Sentinel Prime's role in Animated was going to be filled in by Rodimus at first, before Hasbro vetoed the idea, not wanting Rodimus to be portrayed as a massive jerk. (2008)
Cybertron is brought into Earth's orbit in Dark Of The Moon, yet it somehow does not cause any severe effects on our planet's environment. (2011)
contrary to popular belief, Shockwave does not say "Driller-Bot is thirsty" in this scene. It's just mechanical garbling nonsense. (2011)
Bumblebee meets his Japanese voice actor, Ryohei Kimura. (2019)
Hugo Weaving didn't think particularly highly of his role as Megatron. Michael Bay didn't think particularly highly of him. (2012)
Arcee transforms. (2010)
the backlash to Optimus Prime's death in the 1986 Transformers movie is so strong that the G.I. Joe movie is redubbed so that Duke merely goes into a coma and doesn't die. (1987)
For an interview in Madman Entertainment's Beast Wars DVDs, Scott McNeil came dressed in a foam Megatron costume. (2006)
to prove that a Trypticon toy was feasible at the Titan pricepoint, a Titan Fortress Maximus prototype was disassembled and reassembled into the general shape of a dinosaur. (2016)
the Transformers fandom's first look at the then-upcoming Combiner Wars Devastator is obstructed by some random bald guy. (2015)
The red scars on Optimus and Megatron's faces in The Last Knight came about when Michael Bay asked ILM's animators to add them to their faces and come up with an explanation for them, with one of the artists suggesting that it was due to the influence of Dark Energon. (2017)
Optimus Prime's head design in the G1 cartoon changes from a rounded one in Season 1 to a squared, angular one in Season 2. (1984-1987)
some cloaked mystery villain guy shows up in the Japanese intro for Animated, and nowhere else. (2008)
in the final fight in Age Of Extinction, some random guy can be very briefly seen here. (2014)
Shockwave's inclusion in Animated arose from a between-scenes conversation Corey Burton had with the production team, regarding how little the original Shockwave actually had to do in the G1 cartoon. (2008)
Before Dark of the Moon, Movie Shockwave put in his first appearance as the final boss of the 2007 movie's tie-in games.
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Optimus defeats Cthulhu. (2012)
an artist's impression of what G1 Bruticus would look like if his components were accurately-scaled.
early during production of the 2007 movie, Paramount and Steven Spielberg wanted all the Transformers to be mute. Hasbro intervention vetoed this, and they arrived at the compromise of only Bumblebee being mute. (2007)
a G1 Starscream toy can be seen in Top Gun. (1986)
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Beast Wars Megatron fights G1 Optimus Prime (who he is somehow the same size as.) (2004)
Megatron beams Starscream in the head with an Energon cube. (1984)
a layering error results in this infamous shot. (1985)