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The Armada toy was the first new-mould Starscream figure since 1990, and it clung to tradition with a jet alternate mode and a robot form featuring many callbacks to the original Starscream figure, such as shoulder-wings, air intakes on the shoulders, a cockpit in the chest, and a head-sculpt designed to look like the original animated ...
Transformers Animated: The Game is the first game based on the series. Released for the Nintendo DS platform in October 2008 by Activision. Two arcade games, Transformers Animated: The Chase and Transformers Animated: The Shooting were released in Japan by Sega. Both games took advantage of the cards included in the Japanese releases of the toy ...
Transformers: Animated is a cartoon that was aired in early 2008 on Cartoon Network in the United States. [94] Originally scheduled for late after 2007 under the title of Transformers: Heroes, [95] Transformers Animated is set in 2050 Detroit (after crash landing 50 years earlier), [94] when robots and humans live side by side. [95]
The series was the only Transformers animated series to be fully plotted from start to finish by Marty Isenberg and Robert N. Skir, writers unfamiliar with Transformers lore who sought to produce the series as, in Skir's words, a "religious epic novel for television". The series tackled the heavy philosophical concept of what it meant to live ...
As Hasbro took full control of Transformers from Takara by the late 1980s, sales declined until the toy line was discontinued in 1991. After the failed Generation 2 reboot, Beast Wars rejuvenated the franchise in 1995. In 2007, the live-action Transformers film solidified Transformers' position as Hasbro's flagship toy line.
After Machinima closed down in February 2019, [23] Hasbro Studios and Netflix closed a deal for War for Cybertron Trilogy animated series, produced by Allspark Animation, Rooster Teeth and Polygon Pictures for 2020. [24] F. J. DeSanto returned as showrunner while George Krstic, Gavin Hignight and Brandon M. Easton contributed as writers. [24]
The Transformers toyline and animated series were inspired by the Japanese toyline, Microman (a far-eastern descendant of the 12-inch G.I. Joe action figure series) by Takara. [8] In 1980, the Microman spin-off, Diaclone , was released, featuring inch-tall humanoid figures able to sit in the drivers' seats of scale model vehicles, which could ...
Four figures from the Mighty Muggs line. Clockwise from top-right: Darth Vader, Wolverine, Chewbacca, and Spider-Man. Mighty Muggs are a vinyl–plastic collectible toy series made by Hasbro. The toys resemble super deformed versions of characters from the following franchises: Star Wars, Marvel Comics, Indiana Jones, G.I. Joe, and Transformers ...