

Early promotional art for this book had the alternate subtitle A Complete Compendium of Transformers Animation Models.The cover image does not actually use the character models contained within the book.Despite its ultra-narrow audience, it broke #30,000 on 's sales rankings.Don Figueroa penciled and inked the cover, which Bill Forster colored.Ī follow up volume, called Transformers: The Ark II was released on July 10, 2008, featuring Japanese character models.

Kennedy authorizes a mission to put a man on the Moon as a cover for investigating the spacecraft. Authors Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster acquired many of the pieces of art through Bob Budiansky some had degraded over time and had to be manually and digitally restored. In 1961, the Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft carrying an invention capable of ending the war between Autobots and Decepticons, crash lands on the dark side of Earth's Moon and is detected by NASA. Transformers: The Ark - A Complete Compendium of Character Designs is possibly the most geek-tastic Transformers book ever, collecting 500+ animation character models from the 4 Generation 1 American seasons. A Complete Compendium of Character Designs
