Tthe fire engine, Guard Fire looks like Rodimus because of the flames, interestingly the other Brave fire engine Duke Fire is based off a unmade Rodimus toy.
Well in Western the Transformers was Produce by Hasbro and Transformers in Japan was Handle by Takara Tomy and Brave series is when Takara ask Sunrise (Gundam and Code Geass) to Produce a Super Robot Anime with Transformers Format and Design until Gaogaigar when Takara and Sunrise finally drop the Transformers Aspect and used entirelly brand new Design and Idea without Transforners Reference or Idea
@@joejunior5991 not really, they sporadically reused transformers designs heck Fighbird was entirely original unless you think they had unused stuff put in similar to how Exkaiser had a bunch of unused transformers designs. then when transformers was back in the swing of things everything up to Prime took brave series inspirations