15 Crazy Mistakes from Transformers G1 Series 

As a kid, I found the duplicate characters to be quite reassuring. If your favourite Transformer was killed off, you could comfort yourself with the knowledge that he / she had a duplicate from a previous episode!

As many animation blunders the Transformers had it'll always be my all time favorite cartoon.

You forgot to mention when Perceptor switched sides and became a Decepticon, Shockwave holds himself in Gun mode, Hoist driving Huffer, and Bruticus standing next to the combaticons.

One of the most unforgivable mistakes was the ongoing size reduction of the Dinobots. In 'Desertion of the Dinobots' they are huge (and rightly so) but by Season 3 they're not much bigger than Rodimus Prime.

Carnage in C-Minor had so many mistakes along with being a really bad episode. There's a scene where the Decepticons are flying in to attack and Preceptor yells "Look out, it's the Autobots!" So forgetting what side you're on seems to be a running theme that episode.

That's Starscreams brother Frank. He likes to pull pranks on ol' Screamer by switching In and out with the other seekers Oh that Frank, he's such a trickster!

Soundwave having an Autobot logo is essentially amusing in hindsight since he did join the Autobots in the IDW comic.

There was alot of times they miscoloured Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker. Also at the end of season 2 in an episode after Starscream had been kicked out of the gang, Skywarp or Thundercracker was coloured in Starscreams colours in some scenes.

That wasn't the regular Soundwave, it was the shattered glass version undercover.

One of my favorite errors from Childs Play is when Starscream has the high ground and stomps on Optimus when he proceeds to climb up to him. Starscream stands still while a third, incomplete and oversized Starscream leg comes down in front of him stomping on Primes head.

No matter what still my favorite cartoon as a child

1:31 “When Megatron wants to test out a new weapon and uses Starscream as a guinea pig” No no no sorry that is incorrect Megatron used Starscream as a guinea pig-o-tron!

The problem with G1 was that each episode was spat out after 4 months of production. Animations usually take around a year per episode. Transformers was so popular, Hasbro had to keep up with demand. Also, some of the bigger mistakes were made when they used AKOM (South Korean animation studio) to animate some of the episodes, instead of Toei.

Shockwave being on Earth isn't an error/a mistake. Yes, he is Cybertron's guardian, but that doesn't mean he MUST NOT leave Cybertron and come to Earth EVER. By this episode, the Decepticons already invented a space bridge, and used it numerous times. Many Decepticons based on Earth visited Cybertron a lot of times and got back to Earth, so I can't see why Shockwave couldn't do such thing vice versa at least once? He simply came down to Earth in this adventure and then got back to Cybertron. Simple. Yeah, this might be an unintentional mistake by the animators, but my point is that in this case it doesn't automatically mean an animation error, as it can actually be logically explained. All blue Optimus Prime is not a mistake too. It's plain obvious that they intentionally painted him like that and it's a shadowed Optimus Prime. Even as a kid watching this I figured it's a shadowed Prime and not a mistake.

I look at the mistakes as part of the charm of the show. And HOLY CRAP! I didn't even notice some of that and I'm an 80s kid. Now I have to rewatch it.

Carnage in C-Minor could be this whole list alone.

Soundwave was my first large transformer. I always had a soft spot for him and really always thought of him being an Autobot at heart. For the most part in the series he is much less cruel to the others (except for a few scenes where he kicks humans)

This is why I love tf g1 when the animators mess up a shot

I saw other mis animations like when there is sideswipe in with desepticons in 2 scenes in different seasons Logo miss print is common i saw it like 30 times in the whole show

As a kid I rationalized the blue Prime as his power drained so he was looking blue.

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This made me laugh so hard, I remember seeing some of these mistakes and I hope to continue seeing them while I watch it-

(Bonecrusher shooting at the Decepticons with the Autobots) Galvatron: Bonecrusher!! Get over here!! Bonecrusher: Whoops. (Reminds me of Anchorman when Wes Mantooth (Vince Vaughn) and his gang are laughing at Ron Burgundy and his crew and Brick (Steve Carrell) is with Wes laughing at Ron…(”Brick..get over here.” 😆)

My favourite error in the series was when Vikings travelled in time and smashed the window of a five and dime store to steal a $25,000 diamond necklace

Honestly, I find it kind of charming how bad the original Transformers Cartoon can be at times.

My favourite "Transformers" mistake is a dialogue error instead of an animation error. In "A Prime Problem," where Megatron creates a clone of Optimus Prime and tries to lead the Autobots into a pit filled with something that will kill them, Optimus pleads with Trailbreaker and the others to not listen to the clone. However, in one of the most ironic moments I've ever witnessed, Optimus (who wants to prove to the others that he's the real Optimus Prime) calls out to "TrailBLAZER!"

What about all those insecticons alive and well in 5 faces of darkness while they have been reformatted by Unicron into Sweeps/ Cyclonus (maybe)

Maybe one of the animators thought they were using Powered Convoy's colours for the all-blue Optimus mistake. I Joke of course

There’s a shot in one episode where Sideswipe was standing next to Megatron when it was supposed to be Soundwave

A mistake similar to the *# 5* is (as far as I remember from my childhood) when the Autobots were running to rescue *Bumblebee,* buried under a fallen building... and Bumblebee himself was part of the rescue team. But I honestly can't tell the episode, right now.

Imagine the comedic irony if Starscream had been the one to frequently swap faction logos

I can’t even wrap my head around to how half of these errors even happed to begin with, how do you screw up something so simple as giving Soundwave the wrong faction insignia, or literally anything else that was shown here? I get that animation budget was to blame back then, but come on.. I’d be ashamed if I was going through the finished episodes, and seeing these errors show up, and nobody suggesting to fix them..

Galvatron time travel to celebrate his return.

What about the two Optimus Primes in the episode Atlantis rise?

2:18 shot of Iron Hide is epic.

2:10 happy galvatron

I remember one of the strangest mistakes from G1 where Megatron was angry and flipping out yelling and screaming about something I forgot what it was LOL but in the same shot you see sound waves head moving in a really weird motion like he's about to snap her crack for going sane LOL it's just one of those weird memories of the cartoon.

You'd think with all the screwed up stuff in Carnage in C-Minor that would be the worst animated episode...but nope, Child's Play finds so many ways to get things wrong, especially that last one. And people picked on Armada's flaws for being bad...

Finally, a video that properly lists the g1 errors

Even as a kid watching this show I noticed the mistakes. It used to especially annoy me when they would put the wrong symbols on a character. Eh, still a Transformers fan and I even grew up to be an animator.

One of the earliest and most prominent examples of a miscolored character during his first appearance was so bad and prevalent that they were forced to retcon the character. The RIB/FIR - RIR/FIB debate that has raged for decades is entirely due to Rumble being painted in Frenzy's colors for the ENTIRE 3-PART PILOT EPISODE!!! This mistake was too big to ignore and would have been too expensive to correct, so they just ran with it...

I've spotted a lot of mistakes in Transformers G1.

I believe there are far more many mistakes in the series that you have pointed out, but these don't stop me from just watching the characters only...

3:04 my guy got so scared he changed race 3 times in 5 sec.

For optimus in SOS dino bots it is funny, my child brain always excused that as being that primes energy was being sapped. Most of the others I didnt notice. Great video! Thank you!

I've always been a fan of the original g1 transformers series but hate all of the mistakes

That Black to White to Black again, just shows we're all the same underneath no matter the color..

In episode 3 there were some generic purple colored seekers, even in the closing credit scene in the 1st season.

So Child's Play is basically just a Bethesda game.

The black -white skin swap cracks me up the most lol

Mistakes, yes. But did these happen, because the animators were rushed for time? It would be nice to see a remastered G1 series where all of these errors were fixed, so that we could see it the way it was intended. I would love to see the animation improved and made smoother. Some parts were just plain bad.

Oh it was so many more mistakes in the child's play episode!

In one shot, the alien is “Child’s Play” also lost his head! That one got me laughing!! 🤣

That Autobot insignia on Soundwave is the Shattered Glass Autobot version. So, that might actually be SG Blaster pretending to be his Decepticon counterpart.

SOUNDWAVE PREDICTED SHATTERED GLASS, TWICE!?

That child's play episode is like watching funny game glitches it's hilarious

The disappearing head! That made me laugh big time

1:39 There is a Decepticon other than Shockwave

Carnage in C Minor is an error factory. Ultra Magnus slamming two miniature constructicons together, Galvatron and Soundwave holding hands. Among others.

The best things is that all of these errors in the G1 cartoon (+the ones stated here in this video, and in the infamous Season 3 episode, “Carnage in C Minor”) were caused by none other than Unicorn himself.

About the two Starscreams, perhaps you should tell the director of Bumblebee, he could possibly and readily tell you that the second one is Blitzcrieg. And don't get me wrong, I know Blitzcrieg doesn't look an inch like Starscream, but it was something he said in an interview. I know how Blitzcrieg loks like, I had the action figure as a child and it was one of my favorite. Please don't take this comment too serious (remember a word called sarcasm!)

It maybe the series that started it all and its still the fan favourite, but the g1 cartoon was only really great if you were blind

Remember, all animation errors are canon

What about the G1 movie? You can see Iron Hide fighting on Autobot City (Guess that fusion cannon to the dome at point blank couldn’t do it), Swoop’s legs (therefore Swoop) is seen running across the battle field near the end of the firefight before Prime’s shuttle shows up with the Dinobots. And we see Snarl a couple times, but he curiously didn’t jump out of the shuttle with the rest of the Dinobots or fight Devastator. Must have been in the bathroom I guess.

In the very first appearance of Starscream, his voice was different but then in the next scene, his voice was changed by another voice.

the cartoons on vhs had less mess ups

2:11 looks like a badly rendered AI scene. Pure nightmare fuel.

Optimus Prime is actually seen all blue twice in that episode.

Does anyone else notice that during the Starscream's twin portion there is a Bluestreak with a bumblebee head?

1:01 its unknown how brawn and huffman returned after they died but its possible they were revived by optimus

I wonder if this was like original TMNT series, where the studios rushed production to get the shows out on time, which resulted in a lot of mistakes

"Yikes! And to think I was just mad that they changed Shipwreck's beard color in the G.I. Joe episode "Cold Slither" lol!"

There are alot more to discuss. Arise, Atlantica arise......2 Prime's. 😆

Ok interesting. 😀🙏🏻👍🏻💪🏻🙌🏻👏🏻

Optimus prime!oops all blue!!! I want to buy her two or thrive Optimus Prime's and make one of them fully blue

Golly!! TMNT seemed like it was screws up a lot!! But Transformers had lots of screwups!! And maybe people got so mad at autobots dying that animators just added them back in!!!

So.. what their saying is.. Soundwave is really an Autobot spy...

I remember one season 3 episode had a small bruticus standing next to the combaticons

Well I chalk this up to them actually being Transformers and actually like changing their form on the fly with like experimental nanos.

S1 there were a few mistakes here and there. S2 it was a bit more noticeable with some mistakes being subtle and others sticking out. S3 the animaters gave up and pretty much didn’t care. S3 is riddled with mistakes in terms of scaling between characters, characters in the wrong shots, wrong characters animated as talking etc. in fairness 2D animation is so difficult to make so you can forgive the animators for reusing a thing here and there to meet the demands of Hasbro. S2 is probably my favourite or S3 I go back and forth between the two. S4 the animation quality is just gone. That being said it still remains one of my favourite iterations of the show. Xx

Weird thing i also saw Optimus Prime in blue in Transfoemers G1 Season1 When that old friend of starscream betrayed him and all that idk who he's name was but that one shot when optimus in the back

can you talk about mistakes about the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon show

can you do roald dahl the witches from 1990 behind the scenes

The last one made me laugh a lot

The most significant error of them all: RIRFIB. "But it's RIBFIR in the cartoons!" Yeah, well . . . [ gestures to the video above and the gazillionty other errors throughout the series ]

Too funny 🤣🤣🤣

My favorite episode of the original transformers is the two parter in season 3 part 2 with the infection that effects transformers and humans mostly because optimis comes back and the movie was awesome even though they killed of ironhide and prowl my two favorite autobots

When this show aired I think it was fixed on tv, but on the dvd of this show it wasn’t.

@0:52 Is that a zombie Brawn and Huffer helping traitor Bone Crusher take down the Decepticons?

I can say the human one can be a problem on the human level

2:45 nude optimus prime 😂 3:08 Sammy sosa/Rachel dolezal race lifts

I like this cartoon

That’s g1 for ya.

AKOM...nuff said. However Toei must have subbed out that Optimus shot...probably to AKOM or the interns.

Starscream was such an awesome character, we wish we had 2

In five faces of darkness on the planet Char, Bruticus can be seen next to the combaticons.

Try to document all the mistakes in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show

did anyone notice bumblebee head

Sadly most of the mistakes we see today are a result of the remastered DVDs by Rhino. I really hope with AI technology Hasbro manages to remaster the broadcast version since they had far lesser animation mistakes.

ahh transformers my favorite cartoon