Menonia

Menonia is a planet (or possibly dimension) from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Been spendin' most our lives livin' in a madman's paradise.

The realm of <strong class="selflink">Menonia</strong> is accessed by a Quintesson transport device hidden on Cybertron. It seems likely that Menonia in fact exists in an alternate dimension, and whether the name "Menonia" refers to the dimension as a whole or merely one world within it is unclear.

Menonia's technology is the equivalent of Earth's middle ages. However, magic is much more prevalent.

Known inhabitants include:

• Humans

• Dragons: The wizard known as the Golden One can take dragon or human form.

• Birdpeople: Humanoids with the wings, feet and heads of birds.

• Tree-centaurs: Strange creatures that seemed part centaur and part Ent.

• Wood-bots: Mara-Al-Utha, the Red Wizard, employed wooden servants that looked like generic Transformers (a hint of his Quintessonian nature). It is unknown if they were animated by technology or magic.

• Reptile-birds: a small dragon/pterodactyl-like creature called Groyle served the Red Wizard.

These races are not named in the episode, so take the designations as descriptors rather than actual race names.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

"Have you seen my gold goblet? ... It's on my what?"

During the time in which the Quintessons ruled Cybertron, a number of criminals were banished to other dimensions. Mara-Al-Utha, a practitioner of the forbidden art of sorcery, was sent to Menonia. At that time, Menonia was ruled over by the powerful sorcerer known as the Golden One, who took Mara-Al-Utha under his wing as a student. The Quintesson was greedy and, employing the magic he had learned, blasted the Golden One into a cave, blocking the entrance with a huge boulder. In the Golden One's absence, Mara-Al-Utha took control of the kingdom and assumed the name "Red Wizard".

Mara-Al-Utha ruled "ages beyond counting", enslaving the inhabitants of the kingdom and punishing dissidents severely. As well as using other races to control the population, he built the wood-bots as servants. Despite the Red Wizard's long and punishing rule, the Golden One's allies continued to rebel against their slavery and mounted unsuccessful attacks on the castle.

Millions of years passed in our universe between Mara-Al-Utha's exile and Daniel and Grimlock visiting the kingdom. As the Golden One's pupil lived through all that time, either humans in Menonia are very, very long-lived, or time in Menonia passes at a different rate from that at which it passes in the regular universe.

When Daniel Witwicky and Grimlock visited Menonia, the rebel forces were massing for a final, decisive attack on the Red Wizard's castle. The Red Wizard was able to trick Grimlock into helping to defend the castle walls against the attackers.

DIIIIIIVE!

During the attack on the castle, more Autobots arrived to find Grimlock and helped to reinforce the castle defences. It soon became clear to them that the Red Wizard was not what he appeared to be. Meanwhile, Daniel and the Golden One's pupil had been freed, and they in turn had located and freed the Golden One. Weakened by his imprisonment, the Golden One had a difficult time fighting the Red Wizard, revealed finally in his true form as Mara-Al-Utha. The Autobot Blaster was able to provide amplification to allow the Golden One's spells to be heard, and Mara-Al-Utha was swiftly defeated.

With Menonia once again under the rule of the Golden One, the Autobots returned through the portal. Madman's Paradise

Animated continuity

Swindle picked up a case of powerful super glue from Menonia, which he used to patch up Lugnut after Hothead Blitzwing shattered him with some Glass Gas. However, the joke was on Lugnut and Blitzwing, since Swindle was arming both Decepticons and stoking their overblown arms race/rivalry.Everything Must Go