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official Transformers Gaming chairs. (2022) twitter.com/tfw2005/status…
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Garry Chalk reprised his role as Optimus Prime for a video from @GodzillaMendoza. (2020)
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Primus apotheosis is a Cybertronian personality disorder, characterized by the obsessive need to emulate Optimus Prime, including a desire to quote him, resemble him or heroically sacrifice oneself.
IDW Getaway, Pyro and G2 Sureshot are all said to suffer from this ailment.
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the Japanese dub of Beast Wars made the Predacon computer an actual character, naming her "NAVI-ko".
the "Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base" manga would also give her a transforming body with a dolphin alt mode, loosely based on Prime Airachnid. (2014)
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the Shattered Glass Soundwave toy includes a bandana made entirely of stickers. (2013)
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Whirl discusses the graffiti he left inside Ultra Magnus. (2012)
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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)
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Tidal Wave does pushups in the post-credits scene of the Armada game. (2004)
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Early concept artwork for Optimus Prime's Armada appearance, transforming into a monster truck.(2001)
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Every episode of Superlink (Energon) began with Optimus Prime telling the kids at home to watch the show in a brightly-lit room. (2004)
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the Japanese release of the Prime Weaponizer Optimus figure included a giant friggin' Matrix accessory that could also turn into a giant friggin' sword when combined with Arms Microns. (2012)
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the Matrix was originally going to be the main McGuffin of the 2007 movie, but was replaced by the AllSpark due to the studio not wanting any association with the movie, The Matrix.
These concerns were evidently null by the time ROTF came along. (2007-9)
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James Arnold Taylor was originally cast as The Fallen in the film version of Revenge of the Fallen (which led to him getting the same role in Revenge of the Fallen: The Game), but was replaced by Tony Todd in the final edit of the film, to his disappointment. (2009)
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on set of Dark Of The Moon, some guy with a Jeep drove onto set in the middle of filming and demanded (from Bay personally) that his car be put in the movie as the Autobot Rollbar.
This misled many TF news sites into thinking Rollbar was gonna be an actual character. (2010)
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Initially, the owners of Griffith Observatory were reluctant to allow the crew of Transformers to film there. However, they relented as Susan Bay, a relative of director Michael Bay, and her husband, Leonard Nimoy, made substantial contributions to the funding of Griffith. (2007)
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Funko releases Funko/Transformers NFTs. (2022)
(I couldn't be bothered to grab screenshots of those things, so here's TFWiki's description of the subject. Hope nobody minds.)
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planned, unproduced concepts for BotCon 2017 exclusive figures. (2017)
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BotBot Waddlepop was originally slated to appear in Last Bot Standing as a member of Steeljaw's remnant faction. However, Hasbro informed Nick Roche that the BotBots were off-limits, and as a result Roche replaced Waddlepop with Moon instead. (2021)
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Megatron repeatedly becoming Galvatron and going back to Megatron throughout the Unicron Trilogy was a result of Hasbro wanting to keep their trademarks on both names active. (2002-2006)
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Terrorsaur, Optimus Primal and Rhinox all take turns impersonating Megatron's "Yessssss". (1996)
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David Kaye reprised his role as Megatron for a Robot Chicken sketch. (2018)
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Keith David voiced Barricade in the tie-in games for the 2007 movie...and only the games, for some reason. Not in the movie. (2007)
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According to writers Trent Troop and Greg Sepelak, Shattered Glass Optimus Prime sounds like Venger from Dungeons & Dragons.
(cos he's also voiced by Peter Cullen, you see.)
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Peter Cullen was immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a cement printing ceremony outside of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Optimus Prime was also in attendance and provided his tire marks in lieu of handprints. (2014)
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