Starscream and BB make a desperate attempt to save themselves. (1998)
according to John Warden, if Arcee had won the Power Of The Prime fan vote, her Prime name would have been "Arcana Magnus". (2017)
the Space Mini-Con team go undercover. (2003)
Bulkhead sats a fire hydrant in the title sequence of Animated. (2007)
the only official toy of G1 Jazz in the Masterpiece line is a tiny minifigure included with MP Skyfire. (2023)
this sound effect. (2016)
Earthspark Soundwave's exploding cassette. (2022)
Cyclonus makes a big mistake. (1986)
Many of the insect Predacons from the Beast Wars toyline were redecoed and released as Maximals in the Japanese Beast Wars II toyline and show. This is due to the different perceptions of insects in Japan, where they are viewed as cuter and friendlier than they are in the west.
Drill Nuts' name. (1998)
a promotional video announcing the Michael Bay movie before there was any footage of it filmed. It has some very early 3d models and some street interviews with fans of the franchise. (2005?)
War For Cybertron has an unused, unfinished Co-Op/Split Screen mode in the game's files which never made it to the retail release. (2010) twitter.com/SuperPodSaga/s…
Sarah Connor kills Ravage. (2020)
Studio Series Bonecrusher is released in the Buzzworthy line in an Autobot N.E.S.T disguise. the numbers inscribed on his vehicle mode read "All Hail Megatron". (2022)
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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.
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)
Arcee and Aileron lip-lock, making history as the first IDW kiss, the first genuinely romantic, on-the-mouth, unobfuscated, fully-on-screen/panel kiss between Transformers in recorded history, and by extension, the first same-gender kiss, too. (2018)
Masterforce head writer Masumi Kaneda stated that God Ginrai (ゴッドジンライ) was named so that omitting every other Japanese syllable yields the word Gojira (ゴジラ), better known in the west as Godzilla. (1988)
the G1 episode "The Ultimate Weapon" depicts the Netherlands as a crime-ridden nation were basically everyone is constantly shooting guns. (1986)
the Combaticons hang around next to their own combined form. (1986)
a layering error results in this infamous shot. (1985)