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unusual facts about ''Transformers'' series



2011 Daytona 500

Next, Martina McBride performed the national anthem, and Josh Duhamel, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and movie director Michael Bay of the upcoming movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon, gave the command for drivers to start their engines.

71st Fighter Squadron

In the 2007 movie Transformers, the Decepticon Starscream, disguised as an F-22 Raptor, bears the fuselage and tail markings of the Air Combat Command, the 1st Fighter Wing and the 71st; however, as previously noted, the 71st has not switched to the F-22.

Battlestar

Battlestars: Return of Convoy, the penultimate part of the Japanese Transformers continuity

BeTipul

As of 2009, two seasons have been produced, with co-creator Hagai Levi working on a spin-off program in a format similar to the Up series.

Body kit

Games include Need for Speed: Underground (2003), Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 (2003), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), Ridge Racer 7 (2006), Juiced series (2005), The Fast And The Furious Tokyo Drift (2007), MotorStorm: Arctic Edge (2009)

Buster Jones

He is probably best known from his roles as Black Vulcan in Super Friends, Blaster in The Transformers, Doc in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and Winston Zeddemore in The Real Ghostbusters (replacing Arsenio Hall) and later Extreme Ghostbusters.

Chevrolet Kodiak

This vehicle serves as the alternate mode for the character Ironhide in the 2007, 2009 and 2011 Transformers films.

Closing credits

On other occasions additional scenes to advance the storyline (as in Wild Things, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End), influence or guide the viewers to a possible outcome of the film's conclusion (as in WALL-E) or set up sequels (as in Transformers and Iron Man) may occur after the credits roll.

David Slack

He has written and/or produced on such shows as Law & Order, Lie to Me, In Plain Sight, Teen Titans, Jackie Chan Adventures, Generator Rex, Transformers: Prime, and more recently, Person of Interest.

Destron

Predacon or Destron, a faction from Beast Wars: Transformers

Flint Dille

He is best known for his animated work on Transformers, G.I. Joe, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and his game-writing, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, and Dead to Rights, as well as his non-fiction book written with John Zuur Platten.

Guido Guidi

When the title changed to Transformers: Energon he drew the first two issues (#19-20) and #22.

Harry Horse

He also wrote The Last... series, which included The Last Polar Bears, which was made into a 30-minute cartoon for CITV, and The Last Castaways, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.

Honor Bound

Honor Bound series, a series of World War II thriller novels written by W.E.B. Griffin

Hunters of Dune

Hunters of Dune is the first of two books written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson to conclude Frank Herbert's original Dune series of novels.

Hurlburt Field

The Transformers 3 movie, in production in September 2010, and featuring the CV-22 Osprey and AC-130U Spooky, was filmed in part at Hurlburt Field.

Iona Morris

Her voice work also includes: Medusa in The Fantastic Four series, Claudia Grant in Robotech and Nia/Betty in the short lived Phantom 2040.

Jeff Kline

The series Transformers: Prime won a 2012 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program for which Jeff Kline was named for his work as executive producer.

Marissa Faireborn

Marissa debuted in the 5-part mini-series "Five Faces of Darkness", travelling to Jupiter's moon, Io, in order to rescue the stranded Autobots Blurr and Wheelie.

Matrix of Leadership

In Transformers: Exodus, the Matrix is mentioned to have been the jewel in the hilt of Prima's Star Saber.

Mega Man

Although the classic series has yet to reach an ending, the storyline shifts to the Mega Man X series, followed by the Mega Man Zero series, Mega Man ZX and Mega Man Legends.

Mudflap girl

In issue #4 of the Dreamwave Productions comic Transformers: The War Within, Optimus Prime is portrayed as having a mudflap with the silhouette of Elita One.

Nate Burleson

After signing with the Lions, Burleson has given himself two nicknames; Nate "Touchdown" Burleson and "Recepticon," keeping with the Transformers-themed nickname "Megatron" established for fellow receiver Calvin Johnson.

Nerf Blaster

Cross-promotional models have also been released, themed around Marvel Super Heroes, Star Wars, G.I. Joe and Transformers.

Omega Sentinel

A Transformers character or series of characters related to incarnations of Omega Supreme.

Omen IV: The Awakening

Omen IV: The Awakening is a 1991 made-for-television film that serves as the fourth and final addition to the original The Omen series, directed by Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard.

Optimus Primal

A recent interview with writer Tim Seeley indicated that the use of Teletran-1 by the Maximals and Predacons during the Beast Wars imprinted itself on the computer, allowing the information to be passed down to other Transformers.

Painted Skin: The Resurrection

In mainland China, Painted Skin: The Resurrection scored the highest grossing opening for a local film and the third highest opening following the 3-D re-release of Titanic (1997) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Patrick Spaziante

Spaziante other works include worked on Mega Man and Transformers for Dreamwave Productions' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the miniseries Muties for Marvel Comics, and Avatar: The Last Airbender for Nickelodeon Comics, which was based on the television series of the same name.

R.O.B.

R.O.B. has appeared as a cameo character in various video games, such as StarTropics, Kirby's Dream Land 3, the Star Fox series, the WarioWare series, the F-Zero series, Viewtiful Joe, and his head appears in Pikmin 2, called the 'Remembered Old Buddy'.

Reto-Moto

The Reto-Moto development team was originally founded by members of Zyrinx and Lemon in 1998 and was responsible for the creation of IO Interactive and the Hitman series of video games.

Richard Duffin

1949: With Raoul Bott, "Impedance synthesis without the use of transformers", Journal of Applied Physics 20:816.

Rocket jumping

In the live-action film Transformers, the character Ironhide performs a rocket jump over a screaming woman after transforming from his truck mode.

Roger Hargreaves

In 1981 the Little Miss series of books was launched, and in 1983 it also was made into a television series, narrated by Pauline Collins, and her husband John Alderton.

Rübeland Railway

The power system used for this isolated network was not the usual German, single-phase, electrification system, 15 kV AC, 16 2/3 Hz, but single-phase, 25 kV AC, 50 Hz, which was taken from the 110-kV state electricity network at a substation at the exit to Blankenburg with the aid of transformers.

Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his T.V. Series

No singles were released from the album, though some editions include Walker's top-twenty single; "Lights of Cincinnati".

Sean Hartter

He raised his kids on a steady diet of Transformers and Akira Kurosawa films and taught them all he knew about art, music, film, literature and life.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is a companion novella to the Twilight series by author Stephenie Meyer.

The Transformers: Escalation

The Autobots rally to find his corpse, but the Machination prove more than ready for Jazz and Wheeljack.

Hardhead was part of Optimus' crew, first seen in Stormbringer.

The Transformers: Infiltration

Written by long-time Transformers writer Simon Furman, it is a new origin for the Generation 1 Transformers.

Tommy Vercetti

Tommy is the first playable protagonist in the Grand Theft Auto series that has a proper voice actor, with full dialogue.

Thomas "Tommy" Vercetti is the main protagonist and playable character in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a game in the Grand Theft Auto series.

Transformers Animated: The Game

Transformers Animated: The Game is a video game for the Nintendo DS handheld based on the current Transformers television incarnation, Transformers: Animated.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel

Wheeljack, the Autobot's "scientist", who transforms into a blue Mercedes-Benz car.

Transformers: Super-God Masterforce

On July 3, 2006 the series was released on DVD in the UK, and it was aired on AnimeCentral in the UK a few years later.

Transformers: The Veiled Threat

Alan Dean Foster, author of another Transformers novel and the novelizations of both movies, is the author of this novel also.

After an extended chase where Knockout proves he has what it takes, and Starscream challenges Prime to single combat inside Rome's Colosseum.

Wendy Christensen

Wendy Christensen is a fictional character in the Final Destination series, portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

William Winwood Reade

This concept is elaborated somewhat in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, where "psychohistory" is used to predict and manipulate social and political developments.


see also

Alpha Trion

Alpha Trion first appeared in the 1984 animated Transformers series as the titular character in the episode "The Search for Alpha Trion" where he was the father-figure for Optimus Prime.

Cybertron

While the American Transformers series was concluded with the three-part miniseries, "The Rebirth" (set in 2007), in Japan it was opted to continue the series, and so "The Rebirth" was disregarded in favour of producing Transformers: Headmasters, a full-length 35-episode series set in the year 2011.

Duplicity

Doubledealer, a fictional character from the Transformers series

Gitanes

In the original Transformers series, Mirage transforms into a Formula One Ligier racecar sponsored by "Citanes" (altered so as to get past the law forbidding tobacco advertising).

Marissa Faireborn

As Marissa was a character conceived uniquely for the animated series, she did not make any appearances in the original 1980s Marvel Comics Transformers series.

The Transformers: Revelation

Revelation was written by Simon Furman, who has written most of IDW's Transformers series.