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more explosions that you could
possibly imagine, Michael Bay

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Bigger, bolder, louder and with

has taken the Transformers to
a whole new level, even though
some hardcore fans don’t enjoy
the movies and accuse them of
changing too much in the way of
the ‘origin’ of the Transformers.
They do, in my opinion, make
for reasonable additions to the
series and anything that gets a
new generation into one of the
greatest good versus evil stories of
loved a Soundwave, or an Optimus

four seasons of the ‘Original’

Prime, these were the must-

Transformers cartoon, and well

haves of what became known as

over 50 or so toys, some that didn’t

With the forthcoming live-action

Generation One of Transformer

even feature in the TV show at all.

movie set to introduce the

toys, the year was 1984.

all time can only be a good thing.

Dinobots, we can only hope that
In 1992 the original episodes

some of the lesser known ‘bots

1985 swung in with a new TV

were repackaged and rebroadcast

make an appearance too. There

series, and a whole host of extra

as ‘Generation 2’, this was a

are plenty of them to go at, just

toys to drool over. I didn’t get

mere re-edit of an assortment

take a look online at the sheer

another Transformer for many

of the Generation One episodes

number of Transformer toys you

years after my first, and there

with new transitions and title

could have bought in the early to

were several I lusted after in

sequences, the series ended

mid ‘80s and early ‘90s. Michael

the second set released in this

with a lead into the next series

Bay could keep going for ever.

year. The big one was Jetfire,

Beast Wars, which introduced the

this was mainly because he was

Maximals and Predacons, led by

I could ramble on for pages and

so similar to another series of

Optimus Primal and Megatron.

pages about these giant robots

robots that ‘transformed’ in the

This saw a whole new line of

that turned into something else,

Macross Saga anime series. But

toys based on, unsurprisingly,

but I have some movies to watch,

that’s a whole different article,

dinosaurs and animals. This

first of which is the original

and here we are discussing

ran for three seasons and won

animated Transformers The Movie.

the Transformers. It was also

a Daytime Emmy in 1997.

If you have seen the Michael Bay

because he was a Decepticon who
turned to the Autobots’ cause.

Explodorama extravaganza, watch
Following on from this were

this and see where it all began.

comic books, more and more toys
The unyielding turnout of toys

and videogames. Then came the

from Hasbro gave rise to, all told,

By Scott Ruthven

big-budget, live-action movies.

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