For Revenge Of The Fallen, Stan Bush re-covered The Touch as "Sam's Theme", completely unsanctioned or unrequested by Hasbro or DreamWorks. (2009)
unused concept art for a dragon-mode Megatron for The Last Knight. (2017)
Corey Burton reprises his role as Shockwave in a Gamestop ad. He later expressed lament over the rushed, "gag" nature of the ad, being out of character and that it hardly even sounded like him. (2011)
One panel after this Bumblebee gets shot and blows up, dying horribly twitter.com/AssTransformer…
In issue #2 of Plastic Man (2018) Plastic Man transforms into Optimus Prime and reference how the films didn't make sense, along with how they were slightly racist which is likely a reference to Skids and Mudflap being stereotypes of African Americans.
Soundwave pets Ravage. (1984)
The model sheet of the Decepticon symbol created for the G1 cartoon is based on the one that appears on the toys' packaging. The animators misinterpreted the beveled detailing on the Decepticon symbol's crest, as a third spike on the crest. (1984-1987)
Grimlock takes flight using his giant new swords. (2021)
Megatron repeatedly becoming Galvatron and going back to Megatron throughout the Unicron Trilogy was a result of Hasbro wanting to keep their trademarks on both names active. (2002-2006)
promotional renders for the 2007 movie; featuring the bots in all sorts of strange poses. (2007)
in Dark Of The Moon, Carly was held hostage in Trump Tower. (2011)
in the most unrealistic scene in cartoon history, all of the world's governments agree to give the Autobots their energy. (1984)
one of Age Of Extinction's tv spots contained a scene of Bumblebee dancing that was cut from the final film. (2014)
Jazz's Pretender toy makes him a white guy. (1989)
can't people just be happy that he is a blue and silver car that can make illusions. already more accurate than 90% of Bayverse folk but y'all still wanna be ungrateful twitter.com/decepticonaide…
for those of you who have never seen this clip from the Japanese dub of G1, i assure you nothing will prepare you for the last 5 seconds of this clip twitter.com/141mkt3/status…
Cyberverse Soundwave dances. (2018)
in Starscream's biopic, Thundercracker showcases his unparalleled talents by directing the movie and also playing Starscream, Skywarp, AND HIMSELF in the same scene. (2018)
Optimus Prime's infamous disappearing mouthplate. (1985)
Hisashi Yuki was VERY proud of how he designed Car Robots God Fire Convoy to have Fire Convoy and God Magnus "shake hands" as part of the combination, so much so that he personally requested the animators of the CR show include it as part of the combination sequence. (2000)
Starscream fires his null-ray from his finger. (1985)
originally intended to be a Bumblebee-themed subline, the Buzzworthy Bumblebee line quickly devolved into a seemingly random assortment of re-releases of misc. older figures and redecoes, that don't have anything to do with the titular character. (2021)
Animated makes Dragstrip female, putting a whole new spin on the character's name. (2010)
Wheeljack's ears usually light up blue when he talks, but on occasion they're orange. (1984)
due to not sharing the same union-related restrictions, the Japanese dub of the Netflix WFC trilogy was able to have several long-time voice actors return. Most notably; Tessho Genda as Optimus Prime, Takehito Koyasu as Optimus Primal, and Shigeru Chiba as Beast Megatron. (2021)