[MARVEL]《变形金刚 55：星际摔角》 - 变形金刚中国联盟社区：TFCLUB社区

附录：摘自《The Ark》

INTRODUCTION

The Very Large Box

When the author of this tome, Jim Sorenson, first contacted me about this project, he asked me if I happened to have any old Transformers model sheets he could use. I think he was hoping that, at best, maybe I had one or two ragged pages stuck under a pile of forgotten comics that he might be able to tape back together. Then I tod him about the very large box full of paper in my basement. For some reason, I held onto all the model sheets and other reference materials Hasbro had sent me during my tenure as editor and writer of the Transformers comic books that Marvel published in the 1980s. I added my own contributions to the Transformers canon--plots, scripts, story treatments and more. By the time I left the Transformers in 1989, literally hundreds of pages of material documenting the evolution of the Transformers over the first five years of their existence filled this very large box to the brim. If I had stayed on any longer, I would have had to get a second very large box.

I don't think Jim appreciated the quantity of materials I kept until he came over to my house last November to see the very large box for himself. It was like he got sucked into a black hole. He couldn't pull himself away from the contents of the very large box. He was overwhelmed.

But that's because it hit him all at once. My experience was different. Looking at the stacks of model sheets that we dug out of that very large box reminded me that the Transformers began with only 20 or so characters. I was asked to name these characters, develop their personalities, build a mythology around them. What a wonderful creative opportunity... to attend the big bang of a whole new universe! And then, over the next few years, as the Transformers' success grew, Hasbro rolled out more lines of toys, Hasbro sent me more model sheets, and based on those sheets, I named and developed more characters and dreamed up more storylines.

And so, the very large box filled up. Each new stack of paper that I put in it was a testament to the Transformers' enduring popularity. And now, finally, I know why I kept that very large box--so Jim, who, with some difficulty, eventually did pull himself away from the contents of the very large box, could use many of those model sheets within it for this book--a resource guide to the Transformers unlike any other.

I hope that, after perusing the pages that follow, you will agree with me that it was a good idea for me to keep that very large box full of paper all these years.

Bob Budiansky
March, 2007

介绍

好大的箱子

起初，Jim Sorenson找到我，说起出版这本书的计划，他问我有没有碰巧保留一些古老的变形金刚模型草稿，可以提供给他。我觉得他的期望值并不高，顶多是想着能从一堆古旧漫画里发掘出一两张破损的稿纸。于是我跟他说，在我家地下室里有个装满稿纸的好大一个箱子。二十世纪八十年代，当我在Marvel公司担任变形金刚漫画的编辑和作者的时候，Hasbro公司曾经送给我许多变形金刚的模型草稿和其他参考材料。鬼使神差，我把这些资料都给保留了下来。这里边也有我自己的许多心血——包括情节设计、剧本创作、故事加工等等。这些资料中，记录着变形金刚在诞生最初五年间的演进历程。1989年，当我离开变形金刚制作团队的时候，手头的资料差不多有数百页了，我把它们都放在那个好大的箱子里，满满的快要溢出来了。如果我再多干一段时间，就只好再找一个好大的箱子来盛放资料了。

一开始，Jim其实并没意识到我保存了多少资料。直到去年11月，他到我家里来亲眼看到那个好大的箱子。随后，他就像是被吸进了大黑洞，把自己整个埋到这些资料之中，深度沉迷，难以自拔。

这主要是因为他一下子看到这么多，大受刺激了。而我本人则有不同的感受。当我们把一叠叠模型草稿从好大的箱子里抱出来的时候，我不禁回想起最开始的变形金刚总共只有20来个角色。我为他们一个一个起名字，赋予不同的性格，再以他们为主角，建造起一个神话世界。这是多么美妙而富有创意的机运啊……我亲身参与了一个崭新宇宙的创生！随后的若干年里，随着变形金刚的成功发展，Hasbro发布的玩具系列越来越多，送来的模型草稿也越来越多。根据这些模型草稿，我设定的人物角色越来越多，创造的故事情节也越来越多。

就这样，好大的箱子慢慢装满了。被我放进那里面的每一叠新稿件，都在见证着变形金刚长盛不衰的动人魅力。现在，我终于明白为何要保留这个好大的箱子了——就是为了让Jim（费劲千辛万苦之后，他终于可以从资料堆里爬出来了）可以使用其中的诸多模型草稿来完成这本书——这本绝对不同寻常的素材手册。

我真心希望，在认真读过这本书之后，你们也会和我有同样的想法：把这个装满纸的，好大的箱子保管到现在，真是太正确了。

鲍勃·布迪安斯基（Bob Budiansky）
2007年3月