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Earthspark Cosmos' deluxe class figure features an easter egg, depicting the theme park ride the autobot was fashioned into during the events of the show.

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The Kreon Microchangers line was replaced late into Kreos life with the "Kreon Warriors" blind bagged figures, non transforming figures based on different eras

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Transit is a Decepticon character initially intended to appear in the film Rise of the Beasts. A whole scene of his appearance was nearly completed before he was scrapped. The scene depicting him was removed due to test audiences finding it too dark.

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Instead of Leozack or Jallguar, the Platinum Edition giftset of LIokaiser featured Skylynx redecoed into "Dezarus"/Deathsaurus, being given Leozacks colorscheme featuring lots of black to keep up the combiners colorscheme

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Alex Malto in Earthspark includes many characters in his collection of Transformer themed memorabilia, including a very prominent figure of Doubledealer.

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Power of the Primes Snarl is voiced by My Chemical Romance Bassist Mikey way

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Kingdom Vertebreak and Dracodon, along with Earthspark Jawbreaker, turn into Dracorexes and a Stygimoloch. However, their alt modes might just be juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, as the validlity of the prior 2 dinosaurs as distinct genuses is debated.

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Transformers: Go-Bots was a child centric franchise Hasbro started in 2003 with a toyline and accompanying show

The franchises name was of course taken from Hasbro using the Go-Bots branding they acquired after buying Tonka

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Rather famously/infamously, the IDW2005 incarnation of Shockwave is largely responsible for a lot of the major happenings of that continuity, due in no small part to being sent back in time, pretending to be Onyx Prime to influence history.

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The Studio Series MTMTE collection Perceptor multipack mistakenly displays Ratbat with an autobot insignia on the packaging

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G1 Broadsides toy bio describes him as having both a fear of heights and a fear of the ocean.

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Rather famously, Powermaster Optimus Prime was treated as a brand new, seperate character named Ginrai during the Super-God Masterforce portion of the JG1 continuity, due to Optimus having died in the Headmasters, and Takara not wanting to revive him yet again

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Based on an unused Decepticon deco for Quickswitch, "Killswitch" appears in the story "Of Masters and Mayhem," later being inducted into the Six Clan, getting his name changed to "Hexadeathimal."

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Cyberworld Megatron is a retool of TLK Knight Armor Hound

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Since Minimus Ambus does not appear in any Japanese-Original fiction, Takara elected to redeco his figure into Alpha Trion when released with Legends Ultra Magnus.

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Originally pitched for the Universe 2003 toyline, Universe Menasor was ultimately canceled, also having been changed from Motormaster into Menasor for trademark reasons, and was going to be a Machine Wars Optimus Redeco

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The "Legacy World," described by the Takaratomy online toy bios, is a mysterious reality that pulls random denizens of other worlds in. The "amalgam effect" is a nebulous property of this world, responsible for the redesigns some characters get.

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Following this, the "Optimus" of this story was later revealed to be a Maximal named Domitius Major, while the "Bumblebee" was a Maximal named Centurion, who continued to appear in stories during later IDW05.

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Bumblebee is traditionally yellow.

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The Platinum Edition redecoes of Generation 1 Astrotrain and Blitzwing were respectively repurposed as new characters Star Dasher and Fever Dream through the Beast Wars Uprising Continuity.

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The Roller car was a non transforming vehicle included with Generation 1 Motormaster/Menasor that would make up the chest armor

Media both then and now would largely ignore the Roller car, Blackjack from Combiner wars homaging it later down the line

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Released in the Platinum Edition banner were two redecoes of Generation 1 Blitzwing and Astrotrain, in odd colors with no confirmed origins. Most common theories are that Blitzwing is based on Flywheels, whilst Astrotrain is derived from Machtackle.

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Snapdragons Headmaster partner is named "Krunk"

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By the time of the GS Special Comic, the Autobots and Decepticons had come to peace, Hook was working with Autobot scientists during this time.

Due to being created by Grimlock, who in turn was created by Wheeljack, the G1 Technobots refer to Wheeljack as their "Grandpa" in the Generation Selects Special Comics.

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*Queen Rage, not Princess

Princess Rage is the sole inhabitant and queen of the planet "Wednesday," the character debuting in the Beast Wars Neo Manga. She is indeed a transformer and transforms into a jellyfish

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While known as a cassette, Ratbat has been shown to have a background as a full bodied Cybertronian. First seen in Dreamwave, it had more popularity in IDW2005. Ratbat being a full Cybertronian was also seen in Transtech.

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An alternate head for Combiner Wars rook was included in the mold, intended to eventually become a new Ironfist, renamed to "Ironclad," but this plan fell through, Ironclad even becoming a separate character later on

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