Based on the artwork I posted above, it looks like miners would all be Deluxes, cogged 'bots would all be Voyagers, and the super-special Optimus Prime and Megatron would be Leaders.
Although, was Alpha Trion still larger than Orion & Friends even when they got their cogs? If so, then I guess...
Since I got started with Beast Wars, I was already spoiled by used to my figures having full articulation. So, when I first got to experience any G1 figures, I was like "These things have less joints than a Power Rangers megazord!"
This post inspired me to go and finally make this post (over on Seibertron since we don't have a dedicated TF: Prime thread--or least, from what I could find--and the post was one of those that's way too long to fit into just one post here on The Allspark).
Yeah, Simon Bennett revealed Saban's dislike of pirates on Twitter, but the original tweet has disappeared. A screencap of it can be found at the 02:04 mark in this video:
I think there's a little more to it than that. In addition to Toei and Bandai not letting Power Rangers skip any Sentai seasons at the time, Haim Saban himself was also a factor. He wanted to use Gokaiger's gimmick for the anniversary, but not Gokaiger's motif because Haim Saban had a personal...
Death Trackers are just the black ones who work for Airachnid. The gold and silver ones are "Gold Trackers" (Sentinel's personal guardsmen) and "Silver Trackers" (the lowest ranking mooks).
Kinda hard to sell toys of the cogless 'bots in the proper Transformers: Studio Series line of transforming robot toys when the whole point of the cogless 'bots is that they can't transform. ;)
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