Attack of the Insecticons
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<tr style="font-size:14px;"> <td class="tti_buttonlink">« </td><td align="center">Find Your Fate Junior #3 </td><td align="right" class="tti_buttonlink">» </td></tr> <tr class="tt1_secondarynav"> <td class="tti_buttonlink"> </td><td align="center"> </td><td align="right" class="tti_buttonlink"> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 12px; background-color:#ffffff;" align="center"> <img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/c/cf/Attack_of_the_insecticons.jpg/230px-Attack_of_the_insecticons.jpg" width="230" height="334" border="0" /><br />Voyeurism of the Insecticons </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 14px; background-color:#e7d492; color:black;font-weight:bold;" align="center"> "Attack of the Insecticons" </td></tr> <tr> <td>Publisher </td><td> Ballantine Books </td></tr> <tr> <td>Imprint </td><td> Find Your Fate Junior </td></tr> <tr> <td>Date published </td><td> 1986 </td></tr>
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<td>Writer </td><td> Lynn Beach
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<td>Illustrator </td><td> William Schmidt (interior pencils and cover painting)
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<td>Page Count </td><td> 74
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<td>ISBN </td><td> <a href="/w2/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0345341511" class="internal">ISBN 0-345-34151-1</a>
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</table> Attack of the Insecticons is a multipath adventure in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Major characters
Synopsis
- Kickback spies on the Autobots' secret test of the Sun-Pak, an experimental solar battery developed by Sparkplug.
- Starscream leads the Decepticons in a surprise attack and succeeds in capturing the device.
- The Autobots determine that the Sun-Pak must be either recovered or destroyed by way of a raid on the nearby Decepticon headquarters.
- Starscream captures Sparkplug for himself, and plots to use the Sun-Pak's power to overthrow Megatron. Blaster, Buster and Bumblebee play prominent roles.
- The Autobots' retreat leads them into the Insecticons' nest, built into the same mountain. Beachcomber uses his geological skills to find a path through the caves to the surface.
- The Insecticons steal the Sun-Pak for themselves. Shrapnel plans to use its power to overthrow Megatron. Buster and Mirage go after the Sun-Pak.
Trivia
- Attack of the Insecticons features a series of humiliating endings for Starscream; destroyed by Thundercracker when he tries to surrender, sent for reprogramming by Megatron, tricked into thinking he's an Autobot after he loses his memory . . .
- The creation of the Sun-Pak would drastically alter the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, but in one ending Sparkplug suffers brain damage (faulty cerebro-shell?) and isn't able to remember how to re-create it. The result: a Portable laser-operated toothbrush! Perhaps this represents the "real" ending?
- Decepticon headquarters in this book is on land, a short drive from Autobot headquarters. This is probably just a local base. (The Find Your Fate Junior books feature several local bases.)
- This book features two different devices called electro-disrupters, with completely different effects. Additionally, Blaster's electro-scrambler is mentioned. None of these appear on the same story 'track,' but the combined effect is . . . quite confusing.
- The Autobots' decision to construct their secret test-track in the same mountain as the Insecticon nest appears to be a coincidence. (Not an annoying one, though, as that's presumably what led to Kickback learning of the Sun-Pak.)
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