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When I saw first trailers and pictures of it, I thought that War For Cybertron was a part of G1 storyline, bringing them back. It was a surprise to find out it was actually a part of new TF series.

Also, since I saw Energon series before Armada, then seeing the opening of Unicron Battles part of Armada cartoon, I thought the characters from Energon EVOLVED into Armada forms.
I blame that one on language-barrier. Since I couldn't understand it at all.

I didn't know that Armada, Energon and Cybertron were a trilogy until recently.....

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When I saw first trailers and pictures of it, I thought that War For Cybertron was a part of G1 storyline, bringing them back. It was a surprise to find out it was actually a part of new TF series.

don't feel so bad about that one, I think High Moon Studios were under the same impression until someone at Hasbro sent them a memo telling them otherwise.

Red 50 wrote:I blame that one on language-barrier. Since I couldn't understand it at all.

I totally hear you. As great as the latinamerican dub for Beast Wars was, they simply didn´t understand some in-universe stuff, so the words that came out sometimes didn´t make sense and made the viewers miss out important information.

I didn´t know back then that Rampage´s spark was created in an experiment to recreate Starscream´s, what happened was that the dubbing guys translated the words star and scream separately and not as a name, so the line from Primal didn´t make sense at all.

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Back when I had not yet seen the 2007 movie, but only clips and cuts from it, I was left with an impression that Megatron could basically transform into anything that other decepticons did.
For example: when he turned into jet and flew at Optimus to crash through the building I thought it was supposed to be Starscream's jet-mode.
And when in the building with statues, when he was crashing through the floor to get Sam, I thought he was using a rotor like Blackout.

Then, being a young fool that I was (still am) I actually believed one fan-made casting video for the second movie to be true. It featured more characters than DOTM had decepticons. And get this: Megatron was cast as a convertible Cadillac.

I remembered a good one. I watched Transformers G1 for the first time when I was 2 years old (1990), or maybe even before, well, the thing is that I didn´t watch it again until I was 14. For most of that time I believed some stuff that never happened, I guess I dreamed it ´cause they were very vivid memories.

According to me Astrotrain was huge, gigantic, he actually was the Decepticon base or ship, he would only transform in a few episodes and, get this, Megatron didn´t shrink down in gun mode, be stayed big, and Astrotrain was the only one who could use him as a gun.

IHide wrote:I didn't know that Armada, Energon and Cybertron were a trilogy until recently.....

Ditto.

I got into Transformers during the Beast Wars series but forgot and came back during Armada. I had my own Deluxe Hot Shot for a long time, and when the 2007 movie rolled into theaters, I thought Bumblebee was suppose to be Hot Shot and they changed his name.

Sabrblade wrote:Long before I actively joined the online fandom, there was a time where I was of the impression that the various Transformers cartoons and movies held the highest regard of canon truth for Transformers fiction, with comics, books, video games, etc. being lesser mediums whose stories were just something for non-serious fun instead of being anything that important, making them either not matter at all or be overridden by what the cartoons/movies stated if they did not match up with the cartoon/movie versions.

This mostly came from having relatively easy access and more exposure to the cartoons/movies than any other mediums at the time.

As have I. With comics I am limited, but I find myself reading novels and playing games a lot more now alongside buying the toys and watching what's on the screen, sometimes just to know what links where in-continuity. Before the 2007 movie game (one of the best Transformers console games IMO to this day), I ignored all other mediums and exposed myself to those parts of the franchise that was of easier access.