Games - Transformers: Alternators

• Cosmic Rust previously appeared in the season two episode, "Cosmic Rust."
• Electro-cells previously appeared in the season two episode, "Traitor."
• "TORQ 3000" is a reference to the TORQ 3 supercomputer from the season two episode, "Day of the Machines," which also featured Quantum Labs.
• Hybrid Technologies Corporation - aka HyTech - appeared in the season two episode, "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide."
• Count von Rani is better known as Iron Klaw from G.I.Joe Extreme.
• General Krieger is better known as General Blitz from Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles.
• Shawn Berger appeared in the two-part season two episode, "Megatron's Master Plan." However, he was not identified as a "Junior" in that episode, leading to speculation that this character may be his son.
• Lord Chumley appeared in the season two episode, "Prime Target."
• Doctor Arkeville and his Hypno-Chips played a major role in the season one trilogy, "The Ultimate Doom."
• Symultech Industries were mentioned in the season two episode, "Trans-Europe Express."
• Central City is the fictitious city in the immediate proximity of the Autobots' headquarters throughout the first two seasons of the cartoon series. It is identified as such in "Megatron's Master Plan."
• An exponential generator first appeared in the season one episode, "Countdown to Extinction," as an invention of Doctor Arkeville.
• Chip Chase appeared in several episodes across the first two seasons of the animated series.
• A laser core is the central component of a Transformer, mentioned in the G1 episodes "Divide and Conquer" and "The Autobot Run." The Beast Wars series replaced this piece of parlance with the term "Spark," which is now in much wider use.
• "Subspace" is sub-dimensional space existing between realities, which has long been Transformer fans' preferred explanation for where items such as Optimus Prime's trailer disappear to, and where excess mass is shunted when Transformers change size.
• Dashiell Faireborn is better known as Flint from G.I. Joe. Additionally, in the third season episode, "The Killing Jar," he was established as the father of Marissa Faireborn, a high-ranking EDC captain.
• Although Hirofumi Ichikawa, writer of the Binaltech story, states that they are an original creation by him, the Unleashers bear a startling similarity to an unnamed race of aliens from the Transformers: Generation 2 Marvel comic, which were also primitive, telepathic beings that turn their victims into rampaging savages.
• I.I.I. (Intelligence Information Institute, aka "Triple I") was a government organisation featured in the Transformers Marvel comics, which disbanded prior to #68 of that series.
• In a non-Transformers related explanation, "Schrödinger's Box" is named for Erwin Schrödinger, a physician who formulated the popular paradox known as "Schrödinger's Cat." By sealing a cat in a box with a radioactive isotope, he claimed that it was impossible to know if the cat was alive or dead without opening the box. Therefore, technically, it was both alive and dead at the same time. The reference is employed here because the story deals with a "box" (the flight recorder) containing the essence of Ravage (who transforms into a cat), who is both alive (in that his mind is preserved) and dead (as his body was destroyed) at the same time.
• The existence of Overdrive's prototype bodies is a reference to, and explanation for, the fact that the toy was released as the Autobot, Windcharger, in the US.
• Durabyllium is a fictitious metal mentioned in the tech specs for the Transformers toys Nosecone and Catilla, and in the Transformers Universe profile for Snap Trap.
• The removal of Overdrive's built-in weapons is a double reference. First, it is referencing the original 80's toy's ability to transform into a third, "attack" mode with deployed in-bulit weapons, which this version of the character cannot do. Secondly, it also refers to the fact that in the US, the toy's gun had its elongated barrel removed in order to, according to Hasbro's official statement on the matter, "keep it from looking like a weapon." It was believed Honda had some say in this matter, but the Honda logo does appear on the Binaltech packaging. It's important to note that the Binaltech version does have the barrel weapon, not the Alternator version.
• Overdrive's alleged experience in dimensional travel is a reference to the advert for the original Omnibots toys, who were only available as mail-away exclusive figures. It encouraged readers to order them quickly, lest they "fight on in another universe."
• The Transmutor technology that restores Laserwave to life is apparently a reference to "matter transmuter" technology used in the G.I. Joe episode, "Worlds Without End."
• The Kronosphere appeared in the season 2 episode, "War Dawn."
• The Dodge Ram SR10 figure is the original Optimus Prime in the American "Alternators" line, it was recently revealed that the character has been made into the G1 "Transformers: Choujin Masterforce" Godmaster character, Ginrai (known outside of Japan as "Powermaster Optimus Prime" ).

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