The Transformers issue 2
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| The Transformers issue 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | |||||||||||||||
| First published | 4th October, 1984 | |||||||||||||||
| Off‑sale date | 17th October, 1984 | |||||||||||||||
| Cover | John Ridgway 
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| Price | 25p | |||||||||||||||
THE ROBOTS have landed – the metal invasion has BEGUN!
Contents
- Openers: Editor's Letter; advertorial for Typhoo teabag packs containing a complete Wonders of Wildlife kit; one coupon (of three) towards the purchase of a "Robot-Watch", some sort of non-brand Kronoform
; a Corgi Books competition to win a free copy of Be an Interplanetary Spy: "Space Olympics"; and an announcement of the second annual "Buildarobot Competition" run by BP, tasking under-19s with building a robot capable of performing a domestic task and/or a mobile robot butler capable of serving drinks, for a prize of £3000 (that's over £10k in today's money!) - The Transformers: "The Transformers" part 2
- Advert: 100 home computer sets to be won courtesy of The Weetabix
- Feature: Robot Round-Up, featuring toy robots like Prism's MOVIT kit robot range (in particular, Line Tracer) and something referred to as Tomy's "Voice Recognition Robot" (presumably the Robocom 1000); real life robotics like the Quaker Oats Company's optical sensors that can determine the difference between a cooked pizza and a burned one and the Campbell Soup Company's prospective robot to filter chicken bits out of their stock cubes; a robot arrested in Beverley Hills, Californa; Ben Skora's Arok; and the warning that sufficiently advanced robots could put people out of work from Professor Meredith Thring, who turned his back on robot development to focus on telechirs
- Advert: Any four Annuals for £12 from Grandreams, with the choice of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Conan the Destroyer, Dune – The Movie, Fraggle Rock, Knight Rider, The Fall Guy, Mr T, Wham!, Culture Club, BMX Bikes, Roland Rat, Manimal, Spiderman [sic], Hulk, Return of the Jedi, and The S.A.S.
- Poster: the two page introdump spread from this issue's Transformers strip, repurposed as a poster and replacing the hand lettering with plain text
- Advert: Hasbro advert for Transformers including Sideswipe, Bumblebee, Thundercracker, and Rumble
- Competition: Design your own Decepticon (in robot form) to win a Decepticon Plane
- Feature: Doctor Who Meets The Robots, a piece from Alan McKenzie
of Doctor Who Magazine covering the Doctor's encounters with robots over the years: none for the first or third Doctors (Daleks and Cybermen don't count!), the second Doctor facing Quarks and Yeti, the "fourth and most popular Doctor" encountering the "unnamed robot in the story entitled simply Robot" and the "Dums, Vocs and Super-Vocs" before finding a friend in K-9 , and the fifth Doctor freeing Kamelion from the control of the Master. The feature ends on the hopeful note that the sixth Doctor might encounter a few more robots in his upcoming debut season. - Machine Man: "Byte of the Binary Bug!" part 2
- Advert: SPIDEY WATCHES – Spider-Man watches are now available in two different styles!
- Free gift!: More "Action Transfers", a sheet of rub-down transfers featuring mostly box-art depictions of Soundwave, Huffer, Gears, Thundercracker, Starscream, Bluestreak, Sunstreaker, Ravage and others, along with various rockets, planets, and laser beams
