Transformers cartoon continuity

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• Michael Golden Comics To Get Before Geek’d Con
• Transformers Aligned continuity Series
• Continuity
• Transformers Makes Major Retcon to Original Continuity
• What if Straxus Lived?(Generation one cartoon continuity/Wings universe) Part 1
• Bringing Beast Wars expertise to the Easter eggs of Transformers: War for Cybertron - Kingdom
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Is there anything cooler than giant robots? Maybe dinosaurs and dragons, but fortunately Transformers also has dinosaurs and dragons, automatically making it the coolest thing in the whole world.

What started out as a cheaply made animated show to sell toys, the Transformers is now a multi-billion dollar franchise. The entire franchise centers on the classic formula of good vs. After the initial breakout success of the original Transformers TV show, which has since been lovely dubbed as Generations 1, there have been several TV shows based on the robots.

Many young children mostly boys grew up watching a variation of the Transformers cartoon shows. Personally, I grew up with the Unicron Trilogy of the Transformers TV shows; those set of shows meant so much to me as a kid that it made me a fan for life.

With so many different shows based on the different kinds of transformers, there are a lot of hidden details that people tend to overlook or forget. The franchise is over thirty years old, and within that timeframe, there have been a lot of interesting tidbits of focus around the numerous TV series.

From Generation 1, to Beast Wars, to the Unicron Trilogy, we will be going over the most surprising facts about the various the TV shows based on the Transformers. What would eventually become the Transformers actually started out as a series of different Japanese toys that were owned by the same company. Takara of Japan had several different lines of toys in their catalogs during the 80s.

Two of them were called the Diaclone, and Micro Change. Both sets of toys featured robots transforming into real-world objects. Hasbro, a leading developer in the US, saw potential in the toys. Hasbro decided to buy the American distribution rights for both the Diaclone and Micro Change toys.

They decided to combine the two set of toys to form a new brand. The brand would be called Transformers , and it would end up becoming one of the most successful toy brands in the world.

The Transformers line of toys would release in the US in The first TV show would start airing that following September. Hasbro recognized that the toys had unique designs and could be a hit with children. The only issues were the names. E in Japan. Safe to say, these names were terrible, so Hasbro decided to come up with new names and backstory for all the toys. Hasbro asked the then editor in chief of Marvel Comics, Jim Shooter, to come up with a compelling backstory for the characters.

Another Marvel writer and editor, names Bob Budiansky, was also in charge of writing all the biographies for the character that came written with every toy. Both Shooter and Budiansky would come up with the names and terms of almost every character and setting of Transformers. Marvel Comics were also publishing the original Transformers comics during the 80s, even having the Transformers crossover with their Marvel heroes.

Peter Cullen is the original voice actor for Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. A prolific actor since the 80s, Cullen is also well-known for providing the voice of Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore is the depressed donkey, always saying something gloomy. It's almost the complete opposite from the heroic Prime in the classic cartoon.

Peter Cullen would be the voice of Prime in most media, most notably the live action movies and the Transformers: Prime TV shows and sequels to Prime. Frank Welker, the voice of the evil Megatron in the original series, is one of the most prolific voice actors of all time. Having gotten his start with shows like The Jetsons and Scooby-Doo in the 60s, Welker has performed in nearly every iconic cartoon series since then.

He is Dr. Joe , The Real Ghostbusters , and countless others. He also voices a great many other transformers in the original show, including Soundwave. Joe and Transformers have a lot in common. They are both owned by Hasbro, they both had hit TV shows in the 80s, and their toys have sold millions.

While one show is about a military group and the other is focused on alien robots, there have been some crossovers. The comics have had the G. Joes and Transformers face off against each other several times. Cobra Commander, the leader of the Cobra terrorist organization, also guest starred in a season three episode of the Transformers show "Only Human".

Fans noticed that Cobra Commander has an eerily similar voice to the Decepticon Starscream. It turns out that both Cobra Commander and Starscream had the same voice actor at that time.

Christopher Collins, also known as Chris Latta, was the voice of both characters. Collins was known for some unusual behavior, sometimes having to be bailed out of jail for unknown reasons. Collins passed away in from a cerebral hemorrhage. He transforms into a futuristic car and is well remembered by fans for how fast he talks. While some believed that his audio was simply sped up, in reality, his voice actor was actually speaking that fast. John Moschitta Jr.

He had the ability to speak about words a minute. His record would later be surpassed in by Steve Woodmore. Moschitta would reprise the role of Blur in Transformers: Animated , the cartoon series. With the first Transformers movie out and the end of the divisive Unicron Trilogy, fans were clamoring for a new type of Transformer show.

Transformers: Animated was released at the end of , the year the first live-action Transformers movie came out. In many ways, it was a return to form with the series, after several years of the series going through its Anime phase. Animated was a loving tribute to classic Transformers , with many Easter eggs and cameos from Generation 1.

Spike, Carly, and Daniel Witwicky, the human leads of OG Transformers , make several background cameos throughout the show. The Animated version of Soundwave temporarily became a tape recorder, just like his G1 counterpart. Most notably, however, is that Weird Al Yankovic, famous musician and parodist, voiced the transformer Wreck-Gar in Animated. Most fan favorite Transformers from the first two season of the show met their end in the film, including Optimus Prime, Starscream, Ironhide, Ratchet, and several more.

Parents sent letters in droves to the animation studio that produces the show about how traumatic the movie was towards their young children. Meanwhile, G. Joe was preparing to have its own movie. Joe: The Movie was originally going to end with the death of Duke, ostensibly the lead of the show. Joe to spare Duke. Season three of Transformers , which was a direct continuation of the movie, was not nearly as popular as the first two.

The death of Optimus Prime was still hanging over the show, so Hasbro made the decision to bring back the beloved leader of the Autobots. You would assume that for such momentous occasion in the series, that the writers would craft a carefully constructed story about the resurrection of the greatest Autobot who ever lived. However that did not happen, instead, the writers made a series of episodes that made no sense. First, Optimus Prime was originally resurrected as a mind-controlled zombie, who tried to lure the Autobots into a trap.

He ends up getting back control of himself, and sacrifices himself when his ship explodes. While the explosion was instantaneous in the first episode, somehow the astronauts had enough time to save Prime.

Optimus Prime was also a rotting zombie in the original episode, somehow his body was perfectly fine in the later episodes. Beast Wars was a popular variation of the Transformers in the 90s that focused on a group of transformers that turn into different beasts rather than vehicles. The show lasted for three seasons, and has a fairly satisfying ending, with most major plot points resolved.

One plot point that was not properly explained was the heel turn of the clone Dinobot. You see, the original Dinobot was an honorable transformer, who had a very noble death protecting ancient humans in season 2. In season 3, Megatron cloned Dinobot, lacking the honor of the original, so he was more merciless.

He shared a spark, pretty much the souls of transformers, with another transformer called Rampage. When Rampage died in the series finale, somehow the old Dinobot persona started forming inside the clone. Apparently, there was a never-produced episode of Beast Wars that explains how Rattrap, a comrade of the original Dinobot, was able to plug in the core consciousness of Dinobot into the clone.

One of the most popular scenes in all of Transformers is the moment in The Transformers: The Movie when Optimus Prime rides in and faces against an army of Decepticons alone. So it is strange that when Stan Bush wrote the song, he was thinking of a completely different movie. Bush wrote the song with the movie Cobra in mind. Cobra is a forgotten action flick from the 80s starring Sylvester Stallone.

Yet, even though he was a major character in the original show, and the current set of movies and cartoon, there was a time that Bumblebee was not in any Transformers products. Common attributes and characteristics of Bumblebee, like generally being younger than most Autobots and being primarily yellow, would be shared with newer characters created during that time period. Cheetor, from Beast Wars, was the Bumblebee replacement during that time.

Now Hasbro has the rights to use the name Bumblebee again. The character is now a major player within the live-action films, and the recent set of Transformers TV shows.

He is now slated to have his own spin-off movie. Despite the popularity of the entire franchise, the Transformers series has never really been seen as award-winning series.

There are occasional nominations for technical awards, with Beast Wars being one of the few shows in the series to have actually won an Emmy. While many people now find the CG animation for Beast Wars to be unwatchable, at the time, the CG animation was actually pretty revolutionary. The animals looked and moved the way they would in real life. The facial expressions, especially on Megatron, were full of personality.

Transformers Aligned continuity Series

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. In a major departure from most Generation One Transformers retellings, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and their double crew of warring robots actually survive their double crash on prehistoric Earth! They just get up off the floor easy as they please, rather than taking a four million year nap. Nobody even wore a seatbelt.

Continuity

Well this was a slice of nostalgia pie and a half. So there was a very large chunk of it I never saw with a handful of episodes on video, the movie and the marvel comics providing most of my knowledge on them. I decided to get on the wagon and watch the entire series of Generation 1 continuity. That is, the original transformer cartoon that was first on air. But as the series runs on the plot of the episodes become pretty dire. Forget continuity too. Take the Constructicons that were created by Megatron but it later episodes were supposed to be the ones who built Megatron. Why bother trying to make sense of that? Season 3 of the series is a bit of a step up since it tries to keep more continuity between episodes and delves into the Transformer origin story.

Transformers Makes Major Retcon to Original Continuity

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What if Straxus Lived?(Generation one cartoon continuity/Wings universe) Part 1

In Transformers, there are heroic Autobots and tyrannical Decepticons. A few individuals fall between those cracks, but for the most part the allegiances and moral alignment of characters follow a strict binary. However, redemption arcs are a common trope of sci-fi and fantasy alike — and Transformers is no exception. Of the many redemption arcs in the franchise, there are ten that stand out above the rest. Jetfire was sold in the original Transformers toy line as an Autobot. However, the cartoon devised a backstory where Jetfire or Skyfire, for complicated legal reasons was a friend of Starscream who disappeared eons ago on prehistoric Earth.

Bringing Beast Wars expertise to the Easter eggs of Transformers: War for Cybertron - Kingdom

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Michael Bay still held the theatrical movies prisoner. It was around this time that Hasbro decided to unify in-house with Hasbro Studios, and the short-lived team-up with Discovery Kids to form The Hub, a network jointly run by Hasbro and Discovery Networks. The union broke after a few years and the network is back under the parent brand as Discovery Family. Meanwhile you had the games from High Moon Studios and while IDW had their own continuity already going there were comics made in the Aligned continuity.

As seen here. Well, today we recieved a message from Hasbro representatives again, this time from their official marketing firm based in the US. They clearly stated the following:. So there you have it. Have fun figuring that all out on the boards in our Transformers Prime discussion forum!

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