Trivia / Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

• Actor Allusion:
  • Cliffjumper's no stranger to exploring tombs.
  • Swindle should also be pretty experienced with that grapple beam of his.
• Call-Back: Grimlock's missions contain a number of call backs to humorous moments featuring him and his fellow Dinobots, including Slag excusing himself while walking over a piece of rubble with a Decepticon underneath, and Grimlock and Slag arguing about Beryllium baloney and Cesium salami.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
  • The article that reported this makes a big deal about how Tieger saved the Dinobots after Hasbro decided to permanently retire them from the entire brand. Recently-introduced toys such as Grimstone and Dualor make this claim seem highly suspect.
  • Tieger has stated in fan interviews that the article misunderstood. In reality, Hasbro had simply not yet decided what to do with the Dinobots in the new aligned continuity, and when his team approached them wanting to use them, Hasbro was more than happy to work with them to integrate Dinobots with dinosaur modes onto Cybertron. See here for more.
• Fake Nationality: Arguably (and somewhat bizarrely) Zig-Zagged; Troy Baker plays Jazz, who on one hand is a giant transforming alien robot, but on the other hand is sometimes considered "black" due to the voice actor of his first incarnation in The Transformers, the late Scatman Crothers, being black (the voice actors of Jazz's Transformers (2007), Transformers: Animated and Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) incarnations are also black). While Jazz being a robot means he doesn't belong in any ethnic group, Troy is clearly (and quite convincingly) imitating Crothers' voice. So the end result is a white dude imitating a black guy, but to voice an alien robot.
• Developer To The Rescue: Hasbro had already decided that the Dinobots didn't fit into the Prime/War for Cybertron universe long ago. Matt Tieger, game director of High Moon studios managed to change their minds to allow him to add them to the game.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Fell into this when Activision's Transformers license expired in 2017. While physical copies for the console versions can still be played, the PC and next gen versions are completely gone if you don't have them in your account already. And even then, the multiplayer servers were disabled, so a major portion of the game is forever gone.
• The Other Darrin: Nolan North is the fourth voice actor for Cliffjumper in the Transformers Aligned Universe, the first three being Steve Blum in the DS version of War for Cybertron and Dwayne Johnson and Billy Brown in Prime. Also, despite reprising his role from G1 as Grimlock, Gregg Berger is this to Crispin Freeman, who also voiced Grimlock on the DS version of WfC. Troy Baker takes over from Scott Whyte as the voice of Jazz.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Troy Baker as Jazz.
  • Nolan North as Bruticus.

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