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Octane's role in "Starscream's Ghost" was supposed to be Blitzwing, Blitzwing's role in "FFOD" was supposed to be Shockwave... Hasbro's toy-shilling mandates really held back the storytelling potential in these cases.

...Ciencin only wrote a novel. He had nothing to do with the Dreamwave comics proper.

Isn't Skybound doing something like this?

You won't get any argument from me about that. Unfortunately, we're talking about writers who tended to keep the characters static and learn the same lessons over and over again (if they learned any at all, that is), such as Starscream repeating his same schtick over and over again despite his...

The thing is, the Exodus novel (which was the one piece of Aligned media that was the closest in spirit to the original backstory described in the Binder of Revelation) leaned heavily into the idea of Orion Pax being just an ordinary guy who was called upon to rise up and be something more, not...

You. Yes, you! You need to go back in time to 2007~2010 and convince Hasbro to go with this take for the Thirteenth Prime, because if we absolutely have to be stuck with the Thirteenth being some super special dude fated to be the best there ever was, then this is the most brilliantly elegant...

Ravage's timeline tamperings occurred in earlier chapters. I feel like Simon Furman attempted to come up with an explanation when he introduced Primus as a character and all his Marvel designs depicted him in a Rodimus-like appearance, as if to say that Hot Rod was like a mortal incarnation of...

When Magnus did it in the Story of Binaltech, however, he had to plead for the Matrix to please let him wield its power in that moment, as both he and it recognized that Magnus was not the Chosen One meant to bear the Matrix, so it was more of a case of "desperate times call for desperate...

It was basically an analogy of King Arthur being the one born to wield the sword Excalibur; the destined one chosen by divine right to pull the sword from the stone and become the one true king. The problem at the time that Hasbro was oblivious to was the fact that people liked Optimus more and...

In Japan it is the name of his City Mode, yes. But, just to make things more confusing, it's also used as an alternate name for the whole of Autobot City itself (whose proper Japanese name was already "Cybertron City", since the Autobots are called "Cybertrons" in Japan).

AKOM used off-colored models of Galvatron compared to his finalized model. Final model: Pre-final models (particularly focusing on the Cannon Mode models): AKOM models:

And the answer to that is... .

The Takara version painted the head in an inversion of that deco:

All four seasons of the G1 cartoon has months-long gaps between them. Season 1 ended in December 1984, Season 2 began in September 1985: 9 months Season 2 ended in January 1986, Season 3 began in September 1986: 8 months Season 3 ended in February 1987, Season 4 began in November 1987: 9 months

Considering that there was a whole 9-month gap between the end of season 3 and the three-part season 4, I'd say it's fair to say that production on "The Rebirth" didn't start until after all production of season 3 (including "The Return of Optimus Prime") was done and over with.

All my Walmarts carry an excess of old EarthSpark toys that nobody wants (tons of Deluxe Megatrons and the gimmick toys), while all my Targets barely carry any EarthSpark toys anymore, and what little they have left is just the same old stuff that Walmart has in abundance.

And... A new car!

& Knuckles

And yet, the logo on the left is the one that was actually used on screen in the movie's opening. :p

So it's instead a new mold altogether but one that looks very similar in appearance to the Takara Hashtag toy.