! — adaptation part 3: Bumblebee, Mirage and Sideswipe deal with Crankcase, Hatchet and Crowbar, only for Sentinel Prime to turn evil and kill Ironhide! Then he goes to Washington and begins a Decepticon invasion.
• Colour Bumblebee
• Do Not Disturb — cut up your annual so you can use this "do not disturb" sign!
• Matrix Master — spot the odd symbol out in each row.
• Power Pyramid — work out the missing numbers from the pyramid before Sentinel Prime does!
• Colour Shockwave
• Decepticon Deployment — NEST Satellite Orion shows possible places on a world map for Space Bridge Pillar deployment.
• Abandoned! — adaptation part 4: Sam Witwicky tearfully says farewell to the Autobots before they leave on the Xantium, and then watches in horror as Starscream blows it up.
• More Than Meets the Eye — optical illusions.
• Code Breaker — use a code to decipher the message Optimus sent Bumblebee, written in the code of the Primes.
• Shockwave Art
• Sentinel Prime Art
• Double Difference — spot the differences between these two pictures of Megatron.

Autobot X (DOTM)?

• Shock and Awe! — Having avoided the Xantium explosion, the Autobots enter Chicago. Optimus destroys the Driller. Bumblebee is too busy battling Soundwave to spot Shockwave coming up behind him, but Optimus does and beats Shockwave to death. Carly goads Megatron into helping Optimus defeat Sentinel, while soldiers destroy the control Pillar. Optimus accepts Megatron's truce.
• Transformers Quiz
• Colour Megatron
• NEST Field Guide to Autobots and Decepticons — bios covering Megatron, Bumblebee, Shockwave, Skids and Mudflap, Ironhide, Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime.
• Answers — the answers to all of the previous puzzles.

Errors

• In the adaptation, Ground Control worries that the lander will run out of fuel before it lands, as that would be disastrous. If it has that little fuel left, how's it going to take off again?
• The population figures cited on the "Decepticon Deployment" page seem to be out slightly, particularly Beijing's population which is listed as 14.9 million, but the latest figures give it as 19.6 million.
• Several of the pointers on the same page appear to be pointing somewhere other than indicated. The label for Chicago appears to be pointing to somewhere in Kentucky, while the one for Mato Grosso is too far south-east, and Chernobyl appears to have drifted to the other side of the Ukraine, just beside the border to Russia above the Black Sea.
• Megatron's alternate modes in his bio are described as "Cybertronian tank or jet"

Items of note

• Skids and Mudflap are featured in the word find and the profiles at the end, though they don't appear in the text adaptation of the film, suggesting it was written after it was clear they weren't in the film.
• The adaptation ends with Optimus accepting Megatron's truce, however.
• At least one piece of non-Transformers photography is included, with a NASA picture of Buzz Aldrin standing on the Moon accompanying the text adaptation.
• Locations pointed to by the Orion satellite: Chicago, Illinois, USA; New York, New York, USA; Mato Grosso, Brazil; Majnoon, Iraq; Olympic Dam, South Australia; Chernobyl, Pripyat, Ukraine; Beijing, China.