Rather infamously, due to censorship laws, the Canadian broadcast version of Beast Wars was renamed to "Beasties." #Transformers

Beast Wars Insecticon was slated to make an appearance in the show, but was scrapped, a lot of his lines in the script being given to Waspinator instead, aimly, in the episode "Power Surge." #Tranformers

Adamas Machinas is a line of high end Takaratomy figures, with a main selling point being the use of die-cast parts to simulate the feeling of its robotic characters. The line features releases of both Zoids and Transformers. #Transformers

Keeping up with the Seacons, the G1 Seacons were planned to be redecoed into the "Pirahnacons," and sold as Walmart exclusive Terrorcons from the Energon cartoon, however, these were canceled, and eventually sold as new decos for the G1 Seacons at the Transformers Collector Club. #Transformers

An interesting use of perspective in the Headmasters cartoon causes Zaraks transtector to appear exceptionally long in Scorpion mode. #Transformers

In the original Beast Wars line, all figures Deluxe class or larger from 1996 feature secondary "Mutant heads," being either masks, or alternate faces on their heads. While largely forgotten, some characters, like Waspinator and Tarantulas, use their Mutant heads on the show. #Transformers

Soundwaves new body in Robots in Disguise: 2015 was stated by one of the showrunners to be the result of Soundwave upgrading his body with debris he found in the Shadowzone, where he was previously trapped. #Transformers

Across the Unicron trilogy, the Cybertron lines "Dark Scorponok" is the only figure to be able to use a Mini-con, Energon chip, and Cyber Planet Key all at once. Additionally, the deco is based on Black Zarak. #Transformers

Beast Wars 2 Predacon BB had a speech quirk of constantly saying "Roger," when upgraded into Max-B, he starts saying "Max Roger" #Transformers

When the trio of Predacons that form Tripredacus were released Japan, they were recolored and recontextualized into a jovial Maximal Mariachi band who formed the Maximal combiner "Tripledacus." #Transformers

Micromaster Erector was once nominated for the Transformers: Hall of Fame. Getting in on the joke, Hasbro comissioned artwork of made up incarnations of Erector, such as Beast Wars and Animated. Prime, live action and G2 Erectors were shown, but not archived. #Transformers

The original Sunbow cartoon is famous for its numerous animation errors. A very common type of error is layering errors, where animation cells would be stacked incorrectly. #Transformers

In the world of the BomBom comics, Big Convoy and Magmatron were originally normal animals that were mutated into Cybertronians via exposure to Anglemois energy. #Transformers

Much of the concept art for Rise of the Beasts Scourge was made before the Terrorcon insignia was finalized, thus, various concept pieces use Decepticon and Mercenary insignias as placeholders. #Transformers

The "Toxitron Collection" was a small line of figures based on canceled Generation 2 figures, with every figure based on a canceled deco, except for Toxitron himself, whose original figure was intended for Universe 2003. #Transformers

A common misconception amongst the fanbase is that Takara stopped designing Transformers after 1986, leaving the process up to Hasbro. Takara had stayed in the Transformers design process throughout the entire 80s, Takara employees even helping design figures not released in Japan. #Transformers

Despite having a full robot mode with his figure, Armada Overload in the cartoon would mostly be treated as an extension of Optimuses trailer, having scant background appearences in robot mode. #Transformers

Concepts for TLK included a set of characters based on the Dreads, instead this time they were "anarchists," being neither Autobot or Decepticon and having crossed out versions of both factions insignias on their bodies. Below are some of many proposed designs. #Transformers

The "Animorphs" toyline, made by Hasbro, was advertised with a "Transformers" banner, despite not being connected to the rest of the franchise otherwise. Vector Prime would go onto state the Animorphs universe exists outside the Transformers Multiverse. #Transformers

The official Takara concept sketches for Masterpiece-36 Megatron state that Megatrons thighs should be seductive. #Transformers

Transmetal Rhinox makes a cameo as an Autobot in the final episode of Armada, additionally, while a redeco of Transmetal Rhinox featured in the Armada toyline, the one in the show was colored like the original. #Transformers

As Takara had initially not adopted the term "Maximal" in their markets, they saw fit to reinvent the term in modern day, being a unified banner for all Cybertronians post-Beast Wars. As such, characters like Motormaster or Megatronus Prime can now be called Maximals. #Transformers

Kickback was slated to appear in the film Age of Extinction, reaching several concept art stages before ultimately getting scrubbed from the film. #Transformers

Chromedome is the origin of the Headmaster toy concept, as a Takara employee had pitched his initial prototype to Hasbro, the idea being expanded upon with the later 1987 range of figures. #Transformers

In one of the original Transformers pre-production treatments, Starscreams name was "Ulchtar," later in the franchise, Micro-Continuity versions of UT Starscream would bare the name. More famously and recently, Skybound Starscreans name was once Ulchtar, #Transformers

Of the 3 Dreads, Crankcase and Crowbar had their models re-used in The Last Knight for new Decepticon characters. A re-use of Hatchets model was planned, but ultimately scrapped. #Transformers

Seen in the Victory portion of the JPG1 toyline, Brainmasters are Transformers who bare cavities in their chests and head, to which the "brain" minifigure slots in, becoming the face. #Transformers

The G1 episode "Dark Awakening" states Huffer died in the battle of Autobot City during the 1986 film. This is odd as he has no depicted death scene, in the finished film or storyboards. Its possible he was confused for Brawn, who goes unmentioned in the list of deceased Autobots. #Transformers

The "Turbo Board" included with Action Master Jazz was vaguely implied to be sentient, referred to as Jazzes partner rather than weapon in the toys bio. The Trading Card game would later expand on this by giving the board an Anomalocaris beast mode. #Transformers

Many background Decepticons in the Bayverse movies are simply re-uses of the Protoform model seen in Transformers 2007, with new heads and spikier bodies. #Transformers