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Fujiwara provided the Japanese dub voices for four different TF characters. He is dearly missed. twitter.com/RaihanH98/stat…
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gonna be so funny when all the Terrorcons end up being just disposable villains who inevitably die after 3 mins of screentime and 5 lines each twitter.com/NITROIGUESS/st…
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Studio OX illustration of the Decepticon combiners. (2001)
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After years of troubled development, The Transformers Universe MMO (which would have been an alternate universe take on Transformers Prime) is shut down while still in open beta. (2014)
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Starscream ponders various new bodies for himself. (2015)
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according to John Warden, if Arcee had won the Power Of The Prime fan vote, her Prime name would have been "Arcana Magnus". (2017)
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a G1 Grimlock toy was once on display at the Natural History Museum at London, though it has sadly since been removed.
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Technically, Waspinator's beast mode is that of a female wasp, given that males do not possess a stinger.
Likewise, Inferno's beast mode is also female, as male ants are winged drones, which Inferno, due to his lack of wings, clearly is not. (1996)
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the pilot episodes of the G1 cartoon have all the Autobots be able to fly, which was subsequently dropped in the series proper. (1984)
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Optimus Prime's appearance in the Family Guy episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein". (2003)
he seems to be specifically designed to resemble the inner robot of his Powermaster toy.
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Bulkhead's appearance in RID 2015 seems to be physically based on his second Prime Voyager toy. (2017)
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According to writers Trent Troop and Greg Sepelak, Shattered Glass Optimus Prime sounds like Venger from Dungeons & Dragons.
(cos he's also voiced by Peter Cullen, you see.)
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in the Japanese dub of Animated, in addition to their personalities, Slipstream also tells us what the names of Starscream's clones are.
(which is notable, as the names of the clones are never actually said in the original english version of the show)
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the G1 episode "The Ultimate Weapon" depicts the Netherlands as a crime-ridden nation were basically everyone is constantly shooting guns. (1986)
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3 artists on the Generation 2 comic had 3 different (HORRIFIC) answers as to what's under Optimus' mouthplate. (1993)
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unused design for Rodimus Prime that would have transformed into a firetruck. (199?)
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Trans-Scanning Optimus and Bumblebee, available exclusively in the Japanese 2007 movie toyline.
They could go from their unarmoured Protoform robot and vehicle modes to their Earth forms by swapping out kibble on top of a shared base exoskeleton. (2007)
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the scene where Optimus scans his vehicle mode in the 2007 movie is extremely similar to a scene from TF Armada. (2007)
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Nautilator apparently sounds exactly like Megatron. (2012)
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the name "Megatron" was initially rejected by Hasbro due to the nuclear bomb connotation making the name sound "too scary".
The name stuck after Bob Budiansky responded by telling them that the leader of the villains was supposed to have a scary name. (1984)
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the Combaticons form a robot pyramid. (1986)
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the Lost Light crew dress up as MLP characters. (2021)
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