One Transformer Fact A Day

In the "Golden Disk Collection" subline of the broader War for Cybertron: Kingdom toyline, a 2-pack featuring characters named "Puffer" (left) and "Road-Ranger" (right) was released.

A redeco of Pipes, Puffer is a reference to a version of the original Generation 1 Huffer toy that was released in select european markets, which was recolored to make Pipes as opposed to the retool that was seen in other markets. This "fusion" was called Puffer by fans. This fusion was canonized by the online bio for the figure.

During the original tenure of the Generation 1 "The Transformers" toyline, Hasbro licensed the brand out to many South American companies, of whom took the liberty to create their own decos and figures for release, often due to not being able to import the larger toys due to expense purposes.

One of the more famous of these is the Brazilian company Estrela, the first year of their specific Transformers line saw exclusively Minibots, Jumpstarters and a few exclusive molds to Estrela. The re-used molds were recontextualized as new characters. The second year saw the introduction of two factions, not the "autobots" or "decepticons," but instead the "Optimus" going against the "Malignus," with more redecoes available.

While the traditional roster of "original" Primes now bares 13 members, the Micheal Bay continuity films state there were only 7. Due to wanting to tie into more contempary lore, ancillary material would state that there were 13 original warriors of Cybertron, but only 7 were considered Primes.

Introduced in the "United" portion of the Legacy toyline, Armorizers are all rocky themed robots that transform into rock encrusted vehicles. Playing with the multiversal aspect of the Legacy toyline, they're described as hailing from the "Infernac" universe, that being a play on the other Hasbro property, Inhumanoids, Infernac being the subteranean realm the villain Metlar resides in. In Japanese contexts, "Infernac" is stated to be the race of the Armorizers.

Additionally, a few of the Armorizers are comprised of franchise elements. Shard is described as being "Death Crystals," Nucleous is described as being "Nucleon," and Calcitron being aligned continuity inspired blue Energon.

The "Triumverate" (later spelled correctly as Triumvirate) are a trio of Decepticons who took control of Cybertrons Decepticon forces after the death of Straxus.

They are all likely a reference to the Roman Triumvirate that lead Rome, with Octus (middle) being Octavius, Seizer (right) being Ceasar, and Legonis (left) being Lepidus.

In the IDW2005 continuity, "Gorlam Prime" was a planet that bore a technologically advanced race of beings, who soon advanced to the point of mimicking Cybertronians, with the Transforming populace based on the Generation 1 Micromasters