Sumdac Tower
- Sumdac Tower is a building from the Animated continuity family.
Sumdac Tower (or Powell Tower, depending on who's running the show), a skyscraper in downtown Detroit, is the home of Isaac Sumdac and his daughter Sari. It also appears to be the center of Sumdac Systems, Professor Sumdac's corporation. The tower is massive, armed with impressive security features and staffed by both humans and robots. It also happens to be shaped like a giant Sparkplug spark plug.
Unfortunately, there is was evil in that tower... evil which does not sleep.
Fiction
Transformers Animated
In addition to what is presumably the living quarters of the Sumdac family, Sumdac Tower also includes Professor Sumdac's penthouse office and his private laboratory, where he keeps the severed head of Megatron as well as Megatron's severed hand—which he uses as a chair. Transform and Roll Out!
Whenever the tower is under attack, it engages an automatic force field to protect those inside the building. Good idea if you're under siege from the bad guys. Bad idea if the bad guy is already in there. Total Meltdown
Sumdac Tower suffered quite a bit of damage when the Decepticons mobilized to steal the AllSpark and rescue Megatron. Starscream blew a large hole in it, Megatron burst through the roof, and the Decepticons then fired missiles at it. That's probably going to send the property values of the nearby buildings down. Megatron Rising - Part 1 Megatron Rising - Part 2
Even after Megatron's rampage, the building was still under reconstruction. Mainly, it had a notable gap in the upper part of the tower. The Elite Guard
After Porter C. Powell took over Sumdac Systems, he kicked Sari out of the penthouse and gave her room to Henry Masterson. He also informed Optimus Prime that the Autobots were no longer welcome in the tower. The tower was completely repaired by this point. The Return of the Headmaster
Notes
- The exact location of Sumdac Tower can be deduced from its appearance in "The Return of the Headmaster"; it's immediately adjacent to the real-life Wayne County Building and the Renaissance Center, placing it on two blocks of Randolph Street which in the present day are occupied by a parking garage and a surface parking lot.
- The tower was designed by noted architect George R. Apple. The AllSpark Almanac There is another architect with a similar name ...
- If you look closely, you can see that Sumdac Tower resembles an upside-down spark plug.
