The mind bank is a storage and transfer system for crystalline containment vessels that contain Transformer memory engrams.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Before the launch of the Ark, Grapple, Hoist, Smokescreen, Skids, and Tracks volunteered to have their memory engrams transferred to crystalline containment vessels, to serve as additional soldiers for the Autobot crew as needed. The vessels were stored in the mind bank in the Ark.

The Ark crash-landed on Earth. Four million years later, the main crew awoke, but were almost all injured by a surprise attack by Shockwave. Optimus Prime, realizing the need for more troops, had Wheeljack set up the mind bank to transfer the five Autobots into bodies newly constructed by the Ark. Rock and Roll-Out!

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Foreign names

• Japanese: Mind bank (マインドバンク maindo banku)