(221) Canon divergence: Knock Out defects a hot second earlier, which allows the Autobots to turn HIM into the guy who's left supervising Jack, Miko and Raf while they run off to get into highly dangerous combat scenarios. Knock Out's finish is preserved but his dignity is in tatters.
There are SO many references to Transformers Prime in the new Transformers: One trailer
TFP styled Predacon corpses (visually similar to Darksteel and Skylynx)
STEVE THE VEHICON!!! (or rather, the vehicons lovingly dubbed "Steve" by the fans of TFP. These vehicons are incredibly similar/almost identical to their TFP counterparts)
The way the tcogs are designed is very visually similar to how they are portrayed in TFP.
There is so much I want to talk about the Jasper Trio to the point I’ll probably have to do a whole video essay about them because they were just normal kids when they met the autobots and mostly had to get used to the new normal right after they went back to cybertron because image becoming friends with giant alien robots and having your life be in danger for being friends with them just for them to go back home and you’d have to live with all that stuff and can’t tell anybody while your getting used to your quite life again.