To quote Ultra Magnus,
"I've never seen anything this beautiful in the entire galaxy. All right, give me the bomb."
It is indeed a treat to behold. To another thirty. [proceeds to scour kitchen for that cup of water he knew that he had poured]

 

Not bad!

 

Cool. Thanks for all the info.

 

For years I've wanted the G1 series in a blu-ray release. With this year marking its 35th anniversary, hopefully we'll finally get it. I don't care about anything but G1.

 

That's really too bad. You're missing out on a lot, and I mean a lot of really good Transformers stuff by only caring about G1.

 

Great read

 

I like the Long Haul Pic!!!

 

35 years of transformers, and i have only been apart of it for 10 years

 

Gen 1 - Gen 2


I think a good way to think about the immense shift in style and content between TG1 (Transformers Generation 1) and TG2 is to think about how the toys, cartoons, and comics focused more on variability of character significance for various storylines. TG1 offered stories relevant to particular characters, but TG2 offered a more liberal attitude towards who could be a randomized figurehead in a given storyline!

That's why TG2 was the 'gateway' to the modern Transformers era which focuses much more on general concepts and character randomization than did TG1.

That's also why TG1 is the ideal intro for anyone looking to become a Transformers fan. Hey, isn't that why we all love Transformers: The Movie (1986), the real art-piece that began showing us conceptual bridges between TG1 and TG2?

 

 

good info here

 

It took me days to read all of this!
Excellent and informative write up. I'm impressed and it filled in a few blanks for me. I've been collecting since G1 with a few years of breaks until I started a major effort into collecting through the Energon era, the beginning of the Classics line, and intermittently through the years til I saw Titans Return and have been heavily collecting since. This write up has shown me where some of my more eclectic figures have originated.

Is there an update from 2015 to current in the works? I'd love to see what else I've missed.

 

  Awsome looking forward,...

 

You can always read some pages over at TFWIKI to catch up on those years, covers pretty much everthing.

 

Thanks. I have been doing that since that post. TF Wiki has been answering a lot of questions.

 

Awesome, such a dense history!

 

Thank you for all these links! I definitely needed this in order to make my own list. Glory to transformers!

 

Need a update but that ok

 

Agreed! Maybe @Sol Fury can give another one soon!