The other clone molds fell off a boat and into the sea in a shipping container.


....too soon?

 

They are disposable cameras....

 

During the war plan, Megatron realised that Optimus had created Red Cog to draw fire for him, Megs need his own equivalent, and made 10,000 Refraktors.

 

Here's my explanation:
Soundwave: (walks into Shockwave's lab, sees a clone of himself in a tube) Query: What is this?
Shockwave: Greetings, Soundwave. I analyzed our current situation, and determined that the most logical course of action was to create a clone of you. You are our most effective information gatherer, and my preliminary estimates suggest that Decepticon efficiency will increase by 75.4% once the clone is complete and prepared to enter the field.
Soundwave: Has this been cleared with Lord Megatron?
Shockwave: Affirmative. I presented the idea to him five weeks ago, and he agreed that it is considerably more logical to devote our time and resources to a clone of you rather than to weaponry or defensive fortifications.
Soundwave: What?
Shockwave: (Ignoring him) I did a complete scan of your form three weeks ago, and the project has been going precisely as planned. You've arrived just in time for me to allow the clone to emerge from its protective pod for the first time.
Soundwave: You did a complete scan of me without telling me?
Shockwave: Affirmative. I fail to see why you are bothered by this, though. I have complete scans of the forms of everyone in this army. Where did you think all of our Reflectors came from?
(Shockwave presses buttons on his computer; Tube surrounding Soundblaster lowers)
Soundblaster: (To Soundwave) Brother?
Soundwave: (To Shockwave) I hate you.

 

So every Decepticon can have a Bitch Stewie

 

Megatron saved up a helluva lot of cut out points from the boxes that all of his Decepticons came in.

 

They really overestimated how popular he was going to be as the star of the show, but Hasbro really pushed it to be something about this war for Cybertron thing instead.

Strange, I will never understand this decision because of the obvious popularity of Reflector, I mean come on, he's half the cast for Christ sake. You just don't get a role like that if you aren't popular, just saying.

 

Obviously it's a homage to the army of Reflector clones in G1... the real question is why are there an army of Reflector clones in G1? Insert the same answers everyone else gives here.

 

Broadway show, Chorus line!!

*jazz hands!*

 

Haven't you heard? Reflectors multiply.

Thread won.

 

infinite reflections.

or different camera filters.

 

This is what Menasor meant by an army of combiners the whole time.

 

Hopefully, this is not too serious of an answer, but in the early days of the war (before most got killed in the next 5M years) the Decepticons must have had many sentient Reflector type units, many cassette players (who looked like street lights in their alt-mode) with their cassettes, many cars or trucks, and many laser guns who resembled Shockwave (like the random characters who showed up in Five Faces of Darkness) and maybe a whole lot of robots who had beast modes like the Predacons in season 3.

 

Previous victims of Shockwave 'de-rezzing' several Autobots.

 

so...who's Tron then?

I laughed and impressed you didn't have Soundblaster go "Daddy?"

 

Megatron!

...

I'll leave now.

 

Thanks!
I figured that since Soundwave and Soundblaster would be basically the same size, it would make more sense for him to assume that they were brothers.

 

Cybertron is shiny and they are all reflections

 

Former Paparazzi

 

The Seeker are to expensive to produce. They are broke after building that fortress.