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I just got the book and cassette for Laserbeak's Fury. Here is a quick synopsis.

Laserbeak's Fury by John Grant

Illustrated by Mike Collins, Mark Farmer & Steve Whitaker

First Edition Published by Ladybird, 1986

ISBN 0721409431

"The heroic warriors, the Autobots, and their enemies, the evil Decepticons, have landed on Earth from their own planet, Cybertron. The battle between the forces of good and evil continues on Earth as the Transformers change to robots and back again, in an attempt to outwit or deceive each other in their struggle for power"

Synopsis of the plot - Megatron had Soundwave send Laserbeak to learn more about the humans, despite Starscream's protests that humans were weak and insignificant. Observing a windmill, Laserbeak came into contact with power lines, became trapped in cassette form and was found by some humans. Both the Decepticons and Autobots monitored Laserbeak's radio report. Hound and Spike were sent to investigate. When they discovered the Decepticons observing the windmill, they called for backup. Optimus Prime assembled a battle unite of Ironhide, Sunstreaker, Windcharger and Cliffjumper, leaving Ratchet in charge of their headquarters. Meanwhile, Laserbeak was taken to a disco, where playing him re-energized his circuits and he flew off to rejoin the Decepticons. Sparkplug explained to the Autobots the windmill's technology, as Megatron was interested in a mechanical device that didn't generate a magnetic field. A battle broke out over the windmill, in which Starscream panicked when he learned the windmill was immune to his null rays. Rumble destroyed the windmill during the battle and the Decepticons retreated, with no new technology to take. Optimus Prime expressed his regrets over the destruction that occurred.

In the book for this story, Rumble was depicted in his toy-accurate black and red colors. Cliffjumper is drawn in his YELLOW colors, not red.

The plot synopsis brings up a small point: is there wind on Cybertron? It sounds like it's implied that there isn't, since the Decepticons were scouting the windmill for new tech.

I wonder if the Decepticons had become Dutch would the Autobots come and wreck their Windmill farms?

I do not think there was wind on Cybertron since their was no rain or "weather" if i recall also I am sure the animators would not have wanted to do rain on Cybertron.

Jestermon wrote:I wonder if the Decepticons had become Dutch would the Autobots come and wreck their Windmill farms?

I do not think there was wind on Cybertron since their was no rain or "weather" if i recall also I am sure the animators would not have wanted to do rain on Cybertron.

Except there was rain on Cybertron, Acid Rain, in "Divide and Conquer". And red clouds to boot, if I remember right.

In the marvel comics they went into detail on how the Transformers had trouble with Earth technology, because they were so advanced, they were removed from simple mechanisms and science and didn't know much about how to work with it. They described it like an astronaut trying to survive with cavemen's equipment. In the comic the Autobots had to have Sparkplug work out a converter to make gasoline into Transformers fuel, since they didn't know anything about gas engines.

To the same effect, wind power was probably foreign to the Decepticons, as they had to relearn, what to them, is ancient tech.

I got this book on eBay a while back. It’s a nice read. I read it to my nephew along with my TF storybook records.