Transformers is an entertainment franchise produced by American Hasbro and Japanese Takara Tomy toy companies.  Initially a line of transforming toys rebranded from Takara's Diaclone and Microman toylines, the franchise began in 1984 with the Transformers toy line, and centers on factions of transforming alien robots (often the Autobots and the Decepticons) in an endless struggle for dominance or eventual peace. In its decades-long history, the franchise has expanded to encompass comic books, animation, video games and films.

In film and television

Television series

Transformers: Generation 1

  • The Transformers (TV series), a 1984–1987 American animated television series
  • Transformers: The Headmasters, a 1987–1988 Japanese anime television series
  • Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, a 1988–1989 Japanese anime television series
  • Transformers: Victory, a 1989 Japanese anime television series
  • Transformers: Zone, a 1990 Japanese one-shot OVA

Transformers: Generation 2

  • Transformers: Generation 2, a 1992–1994 animated television series rebroadcasting of Transformers: Generation 1 with a new computer-generated main title sequence, computer-generated scene transitions, and other small changes

Beast Era

  • Beast Wars: Transformers, a 1996–1999 Canadian CG animated television series
  • Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers, a 1998–1999 Japanese anime television series
    • Beast Wars II: Lio Convoy's Close Call!, a 1998 Japanese film based on the Beast Wars II anime series
  • Super Life-Form Transformers: Beast Wars Neo, a 1999 Japanese animated television series
  • Beast Machines: Transformers, a 1999–2000 animated television series

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

  • Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 TV series), a 2000 Japanese anime television series

Unicron Trilogy

Transformers: Animated

Aligned Continuity

Transformers film series

In video games

  • Transformers: The Game, a 2007 video game based on the 2007 live-action movie
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (video game), a 2009 video game based on the 2009 live-action movie
  • Transformers: War for Cybertron, a 2010 video game
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon (video game), a 2011 video game based on the 2011 live-action movie
  • Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, a 2012 video game

In literature

Comics

Novels

  • Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday, a 2007 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster and a prequel to the 2007 live-action film
  • Transformers: The Veiled Threat, a 2009 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster set in between the 2007 and 2009 live-action films
  • Transformers: Exodus, a 2010 science fiction adventure novel by Alexander C. Irvine
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel, a 2011 adaptation by Michael Kelly of the 2011 live-action film
  • Transformers: Exiles, a 2011 science fiction adventure novel by Alexander C. Irvine and sequel to Transformers: Exodus
  • Transformers: The Covenant of Primus, a 2013 fantasy novel by Justina Robson
  • Transformers: Retribution, a 2014 science fiction adventure novel by David J. Williams and Mark S. Williams, and sequel to Transformers: Exiles

See also

  • Last words in Transformers media
  • Challenge of the GoBots, a 1984–1985 American animated television series depicting an alternate universe in the Transformers franchise
    • GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords, a 1986 animated film associated with the series


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