Things you never realised about Transformers (toys etc)

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Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

CHICKEN TRANSFORMERS EXIST

Sort of.

Titans Return Crashbash and its Legends repaint Servant transform into robotic birds which, according to at least one source of canon, are chickens.
Of course, these sort of vehicles don't count individually as Transformers (under the UCM), but still -- I must have at least one of these now as they're currently the closest thing we have to a chicken TF until HasTak actually properly do one! I now have a new Grail.

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You can probably find one for $8 at Toymate Bankstown

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Originally Posted by SMHFConvoy

You can probably find one for $8 at Toymate Bankstown

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Probably! That seems to be ToyMate that time forgot! :D

Transmetal Waspinator's jet mode is possibly a reference to Starscream's possession of him back in Season 1 of the cartoon.

Marcelo Matere is an identical twin.

Until I got Spinister in hand I didn't realise how Euro G1 like his colour scheme is.

In the UK, Transformers Cyberverse is called "Transformers Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures."

Better than "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" I suppose. :p

Armada Jetfire is an homage to G1 Galaxy Shuttle. Vairn and I noticed some similarities and sure enough TF Wiki confirms they are intentional.

Soundwave transforms into a blue box.

And he is bigger on the inside.

That took me a moment to think about, but that's true... like a tardis he seems to be able to house quite a few cassettes inside him at one time in the cartoon.

Blaster transforms into an orange box and has the same ability. Soundwave was a purple box in the G1 comics, and in the Japanese anime he becomes a black box [Soundblaster] (not a black box flight recorder, which are orange). Blaster does become a blue box [Twincast] in the anime.

Every Transformer has some degree of mass cheating though. Just by virtue of all their internal robot parts largely vanishing in alt mode and vice versa.