Maccadam's

This article is about the Transformers: Cyberverse episode. For the location it is named after, see Maccadam's Old Oil House.

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"Maccadam's"
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	October 14, 2018 (Canada)
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio

Bumblebee remembers Maccadam's, his favorite hangout on Cybertron, and its mysterious bartender.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Notes

Continuity notes

• Bumblebee found the Decepticon triple-barrel ion shoulder cannon in "Cube"
• Shockwave's drone partners, first seen in "Megatron Is My Hero", are shown to be the co-creations of Shockwave and Wheeljack.
• Optimus and Megatron are shown discussing their plans for an open-air rally at some point in the future; it's likely that this is the rally that Bumblebee attended in "Megatron Is My Hero."

Transformers references

• Maccadam's has a long history in Transformers media, but has only previously appeared in a single episode of any animated series. A few references are carried over from these other incarnations — Bumblebee notes that the bar used to be "an old oil house," referencing the bar's full name, and the bar retains its policy of catering to both Autobots and Decepticons while upholding a "no fighting" law strictly enforced by its owner — traits held over from its original incarnation in the Marvel UK comics.
• Bumblebee notes that Maccadam is rumored to be one of the original Thirteen Primes. Aside from being the first mention of the Thirteen in the Cyberverse continuity, this plot point is likely inspired by 2015's "Ask Vector Prime" feature, which implied that Vector's sibling Alchemist Prime had taken up a new identity as a humble bartender, implying but never outright stating that he may be the mysterious Maccadam, who had only ever put in one fictional appearance before this episode in the pages of Transformers: Retribution. Furthering the homage, Maccadam points out that he's chosen to stay on Cybertron to keep a "lens" on the situation — The Covenant of Primus specifically namedropped the Lenses as Alchemist's unique artifact. Physically, Maccadam himself is pretty strongly based on Alchemist Prime's standard appearance, swapping out the character's silver livery for orange.
• Chromia appears as Windblade's friend and a fellow Camien; her pleas for Windblade to return to Caminus echo the IDW continuity incarnation of the character, whose overriding desire to protect her friend from an unstable political situation on Cybertron formed the plot of the first Windblade miniseries.
• A 'bot named "Deadlock" appears for the first time, based off the Autobot Drift, who used to be a Decepticon named Deadlock in most continuities. Notably, Deadlock shows a desire to leave the Decepticons, suggesting that this continuity may yet receive a Drift of its own...

Home video releases

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