Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 53

	; The eye of the storm is clearly somebody's chest. Shhh... it's a surprise.
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early October
Cover date	Oct/Nov 13
MTMTE Profiles	Dan Khanna
Contributors	David Willis; Greg Black; Jim Sorenson; Bill Forster; Derrick J. Wyatt; S. Trent Troop; Greg Sepelak; Richard Chang; Benson Yee
Editor	Pete Sinclair
Associate editor	Jesse Wittenrich
Creative Director	Lanny Lathem
Research editor	Karl Hartman
Editor-in-chief	Brian Savage

TFSS 2.0!

On the cover: an homage to "Eye of the Storm"'s cover, starring the TFSS 2.0 folks, by Robby Musso (p. 1)
Brian's Bytes and Bolts, From the Editor's Desk (inside cover)
"The seekers!" with photos by Randy Para (oh, they're not done yet) (p. 3)
"Transformers Collectors' Club Figure Subscription Service 2.0" preview (pp. 4–5)
"Transformers Multiverse Roadmap Spotlight: Thrill of the Hunt" (p. 6)
"Shattered Balance" - comic story (pp. 7–12)
"The Transformers Menagerie, Part 4: The Terrorcons" (p. 14)
Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
- Classics Magnaboss (p. 14)
- Classics Autolauncher (p. 15)
"The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
- Transformers I.Q.
- Recordicons
- Transformers I.Q. Trivia Bonus

Notes

Characters mentioned in Magnaboss' profile include: Megatron, Superion, Defensor, Ironhide, Silverbolt, and Prowl.
- Magnaboss is equipped with "Sky Missiles", mentioned in the profile for his Beast Wars II counterpart in issue #2 of the Beast Wars Sourcebook.
Characters mentioned in Autolauncher's profile include: Megatron and Grimlock.

The "Weakenesses" section of Magnaboss's profile talks about the limitations of his force field generating abilities... abilities which are, er, not mentioned anywhere else in his profile.