Things you never realised about Transformers (toys etc)

[GoktimusPrime]

Shockwave: "You ripped off my fashion statement!"
Jetfire: "No need to get Macross about it."
Shockwave: "Kiss my Astro-Magnum."

[Paulbot]

This is an old learning of mine that I was reminded of today and thought people might not know.

When I bought Gripper back in the early 90s I was confused why there were all these extra stickers that had no place on the toy.

Wasn't until a long time later, at a time after I learnt about Blacker and Road Casear, that I found this sticker sheet and realised where they were meant to go: on combiner parts I didn't have.

Obviously Hasbro didn't want to go to the bother of creating a different sticker sheet for their non-combining repaint. Would it have been so hard for Hasbro to let the Motorvators be a combiner team?

[Sinnertwin]

Come on, man, it's Hasbro we're talking about here

[jazzcomp]

I was wondering what the spare sticker sheet on scattorshot was for. Since the bot had stickers on it.

[Sky Shadow]

Obviously Hasbro didn't want to go to the bother of creating a different sticker sheet for their non-combining repaint. Would it have been so hard for Hasbro to let the Motorvators be a combiner team?

Indeed - would that extra handful of accessories really have broken the bank? Maybe they (oddly) thought people would be less likely to buy one if they thought they needed all three to complete the set? They did the same thing with Rescue Force and the Constructicons the next year.

I was wondering what the spare sticker sheet on scattorshot was for. Since the bot had stickers on it.

Like hundreds of other G1 Transformers, Scattershot came with some factory applied stickers, as well as others on a sticker sheet that you had to apply yourself.

[Hursticon]

Shockwave: "You ripped off my fashion statement!"
Jetfire: "No need to get Macross about it."
Shockwave: "Kiss my Astro-Magnum."

Haha, lol, I'll pay that one Goki - That was good!

[GoktimusPrime]

Peter Cullen's son, Clay Cullen, is a movie stunt double and driver and worked as a stunt driver in Age of Extinction.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1247999/

[GoktimusPrime]

Age of Extinction Dinobot Slug is possibly the first (only?) purple Autobot.

[ILikeSoundwave]

Age of Extinction Dinobot Slug is possibly the first (only?) purple Autobot.

2007 Movie Deluxe Arcee, off the top of my head.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

2007 Movie Deluxe Arcee, off the top of my head.

2003 Universe Silverbolt.
Which kind of makes his name a bit misleading, but then 'Purplebolt' doesn't really have the same ring to it...