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2005

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Skyfall:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Sky Shadow/Terradive.
  • Skyfall's bio is a shortened version of the one that appears in the Club magazine.

Deathsaurus:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Robots in Disguise Megatron, with a retooled head.
  • Characters mentioned include: Star Saber.
  • Star Saber and Deathsaurus were the leaders of the Autobot and Decepticon factions in the Victory franchise, hence their rivalry mentioned here.
  • Emperor of Destruction is a Japanese term used to refer to the leader of the Decepticons/Predacons/etc.
  • Notably, the fact that Maximals and Predacons exist places DiE at the very end stage of the Great War. While the DiE continuity would never be revisited aside from a...contentious appearance in "The Razor's Edge", several ideas, such as the Autobot/Maximal and Decepticon/Predacon alliances, would later be explored in other BotCon fiction.
  • The ability of his wings to absorb sunlight was part of Deathsaurus' original powerset in his tech specs, while the corrosive energy seems to be a reference to his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon.

Dirge:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Beast Wars Buzzclaw.
  • Characters mentioned include: Deathsaurus
  • This is the first mention of a Insecticon clan of ancient Cybertronians in fiction. While undoubtedly not a reference, later continuities, such as the Aligned and IDW G1 continuities, would establish their versions of Insecticons as a race of ancient Cybertronians.

Buzzclaw:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Beast Wars Buzzclaw.
  • Characters mentioned include: Deathsaurus.
  • Gladiatorial combat being part of pre-war society was first introduced in "State Games", and has become a major part of Cybertronian history since. Polyhex was introduced in issue #17 of the Marvel Transformers comic.
  • The Insecticons' ability to clone themselves was introduced in the original Transformers cartoon.

Ironhide:

Fallback:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Strongarm.
  • Characters mentioned include: Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime.
  • Fallback's change from Outback is explained here as the result of a near-fatal injury, with a new outlook on life given when he was rebuilt.

Chromia:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Arcee, with a retooled head. (Shared with Firestar)
  • Characters mentioned include: Flareup and Firestar.
  • Notably, "Chromia's" toy has a deco, head, and personality based on Moonracer, as she was originally the one who this toy was intended for.

Ricochet:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generation 2 Hooligan.
  • Characters mentioned include: Bumblebee.
  • Ricochet was based upon a fan character Ben Yee made when he was younger.
  • Bumblebee was originally the Autobot's espionage agent in the original toyline. Looks like he's graduated to the top!

Autobot Ratchet:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Tow-Line, with a retooled head. (Shared with Ironhide)

Flareup:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Arcee, with a retooled head. (Shared with Chromia)
  • Characters mentioned include: Firestar.
  • Flareup was originally the student of Firestar, in a reference to the fact that she was originally intended to be a toy for Firestar, and is evidently designed to look like her.

Virulent Clones:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Beast Wars Buzzclaw.
  • Characters mentioned include: Deathsaurus, Buzzclaw, and Dirge.
  • As mentioned in the bio card for Buzzclaw, the Insecticons' cloning ability originates from the G1 cartoon. Deathsaurus has had to unlock it from its latent state due to Dirge and Buzzclaw's changing body forms, presumably referring to their rather.... organic-looking body types.

Flamewar:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Arcee.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron, the Tripredacus Council, and Deathsaurus.
  • Her body type is noted to be stolen from the Autobots.

Ramjet:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Legends-class Starscream.

2006

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Landquake:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Blight/Kickback.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
  • Landquake's bio is a shortened version of the one that appeared in the Club magazine.

Axalon Optimus Primal:

Axalon Rhinox:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Landmine.
  • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Primal.

Axalon Cheetor:

Axalon Rattrap:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Ransack.
  • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Primal.

Darksyde Dinobot:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Longrack, using the head from the Armada Hoist version of the mold.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron and the Tripredacus Council.

Darksyde Megatron:

Darksyde Waspinator:

Laserbeak:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Divebomb.
  • Characters mentioned include: Divebomb, Ravage, and the Tripredacus Council.

Buzzsaw:

Unit 2/Tigatron:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Clocker with a retooled head. (Shared with Cheetor)

Rumble:

  • Toy notes: recolored from Cybertron Scrapmetal. with the alternate "Cobybot" head.
  • Characters mentioned include: Frenzy, the Swarm, Unicron and Soundwave.
  • Frenzy's death in Marvel Generation 2 comic issue #12 is mentioned.
  • Apparently Rumble enjoys [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Bubblegum pop|{{#if:||Bubblegum pop}}]].

Inferno:

  • Toy notes: recolored from Cybertron Scrapmetal.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron, Optimus Primal, and Unicron.
  • Inferno is noted to be a Vehicon General, having survived the Beast Wars, unlike his main counterpart, who died in the final episode of the Beast Wars cartoon.

2007

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Breakaway:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Treadshot/Windrazor
  • Characters mentioned: Primus and the Caretaker.
  • Breakaway's bio is a shortened version of the one in the Club magazine.

Astrotrain:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Armada Jetfire, with a retooled head based on his Generation 1 counterpart. Based on the unreleased Universe Spacewarp toy.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
  • Astrotrain left the main Decepticon force after the Unicron Battles.
  • Astrotrain carries an ionic blaster, in reference to the ionic displacement rifle of his Generation 1 counterpart.

Starcatcher:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Armada Comettor.
  • Starcatcher's name is a "close enough" variation on "Cowcatcher", a proposed name that had garnered a lot of support on the Fun Publications web forums. "Cowcatcher" as a Transformers name was first proposed for a OTFCC 2004 exclusive that never happened, a redeco of one of the Robots in Disguise Team Bullet Train members. Both of these were initially proposed by the same guy.

Astro-Hook, Astro-Line, and Astro-Sinker:

Airazor:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Slugsliner, with a retooled head. Her colors are based on her original Beast Wars toy.
  • Several abilities mentioned in her tech specs come from Airazor's original tech specs, including her ability to detect ground movement from 30,000 feet up in the air and the ability to generate 3-D virtual reality maps.

Bug Bite:

Dreadwind:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Jetfire, with a retooled head.
  • Characters mentioned include: Darkwing and Bludgeon.

Thundercracker:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Starscream.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron, Starscream, Bludgeon, and Skywarp.
  • Thundercracker leaves Megatron's forces because Starcream still serves with Megatron; Staracream murdered Thundercracker in Marvel Transformers issue #50.

Dirge:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Ramjet.

Thrust:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Ramjet, with a retooled pair of wings.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron and Bludgeon.
  • Thrust is noted to be the last Decepticon brought back online by Megatron.

Alpha Trion:

Beta Maxx:

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Safeguard.
  • Beta Maxx was unnamed at the time of his release; a profile released a few months later revealed he was named for the unsuccessful home video format, the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Betamax|{{#if:||Betamax}}]].

Weirdwolf:

Springer:

Huffer:

Hologram Mirage:

Overkill:

2008

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Topspin

Nightbeat

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Hot Shot, with a retooled head.

Piranacon

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the original toy, meant for release in the Energon toyline.
  • A few of the Seacon's bio notes their death at Starscream's hands in Marvel's Transformers issue #50.

Snaptrap

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the original toy, meant for release in the Energon toyline.
  • Mentioned characters include: Starscream.

Overbite

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the original toy, meant for release in the Energon toyline.
  • Mentioned characters include: Snaptrap.

Seawing

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the original toy, meant for release in the Energon toyline.
  • Mentioned characters include: Overbite.

Skalor

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the original toy, meant for release in the Energon toyline.

Nautilator

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the original toy, meant for release in the Energon toyline.

Tentakil

  • Toy notes: redecoed from original toy, meant for release in the Energon toyline.
  • Mentioned characters include: Starscream.

Optimus Prime

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Optimus Prime in "evil" color scheme.
  • Prime's function is the Autobot Emperor of Destruction, borrowing the term used for the Decepticon leaders in various Japanese series.

Starscream

Razorclaw

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Overbite.
  • Mentioned characters include: Divebomb and Rampage.
  • Razorclaw used to teach at Tyrest University; Tyrest is a city from the Marvel UK Transformers comics.
  • Razorclaw, Rampage, and Divebomb retreated to the Manganese Mountains at the start of the war; the mountains come from the Marvel Headmasters mini-series.

Goldbug

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Hot Shot, with a retooled head; head is based on Generation 1 counterpart; color scheme is based on the live-action movie toyline's Stealth Bumblebee.
  • Mentioned characters include: Optimus Prime and Drench.
  • Goldbug, like his counterpart, was originally named Bumblebee, a drifter living on the streets of Polyhex.

Autobot Jazz

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Crosswise, with a retooled head (Shared with Ricochet); color scheme and retooled head are based on Generation 1 counterpart with altered text.
  • Mentioned characters include: Ricochet and Optimus Prime.

Grimlock

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Grimlock; color scheme is based on Generation 1 Trypticon.
  • Mentioned characters include: Megatron and Optimus Prime.

Megatron

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Ultra-class Megatron in heroic color scheme, with a retooled head; retooled head is based on an early version of his Generation 1 counterpart's character model; Rumbler tank homages both Generation 1 Roller and Universe Megazarak.
  • Mentioned characters include: Optimus Prime.
  • Megatron using math to predict future trends is based on [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}psychohistory (fictional)|{{#if:psychohistory|psychohistory|psychohistory (fictional)}}]] from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Isaac Asimov|{{#if:||Isaac Asimov}}]]'s [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Foundation series|{{#if:Foundation|Foundation|Foundation series}}]] series of novels,<ref>http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=70915#70915</ref>.

Rodimus

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Rodimus in evil color scheme; goatee homages [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Mirror Universe|{{#if:||Mirror Universe}}]] Spock, vaguely similar color scheme to Titanium Series Menasor
  • Mentioned characters include: Optimus Prime.
  • Rodimus use to lead the Wreckers, like his positive-universe counterpart in the 3H Wreckers comic.

Divebomb

Sideswipe

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Armada Wheeljack; color scheme is based on unreleased Universe Drench toy.
  • Mentioned characters include: Optimus Prime and Drench.

Whisper

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Armada Wind Sheer; the color scheme is based on unreleased Universe Wind Sheer.

Blurr

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Blurr in evil color scheme, with a retooled head.
  • Mentioned characters include: Optimus Prime and Crasher.
  • Crasher is called a "heroic renegade" in reference to her counterpart's faction.

Rampage

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Snarl.
  • Mentioned characters include: Razorclaw and Divebomb.

Ricochet

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Crosswise with a retooled head. (shared with Jazz)
  • Mentioned characters include: Jazz and Optimus Prime.

Nightbeat

  • Toy notes: recolored from Timelines Nightbeat; faction symbol homages the Star Trek Mirror Universe Terran Empire.
  • Mentioned characters include: Optimus Prime.
  • Nightbeat suffers from Cosmic Rust, the disease from the Transformers episode of the same name.

2009

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Heatwave

Kup

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Red Alert with retooled head.
  • Characters mentioned include: Thunderclash and Landshark.

Thunderclash

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Rodimus.

Flak

Landshark

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Landmine.
  • Characters mentioned include: Flak.
  • Sometimes people accidentally call Landshark "Landmine".
  • Landshark once got into a fight with a narliphant, a creature from Rock Lords

Scourge

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Sideways with retooled head. (Shared with Sweeps)
  • Characters mentioned include: Cyclonus and the Sweeps.

Skyquake

Banzai-Tron

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Mirage.

Elita-1

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Cybertron Thunderblast.
  • Characters mentioned include: Grimlock.
  • Elita is based on her appearance in "Games of Deception", released two years earlier.
  • Elita-1 knows Circuit-Su, originally mentioned in Bugly's tech specs.

Razorclaw

Sweeps

  • Toy notes: redeceod from Cybertron Sideways with a retooled head. (Shared with Scourge)
  • Characters mentioned include: Scourge.
  • Three bios were included: they indicate that these toys represent Sweep Two, Sweep Six, and Sweep Seven.

Leozack

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Energon Starscream.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron and Skyquake.

Thunderclash

  • Toy notes: repainted from Timelines Thunderclash.
  • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime, Hyperdrive, Nightbeat, and Nightclash.
  • Thunderclash's personality is based on World War II German general [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Erwin Rommel|{{#if:||Erwin Rommel}}]].
  • The Elite Guard replaced the Wreckers, who were noted to all be destroyed save Rodimus in his bio.
  • Hyperdrive's positive universe counterpart was an unreleased Turbomaster.

Nightclash

  • Characters mentioned include: Thunderclash and Nightbeat.
  • Combined form of Nightbeat and Thunderclash.

2010

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  • Dion with Cop-Tur
    • Redecoed from Universe Hot Shot and Jolt. Uses launchers from Henkei! Henkei! release.
    • Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
    • Dion's bio summarizes the events of "War Dawn", including his near-destruction at Megatron's hands.
  • Autobot Spark
    • Redecoed from Universe Inferno.
    • Characters mentioned include: the Queen of England and Clench.
    • Since the name Pyro was unavailable, the name "Spark" was used instead, the name applied to his Generation 2 re-release.
  • Streetstar
    • Redecoed from Universe Prowl.
    • Characters mentioned include: Spark.
    • With "Streetwise" unavailable, "Streetstar" was used instead; Streetstar was a redeco of Streetwise from Operation Combination.
  • Clench
    • Retooled from Universe Onslaught with a new head.
    • Characters mentioned include: Galvatron and Zarak.
    • Clench is equipped with "Colossus Cannons"; Colossus was the name used for his Generation 2 re-release.
  • Sky-Byte.
    • Retooled from Energon Sharkticon with a new head.
    • Various references to the Robots in Disguise incarnation of Sky-Byte are made, including Sky-Byte declaring himself the "greatest shark around" and his Tsunami Blaster attack.
    • Sky-Byte is both a Predacon and a Quintesson creation; Japanese media would indicate that the Predacons were created by the Quintessons for the Decepticons.
  • Rapido
    • Retooled from Universe Silverstreak with a new head.
    • Characters mentioned include: Spark and Optimus Prime.
    • Rapido's bio is entirely in Spanish.
    • Rapido has an "Axelerator cannon"; he was part of the Axelerator subgroup in the original Generation 2 toyline.
  • Cindersaur.
    • Redecoded from Beast Wars: 10th Anniversary Megatron.
    • Cindersaur's upgrade has made it so that he no longer has to take lava baths to soothe his joints, as noted in his original bio.
  • Decepticon Slice
    • Redecoed from Energon Downshift.
    • Characters mentioned include: Breakdown.
    • The name "Slicer" was unavailable; "Slice" was used instead.
    • Slicer's motto paraphrases the French guard from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Monty Python and the Holy Grail|{{#if:||Monty Python and the Holy Grail}}]].
    • Slicer is noted to have damaged his "Neuro-Centre Control" when landing on Earth, leaving him stuck with a French accent. Slicer's original toy's Power Plans labeled his head as a "Neuro Centre Control", without the hyphen.

2011

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  • Side Burn
    • Redecoed from Classics Rodimus.
    • Characters mentioned in his profile include: Prowl.
    • Side Burn is noted to have a new "Spark Engine", much like his Robots in Disguise counterpart.
  • Ramjet
    • Redecoed from Classics Ramjet, based on his Generation 2 release.
    • Characters mentioned in his profile include: Megatron, Motormouth, and Clench.
    • Ramjet is noted to have gained his new Forestonite powers (the ability to generate a drill-like forcefield while flying) after stealing a canister from Motormouth.
    • Ramjet's online bio contains several toast puns ("his strengthened nose cone will leave all of his adversaries toast!", "he has the capability of truly putting that pilot in a jam!"), in reference to the fandom meme that originated from alt.toys.transformers member Robowang's signature.
  • Drag Strip.
    • Redecoed from Animated Arcee.
    • Characters mentioned in her profile include: The Motor Master and Wildrider.
  • Wildrider.
    • Redecoed from Animated Blazing Lockdown with a new head.
    • Among Wildrider's are a phlogiston-reactor flamethrower (named for an [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Phlogiston theory|{{#if:obsolete scientific theory|obsolete scientific theory|Phlogiston theory}}]] explaining combustion) and a chaos-crystal-edged chainsaw (also known as death crystals, grown on the titular alien monster from Transformers episode "Chaos".)
  • Thundercracker
    • Redecoed from Classics Starscream in his positive-universe counterpart's Action Master colors.
    • Characters mentioned in his bio include: Deathsaurus.
    • Colonel Deathsaurus is noted to have created the Mayhem Suppression Squad; he had previously only appeared in the short April Fool's Day comic, "Shattered Expectations".
    • Thundercracker's cryonic rockets mirror his positive counterpart's thermal rocket.
    • Thundercracker picked up a signal from prison planet Paradron; the peaceful positive-universe Paradron was introduced in Transformers episode "Fight or Flee", and was established to be a prison planet in the Shattered Glass universe in Cyclonus' Club Magazine profile. This is, again, more set-up for "Invasion".
  • Fisitron
    • Redecoed from Animated Cybertron Mode Ratchet with a new head (shared with the Autotroopers).
    • Characters mentioned in his profile include: Optimus Prime and Skyfall.
    • Ironfist couldn't use his name due to trademark reasons, so instead he uses his IDW Generation 1 counterpart's screenname.
    • Ironfist's rivalry with Skyfall references their IDW Generation 1 counterparts (far more bitter) rivalry, as seen in "Bullets".
    • Ironfist created Optimus Prime's axe, much like how IDW Ironfist created Optimus Prime's ion blaster, as seen in Last Stand of the Wreckers issue #4. Animated Skyfall is often credited for its design instead, as was G1 Skyfall in "Bullets".
  • Minerva
    • Redecoed from Animated Arcee with two sets of resin ears.
    • Characters mentioned in her profile include: Fixit and Ratchet.
    • Minerva was taught by Fixit, who, like his Generation 1 counterpart, is the leader of the Rescue Patrol.
    • Minerva is noted to have crash-landed in Quebec and scanned a Japanese car, in reference to her Masterforce counterpart's half-French, half-Japanese origin. Her friendship with the car's human driver, meanwhile, references the fact that Masterforce Minerva was original a human girl.

2012

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  • Runamuck
    • Toy notes: Redecoed from Generations Wheeljack with a new head.
    • Characters mentioned include: Over-Run.
  • Over-Run
    • Toy notes: Redecoed from Generations Wheeljack with a new head.
    • Characters mentioned include: Runamuck (online bio only).
  • Drift
    • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Autobot Drift; comes with the pistols from Generations Blurr
    • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime
    • Drift's personality is based on that of Marvel Comics' talkative mercenary [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Deadpool|{{#if:||Deadpool}}]].
    • Drift would kill his proto-initiators for the money/fun of it; "batch proto-initiators" is a term originating from IDW's Infiltration issue #3.
    • Drift's expanded online bio notes he has a fear of petro-rabbits (a species mentioned in The Transformers: The Movie); in reference to Deadpool's irrational fear of cows.
  • Ultra Magnus
    • Toy notes: redecoed from Reveal the Shield Optimus Prime with pre-tool head. Colors based on Diaclone Powered Convoy, the toy from his positive-universe counterpart was made.
    • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime and Treadshot.
    • Magnus' rivalry with Treadshot references their Universe "Battle in a Box" counterparts.
    • Much of Magnus backstory from his previous mentions in various prose stories and character profiles is referred to here, including his failed coup and his imprisonment on Paradron.
  • Turbo Tracks
    • Toy notes: redecoed from Reveal the Shield Turbo Tracks in the original red color scheme of the Diaclone toy that would become his positive-universe counterpart. Perhaps more familiar as e-HOBBY Collector's Edition exclusive Road Rage.
    • Tracks, unlike the more recent Shattered Glass characterizations, goes in line with the original set, with his personality being basically the same, but evil.
  • Treadshot
    • Toy notes: redecoed from Reveal the Shield Special Ops Jazz with pre-tool head. Colored like Armada Side Swipe, but with the stripe of his positive-universe Treadshot.
    • Characters mentioned include: Ultra Magnus, Treble, Gain, Optimus Prime, and Megatron.
    • Much of Magnus and Treadshot's backstory is cribbed from their Universe counterparts, once-friendly rivals turn bitter enemies when Treadshot joined the Decepticons.
    • Treble and Gain are repurposed from the original Mini-Con partners of Universe Treadshot and Ultra Magnus. Treble is repurposed from Nightbeat, while Over-Run is repurposed into Gain. Treadshot's weapons are noted to honor the memory of these masters; Treble is honored by his speakers (i.e. "-beat" to music), while Gain is honored by Treadshot's rifle, due to Over-Run's gun alternate mode.
    • Treadshot's gun is a pulse demagnitizer, the weapon of Generation 1 Treadshot.
  • Soundwave
    • Toy notes: redecoed from Universe Ironhide with a retooled head. The colors are based on Music Label Soundwave; has a decal of G.I. Joe Zartan on the side.
    • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime, Rodimus, and Ultra Magnus.
    • Soundwave's one desire is for everyone to "be excellent to each other and party on," a quote from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure|{{#if:||Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure}}]].
  • Metalhawk
    • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thunderwing with a retooled head.
    • Characters mentioned include: Crossblades, Vroom, and Skyhammer.
    • Somewhat oddly, Skyhammer is referred as "Skyhammer's pilot," position Skyhammer as the name of his vehicle shell; later fiction would ignore this.
  • Gigatron
    • Toy notes: redecoed from Revenge of the Fallen Decepticon Bludgeon with a new head.
    • Characters mentioned include: Straxus.
    • Gigatron's name comes from his Heroes of Cybertron release, which, like this toy, presumably couldn't use Overlord due to trademark reasons.
    • Gigatron is noted to be commander of Polyhex before Straxus, who we saw in that role in Marvel's The Transformers issue #17.
  • Kick-Over
    • Toy notes: redecoed from Reveal the Shield Special Ops Jazz with a new head.
    • Kick-Off's history from his original tech specs is repeated here. Additionally, it noes he escaped due to a power struggle at Darkmount; presumably, this refers to the events alluded to in Gigatron's bio, when he abdicated the throne to Straxus.
  • Optimus Prime
    • Toy notes: Redecoed from Reveal the Shield Optimus Prime.
    • Much of Optimus Prime bio mirrors that of Generation 2 Laser Optimus Prime. Prime was heavily damaged in sector 17 of the Mirtonian Quadrant (in reference to the Mirtonian constellation from the original) and rebuilt into his upgraded new form.
    • Prime's bio notes his laser core was nearly extinguished; laser cores were a piece of Cybertronian anatomy mentioned several times in the original The Transformers cartoon; later fiction would time them in with the concept of the spark.
    • Prime dragged himself into a CR chamber, a piece of medical technology from Beast Wars; "Transhuman" noted the Constructicons were only just beginning to work on creating one, so evidently, the Autobots stole their plans at some point.
    • Prime's sword is fashion from G-Metal, a substance from the Japanese The Headmasters anime.
  • Octopunch
    • Toy notes: Redecoed from Transformers: Hunt for the Decepticons Sea Spray.
    • Octopunch is a fan of "mechatecha-soccer," the Shattered Glass equivalent of mecha-soccer, a Cybertronian sport originally mentioned in the Marvel UK The Transformers letter page.
    • Octopunch has been reinforced with rheanimum, a gas seen in the Marvel Generation 2 comic.
  • Wreck-Gar
    • Toy notes: redecoed from Reveal the Shield Wreck-Gar in Insecticon colors.
    • Characters mentioned include: Ultra Magnus.
    • Wreck-Gar and the Junkions are based on [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Borg|{{#if:||Borg}}]] from Star Trek.
    • Wreck-Gar carries a cerebral inhibitor laser, the counterpart to positive Wreck-Gar's decelerator laser.
    • Wreck-Gar's motto is a direct quote of the demonic Pinhead from the 1987 horror film [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Hellraiser|{{#if:||Hellraiser}}]].
  • Scrap Iron
    • Redecoed from United Scrapheap in Insecticon colors.
    • Characters mentioned include: Wreck-Gar.
    • Scrap Iron is a Type 001 Junkion.
  • Junkheap
    • Redecoed from Generations Junkheap.
    • Characters mentioned include: Wreck-Gar.
    • Junkheap is a Type 002 Junkion.
    • Among the things Type 002 Junkions collect are "outdated diecast metal"; while die-cast is a real thing used in some Transformers toys, this refers to a line indicating that die-cast metal was a lost art in Beast Wars episode "The Agenda (Part III)".
  • The Bard of Darkmount
    • Redecoed from Generations Darkmount in the colors of positive Straxus on the cover of Transformers Comic-Magazin issue #10.
    • Like his positve-universe counterpart, Straxus' home is Darkmount.
    • Straxus' personality is based on [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Tom Bombadil|{{#if:||Tom Bombadil}}]] from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Lord of the Rings|{{#if:||The Lord of the Rings}}]].
    • Straxus wrote the play Xal Unbound, referencing both the play [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)|{{#if:Prometheus Unbound|Prometheus Unbound|Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)}}]] and the deity Xal, mentioned by Mindset in Marvel's Generation 2 issue #9.
  • Longarm
    • Toy notes: redecoed from Reveal the Shield Special Ops Jazz. Toy references both the Animated version of Shockwave, who disguised himself as the Autobot Longarm, and Alternators Shockblast, who was retooled from Alternators Meister. Comes with an alternate Shockwave head and gun hand.
    • Characters mentioned include: Nightbeat.
    • Longarm has obviously been taken over by Classics Shockwave, last seen as a disembodied head in "Games of Deception". His bio makes various nods to Shockwave, including his weapon's ability to utilize wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum, and has an upgraded logic center. Additionally, the bio coyly alludes to his identity: "His ambition can blind him to situations of more immediate importance... or perhaps one of his optic units is just on the fritz."
    • "Longarm" works under Nightbeat in the Autobot Secret Police, originally mentioned in Nightbeat's bio card.
    • "Longarm" sometimes calls himself "Longarm Prime"; Animated Shockwave had the "Prime" title as Longarm.
    • Shockwave is an Autotrooper, sharing an identical body type with dozens of other Autobots, in reference to the Animated Autotroopers, themselves homages to the Kiss Players Autoroopers.

2013

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Depth Charge

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Transformers: Hunt for the Decepticons Terradive.
  • Characters mentioned include: Protoform X.
  • Depth Charge's line about justice from Beast Wars episode "Deep Metal" is quoted here.

Scourge

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Reveal the Shield Optimus Prime.
  • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime.
  • Scourge's bio is written so that it could serve both as the original Robots in Disguise Scourge, and as a Wings Universe Scourge serving under Jhiaxus, tying in with the BotCon 2013 theme.

Slipstream

  • Toy notes: retooled from Prime: First Edition Starscream with a new head.
  • Characters mentioned include: Starscreams
  • Slipstream is noted to be an oddity among the offworlders in Axiom Nexus; presumably, this is a nod to the fact that at the time, Aligned media was not considered as being part of the "standard" multiverse.
  • Slipstream is noted to be as crafty as any Starscream, homaging her Animated counterpart's origin as a clone of her Starscream.
  • Slipstream's AGP (Alternating Gyro-Power) Nullifier weapons are a very clunky nod to the 1988 Nullifier G.I. Joe figure, who drove the AGP (Anti-Gravity Pod).

Circuit

  • Toy notes: Redecoed from Transformers: Hunt for the Decepticons Axor; homage to Generation 1 Action Master of the same name.
  • Circuit's home universe is the alternate live-action movie universe seen in Titan's Transformers comic. The teleportation of the Decepticons to a dead Cybertron was seen in the finale of that storyline in issue #25.
  • Circuit has both the invisibility shield and decelerator cannon his Generation 1 counterpart has.

Breakdown

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Universe Sideswipe with the head of BotCon 2010 Breakdown.
  • Characters mentioned include: Galvatron and Psychokhan.
  • Breakdown's home universe is from issue #3 of the short-lived The Transformers in 3-D comic, a storyline that was never finished.

Jackpot

  • Toy notes: retooled from Animated Autobot Jazz with a new head.

Ultra Mammoth

SG Soundwave

  • Toy notes: redecoed from The Transformers Soundwave, with the chest of Encore Soundblaster. Comes with a sticker sheet that copy many of his decals from his BotCon 2012 toy, and his headband.
  • Characters mentioned include: Starscream.
  • Soundwave's motto is a paraphrased line from "Eye in the Sky", itself a reference to the short story "[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream|{{#if:||I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream}}]]".
  • Soundwave transferred his ember to a new body in "Solar Requiem", the comic included with this toy.
  • Soundwave's weapons are named "AC/DC" and "Venom", after the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}AC/DC|{{#if:heavy metal|heavy metal|AC/DC}}]] bands of the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Venom (band)|{{#if:same names|same names|Venom (band)}}]].

SG Blaster

  • Toy notes: redecoed from The Transformers Blaster, with the chest of Encore Twincast. Comes with stickers to recreate his tribal tattoos.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Scrounges, Soundwave, and Blitzwing.
  • Blaster was given command of the Scrounges in "Do Over".
  • Blaster was exiled to the moon in "Blitzwing Bop".

SG Ratbat

  • Toy notes: redecoed from The Transformers Ratbat in the colors of [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Batman|{{#if:||Batman}}]]. Comes with stickers to create his chest symbol.
  • Characters mentioned include: Blackcat.
  • Ratbat was originally introduced as a television personality in his profile in issue #28 of the club magazine, before being reframed as a Batman pastiche in the Recordicons comic strip. His connection to Batman is played up here, including concealed tools (Batman's utility belt), and a Laser Grappler that allows him to fly faster (Batman's grappling hook).
  • Ratbat's nemesis Blackcat was introduced in the Recordicons comic strip.

SG Slugfest

  • Toy notes: redecoed from The Transformers Slugfest in the colors of Grand Slam. Comes with stickers of a restraning bolt and a "DINOCON" logo, seemingly inspired by the "AUTOBOT" tampograph on Generation 2 Snarl.
  • Characters mentioned include: Wheeljack, Omega Terminus, and Starscream.
  • Slugfest was originally created by Wheeljack in "Dungeons & Dinobots", but was granted an ember by Omega Terminus in "Do Over". Slugfest is described as one of the most unintelligent Decepticons, ignoring his intelligence boost from the latter story.

SG Rewind

  • Toy notes: redecoed from The Transformers Rewind in the colors of the unreleased Generation 2 Go-Bot Rumble. Comes with stickers for his legs that recreate sculpted details from the Generation 2 Go-Bot Frenzy, and a "Vinny's Motors" sticker for his back, mashing the sponsor logos from Rumble ("Vinny's Pizza" and "Jerry's Motors").
  • Characters mentioned include: Blaster and Soundwave.

SG Ramhorn

  • Toy notes: redecoed from The Transformers Ramhorn in the colors of Rumble, the Decepticon rhino from the IDW live-action movie comics. He comes with a sticker for his midsection recreating some of Rumble's "movie detailing," and a sticker that reads "RIRRIB", which stands for "Rewind is Red, Ramhorn is Blue", after the "FIRRIB" fandom debate over Rumble and Frenzy's colors.
  • Characters mentioned include: Rewind.

Solarbot

  • Toy notes: redecoed from The Transformers Eject. A concept derived from prototype packaging for some of the Generation 2 Go-Bots, which mentioned a "*FREE* Solarbot Transformer". Comes with a sticker of the "Sunburst" insignia from Battle Beasts.
  • Solarbot and his people come from the Mirtonian constellation, originally mentioned in Generation 2 Laser Optimus Prime's tech specs.

Hoist

  • Toy notes: retooled from Generations Sergeant Kup with a new head (shared with Electrons).
  • Hoist has worked on the "Generation 2" project with humanity and the Nebulans, as seen in "Generation 2: Redux".

Skywarp

  • Toy notes: retooled from Revenge of the Fallen Dirge with a new head based on Machine Wars Skywarp (shared with Thundercracker).
  • Characters mentioned include: the Skywarp drones and Thundercracker.

Strika

  • Toy notes: retooled from Generations Warpath with a new head.

Obsidian

Megaplex

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Prime: Robots in Disguise Dreadwing.
  • Characters mentioned include: Jhiaxus and Megatron.

Sandstorm

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Dark of the Moon Skyhammer.
  • Characters mentioned include: Electrons, Strika, and Obsidian.
  • Sandstorm's bio deliberately presents him as the original Sandstorm, hiding the twist from the "Termination" comic.

Autobot Electrons

  • Toy notes: retooled from Generations Sergeant Kup with a new head (shared with Hoist).
  • Characters mentioned include: Hoist, Sizzle, and Mirage.

Mirage

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Mirage.
  • Characters mentioned include: Unicron and Electrons.

Thundercracker

Sunstorm

Bitstream

Hotlink

Starscream

Blastcharge Strika Drone

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Warpath. Was originally intended to have the Warpath head and represent Blastcharge, but after accidentally being given the Strika heads instead, the toy was given a new identity. Includes flag and sticker sheet. The sticker sheet includes a variety of Autobot decals, some green bits, two pieces of text reading "J4C08" and "K8-M", and a sticker reading "BOTCON 2013".
  • Characters mentioned include: Strika, Chip Chase, Wheeljack, Perceptor, and Blastcharge.
  • Strika controls the drones via the Genetronic Translink System created by Chip Chase, Wheeljack, and Perceptor. The GT System was introduced in the Binaltech storyline.

Kreon Souvenir Pack

  • Toy notes: Hoist uses the helmet of Soundwave, the gun of Sideswipe/Red Alert, and the standard wheel pieces. Skywarp uses the helmet of Megatron, and the standard Seeker back wings, leg wings, and arm-mounted gun pieces. Strika uses the helmet of the divers from the Kre-O [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Battleship (film)|{{#if:Battleship|Battleship|Battleship (film)}}]] toyline, and the treads pieces from the Micro-Changer range of figures. Obsidian uses the helmet of Prowl/Bluestreak, two-rotor pieces, and two standard Kre-O guns. Megaplex uses the Seeker wings, Megatron's fusion cannon, the helmet of Knock Out, and the sword of Battle for Energon Megatron.
  • Toy notes: Has Kreon versions of the BotCon 2013 boxset (Hoist, Skywarp, Strika, Obsidian, and Megaplex). Of note, Obsidian is green, like his Beast Machines toy, unlike the final toy, which is in cartoon colors, probably due to the fact that early promotional images for the BotCon toy used his toy colors.

Constructicon Devastator

  • Toy notes: based on Generation 2 orange Devastator with a translucent gun based on Generation 1 Megatron.

2014

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Rampage

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Prime: First Edition Megatron with a new head.

Trans-mutate

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Prime: First Edition Arcee.
  • Trans-mutate's box art is based on the poster for the 1985 science fiction dram film, [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Enemy Mine|{{#if:||Enemy Mine}}]].

Barricade and Frenzy

Fisitron

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Roadbuster, based on the Generation 1 Lightformer Ironfist. Can serve as an arm or leg for Generations Ruination.
  • Characters mentioned include: Ultra Magnus and the Wreckers.
  • Fisitron's bio merges aspects of both of his Generation 1 counterpart's depictions in the Wings Universe and in IDW's Last Stand of the Wreckers, both of whom were weapons experts. His affiliation with the Wreckers, his reclusive lifestyle, and the fact that Fisitron is an alias all come from the IDW version. His life as a factory worker in Polyhex, and the fact that his ability to build complex weapons got him noticed by Autobot higher-ups, comes from the Wings Universe version. Fisitron being directly approached by Ultra Magnus for the Wreckers mirrors how Wings Universe Ironfist was directly approached by Magnum for the Elite Guard.
  • Fisitron has a "combination spark", allowing him to interface with machines, presumably allowing him in time to combine with other Transformers; the Spark of Combination was seen in Energon, where almost all the Autobots had it, allowing them to combine in a variety of ways, both with others and with non-sentient machinery.

Thrustinator

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Beast Wars II Dirgegun, with a new head. A merged form of Beast Wars Waspinator and Beast Machines Thrust.
  • Characters mentioned include: Thrust, Waspinator, and Heinrad.
  • Thrustinator's bio card indicates that when he was reformatted at the end of Beast Machines, he was not turned into a tiny technorganic insect-like in the main universe, but a full-on technorganic fusion of Waspinator and Thrust on a physical and mental level.

Treadshot and Catgut

  • Toy notes: Treadshot is redecoed from Generations Warpath. Catgut is redecoed from Prime "Arms Micron" Jida.
  • Treadshot's chest cannon is a pulse demagnitizer cannon; his original toy came with a pulse demagnitizer rifle.
  • Catgut's robot mode is a Prysmosian cheetah; Prysmos is the home planet of the titular characters of fellow 80's Hasbro series, the Visionaries.

Chromedome and Stylor

  • Toy notes: Chromedome is redecoed from Prime: Robots in Disguise Wheeljack, with a new head based on his appearance in IDW's More than Meets the Eye. Stylor is redecoed from Prime "Arms Micron" S.S..
  • Mentioned characters include: Prowl and Rewind.
  • Several aspects of Chromedome's depiction are taken from IDW Publishing's More than Meets the Eye Chromedome, including his history with the uptight and morally ambiguous Prowl, his use of mnemosurgery to search suspect's minds and alter memories, and his relationship with Rewind.

Rewind

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the unreleased Reveal the Shield Demolition Rumble toy (which eventually saw release as United Rumble and Frenzy) with a new head based on his appearance in IDW's More than Meets the Eye (shared with Eject).
  • Characters mentioned include: Chromedome.
  • Rewind's characterization is based on his depiction in IDW Publishing's More than Meets the Eye.

Eject

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the unreleased Reveal the Shield Demolition Rumble toy (which eventually saw release as United Rumble and Frenzy) with a new head based on his appearance in IDW's More than Meets the Eye (shared with Rewind).
  • Eject's bio places him as coming from the world of Beast Wars: Uprising; his tech specs are one of the first mentions of the Games, which would factor heavily into the first Beast Wars: Uprising prose story, "Broken Windshields".

Cannonball

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Prime: Robots in Disguise Autobot Ratchet, with a new head. Based on Cybertron Cannonball.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Dread Pirate Crew.

Ferak and Tornado

  • Toy notes: Ferak is redecoed from Universe Cyclonus; Tornado is redecoed from Universe Nightstick.
  • Characters mentioned include: Cannonball.
  • Ferak and Tornado are former members of Squadron X, the Decepticon's answer to the Wreckers seen in IDW Publishing's Last Stand of the Wreckers.
  • Ferak's alt-mode is a hunter-seeker skyship, the name given to his alt-mode in his original appearance in Marvel's The Transformers issue #17.

Devcon

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Scourge, with a new head.
  • Characters mentioned include: Alpha Trizer and Flamewar.
  • Devcon is a former Wrecker, as was his counterpart in the 3H Productions The Wreckers comic.

Scorponok and Zarak

  • Toy notes: Scorponok is redecoed from Energon Scorponok, with a new retooled neckpiece in place of a head. Zarak is redecoed from Encore Spike/Fortress with a new face, based on Scorponok's United States character model's face.
  • Characters mentioned include: Cannonball.

Ginrai

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Optimus Prime, in the colors of e-HOBBY Fire Guts God Ginrai.
  • Characters mentioned include: Alpha Trizer.
  • Ginrai has the nickname "Fire Guts", after the special attack of his counterpart in the Super-God Masterforce cartoon.
  • The Cybertronian Knights are named after the Knights of Cybertron, a legendary group from IDW Publishing's 2005 Generation 1 continuity, and a major plot point in the More than Meets the Eye comic series.

Alpha Trizer

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Prime: Robots in Disguise Thundertron. Comes with the swords of Go! Go Prime, which originally came from Go! Kenzan. Based on a cancelled toy from the 3H Productions era of BotCon: a toy of Alpha Trion redecoed from Beast Machines Snarl.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Oracle, Vector Sigma, and Ginrai.
  • Alpha Trizer's bio heavily hints at his true identity as Cheetor: Trizer sees a lot of his younger self in the hotheaded Ginrai, and the rhetorical question "Can a cheetah change its spots" comes up.

Apelinq

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal.
  • Characters mentioned include: Alpha Trizer.

Flareup

Hunter

Brimstone

Dread Pirate Crew ("Pounce" and "Wingspan" type, with two Arms Minicons, represented in fiction as Pillage and Plunder)

  • Toy notes: the "Pounce"-type Dread Pirate is redecoed from Prime: Robots in Disguise Vehicon. The "Wingspan"-type Dread Pirate is redecoed from Prime "Arms Micron" Jet Vehicon. The two "Arms Minicons" are redecoed from Prime "Arms Micron" Igu.
  • Characters mentioned include: Pounce, Wingspan, and Cannonball.

Flamewar

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Prime: Beast Hunters Arcee.
  • Characters mentioned include: Devcon.

Primal Prime

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal. Includes a sticker sheet, with mulitple 3H Wrecker symbols; an Autobot symbol; the Beast Wars and Beast Machines Maximal symbols; a few stickers random stickers; some stickers based on the ones in the original The Transformers Optimus Prime toy's Combat Deck, including the "GO!" sticker; 2 stickers with text reading "STRIKE FORWARD"; 4 stickers reading "WRECK AND RULE!"; a sticker reading "BOTCON 2014"; stickers depicting Apelinq, Alpha Trizer, and Devcon (from "Hoist the Flag", pencils and inks by Hayato Sakamoto, colors by Josh Burcham) and Tap-Out (from The Wreckers issue #3, pencils by Guido Guidi, inks by Vince Russell and Chuck Gibson, colors by Blond); and two stickers of Comic Sans text reading "I LIKE BANANAS".
  • Characters mentioned include: Apelinq and Vector Sigma.
  • Much of Primal Prime's history parallels that of his 3H Productions counterpart, including his creation at the hands of aliens, using the Matrix of Leadership (the Vok, as seen in the Primeval Dawn back-up stories); the title of "the Living Matrix"; his command of the Wreckers; and fighting off a Quintesson invasion.
  • Primal Prime's surfboard is called the Surfblade, after Optimus Prime's own Surfblade, a transforming surfboard/sword from Kiss Players.
  • Primal Prime carries within him a Key to Vector Sigma; the Key was seen in the original The Transformers cartoon, and in the Beast Machines cartoon.
  • Primal Prime has a chronic glitch in his laser core, due to his inability to understand his origins. The laser core was mentioned in The Transformers episodes "Divide and Conquer" and "The Autobot Run", and is somewhat similar to the latter idea of the spark, introduced in Beast Wars.

Kreon Souvenir Pack: Breakdown, Fractyl, Rattrap, Rodimus, Landshark, and Gigatron

  • Toy notes: Breakdown reuses most of the parts from the Micro-Changers Combiner Decepticon Breakdown toy, but uses the helmet of Decepticon Hook, and the double-barreled pistol. Fractyl uses the Megatron helmet, the standard Kre-O pistol, and the wings from various Kreon Predacons. Rattrap uses the Megatron helmet, the double-barreled pistol, and the hardhat accessory from various Kre-O sets. Rodimus uses the Ironhide helmet, the Wheeljack wings, and the flame effect of Singe. Landshark uses the tread pieces, the hand held claw pieces, the gun with the scope, and the helmet of Ratchet. Overlord uses the tread pieces, two different swords, and the helmet of Sentinel Prime.
  • For BotCon's 20th anniversary, this pack of Kreons was produced, sampling characters from throughout BotCon history, including: Generation 2 Breakdown from BotCon 1994; Beast Wars Fractyl from BotCon 1997; "Dawn of Future's Past" Rattrap from BotCon 2006; Shattered Glass Rodimus from BotCon 2008; "Wings of Honor" Landshark from BotCon 2009; and Classics Gigatron from BotCon 2012.
  • Rattrap comes with an alternate helmet to better match his appearance in the "Dawn of Future's Past" comic.

2015

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Lio Convoy

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Orion Pax, with a new head (Shared with Nova Prime).
  • Lio Convoy's staff is called the "Typhoon Staff" here; the actual Beast Wars: Uprising stories would ignore this, instead of calling it the Solipsistic Staff.

Nova Prime

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Orion Pax, with a new head (Shared with Lio Convoy).
  • Based on the IDW Publishing 2005 comics continuity of Nova Prime, the bio is ambiguous on his actual identity, but later stories would reveal that he is the rebuilt and reformed Shattered Glass Optimus Prime.
  • G-Metal is a material from The Headmasters cartoon, from which Scorponok built his Zarak Shield.

Marissa Fairborn and Afterbreaker

  • Toy notes: Based on the character from season 3 of Sunbow's The Transformers, Marissa is made from a variety of G.I. Joe parts. Her head comes from the G.I. Joe Figure Subscription Service Cover Girl toy. Her torso comes from the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}G.I. Joe: Resolute|{{#if:||G.I. Joe: Resolute}}]] Scarlett toy. Her arms come from the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra|{{#if:||G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra}}]] Paris Baroness toy; her hands and lower legs from The Rise of Cobra Cover Girl; and her thighs from The Rise of Cobra Scarlett. Her small gun comes from the Iron Grenadier in the "Iron Grenadier Command" three-pack; her large rifle from G.I. Joe: Pursuit of Cobra Artic Destro; and her jetpack the JUMP Pack from the G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary Cobra Air Trooper. Afterbreaker, meanwhile, is a non-Transforming version of the Autobot Technobot Afterburner; the Technobots teamed with Marissa in Sunbow The Transformers episode "Money is Everything". He is redecoed from the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}G.I. Joe: Retaliation|{{#if:||G.I. Joe: Retaliation}}]] Wheel Blaster Bike.
  • Characters mentioned include: Marissa's father and mother and Clayton "Hawk" Abernathy.
  • Marissa's last name indicated she was related to the G.I. Joe character Flint, whose real name is Dashiell R. Faireborn. "The Killing Jar" featured an illusion of Marissa's father, who resembled an older version of Flint, and was voiced by Flint's actor, Bill Ratner. Flint had a romantic relationship with fellow Joe Lady Jaye; Flint Dille would confirm in an interview that she was her mother.
  • Marissa graduated from the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}United States Air Force Academy|{{#if:||United States Air Force Academy}}]]; her parents wanted her to go to [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}United States Military Academy|{{#if:West Point|West Point|United States Military Academy}}]].
  • Hawk, one of the highest-ranking characters in G.I. Joe, was indicated to have formed the Earth Defense Command in Serpent O.R.'s profile in "A Common Foe".
  • This toy, along with Old Snake's, takes place in the Wings Universe.

Old Snake and Advanced Stealth B.A.T. Duo

  • Toy notes: Old Snake is based on the future Cobra Commander, seen in The Transformers episode "Only Human". He is sourced from a variety of G.I. Joe; he has the torso and arms of The Rise of Cobra Storm Shadow, the legs and head of Pursuit of Cobra Cobra Commander, and the hat of JoeCon 2013 Muskrat. He has the backpack of G.I. Joe 25 Anniversary Lady Jaye, and the gun of the The Rise of Cobra Elite-Vipers. The Battle Android Troopers are based on the 1991 figures, and are redecoed from Prime Soundwave. Soundwave's Laserbeak figure is recolored into a pair of Nightshriek drones. The set also comes with two Energon cubes, redecoed from the "rare artifacts" of the G.I. Joe DVD Battles "The Revenge of Cobra" pack.
  • Characters mentioned in Old Snake's filecard include: four Autobots (Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Arcee, and Springer), Victor Drath, and Marissa Faireborn.
  • Characters mentioned in the B.A.T.'s filecard include: Old Snake, Hawk, and Serpent O.R..
  • The filecards for Old Snake and the B.A.T.s used the combined Decepticon/Cobra symbol, from Devil's Due Press' G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers comic mini-series.
  • The events of "Only Human" are gone over in brief, with Old Snake planning to return Cobra to glory after his failed attempt to use the Autobots for evil and Victor Drath's incarceration. It's noted that after this, Cobra Commander tried to create Serpent O.R., but thanks to interference from the Earth Defense Command, Serpent O.R. was not under his control, as detailed in Serpent's profile in "A Common Foe". Instead, he's turned to upgrading the Battle Android Troopers, robotic Cobra troops, now able to transform into UAVs and standing at nearly full Transformer size.

Carzap and G.B. Blackrock

  • Toy notes: Redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Bumblebee, with a new head. Based on the unreleased Block Town version of Windbreaker. Comes with a Kre-O version of G.B. Blackrock, an ally of the Autobots from the Marvel The Transformers comics.
  • Characters mentioned include: Rapido.
  • Most of Carzap's tech specs are a shortened version of his profile from "A Common Foe". One new thing mentioned is his forestonite powers, (originally a substance from the Comic Bom Bom G-2 manga, forestonite was heavily involved in Wings Universe stories starting with "Generation 2: Redux". It gives him an ability called "Phase 6" that boosts his mental speed, named after the company owned by Andrew Hall, which helps Japanese artists and writers collaborate with Western fiction, and helped make several Collectors' Club stories possible.

Nacelle

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Classics Starscream, with the wings of BotCon 2007 Thrust. Based on a color scheme for Thrust seen in a Japanaese catalog; take his name from a Seeker from the Transformers: Exodus novel.
  • Characters mentioned include: Bitstream, Hotlink, Starscream, and Shockwave.
  • During the war on Cybertron, Nacelle worked with Bitstream, Hotlink, and Starscream as part of the Helex-Yuss Decepticon Research and Advancement team. Starscream was noted to be a scientist before the war in Sunbow's The Transformers episode "Fire in the Sky". Helex was a city introduced in issue #213 of the Marvel UK The Transformers comic. Yuss was a town seen in the Marvel UK prose story "The Magnificent Six!" from the Transformers Annual 1991. Nacelle works with Bitstream and Hotlink, two of the Seekers from the "welcoming committee" scene from the first The Transformers episode, "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1". It has been indicated that he was the barely noticeable dark blue and grey Seeker from said committee.
  • Nacelle has a laboratory in Tesarus; Tesarus was a city originally mentioned in issue #4 of IDW Publishing's More than Meets the Eye.
  • Nacelle's wings are noted to be prototypes upon which the second wave of Earth-bound Seekers (Ramjet, Dirge, and Thrust) had their wings based on. As noted above, Nacelle is based on a prototypical color scheme for Thrust from a Japanese catalog.

Serpent O.R.

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Scourge, using the head of Generations Ratbat. Based on the robotic version of G.I. Joe character Serpentor, from Devil's Due Press mini-series G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War.
  • Characters mentioned include: Four Autobots (Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Arcee, and Springer), Old Snake, and Hawk.
  • Serpent O.R.'s tech specs are a shortened version of his profile from "A Common Foe".

Tarantulas and his Spider Drones

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Reveal the Shield Wreck-Gar, with the head of United Scrapheap. The Spider Drones, based on the Arachnoids from the Beast Wars cartoon, are redecoed from Prime Arms Micron toy Ida.
  • Characters mentioned: Jhiaxus, Sky-Byte, and three other robots (Cicadacon, Ram Horn, and Sea Clamp).
  • Tarantulas' tech specs are a shortened version of his profile from "A Common Foe".

G2 Starscream

  • Toy notes: Redecoed from Classics Starscream, based on his Generation 2 toy.
  • The story of how Starscream obtained his new body was told on the Facebook page, Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur.

Krok and Gatoraider

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Megatron. Gatoraider is redecoed from Prime Arms Micron Dai.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
  • Krok's tech specs are a shortened version of his profile from "A Common Foe".

Nightracer and Shakar

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Autobot Tailgate. Shakar (an anagram of Nightracer's creator's name, Raksha, is redecoed from Groundbuster, who came with Tailgate.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
  • Though technically a toy of the Generation 2 Go-Bot, Nightracer is characterized as the Wings Universe original "Nightracer", from which the Go-Bot is cloned as seen in the "A Flash Forward" storyline. Nevertheless, the clone Nightracer uses this body in "A Common Foe".
  • Raksha, Nightracer's creator, helped pen this bio, and she uses the opportunity to poke a little bit of fun at herself. Shakar, Nightracer's "Micron" partner, can turn into a chemical flamethrower. Raksha was known for causing "flame-wars" in the early days of Internet fandom, over her opinions on Decepticons and the Beast Wars cartoon.

Maximal Packrat

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Rattrap.
  • Packrat's tech specs are pretty much the same as his BotCon 1997 toy's tech specs.

Battletrap

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Autobot Springer, with a new head.
  • Characters mentioned include: Shockwave and Megatron.
  • Battletrap's tech specs would later be expanded into a full profile in the retail release of "Cybertron's Most Wanted".

Autobot Stepper and Nebulon

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Reveal the Shield Special Ops Jazz. Nebulon is redecoed from Universe Nightstick. Based on the Japanese-exclusive Targetmaster Stepper and Nebulon (known as "Ricochet" and "Nightstick" in America), the toy is something of a re-do of the BotCon 2008 Ricochet toy. These two molds were previously sold together as their positive universe counterparts as part of the United toyline, sold as a mail-away exclusive from the Transformers Generations 2011 Vol. 1 book.
  • Characters mentioned include: Ricochet, the "original" Nebulon, Drift, and a group of GoBots (Road Ranger, Treds, Rest-Q, Small Foot, and BuggyMan).
  • Stepper's shtick pre-Axiom Nexus is based on Batman villain the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Ventriloquist (comics)|{{#if:Ventriloquist|Ventriloquist|Ventriloquist (comics)}}]].
  • Ricochet created the Shattered Glass Targetmasters in "Do Over".
  • Shattered Glass Drift's tech specs revealed that he was assigned by Optimus Prime to hunt down any interdimensional invaders.
  • The encounter with the GoBots here that results in Stepper's transport to Axiom Nexus would eventually be seen in "Spatiotemporal Challengers" chapter 2, "High Noon". However, the description of events here (with the fake Nebulon exploding and causing a rift in spacetime, sending Ricochet to Axiom Nexus), would be contradicted by the next story, "Journey's Eve", which showed how, after being incarcerated by the Classics Autobots, a random dimensional gate opened up in his cell.

Megatron with Scalpel, Heavyweight, and Boombox

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Prime War Breakdown, with a new head and the "bullbar" piece from Prime Silas Breakdown. Scalpel is redecoed from Prime Arms Micron Magi, Heavyweight from B.H., and Boombox from Gora. Megatron is based on his Dark of the Moon form. Scalpel's inclusion references the Dark of the Moon film, where multiple "Lensmeter Decepticons", who shared their CGI model with Scalpel, were seen working on Megatron's damaged head. Heavyweight and Boombox are based on Generation 1 Megatron's energon mace and fusion cannon.
  • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime, Sentinel Prime, and Rodimus Prime.
  • Megatron comes from an alternate version of Dark of the Moon, where due to a spatial anomaly, Megatron was able to avoid Optimus Prime's axes and kill him instead.
  • Megatron's motto mentions duranium, a metal from Star Trek.
  • Megatron's fortress on Earth is named New Kaon, the original name of the Earthbound Darkmount from the Prime cartoon.
  • Megatron realizes "it never ends", one of the many phrases present throughout author Simon Furman's work.

Oilmaster

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Swerve and Flanker, with an all-new Pretender shell. Weapons include the sword of Optimus Prime, and the rifle of Megatron, from the Construct-Bots "Optimus Prime vs Megatron" two-pack. Oilmaster is based on the gorilla "Double Pretender", a canceled subline of Pretenders that had shells that hid two robots. He was given the name Oilmaster in the comic sold with the e-HOBBY exclusive Generations Magnificus, "Badlands". This name was derived from the blog of a Japanese Transformers fan and gorilla lover, "Abura Chojin". Oilmaster's jet body is based on Generation 1 Micromaster Airwave.
  • Mechanometers are a unit of measurement mentioned in The Transformers episode "City of Steel".
  • Oilmaster uses a qualtablade, a type of weapon from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Farscape|{{#if:||Farscape}}]].

General Optimus Prime

Sgt. Hound with Dia and Cline

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Autobot Scoop, with a new head. Dia and Cline are redeceod from Caliburst and Holepunch, respectively. Hound is based on the unreleased Generation 2 Sgt. Hound toy, redecoed from Auto Roller Roadblock. Dia and Cline were supposed to be based on the tiny partners of the Diaclone toys on which Burn Out and Lift-Ticket were based, but due to bad lighting conditions in the reference material, they ended up in original color schemes. Dia and Cline's names obviously come from Diaclone. Above Hound's left rear tire, "W.A.L.T." is written in black, in reference to Transformers fan and Hound collector Walter Mueller.
  • Characters mentioned include: General Optimus Prime, Jazz, Megatron, Cheetor, Dia, and Cline.

Burn Out

  • Toy notes: redeceod from Generations Thrilling 30 Autobot Skids. Burn Out is based on the black coloration of the Diaclone Honda City Turbo toy, the mold that would become The Transformers toy named Skids. She takes her name from a Cobra-aligned Dreadnok from G.I. Joe.
  • Characters mentioned include: Dia and her parents.
  • Dia is loosely based on the character Sasha Kaidonovsky from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Pacific Rim (film)|{{#if:Pacific Rim|Pacific Rim|Pacific Rim (film)}}]].
  • The Diaclone Project began in 1982 in Burn Out's home universe. While the first Diaclone toys were released in 1980, the Diaclone toys that would become part of The Transformers were first released in 1982.

Lift-Ticket

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Hoist. Lift-Ticket is based on the red coloration of the Diaclone 4WD Hi-Lux Wrecker Type, the mold that would become The Transformers toy named Hoist. He takes his name from a G.I. Joe helicopter pilot.
  • Characters mentioned include: Cline, the Waruders, Burn Out, and Dia.
  • Japan is apparently a part of the "United Commonwealths of the Indio-Pacific Treatise" in Cline's home universe.
  • Lift-Ticket was originally going to be named "Salvage", after the red Autobot truck from the 2007 Transformers movie toyline. In homage to this, his functions include Salvage and Mechanical Repairs.

Waruders: Parasite and Ripper, Mudfighter and Thrasher, Storm Rider and Crusher, Paralyzer and Buzzer.

  • Toy notes: The larger Waruders are redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Deluxe-Class Waspinator. The smaller Waruders are redeceod from the Legends-class partner Waspinator. The Waruders are the evil faction from Diaclone, alien transforming insects who have come to conquere Earth. The smaller Waruders all take their name from Dreadnoks from G.I. Joe. The Storm Riders also take their name from a Dreadnok; the other larger Waruders, however, are all named after various vehicles from G.I. Joe. The Parasite's colors are based on the unreleased "Horrorcon" Waspinator toy, from the Universe toyline. The Mudfighter's colors are based on the Beast Wars Fox Kids Transmetal Waspinator toy. The Storm Rider's colors are based on the Diaclone Warudos toy. The Parasite's colors are based on the BotCon 2007 Bug Bite toy.

Zaptrap with Beet-Chit and Spy-Eye.

  • Toy notes: Zaptrap is redeceod from Generations Thrilling 30 Skrapnel; Beet-Chit from Chop Shop; and Spy-Eye from Reflector. Zaptrap is based on the e-HOBBY Zaptrap toy, which was itself based on the Diaclone Insecter Robo "Kuwagatrer" toy that eventually became Shrapnel. Beet-Chit takes his name from the "Beet-" suffix used for the toys in the Armored Insect Corps Beetras toyline, the molds of which would eventually be used for the Deluxe Insecticons. "Chit" comes from chitin, a substance found in the exoskeletons of insects and other arthropods. Spy-Eye's colors aren't based on anything in particular, but he has been noted to resemble the Diaclone Powered Armor toys.
  • Zaptrap has the same weapons as e-HOBBY Zaptrap, including grenade launchers and gamma beam detonators.

Galva Convoy

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Timelines Lio Convoy, originally from Generations Thrilling 30 Orion Pax. Comes with unofficial accessories: the Covenant of Primus (from the Beast Wars cartoon) and the Matrix of Conquest (from the "Reaching the Omega Point" story "Terminus"). Based on the Beast Wars II Lucky Draw "Galvatron Color" Lio Convoy toy.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Convoy, Nova Prime, Lio Convoy, Unicron, Maccadam, Swerves, and Cheetor.
  • Various rumors abound as to Galva Convoy's origins. The most prominent theory is that he is from Primax 209.0 Gamma, the "initial" Beast Wars: Uprising universe, a dark reflection of Lio Convoy (like the main version of Galva Convoy), from the Shadowzone, a pocket dimension from the Prime episode of the same name, powered by Unicron. Other theories include that he is a deep-cover agent for the Convoy (the group of Optimus Primes gathered to protect the multiverse, first seen in "Invasion Prologue"; a negative-polarity version of Nova Prime (Nova Prime is from IDW Publishing's 2005 comic continuity; in the "Another Light" storyline, Shattered Glass Optimus Prime was reformatted into the heroic Nova Prime by Unicron); a clone created by a authoritarian regime in the event of an uprising (the origin of Galva Convoy as indicated in "Broken Windshields", and eventually "Not All Megatrons" and "Derailment"). One unlikely rumor has him as Maccadam, the proprietor of Maccadam's Old Oil House, introduced in the Marvel UK The Transformers comics. Only Swerves believe this; the IDW Publishing version of Swerve believes a lot of inane rumors, as seen in More than Meets the Eye.
  • Galva Convoy's axe is theorized to either be made of Dark Energon or Angolmois Energy. Dark Energon and Angolmois Energy are two different forms of Unicron's lifeblood, from the "Aligned" continuity and Beast Wars II, respectively. Beast Wars: Uprising author Jim Sorenson has linked the two in his works.

Kreon Souvenir Set: Autobot Spike, Dr. Arkeville, Nightbird, Robot Master, and Headmaster (with Sentinel Prime)

  • Toy notes: Autobot Spike uses the helmet of Prowl, and the gun hand of Shockwave. Arkeville uses the mad scientist hair piece from the Kre-O Cityville sets, and has a plastic lab coat. Nightbird uses the head of Kre-O Age of Extinction Lockdown, and comes with a sword, some shuriken, a pair of nunchucks, and a sai. The Robot-Master has a fabric cape, and an alternate head using his regular Donny Finkleberg head. The Headmaster uses the smaller Cityville body, and the helmet of Sideswipe. Sentinel Prime comes with a sword and uses the helmet of Prowl. The set comes with the pack-in comic, "The Brick List: Earth's Most Wanted".
  • Autobot Spike is based on the briefly Cybertronian version of Spike Witwicky from The Transformers episode "of the same name". Doctor Arkeville was an ally of the Decepticons seen in several episodes of The Transformers first season. Nightbird was a robot ninja reprogrammed by the Decepticons from The Transformers episode "Enter the Nightbird". Robot-Master was the supervillain alias of Donny Finkelberg, used by both Triple I and the Decepticons as a propaganda tool. The Headmaster and Sentinel Prime both come from Animated; the Headmaster took over Sentinel's body in "The Return of the Headmaster".

2016

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Ramjet

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Armada Starscream, with a new head (shared with Skywarp).
  • Characters mentioned include: Unicron and Nexus Prime.
  • Ramjet's tech specs are a truncated version of the full profile published in issue #67 of the Club magazine.

Skywarp

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Armada Starscream, with a new head (shared with Ramjet).
  • The majority of Skywarp's personality as described in his tech specs comes from his profile in the Dreamwave Productions More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada, as does his nickname, "Bull's-eye in the Sky". However, his teleportation abilities, his prankster-like personality off the battlefield, and his tendency to become listless without direction come from the fairly divergent bio of his Cybertron toy.
  • Skywarp is noted to be trained in Circuit-Su, a Cybertronian martial art mentioned in the tech specs of the 1988 Decepticon Pretender, Bugly. The Japanese toy bio for Prime Skywarp noted that incarnation also studied Circuit-Su, and like him, Armada Skywarp has used it to hone his capabilities.
  • Skywarps swords are called Parahytherion blades, after noted Skywarp fan Randy Para, and the Hytherion, an interdimensional beast from Alternity fiction.

Autobot Leader Code Name: Rodimus Prime

  • Toy notes: Based upon his "human" synthoid form from the season 3 The Transformers episode "Only Human", Rodimus Prime's toy uses various G.I. Joe parts. His head, torso, and arms come from the G.I. Joe: Pursuit of Cobra General Hawk toy. His legs come from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Shipwreck. His rifles come from the G.I. Joe: Retaliation Data-Viper toy. The barracuda (representing the fish he caught in The Transformers: The Movie) comes from the 1990 Undertow toy, recently reused for the JoeCon 2015 Undertow Officer. Finally, his "fishing rod" is made from the accessories of the G.I. Joe: Retaliation Blind Master.
  • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime, Victor Drath, Old Snake, and Kup.
  • Rodimus Prime's "secondary military specialty" is given as "Cavalier," the function of Hot Rod according to his original tech specs.
  • Much of Rodimus' file card is dedicated to recapping the events of "Only Human", with Rodimus wondering how life would be if he remained "only human" in a nod to the episode.
  • A quote about Rodimus is given from Kup (referred to by the trademark friendly name "Sergeant Kup" that's been used to refer to him since his Generations toy). He quotes Optimus Prime, saying that "fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing," quoted from Prime's live-action film counterpart in Revenge of the Fallen.

Autobot Warrior Code Name: Arcee

  • Toy notes: Based upon her "human" synthoid form from the season 3 The Transformers episode "Only Human", Arcee's toy uses various G.I. Joe parts. Her head is an all-new sculpt. Her torso comes from the G.I. Joe: Renegades Scarlett figure. Her arms come from the "50th Anniversary" Lady Jaye figure. Her legs come from the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Covert Operations Scarlett figure, while her pistols come from the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra "Attack on the G.I. Joe P.I.T." Baroness. Her drone, reused as a Sky Spy, comes from the G.I. Joe: Retaliation Data-Viper.
  • Characters mentioned include: Daniel Witwicky, Spike Witwicky, Carly Witwicky, Victor Drath, Old Snake, Springer, Ultra Magnus, Rodimus Prime, and Metroplex.
  • Like Rodimus' file card, Arcee's is mostly dedicated to recapping "Only Human". She's noted to have a close relationship with Daniel.
  • A quote from Springer says that, in battle, Arcee's meaner than a Privelian Cyberfang Turbocat.

G.I. Joe featuring Ninja Force and the Transformers

  • This toy pack homages the storyline in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comic that set up the Generation 2 comic, running from issue #138 to #142, referencing the Silent Castle in Trans-Carpathia and its transformation capabilities that attracted Megatron to it, Biggles-Jones' rail gun technology, and Cobra's experiments with cloning in the basement of the Silent Castle. It also mentions how it was presumed Megatron was dead after the Ark crashed on Earth again, as seen in issue #78 of The Transformers. This toy set doesn't quite take place in continuity with the Marvel comic, adding Ratbat, Blackcat, and Toaster into the mix. Also mentioned is that Scarlett was sent to the medibay, after being stabbed by Snake-Eyes to keep her cover in issue #138. The boxart for the toy was drawn by Chris Batista, who penciled issues #139 and #140 of the crossover, done in homage to the cover of #139, with Megatron and Cobra Commander's positions swapped. It also recreates the cover dress of the original G.I. Joe covers, with a logo for G.I. Joe Featuring Ninja Force and Transformers, a corner box (with the heads of Ratbat, Scarlett, and Biggles-Jones, an "issue number" declaring the boxset to be issue 139.5, and a little stamp saying "[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Comics Code Authority|{{#if:Approved by the Fan Code Authority|Approved by the Fan Code Authority|Comics Code Authority}}]]."

Megatron

  • Toy notes: Redecoed from the Generations Thrilling 30 Megatron toy, this toy doesn't represent Megatron himself, but a hologram of a design for Megatron's new form, to explain Megatron's toy being roughly the same size as the humans in the pack. It's colored as the original Generation 2 Megatron toy, in green and purple.

Ratbat

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the Masterpiece Ratbat figure, in the colors of Ratbat as he appeared in the Marvel comic. A profile published in the G.I. Joe Club's magazine (See below) established that Ratbat had, in fact, survived being killed by Scorponok in issue #50 of The Transformers.

Dr. Biggles-Jones

  • Toy notes: Based on the original character from the Marvel G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comics, Dr. Biggles Jones uses a variety of G.I. Joe toy parts. Her head is taken from the G.I. Joe Collectors Club Figure Subscription Service 1.0 Kim Arashikage. Her upper torso comes from the 2016 G.I. Joe Collectors Club membership figure, Pythona, while her lower torso comes from the G.I. Joe: Resolute Scarlett figure. Her upper legs come from the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Agent Helix figure, while her lower legs and feet come from the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Covert Operations Scarlett figure. Her arms come from the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Cover Girl figure. Her lab coat is redecoed from the trench coat of the G.I. Joe: Renegades Amazon-exclusive Snake-Eyes figure. And her rifle comes from the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Neo-Viper figure.
  • Characters mentioned include: Cobra Commander, the Night Creepers, Megatron, and Ratbat.
  • Biggles-Jones' file card is a shortened version of her dossier in the Joe Collectors' Club magazine (see below).

Scarlett

  • Toy notes: Based on her "Ninja Force" appearance, Scarlett is made from a variety of toy parts. Her head and upper legs come from her G.I. Joe: Renegades figure. Her upper torso, along with her twin swords and her back-mounted scabbard, comes from the San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Kim Arashikage figure, while her lower torso comes from the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Desert Ambush Scarlett. Her lower legs and feet come from the 2009 Air Viper figure. Her arms come from the San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Zarana figure. Her nunchucks come from the G.I. Joe: Retaliation Kim Arashikage figure, while her tekagi come from the G.I. Joe: Retaliation Red Ninja figure.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Ninja Force, Cobra Commander, Dr. Sidney Biggles-Jones, Blackcat, Toaster, and Megatron.
  • Scarlett's file card is a shortened version of her dossier in the Joe Collectors' Club magazine (see below).

Cobra Commander

  • Toy notes: Cobra Commander is a redecoed version of the 2013 Cobra Commander figure released at Dollar General. His "Megatron pistol" accessory, meanwhile, comes from the San Diego Comic Con 2011 G.I. Joe and the Transformers exclusive set.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
  • Cobra Commander's file card is a shortened version of her dossier in the Joe Collectors' Club magazine (see below).

Blackcat

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the Ravage figure from the G.I. Joe and the Transformers San Diego Comic-Con 2013 exclusive set, Blackcat was a green recolor of Ravage seen in the German Transformers Comic-Magazin in issue #18. His red paws, however, come from another green recolor of Ravage seen on the covers of issues #4 and #6, with this figure retconning those into being Blackcat.

Toaster

  • Toy notes: redecoed from the Blaster figure also from the G.I. Joe and the Transformers San Diego Comic-Con 2013 set; the tapes representing Steeljaw, Ramhorn, and Eject have been redecoed into pieces of "toast". Toaster is a bit more complicated: in issue #198 of the Marvel UK The Transformers comic, a flashback to the Autobots and Decepticons waking up on board the Ark showed one Transformer being reformatted into a toaster. In the letters page for #310 of the comic, Blaster claimed that the toaster was his brother...Toaster.

Needlenose (with Sunbeam and Zputty)

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Firefly, with Sunbeam and Zputty redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Caliburst and Holepunch. Due to Zigzag's original name being unavailable to trademark, he was renamed Zputty, after David Puddy, a mechanic like Zigzag from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Seinfeld|{{#if:||Seinfeld}}]].
  • Needlenose's "motto", "Photon Eliminator? That is sooooooo 2006," references both the personal weapon of Generation 1 Rodimus Prime, and the Marvel UK The Transformeers storyline, "Target: 2006".
  • Needlenoses's 4C Cyro Coolant Concussion Cannon is presumably named for the fact that its name is four words beginning with "C".

Grabuge

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Decepticon Offroad. Due to the trademark for the name "Ruckus" being unavailable, he uses his French Canadian name, Grabuge, which is noted to be his nom de guerre in his tech specs.
  • Characters mentioned include: Ground Hog and Bludgeon.
  • Ruckus is noted to be the brother of the 1990 Micromaster Ground Hog.
  • Ruckus wields a "chaos crystal-tipped ax", which feels like a reference to the death crystals that were shed from the monster known as Chaos, as seen in The Transformers episode "Chaos".

Spinister (with Shrute and Singe)

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Alpha Bravo, with Shrute and Singe redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Holepunch and Caliburst. Due to Hairsplitter's original name being unavailable to trademark, he was renamed Shrute, after [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Dwight Schrute|{{#if:||Dwight Schrute}}]] from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Office (American TV series)|{{#if:The Office|The Office|The Office (American TV series)}}]].
  • Characters mentioned include: Bludgeon.
  • Spinister has supposedly traveled the multiverse, in reference to his appearance in issues #14 through #17 of the Dreamwave Armada comic as the sole survivor of an alternate universe consumed by Unicron.
  • Shrute claims that Spinister once told him that he also used to be a Targetmaster, in reference to the Generations Thrilling 30 toy of Spinister that was packed in as a partner for Nemesis Prime.

Windsweeper

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Skydive. Also includes the Matrix of Malice accessory for Thunder Mayhem, redecoed from the Matrix of Leadership accessory included with Masterpiece MP-10 Optimus Prime.
  • Characters mentioned include: Grabuge and Bludgeon.
  • Windsweeper's bio notes that, before the war, he used to be an Autobot, in reference to a long-standing fan theory that he and Dogfight were swapped between the Triggerbots and Triggercons.
  • Having abandoned his Triggercon weapons, Windsweeper is now armed with a heat-seeking missile launcher and a B-1B double-barreled laser cannon, named for Windsweeper's original alternate mode, the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Rockwell B-1 Lancer|{{#if:B-1B Lancer|B-1B Lancer|Rockwell B-1 Lancer}}]].

Bludgeon

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Onslaught with a new head, based on his original toy's inner robot head. He comes with two swords, taken from Go! Optimus Exprime.
  • Characters mentioned include: the previous holder of the Matrix of Malice.
  • Aside from being trained in Metallikato, Bludgeon is also trained in Crystalocution, a martial art mentioned in the tech specs of 1990 Action Master Banzai-Tron.
  • Bludgeon's swords are made of tironium, a metal mentioned in the Beast Wars episode "Power Surge".

Thunder Mayhem

  • Toy notes: The combined form of the Mayhem Attack Squad. Bludgeon's combiner head, originally meant for Combiner Wars Bruticus, is replaced with a new mold based on Thunderwing's head, with his torso redecoed to look like Thunderwing's Marvel appearance.

Impactor

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Protectobot Rook, with a new head based on the design for Impactor created by Nick Roche for Last Stand of the Wreckers. He comes with redecoed versions of the accessories of Generations Thrilling 30 Arcee.
  • Characters mentioned include: Flame.
  • Impactor's tech specs are mostly a truncated version of his profile in #68 of the Club magazine. The only new addition is the mention of "the trials by Flame"; Flame was a rogue Autobot scientist who revived the dead Impactor alongside many others as zombies in the Marvel UK The Transformers comic, in a storyline that ran from issues #164 to #169.

Bluestreak

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Smokescreen, with colors based on the original Diaclone Fairlady Z version of the toy that became Bluestreak's original toy, and the Binaltech Bluestreak toy.
  • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime, Impactor, Wheeljack, Medix, and Mirage.
  • Bluestreak's coloration is noted to be a "stealth tech" upgrade made in collaboration with Wheeljack (the Autobot's resident scientist), Medix (Autobot medic, and a Generation 1 version of the Rescue Bots character introduced at BotCon 2016), and Mirage (who had the power to turn invisible in the Sunbow The Transformers cartoon.

Ravage

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Breakdown, with a new head based on his Beast Wars cartoon head (shared with Tigatron). This toy is infamous for the new head mold being very flat.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Tripredacus Council.
  • Ravage's body is rumored to have been provided by the Tripredacus Council, which contradicts BotCon 2006 Laserbeak's tech specs, where it was noted it was provided by Divebomb.
  • Ravage's sword is made of G-Metal, a substance from The Headmasters cartoon. The bio notes Ravage may one day trade it in for laser-guided weapons, in reference to his guns from the Beast Wars cartoon.

Predacon Tarantulas

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Protectobot Rook with a new head, both of which are based upon his Transmetal form.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Tripredacus Council.
  • Tarantulas' mysterious origins are vaguely hinted at, noting he came up from a "pit of the unknown".

General Ramhorn

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Nosecone with a new head, based on his appearance in the Beast Wars episode "The Agenda (Part 1)". He's colored red, due to the lighting of the scene, but the actual model was gray, as with the other Tripredacus members.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Tripredacus Council.
  • Ram Horn is said to be as subtle as a variable voltage harness, a torture device first mentioned in issue #35 of the Marvel The Transformers comic.
  • Rumored origins include him being a former Autobot (his surliness and general assholishness might mean that he was Slag), him having killed and stolen the name of an Autobot (Generation 1 Ramhorn, obviously), or that he crawled out of the Pit itself.

General Cicadacon

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Skydive, based upon his appearance in the Beast Wars episode "The Agenda (Part 1)".
  • Characters mentioned include: the Tripredacus Council and Unicron.
  • Cicadacon is hinted to have been...sigh. To have been Shockwave once. During the start of the Great War, an attack on his city heavily damaged him, and he shut off his higher emotional functions for self-repair mode, which ended up causing him amnesia. When Unicron attacked Cybertron in The Transformers: The Movie, another near-fatal experience awoke his true personality.

General Sea Clamp

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Scattershot with a new head, based upon his appearance in the Beast Wars episode "The Agenda (Part 1)".
  • Characters mentioned include: Cicadacon, Ram Horn, and Ravage.
  • Like Cicadacon, Sea Clamp is given a very stupid origin, hinting at him being a reformatted Soundwave. He's loyal to the cause (Cybertronians rather than Decepticons), emotionally distant, and is close to Ravage.

Predacus

  • Toy notes: the combiner head on General Sea Clamp has been retooled into a new head based on the Beast Wars toyline's combined Tripredacus toy.

Megatron

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Robots in Disguise Megatron with a new head and color scheme based upon his Transmetal 2 form. This toy is based on an unused concept for 3H Productions' canceled "OTFCC 2005" convention, which didn't happen due to their loss of the license from Hasbro. Due to a factory error, his dragon mode is missing eyes, but stickers with the Magnaboss sheet for both his eyes and a Predacon faction symbol for his spark crystal could fix this.
  • Characters mentioned include: the original Megatron.
  • Megatron's appearance is explained to be the result of techno-organic Tri-Malternium, or "TM3", obviously evoking the idea of "Transmetal 3"

Tigatron

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Breakdown with a new head (shared with Ravage), this toy is based on Tigatron's BotCon 2001 toy.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Maximal Command Security Force.
  • For whatever reason, the toy bio for Tigatron diverges somewhat from his comic depiction, showing him as a cop, as he was in "Dawn of Future's Past". It notes that, as part of his protecting the peace, he looks after "Autobot or Maximal artifacts," in reference to the Golden Disk.
  • The Maximal Command Security Force is erroneously referred to as the "Maximal Security Force".
  • Tigatron wields a Trithyllium blade; Trithyllium was a metal mentioned in the original tech specs for Ironhide.

Airazor

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Legends Slipstream.
  • Airazor's motto is "She swoops to conquer!", a quote from the Beast Wars episode "Call of the Wild".

Unit-3

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Protectobot Streetwise, this toy is based on the 1996 McDonald's Beast Wars promotional toy for toddlers, "Under-3". His "name" is based on Tigatron's codename from "Dawn of Future's Past", Unit-2.
  • Characters mentioned include: Primus and Prowl.
  • Another dumb retcon: Unit-3 is hinted to be Steeljaw, referencing his data collection specialist abilities, and his enhanced sense of smell. Outside of this, numerous references are made to the...peculiarity of Under-3's original toy, which only turned into a lion head. Part of his motto reads "others say I have a big head," and Prowl feels that he "has a head that understands the chain of command." Outside of this, Unit-3's original personality is noted to be buried "under three quadruple-encrypted layers in his central processing system," and Prowl feels that he has a lion's heart, in reference to the animal he turned into the head of.

Reflector

  • Toy notes: three figures (Viewfinder, Spectro, and Spyglass) redecoed from Combiner Wars Decepticon Shockwave, with the mold's pretooled "Reflector" head-sculpt. The toys can combine into a sorta-kinda camera mode.
  • Characters mentioned include: Jhiaxus.
  • Somewhat unusually, Reflector's bio has nothing to do with the overall setting for the comic. Instead, he comes from a universe inspired by IDW Publishing's 2005 comic continuity. It's noted that Viewfinder had been killed on LV-117 (as his IDW counterpart did in Spotlight: Wheelie), with Spectro and Spyglass going to Jhiaxus to be given new bodies and split off from the consciousness of their dead part. Viewfinder's spark was revived with Ore-1, introduced in #10 of Robots in Disguise before being named in issue #17.

Magnaboss

  • Toy notes: formed from Tigatron and Unit-3 (who form the left and right legs, respectively) and the retail Combiner Wars toys, Silverbolt, Ironhide, and Prowl (who form the torso, left arm, and right arm, respectively). A sticker sheet is used to give Silverbolt, Ironhide, and Prowl more resemblance to their Beast Wars counterparts, along with Magnaboss himself. Additionally, Silverbolt's shield and Tigatron's sword can be combined to form Magnaboss' sword.

Terrorsaur

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Air Raid, with a new head. He does not have the combiner foot/handgun.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
  • Terrorsaur is noted to have studied Decepticon lieutenants in order to advance through the ranks through deceit, in reference to Starscream.

Flash Sentry

  • Toy notes: a clear version of the Reflector toy, exclusively available to those who bought the Golden Ticket package for BotCon 2016. Flash Sentry on the numerous generics using Reflector's character models in the first season of Sunbow's The Transformers cartoon. His name is taken from the My Little Pony character, while also seemingly being in reference to Shockwave's pre-production name, Flash Beam.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Photons, Reflector, and Megatron.
  • Flash Sentry is a Photon, the name given to the aforementioned generics by the Wings Universe story "A Team Effort". It's noted that he's made in Reflector's image thanks to Lightfield Cybertronian technology. He along with most of the Photons is hinted to have died at the Battle of Autobot City in The Transformers: The Movie.

Autobot Ratchet (Marvel Comics)

  • Toy notes: for the customization class at BotCon 2016, the Combiner Wars Protectobot First Aid toy was offered in white with the then-unused pre-tooled Ratchet head, with 5 different options for customization. The first of these was based on the Marvel Comics The Transformers appearance of Ratchet. The sticker sheet included also comes with stickers that allow you to recreate the original Ratchet toy's "driver seat sticker face" on his combiner peg, and an original Enigma of Combination accessory based on its appearance in IDW Publishing's comics, able to be placed in Ultra Prime/Optimus Maximus' chest.
  • Most of Ratchet's bio is copied from his original tech specs. It's noted he gained his combiner abilities after exposure to an ancient Autobot artifact, obviously referring to the Enigma of Combination. He can serve as a "universal donor" for any combiner, and his hand has a "healing touch."

Autobot Ratchet (G1 cartoon)

  • Toy notes: the second option for the Customization Class Ratchet is based on his Sunbow The Transformers cartoon appearance. The sticker for his vehicle mode hood is based on the logo on Animated Ratchet. His profile is identical to the "Marvel" Ratchet.

Autobot Ratchet (Generation 2)

  • Toy notes: the third option is for a Generation 2 version of Ratchet, with stickers of the Generation 2 Autobot symbol, a sticker with the Generation 2 Autobot symbol followed by text reading "AUTOBOT" (as seen on several toys), and stickers reading "911" and "16" (from BotCon 2016).
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron, the Liege Maximo, Optimus Prime, First Aid, Fixit, and Defensor.
  • Ratchet comes from a world similar to the Generation 2 Marvel comic, with Prime finding him after the events of the comic. It also mentions his time merged with Megatron, as seen in issues #69 and #70 of the Marvel The Transformers comic, which makes him leery about combining.
  • Ratchet can replace First Aid as a limb for Defensor, since First Aid suffers from "GPS", in reference to Gold Plastic Syndrome; what samples of First Aid's Generation 2 toy that have turn up show that he would have likely suffered from it. Funnily, the Protectobots were the only of the four original "Scramble City" combiners to not have a Generation 2-style Combiner Wars release.
  • Ratchet's form has been enhanced with Rheanimum, a density-increasing gas from the Generation 2 comic.

Autobot Ratchet (Shattered Glass)

  • Toy notes: the fourth option was for Shattered Glass Ratchet, based on his appearance from "Dungeons & Dinobots".
  • Characters mentioned include: Unicron and the Autotrooper made from Ratchet.
  • Ratchet's original body was reformatted by Unicron into an Autotrooper in "Out of the One, Many".
  • Ratchet survived death by placing his mind in a crystalline containment vessel stolen from the positive-universe Autobots. This technology was seen in issue #14 of the Marvel The Transformers comic, which was used to store copies of several Autobots' minds on board the Ark in case the Autobots onboard needed reinforcements.

Medix

  • Toy notes: the fifth and final option used the First Aid head to create Medix, a Generation 1 version of Rescue Bots Medix. Specifically, he's based on the colors of Medix's Playskool Heroes toy. He has a sticker featuring the Rescue Bot faction logo for his vehicle mode hood.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Protectobots, Rook, Heatrock, Skyfeather, Ratchet, First Aid, and Defensor.
  • Medix is noted to be the ninth Protectobot, part of a recruitment drive by the team to ensure that, if one of them falls, there will still be enough members to form Defensor. Other new members include Rook, the Combiner Wars APC Protectobot, and Heatrok and Skyfeather, the extra components created by Kabaya for their release of candy toy Protectobots.

2017

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Fractyl

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Air Raid, with the head of BotCon 2016 Terrorsaur.
  • Characters mentioned include: Impactor and the Wreckers.
  • Fractyl's bio was supposed to be updated, to fit more in line with his depiction in "Life Finds a Way", versus the original version written before that story was written. Unfortunately, it never was, and depicts Fractyl as having crash-landed on a planet where primitive mechanoids were beginning to evolve rudimentary conversion abilities-this planet is Gorlam Prime from the 2005 IDW Publishing comics continuity, where experiments by Jhiaxus turned the native organics into Micromasters.

Scorponok

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Scamper.
  • Characters mentioned in Scorponok's first set of tech specs: Megatron, the Darksyders, and Terrorsaur.
  • Characters mentioned in Scorponok's second set of tech specs: Megatron, Double Punch, and Beeline.
  • Scorponok has the unique distinction of having TWO tech specs: one on his tech spec card, for the Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Scorponok, and one printed on his instructions, meant to fit in with the "Dawn of Future's Past" version.
  • Uprising Scorponok's motto has Scorponok claim how, after meeting Megatron, the "scales have fallen from my optics," referencing the New Testament story of the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Conversion of Paul the Apostle|{{#if:||Conversion of Paul the Apostle}}]].
  • Uprising Scorponok is armed with the Blacking Cannon; the Super-God Masterforce BlackZarak toy was armed with four Blacking Cannons.
  • "Dawn of Future's Past" Scorponok is brother to Double Punch, the Action Master Elite who, for BotCon Japan 1998, was given a new Beast Wars toy, redecoed from Scorponok's. It's noted that Double Punch gained more favor as an assassin than his brother's street-level enforcement occupation, and that he worked with Beeline, the redeco of Scorponok's Cyberbee that came with Double Punch, here reimagined as a sentient Transformer.
  • Scorponok has gone through several bodies, referencing the different pre-beast forms he was given in "Dawn of Future's Past" and Theft of the Golden Disk. His current alternate mode is called a Thunderclaw.

Lifeline

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Arcee.
  • Characters mentioned include: the Paradron Medic Corps.
  • Both Lifeline and Quickslinger's bios are mostly truncated versions of their profile from issue #68 of the Club magazine.
  • Lifeline gets her name from a fellow medic from G.I. Joe.

Quickslinger

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Flanker. Based upon the club's original Cybertron Quickslinger.
  • Characters mentioned include: Lifeline.
  • Quickslinger's motto, "I bring the fire AND the rain!", references the phrase used by Epps in the live-action Transformers movie.
  • Lifeline doesn't use Quickslinger's gun mode, since her toy isn't molded to work with 5 mm posts.

Double Pretender Optimus Prime (with Hi-Q)

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Swerve, with a new head. His Pretender shell is redecoed from BotCon 2015 Timelines Oilmaster. He comes with guns taken from Generations Thrilling 30 Legends-class Optimus Prime and Deluxe-class Orion Pax. His colors are inspired by the Generation 2 Laser Optimus Prime toy, while his Pretender shell colors are based on the original Double Pretender prototype Oilmaster was inspired by. He comes with Hi-Q, a Targetmaster version of Optimus Prime's Powermaster partner, redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Flanker.
  • Prime's bio is written in the bombastic Generation 2 style, with lots of exclamation marks.
  • Prime's inner robot is armed with a high-density ion cannon, named after his classic weapon of choice, the ion blaster. His Pretender shell is armed with a photon rifle; Action Master Optimus Prime's vehicle, the Armored Convoy, sported a photon cannon. Finally, as a Targetmaster, Hi-Q turns into a particle beam cannon, one of Powermaster Optimus Prime's weapons.
  • Prime's Pretender shell has "incredible primal power," in reference to Beast Wars Maximal commander and fellow gorilla, Optimus Primal.
  • Prime's inner robot form is armored with durabyllium, a metal first mentioned in issue #19 of the Marvel The Transformers comic.

Double Pretender Megatron (with Spacewarp)

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Legends-class Megatron. His Pretender shell is redecoed from Super-God Masterforce Grand Maximus' Pretender shell. His inner robot colors are based on the canceled Generation 2 Combat Hero Megatron, while his Pretender shell colors are based on his original colors. He comes with redecoes of Titans Return Sentinel Prime's rifle and Titans Return Voyager-class Optimus Prime's sword. He comes with a joint piece that allows Spacewarp to fit in his shell, based on Megatron's original toy weapon, the "high-density infrared laser cannon". Spacewarp is based on the cancelled Universe toy, given a personality and backstory in Ask Vector Prime and Transformers: Spacewarp's Log. She's redecoed from Generations Thrilling 30 Payload.
  • Like Prime's tech specs, Megatron's tech specs are written in bombastic Generation 2 style.
  • Spacewarp transformers into a Transwarp Blaster, the combined form of her usual Mini-Con partners, the Interstellar Marauders Mini-Con Team.

Toxitron

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Motormaster, with the unused alternate head of the mold, and the combiner head originally used for Combiner Wars Optimus Prime. Based on the cancelled Universe Toxitron toy.
  • Characters mentioned include: Shockwave.
  • Toxitron's tech specs seem to have been written with an earlier version of "The Toxic Transformer"—noting that it was Shockwave who directly controlled him, instead of him being the experiment created by some of his underlings.

Counterpunch

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Combiner Wars Wheeljack, with the mold's unused alternate head.
  • Characters mentioned include: Lifeline, Impactor, and the Wreckers.
  • Punch's motto ("Truth. As terrible as death, but harder to find.") is paraphrased from the 1962 alternate history novel [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Man in the High Castle|{{#if:||The Man in the High Castle}}]] by [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Philip K. Dick|{{#if:||Philip K. Dick}}]].
  • Counterpunch's tech specs recount the events of "The Truth We Make". He's also referred to as a "Doublespy," his classic sub-group, and is armed with upgraded forms of his original weapons.

Wreckage

  • Toy notes: formed from the TFSS 4.0 figures Impactor and Bluestreak, along with the TFSS 5.0 figures Fractyl, Toxitron, and Counterpunch. Combiner Wars Alpha Bravo and Decepticon Offroad can also form limbs. The two combinations schemes are as follows: Toxitron (torso), Offroad (left arm), Counterpunch (right arm), Alpha Bravo (left leg), and Fractyl (right leg) vs. Toxitron (torso), Counterpunch (left arm), Impactor (right arm), Fractyl (left leg), and Bluestreak (right leg).

Shattered Glass Starscream

  • Toy notes: redecoed from Unite Warriors Stascream in the colors of the original Shattered Glass Starscream toy.
  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
  • Starscream is armed with a twin-barrelled Atari-Scream projectile launcher, named for the Kiss Players character Atari Hitotonari, who was briefly possessed by the ghost of Starscream.
  • Starscream has been upgraded for Scramble Combination, after the Scramble City subline that the combiner with modular limbs were sold under in Japan.
  • Starscream's red combiner mode fist can perform a special attack, the Null Fist, which disrupts the electrical flow of its targets, obviously named after the positive-universe Starscream's null-ray.
  • Amusingly, Starscream's instructions has a "possible suggestion" for a combined form: Modulus, formed from Starscream (who serves as the right arm), Combiner Wars Scattershot (who forms the torso), BotCon 2016 Rachet (who forms the left arm), BotCon 2016 Medix (who forms the left leg), and Combiner Wars Protectobot Rook (who forms the right leg).

TOTGD bios

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Stopgap:

  • Stopgap spent several years undercover on Edaps, which is backward for Spade, and named after fictional detective [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Sam Spade|{{#if:||Sam Spade}}]].

Backslash:

  • Mentioned characters: Cryotek, Sharkticons, Buzzbomb, Scoponok, Megatron.
  • The eye optics used by several Predacons in Beast Wars are noted to be a popular modification among Predacons.

Buzzbomb:

  • Mentioned characters include: Cryotek and Backslash.

Dirge:

  • Mentioned characters include: Cryotek, Blot
  • Among the possessions Dirges has "acquired" include the Hand of Blot (presumably the hand of the G1 Terrorcon), and the Boltaxian Codex found in the slums of Darkmount, named for Marvel-original Transformer Boltax. Darkmount was the fortress of Straxus from the Marvel The Transformers comic.

Cryotek

  • Mentioned characters include: Deathsaurus, Megatron.
  • Before the end of the war, Cryotek worked as a supply manager under Deathsaurus.

Micro-Sized profiles

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March 2nd profiles: Bunker-Buster, Knockdown, Nightscream, Offshoot, and Strongarm.

  • Mentioned characters include: Scourge, Override, and Dirt Boss.
  • Bunker-Buster is based off an unreleased redeco of the Attacktix Mini-Con mold, based on Energon Skyboom. Knockdown, Nightscream, Offshoot, and Strongarm were included with a special release of the Cybertron Primus toy, exclusive to Wal-Mart.
  • Bunker-Buster is one of the lunar Mini-Con rebels under Thrust's command.
  • Knockdown comes from the Jungle Planet.
  • Nightscream comes from Gigantion. The idea that Gigantion's people were usually not allowed to return to lower levels comes from the Cybertron episode "Giant".
  • Offshoot is from Velocitron, and is a partner of Dirt Boss; she shares his grudge with Override.
  • Strongarm is one of the Earth-based Cybertronians and works with the monster hunters (including Crosswise). He is noted to have holomatter avatars, technology introduced in IDW's Infiltration. He's based on [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Jerry Orbach|{{#if:||Jerry Orbach}}]]'s character [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Lennie Briscoe|{{#if:||Lennie Briscoe}}]] from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Law & Order|{{#if:||Law & Order}}]].

March 9th profiles: Hawkeye, Highgear, Hydroplane, Rockslide, and Solar Flare.

  • Mentioned characters include: Decepticlones, Backstop, Scourge, and Leobreaker.
  • Hawkeye and Highgear come from the Armada video game, while Hydroplane, Rockslide, and Solar Flare are all renamed versions of Japanese Galaxy Force Toys"R"Us exclusives (where they were originally named Platinum Element, Platinum Material, and Platinum Factor, respectively), here dubbed the Noble Force Mini-Con Team, and were made to be partners of Leobreaker (although he can't powerlinx with them).
  • Hawkeye is based on the character of "Hawkeye" Pierce from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}M*A*S*H|{{#if:||M*A*S*H}}]].
  • Highgear is convinced there is a planet dedicated to racing.
  • The Noble Force Team was created by the Jungle Planet Key.
  • "[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Hydroplaning (tires)|{{#if:Hydroplaning|Hydroplaning|Hydroplaning (tires)}}]]" occurs when a car hits a thin sheet of water that causes it to lose direct contact with the ground and, thus, is likely to spin out or crash.

March 16th profiles: Aftershock, Breakage, Heavy Metal, Jumpstart, Kickflip, and Mudbath.

  • Mentioned characters include: Terrorcons, Wreckage, the Land Military Mini-Con Team, and the Mini-Con Council of Sages.
  • Aftershock and Jumpstart are from the Armada video game, while the other three, Breakage, Kickflip, and Mudbath, along with their combined form Heavy Metal, are from the third wave of Micron Boosters (where they were originally named Brake, Filter, Damper, and Frenzy, respectively).
  • It is noted that combinations into a sentient Mini-Con are extremely difficult, which is why most combinations are into weapons.

March 23rd profiles: Barnstorm, Buildup, the Dead End Drones/Dead End Generals, Drop-Test, Flashbang, and the Matrix Cannon.

  • Mentioned characters include: Terrorcons, Unicron, Galvatron, Failsafe, and Primus.
  • Barnstorm comes from the 3rd wave of Micron Boosters (where he was named Saber), the Dead End Drones came from the 5th wave, and Drop-Test from the first (where he was named Rod). Buildup, Flashbang, and Matrix Cannon come from the Armada video game.
  • The Dead End Drone's schematics were obtained by Galvatron, presumably from his time in Unicron in Energon.
  • Barnstorm is loosely inspired by fictional World War I British flying ace, [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Biggles|{{#if:||Biggles}}]]; writer Greg Sepelak was only aware of the character due to the British comedy series [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Monty Python's Flying Circus|{{#if:||Monty Python's Flying Circus}}]], hence the description of Barnstorm as a "one-bot flying circus."
  • Drop-Test's personality is based on Walter Sobchak from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Big Lebowski|{{#if:||The Big Lebowski}}]].
  • The Transformer depicted holding the Matrix Cannon is a generic seen in the Armada episode "Past", using Fortress Maximus' character model. Nicknamed Christmas Maximus, he would later get the name Peritus Maximus from Ask Vector Prime.

May 4th: Astro-Hook, Astro-Line, Astro-Sinker, Claymore, and Overwatch.

  • Mentioned characters include: Astrotrain and Starcatcher.
  • Overwatch and Claymore come from the Armada video game. Astro-Train, Astro-Line, and Astro-Sinker are three of club exclusive Astrotrain's Mini-Con partners.

May 18th: Kickback, Repeater, Rock Krusher, Saw Boss, and Starcatcher.

  • Mentioned characters include: Metroplex, Drill Bit, and Astrotrain.
  • Kickback is from the Armada video game; Repeater, Rock Krusher, and Saw Boss were Galaxy Force exclusive Mini-Cons (where they were named Megalo Zapmap, Megalo Gritbit, and Megalo Zigzag, respectively; Starcatcher is one of the Mini-Con partners of club exclusive Astrotrain.
  • Rock Krusher is named for one of the Crooks in the Hasbro toyline [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}COPS (animated TV series)|{{#if:COPS|COPS|COPS (animated TV series)}}]]. Saw Boss, meanwhile, is named for the main villain of the Mattel toyline [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors|{{#if:Wheeled Warriors|Wheeled Warriors|Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors}}]].
  • Starcatcher graduated from the Eeviac Science Academy, named for [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Man or Astro-man?|{{#if:||Man or Astro-man?}}]] album [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}EEVIAC Operational Index and Reference Guide, Including Other Modern Computational Devices|{{#if:||EEVIAC Operational Index and Reference Guide, Including Other Modern Computational Devices}}]].

May 25th: Flashdrive, Jackknife, Maverick, Skull Buster, Smackdown, and the Vorpal Saber.

  • Mentioned characters: Barnstorm, Trickshot, Unicron, Nemesis Prime, the Star Saber. the Skyboom Shield, and the Requiem Blaster.
  • Flashdrive was part of the third wave of Micron Boosters, (where he was named Processor); Jackknife, Maverick, and Skull Buster, who combine into the Vorpal Saber were Micron Legend exclusive Mini-Cons (where they were named Jack, Shade, Mad, and the Dark Saber, respectively); Smackdown comes from the Armada video game.
  • Barnstorm's team, the Elite Flying Corps, is presumably named for the Elite Flying Corps that Swoop once belonged to, as seen in issues 46 of the Marvel UK The Transformers comics and Marvel UK Transformers Annual 1987 story "What's in a Name?"
  • A male character named Trickshot is mentioned in Flashdrive's bio; presumably, this was meant to be the American name of the Mini-Con Triac. Because the Wiki didn't record this, Ask Vector Prime would later establish them as a female character named Bingo.
  • Flashdrive's tendency to accidentally destroy satellites during out space battles is inspired by a scene in 1996's [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie|{{#if:||Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie}}]], where Mike Nelson's reckless driving of the Satellite of Love accidentally causes him to crash into the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Hubble Space Telescope|{{#if:||Hubble Space Telescope}}]].
  • Skull Buster is named for the G.I. Joe character.
  • Smackdown's mannerisms are based on Dwayne Johnson.
  • The Vorpal Saber is named for the "vorpal sword" from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Lewis Carroll|{{#if:||Lewis Carroll}}]]'s nonsense poem the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Jabberwocky|{{#if:||Jabberwocky}}]].

June 8th: Covert, Flashbox, Heavy Barrel, Highjump, Lookout, and Road Rebel.

  • Mentioned characters: Laserbeak, Megatron, and Buzzsaw.
  • Covert, Highjump, and Lookout come from the Armada video game; Flashbox is a generic Mini-Con from the Armada episode "Miracle". Heavy Barrel is from the fourth wave of Micron Boosters (where he was named Trigger), while Road Rebel is from the second (where she was named Thyristor).

Other online profiles

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Beta Maxx

Ravage

  • After BotCon 2010, a profile for both the Ravage toy included with Turbomaster (who did not receive a printed bio) and an English version of Rapido's bio was published on the BotCon Twitter account.
  • Mentioned characters include: Megatron.

Scourge.

  • A contest to give Shattered Glass Scourge a bio in 140 characters or less was run in 2011 on the Collectors' Club Twitter, which was won by Kevin "Ojunix" Skiles. The Tweet was then extended into a full profile later.
  • Scourge is repurposed from the BotCon 2009 Sweep toy.
  • Among the enemies that Scourge has faced include: the Karnian Death Strike (Karn being a planet from issue #9 of the Marvel Generation 2 comic, the Silent Fury of the K'tord Nebula (from Generation 2 issue #3), and the Preying Hawk of Pz-Zazz (from the Marvel Transformers comic issue #62, and referencing the Bird statue seen in that same issue).

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Bug Bite II

  • The four larger Waruders from BotCon 2015 were repurposed with new identities for four bio cards released on Twitter by the Collectors' Club in late 2016.
  • Characters mentioned include: Bug Bite, BuggyMan, and B-Navi drones.
  • Bug Bite II was repurposed from the Paralyzer toy, which was itself based on BotCon 2007 Timelines Bug Bite toy.
  • "Bug Bite II" comes from the GoBots continuity first seen in "Withered Hope", where it was threatened to be destroyed by the Cataclysm. But Bite II was a backup body created for Bug Bite as one of a number of alternate bodies, but when Bug Bite was sent as part of a team to head to the "Classicsverse" Earth in "Withered Hope", Bug Bite II was given a rudimentary AI based on Bug Bite's personality.
  • But Bite II can team up with his originator to perform the Double Hive Attack.
  • Several other bodies like Bug Bite II were created, including one for BuggyMan. He created B-Navi drones as back-up for each one, which are repurposed from Paralyzer's Waruder pilot, Buzzer, hence the "B". BuggyMan's own drone, R-Navi, was seen in the Spatiotemporal Challengers series of prose stories, its name itself taken from the NAVI computers in the Japanese Beast Wars cartoons.

King Waruder

  • Characters mentioned include: the Waruders and Daros.
  • King Waruder was repurposed from the Storm Rider toy, which was based on the Diaclone Warudaros toy that Storm Rider was based on.
  • King Waruder is inspired by Warudaros, who was, at first, the only Waruder toy included in the initial Diaclone toyline. He's noted to have once been part of a trinity of rulers; Warudaros was formed by three insectoid vehicles. His pilot, Daros (taking his name from the last two syllables of Warudaros) is repurposed from Thrasher rather than the Storm Rider pilot Crusher, as Thrasher looked closer to one of the Warudaros pilots, Sasorander. King Waruder is noted to have invaded Earth years ago on his own, again in reference to how Warudaros was initially the only Waruder in the Diaclone toyline.

Skywasp

  • Characters mentioned include: NAVI-Q, Ultra Mammoth, and Randy.
  • Skywasp was repurposed from the Parasite toy.
  • Skywasp is, obviously enough, a Beast Wars version of Skywarp, though seems as though he's not meant to literally be Skywarp.
  • Skywasp's function is "Air Warrior", presumably in reference to the Air Warriors, the name given to the generic Decepticon jets seen in the opening episodes of The Transformers by the Heroes of Cybertron series of PVC figures.
  • Skywasp was partnered with NAVI-Q to keep him in line, only for his teleportation abilities to scramble her circuits and make her more like him. She's repurposed from Ripper, and her name is in reference to both the NAVI computers from the Beast Wars cartoons (in particular the insectoid DNAVI from Beast Wars Neo) and, with her full name of Navigation Questor, to the Questors, the upgraded Seekers from Alternity. She transforms into a bug and a sonic cannon that emits a "Drone Tone".
  • Skywasp is targeted by the Maximals Ultra Mammoth (one of the TFSS 1.0 toys) and Randy, the Maximal boar from Beast Wars Neo. Randy was chosen in homage to Randy Para, a superfan of Skywarp; Para's online screen name is "Powered Convoy", the Diaclone toy that would become the original Ultra Magnus, whom Mammoth is based on.

Beast Wars Shattered Glass Waspinator

  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron, the Tripredacus Council, Dinobot, and Buggy.
  • Waspinator is repurposed from the Mudfighter toy, as he showed up in a design nearly identical to it two years prior in the comic story "Shattered Destiny".
  • Waspinator's personality is inspired by the original tech specs of Generation 1 Bumblebee, describing him as the youngest of the Predacons on board the Darksyde, who looks up to the others, and is an espionage expert. Like Bumblebee, he has the best vision of his faction.
  • Waspinator used to be the Tripredacus Council's orator, since the positive-universe Waspinator talks entirely in a strange, third person heavy form of speech. Also inverted from the positive universe is how he's nearly indestructible, thanks to his harder-than-titanium exoskeleton.
  • Waspinator is partnered with the Mini-Spy Buggy, in reference to the original Mini-spies included with the 1984 Mini-Vehicles when they were re-released in 1985 in the original The Transformers toyline. One of the Mini-spies is known as the "Buggy type" due to its offroader alternate mode; hence, Buggy. Buggy himself is repurposed from Thrasher, and his gun mode is recontextualized as a video recorder and projector.

BotCon 2011 exclusive tech specs

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The 'Bots and The 'Cons

Crumplezone

  • Characters mentioned include: Ransack.

Ransack

  • Characters mentioned include: Crumplezone.

Stampy

Depth Charge

Longrack

Huffer and Pipes

  • Huffer and Pipes are more based on their Generation 1 counterparts as compared to their Almanac bios, which reasoned they wouldn't have their G1 personalities due to never leaving Cybertron.

Sky-Byte

Mindwipe

Nemesis Prime

  • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime and Straxus.
  • Nemesis Prime is repurposed from the Japan-exclusive Animated toy, Optimus Prime Black Ver.
  • Straxus being associated with Nemesis Prime is a reference to Prime's Generation 1 counterpart, whose Universe bio noted that he was created as part of a project by his Straxus.

Dark Rodimus

  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron, Starscream, and Rodimus Prime.
  • Dark Rodimus' toy was sold in Japan under the name "Black Rodimus".
  • Dark Rodimus was created by Megatron using Starscream's cloning techniques.

Venom

Rattletrap

Slipstream

  • Characters mentioned include: Starscream
  • Slipstream's motto, "I don't exist to sweep up the ashes of conquest!", is a play on Generation 1 Starscream's motto: "Conquest is made of the ashes of one's enemies."

Shattered Glass Animated Optimus Prime

  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron and Isaac Sumdac.
  • Optimus is based directly on his positive-universe counterpart, in the colors of the original Shattered Glass Optimus Prime. Like Shattered Glass Rodimus, he has facial hair.
  • Optimus Prime's motto, "All sentient beings will be forced to serve me," is an inversion of 'Generation 1 Optimus Prime's motto, "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."
  • Whereas the positive-universe Optimus was an Elite Guard washout who stumbled upon the AllSpark, Shattered Glass Animated was a disgraced member of the Guard, who set out with his crew to find the artifact. After fighting with Megatron and somehow being decapitated, Optimus Prime's head was used by Isaac Sumdac to grow his robotic empire, as the positive universe Sumdac did with Megatron.

Shattered Glass Animated Bumblebee

  • Characters mentioned include: Isaac Sumdac.
  • Bumblebee is based on his positive-universe counterpart, in the colors of BotCon 2007 Timelines Bug Bite, who was redecoed from Classics Bumblebee. His mouth has been altered to look more like fangs. Unlike his talkative counterpart, this Bumblebee is far quieter.
  • Bumblebee's motto, "The least likely can be the most deadly," is a play on Generation 1 Bumblebee's motto, "The least likely can be the most dangerous."

Shattered Glass Animated Isaac Sumdac

  • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime and Sari Sumdac.
  • Isaac is based on his positive-universe counterpart; the green and black of his suit have been switched, with the "S" logo of Sumdac Systems backward, while his head is shaved bald, his skin is tinged grayer, and his missing left eye is covered with an eyepatch.
  • Isaac conquered Detroit with his Terrordrome, a type of base used by Cobra from G.I. Joe. However, it's accidentally referred to as the "Technodrome" here, the name of Shredder's mobile base from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|{{#if:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)}}]].

Shattered Glass Animated Sari Sumdac

  • Characters mentioned include: Isaac Sumdac.
  • Sari is based on the teenage design of her positive universe counterpart. Her hair is purple, her dress purple and green, her eyes are red and she has mascara, and red pieces of the AllSpark jut out her head and shoulders.
  • Sari was aged up into a teacher by her father's experiments with AllSpark shards.

G.I. Joe Collectors' Club issue #81 profiles

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In this issue, tying into the Transformers/G.I. Joe Collectors' Club crossover set, G.I. Joe featuring Ninja Force and the Transformers, profiles for each toy in the set were published. The art for each profile was provided by Paul Vromen.

Cobra Commander

  • Characters mentioned include: Megatron.
  • Cobra Commander is currently ruling from the Silent Castle in Trans-Carpathia, which Cobra took back from Destro G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
  • Cobra Commander made a deal with Megatron to rebuild his body with rail gun technology in exchange for Cybertronian technology in issue #139 of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.

Scarlett

  • Characters mentioned include: the Ninja Force, Cobra Commander, Dr. Biggles-Jones, Snake-Eyes, Destro, Baroness, Slice, and Megatron.
  • Scarlett has graduated summa cum laude from two [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Ivy League|{{#if:||Ivy League}}]] schools and trained in all four branches of the United States armed forces.
  • Scarlett began her mission to go undercover into Cobra in issue #135 of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero after supposedly leaving the Joes, actually joining up in the next issue. In issue #139, Snake-Eyes stabbed her to protect her cover, sending her to the infirmary in the next issue, with Cobra ninja Slice suspicious due to the preciseness of Snake-Eyes' strike.
  • The Ninja Force were sent to rescue Baroness and Destro from the Silent Castle in issue #138.

Doctor Sidney Biggles-Jones

  • Characters mentioned include: Cobra Commander, the Night Creepers, Megatron, and Dr. Jeremiah Scott.
  • For the first time, Biggles-Jones is given a place of birth: [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Ridgewood, New Jersey|{{#if:||Ridgewood, New Jersey}}]].
  • Sidney Biggles-Jones' dossier notes that she received a Ph.D. in physics from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Massachusetts Institute of Technology|{{#if:MIT|MIT|Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}]], and another in Electrical Engineering from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}California Institute of Technology|{{#if:CalTech|CalTech|California Institute of Technology}}]]. She's noted to have joined Cobra only at the behest of her mysterious employers in order to utilize their resources, and before being abducted by the Cobra via the Night Creepers, worked on an "undisclosed project" in New Jersey—the "Rail Gun Project" at Amalgamated Super-Conductor Corp.

Megatron

  • Characters mentioned include: Cobra Commander.
  • Megatron crashlanded on board the Ark in Canada in issue #78 of the Marvel The Transformers comic.
  • Megatron's meeting with Cobra Commander is described as going somewhat more...amicably than it initially did.
  • Megatron's motto is the less common "Everything is fodder," which originated in the Hasbro briefing binder and was actually used in his Marvel The Transformers Universe profile.

Ratbat

  • Characters mentioned include: Cobra Commander and Megatron.
  • Ratbat was supposedly killed by Scorponok in issue #50 of The Transformers.

Blackcat and Toaster

  • Characters mentioned include: Aunty/Teletraan-1, G.I. Joe, the Special Action Force, the Kommando Spezialkräfte, Optimus Prime, Megatron. Cobra Commander, Toaster's Auto-Scouts/Crusticons, Blaster, Bumblebee/Goldbug, and General Clayton "Hawk" Abernathy.
  • Blackcat and Toaster's activities on Earth are highly secret, with even the other Autobots mostly being unaware of them, in reference to how they weren't actually in the original Marvel The Transformers comic.
  • Blackcat and Toaster's are noted to have been rebuilt by the Ark's computer in issue #1 of The Transformers; Toaster was first seen as a robot being rebuilt by the Ark in issue #198 of the Marvel UK The Transformers comic. The computer is said to be Teletraan-1, nicknamed Aunty, connecting the computer of the Sunbow The Transformers comic to the Marvel computer seen in the first issue and issues of the Marvel UK comic, something that only this issue does.
  • What little G.I. Joe team knew of Blackcat and Toaster came from their international allies: the Special Action Force (of the United Kingdom; G.I. Joe was rebranded as Action Force for the United Kingdom, and the G.I. Joe comics from Fun Publications have featured Special Action Force as their own group, with several of the original Action Force characters as members) and the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Kommando Spezialkräfte|{{#if:||Kommando Spezialkräfte}}]] (Germany's special mission force). This is in reference to where the characters originated: Toaster showed up in the Marvel UK The Transformers comics, while Blackcat showed up in Condor Verlag's Transformers Comic-Magazin.
  • The Ark was shown to crash in Canada in issue #79 of The Transformers.
  • Toaster's cassettes (noted to be similar to Toaster's brother Blaster's mini-cassettes) are named both Auto-Scouts (after the drone used by Soundwave in the Sunbow The Transformers episode "A Prime Problem") and the Crusticons.
  • A quote from Goldbug has him note that the only thing he knows about Blackcat is that he likes puzzles; Blackcat was seen in a puzzle published in issue #18 of Transformers Comic-Magazin. He's noted specifically to have been known as Goldbug at the time of the interview; in the Marvel G.I. Joe and the Transformers crossover, Bumblebee was destroyed by the Joes thanks to a misunderstanding, and was rebuilt by them into Goldbug.
  • Two additional quotes were originally written for this dossier, but were cut for space. The first was: "'His brain module is assembled in such a way that it is constantly attempting to identify connections between often unrelated instances. So while he may appear to be distracted by contrivances during a particularly interminable stake-out or during his monitor duties, he is in actuality still profoundly focused and merely blunting what might otherwise become an all-consuming obsession.'—Autobot Perceptor, about Blackcat", again tying into the puzzle connection. The second, about Toaster, reads: "'Toaster? He's my cousin who keeps his diodes buzzin'! I mean he's a hard-worker; extremely dedicated to whatever mission he's on. I haven't seen him since our days on Cybertron, but a little birdie tells me he might be here on Earth somewhere. If any of your operatives at G.I. Joe H.Q. spot him, tell him to drop me or Karmen a line! We need to catch up!'—Autobot Blaster, about Toaster". Notably, Toaster is referred to as Blaster's cousin rather than his brother, presumably a gaffe. Blaster was on Cybertron when the Ark left, as seen in issues #17 and #18 of The Transformers. Blaster also mentions his sister, Karmen, a Transformer who turns into heated hair coolers, mentioned by Blaster in the letters page of issue #316 of the Marvel UK The Transformers comic.

Unpublished Shattered Glass Around Cybertron profiles

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These six profiles were written by Around Cybertron writer and artist Jesse Wittenrich, and were intended for inclusion in the Collectors' Club magazine. Unfortunately, there was never enough space for them, so they ended up unpublished.

Andromeda

  • Characters mentioned include: Rook.
  • Andromeda's vehicle mode is loosely based on that of Cybertron Override's.
  • Andromeda spent one night alone at her office during Cyber-Solstice; this is presumably a Cybertronian holiday analogous to Christmas. It would eventually be mentioned officially in "Battle Lines, Part 3".
  • Rook "slipped" due to accidentally informing Optimus Prime of Megatron's assassination in the sixth Around Cybertron strip.

Countdown

  • Countdown is a "virtual redeco" of his positive-universe counterpart, in the colors of Shining Edison, a toy that came with the Microman LED Powers "Micro Rocket Base", which was itself reused from his positive-universe counterpart's Rocket Base. This "Rocket Base" is repurposed as the Autobot Broadcast News stock footage storage facility.
  • Among the weather reports Countdown picks up include the icy conditions on Csilla; Csilla is a planet from the Star Wars extended universe, home to the Chiss, the species of Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Esmeral

  • Characters mentioned include: Longtooth, Darkwind, Dreadwind, and Monstructor.
  • Jesse Wittenrich noted on the comments of his DeviantArt page that Esmeral helped save the Kluds of Pequod, which is shown here. Klud's are semi-organic whale-like creatures from the planet of Pequod, seen in issue #64 of the Marvel The Transformers comic. Gottlieb was a city on the planet, also seen on that issue. Longtooth, a poacher through whom Esmeral heard of the plight of the Kluds, is the negative-universe counterpart of the Autobot Pretender, whose leg was bitten off by the last of the Kluds in that issue, driving him insane.
  • The Decepticon comedians Darkwind and Dreadwind were seen being executed in the fifth installment of Around Cybertron.
  • Esmeral's alt-mode is the mythical Vaal Beast from Gamma Trianguli VI. Gamma Trianguli VI was seen in the Star Trek episode "The Apple". The primitive people there worshiped Vaal, a self-aware computer resembling a reptilian head, who ruled over them as their god.

Mirage

  • Characters mentioned include: Jackpot and Ratchet.
  • The Rad Zone was first mentioned in issue #78 of the Marvel The Transformers comic.
  • Jackpot, the guard who arrested Mirage, is the negative-universe counterpart of the Autobot Action Master, who was always lucky everywhere he went; mirroring this, Jackpot causes bad luck for others.

Monstructor

  • Characters mentioned include: Slog, Wildfly, Icepick, Scowl, Bristleback, Birdbrain, and Esmeral.
  • Monstructor is a virtual redeco of his positive-universe counterpart, with each of his components' colors based on their counterparts' Pretender shells. Rather than emitting a field of decay, Monstructor emits radiation that made everyone love him.
  • Protoform batch-initiators were first mentioned in issue #3 of IDW Publishing's Infiltration mini-series.

The WASP

  • Characters mentioned include: Optimus Prime and Magnificus.
  • The WASP's alternate heads include: the standard face of the Animated Elite Guard Bumblebee toy; a head with Animated Bumblebee's faceplate; a head based on a stereotypical car salesman, and a head based on Animated Wasp.
  • The WASP is an evolution of the earlier WHISPs, or Wireless Hologram and Imagery Sales Promotion, essentially holographic billboards; presumably, they're named for the mythological creatures known as the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Will-o'-the-wisp|{{#if:||Will-o'-the-wisp}}]]. The WASP incorporates an AI that allows him to modify himself in response to sales figures in real-time, and communicate with four million customers at once.
  • Magnificus is the negative-universe counterpart of the e-HOBBY exclusive Decepticon, who is a redeco of the original Perceptor toy in its original Diaclone colors. Magnificus is responsible for the creation of "Corru-Stop"; it's the negative-universe version of Corrostop, the cure to Cosmic Rust seen in the Sunbow The Transformers episode of the same name. Furthermore, corrostop was invented by Perceptor.
  • The Shattered Glass versions of Scraplets were shown to have healing properties in "Dungeons & Dinobots"; they were used in Magnificus' original formula for Corru-Stop.
  • The WASP's Elite Guard insignia is repurposed here as the "Autobot Elite Shield in Advertising".

Misc

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Shattered Glass Machine Wars Wheelie

BotCon and Club toys

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  • Super High-Breed Model Galvatron (normal and limited "lava-bath" versions)

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Europe 2002

  • Expanded Universe Rook

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From here on out, most things are Timelines related, barring a few exceptions like the Combiner Wars figures.

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2009:

Club toys:

  • Heatwave (incentive figure)
  • Nexus Maximus/Nexus Prime: combined form of the past 5 incentive figures - Heatwave (torso), Breakaway (left arm), Landquake (right arm), Skyfall (left leg), and Topspin (right leg)

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2013:

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Transformers Figure Subscription Service 1.0:

e-HOBBY collabs:

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2014:

Club toys:

Transformers Figure Subscription Service 2.0:

Related:

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2015:

Club toys:

G.I. Joe figures (offered with both TFCC and G.I. Joe Collectors' Club):

Transformers Figure Subscription Service 3.0:

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2016:

Club toys:

G.I. Joe figures (offered with both TFCC and G.I. Joe Collectors' Club):

Transformers Figure Subscription Service 4.0:

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2017:

G.I. Joe figures (offered with both TFCC and G.I. Joe Collectors' Club):

Transformers Figure Subscription Service 5.0:

Combiners:

  • Wreckage
    • First version: Toxitron (torso), Combiner Wars Decepticon Offroad (left arm), Counterpunch (right arm), Combiner Wars Alpha Bravo (left leg), and Fractyl (right leg)
    • Second version: Toxitron (torso), Counterpunch (left arm), Impactor (right arm), Fractyl (left leg), and Bluestreak (right leg)
  • Modulus: Combiner Wars Scattershot (torso), BotCon 2016 Medix (left arm), Shattered Glass Starscream (right arm), BotCon 2016 Ratchet (left leg), and Combiner Wars Protectobot Rook (right leg)

Post FunPub

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