Dig Fest (episode)
| This article is about the Rescue Bots Academy. For the event featured in it, see Dig Fest (event). |
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| "Dig Fest" | ||||||
| Production code | 138 | |||||
| Season | 1 | |||||
| No. in season | 38 | |||||
| Production company | Allspark Animation | |||||
| Airdate | October 19, 2019 | |||||
| Writer | Nathan Cockerill | |||||
| Director | Pete Slattery | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
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While looking for crashed pieces of a space satellite, Wedge pulls off a spectacular rescue at Dig Fest and becomes the unlikely star of the show.
Synopsis
[edit]Medix switches off a commercial for Dig Fest as it's too loud, however Hot Shot fills the new void with an exclamation as he's found his scrapbook of his Cube highlights. Hot Shot voices his desire to take the other recruits to a match, though Wedge isn't keen on the fame Cube brings. Heatwave arrives with a new mission for the recruits—a top-secret satellite has crash landed while coming in for maintenance, and the recruits have to recover it before anyone finds the Cybertronian tech Boulder installed on it.
The recruits head out to the desert near Milford and start searching. They quickly find two of the satellite fragments, but when they also spot the lights of Dig Fest in the distance, they decide they need to check it out in case the remainder of the satellite ended up there. They sneak into a side room in the arena, and despite Wedge wanting to move on, the other recruits stay to see the dancing construction equipment. When one of the diggers goes out of control however, Wedge is forced to act and stop the machine. The MC naturally assumes Wedge is a machine driven by a human, and Wedge has to bluff his way through an interview. Hoist's scanner picks up Cybertronian tech, and the other recruits realize that the last piece of satellite is in the arena itself.
The recruits attempt to signal Wedge, first via the comms and then via signal flags. The MC invites Wedge to take part in a freestyle event, and to the surprise of the other recruits, Wedge accepts. The event starts, and two of the other vehicles are eliminated when Wedge outdoes them with stunts. The other recruits observe that the mission is in danger of being blown, and Wedge himself crashes while doing an extra-crazy stunt. Wedge returns to the side room where the other recruits start berating him. When they check his injuries however, he turns out to be completely fine—his crash was merely an act so he could pick up the piece of satellite. The others are impressed he resisted the call of fame, but as Wedge says, he can always win Dig Fest next year.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Quotes
[edit]"Wow, this place is awesome! Which is weird cause usually construction vehicles are kinda boring. Uh, no offense, Wedge."
- —Hot Shot
"Look at Wedge go! Who does he think he is? Hot Shot?"
"Should I be offended by that?"
- —Hoist and Hot Shot
Notes
[edit]Continuity notes
[edit]- Hot Shot keeps what appears to be a paper scrapbook containing photographs of him playing Cube, which is remarkably low tech for Cybertron.
- Speaking of which, Wedge is seen shuffling through his equally low tech Heroes of Cybertron collectable cards.
Transformers references
[edit]- TBA
Real-world references
[edit]- The stadium Dig Fest takes place in appears to be loosely based on Rome's Colosseum.
Animation and technical errors
[edit]- TBA
Trivia
[edit]- When Whirl notes that the satellite is crashing in the desert near Milford, the map shows it coming down in the southeast United States, rather far away from Maine where Griffin Rock is located and Milford had been presumed to be.
- Some of the Cybertronian text on the Dig Fest commercial reads "CRUSHER" and "WAR ZONE".
- Very briefly visible on Medix's HUD as he scans Wedge is the text "DISTANCE"
- This episode was listed on a number of sites as "Dig Feet".
Foreign localization
[edit]- TBA
