a closed captioning error on one of Paramount's Animated DVDs mistakenly refers to Shockwave as "Chugway". (2009)
Almost every toy of DOTM Leadfoot is a Target exclusive, due to him literally being a walking Target ad. (If you live in a country without Target, good luck.) (2011-2021)
the OFTCC 2004 voice drama featured a yellow Optimus Prime who was voiced by a woman, making her the first female Optimus. Takara's Generations Selects manga would many years later give her a starring role, and name her "Yellow Splendid Convoy". (2020)
Nautilator apparently sounds exactly like Megatron. (2012)
Animated makes Dragstrip female, putting a whole new spin on the character's name. (2010)
the G1 cartoon episode "War Of The Dinobots" can be seen playing in 'Leon: The Professional'. (1994)
According to Dan Gilvezan in his autobiography, the cast of the G1 cartoon would often have to wait a long time to record their lines. Scatman Crothers would bring his guitar to every recording session and perform for his fellow cast members to keep them entertained. (1984)
several episodes of G1 had to be re-recorded to replace the name 'Jetfire' with 'Skyfire'. (1984)
Megatron's sexy swagger. (1985)
Megatron beams Starscream in the head with an Energon cube. (1984)
The Autobots give Skyfire a touching burial after he sacrifices himself. They then went ahead and dug him out two episodes later. (1984)
Brawn survives getting shot in the head. (1984) Brawn dies after getting shot in the shoulder. (1986)
Optimus Prime explodes. (1984)
Optimus totally doesn't forgive Grimlock. (1984)
Optimus totally doesn't forgive the two humans who started the Hate Plague. (1987)
Optimus Prime calls Trailbreaker "Trailblazer" and Spike "Splick" (1985)
in the G1 cartoon, the DInobots are built because "robot dinosaurs might be useful" (1984)
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Animated Toxitron homages Bizzaro from DC Comics. (2011)
Tigatron dreams of almost every female Transformer in the multiverse appearing to fight over him. (2015)
a power-up form for Prime Soundwave, as seen in an official Japanese Arms Micron promo video. This form requires one to purchase yogurt bottles and a plastic fork, as well as several other Arms Microns, and attach it to the deluxe Soundwave figure. (2012)
an episode of Beast Machines shows shows a statue of Optimus Prime holding two Golden Disks. Writer Bob Skir suggested that they were either the disks from the Voyager 1 and 2 probes, or that Optimus won them in the 2,395,989th Annual Cybertronian spelling bee. (1999)
For reasons not yet known, rapid photodegradation (yellowing) in Transformers toys has become very common as of the last few years. Figures have been reported visibly yellowed while still packaged and newly-arrived on store shelves. (2021- )
Prowl flips a lot of tables. (2012-2017)
Cy-Kill gets killed by Megatron in the gladiatorial arena. (2007)