Metal Attraction

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"Metal Attraction"
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	July 9, 2011
Written by	Nicole Dubuc
Directed by	Todd Waterman
Animation studio	Polygon Pictures

The Autobots try to claim a magnetic weapon called a "Polarity Gauntlet" before the Decepticons get to it.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Ratchet (1) Arcee (2) Bulkhead (8)	Soundwave (5) Megatron (6) Breakdown (7) Airachnid (11) Vehicons (12)	Jack Darby (3) June Darby (4) Miko Nakadai (9) Raf Esquivel (10)

Notes

Transformers references

• Breakdown was bested by humans and lost his right optic in episode 16.
• After Breakdown volunteers to retrieve the weapon, Megatron retorts, "If you can be bested by mere humans, what chance do you have against the Autobots?"

Trivia

• Knock Out apparently didn't have any extra eyes lying around to give Breakdown. Sound familiar?
• Breakdown's new eye patch was hinted at during BotCon 2011 when an artist from the series was requested to sketch Breakdown by a certain Transformers fan: the artist asked what episode had just been screened, thought for a moment, and soon provided an image of Breakdown with an eye patch.
• During this episode's original airing, the commercial bumpers were backwards: "we now return" was played at the start of each break and "we'll be right back" was played at the end.