Quote Originally Posted by Geigerrock-2 View Post
does anyone know who cyclonus ,scourge and the sweeps actually were before unicron got to them,
This has been discussed to death over the past decade and then the decade before that. However, I feel very much for it and have put my thoughts down permanently.

This is what I think and a full explanation of why - in a nutshell Cyclonus = Skywarp and Scourge = Thundercracker. (the article is actually the very first result in google if you type "who became cyclonus", wow).

Therefore, in my world, the below is just wrong!
Quote Originally Posted by Geigerrock-2 View Post
Bombshell it is for now.
I'll never mention it again.
I accept that G1 continuity is messy and inconsistent and all that. However, my BIGGEST gripe is that Bob Budiansky didn't take the opportunity to set the score straight when he 'wrote' The Transformers Animated Movie for IDW (aka the modern adaptation of TFTM).

If there is one person that could authoritatively conclude this issue one way or another, it is Bob, one of the key creative talents behind the original Transformer profiles and stories. This was the perfect opportunity to set the Cyclonus record straight but sadly no move was made to clarify Cyclonus’ reformatting. Don Figueroa drew the reformatting scene as an almost exact reproduction of TFTM (1986), that is with Bombshell and Skywarp being reformatted into 2 Cyclonus’.