The first application was the Electronic Relay Circuit, revised and called the Memory Transformer.

The specifications portion of the tech specs which came with earlier G1 Transformers were obfuscated with interference patterns which made them difficult to read without a decoder which was included in the box for each Transformer.

The first line of the toy series is the Mickey Mouse Transformer which was modeled after Optimus Prime with the same colors as its Transformer counterpart and can transform into a cartoonish trailer truck like the original version.

In 2010, a Transformer version of Buzz Lightyear was released to celebrate the release of Toy Story 3.

He was the stylist for Roxy Music's first eight albums, as well as for the back cover for Lou Reed's 1972 Transformer album.

" In their oral history, a man was transformed into this rock by the three Transformer brothers.

Grimlock was voted the 6th top Transformer who was considered to be " badass " in the comics by Topless Robot.

Their arrival, and their reviving the fallen Autobots with Nucleon, was an important part of Transformer victory that day, but Optimus Prime once again lost his life, sacrificing himself to destroy Unicron, and once again naming Grimlock as his successor with his dying breath.

When the Autobots and Decepticons united against Jhiaxus and the threat of the Swarm-a destructive by-product of Transformer reproduction-Grimlock was the joint leader of the ground troops as Prime and Megatron fought on other fronts, and survived the brutal conflict.

However, on Earth Starscream discovered a variant ore of energon on Earth that was the Transformer equivalent of steroids, making him bold enough to advance their infiltration phase ahead of schedule.

Prime was then able to use this goodness to purify the Swarm, a dark byproduct of Transformer reproduction.

* Lio Convoy ( 1998 ): Although his Matrix was not detachable, Leo Prime was the first Transformer toy to come with a Matrix, though technically it is an Energon Matrix.

* Big Convoy ( 1999 ): The first Transformer to come with a Matrix that was detachable.

In the sequel series to the original Transformers comics, more of the history of Cybertron and the Transformer race was revealed, as Optimus Prime discovered that they had once possessed the ability to asexually reproduce by " budding ".

However, in robot form, he was no larger than an average-sized Transformer.

In this Industrial Revolution-themed series, Astrotrain was not actually a Transformer, but referred to as the Astrotrain a new creation of the Decepticons.

Not long after, Cybertron was devastated in a series of explosions instigated by the Decepticons, but as Vector Sigma would later reappear in various Japanese Transformer series ', it is apparent that it survived this devastating assault.

Since we had last seen the computer, it had been equipped with an external shell program known as the Oracle, which allowed receptive Transformers to commune with the Allspark, the well of all Transformer life that Vector Sigma was connected to ( a retroactive explanation for how Vector Sigma could bestow life ).

Over the eons, Vector Sigma was used by many beings to imbue lifeless Transformer bodies with the spark of life without judgment.

The Star Saber was the weapon of Prima, the first Transformer, and had the Matrix of Leadership was its hilt.

Unlike Blackarachnia and Waspinator, Sari was not actually a Transformer to begin with was and started off more organic at first, both in biology ( possessing normal human biological functions ) and in outward appearance.

The original recording, like the rest of the Transformer album, was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson ( who also wrote the string arrangement and played piano on the track ).

) Chicago also hosted E. H. Scott's Scott Transformer Company, which introduced a high-grade radio in 1928, and grew into Scott Radio Laboratories ; this was located at 4450 Ravenswood Avenue in 1946, and produced " very expensive, beautifully-designed, chrome-plated chassis ".

Bludgeon's toy, produced in 1988, was part of Pretenders subline — a small Transformer that fits inside a larger shell.

Photographer Mick Rock produced some of the most iconographic album covers of the 1970s, including Queen's Queen II ( recreated for their classic music video Bohemian Rhapsody ), Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs, and Lou Reed's Transformer.

One of the many famous albums recorded at Trident was Lou Reed's Transformer, produced by David Bowie, who in turn recorded many albums there including The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.

The American Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has shown an interest in the concept with a sixty five million dollar program called Transformer to develop a four place roadable aircraft by 2015.

* Transformer ( Interactive Java applet ), ' Physics is fun ' by Chui-king Ng

* Bibliography of Transformer Books by P. M. Balma, from IEEE Transformer Committee

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne have been commissioned by DARPA to develop a diesel Wankel engine for use in a prototype VTOL flying car called the " Transformer ".

Most realizations of the piece have long titles, such as The Tortoise Recalling the Drone of the Holy Numbers as they were Revealed in the Dreams of the Whirlwind and the Obsidian Gong, Illuminated by the Sawmill, the Green Sawtooth Ocelot and the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer.

However, it has been stated by representatives of IDW Publishing, the current holders of the Transformer comic license, that once Dreamwave has exited bankruptcy court, they intend to finish the story.

The Air Motion Transformer tweeter works by pushing air out perpendicularly from the pleated diaphragm.

* ASUS Transformer, a series of Android tablet computers manufactured by Asus

* Transformer ( album ), a 1972 album by Lou Reed

* " Transformer ", a song by Gnarls Barkley from St.

* Transformer: The Lou Reed Story, a biography of Lou Reed by Victor Bockris

* Air Motion Transformer, a type of loudspeaker invented by Oskar Heil

( The evidence-gathering turns out to be a plot by the Machination to locate a Transformer base.

Megatron began his campaign to acquire the legendary Cyber Planet Keys by stealing the map that showed their locations from the ancient Transformer, Vector Prime while Starscream, serving as his right-hand man, created a diversion that kept the other Autobots busy.

In all but one Transformer story, the " Heroic Autobots " are opposed by the Evil Decepticons — the main antagonists in Transformers.

Transformers are now created through the use of " protoform " technology-produced in Maximal and Predacons facilities nicknamed " The Matrix " and " The Pit " respectively ( after the respective Transformer afterlives ), protoforms consist of an endoskeleton surrounded by a nanotech gel that reconfigures with the scanning of an alternate mode.

Set several years after the events of the Transformer: Cybertron animated series Astrotrain is contacted by Cannonball to help steal a Force Chip from a crashed Autobot ship on the planet Sandokan.

* Targetmaster: A humanoid transforms into a highly accurate intelligent weapon for use by the Transformer.

Death of a Transformer can follow irreversible ( mortal ) stasis lock or be caused by a sudden traumatic injury ( such as a close-proximity nuclear explosion, or spark excision ).