Transformers the Movie (Ladybird adaptation)
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| Transformers the Movie | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Ladybird Books | ||||||||||||
| First published | 1986 | ||||||||||||
| Adaptation by | John Grant | ||||||||||||
| Designed by | Howard Matthews | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Generation 1 cartoon continuity | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | ISBN 9780721410098 ISBN 0-72141-009-X | ||||||||||||
A retelling of the events of The Transformers: The Movie in an illustrated storybook format.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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Notes
- The "illustrations" in this story are simply stills from the film.
- Transformer deaths are understandably scaled back in this adaptation. For example, when the Decepticons attack Ironhide's shuttle, it simply says, "the Autobot crew had been overcome".
- Unicron is described as "snow-capped" in planet mode.
- The combat drone Hot Rod spars with is called the auto-combatant.
- Many, but not all, of the spoken lines are direct quotes from the movie.
- As in the Marvel UK stories, the Quintesson homeworld is "Quintesson" rather than "Quintessa".
Differences with the movie
- The scene of Unicron attacking Lithone is left out.
- In the beginning, when Laserbeak was spying on Moonbase 1, he is actually hidden in a computer console in tape mode.
- Nobody says "'Til all are one" at the end.
- The Dinobots attack on Devastator is not mentioned, instead the books says a barrage is rained down on the Decepticons from the Autobots relief force.
Errors
- A portrait of Rodimus Prime is labeled "Hot Rod". Indeed, the text still calls Rodimus "Hot Rod" even after he opens the Matrix and hears Optimus' voice.
- At Starscream's coronation, the text says Thrust and Ramjet are standing on either side of Starscream, but the still shows Astrotrain and Ramjet.
- A still is misplaced. It shows Kup's crew and Springer's crew together on the bridge of a ship before they met back up.
