RID Landfill (Car Robots Build King) has a unique combination system, where he is formed from four bots, with one forming the arms, allowing for multiple different configurations. (2001)
there were two different toys of Ravage in the Alternators line: one with a humanoid robot mode and one with a beast mode. (2004,2007)
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)
Cyberverse Injector and Air Hammer. (2020)
an electrical transformer caught fire, leading to an explosion at the Hoover Dam. (2022)
Where Slipstream got her colours from was debated within the fandom, with the most frequent guess being G2 Ramjet. However, when contacted about it, Derrick J. Wyatt revealed that her colour scheme was actually "loosely inspired" by the Godmaster Overlord. (2008)
i guess this is my legacy now.
the McDonalds' toys of the Armada Autobots and Decepticons could combine into the "Mighty Robot" and the "Mighty Vehicle" respectively. (2002)
Galvatron is killed by the power of Friendship. (1987)
Dropkick from the 2007 movie toyline sports a giant Decepticon insignia in vehicle mode. (2007)
all of Movie Grimlock's fighting and transforming animation, and even Gregg Berger's grunts, in the Rise Of The Dark Spark video game are reused from the Grimlock from Fall Of Cybertron. (2014) (this means that Grimlock stabs bots with a mace in this game)
In early episodes of Beast Wars, Scorponok's missiles had Maximal symbols on them, the equivalent to carving an enemy's name on your bullets. Many viewers failed to pick up on this though, and they were promptly replaced with Predacon faction symbols to avoid confusion. (1996)
During the audio commentary for the 2nd episode of Beast Wars on Madman Entertainment's Beast Wars Season 1 DVD, Garry Chalk's cell phone suddenly rings, forcing him to step outside, while Scott McNeil and Alec Willows crack jokes about it being Garry's mom on the line.
Swerve's role in More Than Meets The Eye was originally meant for Bluestreak, but the creative team of the Robots In Disguise comic wanted him in their book. He then ended up in MTMTE anyway after the RID team ended up doing nothing with him. (2012-2014)
the Amazon Wreckers version of Legacy Bulkhead comes with Prime Breakdown's hammer, implying that Nulkhead defeated his rival and took his weapon. (2022)
Hot Toys Optimus Prime comes with bits of Starscream, for some reason. (2015)
James Arnold Taylor was originally cast as The Fallen in the film version of Revenge of the Fallen (which led to him getting the same role in Revenge of the Fallen: The Game), but was replaced by Tony Todd in the final edit of the film, to his disappointment. (2009)
the G1 cartoon episode "The Insecticon Syndrome" gives Spike his own gun. (1985)
The name of the Decepticon ship that eventually became their undersea headquarters went nameless for 25 years. It was retroactively called the Victory in the Transformers: The Complete Ark reference book.
the Allspark Almanac 2 officially declared that those weird transforming kids from the G1 commercials were "Reverse Pretenders"
in Beast Machines, the character Savage/Noble is revealed to actually be Megatron in another body. While it's clear that's where his dragon half comes from, it remains unexplained to this day where his wolf half came from. (2000)
Ravage's one line of dialogue in the original series. (1984)
Animated Jetfire and Jetstorm's fire/wind theme has its roots in some of the earliest concepts done by artist Sean Galloway, who drew designs for a pair of "fire and wind" robots long before the "final" Derrick Wyatt-designed characters were shown. (2007)
gonna be so funny when all the Terrorcons end up being just disposable villains who inevitably die after 3 mins of screentime and 5 lines each twitter.com/NITROIGUESS/st…