Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 57

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These toys look great together, promise!
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early June
Cover date	June/July 2014
MTMTE Profiles	Evan Gauntt
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
Cover	Dan Khanna and Evan Gauntt

THE EVOLUTION OF THE DINOBOTS

Contents

• On the cover: the Classics Dinobots: Grimlock, Snarl, Tyrannitron, and Swoop (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• "Far From Extinct!" by Jesse Wittenrich, a brief look at the many Grimlocks released over the last 30 years (p. 3)
• "Transformers at 30: The Broken Pieces of Rome" by Jim Sorenson, the third part in the series, a look at the Unicron Trilogy (pp. 4–5)
• "TCC Store SALE: 30 Years, 30+ items!" an advertisement specifically showing Depthcharge [sic], Mirage, Thundercracker, Electron [sic] and Sandstorm (p. 6)
• Alone Together: "Perception" - comic story (pp. 7–12)
• "Transformers BotCon Preview!" images of the BotCon 2014 box set toys, plus the souvenir tee and hat (p. 13)
• Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Beast Wars: Uprising Jawbreaker (p. 14)
  • Beast Wars: Uprising Bigmos (p. 15)
• "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
  • Transformers I.Q.
  • Recordicons
  • Transformers I.Q. Trivia Bonus

Notes

• Characters mentioned in Jawbreaker's bio include: Lionhead, Botanica, and Clawjaw.
  • In Jawbreaker's vision of his death, he's being eaten by Scrapmetals, a type of Cybertronian vermin from Cybertron.
  • Lionhead, Jawbreaker's instructor at the Maximal Academy, is the Beast Wars Under-3 McDonald's tie-in toy, designed for toddlers. Lionhead is his Japanese name.
  • Jawbreaker's cousin is Clawjaw, a Maximal squid from the Beast Wars toyline.
  • Jawbreaker plastered leaflets all over the "Mystery of Convoy" statue in Cybertropolis Square, named for the infamously-difficult Japanese Transformers video game. Cybertropolis, meanwhile, was the capital city of Cybertron in Beast Machines.
• Characters mentioned in Bigmos profile include: Rattrap, Autostinger, and the Insectrons.
  • All of the characters mentioned in Bigmos profile besides Rattrap come from Beast Wars II.
  • Bigmos' Needle Missiles can pierce solid steel from over 1000 mechanometers (a unit of measurement from The Transformers episode "City of Steel"), and his attack mode battle claw can crush pure endurium armor (endurium is an element from the video game Starflight).
• The magazine's logo on the front page now uses the new 2014 Transformers logo—the style of the old one was first used for 2001's Robots in Disguise!
• Bill Forster's last name is now spelled correctly again!
• Neither of the profiles in this issue includes the character's alternate mode.