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Going through the TFP Art Book as my library has a digital loan copy, taking some screenshots here and there as I go! 

1) Floor space scale at the base using Optimus and Jack for relative measure.

2) An interior map of the spatial orientation of Hangar E. 

(Note: Where text/images/etc. are cut off on the margins, this is because the library copy I have access to has been scanned that way; Unfortunately, some words are cut off here and there.)

GOD I WOULD KILL FOR TF1 DECEPTICON BEE!! The thought of him not wanting to leave Megatron alone after something so horrific warms my heart. I need a fic of them becoming friends. (do you have any more headcanons?)

I really hope to get to writing a fic for this, and I’ll definitely link it if I do! Kinda busy with other fics tho and since one is close to finishing I wanna start it after I’m done with that one

Well first and most obvious headcanon is that Bee has to have some MAJOR respect for D-16/Megatron purely because of that scene with him standing up to Sentinel. Genuinely, seeing Bee watch that had me in the theaters wondering why tf Bee would be horrified by D-16 killing him. B-127 is a better person than me because of I saw one of my friends get CARVED INTO it would be my last straw

My main idea for a Decepticon tf1 Bee story kinda looks like this (warning this gets LONG):

-He sees Megatron and the High Guard leaving, and he can’t believe it. He just got a friend group, he can’t just let it split apart! Especially not like this!

-With a quick number exchange, Bee tells Elita that he’s going with Megatron and it’s nothing personal he just wants to stay with him ok byeeeee

-Elita is kinda baffled, and Optimus absolutely takes it personally but in a sad “wait what if I’m in the wrong, oh no, now I lost two friends” way. Optimus wants to go after him and Megatron but Elita stops him. They both agree it’s probably best to give them all space and let Bee try and figure it out

-Megatron is also baffled that this guy is coming with him, but he feels relieved that at least *someone* familiar agrees with him. He won’t admit it tho, it’s a cold comfort after everything else that’s happened

-The High guard doesn’t really care rn, they just got banished (AGAIN!) and a friend of their new leader is probably good enough to keep around

-I imagine some of them are probably injured (most importantly Megatron), so Soundwave helps them highjack a train where they can take temporary shelter, get supplies/food, and rest. Starscream finds out the base got blown up and appropriately grieves about the loss of his awesome throne. Shockwave is revealed to be the best thing they have to a doctor. Rough times.

-Bee keeps trying to get Megatron to talk about what just happened, but he refuses. Bee eventually talks about how horrible sublevel 50 was because of the isolation, and promises Megatron that he won’t leave him alone

-Still cold comfort to Megatron. He just lost his longest companion, and he knows Bee could never compare. Bee also realizes this, but he’s trying his best

Lotta places the story could go from there, but I wanna keep it as a “Bumblebee inadvertently becomes the moral backbone of the Decepticons” type of story. I also wanna clarify that Bee is still totally down for murder, he just convinces Megatron to keep the guns pointed at the Quintessons for now

He also shares soooo much Decepticon gossip to Optimus and Elita, but never anything that could ever compromise the Decepticons. He’ll be like “You’ll NEVER guess what Skywarp just said today” and Elita will ask for boring stuff like “where are you based” and “are you eating enough” and Bumblebee refuses to have his friendships compromised by politics. Optimus appreciates this, and does the same. Eventually Elita will conform and send him memes

Also Soundwave and Bee become scout friends. This is the law. Bee is one of the only people who will contribute to the community playlist

some fanart based on scenes and designs from this amazing fic 'The echo garden' by @altraviolet 🙏 🙏

Optimus is one word away from committing war crimes

silly continuity crossover doodle because i'm not immune to the multiverse trend

he's still emo about his own ratchet, don't judge him.

They don't know how good it feels to not be the only crazy person who imagines comfortable beds with pillows and giant blankets tailored for each of them!

I don't like to imagine the cold, clinical metal slab to sleep on, I love comfort 😞💖✨

I always imagine the beds in Transformers as a cold slab of metal but I love the idea they're snug and tucked into giant duvets with many pillows

I can't draw but I need more art of Cybertronians snug in bed snoozin

A prisoner on earth

@thechekhov

Silly little seeker bumblebee doodles, I really like this as an au! There's so much potential for drama

Or by Primus they are Adorable!, I need them, I need them!!

IM GOING TO DIIIIIE OMG THEYRE SO CUTE

im obsessed with elita's cute little face. her little cake is shaped like optimus as a truck. hot rod has a little sharkticon on his fishing line.

also genuinely insane chase figures, nemesis prime AND SG optimus. wild. optimus stans are eating well tonight.

I needed a distraction x)

Because of these sketches, there was a headcanon about prime Ravage. He's a beast who befriends Soundwave as a kitten (i.e. he's not part of Soundwave like Laserbeak).

However, Ravage was caught and put on a chain to be a wild beast in the arena. And that was the reason why Soundwave went into gladiators. He was given the condition that he would get his pet if he became the champion of the arena.However it's not a place you can walk away from of your own free will but where fighters fight until they die of exhaustion or are killed in battle.

Ravage was killed before Megatron started his revolution, so it was an additional reason for Soundwave to join the decepticons and despise the autobots.

(Actually on the second sketch it's just a random beast x) With random weapon. And only then did the headcanons already go. So it's not so much Ravage here, but just a hint of him)

And now we remember who Ornstein is transforming into in Part 9 x) (he's a lion, but he's basically a big black cat too)

Well, it was a big piece of work, hah

I took a break from RW and decided to draw something nostalgic

Actually I've been stuck with this idea for two years now and I'm glad I finally found the strength to do something about it. Thanks for inspiration from one good man)

Long story short

In this AU autobots and deceptions are two unions of different tribes: mudwings, seawings and sandwings for the firsts and icewings, nightwings, rainwings and Pantala tribes for seconds. Skywings doesn’t exist anymore (because we need someone who takes place of predacons).

People are just people or scavenger if you prefer. And instead of whole cosmos it’s just two mainlands.

- Optimus Prime - I kinda like tfp Optimus. So formidable, powerful and mysterious but really gentle at the same time. And mud/sea combo works here in the best way. As the representation of two main tribes union and strong father/brother figure for team members.

I also think he might be an animus (but don’t use his magic often, especially for killing someone)

- Ultra Magnus - Pure Icewing already will be great for him, but I gave him part of seawing so he could be more like an Optimus. But instead of being softer and warmer, Magnus is more cold and pragmatic version of him. A character who sees other dragons not as close allies and friends but as ordinary soldiers.

- Ratchet - Yeah, the seawing would fit him better, but i just don’t know how to make the colors work here sooo… he’s a weak-fire mudwing. Like a skywing, but mudwing. Why not. Make sense with his lack of guns in origin. I think he’s design can be better, and maybe I’ll remake it.

I love his arc of recognizing people as equals and especially his interactions with Raphael. I think Ratchet often read him scrolls about history and magical artifacts.

- Bulkhead - No surprises here - mudwing fit him perfectly. I think that the Wreckers could been a big and strong mudwing troops, and Bulkhead was a bigwings in such a one. He is lost a lot of his siblings during the war, and therefore tries with all his might to protect the new members of his family. I absolutely adore his relationship with Miko and Jackie, so for me he’s one of the cutest character, and I tried to make his forms round and soft.

- Bumblebee - I know that majority draw him as a hivewing, but in that case the most logical for him will be a night/sandwing. Literally, autobots get their own Sunny)

I think in this version with his lack of a voice he could communicate using sign language or some variation of aquatic.

- Arcee - Also anything special - she is a seawing. I originally wanted to give her a helmet but it was too hard to draw. Just like Sunny she was born pretty small and now even younger dragons can be bigger than her. I’m pretty sure she is old enough to have seen Bumblebee when he was a dragonet, so she's literally like an older sister to him.

Actually she really gives me a Queen Glory vibes with her sarcasm and dangerous beauty, so rainwing might fit her as well.

- Smokescreen - I used to think he was just a cringe, but now I realize he's a pretty interesting and realistic character. Like Ultra Magnus, I wanted to make him look like Optimus, only this time Smoke is more of a younger and much more irresponsible version of him. I think in this version (being part rainwing) he's trying to mimic Optimus's coloring using same red, blue and pale-gray shades.

- Wheeljack - The scruffy boy! I think in this version he could be Bulkhead's "adopted sibling", so they are really close to each other. I think because he spent most of his life with Bulkhead it's harder for him to get close to other tribes and dragons.

Painting scales to keep canonical colors is kinda cheating, but for this dude it totally works. He should have a pretty bright appearance with all those scars and bright spots.

Cliffjumper - Ohoh… this poor guy. I didn't even think of putting him here, but I like his smug face too much. Even making his scales darker than the original, it's still too brightly colored for mudwing. He probably jokes about it a lot, saying that his ancestors were skywings.

I really like his dynamic with Arcee, and it's a shame we haven't seen much of their relationship. I think I need to do something cute about that.

Started out as unable to decide an outfit for him, spiralled into more...

Why yes the third pic is directly referenced from Mary Poppins costumes

had to have a go at drawing this lil goober

... This is the most adorable potato I've ever carried *cries*

PLEASE!!!, can I hold Baby Bee? I want to hug him and wrap him in a fluffy blanket!!

swaddled

(Sorry this took a while

Hope you still alive)

I need to draw this because my head is going a mile an hour and it just wants to explode! This was literally my adolescence!.

I love how two of my favorites are actually my favorite DRAGONS in the franchise!!, now I really want to think of a coherent story for this!

In my defense, I got bored

Idea: TFP Autobots as Dragons

They are not cute?

starbee………

I just measured Bee on average Mexican children and it is equivalent to 5 raf and a head.

No me pregunten Dx al principio lo estaba midiendo a escala de niños oaxaqueños

Ladies and Gentlemen, Bitches and Bastards, Witches and Wizards, Mothers and Fuckers. Esteemed robot enjoyers, I present to you a semi-accurate height comparison of Bumblebee across the multiverse (as of July 2024). This really helps visualize the truly staggering differences between universes, at least height-wise. Also, three of these characters are Canonically the Same Guy; guess which ones.

I spent way too much time on the chart in the back it's not even funny. I will probably make more height charts for more TF characters and universes in the future. Don't expect it soon though, because when I make these, I am fueled by pure I-Got-Bored-At-Work-And-I-Have-Decided-To-Fool-Around-With-Robot-PNGs, and that fuel supply is inconsistent at best.

Hey Fun Fact, Did you know that Generation 1 Optimus Prime is around 19 Feet Tall? Bet some of you already knew that. I have no ulterior motives for bringing this fact up, what are you talking about.

My height explanations are below the cut, because you couldn't shut me up if you tried.

In an order:

Gen 1 - ~10 feet (the wiki says greater than 3 meters so I rounded up to the first whole number because round)

Netflix Cybertron Trilogy - ~10 feet (He looks identical to Gen 1 so... the reason his photo looks weird is because I couldn't find a good full body photo with him standing straight up facing the camera so I put two images together to make the worst looking photoshop job you have ever seen)

Earth Spark - 10 feet (There is no confirmed height yet but using a screen shot of him standing in front of a barn door I was able to make a reasonable guess.)

Animated - 12 feet (I have no genuine source for this, I think this info is just someone's guesstimate, but it seems reasonable. He's a tiny two door mini car, how big could he be)

New Live Action - 15 feet (The wiki hath declared. Also do we have a name for this universe because we need one I don't want to keep saying like 6 words to differentiate this one from bayverse)

Bayverse V1 - 16 feet (This is like the first 3 movies minimum, I don't remember when he hits his growth spurt. also wiki my love)

Cyberverse - 18 feet (I'm gonna be honest, the only info we have is from a really shitty screen shot of a magazine. SO if any one has a copy of this book from the video below, a high quality scan would be greatly appreciated and I will kiss the ground you walk upon. Yes I found the video where the screen shot comes from leave me alone)

Bayverse V2 - 18 feet (movie 4-5 I can't remember which one, I'm not re-looking this up. I fucking love the bayverse tho, this is the only universe with concrete and consistent this-character-is-this-height info)

Aligned Cont. WF/FOC - 20 feet (video game info screens you god send, kiss me sweetly)

Aligned Cont. TFP/RID15 - 21 feet (I do not know exactly where these numbers were found, but I fully fucking believe them. Just by looking at these characters on the show I can verify these numbers in my mind. They made specifically this universe to be full of freakishly tall robots for some fucking reason.)

And for any one who doesn't know, the three tallest are the same guy. Like the 20 feet tall one and the 21 feet tall ones, same guy. The ones in three wildly different art styles and designs. Let that sink in...

I fucking hate the aligned continuity why is that one my favorite.

Just thinking SO HARD about the fact that when Shockwave was cloning the Predacons they grew in their alt modes… So if he ever were to clone Autobots they would also… have grown… in…….. their alt modes…………………….

“They will be ready for deployment within three solar cycles.”

Flatline was also his ex, so ratchet has a crazy list of exes. And that’s another very funny note that’s never discussed often.

All of Ratchet’s exes are famous or successful in some way or another. Some of of them include, but are not limited to; Pharma, Flatline, Kup, Red Alert, Wheeljack, Arcee, Knockout, Deadlock and some random mech called Ring? Rang? Whatever. My point is Ratchet is old and he’s dated a lot, and I mean a lot of mechs throughout his life. And not all of them are completely over him.

Also

Bumblebee: Do you have any more exes you haven’t mentioned!?

Ratchet: ... Do you want the long answer or the short one?

Puts bee thing in a microwave

Me??? Imma assume you are talking about bumblebee.

Oppy no likey

Bee was in there for 45 seconds.

Do you know how relieved I am to not be the only one with that idea?

I've literally thought about it too often so it's not funny, if it doesn't happen it can still turn into a really good au...which I'm clearly not working on 🫥

So far, my only issue with Transformers One is that it took away the dynamic of Bumblebee being the young scout that is basically a pseudo son to Optimus.

I understand from a marketing standpoint why they'd choose Bee to be there (he's the most well known to the general public) but to me it feels so odd. Not only that but it IS him. Not like some character whom the Bumblebee we know was named after.

It's kinda funny, because me and my beloved have never prayed so hard for a character to die in a movie that isn't even out yet.

We're hoping that, because he's clearly the comic relief, he ends up dying with only his spark remaining. And from that, you get a scene of Orion (now Optimus) vowing to avenge him and give him a new body!

We can then get the dynamic like we're used to. Bumblebee still being a reckless and energetic young scout because he was literally not allowed to grow up like Optimus did.

Please tell me you guys understand!

Ferb ya se que vamos a hacer hoy!

Ive talked about Predacon Bumblebee. I've talked about Dinobot Optimus. But did y'all know the toyline also had a dinobot bumblebee?

Well, now you do.

A TFP Bumblebee Backstory Head canon

Warning: A bit dark

TFP Bumblebee is the most traumatized Bee out of all the Bumblebees in my opinion, due to the fact he was stated the last generation to be created before the loss of the Allspark. He had to wear the Autobot badge for survival meaning he never had a childhood outside of war. 'Earth was a far cry from the ravaged wasteland of his birth, and Bumblebee adapted to his new home faster than any of his fellow Autobots. ' Meaning Bumblebee was born during the already destroyed city of Iacon and never saw Cybertron without ruins/crumbling skyscrapers.

During the battle at Tyger Pax, in canon Bumblebee was alone. However it wouldn't make any sense for Bumblebee to be alone there, since he was meant to act as bait for Megatron and his Decepticons. Bumblebee would of had a small team made from friends made up of 'the last generation'. Bumblebee being the leader of that team would be forced to watch his teammates be slaughter and torture every time he didn't answer Megatron, then had his voice box torn out. We know from the WFC that Autobots were on the losing side and wouldn't have enough materials to repair Bumblebee, however WFC Bumblebee is a minibot and TFP Bumblebee is not but a regular size cybertronian. Meaning Bumblebee didn't just had his voice box torn, his whole body was torn in pieces so Ratchet and the other medics had no choice but to rebuilt Bumblebee a whole new body using his former teammates remains. Due to the fact TFP Bumblebee doesn't have horns and which is why Bumblebee is so traumatized about taking leadership in Predacon Rising.

The way Arcee mentions, 'You have your voice back, now is not the time to go radio silent' implies Bumblebee not only used to a leaded a team but was very good at it. How leading others easily comes to Bumblebee but he has been unable to move on or take command ever since Tyger Pax. Which is why losing his voice meant so much for Bumblebee. It's a reminder of how much Bumblebee failed to keep his team members safe.

THE MASTER LIST OF SPARKLINGS I'VE DESIGNED (+ one fun fact about each of them)

Autobots:

Deceptiocons:

The gods: