Trivia

Scatman Crothers' final role to be released in his lifetime. One more film, Rock Odyssey (1987), would be released a year after his death.

Orson Welles' final role. He completed his dialogue on October 5, 1985, five days before his death.

IDW published its own adaptation of this film in 2006. This includes extra scenes such as a battle between the missing combiners and Omega Supreme at the Ark and Shockwave and Reflector being destroyed by Unicron.

Cybertron's third moon, which exists solely due to an editing error in this movie, would reappear on Beast Machines: Transformers (1999), still bearing Unicron's claw-marks.

The negatives for the matted widescreen version of the film were either destroyed or lost, and for a time only the VHS full-screen version of the movie remained. The North Carolina School of the Filmmaking in Winston-Salem carries a print of the movie assembled from different reels of other prints of the movie found in its archives. The pieced-together print is in good condition. This should be noted that this widescreen version of the movie was achieved by "matting down" the original full-screen animation, essentially chopping off the top and bottom.