Transformers: The Movie Guide
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| Transformers: The Movie Guide | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Dorling Kindersley Publishing, INC. | ||||||||||||
| First published | July 4, 2007 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Various stock images from DreamWorks | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Live-action film series | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | ISBN 0756630134 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 72 | ||||||||||||
Transformers: The Movie Guide is a book for the 2007 live-action movie.
Overview
Various character profiles, covering the major (robotic) players of the movie. A bit of fleshing out of character abilities, weapons, and histories. As well, the book covers other things about Transformers that the movie mentions, such as the Trans-scanning, and Protoforms. It, like other visual guides, has the standard seemingly near-nonsensical callouts that point to various parts (an example being Optimus Prime's roof lights in vehicle mode being missile launchers). A vast number of Autobots and Decepticons were omitted from the book, some being Ironhide, Bonecrusher, Starscream, and Brawl/Devastator.
Some of the details in the book were not used in the film or related fiction, apart from some appearing in Titan's comics; by an astounding coincidence, that related fiction was the one written by Furman. Details used by Titan include Ratchet's internal spare parts and protoforms absorbing extraneous matter to construct part of their exoskeleton.
The cover is lenticular, and changes between the movie Autobot logo and the (drawn) head of Optimus Prime.
Vital Statistics
Japan
ISBN 486332569X
ISBN 978-4863325692
Pagecount: 69
Translator: Hiroto Ishikawa, Mizuka Kamijō
Publisher: villagebooks inc.
Date published: August 27, 2007
