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Gobots Pumper, Dumper, and Dozer

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coupla Seacon digibashes. the Lost BW2 Pirate Lawbhammer and a TLK Inspired Quintessa

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here's some randos i digibashed recently.

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made some Gobots

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diaclone devastator digibash drop

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Coinciding with the last fact for a special 2 fact special, Universe 2003 Shadow Striker and Roulette are one of the few rare cases of a true repaint, with them sharing the exact same plastic colors, just with different paint. #Transformers

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Despite its widespread usage as a term, true "Repaints" are actually quite rare in Transformers, as most re-uses of a mold change the plastic color itself, making a redeco, whilst a true repaint changes exclusively the paint #Transformers

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A Go-Bots character dubbed "The Evil One" was later determined by Ask Vector Prime to be an alternate continuity version of The Fallen A later virtual redeco would even depict The Evil One as redecoed from one of The Fallens ROTF figures #Transformers

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Many other countries also released their own scarcely known redecoes, including the two below, from Perus transformers line #Transformers

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The main villain of the Zone portion of the japanese generation 1 continuity is a large monstrous transformer comprised of the many angry souls of deceased, enraged Decepticons, while its name has debatable translation, I'll take to dubbing it Violengigaur #Transformers

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The "Pachi-pla kit" model kit for Brawn strangely uses bumblebees transformation scheme, and even bares Bumblebees head #Transformers

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The toy bio for the 2007 movie release of Hardtop would state he was the one who inflicted the damaging blow that removed Bumblebees ability to speak. #Transformers

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Rather famously, G1 Slags has been since changed a few times, Hasbro now settling on "Slug" due to "Slag" being a rather unkind insult in the UK #Transformers

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The only tie in fiction the Legacy toyline would receive was a small ancillary comic from Takara promoting the Velocitron Walmart Capsule #Transformers

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Cyberverse Acid-Storm would fluctuate between having either the male or female Seeker head design throughout their tenure on the show Behind the scenes members would then rectify this by saying it was something Acid-Storm just liked to do #Transformers

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An animation error depicting Thrust as entirely black would later be retconned into being a separate character referred to as "Blast" #Transformers

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During the Universe War event, a counterpart of Beast Wars Inferno was abducted, and due to his recent death in his home universe had to possess a new body, Inferno choosing to possess the corpse of a recently dead Red Alert #Transformers

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The RID01 Autobot R.E.V.s Japanese name was "Eagle Killer" #Transformers

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The "Megatron Megabolt" figure released in the RID2001 toyline was designed to be able to act as another head for Generation 1 Fortress Maximus #Transformers

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In order to preserve their newly acquired trademark, an autobot during the Generation 2 line was dubbed "Gobots" #Transformers

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Due to a lack of motorcycles in the line, the planned but ultimately unreleased Botshots groove would've instead turned into a tank. #Transformers

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The Power Core Combiners line place in fiction is somewhat muddy, whilst mostly embedded into the Movie continuity, slight implication is made by a few figures to be from the G1 continuity The Takara equivalent line, United EX, is firmly connected to G1 #Transformers

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The copyright flimsy character Rom the Space Knight was planned to receive a figure in the Botshots line, but was ultimately canceled #Transformers

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IDW Chromedomes name used to be "Tumbler," gaining the name Chromedome after others saw his immense skill at Mnemosurgery #Transformers

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Legacy: Evolution Core class Scarr was an extra addition to the dinobot roster that transformed into an Anklyosaurus Ironically, the Scarr in fiction he was based on died before ever gaining a Dino alt mode. #Transformers

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In the original Shattered Glass continuity, Optimus Prime, Brawn and Prowl were reformatted by Unicron into the heroic Nova Prime, X-Brawn and Checkpoint, with Ratchet and Inferno being turned into Autotroopers #Transformers

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The Microverse toyline was a series of small figures and large playsets, Beast Wars got in on the branding by doing the Orcanoch Maximal set and Arachnid Predacon set respectively #Transformers

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The 2025 Package Refresh of Studio Series 86 Jazz accidentally uses the bio from the 2007 figure. #Transformers

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Early promotional and test footage shows Ultra Magnus in his diaclone "powered convoy" color scheme before he was given finalized colors. #Transformers

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The Rescue Force was a set of 4 figures released in the late European Transformers G1 line, all redecoes of the Japanese combiner Liokasier members #Transformers

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Another late European redeco of a Japanese exclusive figure, the Motorvators were redecoes of the combiner Road Ceaser, lacking the combiner kibble. #Transformers

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The Reverse Convoy figure has been re-purposed as both Brightes, the previous leader of the Primus Vanguard Blue Order, and as Blue Megatron, from the Megatron lead New Primus Vanguard. #Transformers

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Transformers: Adventure was the Takara counterpart to the RID15 toyline in america. The line was oddly full of many, many redecoes of RID15 characters, previous tfp figures, TFA figures, and even generations figures #Transformers

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Transformers: Transtech was the original pitch for the series that would follow up Beast: Machines, but due to Beast Machines poor ratings and toy sales, it was canceled #Transformers

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The Kreon Microchanger combiners across the board would only include 4 members of the team in the sets, leaving any missing members released individually in the microchanger blindbag series #Transformers

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RID15 Decepticon Flamesnort was revealed to be hiding on earth with a planet destroying bomb at Megatrons behest Stationed during the great War, he was likely stationed on earth during the events during some of, if not the whole of the Prime cartoon, waiting on Megatrons orders. #Transformers

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The Fallen in ROTF had his face designed to resemble the Decepticon insignia, beating Tarn out to the gimmick by several years. Concept art made it even more obvious. #Transformers

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The Tiny Turbo Changers line featured a random original character named "Chopter," a green redeco of Blackout #Transformers

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According to commercial bumpers from the short lived Hub channel, Transformers: Prime Megatron enjoys the MLP: FIM intro song and likes drawing fanart of Rainbow Dash #Transformers

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When the G1 Seacon team was redecoed into the Pirate Seacons during BWII, Nautilator was excluded In 2020, the Generation Selects Special comic created a virtual Nautilator redeco named Lawbhammer #Transformers

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The BW figure Insecticon was slated to make an appearance in the show, but was scrapped, a lot of his lines in the script being given to Waspinato instead #Tranformers

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Spanner was a character in the Marvel Comics who was neutral in the war, captured by Straxus, he was forced to design them a spacebridge, which Straxus then forced Spanner to be built into the spacebridge itself. #Transformers

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Rather famously, the Japanese version of Robots in Disguise 2001 (or Car Robots) was treated as in continuity with everything before it, while in the west, it was the first brand new unrelated continuity on its own. #Transformers

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Tigerhawks tenure on the Beast Wars cartoon was rather short, due to Hasbro being unsure if his toy was going to actually release, requesting Tigerhawk to be killed off just in case. Tigerhawks toy eventually did receive a full release. #Transformers

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Botbots "Pew Pew Pew" is an obvious dual reference being both designed to resemble Kremzeek and G1 Megatron #Transformers

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