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the cancelled Dreamwave Beast Wars comic "Shell Game" had most of its intended plot beats recycled for IDW's own Beast Wars comic "The Gathering".
The Dreamwave pitch would have more heavily involved the cast of the BW cartoon, and taken place in between BW and BM. (2004-2006)
the G1 episode "The Ultimate Weapon" depicted First Aid as the pacifist of the Protectobots, even though the original bios described Groove as the pacifist. (1986)
the base of Victorion's sword is designed to resemble the Lightning Bug from the original cartoon episode "Cosmic Rust". (2016)
Overlord stokes anti-Transformer sentiments amongst humans by disguising himself as a woman named "Megan Guiglione". (2018)
Scrapper was mistakenly drawn among the Constructicons in one of the Combiner Wars comics when he was long dead by that point, and had to be edited out for the trade reprint. (2016)
Shockwave holding himself. (1985)
Afterburn, an Autobot seen in the Titan Magazines Animated comic, was originally meant to be Sideswipe.
However, the overwhelmingly negative response to the character's design (one Derrick J Wyatt had no involvement with) soon lead to Hasbro renaming the character. (2008)
Upon seeing a red test shot of Bulkhead's Voyager-class toy, Derrick J. Wyatt recoloured a Bulkhead character model in the test shot's colours—on company time. (2007)