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this one Bumblebee toy from the Buzzworthy line seems to have a vehicle mode based on Bumper rather than Bumblebee. (2021)
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Derrick Wyatt discusses an unmade episode of Animated that would have featured Optimus Primal.
(credit to @KeyanCarlile for the video)
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Animated Blurr's crushed cube form was supposed to show his spark being visible, to show to the audience that he was still alive. This detail didn't make it into the show, leaving Blurr's fate ambiguous. (2008)
(Blurr eventually came back in the BotCon 2015 script reading)
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For the longest time, western fans believed Beast Wars II and Neo to have taken place during the events of Beast Wars, due to catalogs that depict the BW and BW II cast existing in the same time, as well as Neo depicting Cybertron as still being mechanical and not technorganic.
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"The Touch" was originally inspired by a line from Louis Gossett Jr. in Iron Eagle, and written for the 1986 Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra, but the record company decided to switch it to the Transformers movie instead.
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due to 'Transform' being the literal english translation of 'Henshin', english dubs of Kamen Rider shows often had the characters say 'Transform'.
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proof-of-concept pilot for Animated, produced to convince the network to pick up the show. It has never been publicly released, and was screened by Marty Isenberg exclusively for TFCon.
(credit to @KeyanCarlile for the video)
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Shinji Nishikawa's Transforming Mechagodzilla design, created for the 1993 film Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II but ultimately unused, was eventually realized in action figure form in the SH Monsterarts line. (2017)
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The design of Optimus Primal's bat form is an homage to Batman, whose action figure license was also held at the time by Kenner. His designer chose the black color scheme to redeco him into Onyx Primal, enhancing the mold's inherent resemblance to Batman. (1996)
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Megatron's original profile describes him as being able to use his cannon to link up to a black hole and draw antimatter from it.
the profile on the box omitted the cannon part, thus the Marvel UK and IDW comics draw Megatron as directly channelling this power through his eyes.
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the original Japanese name for the Decepticon faction, Destron (デストロン), is the same name as that of the evil organization from the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider V3.
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People in Taiwan that preordered Haslab Victory Saber through Hasbro TW are getting their preorders cancelled because their batch had too much water damage during transport to be rendered acceptable.
They’re getting a full refund and a free Alpha Trion set to compensate. (2022)
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Townsend Coleman reprised his role as Animated Sentinel Prime for TFNation. (2020)
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exposure to Brainstorm's meta-bomb gives Swerve the ability to break the fourth wall. (2013)
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Bumblebee appears as a DLC character in "Bike Rider 3: Time Rider" for 3DS, alongside the likes of Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, Crayon Shin-Chan, and Hatsune Miku. (2015)
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the TF CR Pachinko game included an english cover of "TRANSFORMER", the theme song of the G1 cartoon's Japanese dub.
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