From kendrick@io.com Mon Mar 20 18:36:46 1995
Article: 7417 of alt.toys.transformers
Path: illuminati.io.com!nobody
From: kendrick@pentagon.io.com (Kendrick Kerwin Chua)
Newsgroups: alt.toys.transformers
Subject: TF Weekday: Monday 10 October
Date: 10 Oct 1994 08:29:40 -0500
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Day of the Machines, featuring TORQ-III

Megatron and Soundwave sneak into an American military lab and re-program 
a supercomputer known as TORQ-III, a machine with the intelligence to 
build and create other machines from scratch. Equipping it with 
remote-control devices, TORQ takes control of oil tankers and starts 
shunting them towards Decepticon HQ. While Hound and Skyfire check out 
the tankers, Prime, some Autobots and the Dinobots go off to rescue some 
humans trapped by TORQ. After stomping several tanks, mobile platforms, 
and hideous tentacled machines, Prime dupes TORQ into thnking that he's 
being remote controlled, and destroys the computer. However, Megatron 
still has remote control on his end, and all the Autobots get together, 
free the tankers, and drive the Decepticons away.

Ten years since this episode was broadcast and still the fears of 
domination by computers runs rampant. This could be something brand new, 
and the machines and the systems depicted in this episode wouldn't look 
dated or campy at all. All we needed were some micro-nannite machines and 
superconductivity and this would have been right up-to-date.

This is a beautifully animated episode, with lots of neat and tidy little 
bits contributing to the visual side of the story. Skyfire 
half-transforms ala Robotech, in order to land on a oil tanker and let 
Hound and Spike off. Also, you see several Autobots not just standing 
there shooting at Decepticons, but also lying down taking prone positions 
to present a smaller target. The dinobots are quite a sight, melting and 
crushing and stomping their way through a military green demolition derby.

Toys they should reissue:
Soundwave (dammit!)
Some tapes (lots of action from Frenzy and Rumble this ep)

"It's a safe bet that door's locked."
"Fortunately, I happen to have a delicate lock picking machanism..."
shweeeeeeeeTHOOOOOM! BLAM!

KKC, is very unhappy with his local FOX affiliate because this is the 
second time they've screwed up their TF broadcast. First they leave the 
tape on pause for a minute and a hlf during Dinobot Island, and today 
they cut out the sound for most of the middle segment of the program.
-- 
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