In RID 2001, Side Burn has an obsession with red sports cars...which makes his powered-up form being red very questionable....(2001)
Jolt was a last-minute addition ROTF, added to the script during the infamous Writers' Guild strike. He only appears in robot mode in three scenes of the movie, has no lines whatsoever, and didn't appear in any tie-in material until a year after the movie's release. (2009)
The Decepto-Pack, a plastic dress up set for children. (1985)
many Mexican Transformers toys produced by IGA were exported to Europe, but the lead paint applications used (usually in the eyes) caused concern. The toys were opened, the lead paint removed and hastily painted over in red, resulting in many toys with "bleeding eyes". (1989)
Transformers vs G.I. Joe and Beast Wars Uprising, in the same year, both feature the Earth becoming a Transformer. Atlas in TF vs GIJoe, and Gaea in BWU. (2016)
Beast Wars is being rebroadcast on Japanese television: twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1…
the Mutants, Beast Wars toys that turn from beast to beast. They were originally designed for Animorphs, but were moved to TF after that line was cancelled. (2000)
Killbison yells a bunch of gibberish. (1989)
Sorry to use this account for something that's not Transformers, but i have to boost this. The person who was upset about the Cy-Kill tweet from the other day is now attempting to impersonate my main. If any of y'all are tagged in this person's tweets, BLOCK AND REPORT. twitter.com/battleupsaber/…
Hot Shot and Downshift drive through space. (2004)
Roadbuster's appearance at the Daytona 500. (2011)
Grimlock gets kissed by a Junkion. (1986)
inspired by a throwaway line of dialogue from Beast Wars, the Legends manga depicts Arcee as Rattrap's aunt.
Netflix asks viewers to consider what would happen if Optimus Prime and Megatron worked together to open an Italian restaurant. (2021) twitter.com/NetflixGeeked/…
Fortress Maximus tears his own head off to prove what a chill, peaceful guy he is. (1987)
Megatron's original profile describes him as being able to use his cannon to link up to a black hole and draw antimatter from it. the profile on the box omitted the cannon part, thus the Marvel UK and IDW comics draw Megatron as directly channelling this power through his eyes.
Acid Storm got to be the first figure in Hasbro's Masterpiece line, before any of the more prominent characters. (2013)
an oddly-sloped Optimus Prime, from the G1 episode 'Divide and Conquer' (1984)
I'd say history is repeating itself this year. twitter.com/TF_Moments/sta…
Smite received Transformers-themed skins. (2021)
Takara releases the 'Smallest Transforming Transformers' line, consisting of downsized G1 toys. (2003)
the Armada "Super Mode Starscream" toy is released as Thundercracker in Hasbro markets. To justify this, the Armada cartoon dub adds in a line where Starscream remarks that his new paint job "looks like Thundercracker" (2003)
An extended version of the 2007 movie, containing two minutes of extra footage, was released to IMAX theatres. The footage has never been made available elsewhere. (2007)
concept art for a Decepticon for Transformers: Hero. (2004) While he looks a LOT like IDW's Tarn, the similarities between the two are apparently complete coincidence, according to Alex Milne. (2019)
i'm sure it made perfect sense for whoever designed this to put red, blue and grey on this jet to make this an Autobot jet, since those are standard good guy colours unfortunately, it did not occur to them that one of the franchise's main Decepticons is a red, blue and grey jet twitter.com/tfw2005/status…