The Immobilizers
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| "The Immobilizers" | ||||||
| Production company | eOne | |||||
| Airdate | November 6, 2021 (YouTube) November 22, 2021 (Netflix) | |||||
| Writer | Zac Atkinson Dan Salgarolo | |||||
| Director | Ehud Landsberg | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
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When a gang of Mercenaries time-locks all of Cybertron, Grimlock and a group of new friends must combine their efforts to save the planet.
Synopsis
In the Tomb of Nexus Prime, Arcee and Grimlock happily dart towards the exit with ancient relics in hand, pursued by the gigantic invisible bird that has made the tomb its home. Narrowly dodging booby traps and projectile eggs, the two manage to escape in their shuttle, blasting off towards Cybertron. As they fly, they review the contents of their haul, including the mysterious Enigma of Combination. Grimlock remarks offhandedly how nice the Enigma will look at the centerpiece for the party he'll be holding after the signing of the peace treaty happening that day—which the two realize in a moment of panic that they are now very late for.
Featured characters
Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Quotes
Notes
Continuity notes
- The Dinobots intercepted and were inspired by the last of Grimlock's video logs from prehistoric Earth, originally seen in the first season episode "King of the Dinosaurs".
Transformers references
- The Enigma of Combination, the artifact of Nexus Prime, was a key object in the latter years of the first IDW continuity and plays a major role in the concurrent issues of the 2019 ongoing. Visually this Engima trades its comic counterparts' silver and red for a gold and blue paintjob.
- Swoop consults her "Witwiki" database for information on the Enigma of Combination, a pun based on the Witwicky family featured in many other Transformers incarnations. (Fun fact: many years ago, TFWiki.net was nearly given the exact same name!)
- According to Randolph Heard, an earlier draft of the script used the name "TiffWiki" instead. We're genuinely flattered.[1]
- Another "Soundwave Superior" for the list.
- Upon seeing Volcanicus, the Mercenaries swear by Megatronus.
Real-world references
- "Witwiki" is, of course, based on the real-life website Wikipedia.
Other trivia
- Originally scheduled for a November 21st premiere on Netflix, this episode unexpectedly debuted two weeks early on YouTube, something that was only announced literally the day before it happened.
- On a clipboard, there were some Transformers fans in cybertronian writing including:
- Comodian Cam, Ultra Primal, Dragonkeeper, Threw Adams, Rodimns Primal, Heyan Carlie, Jillian Jones, Uhanks for all the review, We love you guys. [2]
Animation and technical errors
- During the opening parade scenes, Clobber has an Autobot insignia. At the end, when she hugs Lockdown, it has changed to a Decepticon insignia.
- The flock of Laserbeak-type birds all have Decepticon insignia, despite being unaligned.
- When Afterburner and Bugbite begin shooting at Grimlock, Afterburner is miscolored as Dirge.
- When the Dinobots transform to Volcanicus for the second time, the screen cuts to black for a few seconds. Perhaps this would have been where the credits would appear if the episode was split into four parts?
- Trypticon's name is incorrectly misspelled "Tripticon" in the credits.
- Teletraan-X is listed in the voice credits, despite not appearing in the episode. His name is also misspelled "Teletran-X".
Foreign localization
- TBA
Home video releases
- TBA
