Forest Rescue Mission
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<td>Cover date </td><td> 1985
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<td>Story </td><td> Dwight Jon Zimmerman
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<td>Art by </td><td> Brad Joyce
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</table> The Decepticons are going to build a factory in the pristine forest! Who can stop them and save the adorable forest animals?
Synopsis
Meet the Autobots! They're nice. Meet the Decepticons! They're not nice!
This is the day of the Decepticons! Or at least, Megatron proclaims it to be so. He orders the Decepticons to smash up the pristine wilderness they happen to be wandering through in order to set up a factory to build a horde of Decepticon warriors!
Meanwhile, the Autobots are in the same forest, on vacation. Hound and Butch go fishing, while Sparkplug spends some time polishing Bumblebee. During some routine off-roading fun, Hound comes across the Decepticons blowing the crap out of everything. He reports back to Prime, disrupting the Autobot commander. Prime doesn't even look up from feeding an adorable bunny, but lets it be known that the Decepticons must be stopped.
There's a big fight, but the Autobots eventually drive the Decepticons off. Rather than pursue them, the Autobots spend the rest of the day putting the forest back together. Aww.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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<tr> <th style="background:#FFEEEE"> Autobots </th><th style="background:#EEEEFE"> Decepticons </th><th style="background:antiquewhite"> Humans </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top">
- Optimus Prime (1)
- Bumblebee (2)
- Hound (3)
- A guy who looks like Jazz (20)
- Miscellaneous generic Autobots (21-25)
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- Megatron (4)
- Ravage (5)
- Starscream (6)
- Laserbeak (7)
- Thundercracker (8)
- Skywarp (9)
- Rumble (10)
- Soundwave (11)
- Decepticon Army (12-19)
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- Butch Witwicky (26)
- Sparkplug Witwicky (27)
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Notes
- The model sheets are a weird mix, here. Bumblebee is his cartoon body with a creepy toy-esque head. The rest of the Autobots use their cartoon models. Megatron is almost entirely his cartoon model, except that his cannon still has a handle.
- Some of the model sheets from the really weird Decepticon Patrol coloring book show up here, specifically the weird hats for Skywarp and Thundercracker.
- In addition, some art and words were directly lifted from Decepticon Patrol as well.
- Prime feeds a REALLY cartoony bunny rabbit.
- The Combat Deck shows up... drawn as Prime's Cybertronian form from the first issue of the Marvel comic...
- This book was available separately or bagged with a box of eight crayons.
