Hastily performing the revisions over a weekend, Budiansky's new names and profiles were a hit with Hasbro, and production began on a bi-monthly four-issue comic book miniseries, and three-part television pilot. O'Neill declined to make said revisions, and the project was turned down by several writers and editors approached by Shooter until editor Bob Budiansky accepted the task. Given the success of that strategy, the process was repeated in 1984 when Hasbro marketing vice president Bob Prupis approached Marvel to develop their new robot series, which Jay Bacal dubbed "Transformers." Marvel's Editor-in-Chief at the time, Jim Shooter, produced a rough story concept for the series, creating the idea of the two warring factions of alien robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. To flesh out his concept, Shooter called upon veteran editor Dennis O'Neil to create character names and profiles for the cast, but O'Neill's work did not meet with Hasbro's expectations, and they requested heavy revisions. Hasbro had previously worked with Marvel Comics to develop Joe: A Real American Hero for a three-pronged marketing scheme – the toyline, a tie-in comic book by Marvel, and an animated mini-series co-produced by Marvel's media arm, Marvel Productions, and the Griffin-Bacal Advertising Agency's Sunbow Productions production house. The way was cleared for the new product-based television program. regulators had removed many of the restrictions regarding the placement of promotional content within children's television programming. 4.2.6 Decepticon Triple Changers ( トリプルトロン, Toripurutoron, Tripletrons).4.2.4 Constructicons ( ビルドロン 部隊(ぶたい), Birudoron Butai, Buildron Unit).4.2.3 Decepticon Jets (Seekers) ( ジェットロン 部隊(ぶたい), Jettoron Butai, Jetron Unit).4.2.2 Decepticon Mini-Cassettes ( カセットロン 部隊(ぶたい), Kasettoron Butai, Cassettron Unit). 4.2 Decepticons ( デストロン, Desutoron, Destrons or Deathtrons).4.1.9 Autobot Triple Changer ( トリプルボット 部隊(ぶたい), Toripurubotto Butai, Triplebot Unit).4.1.8 Autobot City ( スクランブルシティ, Sukuranburu Shiti, Scramble City).4.1.7 Female Autobots ( ウーマン・サイバトロン, Uman Saibatoron, Women Cybertrons).4.1.6 Protectobots ( プロテクトボット 部隊(ぶたい), Purotekutobotto Butai, Protectobot Unit).4.1.3 Autobot Mini-Cassettes ( カセットボット 部隊(ぶたい), Kasettobotto Butai, Cassettbot Unit).4.1.2 Autobot Mini Vehicles ( ミニボット 部隊(ぶたい), Minibotto Butai, Minibot Unit).4.1 Autobots ( サイバトロン, Saibatoron, Cybertrons).The first of many series in the Transformers franchise, it was based upon Hasbro's Transformers toy line (itself based upon the Diaclone and Microman toy lines originally created by Japanese toy manufacturer Takara), and depicts a war among giant robots that can transform into vehicles and other objects.Ĭo-produced between Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions for first-run syndication, animation for the series was mostly done by Toei Animation in Japan, and later Korean studio AKOM. The series was supplemented by a feature film, The Transformers: The Movie (1986), taking place between the second and third seasons. The Transformers is an American animated robot superhero television series which originally aired from Septemto November 11, 1987. Toei Animation (Seasons 1-3, Animation and Japanese Dub) All unauthorized edits may be reverted on the admin's discretion. Please do not edit or alter this article in any way while this template is active. The following Kelothan's Universe page is under construction.
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