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#Beast wars duly noted series#

These 65 episodes were exported to Japan in the same year, where their airing order was rearranged and the series was broadcast under the title of Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers. Dozens of new characters were introduced throughout the season, including the Triple Changers, the combining teams the Aerialbots, Stunticons, Combaticons and Protectobots, and more new Autobot cars and Decepticon planes, while many new ideas and concepts began to establish the history of the cartoon universe. With popularity rising, the second season soon followed in 1986 at a mammoth 49 episodes (in order to bring the total up to 65, for syndication). A standard season's worth of 13 more episodes was commissioned, expanding the Transformers universe in which the Dinobots, Constructicons and Jetfire (then later called Skyfire in the series) made their debut. The final episode ended on an open note, should the series prove popular enough to continue, which it did. For a list of episodes, see List of The Transformers episodes.Īfter the Federal Communications Commission did away with regulations that prohibited toy companies from broadcasting cartoons based on their products in 1985, The Transformers began with a three-episode miniseries that introduced audiences to Optimus Prime, Megatron and their armies, as they travelled from the metal world of Cybertron to Earth in search of new sources of energy. Although frequently used to simply refer to the original 1984-1991 marvel comic series, 1984-1987 animated series, the term encompasses all Transformers fiction from 1984 to 1992.įor the series, see The Transformers (TV series). The term 'Generation 1', or 'G1', is a retronym, coined after the advent of 1992's Transformers: Generation 2. Subsequently, the universe depicted in the animated series and it's follow-up film was established as an alternate universe within the Transformers Multiverse. Main article: GoBots: Battle of the Rock LordsĪlthough initially a separate and competing franchise in 1984, Tonka's Gobots became the intellectual property of Hasbro after their buyout of Tonka in 1991. Q Transformers: Saranaru Ninkimono e no Michi Q Transformers: Return of the Mystery of Convoy Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising

11.3 Transformers: Power of the Primes (2018 series).

11.2 Transformers: Titans Return (2017 series).

11.1 Transformers: Combiner Wars (2016 series).

9.5 Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (2019–2021).9.4 Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015–2017).6 Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 series).3.3 Transformers: Super-God Masterforce.Hasbro also reacquired the distribution rights to the original series from Sunbow finally giving them the complete rights to the series based on their Generation 1 toy-line. In 2008, Transformers Animated saw Hasbro take control of the franchise once more through collaboration with Cartoon Network, bringing writing duties back to America, with animation being handled by Japanese studios. The 21st century saw a total reboot of the Transformers universe (first being Takara's produced Car Robots, imported and retitled for Western release as Transformers: Robots in Disguise), as Hasbro collaborated with Japanese Transformers producers Takara to create a new storyline with Transformers: Armada and its sequels, produced in Japan and then dubbed for English-speaking audience. With the original show's conclusion in 1987, original series exclusive to Japan were created which ran until 1990, and the franchise was later re-imagined with the fully CGI Beast Wars in the late 1990s.

Although the comic outlived the animated series by a number of years, the animated series is more widely recognised. Launched in 1984, the Transformers toyline by Takara and Hasbro was promoted through both a comic book by Marvel Comics and an animated series produced by Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions with Toei Animation.