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It's possible that it's actually Masumi Kaneda and Ban Magami personally who own the rights to their own original creations from the manga, rather than Kodansha specifically.

Or maybe they're all just a bunch of cute yellow dudes with yellow helmets and silver faces and there are only so many ways of making them look distinct from each other without losing the cuteness factor.

Isn't that basically the case with every new film series whose first film is an origin story? Like, Batman Begins followed the failure of Batman & Robin, and could be considered a prequel to its two sequels before said sequels existed. Man of Steel followed the lukewarm reception of Superman...

In the same Instagram comment thread, this was posted by David "ItsWalky" Willis in regard to that very question: "Lyzak wasn't a new toy, just a comic appearance, so perhaps that matters. But my guess is that Fun Publications used them not realizing there'd be rights issues and then nobody cared."

And people say Armada Sparkplug already was a Bumblebee homage.

Looks like he typo'd "snaggletooth".

Sounds like a legend originally meant for Transquito.

Sadly, this kind of thing has happened in Transformers more often than most people realize. Just look at Circuit Breaker, Death's Head, or even Primus's sister Gaea!

Bumping this thread to respond to this post with some news that has been recently brought to light. It's been revealed that the reason Solon and his King Solon mech weren't considered for an additional tier for HasLab Deathsaurus... is because Hasbro and TakaraTomy don't actually own the rights...

Only if he gets a green redeco named Larry. ;)

He's still a member of our Discord server.

The idea was to make him look unsympathetic to what just happened to the other ship, as if to make viewers go, "Oh, he's definitely no Optimus." But yeah, from a pragmatic standpoint, there was nothing he could do about it in the heat of the moment. But one can't help but wonder if maybe there...

Greebtron, Walruslaw, Jim Sorenson, etc. have all been yearning to find the full script for that episode for over a decade, now. It's one of the Most Wanted of all the G1 episode scripts that have still yet to be found.

He's Andrew Hall.

Well, Primitives, specifically. He needed the dumb animals to do what all the smart guys were too smart to do.

Yeah, Unicron was definitely aware of the death of Optimus and his passing the Matrix to Ultra Magnus. We see Unicron observe this on the monitor screens of his brain, before he lets out his Incredible Hulk scream in outrage over this. He was very much aware of the Matrix's existence by this...

"Well, whatever your plans are, I'm sure they'll be a masterpiece."

"Hey, Star Saber, you're shorter! Have you been dieting?"