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‘80s and got into music, making him easily cool

Blaster

enough to be the first member of my team.

Quite why so many of the Transformers turned
into domestic appliances rather than vehicles is

Equally happy shooting down hordes of Autobots

unclear (although explained in our history of article).

or DJing in Starscream’s nightclub, Dancitron,

Ah well, it’s still better than being a microscope,

Soundwave was unquestionably the raddest

Perceptor. Adding Blaster to my new entity required

Decepticon. Soundwave’s voice would go on to

imagining a storyline where he switched sides and

inspire T-Pain to attempt music – arguably the most

became a baddie, but that’s a continuity-changing

heinous atrocity ever committed by alien robots.

price I was prepared to pay to get him involved.

I’m not making that DJing bit up by the way – ‘80s

My Frankenstein’s monster-bot wasn’t really

cartoon Transformers was gloriously insane. If

crying out for a second ghetto blaster – overkill,

you haven’t seen the episode ‘Auto-bop’ then you

you might think – but this guy was the Autobot’s

should really go and do so immediately. I’ll wait.

communication’s specialist. True, that position
doesn’t appear to require all that much finesse

Back? Good. Second place in the team went to:

as they would generally communicate by
plugging a microphone into him and shouting

Reflector

really loudly, but that’s hardly his fault.

Strictly speaking, Reflector was already three
Decepticons who combined into one, but there are

Besides, this type of super-advanced information

very few military advantages to becoming a camera.

transfer was vital to my plans, as the heady blend

Potentially it might help if you were spying I suppose,

of music player, camera and communication skills

although perhaps not as this camera is around

would mean that in real life their combined form

five times the size of any of the planes, tanks or

would look something like this a Nokia 3310.

articulated lorries that the other Transformers turn
into, making stealth something of a challenge.

By Mark Law

Nonetheless Spyglass, Viewfinder and Spectro
were all welcome aboard. One to go!

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