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unusual facts about Transformers: The War Within



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.

Alex Milne

Graduating from Sheridan College, Milne debuted on the comics scene after being hired by Dreamwave Productions to pencil their Transformers: Energon series.

Auto Assembly

Regular guests at the convention have included Transformers comic writer Simon Furman, artists Andrew Wildman, Lee Sullivan, Geoff Senior, Simon Williams, and colourist Jason Cardy.

Autobot

In the Michael Bay live action films as well as in the CGI-animated series Transformers: Prime, the title Autobots is explained to be the short version of the title Autonomous Robotic Organisms.

Battlestar

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

Breakthrough role

Another example is the 2007 film Transformers which marked the breakout role for actress Megan Fox - enabling her to grow from being a co-star to a lead role in the 2009 film Jennifer's Body.

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

Ekeberg Line

In addition, six trailers were built from Hannoversche Waggonfabrik (HaWA) The delivery of new rolling stock required a new depot building at Holtet, two new electric arc transformers and a ticket price increase.

Electric power system

One of Westinghouse's engineers, William Stanley, recognised the problem with connecting transformers in series as opposed to parallel and also realised that making the iron core of a transformer a fully enclosed loop would improve the voltage regulation of the secondary winding.

Flavor text

Flavor text was popularized by the dossiers of 1980s toys, primarily G.I. Joe filecards and Transformers tech-specs, but is now more commonly associated with games such as Magic: The Gathering.

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.

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.

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.

John Benjamin Hickey

He has also appeared in Flightplan, Flags of Our Fathers, Freedom Writers, Then She Found Me, the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Bet and Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.

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.

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.

Omega Supreme

Although no toy exists for Omega Doom, his design is based on the toy for Cybertron Menasor, with a head that resembles that of Generation 1 Omega Supreme.

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.

Optimus Rhyme

The name of the band as well as the stage names of the members and a majority of their lyrics refer to the Transformers franchise.

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.

Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker

Tomiko Suzuki (who had previosly voiced in Transformers: The Headmasters and Transformers: Super-God Masterforce) died after suffering heart failure on July 7, 2003, 12 days before the film was released in Japan.

Powermasters

Darkwing: He transforms into a Tornado jet with Throttle, and merges with Dreadwind to form Dreadwing.

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 C. Carmel

Carmel voiced Smokey Bear in fire safety advertisements and Decepticon Lieutenant Cyclonus, amongst others, in the second and third seasons of the popular Transformers animated series.

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.

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.

Smile for Them

A version of "End of the World" appeared on the soundtrack for the 2007 film Transformers, featuring additional vocal effects and keyboards.

Sunstreaker

In the final battle between the forces of Optimus Primal and Unicron, the Chaos-Bringer had disappeared (due to the events of Transformers: Energon), with Primal's forces barely making it out.

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.

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 Reign of Starscream

They rejected his idea to make the series introduce characters for the next film (which Alex Milne designed), making it into a wrap-up to the first film.

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.


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