Transformers vs G.I. Joe and Beast Wars Uprising, in the same year, both feature the Earth becoming a Transformer. Atlas in TF vs GIJoe, and Gaea in BWU. (2016)
concept art for a Decepticon for Transformers: Hero. (2004) While he looks a LOT like IDW's Tarn, the similarities between the two are apparently complete coincidence, according to Alex Milne. (2019)
Cut scenes from the 1986 movie, showing Ultra Magnus and several other Autobots using their rockets to bring down Devastator, and extended sequences of Optimus taking on the other Decepticons before his fight with Megatron.
Netflix asks viewers to consider what would happen if Optimus Prime and Megatron worked together to open an Italian restaurant. (2021) twitter.com/NetflixGeeked/…
Fortress Maximus tears his own head off to prove what a chill, peaceful guy he is. (1987)
G1 Jetfire/Shockwave commercial, featuring a rare appearance by Jetfire's original animation model. (1985)
i'm sure it made perfect sense for whoever designed this to put red, blue and grey on this jet to make this an Autobot jet, since those are standard good guy colours unfortunately, it did not occur to them that one of the franchise's main Decepticons is a red, blue and grey jet twitter.com/tfw2005/status…
Sideswipe plays Mystery Of Convoy. (2015)
Issue 161 of the Marvel UK comic is told and drawn in a way that draws parallels between the struggles of Ultra Magnus and Megatron, as they both fight to overcome their fears (of Galvatron and Straxus, respectively). (1988)
a power-up form for Prime Soundwave, as seen in an official Japanese Arms Micron promo video. This form requires one to purchase yogurt bottles and a plastic fork, as well as several other Arms Microns, and attach it to the deluxe Soundwave figure. (2012)
RID Landfill (Car Robots Build King) has a unique combination system, where he is formed from four bots, with one forming the arms, allowing for multiple different configurations. (2001)
Dreamwave held a fan poll to let fans determine if they wanted a new comic series based on Beast Wars or RID 2001, with Beast Wars ultimately winning by a large margin. Dreamwave went out of business before anything was published, rendering the whole thing pointless. (2004)
the two mutant creatures from the Animated episode "Survival Of The Fittest" are drawn in homage to G1 Pretenders Bomb-Burst and Submaruader. (2008)
several episodes of G1 had to be re-recorded to replace the name 'Jetfire' with 'Skyfire'. (1984)
the Omnibot Camshaft is called that in spite of the fact that he turns into a Mazda RX-7, which featured a rotary engine that does not actually have a camshaft. (1985)
the rushed broadcast schedule of Armada results in several episodes being aired with unfinished animation, some of which was eventually cleaned up for the Japanese "Micron Legend" airing. (2002/2003) (here's the most prominent example of this; from the episode 'Linkup')
The Lost Light crew find themselves in Swerve's mind, within a holomatter replica of Earth constructed out of sitcom tropes. (2015)
unproduced concept for a female ladybug from Takatoku's Beetras toyline. (imported by Hasbro to become the Deluxe Insecticons) (1984)
According to a member of the Melbourne House team, the Cybertron game that would have been a sequel to the Armada game was a few months into development when Atari moved the studio onto a different project, effectively nixing the sequel. (2005)
Ravage's one line of dialogue in the original series. (1984)
Animated Lockdown's hook and Grimlock's club turn up as Easter Eggs in Ben 10 Omniverse, trophies collected by bounty hunter Kyber. (2012)
Beast Wars is being rebroadcast on Japanese television: twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1…
now would be a great time to reissue this toy twitter.com/TF_Moments/sta…
due to the character models for the 1st and 2nd seasons of the G1 cartoon being done by different artists (Shōhei Kohara in S1, Floro Dery in S2), this results in characters with the same toy mold having completely different animation models. (1984-85)