Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 59

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The trick is that he actually turns into a motorbike.
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early October
Cover date	Oct/Nov 2014
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

"TRICK OR TREAT!"

Contents

• On the cover: TFSS 3.0 Tarantulas, by Jesse Wittenrich (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• "Transformers at 30: Transformers Animated: A New Direction" by Jim Sorenson, the fifth part in the series, a look at the development of Transformers Animated (pp. 3 & 13)
• "Transformers Generation 2 - Generation Lost Part 1", a look at cancelled G2 toys (pp. 4–6)
• Alone Together: "Delirious" - comic story (pp. 7–12)
• Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Beast Wars: Uprising Medusa (p. 14)
  • Beast Wars: Uprising Lord Imperious Delirious (p. 15)
• "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
  • Transformers I.Q.
  • Recordicons
  • Transformers I.Q. Trivia Bonus

Notes

• Characters mentioned in Medusa's profile include: the Intruder Prime and Lord Imperious Delirious.
  • As mentioned in the comic this issue, Medusa was created by the Intruder Empire. The Intruders were a race of strongmen from another world from the Adventure Team toyline, and are described here as more close to that appearance then the aliens in the comic (presumably drawn generic as artist Naoto Tsushima most likely didn't know about them).
  • Medusa's duties were reassigned after an incident with the Intruder Prime and fake korlonium crystals; korlonium crystals were seen in The Transformers episode "A Prime Problem".
  • Among the devices used to torture Medusa when she was non-compliant were endoscopic claws, a torture tool seen in IDW Publishing's Last Stand of the Wreckers.
  • Like Lord Imperious Delirious in this issue's comic, Medusa has her special attack from her first appearance in Transformers in 3-D issue #3 mentioned: her Medusa Beams. While there they were depicted simply as being flames projected from her eyes, her profile describes them as physics-bending weapons that alter strong and weak nuclear forces of their targets, disintegrating them.
• The More than Meets the Eye profiles in this issue have a unique Destructon insignia.