Transformers references in other media

[Ace]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, apologies if it has.

The recent Power Rangers movie made reference to a certain Bayverse transformer. It's very brief, but I had a chuckle when I was watching it.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Episode 1 of Season 11 of Big Bang Theory.

Sheldon: ‘It’s like having Optimus Prime over and not asking him to turn into a truck’

[griffin]

The Goldbergs has already been mentioned having heaps of Transformers references, toys and a lot of Stan Bush music, and in a recent episode, one of the toys in the background in Adam's room was a Gen1 Jetfire.... a very yellowed Gen1 Jetfire. It seems that the props department acquired some vintage Transformers toys for the 1980s bedroom, but ended up with a Jetfire that didn't look like it was "new" for that time. (I don't think the yellowing was noticeable until at least into the 1990s... and this one was very yellowed, so was either out in the sun every day, or it was a 30 year old toy.

An episode in this season of Family Guy, has a nod to Transformers, as the theme of the episode is how a particular event would have been interpreted by three different directors, with one being Michael Bay. (none of the actual directors were involved)
One scene has some "Transformers", and some screenshots can be seen here.

[Paulbot]

An episode in this season of Family Guy, has a nod to Transformers, as the theme of the episode is how a particular event would have been interpreted by three different directors, with one being Michael Bay. (none of the actual directors were involved)
One scene has some "Transformers", and some screenshots can be seen here.

This episode is on 7Mate right now

[griffin]

Dammit... I didn't think we'd get it so soon, so I wasn't keeping an eye out on the tv guide.

[Paulbot]

It came on after Capt Anerica which I was watching, but by that time it was too late to let people know in advance. It was not a great episode of the show.

[philby]

This is really stretching it...but I'm sure in one of the new episodes of Stranger Things you can see the Nissan van which Ironhide is based on parked out the front of a building 😂

[griffin]

Thursday November 30th, the movie Ted 2 is on channel 99 from 9.30pm... which is supposed to have a scene at ComicCon... which includes the Hasbro exhibit, and you can see their Transformers display from that year.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Just as they had a little girl was carrying a MLP toy in the first live action TF flick, in the My Little Pony movie they slip in the classic Transforming sound near the start of the movie

[griffin]

Thursday November 30th, the movie Ted 2 is on channel 99 from 9.30pm... which is supposed to have a scene at ComicCon... which includes the Hasbro exhibit, and you can see their Transformers display from that year.

I was not a fan of the first Ted movie, so fortunately I taped this one to watch later in the night and fast-forward past all the bits that were just too boring or too crude to be funny. I managed to get it down to about 30 minutes.
It actually had a lot more to do with Hasbro than I thought... and I forgot that the Ted toy was apparently a Hasbro toy (within the universe of the Ted movie) in the first Ted movie. As such, I was too busy looking for all of the random Transformers toys that were in the Hasbro office and at the NYCC (you could tell that Hasbro must have paid a fair bit to be in this movie, as there were Transformers props and signage everywhere during the NYCC scenes. It was funny to see them destroying the displays that had TF4 Movie toys in them... and you could even see the SDCC exclusive Knights of Unicron rockband set in one of the display cases.

As noted by Goktimus, I actually got a laugh from the Hasbro executive (character, not an actual Hasbro employee) claiming to be from Mattel after he got busted at the end.
(I was surprised that they actually name dropped the CEO of Hasbro in the movie - Brian Goldner - when it wasn't even necessary... he didn't have to be named, or a fake name could have been said - he did get named in the credits though, in the "thanks" section.)

Speaking of credits - both the New Zealand government and Australian government gave grants to the Ted 2 movie... even though it was filmed in America (because some of the digital effects were done in Melbourne).