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So he really was Gosei's mentor.

Several years after that toy already existed. Overlord was created because the Hasbro 1988 lineup didn't have anyone Takara could use as the new lead villain toy for Masterforce, with Giga and Mega being introduced early on in the show to build up to the release of the Overlord toy.

Nah, Hasbro had nothing to do with that toy at the time, so that wouldn't have happened. In fact, in the scenario you're describing, if season 4 had been full length and led into a proper season 5 with Powermasters and other 1988 toy characters, Takara likely would have never made the Overlord...

Except be a little rude to Sue Blu. That wasn't very nice of him.

Have a cheat sheet. :p

They both auditioned for Alien to play the part of the "chest-burster", but misunderstood what the filmmakers had in mind.

He was, however, a trailer-tow machine. ;) Yeah, that quote from Peter Cullen's late brother, Larry, about how Peter should play Optimus as a real hero who should "Be strong enough to be gentle," really never comes across with Optimus at any point in the movie. He's all guns blazing and...

In the US? Convention dealer-room vendors who specialize in Japanese Transformers toys. That's your best bet.

It aired on Fox Kids, which was always aimed at an elementary school age range. Finished animation has little to do with the point of voice acting quality that I was referring to.

I mean, Car Robots was aimed at the same age demographic in Japan and its English dub of Robots in Disguise had excellent voice acting, and that dub was likewise rushed out of the gate as a last minute filler show.

"Ju" means "beast", and the zords were called "Guardian Beasts".

Derrick Wyatt probably felt "Optimus Magnus", "Sentinel Magnus", "Rodimus Magnus", etc. sounded cooler and less goofy than "Ultra Optimus", "Ultra Sentinel", "Ultra Rodimus", etc. for a top tier military command rank. "Minor" made it into the show as a sergeant rank, with Sentinel being...

Per the AllSpark Almanacs, he was known as "Ultra Prime" before he was promoted to the rank of Magnus.

Maybe it was like a "Hot Rod to Rodimus Prime" case where the "Ultra" in "Ultra Magnus" (and "Ultra Prime" per the AllSpark Almanacs) was modified from whatever his original name was. Since Hot Rod didn't become "Hot Rod Prime", Ultra Magnus could have once been "Ultrox" or "Ultran" or something...

Hydrophant (Lightning ver.) and new Energy Beast character Gaia Knuckle.

I always took it as a mistranslated way of meaning they (the song's singers, which I guess are meant to be the people of Earth) have hope for this one and only planet Earth that the Cybertrons are trying to save from the Destrons, no matter how difficult that challenge may be.

Except for in the Armada episode "Tactician" (in which Thrust and Jetfire debuted), in which Chalk had clearly left all of his effort, talent, and care at home when he came into work that day, giving one of the most bored, robotic, "I don't care"-ish performances of his entire career in that...

It was also purely a cartoon-only concept as Shockwave's toy was never marketed by Hasbro with the name "Longarm Prime". Its Autobot robot mode was only ever referred to by the box and instructions as "Autobot Longarm". I get the feeling this was a compromise decision between the two clashing...

At the very least, Disney of all people did give Ugly Sonic himself a second chance and let him see the light of day.

They were on their lunch break.