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TRANSFORMERS:
ROBOTS IN DISGUISE
By Scott Ruthven

Growing up as I did in the late

consisted of two factions, the

The Transformers was the greatest

1970s and early 1980s, Saturday

good guy Autobots and the bad

thing I had seen in my short time

mornings were made up of certain

guy Decepticons. Autobots, as

on the earth, I got up early on a

things, TISWAS and the Phantom

their name suggests, were mainly

Saturday to make sure I didn’t

Flan Flinger, Timmy Mallet and his

cars and the Decepticons were

miss it, I begged and pleaded for

rubber mallet, Michaela Strachan

mainly aircraft, with one or two

Starscream the Decepticon (I was

and those strange trouser feelings

notable exceptions on each side.

honing my love of the bad guys at

she brought on, and then there

an early age) and all my friends

were the cartoons. M.A.S.K, GI

Leaders of the teams were

had at least one Transformer

Joe, Thundercats and god of

Optimus Prime, a Semi Truck

toy too. It was the toy to have.

them all TRANSFORMERS!

rig who led the Autobots, and
Megatron, the leader of the

The huge range of toys was

The Transformers were a

Decepticons who turned into

mind-boggling, it wasn’t just a

group of sentient robots who

a handgun, later altered in

simple matter of picking your

found themselves trapped on

some versions of the franchise

favourite, sometimes it was a

prehistoric Earth, then awakened

to make him a more ‘kid

matter of picking the one your

in modern day America, they

friendly’ Transformer.

friend didn’t have. I would have

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