The original Airazor was the Maximal’s wry kid sister who had a crush on big ol’ sexy Tigatron, not realizing that speaking up about her crush on big ol’ sexy Tigatron is what triggers them both to get suddenly ejected from the series. It’s like slasher film rules, where “sex” = “holding hands” and “getting stabbed by the Scream guy” = “getting abducted offworld by a tentacled alien plant trap.” Beast Megatron steals the disk for the same reason he did in the original series: because long ago G1 Megatron encoded information on the disk that gave information on how to change history and alter the course of the war in the Decepticons’ favor! And so Beast Megatron and his Predacons stole the disk and also a ship that could travel in time (they just leave those out and about in Cybertron’s future), they were followed by Optimus Primal and his Maximals, and both factions crash landed on prehistoric Earth. They’re from the future and know a lot about history Image: Netflix

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Beast Wars’ Cheetor was the Maximal’s awkward over-eager teenager. Beast Wars’ Tigatron was an aloof tree-hugging samurai loner. GOLDEN DISK CARDS REVEAL POSSIBLE DESTINIES: Includes a Golden Disk card that reveals a possible destiny of a key character. Collect other Kingdom figures to reveal all 3 alternate destiny variants for each character! Well, why is anything important? Because it happened before, OK? When we were five years old. Image: Netflix Anyway, yeah, they find The Last Autobot and restore Cybertron. And that’s who the Ark’s robot mode is designed to look like. That dude! We see Menasor! (He’s the combined form of the Stunticons, who do not appear in this trilogy.) Image: NetflixIt’s absolutely shameless, but you can tell it was written under the throes of Dinobot Fever, which is a malady I also suffer from. So I give it all four of Dinobot’s thumbs up. A+ Dinobot pandering, would binge again. Oh wait, there’s still more ’80s stuff! Image: Netflix True to form, the good guys arrive too late around Dinobot’s dying body, the Predacon turncoat having wrestled the Matrix of Leadership away from Megatron, and the Autobots and Decepticons give him their last respects as he shuffles off towards the Transformers Afterlife. It’s just like Dinobot’s death in “Code of Hero” except Prowl and Sideswipe are also there! Image: Netflix As the cast fills up with more and more new characters, the need for filler dude generics has shrunk. But sometimes we still see one or two! Cog, the partner to an unseen Fortress Maximus, died heroically in Earthrise, but his palette-swapped clones still hang out with the Autobots. The blue Cog was originally paired with the blue Fortress Maximus, the red Grand Cog was paired with the red Grand Maximus, but there’s also a third, green Cog who shows up frequently in crowd scenes! His presence implies the existence of a green Fortress Maximus.

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Also: Kingdom’s Dinobot is voiced by Krizz Kaliko, the rap artist. I am only bringing this up because this means Dinobot is… A VELOCIRAPPER! Eh? Ehh?) I was honestly hoping they’d recycle Dinobot’s character model in different colors like 16 times like they did for Cog or the Reflectors or the Seekers, just to give me an excuse to (1) tell you about them at length, and (2) buy up a bunch of Dinobots and customize them into those recolors. But alas, it was not meant to be.The transforming Ark robot is the largest toy in the Kingdom toyline, and so yes obviously it was going to show up in Kingdom, just as Omega Supreme and Scorponok showed up respectively in Siege and Earthrise. But a deeper reference is who Hasbro designed the Ark robot to resemble: the Last Autobot, the Autobot symbol-faced demigod who appeared in the last two issues of the original Marvel comic book series. Image: IDW With the ancient and highly advanced F.O.S.S.I.L. (Fossilized Osteo-Skeletal Shield Integration Loadout) technology, Fossilizer bots, infused with primordial energy, break apart to weaponize their allies. Use Deluxe Fossilizer figures to beastify the Optimus Prime figure with bone armor! (Sold separately, subject to availability.) Includes Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: Kingdom Core Class Optimus Prime figure, 1 accessory, and instructions.

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Entertainment News International (ENI) is the #1 popular culture network for adult fans all around the world. This Optimus Prime collectible figure stands at the new Core Class scale! The 3.5-inch mini-figure allows fans to collect a mini version of the iconic character to pose out with other Optimus Prime figures at larger scales! (Each sold separately, subject to availability.) The Transformers War For Cybertron Kingdom core class was a curiosity until we got our hands on them only to find they are the new legends class. Hasbro has scaled these figures down from their main-line versions as faithfully as possible while maintaining decent articulation and transformation. What I’m saying is that green Cog’s name is obviously Christmas Cog. Spoiler Toys III Photo: David Willis Optimus Primal’s friendliness is a little suspect here in context, considering Dinobot is very likely responsible for no small portion of the 200 Maximals Primal lost in battle with the Predacons. Primal must have gotten the memo that Dinobot is Awesome and this is a Very Important Death.)When the Autobots and Decepticons meet up with the Maximals and Predacons on Earth in Kingdom, Beast Megatron has the Golden Disk already. So how does Beast Megatron get the disk? Why, the same way he got it in the original Beast Wars — he stole it. B In Beast Wars, Rattrap was a wise-talking, ill-mannered saboteur with a Brooklyn accent. In Kingdom, Rattrap is played pretty much the same way, probably owing to Rattrap’s voice actor, Frank Todaro, who’s also been voicing a pretty good Starscream in War for Cybertron’s trilogy. Todaro’s been in Transformers fandom forever, so it makes sense! Remember when I gushed over Dinobot at the end of my writeup for Earthrise? Well, my gushing was well-founded! I think the folks behind Kingdom also gush a little over Dinobot, and it shows, and so a lot of episode 3 felt very me-targeted. I am the intended audience. Dinobot even gets to call him “vermin” once, even though the two never speak otherwise. Sometimes Beast Wars fans get fan service, too. Beast Megatron, no Image: Netflix