Several Cybertron toys were redecoed and re-released as part of the 2007 Movie toyline, reportedly due to the toyline selling so well more product was needed to meet demand. (2008)
pack-in illustrations for the Unite Warriors manga, depicting the combiner teams hanging out and having some relaxing good times. (2016-2018)
to add more gender diversity to the show, Cybertron changes the male Nitro Convoy to the female Override. (2005)
red herrings sprinkled throughout the run of More Than Meets The Eye suggested that Tarn was actually Optimus' old friend Roller. It was all misdirection in the end, with Roller being revealed to still be alive one page before Tarn's true identity was revealed. (2012-2016)
Simon Furman made Sunstreaker a Headmaster in IDW because he was the character who'd least want to be a Headmaster. (2007)
Powerglide on a merry-go-round. (1985)
Punch displays his amazing espionage skills. (1987)
the generic Decepticons from the Devastation video game are based on the Battlechargers Runamuck and Runabout. Sadly, no actual toys of them have been made. (2015)
the scale here's totally accurate guys. trust me. twitter.com/tfw2005/status…
Megatron's bubble bath. (1998)
the exact same drawing of Termagax is reused multiple times within the same issue. (2020)
gotta love how Anthony Hopkins whips this thing out like a live grenade to blackmail people
Japanese Prime McDonalds' figures. (2011)
all of Movie Grimlock's fighting and transforming animation, and even Gregg Berger's grunts, in the Rise Of The Dark Spark video game are reused from the Grimlock from Fall Of Cybertron. (2014) (this means that Grimlock stabs bots with a mace in this game)
Megatron builds a giant purple griffin. (1985)
Hot Shot and Downshift drive through space. (2004)
Megatron completely forgets that the Decepticon base has no forcefields. (1985)
Bob Budiansky was inspired by Star Trek when characterizing Shockwave, imagining him as an evil version of Spock. Meanwhile, Corey Burton based his performance as Shockwave in the G1 cartoon after David Warner's portrayal of Sark in Tron. (1984)
Dreamwave Ravage's humanoid Cybertronian robot form. (2002)
Blackarachnia makes an innuendo. (1999)
Skyfire's gerwalk form. (1985)
Hasbro names a Transformer 'Big Daddy' (1990)
Japanese commercial promoting Transformers 2010 (G1 Season 3), telling all the kids at home that Convoy (Optimus) is fucking dead, yo. (1986)
the name of the Prime who preceded Optimus in Aligned continuity was inconsistent- in the War For Cybertron game he was Zeta Prime, but in the Exodus novel he was Sentinel Prime. Hasbro solved the issue by declaring that his full name was "Sentinel Zeta Prime" (2011)