If you’ve ever owned a Transformers toy or consumed any bit of Transformers media, you probably owe something to #BehindTheBots all-star KŌJIN ŌNO: senior Takara designer, Diaclone veteran, and the creator of the very first transforming robot toy that started it all! tfwiki.net/wiki/Kojin_Ono

Happy #Obscursday! CARZAP is a laid-back racer with an unusual outlook on life and an affection for Japanese culture! tfwiki.net/wiki/Carzap_...

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY WIKIPIC! NIAGARA FALLS!!! Slooowly we turn back to the most curious and unexplained toy of the Beast Wars 2 line: the NIAGARA BASE! Been needing pics of this thing forever, and now it's up on @tfwiki.net! tfwiki.net/wiki/Niagara... youtube.com/shorts/f0Rxy...

#DidYouKnow that the stars of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" made cameos in Marvel’s "Generation 2" comic? As the Autobots and Decepticons explore the dead moon of J'asik, the remains of Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot appear as some of the many victims of the Swarm! tfwiki.net/wiki/Swarm_(...

"It's a home run! Good-bye and good riddance, Megatron!" tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Gre... #WeekendTFQuote

DOWNWARD SPIRALS! The release of Goliant has been averted, but Solila's faith in Zerta is broken, and Darak is unsure of his future... and much greater threats are massing beyond the horizon. The Quintesson War is imminent in VOID RIVALS #24, now annotated on TFWiki! tfwiki.net/wiki/Void_Ri...

Go #BehindTheBots with MATT TIEGER, who orchestrated the War and Fall of Cybertron as a game director at High Moon Studios! tfwiki.net/wiki/Matt_Ti...

Happy #Obscursday! RAIKURU’s talents for governance and diplomacy are matched only by his tasteful facial hair! tfwiki.net/wiki/Raikuru

With the 1000 subscriber mark in the rearview, might as well get this bonus short out cebelrating the event! Check out the EXDIMENSIONS STREET ACTION TEAM on @tfwiki.net! tfwiki.net/wiki/Percept... youtube.com/shorts/QW8PW...

#DidYouKnow that you once travelled through time? Over the course of your time-travel adventure with Bulkhead, you encountered dinosaurs, soldiers from the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin, and America’s first female president! tfwiki.net/wiki/Time-Qu...

"We were brothers once!" "Once." #WeekendTFQuote tfwiki.net/wiki/Transfo...

An enigmatic con artist who misleads, misdirects, and manipulates Autobots and Decepticons alike, our featured article this month takes a sideways look at SIDEWAYS! tfwiki.net/wiki/Sideway...

This is a sad one, Pete Knifton has died. Long my pick for “artist I’d give another go at Transformers if someone was crazy enough to give me that power” as he was great. Unfortunately his work was confined to the Earthforce stories so he was never very well known but I really rate him. Thanks Pete

At the end of #Botoween, we wish you all a happy and spooky HALLOWEEN KNIGHT! tfwiki.net/wiki/Hallowe...

On Halloween, we remember scary movie veteran Tony Todd for this week's #BehindTheBots — when not appearing in films like "Final Destination", he lent his voice to Transformers villains such as Dreadwing and The Fallen! tfwiki.net/wiki/Tony_Todd

The festive SMOOTH SHAKER never lets anything bother her! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Smooth_...

Happy #Obscursday! When a full-scale Selector revolt threatened to collapse the fragile Autobot-Decepticon truce, Grimlock combined with his Technobot creations to form the incredible VOLCATICON! tfwiki.net/wiki/Volcati...

Chromia and Bumblebee plumbed the abyssal depths of the Argon Sea and dredged up a monstrous Titan best left forgotten in "DWELLER THE DEPTHS"! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Dweller...

Our own Viv spent a day with some of Hasbro's representatives at this year's MCM Comic-Con! tfwikicommunity.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/a...

In DARK AWAKENING, Rodimus Prime grappled with the burdens of leadership as he faced off against an undead Optimus Prime! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Dark_Aw...

Whether he's delivering pizzas or battling monsters from the Upside Down, CODE RED always keeps things hot! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Code_Red

#DidYouKnow that Optimus Prime can survive in other dimensions? While stranded in between realities, the Autobot commander reshaped himself into a new form, one capable of surviving in the interdimensional void! tfwiki.net/wiki/Form_Fo...

Because Griffin Rock becomes prohibitively cold at the end of autumn, the people who live there instead celebrate "Earliween", a version of Halloween held in the warmer months! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Ghost_i...

"Inferno blow up, Waspinator must salvage. Waspinator blow up, nobody salvage! Oh, why universe hate Waspinator?" #WeekendTFQuote tfwiki.net/wiki/Deep_Me...

You can't keep a good backstabber down, and "GHOST IN THE MACHINE" was the first in a long line of stories revolving around Starscream's unkillable ghost! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Ghost_i...

In "THIRST", Knock Out and Starscream's experiments unwittingly unleashed a plague of undead Terrorcons! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Thirst

Although this week’s #BehindTheBots star has worked for Takara as a concept artist and illustrator, HIROFUMI ICHIKAWA is well-known for his high-concept Transformers prose, which include “Binaltech”, “Alternity”, and various Masterpiece bios! tfwiki.net/wiki/Hirofum...

DIZZY BONES' high-energy dances leave him in a spin-literally! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Dizzy_B...

Happy #Obscursday! As the heroic Wraith, RAY THATHERTON was Detroit’s original superhuman protector—but when the newly-arrived Autobots stole his thunder, this disgraced superhero used his arsenal of holograms to try and frame the city’s new heroes! tfwiki.net/wiki/Wraith

When the Elder Gods awoke from their cthonian slumber, the Autobots joined forces with the brightest minds of the 19th century to repel that which can eternal lie in "INFESTATION 2"! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Infesta...

Despite her choice of alternate mode, GRAVE RAVE livens up any good Halloween party! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Grave_R...

Unceremoniously cancelled without ever leaving the concept art phase, THE FLY didn't quite get the buzz he hoped for! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Fly

#DidYouKnow that Minimus Ambus wasn’t always Ultra Magnus? When Minimus took a sabbatical from his duties, the hot-headed Convoy temporarily filled in for him, until he was corrupted by Dire Wraiths and killed in the line of duty during an ill-fated mission to Xetaxxis! tfwiki.net/wiki/Convoy_...

Any hopes for a transforming CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON toy were unfortunately sunk with the cancellation of the "Vintage Horror Movie Series" toyline! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Creatur...

In which I add missing summaries of and trivia for Beast Wars manga chapters to the @tfwiki.net as I read through the series for the first time. They said it could never be done! They said no one would ever care! (They were right! Maybe.)

"After a long road trip, feels good to get out of the car, stretch my legs, and kick some tailpipe!" #WeekendTFQuote tfwiki.net/wiki/Convoy_...

In “I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST STARSCREAM”, our favorite backstabber sought out a legendary ghost said to haunt the Cybertronian wilderness, but discovered something infinitely more disturbing! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/I_Have_...

In "SPOTLIGHT: KUP", the elderly Autobot found himself marooned on an alien planet, cut off from any hope of rescue, and besieged every night by an endless horde of undead monsters... or was he? #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Spotlig...

This week’s #BehindTheBots spotlights JUNKO TAKEUCHI—before her star-making role as Naruto, she played Moon and Break in “Beast Wars II” and “Beast Wars Neo”! Believe it! tfwiki.net/wiki/Junko_T...

In “ALONG CAME A SPIDER”, Sari Sumdac went trick-or-treating with Bumblebee and Bulkhead… until an encounter with Blackarachnia turned the night into a fight for survival! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Along_C...

Happy #Obscursday! Decades before Optimus Prime went on the offensive, GILTHOR-the original Optimus-Megatron fusion–menaced Autobots and Decepticons alike! tfwiki.net/wiki/Gilthor

SHOTS IN THE DARK! While Destro plots his next moves against Cobra Commander, G.I. Joe's Night Force takes on a black-ops mission into Darklonia to extract their newest member: the top-secret sniper, Shooter! G.I. JOE #12 is now annotated on TFWiki! tfwiki.net/wiki/G.I._Jo...

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY @tfwiki.net WIKIPIC! Hrrrrngh! Bolting through October with another Halloweeny-adjacent toy, Collaborative FRANKENTRON! This big boy got considerably more new tooling that you'd expect to really emphasize the monstrous mashup! tfwiki.net/wiki/Franken... youtube.com/shorts/0dxJT...

HELLO KITTY got into the spirit in 2015, with an adorable little redeco as part of the Q-Transformers toyline! tfwiki.net/wiki/Hello_K...

Although Takara's original plans for COUNT DRACULA fell through, the vampire lord rose from the dead in 2021 as part of the "Collaborative" line! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Dracula

Not content with a cameo in the original “The Transformers” cartoon, FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER got his due in 2023 when the “Collaborative” line resurrected him as the horrifying “Frankentron!” #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Franken...

#DidYouKnow that Megatron fought the Klingons? After reactivating in the 23rd century, the Decepticons invaded the planet Kronos, intending to raze the planet and use its dilithium supplies to rebuild it into "New Kaon", seat of their resurgent Decepticon empire! tfwiki.net/wiki/Kronos

Heroic monster hunter CROSSWISE spent centuries battling the most frightful Decepticons on Earth—a regular Sports Car Helsing! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Crosswi...

“What defines a Transformer is not the cog in his chest, but the spark that resides in their core. A spark that gives you the will to make your world better. My fellow Primes had that spark. And I see their strength in you.” #WeekendTFQuote tfwiki.net/wiki/Transfo...

In "TRICK OR TREAT", the Rescue Bot recruits went trick-or-treating for the first time; Wedge really got into the spirit by making his own home-made Bumblebee costume, while Hoist found collecting wrappers more interesting than the candy! #Botoween tfwiki.net/wiki/Trick_o...