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Looking through the Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers page on the TFWiki, I've been wondering what other misconceptions we as fans have made or heard of over the years.

I myself have made few, such as when, as a child, I used to think that Cybertron was a character.

Back when Beast Wars was airing in the 90s, as I'd watch it, I'd often here the characters talking of something called "Cybertron". Since I did not know that it was their home planet, and since there were characters running around with names like "Megatron", "Tigatron", etc., I simply assumed that this "Cybertron" was also a character.

Though, the way they spoke of having to get "back to" Cybertron being of great importance, I assumed that that meant this Cybertron fellow was also someone important. Like an authority figure of some kind. But since both the Maximals and Predacons spoke of the urgency of reach Cybertron first, I figured that maybe this Cybertron was some kind of neutrally-aligned figure who would take the side of whichever team got to him and gained his favor first. Like, if the Maximals would reach him, they'd gain his favor and he'd help them destroy the Predacons. Or if the Preds got to him, they'd gain his favor and he'd help them beat the Maximals.

Now you may be asking me, "What about all the flashbacks and other scenes to Cybertron showing it to be their home planet?" Well, I simply took those scenes as showing their home, yes, but I did not make the connection of that place being called "Cybertron". I simply saw it more as just the place where the guy called Cybertron resided. Like his sanctuary or something.

So when Beast Wars ended and Beast Machines began, you can imagine my surprise when I saw that this "Cybertron" that they had been talking about all this time wasn't a person but a place. When the characters all left Earth in the Beast Wars finale, and then Beast Machines was announced, I was like, "Oh, cool! Now we might finally get to see who this Cybertron guy is!" BOY, was I wrong.

Though, thinking back on this, I guess it wasn't TOO off the mark for me to have thought that, considering the whole aspect of Primus = Cybertron (and the TF: Cybertron cartoon making the planet be a character). Back then, I didn't know about Primus, so I guess what I thought back then about Cybertron could retroactively be considered a primitive concept of Primus that was completely unintentional and coincidental.


So, what about you? What misconceptions and false assumptions have you made or heard about the Transformers?

I always thought that the UK G1 comics were canon (with the exception of Earthforce) but with the advent of Regeneration One that has ceased to be the case So all of my favourite stories (target: 2006, Timewars etc) didn't happen

I also thought that the deluxe insecticons were readily available in the UK so happily swapped Barrage for Pointblank

A funnier story was that I got Ironhide way before I had seen the cartoon or comic, and assumed he was disabled, and that his platform was a wheelchair

Banjo-Tron wrote:I always thought that the UK G1 comics were canon (with the exception of Earthforce) but with the advent of Regeneration One that has ceased to be the case So all of my favourite stories (target: 2006, Timewars etc) didn't happen

Sure they did. The UK stories are canon, just in their own timeline.

The Marvel comic stories reside in multiple timelines:

• Marvel U.S. G1 --> Marvel U.S. G2
• Marvel UK G1 (including the modified reprints of the U.S. issues, but excluding Earthforce) --> Another Time & Place
• Marvel UK G1 (same as above) --> Fleetway G2
• Marvel UK G1 (up to "Perchance to Dream") --> Earthforce --> The Magnificent Seven!
• Whatever Marvel UK G1 annuals don't fit into the above timelines (these might be multiple micro-continuities all on their own)
• UK Generation 2 Annual
• Marvel U.S. G1 --> Fun Pub Classics comics --> Invasion (Classicverse is destroyed, Classics Earth gets pulled into Shatteredverse) --> Fun Pub Classics/SG world comics
• Marvel U.S. G1 --> Regeneration One

Different timelines, all canon. Not to one another, but to each of their own timelines.

Banjo-Tron wrote:A funnier story was that I got Ironhide way before I had seen the cartoon or comic, and assumed he was disabled, and that his platform was a wheelchair

Back when FP City Commander came out, I thought it was an official toy. I was so excited for when we'de get him in the stores, so my classics Ultra Magnus would be awesome. Sadly not so.

"Cyberverse Commanders = Scouts"
That one really bugs the crap out of me.

When I first heard of Transformers, I thought Optimus Prime was Octopus Prime, Landmine was Lambmind, and Decepticons were Ceptecons.

PrymeStriker wrote:When I first heard of Transformers, I thought Optimus Prime was Octopus Prime, Landmine was Lambmind, and Decepticons were Ceptecons.

I think I once thought "Optimus" was "Octomus".

The kids at school would swear black and blue that the Dinobots could combine, even after you'd show them the checklist and point out that there was no combined mode. They'd still insist "it's a secret mode" "it's not on there".

Since the animated movie I thought Blurr moved at light speed, but he only merely moved at supersonic speeds.
I also thought that Elita-1 was Lena-1 for decades.

Here's an embarrassing one for me... I once thought that Countdown's Rocket Base was not a real Transformers product given its size.

Plus, when my mother pointed out the RiD toys in a toy catalog in 2001, I dismissed them as being "modern wanna-bes", not true Transformers. Although, that may have been the Geewunner in me talking back then.