Christmas

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Prime's Alpha Trion disguise fooled few.

Christmas is a holiday celebrated by humans on December 25, commemorating the birth of someone called "Christ", who is considered God. It seems to revolve around the exchange of material goods, the slaughter and festooning of conifers, and the consumption of roasted avians. Autobot intelligence suggests that at this time, humans gather together and don't shoot each other.

More importantly, Christmas is the focus of a powerful "spirit" manifesting in charity, goodwill, and appreciation. Even hardened Decepticon warriors and vengeance-driven humans are subject to its influence. Such spirit is manifest in a saint, named Santa Claus, who travels over the world bearing gifts.

Some Autobots have been known to don a red outfit with a bushy, white beard, imitating Santa Claus as part of the Christmas ritual.

Another human custom, Black Friday, is rumored to be the busiest day of shopping for the material goods needed for exchange on Christmas.

Fiction

Generation 1 continuity family

Woman's Day magazine

• The magic of Christmas made Bumblebee and the Autobots do the power company's repair work. The Night the Transformers Saved Christmas

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

"Me, Grimlock, love energo letter opener me got for Christmas."

• The magic of Christmas made Circuit Breaker not kill Jazz. Christmas Breaker!
• The magic of Christmas made Jetfire appreciate his Earth heritage. The Gift
• The magic of Christmas made Starscream realize that even if he doesn't care, helping people can make him feel... well, he still doesn't really care. Stargazing
• The magic of Christmas made Grimlock wear the Santa costume. So cute! Stargazing
• The magic of Christmas made Optimus Prime renew his pledge to protect Earth. Cold Comfort and Joy!
• The magic of free wine Christmas made Darkwing and Dreadwind switch sides! The Greatest Gift of All!
• Meanwhile, having been turned away from the Transformers' party, the magic of Christmas allowed Combat Colin to party with Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America and the Giggly sisters! Christmas with Combat Colin
• Optimus Prime shared a little of his own Christmas magic, healing environmental damage with a chunk of the Matrix. The Greatest Gift of All!
• The magic of Christmas sent three ghostly spirits to visit Dreadwind. Dreadwind's Xmas!

God bless us, every one.

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Macrocosmic Seekers

• The magic of Christmas made Scrapheap consider Santa Claus's existence and give Hot Rod a gift—a piece of Optimus Prime. This made Kup wish Rodimus a merry Christmas. A Gift from the Planet of Scrap

The Headmasters comic

• The magic of Christmas was spread by the Autobot Headmasters when they visited a children's hospital to hand out presents. Raiden got in on the fun, carrying all the presents in a giant sack and even donning a colossal Santa hat.

2005 IDW continuity

The real miracle is that every light on that thing is on.

• The magic of Christmas Chosen One Day made Windblade and some of the other colonists not hate Starscream for a few hours. Choose Me
• The magic of Christmas caused Brainstorm's Contrivance Engine to make his various stealth devices inadvertently resemble Christmas paraphernalia. The magic of Christmas may have also caused a bunch of scraplets to beam aboard, disguised as an innocuous protoform. Silent Light
• The magic of Christmas inspired Thundercracker to write a phenomenally crummy children's book, detailing how he beat up Megatron and saved Christmas with the help of Buster and Santa Claus. The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

Transformers Facebook page

Ho, ho, ho...man this itches.

• The magic of "the holidays" made Optimus think wearing a gaudy sweater was a good idea. [1]

Loyal Subjects Nemesis Prime figure bio

• The magic of Christmas caused Nemesis Prime to attack Santa Claus' village on December 14. Nemesis Prime destroyed his village, burnt his reindeer alive, then defaced the corpse of an elf before Nemesis tried to choke Santa to death. Thankfully, the magic of Christmas also compelled a mysterious stranger to transport Nemesis Prime away. The magic of Christmas may have adverse effects on some entities. Nemesis Prime figure bio

Dreamwave Armada comics

• The magic of Christmas made Iceberg be fascinated with it. More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada

Animated cartoon

"Merry Christmas to all, and to all, some good trash."

• The magic of Christmas turned the Autobots into humans! Well, it wasn't so much the magic of Christmas as it was Soundwave plugging them into a virtual reality world, but it could have if it chose to. Human Error, Part I
• The magic of Christmas would also free Wreck-Gar from his entrapment in the lake bed, giving Sari Sumdac another ally in stopping Soundwave. It would also entice Wreck-Gar to give garbage to all the good little girls and boys! Human Error, Part II

Live-action film series

Revenge of the Fallen film

• Yakov hopes that the magic of Christmas bonuses will help him achieve his dream of buying those new teeth he saw in Sky Mall. Revenge of the Fallen

Revenge of the Fallen Titan magazine

• The magic of Christmas got Ironhide to give Barricade a present! From Ratchet of course, Ironhide wouldn't douse him in coolant if he was on fire. (It was a large fist shaped object he had in a cardboard box on the end of his arm...) Law and Disorder
• The magic of Christmas was something Bumblebee was eager to experience, and it got him to sing carols while beating on some guy. The magic then saw Bumblebee give the Witwicky family presents (he seemed to think they were cars but it's the thought that counts). The Nightmare Bee-4 Christmas

The Last Knight film

• The Decepticon Dreadbot wears some Christmas lights on his upper right arm.

Aligned continuity family

Prime cartoon

• When Team Prime was put in stasis lock by the Nemesis, Agent Fowler, who bore witness and had hopes that this battle would win the Autobots the war, denounced his plans for a Christmas vacation in Fiji as being cancelled. Flying Mind

Prime Titan magazine

• The magic of Christmas allowed Arcee and Bulkhead to discover their mutual love of ice skating. Ice Breaker

Commercial appearances

My own dog gone commercial. I can't stand it. AAUGH!

• The magic of Christmas caused the barrier between universes to shatter so that Bulkhead and Megatron could join The Hub Carolers, a group whose other members include three colored horses, a dog, a diminutive dessert chef, and an insane supervillain. The Hub Carolers The Hub Carolers (Second spot)
• The magic of Christmas caused Megatron to narrate A Visit from St. Nicholas to his troops. 30-Second Holiday Special: "Decepticon Holidays: Naughty List"
• The magic of Christmas caused several Vehicons to sing about figgy pudding. 30-Second Holiday Special: "Decepticon Holidays: Pudding"
• The magic of Christmas "holiday spirit" caused two rogue Vehicons to decorate the Nemesis in a garish light display. 30-Second Holiday Special: "Decepticon Holidays: Holiday Schmoliday"

Kre-O

Kre-O cartoon

• The magic of Christmas made the Autobots prank Megatron. A Gift For Megatron

Kre-O comic

• The magic of Christmas allowed the Autobots to give Megatron his own room in a rebuilt Metroplex after an attempted Decepticon takeover of the city-bot. Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!

Ask Vector Prime

• The magic of Christmas caused Optimus Prime to invite Vector Prime over to this universe to help celebrate. While he was there, he kept an eye out for any sign of Sideways' mischief. Ask Vector Prime

Cyberverse cartoon

• Upon being informed that they were heading to the North Pole, Bumblebee played an audio snippet of Santa Claus. The Extinction Event

BotBots cartoon

• The Lost Bots braved Spector Halloween and succeed in slaying the boss at its heart to rid the mall of the Halloween store. The next day when they went to take credit for eliminating the Halloween plague, an upset Spud Muffin then blamed them for the Christmas stores that had appeared in its stead. Spirit of Halloween

Toys

BotBots

Oh, Christmas me, oh Christmas me, how lovely are my branches.

Meltz Down (2019)

Part of the third series of BotBots, Meltz Down transforms from soft plastic robot into a snowman ornament and back.

Wizengreen (2019)

Part of the third series of BotBots, Wizengreen transforms from soft plastic robot into a Christmas tree and back.

Yule B. Bored (2019)

Part of the third series of BotBots, Yule B. Bored transforms from a TV playing a fireplace yule log video into a robot wearing a Santa Claus outfit.

Holiday Optimus Prime

On every corner there's a giant metal Santa Claus
Who watches over us with glowing red eyes.
They carry weapons and they know if you've been bad or good.
Not everybody's good but everyone tries.

• Holiday Optimus Prime (2022)

• Accessories: Candy cane ion blaster, Matrix of Holiday Cheer,^[1] trailer, artillery robot, ramp/shield, trailer hitch
• Known designers: Lenny Panzica and Mark Maher (Hasbro), Mario Carreiro and Christina Murphy (packaging)^[2]

A surprise reveal at MCM Comic-Con London 2022, "Holiday Optimus Prime" converts in 37 steps from a licensed Volvo VNR 300–known throughout the United States as an "Amazon Prime truck"–into a very Combat Hero-styled Optimus Prime with a decidedly Santa Clausish color layout, in predominantly red deco with white trim and big black boots. The truck mode is decoed so as to represent snow kicking up over the fenders and falling down onto the roof of his trailer. Said trailer is a redeco of the one included with Earthrise Optimus Prime in white with red stripes and features a tampographed Autobot insignia wearing a Santa hat. It also has a new trailer-hitch add-on part with a much further-back hitch-peg, so the trailer connects in the proper place to Optimus's new truck mode; this part is removable so you can use the trailer with the originally-compatible Earthrise toys. In terms of accessories, Prime comes with a redeco of the Earthrise toy's ion blaster in festive candy cane striping, as well as a "Matrix of Holiday Cheer" to store behind his translucent green chest windows.

Prime's box is designed to look as though it has been pre-packaged in Autobot insignia/snowflake wrapping paper and partially ripped open to reveal the toy inside, even including a printed-on to/from gift tag!

The official stock photography leaves two flaps on Prime's chest mistransformed; they should fold in to give him his iconic grille detail.

The figure was made available for sale exclusively at Hasbro Pulse on November 1, 2022, and shipped in early December 2022.

...Speaking of the "Amazon Prime" trucks, Holiday Optimus Prime appears to have been repurposed from a long-planned but ultimately never released Collaborative figure which was listed on the Australian version of the website as early as April 2021,^[3] with a detailed product description following in June of that same year,^[4] as well as listings on other international versions of the Amazon website such as Amazon Germany.^[5] The Amazon Australia listing was later rediscovered in July 2022,^[6] but photos still remained a no-show. Like Holiday Optimus Prime, the Amazon mashup was also specified to turn into a licensed Volvo truck in 37 steps. All signs point to the Volvo Optimus Prime mold being repurposed as an affiliate of a less corporate–and more public domain–gift distributor... not to mention as a release less likely to annoy other major retailers of Hasbro toys.

• Designer commentary on Holiday Optimus Prime from Mark Maher on Instagram

Merchandise

Holiday Ornaments

Seasonal Specialties

• Autobot symbol
• Bumblebee
• Optimus Prime
• Optimus Prime 2-pack
• Decepticon symbol
• Megatron
• Megatron 2-pack
• 5-pack

American Greetings

• Generation 1 Heirloom Ornaments
  • Optimus Prime
  • Megatron
  • Bumblebee
• Movie (2007)
  • Bumblebee
  • Bumblebee (flat ornament)
  • Megatron
  • Optimus Prime
  • Optimus Prime (flat ornament)
• Animated
  • Autobot Team
  • Bumblebee
  • Optimus Prime
• Revenge of the Fallen
  • Optimus Prime Heirloom Ornament
  • Optimus Prime/Autobot logo

Holiday Stockings

• Megatron
• Optimus Prime
• Bumblebee (mini)

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Notes

• Readers sent Christmas cards to Soundwave during his time as the letters page host. (He wasn't sure what they were for, but he remained grateful all the same.)^[7]
• One Christmas season (somewhere between 1986 and 1992), Hasbro's Boys' Toys Marketing department internally passed out green-chromed Beachcomber and blue-chromed Seaspray toys as Christmas ornaments with a string attached to them. They were bagged with a card that read "Transformers Christmas ornament" on one side and "Merry Christmas from the Boys' Toys Marketing" on the other side.
• For Christmas 2013, The Hub aired a special "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" video yule log. This hour-long special consisted of music and cameo appearances by several characters or pieces from Hub properties in addition to the ponies themselves. Among the characters who made cameos were Beast Hunters Bumblebee (who beeped as he drove across the screen), Rescue Bots Blades (who stumbled onto the screen before being pulled back off), Strawberry Shortcake, Lil' Bat (mascot for The Aquabats), a Sorry! game piece, Niblet from "Pound Puppies", the eponymous character from "SheZow!", and several characters from the "Littlest Pet Shop" cartoon. This special was aired back-to-back for four hours on Christmas morning, possibly as a means of giving the bulk of the network staff a chance to spend Christmas morning with their families.

References

External links

• Christmas at Wikipedia
• Beachcomber Christmas Ornament
• Seaspray Christmas Ornament