Prime Target
A wealthy and eccentric big game hunter named Lord Chumley attempts to capture Optimus Prime in order to complete his collection of exotic trophies.
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"It goes without saying that when a show is about Robots who turn into Vehicles, weirdness is bound to happen. And when that show gets a ton of episodes in the 1980s, major s--t goes down in terms of stupid episodes. But "Prime Target" is an episode so baffling bad, it defies description. The plot? A big game hunter who steals military tech wants the head of Optimus Prime. And it only gets stupider from there. Somehow, the hunter has infinite resources to booby trap an entire city, the knowledge to recreate Cybertron as a hunting ground, and the ability to disable Decepticon null-ray..."
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The unnamed newscaster who appears throughout the episode is Hector Ramirez, a character created by Buzz Dixon as a parody of Geraldo Rivera. Originally intended as a onetime character for the G.I. Joe episode Twenty Questions (1985), Ramirez would later appear in other Hasbro based productions, Transformers, Jem (1985), and InHumanoids (1986). According to Dixon, this was meant to imply that the four series took place in the same universe.
📖 Synopsis
A wealthy and eccentric big game hunter named Lord Chumley attempts to capture Optimus Prime in order to complete his collection of exotic trophies.