Maccadam's

This article is about the Cyberverse episode. For the titular location, see Maccadam's Old Oil House.

« Transformers: Cyberverse ep 10 »
"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 was watching 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 a 2015 "Ask Vector Prime" post, 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 only made a few fleeting appearances before Another Light would retroactively identify him as a specific bartender. Furthering the reference, Maccadam points out that he's chosen to stay on Cybertron to keep a "lens" on the situation; The Covenant of Primus specifically name-dropped 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. (He's also been sneakily appearing in the title sequence since the start, implying he might become more significant in the future...)
• 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 character 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...

Animation and technical errors

• During Bumblebee's first flashback, a group of generics are shown sporting Autobot insignias during Cybertron's pre-war days. In the next shot, however, they disappear.

Home video releases

• TBA