Review Hub - Transformers

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With Transformers being one of Hasbro’s longest-running franchises, and with it having a vast and complex multiverse, it can be hard to keep up at times for the uninitiated. In an attempt to rectify this, below is a list of links to every Transformers movie, game, and comic reviewed on the blog up to this point, presented in approximate chronological order and by continuity. (Links to Second Opinions will be posted next to the main review link in parentheses.)

Update (1/6/2015): Added Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, Age of Extinction, Dark of the Moon Second Opinion
Update (8/8/2016): Added The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Second Look
Update (6/21/2017): Added Transformers: Devastation, The Last Knight
Update (7/3/2017): Added Transformers (2007) Second Look
Update (12/9/2018): Added Bumblebee

Update (6/25/2019): Added Revenge of the Fallen Second Look
Update (11/30/2019): Added Transformers: Prime - The Game (3DS)
Update (6/26/2020): Added War for Cybertron Second Look, Dark of the Moon (PS3) Second Look, Fall of Cybertron Second Look, Dark of the Moon (Film) Second Look, Rise of the Dark Spark Second Look
Update (7/2/2020): Updated Transformers: Devastation link

Update (11/26/2020): Added Transformers: Prime - One Shall Stand

Update (6/8/2023): Added Age of Extinction and The Last Knight Second Looks, Rise of the Beasts

Update (2/26/2024): Added Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition

Update (9/19/2024): Added Transformers One

Generation One

The Transformers: The Movie (1986) (Second Opinion) (Second Look)

Possible Other G1 Continuity

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (Second Look)

Another Alternate G1 Continuity

Transformers: Devastation

Live-Action Film Series

   

  

Transformers (2007) (Second Look)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Second Look)

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Game) (Second Look)

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Second Opinion) (Second Look)

Transformers: Age of Extinction (Second Opinion) (Second Look)
Transformers: The Last Knight (Second Look)

Possible Movie Micro-Continuity

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (Second Look)

Reboot

Transformers One

Bumblebee

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Animated

Transformers Animated - Transform and Roll Out

Aligned

   

  

 

Transformers: War for Cybertron (Second Look)

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (Second Look)

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Comic)

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Second Opinion) (Second Look)

Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots

Transformers: Prime – Darkness Rising

Transformers: Prime - One Shall Stand

Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising

Aligned Micro-Continuity

Transformers: Prime - The Game (3DS)

 

EarthSpark

 

 

Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition

Thrilling 30 Text

Opening

Today celebrates the 30^th anniversary of Hasbro’s Transformers brand, which has been running continuously since 1984. To commemorate this milestone, Hasbro has been releasing 30 exclusive toys, the first two of which were sold at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con. For those of you who don’t know, the brand had its roots in two Japanese toylines, Diaclone and Microchange, which were conceived as transforming vehicles that would be piloted by humans. When representatives from Hasbro saw these toys on display at a Toy Fair in Japan, a deal was struck to bring the two lines over to American shores. During development, the toys became collectively branded as Transformers, with the concept changed to transforming sentient robots and the toys split between Autobots and Decepticons. To bring this concept to life, another deal was made between Marvel Comics, who would make a comic based on the toys, and Sunbow Productions, who would produce a cartoon series presenting a separate story from the Marvel comics. As for what exactly determines why today marks the anniversary of the brand, that can be traced back to the first issue of Marvel’s Transformers comic, published on May 8, 1984, which is the first piece of Transformers merchandise ever released. The rest, as they say, is history.

Marvel Issue #1, the very first piece of Transformers merchandise.

Though my first exposure to the brand was the Robots in Disguise cartoon, an early 2000’s dub of the Japanese Car Robots series, I have since become a big fan of the franchise, and as such I have reviewed a number of Transformers products on this blog that fall under the appropriate criteria. In our own celebration of the 30-year milestone, below is a list of links to every Transformers movie, game, and comic reviewed on the blog up this point, presented in chronological order and by continuity. (Links to Second Opinions will be posted next to the main review link in parentheses.)

Ending

Here’s hoping the Transformers brand remains strong for years to come. Another live-action Transformers movie, Age of Extinction, is on its way to theaters this June (as of this writing), as is a tie-in game for consoles around the same time, Rise of the Dark Spark, and I hope not only that they see financial success like their predecessors, but also that I have a good time with them.

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