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It's worth noting that the Dinobots had their origins told
in 2 different ways. In the cartoons, the Autobots designed and built the
Dinobots in 1985. In the comics, the Ark built them to combat
Shockwave immediately after the Ark's fateful crash on earth 4 million
years ago.
However, considering all of the other more recently told stories of the
Dinobots on Cybertron prior to the Ark's crash on Earth, (like the War
Within storyline...). I like to believe that Ratchet and
Wheeljack did RE-build the Dinobots on earth in 1985. That they were
aboard the Ark when it crashed, just that those 5 were too heavily damaged
for TeletranOne to bring them back to life the way it did for the other
Autobots. That it took Wheeljack's
experimental personality and intelligence programming to bring their
sparks back online... Hey, why not?
Other Appearances: Sludge specificially has made no other
appearances in the Transformers Universe, not even in the Generation 2
storyline. However, in my opinion, has another connection to BW as leader
of the the "Dinobots". I used to think the BW character
"Dinobot" was named after them. Now, considering the
enormous role "Dinobot" played in TF and human evolution, I like
to think it was the other way around! That with Optimus Prime
sharing the spark of O Primal, Prime learned of Dinobot's courage and
heroic actions saving the human race and named this group the "Dinobots"
as an homage to the BW character. |
