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Transformers - Episode 02x03
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Episode: 02x03
Title: Dinobot Island (1)
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 700-29
First Aired: Sep. 25, 1985
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Season 2 » Episode #03 - Dinobot Island (1)
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Summary: During their exploring mission, Bumblebee and Powerglide, discover the mysterious island, intact by time, inhabited with dinosaurs. The Autobots are realizing that it would be a perfect place for the Dinobots to learn how to control their wild nature, so Powerglide, Spike and the Dinobots are heading for the island. Meanwhile, the Decepticons also found out about the island which is also rich with sources of energy.
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| Season 2 / Episode 3: - Dinobot Island (1)
Narrator: [summarizing the next part of the episode] As the Decepticons plunder the island resources, strange timewarps appear in the rest of the world, and the Autobots must find a way to stop Megatron. All in the exciting conclusion of DINOBOT ISLAND! |
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MISTAKES/GOOFS
- PLOT: After the real dinosaurs corner the Dinobots and push them back to the top of a cliff, they all plunge into a tar-pit below. Why didn't they fly away instead? At least Swoop, who transforms into a flying Pteranodon could have done so.
- FACT: Spike borrowed four books from the library, claiming that it was safer to learn about dinosaurs that way. However, the title of the top book is "Ere Cenozoique Periode Tertiaire" - while dinosaurs perished at the end of the Mesozoic, the era before the Cenozoic.
- FACT: On the island of dinosaurs, we see a Pterosaur (possibly a Dimorphodon, judging by its appearance) abducting Spike and taking him to its nest. Firstly, the size and strength of the reptile in question here is immensely over-estimated. Secondly, the eggs found in its nest are each about the same size as the animal itself, which of course would be utterly impossible. Thirdly, the fairly wide-spread notion that Pterosaurs, if they were alive, would fly away with humans to eat them is also flawed, as they mostly ate insects, fish or other small animals, sometimes carcasses.
TRIVIA
- Spike borrowed four books about dinosaurs from the library. The covers of two of which are readable: The title of the top book is "Ere Cenozoique Periode Tertiare" - apparently derived from "Ere Cénozoïque (Tertiaire et Quaternaire)", a book by Charles Pomerol, French geologist. The author of the second book is Gideon Mantel, English geologist and paleontologist.
- This part featured the first appearances of the Autobots Red Alert, Blaster, Grapple, Tracks, Hoist and Smokescreen, and the Decepticons Ramjet, Thrust and Blitzwing. They appear seemingly out of nowhere, though.
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