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MY EPIC
TRANSFORMERS TEAM
By Mark Law

You can talk about your Optimus Primes and

Bruticus would die tragically after many years

your Galvatrons all you like, but to me the most

of faithful service, when my brother stood

awesome Transformer of them all was this guy:

on Vortex, the helicopter-y one, and broke
off his rotors – although that’s not strictly

Bruticus

canon in terms of the official storyline.

Initially brought to life by Starscream, when he was
exiled to the island of Guadalcanal, the Combaticons

Having lost the most badass of all the Transformers,

who form Bruticus were four World War I army

my emotions combined to form Devastated. How

vehicles and, for some reason, a space shuttle

could I hope to kick the Autobots’ shiny metal

that someone had left lying around. Given that

behinds back to Cybertron now?

previously the strongest gestalt Decepticon was

a new composite super-droid, but not owning

made of construction vehicles, that’s a pretty good

any others that were designed to join together,

find. Bending them to his will was also remarkably

I had to get creative with those I had available.

forward-thinking for someone who can’t figure out

What emerged, was something rather special:

Clearly I required

how to escape an island whilst also being a plane.
Soundwave
Having one of these behemoths guaranteed victory
in whatever game you were playing by default, that’s

that Soundwave started out by transforming

just the rules, and many is the time Bruticus crushed

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If you’ve seen Arrival from Cybertron, you’ll know
into a kind of spy-lampost on his homeworld,

my brother’s puny autobot army into scrap.

which is a fairly inauspicious start to life. Like
many people though, he moved to America in the

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