The latest issue must have been released last month with little fanfare, as it arrived in my mailbox yesterday without me even seeing anything about it on the global fansites.

Looking through it, there isn't really anything news-worthy in it. (less than usual at that)

P1/Cover - winning Cosplay outfit from BotCon (Gen1 Soundwave)
P2 - tells us what things we should have received by now, and assuring us that the Club Site will be up soon.
P3 - Two page interview with Stern Pinball, about the Transformers one released last year. (continues page 13)
P4-6 - BotCon coverage.
P7-12 - Comic (Beast Wars Shattered Glass P4)
P13 - part two of the Stern Pinball interview.
P14 - Bio of Ultra Mammoth.
P15 - Bio of Megatron (purple Gen2 Tank)
P16 - Games and "funnies" page.

One thing I only just noticed that actually annoys me - on the Bio pages, someone is trying to be funny with their labelling of the Alt-modes.
Looking back, they've been doing this for a while now, and I didn't take much notice of it until now.
These are meant to be a serious reference element... and since the comic borders on being fanfic, the Bios were supposed to be a continuation of the old "Universe" and "More than Meets The Eye" Bios, so I think that they should have been taking them more seriously or responsibly.

The recent alt-mode "descriptions"...
Ultra Mammoth - Big Blue Beast
Megatron - Terrible Tank
Scylla - Beastly Bottom Feeder
Grimlock - Raging Raptor
Optimus Prime - Lethal Launcher
Depth Charge - Frequent Flyer
Sideswipe - Gold Circle Winner
Frenzy - Crazy Car
Runamuck - Tasty Tuner
Sizzle - Green Machine
Nightracer - Lean Machine
Soundwave (Gobots) - Sound Machine
Jhiaxus - Fiery Flyer

The club magazine isn't TFwiki (which doesn't take their job seriously at being an encyclopaedia archive), and as unreliable as the Club has been with other things, at least this was one element they had taken seriously in the past.


Anyway, just to make this more interesting, here is the Multiple Choice trivia on the back page.

1 - Which of the following had a Jellyfish as its alt-mode?
a - Dead End
b - Claw Jaw
c - Rage
d - Ikard

2 - Which of Big Convoy's rookie recruits has aspirations to one day join the Convoy Council, while working in Personal Affairs and Supply Management?
a - Break
b - Stampy
c - Heinlad
d - Longrack

3 - Who had disguised himself as a "black ball" in order to trick the Maximals and Predacons into hunting down the Anglomois capsules?
a - The Fallen
b - Logos Prime
c - Unicron
d - Majin Zarak

4 - Which Cybertronian was one of the first to experiment with Synthoplasmic Pretender Technology that eventually led to the creation of organic beast forms?
a - Scorponok
b - Wheeljack
c - Cloudburst
d - Ironfist


Answers - 1-c, 2-d, 3-c, 4-a