Dinobots Strike Back
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| "Dinobots Strike Back" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Ballantine Books | ||||||||||||
| Imprint | Find Your Fate Junior | ||||||||||||
| First published | 1985 | ||||||||||||
| Writers | Casey Todd | ||||||||||||
| Illustrator | William Schmidt (interior pencils and cover painting) | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | ISBN 9780345341501 ISBN 0-345-34150-3 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 73 | ||||||||||||
- Dinobots Strike Back is a multipath adventure in Generation 1.
Featured Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Synopsis
Bombshell attacks the Dinobots with his cerebro-shells, ordering them to go on a rampage. But Swoop escapes, bringing help from the Autobots.
Once rescued at Bandit's Bluff, Grimlock remembers overhearing Bombshell's thoughts, which leads Skids and Bumblebee to investigate Dolphin Bay, where Decepticon activity had been spotted recently. They uncover a hidden Decepticon base, and a sinister plan to convert the bay's black coral into superfuel for the Decepticons!
Can the Autobots destroy the power plant before it comes online and the Decepticons become unstoppable? The answer to that question... is up to you!
Notes
- This book was available individually, or as part of a six-book box set with the other five "pre-movie era" books in the series.
- Bombshell shoots Swoop with a shell which temporarily shrinks him down so small that he's in danger of being eaten by a lizard in the desert! That interesting weapon's not mentioned in Bombshell's Marvel TF Universe bio. If anything, it's usually the Insecticons themselves who have the ability to shrink in their alt-modes in various continuities.
- Seaspray is repeatedly described as transforming into a destroyer. Oops.
- Skids is described as a red compact throughout this book. (Which was in fact one of his Diaclone color schemes.) This makes it one of the few times his altmode has been properly characterized, as opposed to being a minivan. He is depicted with his correct, more human-like head. In the picture where he's face to face with Bumblebee, he's clearly shorter than Bee, which also makes sense considering a Honda City Turbo is even smaller than a VW Beetle, a rare instance of real-life vehicle scale injecting itself into otherwise toy-accurate artwork
- Bumblebee's chosen for the sea mission because he performs better underwater than the other Autobots, an ability from his tech spec that's come up once in a coloring book, but not in the bigger continuities.
- A rare appearance by the Jumpstarter Topspin among the assault force.
- The Dinobot story for which this book is named is little more than a prelude to the main plot. (Though some endings do never get beyond it.)
- After disabling Bumblebee, Frenzy wants to leave his body at the entrance to the Decepticons' base as a warning to other Autobots. Even though it's a secret base.
Keywords
Autobot Memorial Power Plant, Bandit's Bluff, Black coral, Dolphin Bay, Gravedigger, Hidden Valley, Star mini-submarine
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