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Trypticon's card art in the Legends mobile game pays tribute to the poster for Godzilla: Final Wars. (2017)
new characters Nyx and Skold from the IDW Beast Wars comic had their designs inspired by Bat Optimus Primal and Snapper respectively. (2021)
Victory Leozack was characterized in the BotCon 2009 comic as a stereotypical anime character; with Rik Alvarez even wanting him to speak entirely in Japanese.
Though this was nixed, the basic idea survived in the form of his dialogue being rendered in an Asiatic typeface.
Hasbro made two different attempts to get fans to vote for a new Needlenose toy to get made by including him in fan polls, only for him to lose each time.
They eventually gave up and just made Legacy Needlenose on their own. (2018 - 2022)
Deadguy and Cannonfodder, two generic bots from the DOTM prequel comic. (2011)
(can you guess what happens to them?)
though there have been exceptions..
Beast Wars depicted the Maximals and Predacons as being tiny compared to the Autobots and Decepticons.
However, most modern media usually depict them as being in the same relative size, likely to avoid any questionable scaling issues.
the pairing of Optimus Primal as a gorilla and Megatron as a T-rex in Beast Wars was inspired by the original King Kong.
Primal's original bio even describes him as a gargantuan King-Kong style gorilla, though the cartoon opted to have him as a regular gorilla instead. (1996)
Cybertron seems to have breathable air in the G1 cartoon, as humans are shown being able to survive there without the need of a spacesuit on multiple occasions. (1984-1987)
IDW's Windblade comic, written by Mairghread Scott and drawn by Saren Stone, made history as the first Transformers comic with an all-female creative team. (2014)