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In this adrenaline-fueled adventure, Optimus Prime and the Autobots take on their biggest challenge yet. When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, they must team up with a powerful faction known as the Maximals. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, Noah (Anthony Ramos) and Elena (Dominique Fishback) will do ...
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Feb 7, 2024 · v This Day in History: May 24. 1963 — Kōtarō Nakamura (Japanese voice of Megatron) is born. 1965 — Jirō Saitō (voice of Rebirth Megatron, Dark of the Moon Soundwave and Shockwave) is born. 1965 — Janne Porkka (Finnish voice of Jolt, Mudflap and Scattorshot) is born. 1982 — Voice actor Josh Petersdorf is born.
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Transformers G1 is a Japanese-American cartoon and also Generation One, originally known as The Transformers, is the original Transformers franchise which took the United States by storm in 1984.
The term "Generation One" (G1) was originally a fan-coined back-formulation of Generation 2. Until the Transformers: Generation 2 line was released, Generation One was simply called The Transformers. Over the years, the use of the term G1 has become fairly universal and has frequently been used in official materials. It has even appeared on Takara toy packaging and on Hasbro's official Transformers website and reissue toy packaging.
The Generation One franchise as it ran in the 1980s/90s featured the following primary components:
•A toyline
•A cartoon series
•Several comic book series
In Japan, rather than simply be identified as The Transformers throughout its lifespan, the franchise was rebranded with a new title and a shift in storytelling every year. This led to a collection of mini-franchises within the larger Generation One franchise, each featuring their own individual components. They are:
•1985 - •1986 - •1987 - •1988 - •1989 - •1990 - •1991 - •1992 -
It should be noted that the first two revivals/reinventions of the Transformers line following the end of the original line (Generation 2 and Beast Wars/Beast Machines) remained, as far as their fiction was concerned, as part of the same overall storyline/history framework. Thus a character like Optimus Primal is listed as being "a character from the Beast Era portion of the Generation One continuity family." Despite hailing from a later post-Generation One franchise, he is a part of the same Generation One continuity family.
Also of note, the lasting popularity of the original Generation One franchise, its characters, and stories have led Hasbro and Takara to produce a long stream of modern revisions of it. This new Generation One material is sometimes referred to by fans as "Neo G1".
Among these are:
•New Generation One characters (generally redecos of existing G1 toys) retroactively introduced into the franchise by the Japanese reissues toy line.
•Whole new toy lines with ancillary fiction set in a Generation One continuity: these include Binaltech, Universe, Robot Masters, Micromaster Collection, Kiss Players, and Classics (2006), Universe (2008).
•Many new Generation One comic book series, first from Dreamwave and then from Devil's Due and IDW.
Space Transformers, or simply Transformers, is a Japanese-American media franchise developed by Hasbro in 1984 under license from Takara. Centering on products and media involving transforming extraterrestrial lifeforms from the planet Cybertron, the franchise has been in almost continuous circulation since its launch 40 years ago. When briefly absent from American retail, it continued in ...
More than any other of the many media which Transformers have remained popular in the past 20+ years, it is The Transformers, the original Japanese-American cartoon that ran from 1984 to 1987, which captured the imagination of adults who used to be children and children-at-heart worldwide back in the 1980s. The cartoon (along with the Marvel comics) set up the basic story of Transformers that ...
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