@Phoenixflambe
Yes they can. Think back in the G1 cartoon and the live action films.

@FoldabotZ
You can’t also forget that Peter Cullen also voiced Optimus Prime in the Transformers movie based off on the G1 cartoon as well as the final two seasons of the show. And Peter Cullen nearly left the cast since his characters Optimus Prime and Ironhide were killed off in the film since their toys were discontinued in 1986. And Peter Cullen continue voice the Protectobot Streetwise for the rest of the cartoon. He even voiced Nightstick, Slugslinger, and Wingspan that were introduced in “The Rebirth” as wells as Halonix Maximus in the season one finale “Heavy Metal War” and It in “Five Faces of Darkness - Part 2” and “The Return of Optimus Prime - Part 2”.

@Background Pony #983C  

 
Yes, I know they were playing basketball in that episode. My point is that it exudes that G1 energy.
 
 
@Background Pony #983C  

 
Ah, yes, that too.

@FoldabotZ  
Don’t forget about the G1 reboot, the Prime Wars Trilogy.

@FoldabotZ  
But the Autobots, Optimus Prime, Smokescreen, Tracks, and Inferno, are actually playing basketball in. The season 2 episode, “The Master Builder”. I don’t know why the field, the basketball, and the hoops are possibly now the size of Cybertronians.

@Phoenixflambe  
Yeah. You’re right. But Friendship in Disguise and Magic of Ctbetron crossovers are technically not connected to the any Transformers timeline/continuity or the My Little Pony G4 timeline/continuity. Why? Because Friendship in Disguise and Magic of Cybertron are in their own continuity.

@Background Pony #9FB6  
People in fiction come back from the dead all the time.

@SaburoDaimando  
But King Sombra is dead. Right? It was just a crossover! We know that King Sombra can’t be brought back the second time in canon.

@Kiryu-Chan  
I thought these basketballs are way too small for Cybertronians to play.

@Phoenixflambe  
The Seacons that formed Piranhacon weren’t featured in the cartoon because show has ended or was cancelled and the unofficial fifth season has repeats of past episodes from every season except season two plus the movie that broke into five parts. But we know that the end of season four had a happy ending to the show with the Autobots successfully win and the Decepticons lose and failed to rule Cybertron and conquer the universe. Unfortunately however, Galvatron A.K.A. Megatron met his fate after the defeat of all Decepticons and himself declaring that someday, he along with all of his Decepticons would attack other planets and suck them dry, rebuild a planet a hundred times more powerful than Cybertron, and would rule Cybertron and the galaxy.

@GaryFisherSr  
Not what Season 9 says, it’s always show before comic.
 
@FoldabotZ  
Interestingly, Peter Cullen said in an interview that it was his brother who told him to sound less like a captain and more like a dad if I remember correctly. Hence, the G1 Optimus characterization.

But I thought comic Sombra had already redeemed.

@Kiryu-Chan  
Yes, Optimus in season 1 and 2 of the original cartoon was very much like the dad of a family than the commander of a military unit. His voice was even different then. It was in the animated movie that Optimus changed, voice deeper, more serious, and penchant for big speeches. That was how Cullen’s later depiction of Prime came to be in the Bay movies and the Aligned continuity.

>Prime playing volleyball with RD and AJ
 
 
Same energy

Robots can’t swim! Unless you’re a Seacon.
 
@SaburoDaimando  
You mean before how he was portrayed before season 9?

Optimus playing beach volleyball… It truly is like the original G1 cartoon.

@Joshua  
I actually hope they make King Sombra an even bigger, sadistic monster than in the series.

@SaburoDaimando  
Seems like it. At least it’s not Cosmos. XD

So King Sombra is behind all this.