can't people just be happy that he is a blue and silver car that can make illusions. already more accurate than 90% of Bayverse folk but y'all still wanna be ungrateful twitter.com/decepticonaide…
Mindwipe, who transforms into a bat, is terrified of bats. (1987)
Kup, Blurr and Arcee stand around and do nothing while Rodimus gets his ass beat by Galvatron. (1987)
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)
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)
Starscream Keroro ver, a redeco of Movie Legends Starscream resembling, Keroro (Sgt Frog), is released to promote a Keroro x Transformers one-shot manga.
A proposed BotCon concept by Fun Publications was a redeco of Transmetal Rattrap into a beast form of Generation 1 Rodimus Prime, named "Rodimouse", to match Optimus Primal and Ultra Mammoth as being Maximal archetypes of Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus. (2014)
Primus uses Cybertron's moons to clobber Starscream. (2005)
Kreon Micro-Changer Perceptor's microscope mode. (2013)
the Space Mini-Con team go undercover. (2003)
a Burger King DOTM commercial has Optimus fighting Shockwave, done by superimposing Shockwave's model over Sentinel Prime's. (2011)
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)
a layering error results in this infamous shot. (1985)
Since Armada Optimus is in the limelight again, here's an addendum to an old post Only one known copy of the OG Armada Optimus (baltmatrix's) has been reported to catch fire. There have been no other no instances of such a thing occuring to other copies of this toy. twitter.com/TF_Moments/sta…
according to John Warden, if Arcee had won the Power Of The Prime fan vote, her Prime name would have been "Arcana Magnus". (2017)
IDW's Beast Wars comic ended on an extremely rushed and abrupt note due to their loss of the Transformers license. The editors' note at the end of the final issue goes into detail on the many, many aborted plot threads the writers wanted to follow up on. (2022)
Cosmos and Powerglide chase Starscream through the world's largest shopping mall. (1985)
the Transformers 20th Anniversary Lithograph from Dreamwave, pencilled by @SketchyFig and featuring more Transformers than any other poster on Earth. (2004)
the owner of this account saw Legacy Commander Class Armada Optimus Prime in-person. (2023)
in the 1986 movie, Sunstreaker seems to be on both Earth and Cybertron at the same time. (1986)
planned, unproduced concepts for BotCon 2017 exclusive figures. (2017)
the rushed broadcast schedule of Armada results in several episodes being aired with unfinished animation, some of which was eventually cleaned up for the Japanese "Micron Legend" airing. (2002/2003) (here's the most prominent example of this; from the episode 'Linkup')
early trailers for DOTM have Sentinel Prime coloured mustard gold. (2011)