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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. Although the comic outlived the animated series by a number of years, the animated series is more widely recognised. 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. 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. 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. 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.[1][2]
Overview
| No. | Title | Episodes | Originally released | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transformers: Generation 1 | ||||
| 1 | The Transformers | 98 | September 17, 1984 – November 11, 1987 | |
| Movie | The Transformers: The Movie | – | August 8, 1986 | |
| 2 | Transformers: The Headmasters | 35 | July 3, 1987 – March 25, 1988 | |
| 3 | Transformers: Super-God Masterforce | 42 | April 12, 1988 – March 7, 1989 | |
| 4 | Transformers: Victory | 44 | March 14, 1989 – December 19, 1989 | |
| OVA | Transformers: Zone | – | July 21, 1990 | |
| 5 | Transformers: Generation 2 | 52 | August 20, 1993 – September 23, 1993 | |
| Beast Era | ||||
| 6 | Beast Wars: Transformers | 52 | September 16, 1996 – May 7, 1999 | |
| 7 | Beast Wars II | 43 | April 1, 1998 – January 27, 1999 | |
| Movie | Beast Wars II: Lio Convoy's Close Call! | – | December 19, 1998 | |
| 8 | Beast Wars Neo | 35 | February 3, 1999 – September 29, 1999 | |
| 9 | Beast Machines: Transformers | 26 | September 18, 1999 – November 18, 2000 | |
| 10 | Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2000) | 39 | April 5, 2000 – December 27, 2000 | |
| Unicron Trilogy | ||||
| 11 | Transformers: Armada | 52 | August 23, 2002 – December 26, 2003 | |
| 12 | Transformers: Energon | 51 | January 9, 2004 – December 24, 2004 | |
| 13 | Transformers: Cybertron | 52 | January 8, 2005 – December 31, 2005 | |
| 14 | Transformers: Animated | 42 | December 26, 2007 – May 23, 2009 | |
| 15 | Transformers: Cyber Missions | 13 | January 21, 2010 – September 29, 2010 | |
| Aligned Continuity | ||||
| 16 | Transformers: Prime | 65 | November 29, 2010 – July 26, 2013 | |
| 17 | Transformers: Rescue Bots | 104 | February 18, 2012 – October 22, 2016 | |
| OVAs | Transformers Go! | 10 | July 1, 2013 – April 1, 2014 | |
| Movie | Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising | – | October 4, 2013 | |
| 18 | Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) | 71 | March 14, 2015 – November 11, 2017 | |
| 19 | Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy | 104 | January 5, 2019 – June 5, 2021 | |
| Mystery of Convoy | ||||
| 20 | Q Transformers: Return of the Mystery of Convoy | 13 | January 6, 2015 – March 31, 2015 | |
| 21 | Q Transformers: Saranaru Ninkimono e no Michi | 13 | July 6, 2015 – October 1, 2015 | |
| Prime Wars Trilogy | ||||
| 22 | Transformers: Combiner Wars | 8 | August 2, 2016 – September 20, 2016 | |
| 23 | Transformers: Titans Return | 10 | November 14, 2017 – January 9, 2018 | |
| 24 | Transformers: Power of the Primes | 10 | May 1, 2018 – July 3, 2018 | |
| 25 | Transformers: Cyberverse | 64 | August 27, 2018 – December 22, 2021 | |
| 26 | War for Cybertron Trilogy | 18 | July 30, 2020 – July 29, 2021 | |
| 27 | Transformers: BotBots | 10 | March 25, 2022 | |
| 28 | Transformers: EarthSpark | 26 | November 11, 2022 – present | |
| Total | 1274 + 5 | September 8, 1984 – present | ||
Gobots
Although initially a separate and competing franchise in 1984, Tonka's Gobots became the intellectual property of Hasbro after their buyout of Tonka in 1991. Subsequently, the universe depicted in the animated series and its follow-up film was established as an alternate universe within the Transformers Multiverse.[3]
Transformers: Generation 1
The term "Generation 1", or "G1", is a retronym, coined after the advent of 1992's Transformers: Generation 2. 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.