Quote Originally Posted by reillyd View Post
No I don't think they were coincidences. Even before the movie's release, we'd heard of specific plot points that were homages to G1 content like pretenders shells, gestalts, matrix of leadership, death of prime, etc.

There might be a few there listed that are a little tenuous, but I think they went to great trouble to purposively include some of these.
Yes, some, or as I said "very few", but there's no way that the film was deliberately referencing Scraplets, Walter Barnett, Beast Machines Megatron's pyramid or Dai Atlas killing Predaking, and many of the others are as likely coincidences as deliberate references.