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Beast Wars 2 Predacon BB had a speech quirk of constantly saying "Roger," when upgraded into Max-B, he starts saying "Max Roger" #Transformers

When the trio of Predacons that form Tripredacus were released Japan, they were recolored and recontextualized into a jovial Maximal Mariachi band who formed the Maximal combiner "Tripledacus." #Transformers

The original Sunbow cartoon is famous for its numerous animation errors. A very common type of error is layering errors, where animation cells would be stacked incorrectly. #Transformers

Much of the concept art for Rise of the Beasts Scourge was made before the Terrorcon insignia was finalized, thus, various concept pieces use Decepticon and Mercenary insignias as placeholders. #Transformers

A common misconception amongst the fanbase is that Takara stopped designing Transformers after 1986, leaving the process up to Hasbro. Takara had stayed in the Transformers design process throughout the entire 80s, Takara employees even helping design figures not released in Japan. #Transformers

Concepts for TLK included a set of characters based on the Dreads, instead this time they were "anarchists," being neither Autobot or Decepticon and having crossed out versions of both factions insignias on their bodies. Below are some of many proposed designs. #Transformers

The official Takara concept sketches for Masterpiece-36 Megatron state that Megatrons thighs should be seductive. #Transformers

As Takara had initially not adopted the term "Maximal" in their markets, they saw fit to reinvent the term in modern day, being a unified banner for all Cybertronians post-Beast Wars. As such, characters like Motormaster or Megatronus Prime can now be called Maximals. #Transformers

Chromedome is the origin of the Headmaster toy concept, as a Takara employee had pitched his initial prototype to Hasbro, the idea being expanded upon with the later 1987 range of figures. #Transformers

Of the 3 Dreads, Crankcase and Crowbar had their models re-used in The Last Knight for new Decepticon characters. A re-use of Hatchets model was planned, but ultimately scrapped. #Transformers

The G1 episode "Dark Awakening" states Huffer died in the battle of Autobot City during the 1986 film. This is odd as he has no depicted death scene, in the finished film or storyboards. Its possible he was confused for Brawn, who goes unmentioned in the list of deceased Autobots. #Transformers

Many background Decepticons in the Bayverse movies are simply re-uses of the Protoform model seen in Transformers 2007, with new heads and spikier bodies. #Transformers

IDW2005 original characters Dipstick and Tappet share the same character model, with the exception of having different heads. #Transformers

As explained in a Transformers: 2010 story page, the G1 Predacons were created through cooperation of the Decepticons and Quintessons. While they do work for the Decepticons, they are ultimately loyal to the Quintessons. #Transformers

Robots in Disguise 2001 Wedges Japanese/Car Robots name is "Build Boy." #Transformers

The 3 main G1 cartoon Decepticon warships were not actually named within the cartoon. The Nemesis gained its name in Beast Wars, the Victory and Revenge gaining names in the "Transformers: Complete Ark" guidebooks. #Transformers

The Technobots in the original cartoon were not made via Vector Sigma, creating a discrepency that was solved many years later by AVP/Wings Universe. Rather than Vector Sigma, Grimlock gave true life to the Technobots via Dark Energon. #Transformers

In early drafts of the 1986 animated film, Blaster had a different gaggle of cassettes he used to battle Soundwave. Initially, Steeljaw was named "Cubbie," accompanied by fellow cat Stripes, a Sabre Tooth Cat who was later realized in the encore line. #Transformers (more below)

Rather than a straight remake of the original toy, Missing Link Ironhide reimagines the original figure as if it had been closer to what was seen in the cartoon, with a "respect mode" closer to the original. #Transformers

Hasbro initially thought "Megatron" was too scary of a name for children, and went through many working names such as "Negator," "Death Ray," "Master" and "Slag Maker." He retained his name after Bob Budiansky said being scary was the point. #Transformers