TRAINS-FORMERS 5

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**TRAINS-FORMERS 5**, also known as **FORMERS 5**, is the fifth episode of the Trains-Formers series.

## FPI Warning

Due to the so-called "enjoyment" of the TRAINS-FORMERS series by smiling children everywhere, and the resulting increase in levels of "fondness" for all brands parodied therein, the first four episodes have been stricken from the Internets, without warning, as of May 15th, 2012.

Yes. You heard us.

We at Fun Police International trust that these actions have spared the public a needless and unauthorized source of freely available "fun," in keeping with our primary global objective.

By disallowing the good-natured parody of key characters, and thereby preventing them from saying, doing, or transforming into anything even remotely interesting, your friends at FPI feel more than assured that the dangerously enjoyable TRAINS-FORMERS series will be unable, fundamentally, to continue.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

## Plot

The episode starts with production on TRAINS-FORMERS 5 getting cancelled. Vector is confused and a studio goon explains how their show got a cease and desist by HIT Entertainment, later Mattel Creations, (the company that owned *Thomas & Friends* at the time) as he leaves the studio without Vector. Vector finds out that Trouble Tron wasn't taken away due to being an original character. Vector is about to leave the studio when Scrapwave bursts out of the TRAINS-FORMERS 5 studio and claims he is an original character too. Vector escapes in a golf cart which gives him a studio tour. Vector is able to escape and finds a gorilla mech called the Mighty Konk. Trouble Tron is able to hack into the gorilla suit and gets it working. Scrapwave is defeated and Trouble Tron is sad because the show is presumably over. Vector then tells Trouble Tron: "Where we're going, we don't need tracks!" Vector is impressed with his "new toy" and decides to keep it. Then the episode ends with the words "TO BE CONTINUED".

## Characters

* Vector
* Trouble Tron
* Scrapwave
* Tour Guide
* Studio Goon
* Gordon (part of Scrapwave)
* Diesel 10 (part of Scrapwave)
* Salty (part of Scrapwave)
* Diesel (part of Scrapwave)
* Cranky (as a gantry crane)
* Fun Police
* Thomas (mentioned)
* The Mighty Konk (not named, does not speak)

## Trivia

* According to James Farr, before he got copyright strikes, this episode was originally going to have every engine on Sodor combine into a giant robot to defeat Scrapwave.
	+ This plot was reused or brought back for the short, The Trains-Formers Christmas Special, however Thomas' role was replaced by Trouble Tron, Scrapwave's role was replaced by The Black Hole Of Joy, and the other engines' roles were replaced by four new recruits.
	+ This plot was reused or brought back again for the next episode, TRAINS-FORMERS Reborn, however, Scrapwave's role was replaced by Sir Topham Hatt (Uni-Galva-Deca-Mega-Scrap-O-Tron).
* A few scenes from TRAINS-4MERS can be seen as props in the beginning of the episode.
* This is the last episode to feature Piotr Michael and have music composed by Joshua Peterson. Peterson would later compose the music for the final time in TRAINS-FORMERS: Gauge Of Extinction, and would later compose the music in *The Sky High City of Steampuff*, another series created by James Farr, the same filmmaker who worked on TRAINS-FORMERS. However, the series ended after four episodes in 2018.