Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 3

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漫画トランスフォーマーレジェンズ出張版 第3話
First published	November 29, 2014
Manga	Hayato Sakamoto
Packaged with	Legends LG03 Tankor

Rhinox becomes Tankor and lashes out at the world for not being '80s enough.

Synopsis

Overly nostalgic section manager Rhinox is jealous of Optimus Primal and Rattrap's new robot bodies, and what do you know, the next day he wakes up in the body of Tankor! He's overjoyed, seeing as how transforming robots are so '80s, and vows to use his newfound power to remind humanity of how glorious those times were. Together with his Tankor Drones he causes havoc in the streets by reenacting a typical '80s anime scene—a tank attack on a city and the flipping of girls' skirts—and blasts his co-workers with an "'80s Transformation Beam". This weapon turns back the clock on all their modern electronics: Silverbolt's smartphone is replaced with an unwieldy early incarnation of mobile phone, Airazor's computer turns into a microcomputer that can't access web pages, and Tigatron's TV not only becomes older but starts airing adult-rated content at prime time again (not that he minds). Most offended of them all is Rattrap, whose beloved Beast Wars DVDs have been turned into The Transformers: The Movie on VHS, and in righteous anger he uses his toys to transform into his Transformer body and chuck a bomb at Tankor. Tankor and his drones are sent flying by the explosion, which to his joy is cel-drawn like the explosions of his childhood and none of that new CG stuff. Afterwards, Rattrap celebrates the defeat of the '80s in a very '80s-anime-like ending sequence, which Optimus Primal finds strange.

Featured characters

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Notes

• Rhinox being Tankor was of course a plot point of Beast Machines. In regards to Legends, he previously dreamed of becoming Tankor in "LG03 Tankor Prologue", chapter 15 of the webcomic.
• Tankor fires the '80s Transformation Beam from the Key to Vector Sigma, a device he also wielded in the Beast Machines episode "The Key".
• Foreshadowing the events of the next issue, Tankor makes a couple of references to Special Armored Battalion Dorvack, the series from which Whirl and Roadbuster's toys originated. When transforming, he starts to say "variable..." before realizing the right phrase is "transform", referencing the show's "variable machine" transforming mecha, and the faceless, stumpy-legged robot mode he then adopts is based on Bonaparte Tulcas, a third Dorvack mecha which wasn't brought over to Transformers.
• The adult content on Tigatron's TV is the creepy scene from the KT Figure Collection Ai-chan figure.