Love Victor Caroli's narration bits. What a voice.
Trailbreaker and Jazz rescue Prime.
Spike and his dad Sparkplug offer to get the Autobots up to speed on Earth culture.
Spike's a sucker. That tapedeck he's picked up looks suspiciously familiar.
Mirage and Hound show Spike how they transform & Mirage creates some illusions.
Hound takes Spike for a spin.
Soundwave sends Ravage into the Autobot computer.
Ravage is 1 of Soundwave's tape minions, he transforms into a panther. We've already seen Laserbeak & Rumble.
The computer is called Teletran 1. Wasn't it called Aunty in some of the comics? Possibly just the UK strips?
When Spike returns and catches Soundwave spying...
...the Decepticons make a break for it...
...and although Ravage is captured, Soundwave makes it away.
Soundwave takes the nicked info back to Megatron, who plots to force a tidal wave through a dam & harvest the electrical surge.
Arriving at the dam, Megatron has Soundwave dispatch Rumble...
Starscream and Soundwave get to work generating the energon cubes.
The Autobots arrive on the scene.
Megatron gives them a warm welcome.
Hound checks out the source of the tidal wave: a soggy Rumble.
Ironhide & Bumblebee set about diverting the course of the river.
Prime and the others call Megatron out and it all kicks off.
Now the 1st of Prime & Megatron's many duels as they fight atop Sherman Dam with energy weapons.
They talk a good fight.
Mirage and Hound show Spike how they transform & Mirage creates some illusions.
Hound takes Spike for a spin.
Soundwave sends Ravage into the Autobot computer.
The computer is called Teletran 1. Wasn't it called Aunty in some of the comics? Possibly just the UK strips?
When Spike returns and catches Soundwave spying...
...the Decepticons make a break for it...
...and although Ravage is captured, Soundwave makes it away.
Soundwave takes the nicked info back to Megatron, who plots to force a tidal wave through a dam & harvest the electrical surge.
Arriving at the dam, Megatron has Soundwave dispatch Rumble...
Starscream and Soundwave get to work generating the energon cubes.
The Autobots arrive on the scene.
Megatron gives them a warm welcome.
Hound checks out the source of the tidal wave: a soggy Rumble.
Ironhide & Bumblebee set about diverting the course of the river.
Prime and the others call Megatron out and it all kicks off.
Now the 1st of Prime & Megatron's many duels as they fight atop Sherman Dam with energy weapons.
They talk a good fight.
When Rumble buries Hound...
...and grapples with Spike...
But Spike redeems himself by rescuing Hound from the riverbed.
Prime is rescued by Jazz...
...while Megatron and the Decepticons make their getaway.
Mirage just wants to go back to Cybertron but Prime knows that if Megatron succeeds here he'll be unstoppable on Cybertron.
Megatron plans to steal rocket fuel after he's harvested a mine of ruby crystals.
You know, that well known energy source that humankind uses, ruby crystals!
Megatron has to slap Starscream down for wasting energy. He's like your nan, turning lights off 'cause there's no-one in the room.
Skywarp & Thundercracker attack the snooping Trailbreaker.
Sideswipe & Sunstreaker to the rescue.
Rubies are a Megatron's best friend.
The Autobots plot to seal the Decepticons in the mine.
Bumblebee & Sparkplug sneak in to plant the bomb.
No "Do I have the right?" from Bumblebee.
But their escape is prevented when they run into Skywarp and Thundercracker.
Prime goes to see what the delay is, but takes the explosion full in the face & is blasted down the mountainside...
That's a pretty decent cliffhanger, considering I never really consider this as the 3 episodes it's chopped into.
It's enormous fun this pilot; nicely sets up the battling nature of the Transformers & each character is distinctive & defined.
The only thing missing is the Dinobots, introduced in a later episode.
"Me the real Grimlock, yes, me the real Grimlock, all you Michael Bay Grimlocks are just imitating!"
TTFN! K.
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