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** A few Canadian regions, particularly the Maritime provinces, would get episodes before they would air in the US. With one example, part three of the "More Than Meets The Eye" pilot, being released 5 days before its intended American airdate, and three before the series even properly premiered.
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** Creator/MasamiObari got his start on this series, designing and animating Optimus Prime's Transformation sequences (and other shots) for "More Than Meets The Eye, Part 3".
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** The Japanese dub '''''loved''''' to do this, with many of the supporting cast, particularly Yū Shimaka, Creator/ShowHayami and Creator/KeiichiNanba, alternating between roles on a regular basis. Skywarp was dubbed by Starscream and Thundercracker's voice actors in two episodes when requesting permission to teleport and is accidentally colored like those two and Takuro Kitawaga does Flint in the Japanese version of "The Killing Jar" instead of Hochu Otsuka, apparently due to Japan not getting the reference at the time.
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** The Japanese dub '''''loved''''' to do this, this owing to its rushed turnaround time, with many of the supporting cast, particularly Yū Shimaka, Creator/ShowHayami and Creator/KeiichiNanba, alternating between roles on a regular basis. Skywarp was dubbed by Starscream and Thundercracker's voice actors in two episodes when requesting permission to teleport and is accidentally colored like those two and Takuro Kitawaga does Flint in the Japanese version of "The Killing Jar" instead of Hochu Otsuka, apparently due to Japan not getting the reference at the time.
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Quite a few, with many involving the Japanese dub. In the 90s, people would often claim it was a hugely different dub, to the point of some arguing it represented the "real" version of the show, but though it did [[DubNameChange change a lot of names]] and skip the ''Rebirth'' three-parter, it was otherwise no less accurate than you'd expect a dub to be. A particular detail was the belief that Galvatron was a separate character in Japanese continuity, which was often held up by Megatron fans who didn't like Galvatron--barring an EarlyDraftTieIn or two, the franchise was actually fairly explicit about the fact that they were the same person.
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Quite a few, with many involving the Japanese dub. In the 90s, people would often claim it was a hugely different dub, to the point of some arguing it represented the "real" version of the show, but though it did [[DubNameChange change a lot of names]] and skip the ''Rebirth'' three-parter, it was otherwise no less accurate than you'd expect a dub to be.be, and certainly the far fry from the GagDub later entries like ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' would become. A particular detail was the belief that Galvatron was a separate character in Japanese continuity, which was often held up by Megatron fans who didn't like Galvatron--barring an EarlyDraftTieIn or two, the franchise was actually fairly explicit about the fact that they were the same person.
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** As elaborated above, a few episodes including "Autobot Spike" and "Changing Gears" were aired in Japan before their US release.
** A few Canadian regions, particularly the Maritime provinces, would get episodes before they would air in the US. With one example, part three of the "More Than Meets The Eye" pilot, being released 5 days before its intended American airdate.
** As elaborated above, a few episodes including "Autobot Spike" and "Changing Gears" were aired in Japan before their US release.
** A few Canadian regions, particularly the Maritime provinces, would get episodes before they would air in the US. With one example, part three of the "More Than Meets The Eye" pilot, being released 5 days before its intended American airdate.
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** For the longest time it was a mystery as to worked on the episode "Call of the Primitives" (Both TMS and Obari's names were thrown around. The latter eventually revealing that even ''he'' had no clue; Creator/AshiProductions was also an often mentioned suspect due to their involvement on the show's first two seasons and the episode's similar appearance to the concurrently airing ''Toys/MachineRobo'' series in Japan). This was eventually cleared up when ''Manga/{{Karneval}}'' director Eiji Suganuma came out and [[https://twitter.com/LandSoda/status/487278887332638721 confirmed his own involvement on the episode]] as its animation director; while also revealing that Predaking's transformation in the episode was animated by Shin Matsuo, an animator on ''Machine Robo'' and illustrator for the series' promotional material in Japan. He would further confirm in 2020 that the episode was not produced by either TMS[[note]]who would be involved with the show and the commercials, but not this particular episode[[/note]] or Ashi, but rather by Toei themselves, with assistance from subcontract firm Creator/StudioLook.
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** For the longest time it was a mystery as to which studio or animator worked on the episode "Call of the Primitives" (Both TMS and Obari's names were thrown around. The latter eventually revealing that even ''he'' had no clue; Creator/AshiProductions was also an often mentioned suspect due to their involvement on the show's first two seasons and the episode's similar appearance to the concurrently airing ''Toys/MachineRobo'' series in Japan). This was eventually cleared up when ''Manga/{{Karneval}}'' director Eiji Suganuma came out and [[https://twitter.com/LandSoda/status/487278887332638721 confirmed his own involvement on the episode]] as its animation director; while also revealing that Predaking's transformation in the episode was animated by Shin Matsuo, an animator on ''Machine Robo'' and illustrator for the series' promotional material in Japan. He would further confirm in 2020 that the episode was not produced by either TMS[[note]]who would be involved with the show and the commercials, but not this particular episode[[/note]] or Ashi, but rather by Toei themselves, with assistance from subcontract firm Creator/StudioLook.
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Toy Co is actually a Japanese company. The misconception stems from a South Korea company with the same name and the toys did have "Made in Korea" stamps https://tfwiki.net/wiki/ToyCo
Takatoku has folded by the time Transformers were released and Bandai subsquently purchased their designs..
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** This also happened (to some extent) with Jetfire, the Deluxe Insecticons and the Deluxe Vehicles. Due to their status as toys originating from companies other than Takara, they weren't to be used in fiction because Takara didn't want to give their competitors (Bandai and Takatoku, respectively) free advertising. The end result was that Jetfire was redesigned for the comic and cartoon (the latter renaming him "Skyfire"), while the Deluxe Insecticons/Vehicles were more or less gone entirely[[note]]Venom did, however, appear in the semi-obscure [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Slaves_of_the_Insecticons Slaves of the Insecticons]], and the UK version of the comic prominently featured the Deluxe Vehicles as members of the Wreckers. Chop Shop and Venom also appeared in said version's "Time Wars" epic[[/note]]. Omega Supreme and Sky Lynx were also from another company, in this case Tomy, though they did appear in the cartoon despite not getting Japanese releases; when Takara and Tomy merged in 2005, both were finally released in Japan as part of the ''Encore'' line of G1 reissues. Shockwave was also a non-Takara mold, but this was made by a South Korean company that Takara not only considered too small to be a threat, but they even licensed the mold for release as Laserwave (Shockwave's Japanese name). That said, neither would show up in any of the followup anime that Takara would produce after their dub of Season 3.
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** This also happened (to some extent) with Jetfire, the Deluxe Insecticons and the Deluxe Vehicles. Due to their status as toys originating from companies other than Takara, they weren't to be used in fiction because Takara didn't want to give their competitors (Bandai and Takatoku, respectively) competitor, Bandai, free advertising. The end result was that Jetfire was redesigned for the comic and cartoon (the latter renaming him "Skyfire"), while the Deluxe Insecticons/Vehicles were more or less gone entirely[[note]]Venom did, however, appear in the semi-obscure [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Slaves_of_the_Insecticons Slaves of the Insecticons]], and the UK version of the comic prominently featured the Deluxe Vehicles as members of the Wreckers. Chop Shop and Venom also appeared in said version's "Time Wars" epic[[/note]]. Omega Supreme and Sky Lynx were also from another company, in this case Tomy, though they did appear in the cartoon despite not getting Japanese releases; when Takara and Tomy merged in 2005, both were finally released in Japan as part of the ''Encore'' line of G1 reissues. Shockwave was also a non-Takara mold, but this was made by a South Korean company that Takara not only considered too small to be a threat, but though they even licensed did license the mold from [=ToyCo=] for release as Laserwave (Shockwave's Japanese name). That said, neither would show up in any of the followup anime that Takara would produce after their dub of Season 3.
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** For the longest time it was a mystery as to worked on the episode "Call of the Primitives" (Both TMS and Obari's names were thrown around. The latter eventually revealing that even ''he'' had no clue; Creator/AshiProductions was also an often mentioned suspect due to their involvement on the show's first two seasons and the episode's similar appearance to the concurrently airing ''Toys/MachineRobo'' series in Japan). This was eventually cleared up when ''Manga/{{Karneval}}'' director Eiji Suganuma came out and [[https://twitter.com/LandSoda/status/487278887332638721 confirmed his own involvement on the episode]] as its animation director; while also revealing that Predaking's transformation in the episode was animated by Shin Matsuo, an animator on ''Machine Robo'' and illustrator for the series' promotional material in Japan. He would further confirm in 2020 that the episode was not produced by either TMS or Ashi, but rather by Toei themselves, with assistance from subcontract firm Creator/StudioLook.
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** For the longest time it was a mystery as to worked on the episode "Call of the Primitives" (Both TMS and Obari's names were thrown around. The latter eventually revealing that even ''he'' had no clue; Creator/AshiProductions was also an often mentioned suspect due to their involvement on the show's first two seasons and the episode's similar appearance to the concurrently airing ''Toys/MachineRobo'' series in Japan). This was eventually cleared up when ''Manga/{{Karneval}}'' director Eiji Suganuma came out and [[https://twitter.com/LandSoda/status/487278887332638721 confirmed his own involvement on the episode]] as its animation director; while also revealing that Predaking's transformation in the episode was animated by Shin Matsuo, an animator on ''Machine Robo'' and illustrator for the series' promotional material in Japan. He would further confirm in 2020 that the episode was not produced by either TMS TMS[[note]]who would be involved with the show and the commercials, but not this particular episode[[/note]] or Ashi, but rather by Toei themselves, with assistance from subcontract firm Creator/StudioLook.
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* CreatorsFavorite: While also partially due to wanting to sell the toys; The three episodes {{Creator/AKOM}} did for season 2 put the Constructicons as major characters, with the team factoring ''heavily'' on the plots of those episodes ("The Core" being a rather egregious example).
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* CreatorsFavorite: While also partially due to wanting to sell the toys; The three episodes {{Creator/AKOM}} [=Mihan=] did for season 2 put the Constructicons as major characters, with the team factoring ''heavily'' on the plots of those episodes ("The Core" being a rather egregious example).
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* CreatorBacklash: "Carbombya" (a [[{{Qurac}} heavily stereotyped]] {{Expy}} of [[UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi Gaddafi]]-era UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}) offended Creator/CaseyKasem (the voice of Teletraan 1, Cliffjumper, who had survived the movie, and Bluestreak, whose fate was never divulged) so much that he left the show during the third season.
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** "Carbombya" (a [[{{Qurac}} heavily stereotyped]] {{Expy}} of [[UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi Gaddafi]]-era UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}) offended Creator/CaseyKasem (the voice of Teletraan 1, Cliffjumper, who had survived the movie, and Bluestreak, whose fate was never divulged) so much that he left the show during the thirdseason. season.
** Donald F. Glut said he does not like the "half-hour commercials" he wrote in the 80s, this show included.
* CreatorsApathy: Writer Donald F. Glut [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html had a pretty cynical view of working on the show,]] saying "We were not trying to create art, just get them done fast, and get paid" while adding that he doesn't think even his own work on the show was any good, nor did he like any of the characters.
** "Carbombya" (a [[{{Qurac}} heavily stereotyped]] {{Expy}} of [[UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi Gaddafi]]-era UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}) offended Creator/CaseyKasem (the voice of Teletraan 1, Cliffjumper, who had survived the movie, and Bluestreak, whose fate was never divulged) so much that he left the show during the third
** Donald F. Glut said he does not like the "half-hour commercials" he wrote in the 80s, this show included.
* CreatorsApathy: Writer Donald F. Glut [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html had a pretty cynical view of working on the show,]] saying "We were not trying to create art, just get them done fast, and get paid" while adding that he doesn't think even his own work on the show was any good, nor did he like any of the characters.
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** In the "Return of Optimus Prime" two-parter, Optimus was to engage in a fight with an infected Rodimus Prime, and after he knocks him out, he was going to ''weld'' his joints together to prevent Rodimus from escaping when he wakes up to retrieve the Matrix.
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* ChristmasRushed: [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers The Japanese release]] of the show was imported and dubbed in a rush, with preliminary or erroneously translated scripts being used (it was not as bad as [[Anime/UnicronTrilogy what would resurface much later]]), which caused issues like characters being referred by the wrong name or having the wrong voice (the seekers to a even bigger degree than the US dub, and even Blitzwing got Ramjet's voice at one point). Several minor/semi-regular characters had completely different voices depending on episode (Bluestreak got hit the worst, with ''seven'' different voice actors used in the Japanese dub for him in total), in addition to [[ShortRunInPeru a few episodes]] (Autobot Spike and Changing Gears) reaching Japan several weeks before their US broadcast.[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers_2010 The third season]] got hit even worse, with even more gaffes in terms of referencing characters (the narrator at one point mistook Wildrider and Dead End as Runamuck and Runabout), but the most notable (and amusing) example is (again, as a result of preliminary scripts being used) [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:TVMagazineStarscreamsGhost1.jpg the promo art]] for the Episode "Starscream's ghost", featuring Blitzwing (who is nowhere to be seen in the actual episode, as Octane replaced him in the final version).
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* ChristmasRushed: [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers The Japanese release]] of the show was imported and dubbed in a rush, with preliminary or erroneously translated scripts being used (it was not as bad as [[Anime/UnicronTrilogy what would resurface much later]]), which caused issues like characters being referred by the wrong name or having the wrong voice (the seekers to a even bigger degree than the US dub, dub (due to Skywarp being miscolored like Starscream or Thundercracker in two separate episodes when requesting permission to teleport), and even Blitzwing got Ramjet's voice at one point). Several minor/semi-regular characters had completely different voices depending on episode (Bluestreak got hit the worst, with ''seven'' different voice actors used in the Japanese dub for him in total), in addition to [[ShortRunInPeru a few episodes]] (Autobot Spike and Changing Gears) reaching Japan several weeks before their US broadcast.[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers_2010 The third season]] got hit even worse, with even more gaffes in terms of referencing characters (the narrator at one point mistook Wildrider and Dead End as Runamuck and Runabout), but the most notable (and amusing) example is (again, as a result of preliminary scripts being used) [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:TVMagazineStarscreamsGhost1.jpg the promo art]] for the Episode "Starscream's ghost", featuring Blitzwing (who is nowhere to be seen in the actual episode, as Octane replaced him in the final version).
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** The Japanese dub '''''loved''''' to do this, with many of the supporting cast, particularly Yū Shimaka, Creator/ShowHayami and Creator/KeiichiNanba, alternating between roles on a regular basis.
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** Dan Gilvezan was originally supposed to play both Bumblebee and Spike Witwicky before it was decided to have Corey Burton play Spike to avoid TalkingToHimself.
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Quite a few, with many involving the Japanese dub. In the 90s, people would often claim it was a hugely different dub, to the point of some arguing it represented the "real" version of the show, but though it did [[DubNameChange change a lot of names]] and skip the ''Rebirth'' three-parter, it was otherwise no less accurate than you'd expect a dub to be. A particular detail was the belief that Galvatron was a separate character in Japanese continuity, which was often held up by Megatron fans who didn't like Galvatron--barring an EarlyDraftTieIn or two, the franchise was actually fairly explicit about the fact that they were the same person.
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* Wheelie is voiced by Don Messick in a commercial focusing on him, Hot Rod and Kup and by John Moschitta Jr. in "The Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3".
* The characters tended to have different voice actors in commercials such as Frank Welker doing Blaster in his commercial (granted it was for one line and he was already doing Soundwave and Rumble), Hot Rod for a commercial for him, Kup, Blurr, Cyclonus and Scourge and Wreck-Gar for a commercial about him and Springer and Wally Burr doing Sixshot's one line in his commercial ("Sixshot's my name!) and even Victor Caroli doing Megatron during a commercial for Micromasters.
* The characters tended to have different voice actors in commercials such as Frank Welker doing Blaster in his commercial (granted it was for one line and he was already doing Soundwave and Rumble), Hot Rod for a commercial for him, Kup, Blurr, Cyclonus and Scourge and Wreck-Gar for a commercial about him and Springer and Wally Burr doing Sixshot's one line in his commercial ("Sixshot's my name!) and even Victor Caroli doing Megatron during a commercial for Micromasters.
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* OutOfOrder: Not all 98 episodes aired were ever in the same production order, and no English-language DVD companies that have released the show has ever arranged them in the same order. To avoid the issue where story chronology would contradict with the airdates, the Website/TFWikiDotNet [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Episodes stuck with production order]].
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* Wheelie is voiced by Don Messick in a commercial focusing on him, Hot Rod and Kup and by John Moschitta Jr. in "The Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3".
* The characters tended to have different voice actors in commercials such as Frank Welker doing Blaster in his commercial (granted it was for one line and he was already doing Soundwave and Rumble), Hot Rod for a commercial for him, Kup, Blurr, Cyclonus and Scourge and Wreck-Gar for a commercial about him and Springer and Wally Burr doing Sixshot's one line in his commercial ("Sixshot's my name!) and even Victor Caroli doing Megatron during a commercial for Micromasters.
* The characters tended to have different voice actors in commercials such as Frank Welker doing Blaster in his commercial (granted it was for one line and he was already doing Soundwave and Rumble), Hot Rod for a commercial for him, Kup, Blurr, Cyclonus and Scourge and Wreck-Gar for a commercial about him and Springer and Wally Burr doing Sixshot's one line in his commercial ("Sixshot's my name!) and even Victor Caroli doing Megatron during a commercial for Micromasters.
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** The Japanese dub '''''loved''''' to do this, with many of the supporting cast, particularly Yu Shimakata, Creator/ShowHayami and Creator/KeiichiNanba, alternating between roles on a regular basis.
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** In "Fire in the Sky" and "Changing Gears", one of Cliffjumper's lines (Some grunts in the former and "Let's stop gabbin' and start blastin'!" in the latter) are Don Messick instead of Casey Kasem.
** The Japanese dub '''''loved''''' to do this, with many of the supporting cast, particularlyYu Shimakata, Yū Shimaka, Creator/ShowHayami and Creator/KeiichiNanba, alternating between roles on a regular basis.
** The Japanese dub '''''loved''''' to do this, with many of the supporting cast, particularly
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** Season 4 (consisting solely of the three-parter "The Rebirth") was never initially dubbed in Japan, with ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' being created to continue the series in a new direction. It wouldn't be until 1996 that a dubbed version of "The Rebirth" was released on the japanese home media release of the show, but with different seiyus other than Creator/TesshoGenda (Optimus/Convoy), Seizo Kaito (Megatron/Galvatron), Creator/KunihikoYasui (Rollbar), Creator/MasashiHirose (Searchlight), and Issei Masamune (Narrator)[[note]]It was eventually given a broadcast at Cartoon Network japan on 2007.[[/note]]. Similarly, when "Day of the Machines" and "Attack of the Autobots" got released in 1990 on video (due to their heavy use of Skyfire as a character), several of the minor roles were recast, with Creator/KatsumiSuzuki taking over as Frenzy, Bluestreak and Wheeljack, and Creator/HiroakiHirata making his voice acting debut as Ironhide.
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** Season 4 (consisting solely of the three-parter "The Rebirth") was never initially dubbed in Japan, with ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' being created to continue the series in a new direction. It wouldn't be until 1996 that a dubbed version of "The Rebirth" was released on the japanese Japanese home media release of the show, but with different seiyus other than Creator/TesshoGenda (Optimus/Convoy), Seizo Kaito (Megatron/Galvatron), Creator/KunihikoYasui (Rollbar), Creator/MasashiHirose (Searchlight), and Issei Masamune (Narrator)[[note]]It was eventually given a broadcast at Cartoon Network japan on 2007.[[/note]]. Similarly, when "Day of the Machines" and "Attack of the Autobots" got released in 1990 on video (due to their heavy use of Skyfire as a character), several of the minor roles were recast, with Creator/KatsumiSuzuki taking over as Frenzy, Bluestreak and Wheeljack, and Creator/HiroakiHirata making his voice acting debut as Ironhide.
* TheOriginalDarrin: In the Japanese version of "The Five Faces of Darkness", Powerglide is voiced by Masashi Ebara. Hirotaka Suzuoki came back for "Starscream's Ghost".
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** Voice director Wally Burr substituted as Thundercracker for John Stephenson in "War Dawn", and as Ratchet for Don Messick in "Masquerade".
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** Voice director Wally Burr substituted as Thundercracker for John Stephenson in "War Dawn", and as Ratchet for Don Messick in "Masquerade"."Masquerade", Jazz for Scatman Crothers in "Kremzeek!", Seaspray for his unaired PSA and Shrapnel's line in Traitor when the Insecticons notice the Decepticons are firing at them.
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** Alpha Trion was normally voiced by John Stephenson, but was voiced by Creator/CoreyBurton in "War Dawn" and by Tony Pope in "Forever is a Long Time Coming".
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** The Japanese dub '''''loved''''' to do this, with many of the supporting cast, particularly Yuu Shimaka, Creator/ShowHayami and Creator/KeiichiNanba, alternating between roles on a regular basis.
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** Alpha Trion was normally voiced by John Stephenson, but was voiced by Creator/CoreyBurton in "War Dawn" and by Tony Pope in "Forever is a Long Time Coming".
Coming". Averted in the Japanese version of "Forever is a Long Time Coming" where Osamu Saka came back.
** The Japanese dub '''''loved''''' to do this, with many of the supporting cast, particularlyYuu Shimaka, Yu Shimakata, Creator/ShowHayami and Creator/KeiichiNanba, alternating between roles on a regular basis.
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* HeAlsoDid: [[WesternAnimation/AeonFlux Peter]] [[Anime/ReignTheConqueror Chung]] served as a storyboard artist for the first two seasons and the movie.
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** [[WesternAnimation/AeonFlux Peter]] [[Anime/ReignTheConqueror Chung]] served as a storyboard artist for the first two seasons and the movie.
** [[WesternAnimation/AeonFlux Peter]] [[Anime/ReignTheConqueror Chung]] served as a storyboard artist for the first two seasons and the movie.
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* RealLifeRelative: In the Brazilian dub, Olney Cazarré voiced Skyfire, while his older brother [[MeaningfulName Older]] Cazarré voiced Thundercracker.
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*** Despite US Federal toy gun laws only requiring an orange barrel cap, recent California state law requires toy guns sold there to have much more bizarre safety colors. This played a part in Hasbro's decision, which not only prevented the G1 toy being reissued but also hindered the ''Classics'' gun mode toy from being reissued for many years(Amazon eventually sold it in bright red and black as an online exclusive).
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*** Despite US Federal toy gun laws only requiring an orange barrel cap, recent California state law requires toy guns sold there to have much more bizarre safety colors. This played a part in Hasbro's decision, which not only prevented the G1 toy being reissued but also hindered the ''Classics'' gun mode toy from being reissued for many years(Amazon years (Amazon eventually sold it in bright red and black as an online exclusive).
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** In "Five Faces of Darkness", Shockwave was supposed to survive his encounter with Unicron (he was supposed to had originally died by Unicron's hand in the movie). He would've meet up with Galvatron who considers him a traitor when the latter attacks the former, and Rodimus Prime offers him refuge and he accepts. He would've been the first Decepticon to change sides, but acts on as a TokenEvilTeammate rather than a full HeelFaceTurn. His role was instead switched to Blitzwing who refuses to switch sides.
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** In "Five Faces of Darkness", Shockwave was supposed to survive his encounter with Unicron (he was originally supposed to had originally died die by Unicron's hand in the movie). He would've meet met up with Galvatron who considers him a traitor when the latter attacks the former, and Rodimus Prime offers him refuge and he accepts. He would've been the first Decepticon to change sides, but acts on as a TokenEvilTeammate rather than a full HeelFaceTurn. His role was instead switched to Blitzwing who refuses to actually switch sides.sides (and then the storyline swapped in new-toy character Octane anyway).
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** Astrotrain's bizarre behavior in "The God Gambit" made him completely out-of-character, as the whole "ordering Starscream around, choking him, and Starscream fearing him" thing may have been intended for Megatron, but Astrotrain was shoehorned in to shill his then-new toy.
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** Astrotrain's bizarre behavior in "The God Gambit" made him completely out-of-character, as the whole "ordering Starscream around, choking him, and Starscream fearing him" thing may have been intended for Megatron, but Astrotrain was shoehorned in to shill his then-new toy.toy (admittedly, as Astrotrain is Starscream's only way back to Earth, he can get away with this, and "Triple Takeover" would also show him wanting to take over).
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* CreatorsPest: Despite ironically writing over half of the episodes featuring him, David Wise disliked Omega Supreme, dismissing him as a "stupid character" based on a "completely illogical" toy.
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* CreatorsPest: Despite ironically writing over half of the episodes featuring him, David Wise disliked Omega Supreme, dismissing him as a "stupid character" based on a "completely illogical" toy.toy[[note]]Omega Supreme's toy is notorious for being entirely "partsforming"; you have to remove the toy's parts and reassemble them into the new mode. There really isn't any actual "transforming" going on[[/note]].
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* CreatorBacklash: "Carbombya" (a [[{{Qurac}} heavily stereotyped]] {{Expy}} of [[UsefulNotes/{{MuammarGaddafi}} Gaddafi]]-era UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}) offended Creator/CaseyKasem (the voice of Teletraan 1, Cliffjumper, who had survived the movie, and Bluestreak, whose fate was never divulged) so much that he left the show during the third season.
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* CreatorBacklash: "Carbombya" (a [[{{Qurac}} heavily stereotyped]] {{Expy}} of [[UsefulNotes/{{MuammarGaddafi}} [[UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi Gaddafi]]-era UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}) offended Creator/CaseyKasem (the voice of Teletraan 1, Cliffjumper, who had survived the movie, and Bluestreak, whose fate was never divulged) so much that he left the show during the third season.
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* ChristmasRushed: [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers The Japanese release]] of the show was imported and dubbed in a rush, with preliminary or erroneously translated scripts being used (it was not as bad as [[Anime/UnicronTrilogy what would resurface much later]]), which caused issues like characters being referred by the wrong name or having the wrong voice (the seekers to a even bigger degree than the US dub, and even Blitzwing got Ramjet's voice at one point). Several minor/semi-regular characters had completely different voices depending on episode (Bluestreak got hit the worst, with ''seven'' different voice actors used in the Japanese dub for him in total), in addition to [[ShortRunInPeru a few episodes]] (Autobot Spike and Changing Gears) reaching Japan several weeks before their US broadcast.[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers_2010 The third season]] got hit even worse, with even more gaffes in terms of referencing characters (the narrator at one point mistook Wildrider and Dead End as Runamuck and Runabout), but the most notable (and amusing) example is (again, as a result of preliminary scripts being used)[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:TVMagazineStarscreamsGhost1.jpg The promo art]] for the Episode "Starscream's ghost", featuring Blitzwing (who is nowhere to be seen in the actual episode, as Octane replaced him in the final version).
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* ChristmasRushed: [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers The Japanese release]] of the show was imported and dubbed in a rush, with preliminary or erroneously translated scripts being used (it was not as bad as [[Anime/UnicronTrilogy what would resurface much later]]), which caused issues like characters being referred by the wrong name or having the wrong voice (the seekers to a even bigger degree than the US dub, and even Blitzwing got Ramjet's voice at one point). Several minor/semi-regular characters had completely different voices depending on episode (Bluestreak got hit the worst, with ''seven'' different voice actors used in the Japanese dub for him in total), in addition to [[ShortRunInPeru a few episodes]] (Autobot Spike and Changing Gears) reaching Japan several weeks before their US broadcast.[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers_2010 The third season]] got hit even worse, with even more gaffes in terms of referencing characters (the narrator at one point mistook Wildrider and Dead End as Runamuck and Runabout), but the most notable (and amusing) example is (again, as a result of preliminary scripts being used)[[https://tfwiki.used) [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:TVMagazineStarscreamsGhost1.jpg The the promo art]] for the Episode "Starscream's ghost", featuring Blitzwing (who is nowhere to be seen in the actual episode, as Octane replaced him in the final version).
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* ChristmasRushed: [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers The Japanese release]] of the show was imported and dubbed in a rush, with preliminary or erroneously translated scripts being used (it was not as bad as [[Anime/UnicronTrilogy what would resurface much later]]), which caused issues like characters being referred by the wrong name or having the wrong voice (the seekers to a even bigger degree than the US dub, and even Blitzwing got Ramjet's voice at one point). Several minor/semi-regular characters had completely different voices depending on episode (Bluestreak got hit the worst, with ''seven'' different voice actors used in the Japanese dub for him in total), in addition to [[ShortRunInPeru a few episodes]](Autobot Spike and Changing Gears) reaching Japan several weeks before their US broadcast.[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers_2010 The third season]] got hit even worse, with even more gaffes in terms of referencing characters (the narrator at one point mistook Wildrider and Dead End as Runamuck and Runabout), but the most notable (and amusing) example is (again, as a result of preliminary scripts being used)[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:TVMagazineStarscreamsGhost1.jpg The promo art]] for the Episode "Starscream's ghost", featuring Blitzwing (who is nowhere to be seen in the actual episode, as Octane replaced him in the final version).
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* ChristmasRushed: [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers The Japanese release]] of the show was imported and dubbed in a rush, with preliminary or erroneously translated scripts being used (it was not as bad as [[Anime/UnicronTrilogy what would resurface much later]]), which caused issues like characters being referred by the wrong name or having the wrong voice (the seekers to a even bigger degree than the US dub, and even Blitzwing got Ramjet's voice at one point). Several minor/semi-regular characters had completely different voices depending on episode (Bluestreak got hit the worst, with ''seven'' different voice actors used in the Japanese dub for him in total), in addition to [[ShortRunInPeru a few episodes]](Autobot episodes]] (Autobot Spike and Changing Gears) reaching Japan several weeks before their US broadcast.[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_(cartoon)#Fight.21_Super_Robot_Lifeform_Transformers_2010 The third season]] got hit even worse, with even more gaffes in terms of referencing characters (the narrator at one point mistook Wildrider and Dead End as Runamuck and Runabout), but the most notable (and amusing) example is (again, as a result of preliminary scripts being used)[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:TVMagazineStarscreamsGhost1.jpg The promo art]] for the Episode "Starscream's ghost", featuring Blitzwing (who is nowhere to be seen in the actual episode, as Octane replaced him in the final version).
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* HostilityOnTheSet: "Thief in the Night", in addition to infamously driving the late Creator/CaseyKasem, who was of Lebanese descent, to quit the show in disgust of its depictions of Arabs (including naming a nation "Carbombya"), was the only time Creator/MauriceLaMarche voiced a character on the show, Six-Gun -- and [=LaMarche=] was annoyed with voice director Wally Burr's method of directing. That said, before Burr's passing, while [=LaMarche=] stood by some of his criticisms, he did state most of them were out of line and reconciled with Burr. [[note]]The [[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet Transformers wiki]] explains that Burr was a perfectionist, who often held sessions up to the maximum allowed at the time (a whopping ''8 hours''). [[Creator/TownsendColeman Townsend Coleman]] is quoted as saying Burr would insist on prolonging recording sessions, whether "it was necessary or not." [=LaMarche=] was of the opinion Burr was a PrimaDonnaDirector who wanted the actor to parrot the lines back to him as he himself would have performed them. The wiki does point out that "Thief in the Night", as mentioned above, is also the episode where Casey Kasem walked out and offers that that might also have been a factor in [=LaMarche=]'s bad experience.[[/note]]
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* HostilityOnTheSet: "Thief in the Night", in addition to infamously driving the late Creator/CaseyKasem, who was of Lebanese descent, to quit the show in disgust of its depictions of Arabs (including naming a nation "Carbombya"), was the only time Creator/MauriceLaMarche voiced a character on the show, Six-Gun -- and [=LaMarche=] was annoyed with voice director Wally Burr's method of directing. That said, before Burr's passing, while [=LaMarche=] stood by some of his criticisms, he did state most of them were out of line and reconciled with Burr. [[note]]The [[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet [[Website/TFWikiDotNet Transformers wiki]] explains that Burr was a perfectionist, who often held sessions up to the maximum allowed at the time (a whopping ''8 hours''). [[Creator/TownsendColeman Townsend Coleman]] is quoted as saying Burr would insist on prolonging recording sessions, whether "it was necessary or not." [=LaMarche=] was of the opinion Burr was a PrimaDonnaDirector who wanted the actor to parrot the lines back to him as he himself would have performed them. The wiki does point out that "Thief in the Night", as mentioned above, is also the episode where Casey Kasem walked out and offers that that might also have been a factor in [=LaMarche=]'s bad experience.[[/note]]
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** In "Five Faces of Darkness", Shockwave was supposed to survive his encounter with Unicron (he was supposed to had originally died by Unicron's hand in the movie). He would've meet up with Galvatron who considers him a traitor when the latter attacks the former, and Rodimus Prime offers him refuge and he accepts. He would've been the first Decepticon to change sides, but acts on as a TokenEvilTeammate rather than a full HeelFaceTurn. His role was instead switched to Blitzwing who refuses to switch sides.
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* CreatorsFavorite: The three episodes {{Creator/AKOM}} did for season 2 put the Constructicons as major characters, with the team factoring ''heavily'' on the plots of those episodes.
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* CreatorsFavorite: While also partially due to wanting to sell the toys; The three episodes {{Creator/AKOM}} did for season 2 put the Constructicons as major characters, with the team factoring ''heavily'' on the plots of those episodes.episodes ("The Core" being a rather egregious example).
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** For the longest time it was a mystery as to worked on the episode "Call of the Primitives" (Both TMS and Obari's names were thrown around. The latter eventually revealing that even ''he'' had no clue; Creator/AshiProductions was also an often mentioned suspect due to their involvement on the show's first two seasons and the episode's similar appearance to the concurrently airing ''Toys/MachineRobo'' series in Japan). This was eventually cleared up when ''Manga/{{Karneval}}'' director Eiji Suganuma came out and [[https://twitter.com/LandSoda/status/487278887332638721 confirmed his own involvement on the episode]] as its animation director; while also revealing that Predaking's transformation in the episode was animated by Shin Matsuo, an animator on ''Machine Robo'' and illustrator for the series' promotional material in Japan. He would further confirm in 2020 that the episode was not produced by either TMS or Ashi, but rather by Toei themselves, with assistance from subcontract firm Studio Look.
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** For the longest time it was a mystery as to worked on the episode "Call of the Primitives" (Both TMS and Obari's names were thrown around. The latter eventually revealing that even ''he'' had no clue; Creator/AshiProductions was also an often mentioned suspect due to their involvement on the show's first two seasons and the episode's similar appearance to the concurrently airing ''Toys/MachineRobo'' series in Japan). This was eventually cleared up when ''Manga/{{Karneval}}'' director Eiji Suganuma came out and [[https://twitter.com/LandSoda/status/487278887332638721 confirmed his own involvement on the episode]] as its animation director; while also revealing that Predaking's transformation in the episode was animated by Shin Matsuo, an animator on ''Machine Robo'' and illustrator for the series' promotional material in Japan. He would further confirm in 2020 that the episode was not produced by either TMS or Ashi, but rather by Toei themselves, with assistance from subcontract firm Studio Look.Creator/StudioLook.
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** This also happened (to some extent) with Jetfire, the Deluxe Insecticons and the Deluxe Vehicles. Due to their status as toys originating from companies other than Takara, they weren't to be used in fiction because Takara didn't want to give their competitors (Bandai and Takatoku, respectively) free advertising. The end result was that Jetfire was redesigned for the comic and cartoon (the latter renaming him "Skyfire"), while the Deluxe Insecticons/Vehicles were more or less gone entirely[[note]]Venom did, however, appear in the semi-obscure [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Slaves_of_the_Insecticons Slaves of the Insecticons]], and the UK version of the comic prominently featured the Deluxe Vehicles as members of the Wreckers. Chop Shop and Venom also appeared in said version's "Time Wars" epic[[/note]]. Omega Supreme and Sky Lynx were also from another company, in this case Tomy, though they did appear in the cartoon despite not getting Japanese releases; when Takara and Tomy merged in 2005, both were finally released in Japan as part of the ''Encore'' line of G1 reissues. Shockwave was also a non-Takara mold, but this was made by a South Korean company that Takara not only considered too small to be a threat, but they even licensed the mold for release as Laserwave (Shockwave's Japanese name).
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** This also happened (to some extent) with Jetfire, the Deluxe Insecticons and the Deluxe Vehicles. Due to their status as toys originating from companies other than Takara, they weren't to be used in fiction because Takara didn't want to give their competitors (Bandai and Takatoku, respectively) free advertising. The end result was that Jetfire was redesigned for the comic and cartoon (the latter renaming him "Skyfire"), while the Deluxe Insecticons/Vehicles were more or less gone entirely[[note]]Venom did, however, appear in the semi-obscure [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Slaves_of_the_Insecticons Slaves of the Insecticons]], and the UK version of the comic prominently featured the Deluxe Vehicles as members of the Wreckers. Chop Shop and Venom also appeared in said version's "Time Wars" epic[[/note]]. Omega Supreme and Sky Lynx were also from another company, in this case Tomy, though they did appear in the cartoon despite not getting Japanese releases; when Takara and Tomy merged in 2005, both were finally released in Japan as part of the ''Encore'' line of G1 reissues. Shockwave was also a non-Takara mold, but this was made by a South Korean company that Takara not only considered too small to be a threat, but they even licensed the mold for release as Laserwave (Shockwave's Japanese name). That said, neither would show up in any of the followup anime that Takara would produce after their dub of Season 3.
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** Former ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' director and animator Norm [=McCabe=] was one of the series' most reoccurring animation and sequence directors, working on every season except the fourth and the movie.
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** Former ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' director and animator Norm [=McCabe=] was one of the series' most reoccurring animation and sequence directors, working on every season except the fourth fourth, and the movie.
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** Season 4 (consisting solely of the three-parter "The Rebirth") was never initially dubbed in Japan, with ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' being created to continue the series in a new direction. It wouldn't be until 1996 that a dubbed version of "The Rebirth" was released on the japanese home media release of the show, but with different seiyus other than Creator/TesshoGenda (Optimus/Convoy), Seizo Kaito (Megatron/Galvatron), Creator/KunihikoYasui (Rollbar), Creator/MasashiHirose (Searchlight), and Issei Masamune (Narrator)[[note]]It was eventually given a broadcast at Cartoon Network japan on 2007.[[/note]]. Similarly, when "Day of the Machines" and "Attack of the Autobots" got released in 1990 on video, several of the minor roles were recast, with Creator/KatsumiSuzuki taking over as Frenzy, Bluestreak and Wheeljack, and Creator/HiroakiHirata making his voice acting debut as Ironhide.
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** Season 4 (consisting solely of the three-parter "The Rebirth") was never initially dubbed in Japan, with ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' being created to continue the series in a new direction. It wouldn't be until 1996 that a dubbed version of "The Rebirth" was released on the japanese home media release of the show, but with different seiyus other than Creator/TesshoGenda (Optimus/Convoy), Seizo Kaito (Megatron/Galvatron), Creator/KunihikoYasui (Rollbar), Creator/MasashiHirose (Searchlight), and Issei Masamune (Narrator)[[note]]It was eventually given a broadcast at Cartoon Network japan on 2007.[[/note]]. Similarly, when "Day of the Machines" and "Attack of the Autobots" got released in 1990 on video, video (due to their heavy use of Skyfire as a character), several of the minor roles were recast, with Creator/KatsumiSuzuki taking over as Frenzy, Bluestreak and Wheeljack, and Creator/HiroakiHirata making his voice acting debut as Ironhide.
