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At one point, the Animated crew considered having Peter Cullen play a human "old west hero" character that would inspire Optimus and teach him good leadership qualities, but the idea never came to fruition. (2008?)
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This Optimus line from the G1 episode "The Core" is notable as Peter Cullen's words of encouragement to a young fan of Optimus Prime in real life, dying of a terminal illness. To this day, when interviewed about this line, Cullen will invariably be moved to tears by its memory.
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Peter Cullen was not informed that Prime Optimus would survive the first arc of the third season until the recording sessions. He apparently became depressed, worried that kids would go through the same trauma of Optimus dying as kids did in 1986 with the original movie. (2013)
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Peter Cullen was asked to reprise Optimus Prime for Robot Chicken, where the character enacted a dramatization that he's dying from prostate cancer. He turned down the offer as he took the role too seriously to make fun of it, which the show's staff respected him for. (2005)
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only 3 episodes into the Headmasters anime, Optimus Prime dies again. (1987)
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Optimus Prime's very-familiar-looking holographic driver. (2008)
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G2 commercial for Combat Hero Optimus and Megatron.
This commercial is notable for actually having Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime, his final turn as the character until the 2007 movie. (1994)
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just as Peter Cullen reprised his role as Optimus for the 2007 movie, so too did Tesshō Genda for the movie's Japanese dub.
He reportedly expressed distaste for the name "Optimus Prime", as it was much harder to pronounce than the character's original JPN name,"Convoy". (2007)
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a cut piece of animation from the final episode of Beast Wars, showing G1 Megatron's spark being returned to his body. (1999)
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In "The Secret Of Omega Supreme", Omega displays uncharacteristic eloquence, due to writer David Wise being unaware of his speech pattern and scripting the episode with normal dialogue. Hence, the editors inserted Optimus' request for Omega to "talk like a normal Autobot". (1985)
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Titan Magazine's Prime comics gave Soundwave a face. (2012)
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Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Lockdown discuss Lockdown's fantasy about being in a love triangle. (2015)
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Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime's character models underwent many, many revisions over the course of development. (1986)
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Technically, Waspinator's beast mode is that of a female wasp, given that males do not possess a stinger.
Likewise, Inferno's beast mode is also female, as male ants are winged drones, which Inferno, due to his lack of wings, clearly is not. (1996)
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the crew behind Beast Wars really wanted Frank Welker to reprise his role as G1 Megatron for his brief cameo in "The Agenda", but scheduling conflicts resulted in Garry Chalk (ironically) voicing Megatron instead. (1998)
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Hugo Weaving didn't think particularly highly of his role as Megatron.
Michael Bay didn't think particularly highly of him. (2012)
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Charlie Adler reprised his role as Movie Starscream in the tie-in games for ROTF, but did so with a much deeper voice than the one used in the movie.
Contrasted against Frank Welker's Megatron, this results in a Starscream who has a much deeper voice than Megatron. (2009)
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the late Denny O' Neil was initially hired by Marvel to create the character names and story concepts for Transformers.
While most of his treatment was rejected, some of O'Neil's contributions were retained in the final product, including the name "Optimus Prime". (1984)
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During the recording of "Code Of Hero", Scott McNeil was attempting to deliver Dinobot's last words, but was continually interrupted by the recording crew's laughter. He is reputed to have said while still in character, "Do you mind?! I'm trying to die here!" (1998)
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G1 Shockwave's cartoon and comic characterizations are complete opposites, one being loyal and subservient, the other a power-hungry rival. This disparity was a result of lack of time during the franchise's production to get all the story basics established from the outset.(1984)
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Soundwave pushes his own buttons. (1984)
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the name "Megatron" was initially rejected by Hasbro due to the nuclear bomb connotation making the name sound "too scary".
The name stuck after Bob Budiansky responded by telling them that the leader of the villains was supposed to have a scary name. (1984)
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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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the French version of the Animated McDonalds' promotion included a toy of Blitzwing, that was available nowhere else in the world. (2009)
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Japanese Prime McDonalds' figures. (2011)
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