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the green Seeker from the Bumblebee movie was mistaken by many to be Acid Storm when the movie dropped, before it was revealed to actually be Thrust, based on the Armada character. (2018)
a bot resembling the Cybertron/Galaxy Force version of Megatron appeared in the Animated book "Bots Of Science". (2010)
in IDW's comics, Ironfist goes by the alias 'Fisitron' when writing entries in Wreckers: Declassified, which is also the name his TF Subscription Service toy was released under, due to Hasbro not having the rights to use that name. (2010, 2014)
the Marvel UK black-and-white story 'Man Of Iron' featured the 3 Seekers, but left it ambiguous as to which Seeker was which.
future colour reprints of the story often contradicted each other as to which Seeker was which. (1985-)
Animated Megatron's pre-Earth head has a rather pointed resemblance to the somewhat early head of 2007 movie's Megatron, which went unused in the actual movie but appeared on loads of promotional materials and merchandise.
Gregg Berger reprised his role as Grimlock to convince TF fans to vote for Grimlock as the fan-vote character for the TF Hall Of Fame 2011.
(Grimlock lost to Waspinator, but got into the HOF the following year.)
Animated Tarantulas has two different designs: one from the book 'Bots Of Science', the other from the Allspark Almanac 2. (2010)
the generic Decepticon drones seen in the G1 ep "War Dawn" went unnamed for many years before Beast Wars: Uprising named them "Dropkicks" in homage to the movieverse drones of the same name.
in one timeline, Waspinator and Thrust were fused together to become the dimension-hopping Thrustinator. (2014)
designer Shōji Imaki created the character Escargon to show what a submission to the Comic Bom Bom Character Design Contest should look like. (1998)
Escargon would eventually become a canon character many years later when he appeared in TransTech and BW Uprising.