Golden Disk (ancient)

The name or term Golden Disk refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Golden Disk (disambiguation).

The Golden Disk is an artifact in the Dreamwave portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Megatron finds the fifth Golden Disk and his chance to visit Willy Wonka's factory.

The Golden Disk is a relic from an earlier age of Cybertron, it belonged to the ancestors of modern Transformers, and may hide the terrible secret of their origins.

Fiction

Dreamwave comics

While exploring the Forbidden Zones, Megatron discovered the entombed ruins of an ancient civilization. And in the hands of giant statues of the ancient Transformers Dai Atlas and Deathsaurus he found the Golden Disk, which proved the Council of Ancients dogma was a lie.

The council sent assassins after Megatron to silence his discovery, but he killed them back (preemptively.) The Route of All Evil

Trivia

• When the Council's assassins attacked Megatron, we saw that the Golden Disk actually a smaller disk inside a two-part casing. Unlike the Voyager Spacecraft's Golden Disk whose casing opened like a film canister, this one split down the middle.
• Megatron discovered this Golden Disk more than 9 million years ago, per the Dreamwave timeline.