Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
But having said that, Earthforce references still appeared in the later US stories written by Furman (e.g.: during #75's battle against Unicron the Autobots aboard the Ark were members of Earthforce, taking orders from Earthforce Commander Grimlock! )
Most of them were (but Blaster wasn't, was he?) They also all happened to be previously dead Transformers reactivated with Nucleon by Grimlock, which is probably why more than half the robots we see on the Ark were characters who were also Action Master toys.