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THE FALL OF __ stings from the off, with a battle on the planet Cybertron, as the Autobots are forced off-world by the Decepticons. It’s a deliberate call-back to 1985’s animated series that introduced director Travis Knight ) to these characters. “We didn’t have all the money in the world so this had to be relatively bite-sized, but we packed as much in as we could,” he says.

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