Dead End becomes a vampire. (2010)
Aaron Archer designed the 2007 movie Protoform Optimus Prime toy in A SINGLE DAY. (2006)
unused concept art for a dragon-mode Megatron for The Last Knight. (2017)
Movie Bonecrusher owes his entire existence to this picture of the Buffalo minesweeper that drastically exaggerates the size of its fork. (2007)
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)
promotional renders for the 2007 movie; featuring the bots in all sorts of strange poses. (2007)
the early design for Movie Megatron's face, which was redesigned due to massive fan backlash. (2007)
having been written out of the movie due to severe backlash, Skids and Mudflaps' roles in Dark Of The Moon are reduced to a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo. (2011)
Bumblebee stars in a Superbowl commercial. (2011)
contrary to popular belief, Shockwave does not say "Driller-Bot is thirsty" in this scene. It's just mechanical garbling nonsense. (2011)
a Burger King DOTM commercial has Optimus fighting Shockwave, done by superimposing Shockwave's model over Sentinel Prime's. (2011)
It's been heavily hinted at in several sources over the years that every Transformer named 'Sideways' in the franchise is actually the same character, who travels between dimensions. (2002- )
The Allspark Almanac 2 heavily implies that Armada Starscream once visited the Animated universe. (2010)
concept art for Transtech, an unproduced series that would have been a sequel to Beast Machines. The toyline would have comprised both G1 and BM characters. (2000-2001)
at the climax of Beast Machines, Megatron models his final form after Optimus Primal's 'Optimal' form, for no other reason than because he's petty and wants to fuck with Primal. (2000)
the Japanese dub Predacons sing a silly song as they hunt for Maximals. (1997)
the Combaticons become servants to Kim Jong Du, Kim Jong Il's fictional son. (2010)
Inspired by their G1 toys sharing similar head designs, IDW makes Tracks and Needlenose brothers. (2015)
Megatron turns Prowl into a new head for Devastator. (2012)
Pat Lee draws Optimus in a way that implies his neck is ridiculously long. (2002)
Soundblaster's tragic backstory. (2021)
Corey Burton reprises his role as Shockwave in a Gamestop ad. He later expressed lament over the rushed, "gag" nature of the ad, being out of character and that it hardly even sounded like him. (2011)
two instances in the G1 cartoon had Soundwave speak without the vocoder effect applied; resulting in Soundwave sounding exactly like Dr. Claw. (1984)(1986)
Galvatron gets drunk and goes on a rampage. (1998)
Waspinator became the whipping boy of Beast Wars purely because the writers were frustrated with his speech pattern and resorted to blowing him up to write him out of episodes early. (1996)