Day of the Dinobots - Part 1
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 It's a bad day to be a conehead. (Is there ever a good day to be a conehead?) | ||||||
| "Day of the Dinobots" | ||||||
| Release date | April 4, 2013 — April 11, 2013 | |||||
| Written by | ? | |||||
Dinobots on a rampage? Shocking.
Synopsis
Ther Autobots grow concerned by the the Dinobots' increasingly erratic behavior, which is only exacerbated by the sudden disappearance of Grimlock and Swoop. Slug and the Dinobots go rogue ans set out to attack the Decepticon base. Wheeljack's magnetic inducer fails to stop the rampaging Dinobots, though he is able to get a partial scan to determine what's causing them to run amok. Unfortunately Optimus Prime is injured during the attempt. The Decepticon's plan to mount a full-scale attack on Autobot Headquarters while he is incapacitated is interrupted when the three Dinobots attack!
The three Dinobots are no match for the combined might of the Decepticons and the Autobots manage to wrangle them back into custody while they are weakened. However there is still no sign of Greimlock and Swoop and Wheeljack's corrupted scan may take weeks to decode.
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Notes
- The episode bears a resemblance to several different classic Dinobots stories such as "S.O.S. Dinobots" and "Dinobot Hunt", but unlike the previous event is very much its own story.
- If they recaptured the Dinobots why can't Wheeljack just make a new scan? Perhaps because they're no longer under the influence of the mysterious malign influence which caused them to run wild...?
- This marked the beginning of mobage's tradition of having 2-part "episodes" where the second part takes place weeks or months after the first, with an in-universe explanation for the lacuna between the parts. In this case Part 2 will begin several months later when Swoop and Grimlock finally return....
- This event was once again plagued by sever overload during its third day when mobage held a one hour double-points "mini event" around Slug's debut as a boss character.
