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unusual facts about The Transformers: Megatron Origin



Alpha Trion

Alpha Trion is mentioned by Optimus Prime as the Great Autobot Historian who preserves Vector Sigma.

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.

Buzz Dixon

He wrote numerous episodes of GI Joe: A Real American Hero, The Transformers, Thundarr the Barbarian, Jem, Inhumanoids, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Tarzan and the Super 7 (the Web Woman installments), Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, and Teen Wolf.

Devastation

The Transformers: Devastation, a six-issue comic book miniseries, published by IDW Publishing, based on the Transformers

Electrum

In the second season of The Transformers, electrum is an element that allows the Autobots and Decepticons to become virtually invulnerable to enemy firepower.

Falling Off a Clef

Falling off a Clef (2004) is the first full-length album by Vince Dicola, composer to the music score of The Transformers: The Movie.

Guido Guidi

His more recent work includes The Transformers: Spotlight issues on Galvatron and Mirage, profile art for the Beast Wars: Sourcebook series and the final issue of Beast Wars: The Ascending, as well as work on issue 5 of Titan UK's Transformers magazine.

Lady Jaye

It has often been theorized by fans that Marissa was the daughter of Flint and Lady Jaye, and on the commentary track of The Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary DVD, it was confirmed by Flint Dille, story consultant on the Transformers movie as well as a writer, story editor and producer on G.I. Joe.

Lancaster Catholic High School

Vince DiCola, 1975, composer, keyboardist, and arranger, noted for movie soundtracks Rocky IV and The Transformers: The Movie

Lew Stringer

His best remembered creations are Tom Thug and Pete and His Pimple for Oink! comic (1986), which outlasted that comic and continued into Buster comic, and Combat Colin the halfwit hero who featured in Action Force and The Transformers comics.

Motormaster

Motormaster first appeared amongst Megatron's gathering of gladiators that would eventually become the Decepticons in IDW Publishing's The Transformers: Megatron Origin.

Nelson Shin

Shin's most well-known accomplishment is his direction of the television series The Transformers and The Transformers: The Movie.

Ready to Strike

The single "Hunger" was written by members of the Canadian metal band Kick Axe and was released by them in 1986 in The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack album, under the made-up name of Spectre General.

Stan Bush

Stan Bush is an American singer-songwriter and musician whose most notable work includes the songs "Dare" and "The Touch" from the soundtrack to the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie, and "She's Got the Power", featured in the American voice dub of the animated series Sailor Moon.

The Return of Optimus Prime

Stan Bush's The Touch from The Transformers: The Movie is heard at the climax of part two when Optimus unleashes the Matrix of Leadership.

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: Headmasters

The TPBs had new cover art Andrew Wildman, who illustrated several issues toward the end of the original ongoing series.

Written by Bob Budiansky, the miniseries was devised to introduce the characters from the 1986 Transformers movie and the 1987 toyline into the ongoing comic, which happened in issue #38.

The Transformers: Infiltration

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

Infiltration heralded the start of IDW's new continuity based on the Generation One characters, allowing Simon Furman to finally write his version of the Transformers without any continuity baggage whatsoever.

The Transformers: Mystery of Convoy

It was also highly requested by many people to be featured in a DVD Special episode of the hit Japanese television show GameCenter CX (known outside of Japan as Retro Game Master), which was seriously accepted by the show's staff.

The movie details the final epic battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron, during which Optimus sustained fatal injuries.

The Transformers: Revelation

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

Transformers: Victory

Despite his apparent death in The Transformers: The Movie, Wheeljack returned during the death of God Ginrai/Birth of Victory Leo saga, along with Perceptor from the original series, with God Ginrai and Minerva from Transformers: Super God Masterforce returning too.

Variations on Swing

# "All We Need Is A Little Energon, And A Lot Of Luck" – 3:44 (The Transformers: The Movie)


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