Out of these 28 toys, eleven of the Autobots would transform into cars, six into mini cars and one into a semi-tractor trailer. The first release of the Transformers included quite a lot of toys, 28 in fact 18 Autobots and 10 Decepticons. There would be a lot of Transformers t oys that would come out over the years and decades but we’re going to look mainly at the ones that came out in the mid-‘80s that would tie into the cartoon and the original movie. The First Generation Of Transformers Toys The cartoon series, which we’ll get to in a bit, was one of the earliest, and most successful examples, of a show being made to primarily launch a toy line.Īn interesting side note – and if you know your 1980s robot toys – is that at the exact same time of all this the Gobots were also being launched but just didn’t catch on and I’ve written about that whole story and why they didn’t work.
DECEPTICON VS AUTOBOT SERIES
Now, this wouldn’t be fully revealed until the cartoon series would launch in 1984 but the general story of the Autobots vs The Deceptions was there. When they awaken in the year 1984 the Deceptions begin to pillage the earth while the Autobots attempt to protect the new world they find themselves on. This would lead them to crashland on earth where they laid dormant for 4-million years. Both groups would have to leave Cybertron to try and find new sources of energy to be able to revitalize their war efforts. They lived on a metallic planet called Cybertron. The Transformers are made up of the heroic Autobots led by Optimus Prime and the evil Decepticons lead by the villainous Megatron. There’s probably no way that you don’t know this already but in case this is brand new to you, or you need a refresh, here is the legend of the Transformers: They were like a robotic Rubix cube but you could learn about each robots specific technical details giving them even more unique personality quirks. I remember this so well as these were such technical toys that were really a challenge to put together. Besides coming up with names and backstories he would write some interesting “tech-spec” biographies that would end up being printed on the packaging that would sell the Transformers toys. The story would be developed by editor-in-chief Jim Shooter (Mcgavin) and Dennis O’Neil while a guy named Bob Budiansky would be the guy to create the Transformers names and characteristics.īudiansky was a comic book writer, editor, and penciller, and worked for Marvel for 20 years. Hasbro would turn to Marvel to develop a backstory with names and short descriptions of each character. If you just have some robots that transform it’s cool but it’s a lot more interesting when you realize they are a robotic race from a planet called Cybertron and are comprised of good and evil robots. Giving the toys a backstory and character profiles created more of an identity that kids could connect with. Hasbro had the great foresight to know it wasn’t always an ideal move to just release a new toy line out of the blue. They bought the rights and molds to all 28 figures that were in the Diaclone line. Hasbro bought up the whole kit and caboodle.
Hasbro executives would go to the Tokyo Toy Show in 1983 on the lookout for some new toys they could import to North America. Many of the Autobot version of the Transformers came straight from the car-robot line and a lot of future Transformers would already exist in the Takara toy line including the Dinobots, Insecticons, Decepticon planes, and the Constructicons. They would combine both of these things together to create the Transformers. Hasbro, either too lazy to come up with something or just seeing the huge potential licensed the “car-robot” toyline along with the micro man line from Takara.
In 1982 they put out a line of car-robots that also was able to transform. 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. The origins of Transformers start with the Diaclone toy line made by the company Takara Toys launched in 1980. So the idea of Transformers as you know it may not have been an original idea. So let’s look back on what, in my opinion, is the greatest toy and franchise of all time.
DECEPTICON VS AUTOBOT MOVIE
Transformers shaped a whole generation and actually caused some significant heartache with Transformers: The Movie in 1986 the same way some of the pieces of crap made by Micheal Bay would decades later.
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