Trivia / Transformers Aligned Universe

• Bad Export for You: Only the first two seasons of Transformers: Prime and the first two seasons and the Starscream arc of Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) were released in Japan, meaning huge chunks of backstory and plot-important things were left out. On the flip side, Transformers: Go! was not released in the U.S. and Hasbro has refused to acknowledge it save for Gaidora and Budora making a couple of appearances.
• Creator Backlash: A lot of the creative teams behind the various entries didn't want their work in the Aligned continuity in the first place, which goes to explain a lot of the creative license and various continuity issues between each entry. By the time Prime ended, the Binder of Revelation, the Universe Bible, had ended up completely ignored (and even before then, the IDW comics had already established too many character backstories for it to have been feasible to use anyway).
• Flip-Flop of God: Hasbro had earlier stated that the Aligned universe wasn't part of the larger Transformers multiverse. However, they've since changed their minds as works like Rise of the Dark Spark and Transformers: Animated's The Complete AllSpark Almanac have since placed it as part of the larger multiverse after all, just unknown to it until the events of the former.
• God Does Not Own This World: Despite wanting to create a cohesive narrative with the Aligned continuity, Hasbro didn't retain creative control when licensing the franchise to other studios, more or less allowing the various creative staffs to do whatever they wanted and openly ignore established plot points from other parts of the continuity
• The Other Darrin: If a character isn't named Optimus Prime, chances are good they have a different voice actor in the games and cartoon—and even then, Optimus has been recast in Rescue Bots Academy, twice at that.
• Refitted for Sequel: Despite the implosion of the overall Aligned continuity, enough groundwork has been laid out for Hasbro to establish the Aligned lore as the “default” lore for the franchise. Transformers: Cyberverse and the IDW 2005 and 2019 continuities both ended up drawing heavily from it, and behind-the-scenes featurettes for Transformers: The Last Knight make it clear that when the story group asked Hasbro for franchise lore, they were given the Aligned mythology verbatim to try to make the films adopt it. This is despite the utterly massive Continuity Snarl caused by trying to pave over the movies’s backstory with the Aligned continuity’s lore.
• Stillborn Franchise: Though individual parts of the continuity were successful, pretty much every longterm plan Hasbro had for the IP went off the rails very quickly. The Binder of Revelation was mostly ignored, and the various factions within the company had little interest in staying consistent with each other, if only because they wanted to tell their own stories. Rik Alvarez, the main architect of the whole thing, left Hasbro not long after, and seems to have not done so on good terms (his only real peep since being convention panels where he talked about What Could Have Been, and the failed crowdfunding campaigns for Play With This Too). In any case, Rescue Bots Academy was the last thing to come out of the franchise, with it barely clinging on to life by the time it got there.
• Troubled Production: As shown in these panels, the current Aligned continuity is the result of many disagreements and miscommunications between the different story teams, resulting in the Broad Strokes and Continuity Snarls on each medium.
• What Could Have Been: There were originally plans for the IDW Transformer comics to have a New 52 styled reboot to better fit in with the Aligned continuity. This was decided against and the comics simply started introducing concepts and elements from the Aligned continuity.