Ask Vector Prime
Ask Vector Prime is a recurring feature where humans could submit questions about Transformers. Based on unknown criteria, Vector Prime selected certain questions and answers them to the best of his ability. Vector Prime will sometimes 'misunderstand' a question he'd rather not answer.
Vector Prime is aware of Transformers as fiction and as a toy line such as in the Marvel UK letters pages, which were answered by Transformers who were even shown working in Marvel UK's office. Vector Prime explains this as being aware of which universes were manifested as fiction in the Quadwal cluster.
The column has occasionally provided important information not found anywhere else and, in the fan-run revivals, has clarified (and created) lots of obscure trivia.
Hasbro website
"Ask Vector Prime" started as a feature on Hasbro's official Transformers website, back during Transformers: Cybertron. The questions answered by Vector Prime varied widely in nature, but most concerned the universe where the search for the Cyber Planet Keys took place, the toyline and cartoon in Hasbro's own universe which parallel said search, or Vector Prime himself. Unfortunately, updates were rare, and ceased entirely after Vector Prime became one with time itself. Which is fair enough.
Through the site, Vector Prime had revealed the existence of two Transformers who have not been seen in any other form: a female Alternator, apparently from his home universe, and a Mini-Con with a disco ball alternate mode. He has also mentioned that he has met both Alpha Trion and Alpha Q, that, "yes, she is a girl," that he considers Safeguard his best friend, and that he is aware of (and impressed by) the story of Beast Machines. Additionally, it was here that he stated that "I am not here to blend." However, when asked about his weight, he simply said it depended on what planet he was on, and made no further comment on the subject.
It was this column that confirmed the Cybertron cartoon took place ten years after the end of Energon, and confirmed that Cybertron Sideways was the same character as Armada Sideways.
Transformers Animated
Ask Vector Prime made a comeback in The AllSpark Almanac II in the form of easter eggs scattered throughout the book written in Cybertronix lettering. While questions were solicited on Jim Sorenson's blog a few months before the book came out, the few responses to that request seem to indicate that most of the questions were written by the Almanac II's authors.
Later, more questions and answers appeared in The Complete AllSpark Almanac.
On May 13, 2015, Ask Vector Prime made yet another comeback in the form of a Facebook page created by the Transformers Collectors Club as part of the Club's prelude material that led up to the BotCon 2015 comic story "Cybertron's Most Wanted". Similar to the original version from Hasbro's website, this new installment enabled fans to once again post actual questions for Vector Prime to answer on his Facebook.
A lot of universal stream designations were identified or introduced this time around, as many of Vector's answers would focus on obscure universes and the travel between them.
Ask Sideways
On June 27, 2015, Axiom Nexus News journalist Andromeda reported that Vector Prime had been kidnapped by Sideways. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter Shortly following this announcement, the Ask Vector Prime Facebook and Twitter feeds were taken over by Sideways. His tone was decidedly unhelpful, and he promised to "lie like a girder," as he gleefully made his way through Vector Prime's outstanding questions and answered questions directed at him. A lot of questions about obscure Transformers trivia got the answer of "sure, why not?".
