Heres a few of my fun facts:

fact 1: There have been 4 Transformers movies relesed theatrically (Transformers The Movie, Beast Wars Special, Beast Wars Metals: Convoy Daihenshin! and Transformers Live Action)

fact 2:The first Episode of RID "battle Protocol" had 3 other names suggested for its title (Predicon Alert, Predicon Attack and Earth. Beware!)

fact 3 There are 18 complete seasons of transformers (G1 4 Season,Jap G1 3 seasons,BW 3 seasons,BM 2 seasons,BWII 1 Season,BWNeo 1 season,RID 1 season And UT 3 seasons)Their is also 3 OAV's scramble City, scramble city toys and Zone, 2 mini series Robotmasters 2 Eps and Go-bots 4 eps

 

Which was hilarious because it happened right around the same time that Archer was screaming from the rooftops that there would never, ever, never ever ever EVAR! be licensed vehicles in the Transformers line again. EVAR! And then there was the "Sideburn is a fluke caused by the mold already existing." Followed by another year or so of screaming that we'll never have realistic vehicles again EVAR! Followed by the reveal of the first Binaltech/Alternator mold.

 

My bad i thought it was fact 2. lol

 

RID X-Brawn was slightly remolded from CR Wildride because the car manufacturer (Mercedes I think?) kicked up a stink.

 

I just need to say your sig is awesome and your avatar is funny as hell!

 

caution: movies spoiler

here are some little known facts about the live action movie. more like spoofs, but cool, and I thought they'd belong here:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Sam says his Great-great-grandfather made his expedition in 1897. However, when Frenzy finds the article about the expedition on Air Force One, the newspaper article had a date of 1895.


Factual errors: Glenn Morshower's character is referred to in the closing credits as 'SOCCENT Sergeant'. However, when we actually see him (in the film's opening scenes), he is clearly a Colonel: he wears the rank insignia of a Colonel, and is referred to as Colonel by his subordinates.


Continuity: In the beginning of the film when Captain Lennox is talking with his wife over the computer, the exact type of computer changes between shots.


Continuity: When Sam is running from Barricade and hits Mikaela who is riding a moped they fall on the ground and the moped is clearly visible laying next to them on the ground. In the next shot they zoom out and the moped is nowhere to be seen.


Miscellaneous: When the helicopter 4500X is contacted by the military it is told to "squawk, ident and proceed..." though no squawk number is assigned. With civilian aircraft a squawk command is normally followed by a 4 digit transponder number assigned by air traffic control to uniquely identify the aircraft on radar.


Crew or equipment visible: When Sam is running away from his car on the girl's bike and hits the broken sidewalk you can clearly see his double is the one that actually falls over the front of the bike.


Continuity: When Optimus Prime and Bonecrusher are fighting, they fall from a bridge onto a highway. A car with a mother and child swerves in order to avoid hitting the Transformers, and ends up at an angle, so that in order for the mother and son to see the Transformers they would have to look out of the passenger window. After the cut scene of them swerving to the side, the camera (from inside the vehicle) shows the Transformers fighting right in front of the front windshield.


Crew or equipment visible: When Sam Witwicky arrives at the party, the camera crane can be briefly seen as a shadow.


Continuity: When Sam and Mikaela are in the older version of the Bumblebee/Camaro, there are insert shots of the odometer and gages/dashboard which are actually from the updated Camaro.


Revealing mistakes: During the first ride that Mikaela takes in Sam's car, both windows are obviously down during their conversation. Yet, neither one has any wind blowing on them. Their hair never moves.


Errors in geography: In the beginning, during the Qatar scenes, you can see mountains in the background. The country of Qatar has no mountains and the highest elevation is 295 feet above sea level.


Factual errors: The uniforms worn by Captain Lennox's team have patches on their right shoulders from the 82nd Airborne "All Americans" Division, indicating they served with the 82nd in combat. The "Airborne" tab has been incorrectly replaced with a "Ranger" tab. The "Ranger" tab is worn above the "Airborne" tab on the left shoulder when deployed with the unit and it is not used on the right shoulder.


Crew or equipment visible: As Ron drives Sam past the Porsche dealership, the reflection of the camera car filming them is briefly visible on the dealership's windows.


Continuity: When in the air, Air Force One is a 747. On the ground, however, it is suddenly a KC-135 painted to look like Air Force One. You can see the refueling boom when Barricade pulls up.


Revealing mistakes: In the city fight scene, a large piece of a building falls onto the left side of the street, yet when a citizen passes by (and probably accidentally kicks it) the piece appears to move as if it weighed nothing.


Factual errors: Twice in the movie, the soldiers radio aircraft that they are releasing smoke of a given color. This is contrary to standard military practice which is for people on the ground to release colored smoke without saying what color it is and for the aircraft to state the color of the smoke. The people releasing the smoke then confirm that they have indeed released the specified color of smoke. This is done to avoid having an enemy listening in deceive the aircraft by releasing smoke of the same color in a different location.


Crew or equipment visible: When they go to the lake party a cameraman is visible in Mikaela's boyfriend's truck's mirror.


Continuity: After all landlines and cell phones are to be shutdown, people in the background of the fight scene in the city are seen using their cellphones.


Continuity: Mikaela's nail polish appears and disappears.


Continuity: When Bumblebee locks in Sam and Mikaela, the locks are seen to lower so that they are almost flush with the top of the door frame. However, in the next shot of Sam, the door lock is sticking up above the door quite a bit.


Continuity: When Sam leaves his house with the Transformers he is carrying his brown jumper. The scene then changes to him talking with the Transformers and he has his brown jumper on. Then the angle changes, and he has his jumper over his shoulder again.


Continuity: The amount of donut on Glen's plate while he and Maggie were in the interrogation room keeps changing. After Glen eats the donuts and finishes, only half of a donut remains. But when the FBI agents walk in, it can clearly be seen that there is one and a half donuts on the plate. And when the agent slides the plate to the center of the table, there is only a half donut on the plate again.


Revealing mistakes: In the scene in Qatar where the scorpion-like robot is attacking the soldiers, there are two main explosions. Closer examination reveals that it is the exact same explosion used twice.


Continuity: At Hoover Dam when Sam is talking to Simmons about how he wants his car, his parents, and Mikaela's record erased, the giant clock behind Simmons skips about 5-7 minutes in a matter of seconds indicating several takes.


Factual errors: When the SpecOps team calls in the gunship during the battle with Scorponok, they use the call sign "Spooky Three Two". "Spooky" is a designation given only to AC-130U gunships. The gunship shown was an AC-130H Pave Spectre, which should have gone by "Spectre".


Factual errors: When the gunship rolls in on Scorponok, the special effects show gunfire coming from the forward part of the gunship. The aircraft shown is an AC-130H Pave Spectre, which has not carried armament in the forward compartments for many years now. Further to that the request was for 105mm howitzer shells, the rate of fire from both weapons is more indicative of the 25mm cannon from an AC-130U interlaced with the occasional 40mm Bofors round.


Continuity: In the scene where Sam's Camaro is stalking him and he is fleeing on his bike, he ultimately flips his bike and crashes. Soon thereafter you see the black and white Decepticon police cruiser. On the side of the black and white police car, the lettering "POLICE" is in stencil format. In a following scene the stencil lettering is now completely filled-in in gold.


Crew or equipment visible: During the footage of the Autobots and the Military heading toward the city, the camera vehicle can be glimpsed reflected in the front bumper of Optimus Prime.


Continuity: After Sam chases Bumblebee to the dumpster area, he is recording himself using his cell phone. When looking closely, it is clear that the cell phone is on the welcome page and not in camera mode.


Factual errors: The Volkswagen Beetle at Bobby Bolivia's car lot has a year model tag saying 71. However, the Beetle has a curved windshield which was not introduced until 1973.


Continuity: After the power goes out when Sam and his parents are talking in his bedroom, you can see a desk light, a bathroom/closet light and the computer are all on.


Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the F-22 intercepts the helicopter 4500X the audio pronounces the tail number as "forty five hundred x-ray." Aviation standards require most numbers be pronounced individually and should have been pronounced "four five zero zero x-ray."


Continuity: In the initial fight scenes between Bumblebee and Barricade. There will be a time when Barricade is backed up against the camera (facing away from the camera.) Notice the gap of the wheel well. It's huge! There is no rear right wheel. Director's commentary stated they had some problems with the mustangs.


Continuity: When driving the tow truck in the final scene, Mikaela dramatically hits a garbage can which disappears when she stops the vehicle.


Crew or equipment visible: When the Special Forces squad is fighting against the scorpion robot during the second aerial attack with "105 shells" the camera pans across the squad, and the shadow of the camera can be seen.


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Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the fight between Megatron and Optimus Prime, there is a yellow Pontiac GTO shown for a second before it is torn in half. Before its destruction, the GTO's rocker panel is clearly already in two pieces which are not properly attached to the vehicle.


Continuity: SPOILER: At the big fight scene where the Autobots and the Decepticons are fighting in the street. Mikaela hot wires a truck to transport BumbleBee. When she hot wires the car, it clearly has an automatic gearshift. Later in the scene where Mikaela is driving and bumblebee is shooting, the car has manual gears. Seen where she gears down to drive faster.


Continuity: SPOILER: When Bumblebee takes the car over, after Sam picks up Mikaela and parks, she opens the door to go look under the hood. You can clearly see in the foreground of the shot that there's a black mark on the passenger side door/fender. It disappears in the next shot and is never seen again.


Factual errors: SPOILER: The corpses of defeated Decepticons are dropped into the Laurentian Abyss (27,651 ft) by the U.S. Armed Forces. However, the film erroneously states that the abyss is the deepest point on Earth; the actual deepest point is the Marianas Trench (35,798 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.


Continuity: SPOILER: When Mikaela Banes runs to Sam Witwicky before he runs to the building to pass the cube off to the helicopter. When she is telling Sam that she is glad she got in the car with him, Bumble Bee is no longer harnessed down on the tow truck.


Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: During the chase on the highway, one tourist bus is hit by Bonecrusher and splits in two, revealing that there are no seats

 

here's a pic of MP prime's 'face' from tformers.com

 

Optimus Primals Tech Spec doesn't metion anything about guardian tach. Primals overall shape really doesn't look like Jetfire at all. (no more than say, Rumble) Plus, doesn't that basicaly mean that any transformer with a Jetpack is very Jetfire to you? They're not even the same shape.

Sorry for the ranting but I'm just trying to get what you're saying here, but it's hard to understand with the lack of punctuation. (NOT insulting you, just stating a fact)

Just to elaborate slightly on that. One of the big reasons for that in addition to what you said was Megs' Gator mode. Originaly he'd be a Gator but the water effects just weren't up to snuff for water treading characters to be used regularily.



Though this is just a rumour I heard a while ago, it was also this move that Megatron would tread lava in Gator form, (hence, how the base wound up as it did) but the lava wasn't as realistic as it needed to be and the whole concept of a robot in lava contradicted how lava would be used in the future. Though the ide was scrapped, the lava pool-filled base concept remained. This is not official as far as I know though.

 

interesting factoid... Transformers is the longest running continuous animated series in US history. Transformers has been running on television since 1984/5 season to present day.

G1 --> G2 --> Beast Wars --> Beast Machines --> Beast whatever came after that --> Rid > Armada > Energon > Cybertron > Animated

 

oh, frenzy rumble, next time, rather than blatantly copying moviemistakes.co.uk, next time just post a link, and quote a few of your favorites.

 

Didn't the show go off the air for awhile between G1 and G2? And it will have been at least a year since Cybertron ended by the time Animated starts. I definitely wouldn't call Transformers a "continuous" series.

 

wha!?!?!?

The info was from idbm~~

 

did it really run this whole time though..... if there were breaks in between series, the 'fact' is void.

 

--Originally triple changers were created that would change between CHARACTERS!! One would turn from Skywarp, to Megatron, and then into a jet with a gun on it. Another would turn from Megatron to Galvatron, and then into a gun that was literally half Megs and hafl Galvy. Pretty crazy concept. Pics here:http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Skywarpatron.jpg (Skywarp), http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Megalvatron.jpg (Galvatron)

--The first Transformer to speak in the G1 Marvel comic was actually Ravage!!

--The leader of the Maximal Elders in Beast Wars Neo, Great Convoy, is hinted at actually being the original Optimus Prime!

--Not to nitpick, but the Bruticus from RiD was actually a technorganic dog that supposedly guarded the Predacon fortress. His mold was meant to be used in Beast Machines but was heldover, like Megabolt Megatron. The mold you're thinking of is Ruination, called Vuldigus in Japan.

--Technically, there are three theatrical releases: TFTM, the live action movie, and Beast Wars Special. Beast Wars Metals: Convoy Daihenshin! was a part of the Special, which included the Beast Wars II movie, and that particular episode of Beast Wars Metals, which was a Japanese translation of the episode 'Bad Spark.' The movie and episode were shown together.

 

http://www.tfu.info/1998/Maximal/OptimalOptimus/optimaloptimus.htm

Snippet of the Tech Spec: "In hypersonic attack mode he has upgraded Cybertronian "air guardian" jet technology equipped with scramjet modules specialized for unmatched velocity. "

Tfu.info generally copies directly from the box, except when they have to translate from japanese, so I'd say that his Tech Spec mentions quite a bit about Air Guardian technology, and is at LEAST a NOD to G1 Jetfire.

 

Wrong toy. He's talking about this crazy guy. The repaint of G1 Bruticus was called Ruination.

 

Oh, I thought we were talking about Primal. (Duh me)Yeah, that's pretty much a nod, but OP OP's design can hardly be based soley on G1 Jetfire without saying it's based on every jet transformer ever made, which is the point he's implying.

 

thanks!

the homage is all in the jet mode, and sorry bout my spelling grammer writing skills they are very poor. i never ment to say the whole thing was a jet fire homage just the jet mode. fun fact 1 . beastwars optimal optimus flight mode is a homage to jet/sky fire with the fast pack he has on and the air guardian jet refrance in the tech specs.

 

Other than the fact they're both jets, I'm not seeing it.

I guess you could count the square-ish cockpit, but other TF's had those.

Classics Jetfire looks more like it with the guns, but we're talking G1 Jetfire, so I don't know why you posted him. The jets are two totaly different shapes. (read: Tiny cockpit, HUGE arms sticking right out the sides) You could easily say it's a Starscream homage as the SS toy had a square cockpit.

I deffinatly see where you're coming from though. Though I doubt it counts and a homage. The bio is deffinatly a nod though.