The Transformers issue 3
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| The Transformers issue 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | |||||||||||||||
| First published | 18th October, 1984 | |||||||||||||||
| Off‑sale date | 31st October, 1984 | |||||||||||||||
| Cover | Jerry Paris 
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| Price | 25p | |||||||||||||||
BUMBLEBEE, friend or foe? The sting in the tale!
Contents
- Openers: Editor's Letter; letters; Fact File on Hound;
advertorial for Mandala; article on John Billingsley of Portsmouth Polytechnic's competition to create a robot that can play table tennis (like "Bjorn Roborg and John Machineroe"); recap of last issue's Weetabix computer competition advert - The Transformers: "Power Play!" part 1
- Competition: The Great Transformers Give-Away, wherein 100 lucky responders get a free Mini-Vehicle for listing their three favourite items in The Transformers (notably, Cliffjumper is pictured and called out by name – yellow Cliffjumper!)
- Public Service Announcement: Be a Bright Spark, Teach Your Family The FIREWORK CODE
- Advert: One coupon (of three) towards the purchase of a "Robot-Watch", some sort of non-brand Kronoform
- 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: Prowl and Jazz under fire, as seen in an early commercial
- Poster: Optimus Prime, as seen in the early commercial
- Advert: Hasbro advert for Transformers including Sideswipe, Ratchet, Hound, Mirage, Bluestreak, and Jazz
- Machine Man: "Byte of the Binary Bug!" part 3
- Feature: Robot Round-Up, featuring comments from Kenneth Baker on the likelihood of robots to clean floors, cut grass, shop in supermarkets, and even perform surgery ("How long, I wonder, before we have the first robot Prime Minister?" asks the feature writer); Bob Williams' death by robot; Tomy's Omnibot, pictured alongside Verbot and Dingbot; Edward Ihnatowicz's Senster, a robotic sculpture that reacts to movement and noise, paired with an anecdote that it would be found first thing in a morning looking straight down at the gurgling central heating pipes under the floor, before focussing solely on the feet and legs of the girl walking around to open the exhibition; the very vague "company in Long Island, New York [that] designed a completely robotised hamburger bar" that closed after the machinery produced fast food at a quicker rate than the sole human employee could bag it up (the only task the robots could not perform); and a similarly vague "Californian company [that] has now built a robot drinks bar", again with one human barmaid to take orders and serve the robot-prepared drinks
- Advert: SPIDEY WATCHES – Spider-Man watches are now available in two different styles!
- Free gift!: An iron-on patch of Optimus Prime and the Transformers logo
