Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 13

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Airazor from Venus, Astrotrain from Mars.
Publisher	Fun Publications
Cover date	Feb/March 07

Club Exclusive AIRAZOR! Club Exclusive ASTROTRAIN!

Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #13

Editor-In-Chief: Brian Savage
Editor: Pete Sinclair
Associate Editor: Benson Yee
Research Editor: Karl Hartman
Lead Writer: Rik Alvarez
Creative Director/Layout: Lanny Lathem
Columnist: Rob Meyer
Head Proofreader: Heather Choplin
Resident Cartoonist: Jesse Wittenrich
Resident Colorist: Drew Eiden
Contributors: Scott Marble, Matt Moylan, David Willis, Andrew Sorohan, Greg Sepelak, Trent Troop, Timothy Lim, and Kris Smith
Featured Artists: Don Figueroa, Marcelo Matere

Contents

• On the cover: Package art for the club's exclusive Airazor and Astrotrain toys, by Chris Appel, Dan Khanna and Brian Frey (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• "Interview: The Voice of Optimus Prime SPEAKS!!!" by Scott Marble (pp. 3 and 4)
• "Fan Artist Spotlight!" featuring "Bumblebee" by Timothy Lim, ominously labelled 'one of four'...
• "Hasbro NEWS!" with an interview with the Titanium Team (page 5)
• "Micro-Sized" (p. 6)
  • Mini-Con profiles: Deepdive, Overcast, Longarm
  • Mini Mayhem!
  • Lil Formers
• Maximal Command Security Force profiles: 9K, Overshoot, Switchblade (p. 7)
• Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Classics Grimlock, with art by Don Figueroa and Drew Eiden (p. 8)
  • Classics Mirage, with art by Marcelo Matere and Drew Eiden (p. 9)
• "Transformers Timelines Presents: The Black Sea of Sandokan," a prologue by Benson Yee
• "Crossing Over, Part 1" - comic story (pp. 11-16)

Notes

• The third year of the magazine brings a lot of design changes, as well as the first big switch in the comic story.
• This is the first issue to have an actual cover! All the usual page 1 stuff moves to page 2, which now includes: a table of contents, "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (by Pete Sinclair), some credits, and a message for people who are moving. The chibi-Skyfall has been replaced by Landquake. This layout remains unchanged for the remainder of the magazine's run, so just assume it's like that unless you read otherwise.
• "Micro-Sized" appears for the first time, a page of comics and Mini-Con profiles.
  • The Giant Planet Mini-Con Team's personalities are based on those of the Brothers Strong from long-running animated web series Homestar Runner; Longarm is Strong Mad, Overcast is Strong Bad, and Deepdive is Strong Sad.
  • Longarm is described as being "sharp as a bowl of wet glitch mice"; glitch mice were originally mentioned in Generaton 1 cartoon episode "S.O.S. Dinobots".
• Characters mentioned in Grimlock's bio include: Bludgeon, Megatron, Optimus Prime, and Ultra Magnus.
  • References are made to the events on Klo from Marvel US The Transformers issue #80, and to Grimlock's stolen Decepticon battleships, from issue #78.
• Characters mentioned in Mirage's bio include: Unicron and Optimus Prime.
  • Mirage hunted in Langton's loopbrush, named after Langton's loops, a form of digital artificial life.
  • Mirage hung out at O'Malley's, a bar previously named in "Dawn of Future's Past".
• The prologue to "The Dark Heart of Sandokan" is unique to this issue - the online story tells readers to check it out before reading.