He forms what would become the planet Cybertron around him and creates robotic beings in his likeness to do battle against the chaos bringer. The Transformers then wake to an Earth awash in robots thanks to a human scientist who found Megatron's shattered body and reverse-engineered it into his own robotics company. [94] The events of the series take place 40 years after the end of the Autobot/Decepticon civil war, with the Transformers having returned to Cyberton and now being threatened by ancient technology. [97] Guest voices included Mark Hamill and Ron Perlman. A lot of Transformers toys would come out over the years and decades, but we will look mainly at the ones that came out in the mid-80s that would tie into the cartoon and the original movie. The second Canadian season was only 13 episodes long, not enough to warrant airing on Japanese TV. -Also on Amazon is this Megatron figure that transforms into a tank. [11] Marvel interpreted the Autobots as destroying a rogue asteroid approaching Cybertron. Ultimately, the Transformers revolt and explore the cosmos before coming to Earth about 19,000 years before modern times. By the 90s Transformers were selling really poorly in the U.S but doing well in Canada, the U.K, and Japan. Unicron, naturally, is revealed to be the big bad before being defeated at the end of the series. Animation was done by Tatsunoko Productions. The franchise began in 1984 with the Transformers toy line, comprising transforming mecha toys from Takara's Diaclone and Micro Change toylines rebranded for Western markets. [57][60], Three Transformers: The War Within limited series were also published. Posted on May 20, 2022 by Bobbie. This wasnt an anomaly but up until that point, there had been HUGE restrictions on anything that revolved around advertising to children. In addition, IDW Publishing has published several comic books, including graphic novels, while Titan Magazines published Transformers Comic UK, a 20 issues series from 2007 to 2014. It was five issues[45] of the G.I. Dreamwave retroactively revealed Beast Wars to be the future of their G1 universe,[52] and the 2006 IDW comic book Beast Wars: The Gathering eventually confirmed the Japanese series to be canon[53] within a story set during Season 3.[54]. On January 19, Machinima removed all of its videos from YouTube, including those of the Prime Wars Trilogy. The figure showcases the daring Autobot with impressive attention to detail and features articulated hands, sliding visor, die cast detailing . Megatron is now repackaged, sorry converted into Galvatron. In 2022, it was announced that IDW lost the publishing rights to Transformers. [68], However, IDW and the original publisher Marvel Comics announced a crossover storyline with the Avengers to coincide with the film New Avengers/Transformers. The series featured returning Titan characters such as Metroplex, Fortress Maximus and Trypticon and the resultant destruction such enormous characters create. Theres the obvious issue of the robot design being completely foreign to how everyone remembered them but they were trying to create a realistic interpretation of them and not a cartoon. The TV series shows the Autobots looking for new energy sources, and crash landing as the Decepticons attack. "Blood on the Tracks, Power Struggle, Ashes, Ashes All Fall Down". It begins in nearly every reality, across every Cybertron, somewhere between nine and four million years ago when Megatron and his Decepticons declare war on the Autobots. Everything that came out over this time span was going to be the foundation of the Transformers universe.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'everything80spodcast_com-large-leaderboard-2','ezslot_7',107,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-everything80spodcast_com-large-leaderboard-2-0'); Heres a big thing to point out that is often overlooked. Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a '90s globetrotting . During this time, Cobra teams up with the Decepticons. For most of the 2010s, in an attempt to mitigate the wave of reboots, the "Aligned Continuity" was established. If it weren't so wildly outside of the main continuities, this next-century future could have been a bridge between the robotic Transformers of the past and present, and the technorganic bots of the future. In honor of the almost 40-year legacy of Transformers entertainment, the fandoms come together from across the Transformers multiverse, all in one toy line. To me, its the kind of toy a kid doesnt even know he wants. The only way to get your hands on it today is to shell out between $1,700 and $2,500 on eBay. And he kills Starscream. Transformers led to an animated movie in 1986, many future toy lines, and a series of live-action movies. [52] In 2004, this real life universe also inspired three novels[62] and a Dorling Kindersley guide, which focused on Dreamwave as the "true" continuity when discussing in-universe elements of the characters. Dont take my word for it, just read every review and Rotton Tomatoes score EVER about them. In Japan, the series Transformers: Cybertron showed no ties to the previous two series, telling its own story. [80] Main characters include Autobots Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Prowl, and Ratchet; Decepticons Megatron, Starscream, Blitzwing, Lugnut, and Blackarachnia; and humans Professor Sumdac and Sari Sumdac. Apparently, Orson Welles had no idea what the hell he was even making. There have been other incarnations of the story based on different toy lines during and after the 20th century. [35] Female Autobot Arcee also appeared, despite the comic book stating the Transformers had no concept of gender, with her backstory of being built by the Autobots to quell human accusations of sexism. First broadcast in Japan in 2000, Robots in Disguise was a single animated series consisting of thirty-nine episodes. Micheal Bay proved that wrong in 2007 releasing the live action Transformers movie. The real life universe was disrupted when Dreamwave went bankrupt in 2005. The destruction of the second moon releases mysterious energies that make some of the characters "transmetal" and the planet is revealed to be prehistoric Earth, leading to the discovery of the Ark. In 2007, Michael Bay directed a live-action film based on Transformers, with Steven Spielberg serving as executive producer. Whether our planet hosts Energon, the Allspark, powerful artifacts, or just good, old-fashioned human interference, one thing is always agreed upon: Earth, and its modern era, is a critical turning point of the Great War. This story doesn't take place in our present, though, but our future - the 22nd century to be exact, as we learn in the sixth episode, "Blast from the Past.". It was a line of toys that included transforming vehicles and robots that were piloted by minature figures that came from the microman toy line. In 1996's "Beast Wars," Optimus Primal (no relation to Prime) leads a small band of Maximals - the future descendants of Autobots through warp space in pursuit of this story's Megatron (who named himself after the original) and a tiny crew of Predacons - the descendants of Decepticons. "Beast Wars" quickly became a beloved corner of the "Transformers" universe, but outside of IDW's 2006 comic continuation, it was a fairly self-contained corner. IDW Publishing has expressed interest in their own crossover. Unicron can eat other planets and offers Megatron a new body if he destroys the matrix which has the ability to destroy Unicron. The series also added extra complexities such as not all Transformers believing in the existence of Primus,[58] corruption in the Cybertronian government that first lead Megatron to begin his war[59] and Earth having an unknown relevance to Cybertron. The entire Transformer race is reborn into fully technorganic beings, and the whole experience seemingly ushers in a Golden Age of Cybertron. The "Robots" Ultra Magnus, for instance, is Optimus' brother, never forgiving his sibling for getting the Matrix of leadership instead of him. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. [7][8], A Transformers Hall of Fame was created in 2010. Factory released the entire G1 series in a 16-DVD box set called the Matrix of Leadership Edition. These three lines, launched in 2002 and dubbed the "Unicron Trilogy" by Transformers designer Aaron Archer,[74] are co-productions between Takara and (lesser extent) Hasbro, simultaneously released in both countries, each lasting 52 episodes. [49] After writing this first episode, Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio learned of the G1 Transformers, and began to use elements of it as a historical backstory to their scripts,[50] establishing Beast Wars as a part of the Generation 1 universe through numerous callbacks to both the cartoon and Marvel comic. The toy line had a bit more of a militaristic, and obviously, robotic look to them and it was up to Japanese designer Shohei Kohara to give them a bit of a new look. Dreamwave went bankrupt and ceased all publications before the storyline could be completed at #30. They did change Megatron from a handgun to a tank due to safety and security concerns so thats something.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[120,600],'everything80spodcast_com-leader-3','ezslot_15',143,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-everything80spodcast_com-leader-3-0');if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[120,600],'everything80spodcast_com-leader-3','ezslot_16',143,'0','1'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-everything80spodcast_com-leader-3-0_1');.leader-3-multi-143{border:none!important;display:block!important;float:none!important;line-height:0;margin-bottom:15px!important;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;margin-top:15px!important;max-width:100%!important;min-height:600px;padding:0;text-align:center!important}. Megatron, in other words, doesn't start the Great War this time. The extended Japanese run consisted of The Headmasters, Super-God Masterforce, Victory and Zone, then in illustrated magazine form as Battlestars: Return of Convoy and Operation: Combination. There were a lot more retailers out there, both national and regional, muscling for market share, and virtually all had a sizable toy department. Other tales like IDW's 2016 "Transformers: Lost Light" comic book series tell the story of godlike Transformers with Primus' essence split between them. I remember looking under the Christmas tree one year and thinking I saw the distinctive box shape of what I hoped was Soundwave. The spotlight of an individual character, or groups of characters, would connect to a specific release coming up. According to this article from TFW2005, retailers around the world have been given April 2022 as their supply date. I bought it on Blu-ray and the animation is pretty elite. They also would refer to any vehicle by its full name which G.I Joe would also focus heavily on. Transformers: Micromasters, set after the Ark's disappearance, was also published. Back on TV, meanwhile, his and Galvatron's time-travel manipulation brought the Autobots, Decepticons, Maximals, and Predacons crashing together in spectacular fashion in the "War for Cybertron Trilogy." -If you want to check out some amazing Transformers toys on Amazon there is the 20th anniversary Optimus Prime 12-inch figure from Hasbro. Out of these 28 toys, eleven of the Autobots would transform into cars, six into mini cars and one into a semi-tractor trailer. Heres my favorite Decepticon, Soundwave toy also released by Hasbro. Joe. The story introduces a number of fascinating concepts, like making Transformers more like cyborgs as they embrace their organic sides and become "technorganic" creatures who do more morphing than transforming. Eric Calderon was executive producer of the trilogy. The only Decepticons in the entire universe are created when Megatron gets his hands on a small handful Autobot "protoforms" (Autobot blank slates) and brainwashes them into new, evil creations. The show was airing on Saturday mornings between October and December and served an important function of introducing new characters that would be added to the 1985 toyline. The Transformers here, we learn in "Age of Extinction," are not creations of Primus, but of a mysterious alien race cleverly dubbed the Creators. The series was delayed as Hasbro did not want to confuse newcomers with too many fictional universes before the release of the live-action film. Generation One is a retroactive term for the Transformers characters that appeared between 1984 and 1993. "Robots in Disguise" cut the timeline loose and gave creators free reign to explode "Transformers" lore in every direction imaginable.