From kendrick@io.com Mon Mar 20 18:38:10 1995
Article: 7911 of alt.toys.transformers
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From: kendrick@pentagon.io.com (Kendrick Kerwin Chua)
Newsgroups: alt.toys.transformers
Subject: TF Weekday: 31 October 1994
Date: 31 Oct 1994 08:09:01 -0600
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SOS Dinobots, featuring three of your favorite speech-impaired lizards...

The Bots discover dinosaur bones buried in Mt. Saint Hilary, and 
Wheeljack decides to create some Autobots designs based on the giant 
reptiles. Meanwhile, Soundwave and Reflector do field research on 
hydro-electric power. The Dinobots, Grimlock, Slag, and Sludge, are 
created, and almost destroy AHQ. Optimus orders the plug pulled, and 
they're buried in the volcano, never to be reactivated. Meanwhile, 
Megatron goes off to raid the dam and set a trap for the Autobots, who 
all plunge off a waterfall and short circuit. Wheeljack reactivates the 
Dinobots with new memory enhancements that make them less destructive and 
more cooperative, but still dumb as an inbred muskrat. Between the three 
of them, they are able to beat the tar out of Megatron and some dozen or 
so Decepticons, and Prime allows the Dinobots to remain among the Autobots.

Just a few quick notes before I go off to drop my Latin course... This is 
the origin episode for the Dinobots, and one of the original 13 episodes 
that was chosen for G2 graphics conversion. Interesting to compare this 
with the comic book version of the Dinobot origins, that the Ark based 
their designs on 4 million BC Earthen creatures (Never mind the time 
screw up...)

The ep has a few minor animation glitches (Bluestreak talks with three 
different voices and Ratchet loses his right leg for about a minute while 
tending to Bumblebee) but they're all made tolerable by the novelty of 
the Dinobots. Gregg Berger, the guy who does Grimlock's voice, is noted 
for doing cavemen and other primitive types in countless other cartoons.

"Which ones friends?"
"One's with this face, I think." (points to Autobot Symbol on chest)
"That good enough for me, Slag!" BLAM

KKC, needs free time and a trip to Shanghai. 
-- 
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