He voiced Shockwave, Barricade and Soundwave in the film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, adding to his already large list of roles within the Transformers franchise.

Although the United Kingdom's exclusive Transformers comic series shone the spotlight on the Constructicons when they were charged with hunting down Buster Witwicky, and again when the time-travelling Galvatron co-opted their services to build a gigantic laser cannon, the team's special talents were not required in the US title again until they and the Predacons stole large amounts of rocket fuel and raw materials, with which the Constructicons rebuilt the Decepticons ' mobile island headquarters as a spaceship.

Grimlock's greatest victory came when he and a large number of other Transformers with animal transformations were summoned to a world at the centre of the galaxy by the ex-assistant of the ancient genius, Primacron, creator of Unicron.

Transformers were nothing new, but the Gaulard-Gibbs design was one of the first that could handle large amounts of power and promised to be easy to manufacture.

In the fiction, the Micromasters were created by the Transformers in response to growing power needs ; It was costly and inefficient to continue to create or repair existing Transformers in large bodies.

The large sword was re-released with the God Fire Convoy gift set in the 2000 Transformers: Car Robots series.

In Transformers: Cybertron, a large force of Decepticons freed by Starscream were ordered to turn into Seeker Ships to scour the Earth.

Here it is shown with a large Transformers banner, since it was the site of the very first Nordic Transformers convention in late 2007, arranged by The Nordic TransFans Association.

Japan followed up Headmasters with another exclusive series the following year, titled Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, which featured a character named Black Zarak, whose toy was a remoulded, repainted Scorponok, with a new head / helmet and " Tyrant Spear " accessory as large as the figure itself.

The Transformers presence on Earth was also handled with more resentment and hostility from a handful of citizens ; this culminated in a large scale Terrorcon assault on Earth during the second story arc, as Megatron transported Optimus into the hub of Unicron, where his spark had been trapped since the conclusion of the Armada comic, and manipulated Prime into freeing him so he could enter a body he had been secretly preparing.

The Transformers crossover, the evil terrorist organization Cobra are the first to uncover the Ark and the Transformers slumbering within it, capturing and reformatting a large number of them to use them as war machines.

Dreamwave produced a large amount of material, but would go bankrupt and lose the Transformers license in early 2005.

It has appeared, among other places, in The Transformers animated series by Optimus Prime before entering battle or embarking on a group journey with his Autobots ( as well as in the 2009 feature film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ).

Unlike many of the other Transformers ( who were given World War II vehicle alternate modes ) Megatron would keep his basic Walther P-38 handgun transformation, which was indeed a WWII German handgun.

In 1986 the Transformers animated movie had been released, and during the run of the movie, through a pamphlet that came with certain figures, you could order certain Transformers through the mail, such as Optimus Prime among other toys.

The Transformers's fan base splintered into two groups as a direct result, with the one enjoying Beast Wars for what it was and the other refusing to accept it as official canon in the Transformers mythology.

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.

According to the storyline, Mini-Cons also enhanced the power of other Transformers, giving incentive to collect as many of them as possible.

* 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.

Also, as a new feature, most figures include advanced " automorph technology ", which is designed to create quicker and easier conversion, which means moving one part of the vehicle or robot causes other parts to move, creating a final shift to battle mode ; this was successful because the transformation was more complex in the movie line than in any other Transformers toyline.

The official international Transformers convention is BotCon, but other fan events include Auto Assembly and TransForce in the UK and past Transformers only events have included BotCon Japan, BotCon Europe and " OTFCC ".

As a part of Hasbro's media strategy, My Little Pony, along with their other properties like Transformers and G. I.

It is ironic that the suitably intelligent Constructicons should sacrifice their thinking ability in their combined form, but simple-mindedness is a common limitation of the assorted other first-generation combining Transformers, because Devastator's thoughts and actions are limited to what his six components can agree upon at any given time.

Unlike many of the other Transformers, the Constructicons were not reformatted into Cobra vehicles.

Mighty Orbots was developed from an idea pitched by Fred Silverman, possibly in response to the popularity of other robot-related properties such as Hasbro and Sunbow's Transformers.

The original character profiles ( and the tech specs derived from them ) written by Bob Budiansky and Dan Bobro indicate that Grimlock and the Dinobots were intended to come from Cybertron to Earth like the vast majority of other Transformers.

Transformers can switch between one and the other method of power transmission.

Linda voiced Chromia on the 1985 Transformers animated series as well as several other characters throughout the series.

In the U. S. comics, Starscream went on from his rebirth as a Pretender to join up with Shockwave in instigating the Decepticon Civil War, and was transported to Cybertron along with all the other Transformers in preparation for the battle against Unicron.

In the year 2005, ( the storyline year for the events of the 1986 release, The Transformers: The Movie ), Starscream, along with many other Decepticons, hijacked an Autobot shuttle bound for Autobot City ; Megatron's plan being to slip past the city's early warning systems and decimate the Autobots there.

Winding up in stasis aboard the Autobot spacecraft, the Ark, along with the other Decepticons when it crashed on prehistoric Earth, Starscream was reactivated in 1984 with the other Transformers.

It allows humans or Nebulons to become components of Transformers using cybernetic exosuits in a process referred to as Binary Bonding ( although not all Master processes involve bonding with humans ).

The only Transformers with normal intelligence without being created by Vector Sigma were the Combaticons, of whom Starscream brought in their personality components from the Decepticon penitentiary on Cybertron, and the Technobots.

Maximus made his first IDW Publishing appearance in the Spotlight issue on Arcee as commander of an Autobot penal facility housing some of the most dangerous Transformers prisoners, including the Monstructor components and Arcee herself.

As Teletraan 15 traveled through time and space collecting information on Transformers, Teletraan 10 snarkily commented on their various quirks, questioning the logic of Kup's " musket laser " weapon and suggesting that Optimus Prime's three components were not himself, his trailer and Roller, but his body, his left hand and his right hand.

Sky Lynx consists of two separate components: a space shuttle that can transform into a bird-like creature ( variously dubbed a " prehistoric bird " by his instruction sheet, and a " dino-bird " by his Transformers: Universe profile ), and a ground transport vehicle, which transforms into a lynx.

In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Optimus has added a trailer to his vehicle mode that contains Jetfire's parts, allowing him to add Jetfire's components to him when he requires flight capability and additional firepower compared to what he is capable of on his own.

In the 2000 Japanese line, Transformers: Car Robots, Fortress Maximus's toy was repainted and released as a new character named Brave Maximus ( with the Headmaster components, Brave and Plasma ), and was the main focus of the final arc of the animated series.

When the series was then imported to the US as Transformers: Robots in Disguise, safety regulations meant that the toy could not be released, but his involvement in the animated series remained, where his name was changed to that of his predecessor, Fortress Maximus ( with the Headmaster components, The Emissary and Cerebros ).

In the 1920s, commercial IF filters looked very similar to 1920s audio interstage coupling transformers, had very similar construction and were wired up in an almost identical manner, and so they were referred to as " IF Transformers ".

More recently, many parts of the films Iron Man and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were filmed here.

Four million years later, in 1984, the Transformers were reawakened, and Megatron was defeated twice by Optimus Prime.

In this voice actor play various Transformers from different timelines and realities were swept up in a repeat wave and transported along with Unicron to Earth.

In Crossing Over, when Skyfall and Landquake were presumed killed in the midst of a bloody Mini-Con civil war and attack by Unicron ( set concurrently with the events of Transformers: Cybertron ), they were, in actuality, transported across universes, from the world of the Unicron Trilogy into the Marvel Comics timeline.

After Dreamwave's closure, the rights to the Transformers comics were taken over by IDW Publishing.

The following Transformers toy series were released in the United States:

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 Transformers toys were created from the different transforming robot toylines from Takara, notably the Diaclone and Micro Change ( Microman ) series.

Hasbro acquired the rights to sell them in the United States but, instead of selling them under their original names, they were rebranded as " The Transformers ".

UK Transformers toys were sold in identical boxes to those of their American counterparts up until around 1998 / 9 when the range started to have UK exclusives.

The Constructicons were the first " gestalt " team in the Transformers line, but were different from most subsequent gestalt teams in that they consisted of six members instead of five.

Micromasters were tiny Transformers created to compete with the Micro Machines, a hugely popular toy line of the time.

However most fans of Transformers recognise that most if not all of the toys released from this line were of excellent quality ( with the Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus figures gaining considerable praise ), combining the ball-joint articulation with detailed, well painted alternate modes.

A Japanese exclusive, This is a new line of Transformers toys shaped from Disney characters that were first introduced in 2009.

Hasbro launched the Transformers toy line with ten different Autobot characters, all of whom transformed into automobiles, while the ten distinct Decepticons, ( seven packages as three came two to a box / pack ) were weapons, aircraft and communications equipment.

Many of the Transformers were based on Takara designs.

In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen it is revealed that The Fallen, a Prime who turned evil, is the First leader and founder of the Decepticons, which would seem to imply the Decepticons were originally Autobots who turned evil.

Afterwards, the incident was classified above Top Secret by the US government, and declared a complete failure to the public ( saying it crashed on Mars instead ) but later became a warning that the Transformers were coming to Earth.

Although not meeting the definition of an infomercial per se, animated children's programming in the 1980s and early 1990s, which included half-hour animated series for franchises such as Transformers, My Little Pony, Go-Bots and Bravestarr were often described by media experts and parents derisive of these types of series as essentially program-length commercials, as they also sold the tie-in toy lines and food products for the shows within commercials.