Things you never realised about Transformers (toys etc)

[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).

[GoktimusPrime]

Scott McNeil.

Any time Rattrap, Dinobot and/or Silvebolt argued with each other or if either character fought Waspinator.

[griffin]

I don't remember if this was posted here as news two years ago when it was first found (I didn't want to waste time searching), but there was a second standby comic issue done up based on a cartoon episode... but unlike Big Broadcast of 2006, this one didn't end up being needed (produced just in case they were running late for the month's deadline, just needing a quick splash of colour - which is a lot of work to not be needed, and probably annoying to the artists who never saw it in the hands of fans).
The episode was Dweller from the Depths (the one about the vampire monster released from the centre of Cybertron), and three pages of the black-and-white inks was found in 2015 from the Marvel artist Dave Hunt.