TRANSSPOTTING ...

 

 

TRANSFORMERS SIGHTINGS IN NON-TF MOVIES, TV SHOWS, BOOKS, ETC

 

& FAMOUS TF FANS & RACE HORSES

 

 

[And other goodies with names of TF's]

 

 

 

MOVIES:

 

 

 

SPARTACUS [1960]

 

Famous Roman called Optimus Severus Glavourus mentioned, LOL!  [Snape got a mention in this one too, hehe]

 

 

 

 

SOUL MAN  [1986]

 

A little boy is playing with a some Dinobot toys and Soundwave.  He bashes Soundwave with Grimlock and says, "Me Grimlock destroy you..."

 

Poor Soundie … I hope in his next movie Soundwave will get more screen time and ask for a role more fitting his talents.  He really should speak to his agent.

Incidentally, Soundwave was not harmed in the making of this motion picture … He better not have been ;]

 

 

 

 

TOP GUN  [1986]

 

Maverick [Tom Cruise] and Goose [Anthony Edwards] are sitting at the airport.  Goose picks up a Starscream Jet –

 

Those Jets were the REAL reason I went to see Top Gun! ;]  Me and Equus were probably 2 of few girls in the world that went to see Top Gun for the JETS!  I heard that Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker were first asked, but they had to turn it down as they were working on Transformers at the time and the roles went to Dogfight, Afterburn and Bomber, respectively. ;]

 

 

 

 

FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR  [1986]

 

An eight year old boy, David Freeman [Joey Cramer] wakes up in the future and is taken to a research facility.  On his bed are some new boxed toys, including Skywarp and some other Transformers.

 

 

 

 

THE PRINCESS BRIDE  [1987]

 

The little boy [Fred Savage] is sick and he has a red Lamborghini behind his bed.   I'm sure it's Sideswipe!

 

 

 

 

SPACEBALLS  [1987]

 

In the scene where Yoghurt [Mel Brooks]is showing Lonestarr [Bill Pullman] and the others the merchandising, or should we say moichandising ... ;] "Spaceballs the Colouring Book" is "Return To Cybertron" with Optimus Prime on the cover.   "Spaceballs the Lunchbox" is a TF lunchbox with the Metroplex battle scene from the '86 toys.

 

In the scene where Spaceball One is transforming into MegaMaid, Barf [John Candy] says "Ohmygosh ... It's not just a spaceship ... It's a Transformer..."  [I cried with laughter in this scene...]

 

The entire MegaMaid scene is a spoof on Unicron - with a vacuum cleaner

 

 

 

 

BIG  [1988]

 

Tom Hanks talks about Transformers and Hasbro at a meeting.

There is an electronic transforming toy building in the movie.

 

 

 

 

VICE VERSA [1988]

 

The son and father swap places.  There is a scene where Judge Reinhold as the son is sitting in his father's office reading the Wall Street Journal.  Behind it he's reading a Transformers comic [US Issue 24 Page 9] and laughing.

 

 

 

 

 

REVENGE OF THE NERDS III – THE NEXT GENERATION  [1992]

 

There is a TF comic on a desk in a scene in the beginning.

 

 

 

 

THE PROFESSIONAL  [LEON]   [1994]

 

One of the more famous TF sightings.   A little girl Matilda, [Natalie Portman] in three scenes is watching Transformers on TV.  In the first scene, her sister wants to watch the aerobics, and Natalie switches it over to Transformers.  Her sister chases her and bashes her up.  In the background you can hear Starscream begging for mercy.  [MTMTE III] … Heh, Queen Padmé Amidala is a closet TransFan!  ;]

 

 

 

 

HACKERS  [1995]

 

Has someone running into a group of people he didn't like and muttering  "You and your Decepticons..."

 

 

 

 

THE BLACK CIRILE BOYS  [1997]

 

There is s part where the boys were sitting on a couch and one said "I love Transformers" and one was talking about being a robot and turning back into a car.

 

 

 

BOOGIE NIGHTS  [1997]

 

Has the Stan Bush number The Touch.   Though Stan sings it waaaaaay better!  :D

 

 

 

 

THE SIEGE [1998]

 

Anthony Hubbard [Denzel Washington] is talking to his partner in his partner's son's room and there is a Jumpstarter on the wall.

 

 

 

 

TWO HANDS  [2000]

 

Has Beast Wars Armordillo in beast mode atop a TV.

 

 

 

 

 

THE WATCHER   [2000]

 

Someone is talking on the phone and an Energon pool is mentioned.

 

 

 

 

THE MATRIX RELOADED [2003]

 

Behind the Scenes of the making of the Matrix Reloaded game, one of the producers is wearing an Autobot symbol shirt.

 

 

 

 

TED 2 [2015]

 

There is a scene in the Hasbro CEO’s office where there is a statue of Optimus Prime.  Later in the movie, that same CEO is giving a talk at Comic Con where he announces a whole new line of Decepticon Transformers. Later in the Comic Con scene, there is also a statue of the new Bumblebee and another scene where there’s a person dressed up as that Bumblebee and he gets involved in a fight scene.

 

 

 

 

ROBO-DOG [2015]

 

There’s a scene in the beginning of the movie where we see a Rodimus bust and below that an Optimus Bust on Tyler’s shelf. There’s a Transformers and Gi-Joe toy set on top of the shelf. The camera pans to the bedside shelf where we see another Transformers and Gi-Joe toy set and Trypticon [blecch] on the bedside table.

 

One a scene on the floor, when the robot dog cones, there’s a G1 Optimus and Kup on their sides and a G1 Hot Rod the right way up. Later on, there’s a G1 Metroplex on the shelf above. Robo-Dog picks up Optimus and Kup and puts them in a toybox. [Cute!] Later on, there’s a newer Bumblebee in Tyler’s room. There’s also what looks like a ‘Heroes of Cybertron’ Ratchet and Optimus [blurry] on the top shelf of Tyler’s room. [He loves his TFs, like me!] And possibly a Skids in a later scene [also blurry]

 

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TELEVISION:

 

 

 

 

DR WHO - THE INVASION [1967]

 

 

Mentions a ‘Cyber-Megatron Bomb’ [and almost 20 years before Transformers too… :]

 

 

ALF [1986]

 

In one episode, Alf is reading a Transformers comic.

 

 

 

MUPPET BABIES

 

In one episode, Gonzo is playing with a Transformer, though he can't figure out how to transform it, throws it behind him.  It hits Miss Piggy and she beats him up.

 

 

 

 

 

ROBIN WILLIAMS LIVE  [1986]

 

A live comedy stint & Robin’s talking about coming home drunk.

  "... and they have these toys, these Transformers ... It's a truck .. it's a robot ... it's a ... what the f**k is it!!??"

 

 

 

A COUNTRY PRACTICE  [1987]

 

Australian drama.  In this episode, a little boy is admitted to hospital with high blood sugar.  He says "Look, I've got a Transformer!" And he pulls out the original Optimus Prime...

During the course of the episode, the doctors and nurses can't figure out why the boy isn't getting better and it turned out he had all these jelly beans stashed in Oppy's trailer! 

 

 

 

ROSEANNE

 

Roseanne is cleaning DJ's room and holding a Metroplex in robot mode.

 

In another episode, DJ is playing with Trypticon

 

 

7 DAYS

 

 

Has a G2 Megatron green tank in robot mode lying of a coffee table.

 

 

 

Game Show [??]  [Early 90’s]

 

A cool ‘fancy dress’ game show on Channel 10 in Australia where contestants used to have to dress up.  One guy came as a Transformer.

 

 

 

  "What is Optimus Prime?"  Was a question on a UK game show - and no one answered.  Duh.

 

 

 

 

FRESH PRINCE OF BELL AIR  [1996]

 

Has someone playing with Beats Wars Razorbeast and croc Megatron.

 

 

 

 

SOUTHPARK  [1997]

 

Mentions Transformers

 

 

 

 

AMIMORPHS - "MY NAME IS JAKE"  [1998]

 

Jake Berenson [Shawn Ashmore] is playing the Beast Wars computer game - and he's damn good at it too!

 

 

 

 

FAMILY GUY [1999]

 

Has several episodes sending up Transformers, including one with someone saying: “Optimus Prime?!  He’s Jewish!” How they figure that? … Heheh… I doubt they had religions on Cybertron tho, unless they worshipped Primus or the All Spark ;]

 

 

 

OLIVER'S ADVENTURES [2003]

 

There was a representation of the three Generation One Seeker Jets and the launch tower from the underwater Decepticon base.

 

 

 

THE SIMPSONS [2005]

 

Five Autobots drive in and transform into the Simpsons as the opening couch scene.  Optimus turns into Homer, Jetfire into Marge, Hound into Lisa, Bumblebee into Maggie, and Jazz into Bart.  Matrix Help Me!  ;]

 

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=7754

 

 

 

ROBOT CHICKEN [2005]

 

 

Has several eps sending up Transformers.  One in particular episode I heard of has, Shockwave looking for Soundwave and found him on eBay and asked Megatron: “Permission to buy him now?”

Hehe.  I hope Megatron said ‘granted.’ ;]

 

 

 

DAVID LETTERMAN  [2010]

 

 

Optimus Prime as a “guest” on Letterman.  ‘Top 10 things that sound cool when spoken by a giant robot.’ ;]

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=capoqysbgI0

 

 

Man, I hope they paid Peter enough for this ;]

 

 

 

DOCTOR WHO [2011] -- Episode  “The Crimson Horror”  (11th Doctor, Matt Smith)

 

 

At the end of the ep, Clara, (Jenna-Louise Coleman) Is playing with a G1 Galvatron and saying “I am Cross!”   Uh oh, Lookout!!  Galvers was cross with Starscream & look what happened!  Poor Screamers!

 

 

 

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BOOKS:

 

 

 

A WRINKLE IN TIME [Madeleine L'Engle, 1962]  Written And this is waaaaay before Tf’s even came out!!! There’s a paragraph which reads:

 

  "Cal," Meg said, holding out her hand.

Calvin came to her and took her hand, then drew her roughly toward him and kissed her.  He didn't say anything, and he turned away before he had a chance to see the surprised happiness that brightened Meg's eyes.  At last she turned to her father.

  "I'm ... I'm sorry, Father."

He took both her hands in his, bent down to her with his short sighted eyes and said "Sorry for what, Megatron?"

 

 

OMG!!!  I was reading this in class and laughed out loud.  Two of the other books we got to read in that class were The Towering Inferno & Drag Strip Danger… LOL!!!

 

 

 

 ???  [I don't know the title or date of this novel.] -  Enlighten me.   Seawave gives puppy eyes. ;]

 

A friend photocopied a paragraph form me, which reads:

 

…The thud of the newspaper hitting the floor made Nige jump, a reminder that his nerves were still raw and delicate.  On the television, The Transformers were saving the planet from world domination, but as far as Nige was concerned, they might have well been dancing a jig.  His mind turned inward, concentrating not on the robotic heroes, but on the bewildering array of messages that whirred and spun in his head...

 

 

 

GOOD OMENS  [Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, 1991]

 

A kid is saying when he got for his birthday.

 

Sentence reads … “And I gotter transformer anna mylittlepony anna decepticonattacker anna thundertank anna …”  LOL!!!

 

 

BLOOD LITE [Kevin J. Anderson, 2008]  Story by Sherrilyn Kenton called Where Angels Fear To Tread  … “There were times when he could swear he heard his life ticking away with every swipe of the second hand on the Transformers clock he’d inherited from his older brother. Optimus Prime stared at him from his perch next to Zeke’s drab grey monitor…”  The story also features Archangel Gabriel, my fave Arch.  Woo hoo!

 

 

 

THE FIVE GREATEST WARRIORS  [Matthew Reilly, 2009] - Book 3 of the Jack West Saga [1 The Seven Ancient Wonders,  2 The Six Sacred Stones]  I highly recommend these - they’re Awesome & not just for the hats off to Transformers!

 

Paragraph reads:  … Which meant they hardly noticed the other two member’s of Pooh’s team entering the British Museum  behind him - a pair of red-haired Scottish twins, wearing Transformers T-shirts [one bearing the Autobot Symbol, the other the Decepticon Symbol]

 

[And Later on] … Among the throng of people who gathered in the wide courtyard out in front of the British Museum were two red-haired men wearing gardeners overalls over Transformers T-shirts.

 

 

 

BLOODTHRISTY, [Flynn Meany, 2011] hilarious Vampire wannabe romance.   Our not so intrepid hero, Finbar, has a Megan Fox Transformers poster in his room.  Features nods off to a bunch of other cool fantasy & Sci-fi goodies too.   A snort of a read for any sci-fantasy geek ;]

 

 

 

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MUSIC, SONGS & CD’S:

 

 

 

 

AMITYVILLE - {THE HOUSE ON THE  HILL} [Lovebug Starski, 1986] - alerted in Soundwave’s from the UK Comics - has a voice which sounds like Soundwave singing Amityville in the background.  Finally!  [Wanted to hear this song for 24 years!!!]  … You can hear it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHotPZDGxx8

 

 

 

“GET DOWN” - BULLET FROM A GUN, [Derek B, 1988] - Has a line that goes "And like Omega Supreme, he can Transform."

 

 

 

TRANSFORMERS  - BUSTERS IN DISGUISE  [Warren G. 1997]

 

 

 

“THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS”  - DR. DEMENTO'S CHRISTMAS ALBUM, [1989] - Has kids screaming "I want a Transformer!"

 

 

 

WE CARE A LOT  [Faith No More, 1999] -  Has a line which goes  "We care a lot about Transformers, 'cos there's More Than Meets the Eye!"  Damn straight!

 

 

 

MAKE THE VOICES STOP [Frank Caliendo, 2002] - On this CD he does Sean Connery, and in the middle of the skit Connery says, “This isn’t my hand. It’s a Transformer!”

 Dr. Evil then says “It’s a Decepticon, ‘cause those Transformers are evil!
 

 

 

BUSTIN' DECEPTICHOPS [Plan Be, 2004] - An entire song about the Bot/Con battle in TFTM

 

 

 

NOT MANY [Scribe, 2004] - Has a line which goes "This is for my Decepticons..."  They were also wearing Decepticon symbol T-shirts and had Decepticon insignia tattoos on their arms.

 

 

 

A New Zealand band exists called "The Decepticonz."

 

 

 

On a website there was a woman who sung a new funky, version of the TF song

 

 

There exists an Australian Comedy group which has topics and one of the topics was Transformers and they sung a cool song about Being a Transformer.

 

[Please enlighten me on the name of the group]

 

 

 

 

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COMPUTER GAMES:

 

 

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SAN DIEGO?

 

In an old version, before the game started, this thing came up which said, "Cracked by  The Evil Sock and Optimus Prime" and had a graphic of Optimus.  Don't ask me why he's in league with an evil sock ... [Maybe it's one of Lister's...  ;]

 

 

There is a computer game with an orange sign which reads Deseptikons.

 

 

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EVENTS:

 

 

At the WWF SmackDown, San Jose 4/4/2000, someone held up a Decepticon symbol banner.

 

 

 

CATALOGUES  [Non Toy]:

 

In a K-Mart catalogue back in the 80’s, they were advertising some storage shelves and things for a kids room, and they had Ramjet in jet mode displayed.

 

 

 

PLACES:

 

There is a Bar in Ontario, Canada Called NASA, with a bunch of space stuff, and Transformers too.

 

 

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TV ADS & NEWS:

 

 

 

Australian ads from mid 80's: 

 

Aerogard - in which various arms are shown in a box of flies with the Aerogard repelling them. One is a kid's and he's playing with Ultra Magnus.

 

 

Commercials for Uncle Pete's toys, showed a variety of stuff, including Transformers.

 

 

Juvenile Diabetes - a young boy and his mum talking about the disease and he’s playing with Headstrong.

 

 

 

Epedia.com  - Gundam wings.... Scott McNeil n' David Kay.

 

 

 

On the News, sometimes Transformers are shown at toy fares, including one where Hasbro Australia had this HUGE Polystyrene statue of Optimus Prime.  Man, I SO wanted him!!  He rocked, Dudes!

 

 

 

New ad for the Discovery Channel has Optimus singing, heehe!  You can see it here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0jZzBEKIMc

 

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RADIO:

 

 

On a radio station in Maine ... People were voting for bands and some guy said, "I vote for Optimus Prime."

 

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COMPANIES:

 

 

Electronics company called Optimus.   [I have an Optimus discman and earphones  :]  They

make other stuff like speakers, etc.

 

Company called Optimus and another one called Optimus One Design  [Australia]

 

Electronics store called Megatronics  [Australia]

 

Trucking company named Prime, Inc   [Australia] – How fitting!!!!!!! :D

 

Construction company called Prime  [Australia]

 

Industrial real estate company called Metroplex ... I wonder if they deal in big white cities ...

;]   [Australia]

 

 

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OTHER:

 

 

There were people in the phone book with the surname Megatron!

 

 

Colby College puts out a newspaper, and every May they devote this paper entirely as a spoof. One of the front‑page articles they fabricated was the creation of new all‑purpose tractors for use on the campus grounds. An excerpt of the article reads,   "I said to myself, if Voltron could be formed by combining many coloured mechanical cats or if MASK could transform a regular big‑rig truck into a missile‑launching platform, I could easily create a vehicle which could mow the lawn, shovel snow, pick up leaves and still carry my fat‑assed staff around campus." The photo that accompanied the article was a picture of G1 Megatron holding a rake with the caption,  "The full‑sized multitasking vehicle is ready for lawn detail."

 

 

 

In the Sabrina Online comic strips, [www.sabrina‑online.com] they have some TF’s in several of the comic strips, cause the main character has Laser OP ‘standing guard’ over her computer ... {Bet she *never* gets any viruses; ]

 

 

 

There have even been race horses with TF names and most of them have won!   [Australia]

 

  Bonecrusher [Cox Plate winner, 1986] – Horse of the year, 1986-7 – I won $20!!!  :D

  Megatron  [Telopea, Australia, 1993. There was an article in the paper.  The odds were

100:1 and he WON?!!  Man, where was I!? ;]

There was also a Horse Called Might and Power which won both the Caufield &

Melbourne cup in 1997 - Now with a name like that… heheh! 

Megatron backed him too! ;]

  Onslaught [Won early 2000’s I believe - heard the race on the radio, wish I’d backed,

hehe]

  Optimus Prime   [Now I'm sure he won too! Early 2000’s too]

 

 

MotorMaster  Degreaser Spray wonder if he uses it? ;]  When I was 13 and first got into TF’s, I called our family car ‘Breakdown’ ;] and we used it on him :]  My dad wasn’t too impressed that I’d called the car ‘Breakdown’ Lol!  But I didn’t mean it THAT way!

 

 

Amway has an Oven Cleaner called Blast Off

 

 

There is a brand of Highlighters called Hot Shot

 

 

Bumblebee fireworks!

 

 

 

Trannies Photocopy Shop!  Remember Rob’s Trannies?  We Miss You, Rob! 

 

 

 

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FAMOUS TF FANS:

 

 

 

GRANT HACKETT: [Aussie Swimmer]'s favorite toyline was Transformers.

 

 

 

LEONARD NIMOY:  Took up an interest if TF's after his role in the movie as Galvatron.  [And the ending lines of Unicron]

 

 

 

PATRICK STEWART:  [Captain Picard, Star Trek: TNG, Leondegrance, Excalibur] apparently said that one of his prized possessions was the uncut version of TFTM.

 

 

 

STEVE BRADBURY:  Australian Speed Skating champion.  He wore a Decepticon symbol T-shirt to an interview.

 

 

 

TOM HANKS:  On Leno, they were talking about toys, Hanks started talking about Transformers.  He sang part of the Theme Song and said that Tf's had the coolest song ever and that it would have been cool if Frank Sinatra had sung it!  He said that Transformers was his favourite toyline when he was younger and his kids like them too!

 

 

 

SHIA LABEOUF:  Was a fan before he starred in the live-action TransFormers Blockbuster movies.    [A pity they did not stick to the original characterisations and colour schemes and focus more on the ROBOTS!!!]

 

 

Not sure if he’s a fan, a fan but there’s a director called OLIVER MEGATON [Almost Megatron, not quite but it was too good to throw away!]

 

 

 

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TF’S ARE SO BACK, MAN!!

 

 

And It’s About Slagging Time!

 

& they’re here to STAY.

 

 

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I’d appreciate any more information on sightings, no matter how small, and any famous fans also any more info, updated and corrections on what is already listed - Like the names of particular episodes that featured Tf’s [like in SouthPark, Robot Chicken, etc], which characters were shown [in not listed], books/novels, dates,  and titbits like what TF issue Alf was reading, etc.  Please alert me [jedimasterqui-gonjinn@hotmail.com] and I’ll credit you by name or handle.

 

Thanks for your help, Fellow TransFans!

 

 

Till All Have Fun!

 

 

lol Seawave  :]

 

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A Special Thanks to Fellow Trans Spotters!

 

 

Carly, Black Storm, Devona, Daystring, Diab, DD, Bruce, Equus, Gambit, Griffin, Grebo, Goktimus, Jenn, Lee, Kynight, Mariamus Prime, Mr Chompy, Paul, Phantom, Phoenix [Nix], Primus TF, Prizm, Raggletag, Red Skye, Shin, Screamer, Springer, Star Ruby, Stealthy, Talon, Thunder Strikes Twice!, TigerMegatron, Wikii, Zaanaii, Yiz & Zoi

 

 

&  thanks also to all those cool movies, shows, songs, books, race horses et all that had TF’s in!   

 

 

So long and thanks for the TransFun!

 

 

 

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