Things you never realised about Transformers (toys etc)

[DELTAprime]

I thought I read somewhere that you can move the windscreen wipers on MP-10. I just had a go on mine and they don't budge...I certainly wasn't going to force it though...

I've never heard that one.

[griffin]

I never realised that the fan-vote combiner Victorion, has some Easter egg nods to the original series cartoon episode "Cosmic Rust", with each toy having Cybertronian writing on it that adds up to the entire warning rhyme spoken in that episode, and part of the combined sword is sculpted to homage the Lightning Bug that Megatron found and used.

[Lint]

If his legs/feet are set correctly, G1 Sky Lynx can actually walk around in circles. (on a smooth timber floor). I discovered this when Sky Lynx circumnavigated my coffee table after tripping over an object that offset one of his legs.

I've not successfully replicated this effect since though.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

It never really registered to me before, but after watching Human Error, I realised why Optimus' main weapon is an axe. Beccause he's a fire fighter/truck.

WOW, clever!

Why did it take me so long...

[GoktimusPrime]

You also do know that the human avatars are all modelled after the voice actors too, right?
e.g. Optimus Prime = David Kaye, Bumblebee = Bumper Robinson etc.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

It never really registered to me before, but after watching Human Error, I realised why Optimus' main weapon is an axe. Beccause he's a fire fighter/truck.

WOW, clever!

Why did it take me so long...

Well, that plus the G1 reference.

You also do know that the human avatars are all modelled after the voice actors too, right?
e.g. Optimus Prime = David Kaye, Bumblebee = Bumper Robinson etc.

That's pretty cool.

[griffin]

I never realised that the same person voiced Gen1 Scorponok AND Fortress Maximus (Stephen Keener).
It's rare that major rivals are voiced by the same person, as it would be difficult to do lines so aggressively at yourself (as opposed to just general conversation between allies like Cullen doing Optimus and Ironhide in the original cartoon).