Car Show Blow Up
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Car Show Blow Up is a Transformers storybook.
Vital statistics
ISBN
Writer: Dana Rosenfeld
Illustrators: Earl Norem
Publisher: Marvel Books, Kids Stuff
Published year: 1986
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Major characters: Hot Rod, Kup, Galvatron, Ultra Magnus
Summary
The Decepticons learn of a human-built robot car that is being unveiled in a car show. They plan to steal it and convert it into an army of slaves to build them a new city like the Autobots are creating. Hot Rod and Kup get wind of their plot and investigate.
Trivia
- This story is not obviously part of any major continuity. Ultra Magnus and Galvatron are the leaders while older characters such as Starscream and Windcharger are still alive and following their orders.
- Although Hot Rod is essentially the main character, there is not one picture of him in his robot mode.
- Even though Norem had painted his characters with Autobot and Decepticon symbols, black line symbols were superimposed over them in a very cheap manner. This appears to have been a process applied to artwork by other artists like John Speirs who didn't apply the faction symbols to his characters, and so was redundantly done to later books by Norem too.
Errors
Starscream is painted like Skywarp on one page when he has captured Kup.
