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In issue #2 of Plastic Man (2018) Plastic Man transforms into Optimus Prime and reference how the films didn't make sense, along with how they were slightly racist which is likely a reference to Skids and Mudflap being stereotypes of African Americans.
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MP-01 Optimus Prime has a mouth under his mouthplate, sculpted to resemble Marvel comic Optimus' from issue 76. (2003)
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the Lost Light crew dress up as MLP characters. (2021)
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over ten years later and we're still pretending he was a main character in that movie twitter.com/tfw2005/status…
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Pat Lee draws Optimus in a way that implies his neck is ridiculously long. (2002)
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concept art of the Dinobot combiner Volcanicus in Cyberverse gave it a beast mode of its own. While this didn't make it into the show, it was featured on the Volcanicus toy. (2021)
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prototype of a G1 Unicron toy, that was ultimately cancelled due to cost concerns. (1986)
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an IDW cover features Optimus Prime in a Barack Obama campaign homage. (2010)
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Starscream references the Wizard of Oz while cursing out some ponies. (2021)
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Optimus justifies why the Transformers say "transform" when they transform. (2006)
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Rid 2015 Thunderhoof was voiced by Frank Stallone, Sylvester Stallone's younger brother.
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In Rescue Bots Academy, Whirl's locker has a drawing of her with another, IDW-inspired Whirl, perhaps suggesting that the two might be related somehow. (2020)
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the cover of an issue of Venus magazine, the only magazine for Decepti-femmes! (2010)
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pack-in illustrations for the Unite Warriors manga, depicting the combiner teams hanging out and having some relaxing good times. (2016-2018)
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Continuing the grand tradition of Autobot cars turning into ultra rare supercars that no one would actually use instead of like, a normal car twitter.com/tfw2005/status…
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Having a total of 104 episodes, Rescue Bots is the longest-running Transformers show of all time. (2012-2016)
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a closed captioning error on one of Paramount's Animated DVDs mistakenly refers to Shockwave as "Chugway". (2009)
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unusued concept art of an AOE ankylosaur Dinobot. (2014?)
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contrary to popular belief, Shockwave does not say "Driller-Bot is thirsty" in this scene. It's just mechanical garbling nonsense. (2011)
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Shockwave's inclusion in Animated arose from a between-scenes conversation Corey Burton had with the production team, regarding how little the original Shockwave actually had to do in the G1 cartoon. (2008)
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the combined form of two Powerlinx Energon Optimus Primes. (2004)
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In the first live-action movie, Ironhide's guns alone have 10,000 CGI parts each. (2007)
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alternate versions of the Maximal and Predacon insignias seen on the packaging of Kingdom toys, that combine elements of the Autobot and Decepticon symbols. These did not get used on the actual toys. (2021)
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