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Transformers: Cyberworld (cartoon)

2025-11-08T18:34:36Z

Stonecrusher: /* Episodes */

{{Nav-cyberworld}}

[[File:TFCyberworld.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|Worlds will collide. Everything will change.]]

'''''Transformers: Cyberworld''''' is an animated web series showing on YouTube that debuted on [[July 12]], [[2025]], animated by [[Omens Studios]].

The series follows the adventures of [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]], and other [[Transformer]]s who have been transported to a mysterious digital "[[Cyberworld (location)|Cyberworld]]", forced to participate in its numerous "games" in order to survive.

{{bigquote|''Transformers, 'till all are one Fight it out for the energon Figure out whose side you're on In Cyberworld, 'till all! Are! One!'' |The [[theme song]].}}

==Storyline==
[[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s alike find themselves pulled by an unknown force into the virtual realm of the Cyberworld. There they find themselves needing to compete in a gauntlet of extreme games and challenges, where victory is rewarded with power and enhancements, while failure drains the very energon from them. Alliances are made and broken as some seek a way to escape while others seek power, glory, and the creation of new empires. Meanwhile, the question hangs over them: how did they get here, and ''who'' or ''what'' is behind it all?

==Characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (Cyberworld)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Kyle Kaczmarczyk]])
* [[Bumblebee (Cyberworld)|Bumblebee]] (Kyle Kaczmarczyk)
* [[Elita-1 (Cyberworld)|Elita-1]] ([[Jessica Carroll]])
* [[Grimlock (Cyberworld)|Grimlock]] ([[James Alexander]])
* [[Snarl (Cyberworld)|Snarl]] (James Alexander)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (Cyberworld)|Megatron]] (James Alexander)
* [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]] ([[Jack Ayres]])
* [[Scorponok (Cyberworld)|Scorponok]] (Jack Ayres)
* [[Chop Shop (Cyberworld)|Chop Shop]] (James Alexander)
* [[Galvatron (Cyberworld)|Galvatron]] (James Alexander)

|c4=
* [[Starscream (Cyberworld)|Starscream]] ([[Shogo Miyakita]])
* [[Mirage (Cyberworld)|Mirage]] (Jack Ayres)

|c5=
* [[NPC Narrator]] (Jessica Carroll)

}}

==Episodes==
{{collist|3|
#[[Commence Program]]
#[[Prime Target (Cyberworld)|Prime Target]]
#[[Crate Point, Well Fought]]
#[[River Race Ruckus]]
#[[Smoke & Mirrors]]
#[[Screamer City Arena]]
#[[Hunter vs Hunted]]
#[[What Goes Up]]
#[[Storm the Desert]]
#[[A Bug's Lie]]
#[[Game-a-Tron]]
#[[Oh Scrap!]]
#[[Carousel Chaos]]
#[[Shoot 'N' Loot]]}}

==Trivia==
* Episodes of ''Cyberworld'' generally finish production "shortly before they go live".<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I should also note that we are real tight on our turnarounds. Episodes complete shortly before they go live - it isn't like we're holding back on episodes to tease you guys.|link=https://x.com/HedlesChkn/status/1953871971067769004|name=Ali Lightfoot|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=08|day=08}}</ref> At the time of the first few episodes' release, the writers were working on episodes in the 20s, with the finale having been planned out in advance.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=The finale is already planned and we're in the mid-20s on writing - so I'm glad you're happy so far! 😂|link=https://x.com/HedlesChkn/status/1953881025353843077|name=Ali Lightfoot|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=08|day=08}}</ref>
* To increase SEO and appease the soulless YouTube algorithm, ''Cyberworld'' episodes are typically given overly descriptive plot synopses as video titles, with no title card in the episode itself and the video title frequently changing after release (sometimes up to three times in a single day). New episodes are also compiled with older episodes to increase run time, with the lone episode releasing five days later, having their own different titles. However, the episodes also have official titles given by the production team, which are the names {{SITENAME SHORT}} uses for our corresponding articles. The titles for the first ten episodes were provided by showrunner [[Ali Lightfoot]] via social media, before being integrated into the end credits starting with episode 11.
* Like the toys, characters belong to either [[Autobot]] or [[Decepticon]] factions—but after their arrival on Cyberworld, their previous allegiances have largely broken down. [[Starscream (Cyberworld)|Starscream]], for example, has painted over his insignia with his own face! Nevertheless, Optimus Prime and Megatron are sometimes able to rely on old loyalties.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Sides were formed in the war for Cybertron - but since landing on this new world, all bets are off. Some fall into old habits, others are doing their own thing. (They're all just survivors here. 😉) Megs also just assumes he can tell anyone what to do (and rarely proven wrong.)|link=https://x.com/HedlesChkn/status/1964365773687677319|name=Ali Lightfoot|site=Twitter|year=2025|month=09|day=06}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7VEq3tXc6htxiCMULWtNNf1UXtWreLvs Official ''Transformers: Cyberworld'' playlist on YouTube]

[[Category:Web series]]

Traditions

2023-02-07T06:24:56Z

Stonecrusher: /* Real-world references */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' ep 6
|image=EarthSpark-Traditions-Kali.jpg
|caption=Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof!
|prev=Classified
|next=Friends and Family
|title="Traditions"
|airdate=[[November 11]], [[2022]]
|production company=[[Entertainment One]] [[Nickelodeon]]
|writer=[[Maasai Singleton]]
|animation studio=[[Icon Creative Studio]]
|directors=[[Jordan Rosato]] [[Matthew Humphreys]]
|video=https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/video/hL7ylng3_4MFZD1NYUYuftcZF2YiR_KJ/
|videosite=Paramount+
}}

'''Alex tries to share some of his family traditions, while Twitch attempts to win the approval of her "Dad2".'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:EarthSpark-Traditions-AlexReadsToBots.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
Late one night, [[Alex Malto]] is recounting to [[Robby Malto|Robby]] and [[Mo Malto|Mo]] tales of the [[Wakwak]], a [[vampire|vampiric]] birdlike monster that feeds on lost children. As he concludes the story, their [[Terran]] siblings put their hands on the kids' shoulders, catching them off guard and frightening them. [[Twitch]] and [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] complain about being left out of story time, to which Alex apologizes for forgetting. Robby, however, thinks he's too old now to believe in such things. Alex insists his grandfather once fought off a Wakwak to save a child, starting an annual tradition of training to fight one, but Robby simply steps away to get back to practicing for an upcoming online gaming tournament. As Mo also heads off to bed, the Terrans invite Alex to tell the story again, to which he obliges. Elsewhere, in his newest secret lab, [[Mandroid]] attempts some target practice to train himself with using [[Hardtop (ES)|Hardtop]]'s arm, but its size combined with the blaster's recoil makes things difficult. Believing he will have to further upgrade himself to take on the [[Transformer|Cybertronian]] menace, he orders his [[Arachnamech]]s to bring him more of their kind that he can use for parts.

The next morning, Alex invites Robby to join him in their annual Wakwak hunt, but Robby refuses, as the tournament is that day and he no longer enjoys the annual hunt. Robby suggests his father take Mo instead, but she is busy teaching Thrash how to play the makeshift guitar he's just built. Alex is left heartbroken, but he notices [[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] unsuccessfully attempting to make a full-court jump shot. Alex picks up the ball and does the same, landing flawlessly in the hoop and amazing Bumblebee. Alex offers to teach him that and more, as part of sharing his family's history and culture; hoping to pick up a few [[basketball]] skills from the experience, Bumblebee agrees. Having observed all of this, Twitch asks Robby what a "tradition" is, and he does his best to explain, stating that traditions have personal meaning and help give a sense of belonging to something, leaving Twitch feeling uncertain.

[[File:EarthSpark-Traditions-TwitchTrees.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
As he and Bumblebee enter the forest, Alex notes that much can be gleamed through careful observation, demonstrating by using the rings in an oak tree stump to discern its history. He explains that he gained his love of history from his grandfather, or ''lolo'', growing up in [[Bohol]] in the [[Philippines]]. Bumblebee reveals he spent time in [[Tagbilarian City]], and that he too is familiar with the legends of the Wakwak. When they hear a screeching noise coming from nearby, Alex picks up his bastons and begins teaching Kali defense techniques to Bumblebee, who imitates him using a pair of large branches.

Robby continues to compete in the tournament, but is interrupted by Twitch, who asks if she can "borrow" Robby and Alex's Wakwak hunting tradition, having none of her own. Trying to focus on his game, Robby agrees and tells her to grab some sticks — by which he means ''not'' the trees [[Dot Malto|their mother]] just planted — and meet their father at the big stump in the forest. Ever eager, Twitch heads to the stump, but finding no one there, she begins hitting everything she can with her sticks, though she still feels no closer to the sense of belonging she expected. When she accidentally tosses her sticks into a tree, she transforms to her drone mode to retrieve them, but is suddenly blasted by an [[electromagnetic pulse]] and powers down.

[[File:EarthSpark-Traditions-TwitchMeetsDad2.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
When Twitch comes to, she is being carried by an unknown Transformer. Breaking free, Twitch shocks the Cybertronian when she starts talking back to him, as he didn't recall programming his drones with speech. Believing his creation to have self-actualized, the newcomer attempts to stun her again for study, but Twitch transforms back to robot mode to tell him off. Realizing she is one of the new Terrans [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] told him about, the Cybertronian apologizes for the confusion and properly introduces himself as [[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]], the inventor of the drone Twitch scanned for her [[alternate mode]]. Twitch, realizing this connection, decides to dub Wheeljack her "Dad2", though this makes the scientist more than a bit uncomfortable. Wheeljack explains that he's in the forest hunting for Arachnamechs, but when Twitch offers to help him, he refuses and takes off. As Twitch sadly walks through the forest, she hears rustling in the underbrush before being attacked by an Arachnamech.

Back at the farm, Robby and his team take first place in the tournament, but when he goes to tell the others the good news, he's saddened to find everyone else gone. He wanders into the forest looking for his father, but is repeatedly frightened by brief glimpses of Arachnamechs, which he mistakes for the Wakwak. Alex and Bumblebee, meanwhile, are progressing well in their Kali practice. Bumblebee is energized, but Alex laments that Robby no longer sees the appeal of the Wakwak hunt, feeling traditions like this are important to who they are. Seeing how important this is to Alex, Bumblebee decides to go back to the house to get the kids, unaware that he is being followed by a horde of Arachnamechs. Nearby, Wheeljack continues to track the Arachnamechs, when Twitch suddenly arrives with the one she just defeated, though it suddenly wakes and takes off. Wheeljack asks why she didn't stun it with her EMP, something Twitch didn't realize she had, and Wheeljack agrees to teach her how to use her drone mode's abilities if she helps him recapture the Arachnamech.

Twitch and Wheeljack's training progresses quickly, with Twitch learning to use her EMP and shield tech, as well as coming up with the idea to use her rotors to create whirlwinds. Wheeljack praises her ingenuity, prompting Twitch to open up to Wheeljack about her feelings of not belonging, uncertain as to quite who she's supposed to be and desperately wanting a tradition so she can feel like she's part of something. Wheeljack reassures her that tradition or not, she still has a family that loves her to make new ones with. At the stump, Robby finds himself cornered by Arachnamechs, which are targeting his [[cyber-sleeve]]. He attempts to escape by hiding in a log, but the Arachnamechs find him, and their attacks manage to dislodge the log and send it rolling down the path.

[[File:EarthSpark-Traditions-AlexProtectsRobby.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
By the time the log stops, Robby emerges to find himself surrounded by Arachnamechs. He attempts to fight them off with a stick, but is overwhelmed before being saved by Alex, who arrives just in time to fend off the attackers with his Kali skills. Reminded that he learned the moves during their previous Wakwak hunts, Robby and his father team up to fight the mechs off and drive them away. Twitch senses through their emotional link that Robby is in trouble, moments before she and Wheeljack are beset by more Arachnamechs. Wheeljack attempts to send Twitch away for safety, but she helps fend off the drones, and the two defeat them by combining their skills to create a laser whirlwind that blasts all the Arachnamechs. Wheeljack retrieves one of the destroyed Arachnamechs, eager to study it. Twitch is upset to see him leave, but Wheeljack senses her sadness and suggests they make mechanical spider hunting their new tradition. Robby apologizes to his father for skipping out on the WakWak hunt, and asks if there's still time to resume it, which Alex happily accepts.

Robby and Alex return to the house, where Bumblebee is waiting for them as Mo and Thrash demonstrate their new musical ability, playing an approximation of Alex's ''lolo''{{'}}s song for him. Their playing is interrupted as Twitch returns with a broken Arachnamech, with Alex noting one of his colleagues used to use similar technology. Wheeljack arrives as well, introducing himself to the others as Twitch's Dad2, much to her elation. As Thrash ponders if Wheeljack is also ''his'' Dad2, Bumblebee picks up the basketball and is shocked to find he's now able to perfectly make the long shot.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] (8)
*[[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]] (9)

|c3=
*[[Alex Malto]] (1)
*[[Robby Malto]] (2)
*[[Mo Malto]] (3)
*[[Mandroid]] (6)

|h4=[[Terran]]s||c4=
*[[Twitch]] (4)
*[[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] (5)

|h5=Others||c5=
*[[Arachnamech]]s (7)
}}

==Quotes==
"This isn't another attempt to read my diary, is it?" 
"''I'm a history professor! Having a primary source is''...not what today's about."
:—'''Bumblebee''' reminds '''Alex''' of personal boundaries.

"He used to say, 'The past is a present, the present past.'" 
"...what does that mean?" 
(chuckles) "I don't know."
:—'''Alex''' tells '''Bumblebee''' about his ''lolo''.

"You built the drone I scanned?" 
"One of my better inventions. No accidental self-destructions...yet."
:—'''Twitch''' meets '''Wheeljack'''.

"But I can help." 
"You can! ...by pretending we never met. Bye now!"
:—'''Twitch''' watches '''Wheeljack''' make his exit.

"You can't have my sleeve unless you rip my arm off!" 
[Arachnamechs approach] 
"That wasn't an invitation!"
:—'''Robby''' finds himself cornered

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Wheeljack was briefly mentioned as the creator of the drones back in "[[Secret Legacy, Part 2]]".

===Transformers references===
* Wheeljack retains the beard of many of his other incarnations, originally dating back to his [[Wheeljack (Animated)|''Animated'' counterpart]], along with the southern twang of [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|''Cyberverse'' Wheeljack]].

===Real-world references===
* Alex's description of the {{w|Wakwak}} is rooted in stories from real-life Philippine mythology.
* In Robbie's bedroom during his gaming tournament, a poster can be seen with reversed japanese characters that can be translated to "My Villain University," a reference to the currently running anime ''"My Hero Academia,"'' with the poster stylized to resemble its common promotional material. One has to wonder how a university teaches villains, though.

===Animation and technical errors===
*

===Trivia===
*

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Les traditions'''" ("The Traditions")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 5]], 2022

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Traditionen'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 5]], 2022

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Hagyományteremtők'''" ("Tradition Makers")
:*''Original airdate:'' December 5, 2022

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Tradições'''" ("Traditions")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 10]], 2022

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Tradizioni''' ("Traditions")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 11]], 2022

[[Category:EarthSpark episodes]]

Traditions

2023-02-07T06:23:04Z

Stonecrusher: /* Real-world references */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' ep 6
|image=EarthSpark-Traditions-Kali.jpg
|caption=Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof!
|prev=Classified
|next=Friends and Family
|title="Traditions"
|airdate=[[November 11]], [[2022]]
|production company=[[Entertainment One]] [[Nickelodeon]]
|writer=[[Maasai Singleton]]
|animation studio=[[Icon Creative Studio]]
|directors=[[Jordan Rosato]] [[Matthew Humphreys]]
|video=https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/video/hL7ylng3_4MFZD1NYUYuftcZF2YiR_KJ/
|videosite=Paramount+
}}

'''Alex tries to share some of his family traditions, while Twitch attempts to win the approval of her "Dad2".'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:EarthSpark-Traditions-AlexReadsToBots.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
Late one night, [[Alex Malto]] is recounting to [[Robby Malto|Robby]] and [[Mo Malto|Mo]] tales of the [[Wakwak]], a [[vampire|vampiric]] birdlike monster that feeds on lost children. As he concludes the story, their [[Terran]] siblings put their hands on the kids' shoulders, catching them off guard and frightening them. [[Twitch]] and [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] complain about being left out of story time, to which Alex apologizes for forgetting. Robby, however, thinks he's too old now to believe in such things. Alex insists his grandfather once fought off a Wakwak to save a child, starting an annual tradition of training to fight one, but Robby simply steps away to get back to practicing for an upcoming online gaming tournament. As Mo also heads off to bed, the Terrans invite Alex to tell the story again, to which he obliges. Elsewhere, in his newest secret lab, [[Mandroid]] attempts some target practice to train himself with using [[Hardtop (ES)|Hardtop]]'s arm, but its size combined with the blaster's recoil makes things difficult. Believing he will have to further upgrade himself to take on the [[Transformer|Cybertronian]] menace, he orders his [[Arachnamech]]s to bring him more of their kind that he can use for parts.

The next morning, Alex invites Robby to join him in their annual Wakwak hunt, but Robby refuses, as the tournament is that day and he no longer enjoys the annual hunt. Robby suggests his father take Mo instead, but she is busy teaching Thrash how to play the makeshift guitar he's just built. Alex is left heartbroken, but he notices [[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] unsuccessfully attempting to make a full-court jump shot. Alex picks up the ball and does the same, landing flawlessly in the hoop and amazing Bumblebee. Alex offers to teach him that and more, as part of sharing his family's history and culture; hoping to pick up a few [[basketball]] skills from the experience, Bumblebee agrees. Having observed all of this, Twitch asks Robby what a "tradition" is, and he does his best to explain, stating that traditions have personal meaning and help give a sense of belonging to something, leaving Twitch feeling uncertain.

[[File:EarthSpark-Traditions-TwitchTrees.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
As he and Bumblebee enter the forest, Alex notes that much can be gleamed through careful observation, demonstrating by using the rings in an oak tree stump to discern its history. He explains that he gained his love of history from his grandfather, or ''lolo'', growing up in [[Bohol]] in the [[Philippines]]. Bumblebee reveals he spent time in [[Tagbilarian City]], and that he too is familiar with the legends of the Wakwak. When they hear a screeching noise coming from nearby, Alex picks up his bastons and begins teaching Kali defense techniques to Bumblebee, who imitates him using a pair of large branches.

Robby continues to compete in the tournament, but is interrupted by Twitch, who asks if she can "borrow" Robby and Alex's Wakwak hunting tradition, having none of her own. Trying to focus on his game, Robby agrees and tells her to grab some sticks — by which he means ''not'' the trees [[Dot Malto|their mother]] just planted — and meet their father at the big stump in the forest. Ever eager, Twitch heads to the stump, but finding no one there, she begins hitting everything she can with her sticks, though she still feels no closer to the sense of belonging she expected. When she accidentally tosses her sticks into a tree, she transforms to her drone mode to retrieve them, but is suddenly blasted by an [[electromagnetic pulse]] and powers down.

[[File:EarthSpark-Traditions-TwitchMeetsDad2.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]
When Twitch comes to, she is being carried by an unknown Transformer. Breaking free, Twitch shocks the Cybertronian when she starts talking back to him, as he didn't recall programming his drones with speech. Believing his creation to have self-actualized, the newcomer attempts to stun her again for study, but Twitch transforms back to robot mode to tell him off. Realizing she is one of the new Terrans [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] told him about, the Cybertronian apologizes for the confusion and properly introduces himself as [[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]], the inventor of the drone Twitch scanned for her [[alternate mode]]. Twitch, realizing this connection, decides to dub Wheeljack her "Dad2", though this makes the scientist more than a bit uncomfortable. Wheeljack explains that he's in the forest hunting for Arachnamechs, but when Twitch offers to help him, he refuses and takes off. As Twitch sadly walks through the forest, she hears rustling in the underbrush before being attacked by an Arachnamech.

Back at the farm, Robby and his team take first place in the tournament, but when he goes to tell the others the good news, he's saddened to find everyone else gone. He wanders into the forest looking for his father, but is repeatedly frightened by brief glimpses of Arachnamechs, which he mistakes for the Wakwak. Alex and Bumblebee, meanwhile, are progressing well in their Kali practice. Bumblebee is energized, but Alex laments that Robby no longer sees the appeal of the Wakwak hunt, feeling traditions like this are important to who they are. Seeing how important this is to Alex, Bumblebee decides to go back to the house to get the kids, unaware that he is being followed by a horde of Arachnamechs. Nearby, Wheeljack continues to track the Arachnamechs, when Twitch suddenly arrives with the one she just defeated, though it suddenly wakes and takes off. Wheeljack asks why she didn't stun it with her EMP, something Twitch didn't realize she had, and Wheeljack agrees to teach her how to use her drone mode's abilities if she helps him recapture the Arachnamech.

Twitch and Wheeljack's training progresses quickly, with Twitch learning to use her EMP and shield tech, as well as coming up with the idea to use her rotors to create whirlwinds. Wheeljack praises her ingenuity, prompting Twitch to open up to Wheeljack about her feelings of not belonging, uncertain as to quite who she's supposed to be and desperately wanting a tradition so she can feel like she's part of something. Wheeljack reassures her that tradition or not, she still has a family that loves her to make new ones with. At the stump, Robby finds himself cornered by Arachnamechs, which are targeting his [[cyber-sleeve]]. He attempts to escape by hiding in a log, but the Arachnamechs find him, and their attacks manage to dislodge the log and send it rolling down the path.

[[File:EarthSpark-Traditions-AlexProtectsRobby.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
By the time the log stops, Robby emerges to find himself surrounded by Arachnamechs. He attempts to fight them off with a stick, but is overwhelmed before being saved by Alex, who arrives just in time to fend off the attackers with his Kali skills. Reminded that he learned the moves during their previous Wakwak hunts, Robby and his father team up to fight the mechs off and drive them away. Twitch senses through their emotional link that Robby is in trouble, moments before she and Wheeljack are beset by more Arachnamechs. Wheeljack attempts to send Twitch away for safety, but she helps fend off the drones, and the two defeat them by combining their skills to create a laser whirlwind that blasts all the Arachnamechs. Wheeljack retrieves one of the destroyed Arachnamechs, eager to study it. Twitch is upset to see him leave, but Wheeljack senses her sadness and suggests they make mechanical spider hunting their new tradition. Robby apologizes to his father for skipping out on the WakWak hunt, and asks if there's still time to resume it, which Alex happily accepts.

Robby and Alex return to the house, where Bumblebee is waiting for them as Mo and Thrash demonstrate their new musical ability, playing an approximation of Alex's ''lolo''{{'}}s song for him. Their playing is interrupted as Twitch returns with a broken Arachnamech, with Alex noting one of his colleagues used to use similar technology. Wheeljack arrives as well, introducing himself to the others as Twitch's Dad2, much to her elation. As Thrash ponders if Wheeljack is also ''his'' Dad2, Bumblebee picks up the basketball and is shocked to find he's now able to perfectly make the long shot.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] (8)
*[[Wheeljack (ES)|Wheeljack]] (9)

|c3=
*[[Alex Malto]] (1)
*[[Robby Malto]] (2)
*[[Mo Malto]] (3)
*[[Mandroid]] (6)

|h4=[[Terran]]s||c4=
*[[Twitch]] (4)
*[[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]] (5)

|h5=Others||c5=
*[[Arachnamech]]s (7)
}}

==Quotes==
"This isn't another attempt to read my diary, is it?" 
"''I'm a history professor! Having a primary source is''...not what today's about."
:—'''Bumblebee''' reminds '''Alex''' of personal boundaries.

"He used to say, 'The past is a present, the present past.'" 
"...what does that mean?" 
(chuckles) "I don't know."
:—'''Alex''' tells '''Bumblebee''' about his ''lolo''.

"You built the drone I scanned?" 
"One of my better inventions. No accidental self-destructions...yet."
:—'''Twitch''' meets '''Wheeljack'''.

"But I can help." 
"You can! ...by pretending we never met. Bye now!"
:—'''Twitch''' watches '''Wheeljack''' make his exit.

"You can't have my sleeve unless you rip my arm off!" 
[Arachnamechs approach] 
"That wasn't an invitation!"
:—'''Robby''' finds himself cornered

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Wheeljack was briefly mentioned as the creator of the drones back in "[[Secret Legacy, Part 2]]".

===Transformers references===
* Wheeljack retains the beard of many of his other incarnations, originally dating back to his [[Wheeljack (Animated)|''Animated'' counterpart]], along with the southern twang of [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|''Cyberverse'' Wheeljack]].

===Real-world references===
* Alex's description of the {{w|Wakwak}} is rooted in stories from real-life Philippine mythology.
* In Robbie's bedroom during his gaming tournament, a poster can be seen with reversed japanese characters that can be translated to "My Villain University," a reference to the currently running anime ''"My Hero Academia,"'' with the poster stylized to resemble its common promotional material. One has to wonder how a university teachers villains, though.

===Animation and technical errors===
*

===Trivia===
*

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Les traditions'''" ("The Traditions")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 5]], 2022

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Traditionen'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 5]], 2022

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Hagyományteremtők'''" ("Tradition Makers")
:*''Original airdate:'' December 5, 2022

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Tradições'''" ("Traditions")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 10]], 2022

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Tradizioni''' ("Traditions")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 11]], 2022

[[Category:EarthSpark episodes]]