Hasbro Europe still will not accept, however, that the range was released in the UK in 1984, not even with evidence such as Argos 1984 catalogues containing the range, the UK comic launching in September 1984 or even the 1984 Transformers product catalogue produced by " Hasbro Industries ( UK ) Ltd, Wokingham ".

Before Grimlock could celebrate his new position, however, the Nucleon's effect on Transformers became apparent.

Starscream, however, knew the threat was real, and that only united under a true leader like Optimus Prime – whose strength of character and nobility had touched Starscream during his time with the Autobots – could the Transformers hope to stop him.

The appearance of Timelines Shattered Glass Astrotrain is almost entirely identical to the Transformers: Armada " Jetfire " toy and very close to that of the Timelines Unicron Trilogy Astrotrain, however the toy was sold as the later.

They did, however, feature in the Transformers Universe profile books, where they are implicated as being servants of Unicron.

Mirage was absent from the events of 2005 and 2006 without explanation ; however, a storyboarded scene from The Transformers: The Movie featuring Mirage was cut from the finished film.

The tide of battle turned, however, when – with the aid of several Transformers displaced in time from 2006 – the rebellion ’ s leader, A-3, deactivated the Dark Guardians with the “ coda remote ” device hidden in his slave brand.

In the original Marvel Comics run of the Transformers comic book, however, a reference is made in issue # 17 to a group of Decepticon jets on Cybertron as " Hunter-Seekers ", but it is worth mentioning that these Cybertronian jets bore little resemblance to the pre-Earth alternate forms of the Decepticons jets in the Sunbow television show and that they were never officially referred to by this designation in the original run of the comic or its immediate successor, Generation 2.

His toy's tech spec and Transformers Universe profile, however, wrote of a character who sought to overthrow Megatron and rule the Decepticons because he views it as the logical thing to do.

Eventually, however, Shockwave and all the other Transformers on Cybertron succumbed to stasis lock as the planet's energy ran out, and it entered a hibernation phase known as the " Great Shutdown.

Shockwave does appear, however, in the tie-in Transformers: The Game.

Energon can be used as a power source for Transformers, however exposure to too much causes damage.

Decepticharge, however, saw limited release in Japan by Takara as a prize connected to The Transformers Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide photo book.

Punch got much more screen time, however, in Transformers: Headmasters, the Japanese-exclusive animated series that supplanted The Rebirths position in continuity on the other side of the Pacific.

Across the Atlantic, however, in the United Kingdom's exclusive Transformers series, writer Simon Furman wrote about characters further in the timeline, often intersecting them with the present day through the use of time travel.

IDW, the current holders of the franchise, have not continued publication of the Energon comic or even published a Cybertron comic, they did however release a collection of the Hasbro Transformers Collectors ' Club exclusive storyline, Transformers Cybertron: Balancing Act, which followed Vector Prime, on a side quest to the central Cybertron animated series storyline.

Japanese Transformers guides thus report that Hound has in some way survived the movie, however, because it also features Transformers that were pronounced deceased, that is considered speculation.

Beyond that, however, Prowl's role as a strategist put him firmly in the background of the Transformers ' ongoing adventures on Earth, participating in many battles but playing key roles in few ; among some of his roles in conflict involving him orchestrating the plan to invade the Decepticons ' underwater base, devising security measures to prevent Megatron from stealing super-fuel from an Autobot convoy and leading the attack against the Triple Changer Blitzwing's fortress when he separated from the Decepticons, only to wind up built into a throne by Scrapper, after being smashed and defeated by Blitzwing's tank mode.

Technically, all Transformers that are parts of a gestalt could also be called triple changers, as they have a robot mode, a vehicle mode and a body part mode, however, most fans only consider forms that a robot can form all by itself for being a Triple Changer.

His role as the " young yellow character ", however, has inspired other Transformers characters with the same role such as Cheetor and Hot Shot.

Thanks to sabotage orchestrated by American military general Robert Hallo, however, the Ark II explodes after exiting orbit, and the Transformers fall back to Earth.

It is implied, however, that he existed in the Decepticon ranks during and even prior to The Transformers: The Movie, though he is not seen in the feature.

Transformers cannot be used for DC, but a simple, cheap unregulated power supply could run directly from either AC or DC mains without using a transformer.

Corey Burton ( born Corey Gregg Weinberg, August 3, 1955 ) is an American voice actor, perhaps best known as the current voice of Disney's Captain Hook, Count Dooku, Ziro the Hutt and Cad Bane in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Brainiac in the DC animated universe and Spike Witwicky and Shockwave in the Transformers universe.

He is also well known in American-based animation ; as the voices of Heatblast, Ghostfreak, and Vilgax in the Ben 10 franchise, Jamie in Megas XLR, Yakky Doodle and Clamhead in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Smytus in My Life as a Teenage Robot, and his voice portrayals of Starscream in Transformers: Prime and Count Vertigo in DC Showcase: Green Arrow as well as in Young Justice, The Red Skull, Beta Ray Bill and Wolverine in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and as Melbourne O ' Riley in What's New, Scooby Doo ?.

Moore's writing includes the original science-fiction series Earthlight and PARA ; Iron Man, New Avengers / Transformers, and Wolverine ( Marvel ); Firestorm and Detective Comics ( DC Comics ); the multicultural superhero team The 99 ; the comics adaptation of the bestselling novel Redwall ; Transformers Spotlight: Ramjet ; the miniseries Stargate Atlantis: Wraithfall ; two volumes of the award-winning The Nightmare Factory ; and the prose novels American Meat and Reality Bites.

According to The Transformers: Spotlight issue featuring Optimus Prime, the only Transformers gestalt is currently Monstructor, meaning the Constructicons cannot combine into Devastator at this point.

While Transformers can survive on the surface, they cannot live there indefinitely.

In the climax of the first film, Transformers, the AllSpark is destroyed to kill Megatron, so Cybertron cannot be restored.

Franchises such as Seinfeld, Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Transformers, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show have core groups of fanatical followers but still attract mass audiences, so some ( e. g. actor Bruce Campbell, see below ), argue they cannot be considered true cult franchises.

Transformers can be further classified according to such key parameters as follow:

Although this would be the end of Megatron in the U. S. animated series, he would make several more appearances in the animated segments of various Transformers toy commercials, where he was depicted as an Action Master, and eventually a CGI sequence of him in his first Generation 2 form and Combat Hero forms.

The play itself should be considered unofficial, but was notable because it featured several original voice actors reprising their Transformers roles.

) Optimus hoped that although all the Transformers would be rendered inoperative, the war would be stopped, and that the humans would be able to reactivate the Autobots in the future.

The premise behind the Transformers toyline is that an individual toy's parts can be shifted about to change it from a vehicle, a device, or an animal, to a robot action figure and back again.

The line predictably faded and would be the last Transformers output in the US until 1992.

While Transformers ended poorly for the US market, the same can not be said for the UK, Canada, and Japan markets as they went on to produce their own continuing series between 1991 to 1993, despite the UK market in particular missing a substantial amount of figures prominent in the comics and animated series throughout the line's run.

This has led to controversy among fans who only consider G1 to be the only " pure " form of Transformers.

Beast Wars: Transformers had to be renamed in some countries, particularly Canada, because of concern over the word " war " in the title.

Robots In Disguise was responsible for introducing a lot of concepts that would be re-used often in the next incarnations of Transformers.

After several lines of toys produced by one company or the other, Hasbro and Takara united to produce what was purported to be a single, identical line of Transformers for release worldwide.

* For the first time since Rodimus Prime in Generation One, Cybertron featured a Prime other than Optimus — Vector Prime, said to be one of the first 13 Transformers ever created.

The live-action Transformers movie was slated to premiere in the U. S. on July 3, 2007, and was a joint collaboration among DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures and Hasbro, Inc. Paramount Pictures was slated to release the film in the United States, as it had by now made DreamWorks Pictures one of its wholly owned subsidiaries, and was also to be responsible for the international release of the film through United International Pictures, its joint venture with Universal Studios.

Originally, Transformers: Animated was to be called " Transformers: Heroes ", but its name was changed to avoid confusion with the Transformers live-action film.

The origins of the Decepticons in the IDW continuity would be explored in The Transformers: Megatron Origin, which confirmed Megatron as their founder in this timeline.

It would be a year before new episodes aired on YTV due to Mainframe's involvement in Transformers: Beast Wars ( known as Beasties in Canada ) and Shadow Raiders, and the third season aired only on YTV at the time.

In June, Linkin Park held an artwork contest for " Iridescent ", in which the winning artwork will be shown in the band's stage in their concert at Red Square in Moscow at the premiere of Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Hahn stated that " the video explores how human existence might be affected by the elements of Transformers robots and the threat of the Decepticons.

On June 28, 2011, the band announced that the video can be seen in 3D in select theaters after the film credits of Transformers: Dark of the Moon.