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New idea: The Last Autobot = the Marvel G1 comics version of Zeta Prime ("Autonomous Maximus" be darned)

In all seriousness, "the Arisen" wasn't actually something Covenant book did; rather, the book made Optimus the literal reincarnation of the Thirteenth Prime, heavily implied to have originally been named "Optimus Prime" all along. "The Arisen" was instead a concept invented by IDW, a figure of...

In other words, literal knockoffs.

Ah, so he's the one who caused Hot Rod to trip in my version.

Frankly, I would have much rather preferred that the Last Autobot had been allowed to be the Thirteenth, since he was supposed to have been the final of Primus's original direct creations.

I really liked how Cyberverse handled Hot Rod in its third season. That felt like one of the best modern takes on the character in a long time. While he still didn't go down the Rodimus route, he was allowed to take charge and grow into a leadership role all unto his own, earning respect and...

I also didn't want to put Optimus getting his new armor too close to when any of the other character upgrades happen. In my version, we see Optimus get his armor near the middle of the first act, Megatron become Galvatron at the start of the second act, Optimus then get his blue cab colors at...

I actually did consider going for the "life support suit" route for the armor, having Optimus get it after his fight with Megatron and needing it to continuing functioning in fighting order. But I figured that 1980s Hasbro would instead want it to be depicted something thing cool and heroic and...

Yeah, there were a million other ways to do that concept of "What if Optimus survived TFTM?" without needlessly bashing Hot Rod at the same time. It would have been far more creative for Deviations (or, hey, even for TFTM itself!) to have simply had Optimus retire from Autobot leadership once...

The Rodimus hate extended all the way as late as 2009, as seen in how he's portrayed in this video from back then:

Thankfully, Google Groups isn't connected to the Internet Archive.

To be fair, you were supposed to do that too back when the series first started in 1984 as something brand new with characters then-unheard of. ;)

Yo dawg!

The irony nowadays being that the current portrayal of Bumblebee is basically like how Hot Rod originally was, making Hot Rod kinda redundant in this day and age. Corporate suit: "Why use Hot Rod as the happy-go-lucky youngster when we already have the moneymaker that is Bumblebee?"

His name was Jeff Bridges. :p

I have a surprise for everyone. After two long months of long hard work, I have created a new archive on the wiki. An archive of nearly every single post ever made on ATT by Beast Wars story editors Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio, as well the at-the-time Director of Communications for...

And then Optimus went and stole that from him too! 😜

Studio Series is a Generations line.

It was Brian Goldner who wanted to return the brand to vehicles, and said "We need a collectible Transformers line, and we need to get back to cars. How ever you can do that, do that." This was back in December 2000. Per this TFCon video of Aaron Archer:

He may not have been the final-boss evil entity of the movie, but Shang-Chi's father was the main focal antagonist of the movie, and he was an excellent, well-written character with depth and complexity.