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Several names are spelled incorrectly (" Teletran-1", " Carlee", " Eleta-1", " Sean Burger"), various 'toon and comic summaries have inaccuracies in them, and the toys used for images are old, ratty artifacts with peeling, misapplied stickers and various missing and/or misattributed accessories.

This approach goes so far as to claim that the cartoon's Quintesson-creation origin for the Transformers is entirely conjectural-when talking solely about the cartoon!įinally, in the sections where the book does deal directly with historical aspects of Generation 1 (in the pages covering the Marvel Comics, the cartoon and the toys), not one page passes without several errors. This is most conspicuous in dealing with the origin of the Dinobots in the Dreamwave universe, where Furman dismisses the notion that they were built on Earth by Wheeljack ( as in the cartoon) on the basis that it is in contradiction with the "historical evidence" that the Dinobots existed on Cybertron-from the War Within comic Furman himself wrote nearly 20 years later. However, as Dreamwave's universe was so monumentally underdeveloped at the time of the book's publication, most of the information in the book actually had to be created for the book.Īdditionally, the book appears to deliberately favor story material from comic continuities as opposed to the cartoon continuity. Instead, its articles are focused entirely on the then-current Dreamwave Generation One continuity. However, the Transformers tome is distinguished by one major detail-while the other books serve as encyclopedias of the characters' long histories in print, Transformers: The Ultimate Guide gives only the most basic of treatment to the historical aspects of Generation 1. The Ultimate Guide is one of many similarly titled publications by Dorling Kindersley which cover the histories, characters and worlds of comic characters such as Spider-Man, the X-Men and many others. 2.7 Dreamwave Generation One continuity.