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Transtech Designs 02 -Cheetor 01

Not surprisingly (lol), Cheetor has several examples of design sketches.
Here's the first one --

Toys, comics, cartoons, movies. All the universes. Official works and fanworks. If it's Transformers, bring it on in!

Not surprisingly (lol), Cheetor has several examples of design sketches.
Here's the first one --
Toys, comics, cartoons, movies. All the universes. Official works and fanworks. If it's Transformers, bring it on in!
The top left feels almost like an Animated design. Interesting...
Hmm ... when did Animated take off, do you recall? *too lazy to wiki, oops*
2008 - because the toys were just leaking the year I went to Botcon.
Well, I think the show first premiered very late 2007, actually-- not sure how much of it was in the works already when the Bay movie came out, but I'd assume something of it was already rolling along?
Definitely could have pulled from these, then X3
Somehow it feels like Animated was a bit earlier ... probably because I didn't follow it and have things mangled up somewhere, oops.
iirc, Cybertron finished up in 2006 or so and the last dregs of those toys were still on the shelves (Classics, too) when the Bay movie came out. Then we had three seasons of animated, the horrible second Bay movie, and then Prime started?
Still nearly a decade ago now, oi.
We're all fossils lololololololol