Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 33

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All right, break it down!
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early June 2010
Cover date	June/July 10

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Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #33

Editor-In-Chief: Brian Savage
Editor: Pete Sinclair
Creative Director/Layout: Lanny Lathem
Associate Editor: Ben Yee
Associate Editor: Jesse Wittenrich
Research Editor: Karl Hartman
Columnist: Rob Meyer
Head Proofreader: Heather Choplin
Proofreader: Mark Baker-Wright
Resident Colorist: Drew Eiden
Resident Artist: Evan Gauntt
Staff: Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop
Featured Artists: Casey Coller

Contents

• On the cover: bio card art of BotCon 2010 Breakdown (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• "Gregg Berger - Almost 25 Years Later and STILL not a Bozo!" an interview with Gregg Berger (p. 3)
• "HASBRO 'GENERATIONS' INTERVIEW!" an interview with Hasbro's Matthew Proulx about Generations, including images of Darkmount, Red Alert, War for Cybertron Megatron and War for Cybertron Soundwave (pp. 4–5)
• Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Onslaught (p. 6)
  • Moonracer (p. 7)
• "Transformers: 2010 - part 3" by Jim Sorenson, an article about Rodimus Prime and Galvatron's specific strategies for victory (p. 8)
• "THE GUESTS of BOTCON," a reminder that BotCon occasionally has guests (p. 9)
• "The Coming Storm: Part 3" - comic story (pp. 10–15)
• "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
  • Around Cybertron
  • "Featured Fan Art!" with "Optimus Prime" by Audrey Cunningham
  • Micro-Sized profile for Classics Liftor

Notes

• Martin Fisher wrote the profile for Moonracer, but is not listed among the issue's credits. [1]
• Characters mentioned in Onslaught's profile include: Sentinel Major and Magnum.
  • Onslaught is noted to have trained at the Omnihelix Academy (originally mentioned in "Flames of Yesterday"), the name of which takes inspiration from the Omnitrix from Ben 10.
  • Onslaught likes to share war stories at Maccadam's Old Oil House, introduced in the Marvel UK Transformers comic.
  • Onslaught can launch his photon missiles over a range of 5500 mechanometers, a unit of length introduced in Transformers episode "City of Steel".
• Characters mentioned in Moonracer's profile include: Kup, Dion, and Alpha Trion.
  • Moonracer was seen as Alpha Trion's aide in "The Coming Storm: Part 2".
• Characters mentioned in Liftor's bio include: "Liftor" (see Errors) and Broadside.
  • Liftor is specifically based on the colors Universe incarnation of the character, and is noted to hail from the Club's Classics universe, mentioning Broadside's rebellion from "The New World".
  • Liftor sees "grand arches in a pre-war Vos style" (Vos is a city-state introduced in the Marvel UK Transformers comics) as "electrum-laced tironium girder suspensions" (electrum was seen in Transformers episode "The Golden Lagoon", while tironium was mentioned in Beast Wars episode "Power Surge").
  • Bizarrely, this appears to be one of the few Mini-Con profiles not written by Greg Sepelak, as in 2026, when releasing all the remaining unpublished bios for the Mini-Cons he had written, included a Liftor bio completely different from this one.

Errors

• In Liftor's profile, it is said that Liftor didn't join Broadside's rebellion in order to spite... Liftor. Presumably, this was supposed to be Refute, who was the other Mini-Con packaged in the "Battle in a Box" toy, teamed with the Decepticon Ransack.