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The Transformers is an animated television series that originally aired from September 17, 1984, to November 11, 1987, in syndication based upon Hasbro and Takara's Transformers toy line.
Generation 1 Deluxe Car Sideswipe (1984) Sideswipe's toy was originally part of a Takara toyline called Diaclone before Hasbro took some of the toys to use for Transformers. [10] Sideswipe was one of the first Transformers to be released. [11] Because they were both Lamborghinis, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were characterized as fraternal twins.
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.
It served to further promote the new "combiner" figures who had been introduced at the end of season 2, and a few other figures from the 1986 product line (like Ultra Magnus, Metroplex and Trypticon) who had not yet appeared in the American cartoon, which were all being released in Japan with the sub-branding of "Scramble City."
In the U.S. cartoon line, the Autobots were the descendants of a line of robots created as consumer goods by the Quintessons; the Decepticons, are descended instead from robots designed as military hardware. Other terms for the Autobots are Autorobot (in Italy), Autoboterna (in Sweden), Kibery (in Ukraine), and Robotrikim (in Israel).
Rabbit Rampage is a spiritual successor to the 1953 cartoon Duck Amuck, in which Daffy Duck was teased by an off-screen animator, revealed at the end to be Bugs Bunny. In Rabbit Rampage, Bugs is similarly teased by another off-screen animator, who is revealed at the end to be Elmer Fudd.
Transformers: Scramble City Activation (トランスフォーマー スクランブルシティ発動編, Toransufōmā: Sukuranburu Shiti Hatsudō-hen), mostly referred to as just Scramble City (スクランブルシティ, Sukuranburu Shiti) is an episode of The Transformers released as an OVA (Original Video Animation) in Japan on April 1, 1986.
Transformers: Generation 1 (also known as Generation One or G1) is a toy line from 1984 to 1990, produced by Hasbro and Takara Tomy. [1] Based on the successful Transformers toy and entertainment franchise, the line of toy robots could change into an alternate form (vehicles such as cars and planes, miniature guns or cassettes, animals, and even dinosaurs) by moving parts into other places.