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Back in 2001, Hasbro was gearing up for a ''[[Transformers]]'' series to follow after ''[[Beast Machines]]''. It likely would have continued the storyline on a newly technorganic Cybertron, in [[CGI]] animation, and initial designs were made for a toyline that played off the organic/mechanic hybrid idea in aesthetics that were unique compared to previous Transformers designs.
[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transtech Well, the planned show and toyline never happened.] Hasbro ended up [[What Could Have Been|scrapping the idea]], and instead ported over the Japanese ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Car Robots]]'' to serve as a filler until ''[[Transformers Armada|Armada]]'' was ready. Transtech thus seemed to be a lost idea, doomed to the failed prototype dustbin.
Until, in 2008, Fun Publications "rescued" the concept, keeping the design aesthetic, but spinning it into a wholly different universe for their own ''[[Transformers Timelines|Timelines]]'' fiction. (But '''not''' [[Merchandise-Driven|toyline]])
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*** "Withered Hope" with ''[[Challenge of the Go Bots]]''.
*** "Bee in the City" with ''[[Transformers Animated]]''.
*** "Transcendent" continues the plotline from [[Transformers Classics|"Crossing Over"]] and leads into [[Transformers: Shattered Glass|"Reunification"]].
* [[In the Back]]: {{spoiler|Poor, trusting Skyfall...}}
* [[Kid Appeal Character]]: Flareup identifies Bumblebee of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' as a "kid-appeal yellow car type".
* [[La Résistance]]: Alpha Trion and his followers are this against the TransTech. {{spoiler|1=Not. It's actually a cover for trying to steal TransTech bodies and escape back to [[Transformers: Shattered Glass|his home dimension]] to conquer it.}}
* [[MacGuffin]]: The AllSpark key is actually called "a [[MacGuffin]]" during "Bee in the City".
* [[Morality Chip]]: Most TransTechs have "conscience programming" called "clarity codecs" installed, which theoretically reward good behavior and cause punishing sensations for violent behavior. Though Cheetor had his and his partner cop's disabled so they could learn how to control themselves on their own, and Bulletbike's descent into serial-killing insanity shows what can lurk in some TransTechs' sparks under the control.
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