Production Notes

Megatron’s original name D-16 is a reference to the Japanese serial number of the original Generation 1 Megatron toy released by the company Takara in 1984. The letter D is short for Destron, the Japanese name of the Decepticons used in older media, while the number 16 denoted the original Megatron toy as the sixteenth release in the Japanese toy line.

Early in the film, Elita tells Orion, “You don’t have the touch or the power,” referencing Stan Bush’s song, “The Touch”, from The Transformers: The Movie (1986), which included the lyrics, “you’ve got the touch, you’ve got the power”.

Elita uses the term GoBots as a pejorative. In the 1980s, Tonka’s GoBots were a rival transforming toy line to Hasbro’s Transformers that also included an animated series and animated film, each released within months of its Transformers counterpart. When Hasbro bought out Tonka in 1991, GoBots were then established as an alternate universe in the Transformers multiverse.

Transformers One (2024) is the first Transformers theatrical animated film in 38 years, since The Transformers: The Movie (1986).

Chris Hemsworth worked with Peter Cullen to get the right voice for a younger Optimus Prime.

v\This is Scarlett Johansson’s first time working on an animated film from Paramount ever since The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) released 20 years prior.