Quote Originally Posted by Sky Shadow View Post
Um... Gok - "references" are the sort of things Derrick J. Wyatt and Marty Isenberg deliberately put into Animated. Very few of these things from ROTF are "references", they're "inferences from absolutely coincidental things that just happened to occur while Michael Bay was busy intently raping everyone's childhood TO THE EXTREME!"

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.