Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 55
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 That's right, it's the Collectors' Club vs BotCon in a battle to the death! | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| First published | early February | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | Feb/March 14 | ||||||||||||
| MTMTE Profiles | Evan Gauntt | ||||||||||||
| Contributors | David Willis Greg Black Jim Sorenson Bill Forrester 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 | ||||||||||||
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Contents
[edit]- On the cover: the Star Seeker and Cybertronian Knight faction symbols from BotCon 2014 (p. 1)
- Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
- "Thrilling 30 interview: Flint Dille" (p. 3)
- "Transformers BotCon Pirates vs Knights preview!" images of Cannonball and an entry of Tornado's personal journal (pp. 4–5)
- "Transformers at 30: Flashback" by Jim Sorenson (p. 6)
- "Alone Together: Prologue" - comic story (pp. 7–12)
- "Celebrity Fan Spotlight" by Andrew Hall and featuring professional boxer Marina Isami (p. 13)
- Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
- Beast Wars: Uprising Rampage (p. 14)
- Beast Wars: Uprising Trans-Mutate (p. 15)
- "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
- Transformers I.Q.
- Recordicons
- Transformers I.Q. Trivia Bonus
Notes
[edit]- Characters mentioned in Rampage's profile include: Starscream and Depth Charge.
- Some more proto-typical weirdness here with early Uprising fiction: the Builders are the name of the old Autobot factions, rather than both them and the Decepticons.
- Rampage has galva-conductors in his vehicle mode (mentioned on his original toy's packaging) that can burst through solid duranium (a metal from Star Trek).
- Rampage's profile claims he got his name after his escape and re-capture by Depth Charge. However, both this year's storyline and later Beast Wars: Uprising fiction will ignore this, presenting "Rampage" as a name given to Protoform X by Lord Imperious Delirious. Also abandoned is the claim here that, like in the Beast Wars cartoon, Protoform X was an attempt to recreate Starscream's immortal spark.
- Characters mentioned in Trans-Mutate's bio include: Cryotek and Rattrap.
- Rampage replaces his would-be nemesis Depth Charge as this year's "Where It's At..." mascot.
- Bill Forster's last name is still misspelled as "Forrester".
- "Transmutate" is her name at the top of her bio, but "Trans-Mutate" (with a hyphen) is her name in the body of the bio and in the comic.
