Storms of Destruction

This book was published by Kid Stuff with a copyright of 1985.

• Full book on one HTML page. 18 images totalling ~1.6 megs. Text and images both appear in the scans.
• Individual scans in the book's directory for those with slower connections or computers. Image numbers starting with "c" are covers. The front cover at a mimimum is available for all Kid Stuff books, back and interior covers as well as the record-holding flap are available for some.
• Hear the audio in RealAudio format! This file was encoded by the staff of Cold Hard Slag and is used with their blessing. Thanks, guys! The file is roughly 3.0 megs.

Notes on this book:

This one is a little perplexing. It has clear, explicit continuity ties to the previous books but they don't make sense:

• For example, Megatron brags about his "new" mole machine, even though he previously used a mole machine in "Satellite of Doom". It does look a little different, admittedly (but only a little), so perhaps it's a replacement.
• The Decepticons also have a flying "defoliator" in this book which has the same electric-razor look of their destroyed hovering oil transporter from "When Continents Collide", and is described with similar language, although it's name and function are admittedly quite different this time around.
• So, perhaps this book takes place before the others? Nope. Megatron and Soundwave revisit the launch site from "Satellite" and even have dialogue confirming the location. (Also, a monkey is present in the artwork in both books' jungle scenes for whatever that's wroth. I'm of the belief that it was an intentional little joke.)
• Skyfire appears again, cementing his non-death in "Satellite", so even putting "Continents" first in the sequence wouldn't sort things out completely.
• Also, in terms of meta-text, the books all have numbers on their covers: I've ordered them "Satellite", "Continents", and "Storms" based on those numbers. They're 248, 249, and 258 respectively.

As for the story, here Megatron's quest for oil has him pumping ocean water under the Brazilian rainforest to push oil out of underground resevoirs to the surface. In doing so, he again instigates worldwide disasters by drawing off a warm ocean current and drastically alterering weather patterns.

There are a lot of flying Autobots in this one, including a really amusing picture of Bumblebee.

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