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Solila

2026-05-03T13:00:47Z

Primal primus the second: /* Energon Universe */

: ''Solila is a [[Zertonian]] from the [[Energon Universe]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
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[[File:Skybound-Void Rivals-1-Solila.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Shut up. Don't run away, [[Darak|coward]]. You'll pay for this insult. I'll be back.]]

'''Solila''' is a [[Zertonian]] warrior and pilot. A fierce and capable combatant, she holds herself responsible for the preservation of her people against their enemies, the [[Agorrian]]s. However, she will break with tradition when she sees fit to, whether in allying herself with [[Darak|an Agorrian under dire circumstances]] or abandoning her role as a [[Keeper of the Light]].

==Fiction==
===Energon Universe===
Years ago, Solila and her younger brother [[Proximus|Polada]] were sold by their [[Solila's mother|mother]] to become warriors of Zertonia. Distraught, Polada cried to his sister that he wanted to go home, but Solila slapped him, telling him he couldn't show weakness. Polada struck back at her in a fury, yelling that he wasn't weak. The siblings continued to fight, impressing their new superior officers. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 8|Void Rivals #8}} At some point, Solila was once a member of the Keepers of the Light, a group at odds with the Zertonian Premier [[Zalilak]]. Later, she disavowed them despite once describing herself as its "First Chosen". {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 5|Void Rivals #5}}

In the present day, a comet containing four thousand tons of ice approached the [[Sacred Ring]]. [[Zertonia]] was experiencing a water shortage, and thus Solila was dispatched to intercept the comet in her spacecraft, a [[Star Wing]]. However, the Agorrians had also launched a [[Jump Jet]] to capture the comet, and both ships were caught in the comet's gravity and thrown off course to an unknown planet. Solila explored the planet and found that the Agorrian, Darak, had survived as well and attacked him with her spear.

After Darak got the upper hand in a skirmish, she asked for clemency before he would deliver a fatal blow. They both tentatively formed an alliance, intending to use parts of each other's spacecraft to escape the unknown planet together. However, their first attempt failed, and Solila ran away in despair, not wanting to die next to a mortal enemy. She soon discovered the remains of yet another spacecraft, and she successfully powered it up. However, this was actually the [[Transformer|Cybertronian]] [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], who informed them both that he had to return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], leaving them behind. Solila once again despaired and Darak suggested they could employ the technology in their flight armor and helmets to modifying Darak's ship. They each ignored the taboo about removing their helmets in front of their enemies-only to discover that they were of the same species. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 1|Void Rivals #1}}

Solila listened to Darak tell her about a vision he had, about the origins of the Zertonians, Agorrians, and the Sacred Ring itself, and was convinced that it was [[Zerta]] herself speaking to him. The vision of their shared origins made her reflect on how their war was perhaps a conspiracy, and she was committed to returning to the Sacred Ring with Darak's help. As they assembled their escape craft, Solila became angry with herself for failing to obtain resources for her people and colluding with the enemy, but Darak's pragmatic demeanor gave her some temporary relief. Their makeshift spacecraft escaped the unknown planet, but was soon captured by the [[Skuxxoid]] and his [[Rockeroid]]. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 2|Void Rivals #2}}

Solila took point in the brief battle against the Skuxxoid, holding her own by remote controlling her spear. Darak was surprised by her battle prowess, well beyond what he expected for a pilot. She helped the wounded Darak escape deep into the Rockeroid, where they teamed up against a [[Quintesson Scorpia|mechanical scorpion-like machine]] and ultimately destroyed it. As if that weren't enough, they came across a [[Quintesson Prosecutor|Quintesson]] who offered them a way off the Rockeroid if they worked together against the Skuxxoid. However, the Skuxxoid later found that Solila and Darak had no bounties and thus no longer had any interest in them. To the Quintesson's chagrin, they made a deal with the Skuxxoid, trading the rare metals in their makeshift ship for a [[Nebulan|Nebulos]] transport ship, and they escaped together.

Solila and Darak made a deal to each go to their respective peoples and share their revelations, though Solila had her private doubts in the face of Darak's optimism that it would go over well. When they reached the Sacred Ring, Solila thanked Darak for choosing cooperation instead of aggression—and immediately delivered an electric shock to him, rendering him unconscious. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 3|Void Rivals #3}}

After convincing Darak's [[Handroid]] to stop resisting, Solila landed on Zertonia. Darak regained consciousness, and was more disappointed than surprised by Solila's betrayal. She confessed that she considered him neither friend nor enemy-but at best, a rival. She warned Darak to not divulge any details of their revelation if he valued his life.

Prostrating before Premier Zalilak, she begged forgiveness for failing to capture the comet, but Zalilak assured her that capturing an Agorrian was a worthy substitute, since he could be ransomed for resources. She expressed relief that Darak would be unharmed, and that was enough to pique Zalilak's curiosity. She confessed that she and Darak had seen each other's faces, and was immediately incarcerated with Darak himself. Enduring Darak's taunts, she revealed that Zalilak already had been aware of the secret of their species. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 4|Void Rivals #4}}

Solila was bleak about their shared fate: she was confident that they would both be killed to preserve the secret that they uncovered. She could only apologize and watch helplessly as Darak was drugged and dragged from their cell for interrogation. Solila barely had time to react to this when Mistress [[Vill]] and two other members of the Keepers of the Light arrived in secret. Vill expressed disappointment in Solila's naivete and her abandonment of the order. Solila only had harsh words in reply, calling her a witch and zealot. Vill expressed disdain that Solila espoused Zalilak's path but revealed that she came not to admonish, but to save her from death: she gives Solila [[Key to Vector Theta|a key]], containing both the circular Agorrian symbol and the triangular Zertonian symbol. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 5|Void Rivals #5}}

As Solila pondered the key she'd been given, Kanela entered her cell wearing [[Blast Trooper]] armor, offering her freedom. Despite being skeptical of Kanela's support, Solila donned Kanela's extra set of armor and they escaped the cell in disguise. Upon reaching the [[Unifier]] underground, Solila was surprised to see that Darak had orchestrated her escape, even if she would not have reciprocated had their positions been swapped. Having rescued Solila, Kanela required Darak to uphold his end of the deal: reach their counterparts in the Agorran resistance and deliver data to them so that communications could be re-established between their camps. Solila reasoned that only death awaited her if she stayed, so she joined Darak and the Unifiers, despite Kanela's distrust of her.

The group moved out onto the streets of Zertonia, heading towards a [[Blastwing]] that had been prepared for them, which increased Solila's skepticism. Solila told Darak that everything she had done—including her betrayal of him—had been done to alleviate the poverty and destitution around them. Upon reaching the Blastwing, the group was besieged. The junior Unifier [[Ultum]], whose mother was missing, had betrayed the group under the promise that she would be found. Solila teamed up with Darak again and quickly commandeered a [[Slip Rider]], escaping further into the north. After another sighting, they are forced to reach the [[Wasteland (EU)|Wasteland]] that separates Zertonia and Agorra. Darak asked if she trusted him, and she said yes. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 6|Void Rivals #6}}

Handroid notes that their quickest path across the Wastelands would take three months, but they have only weeks' worth of supplies. Darak tells Handroid and Solila that they just need to make it halfway, and the duo begin their long trek. During their journey, they discuss Darak's vision, with Solila believing he was chosen by [[Zerta Trion|Zerta]]. While camping for the night, Solila secretly examines the key she was given by Mistress Vill... who, back in Zertonia, senses that Solila is on the path to her destiny. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 7|Void Rivals #7}}

Solila tells Darak that there is someone Zalilak could send after them, and asks what awaits them in the center of the wastelands. Darak says his memory is hazy, but calls it an "oasis" of sorts. Later, an energy arrow lands in front of them and explodes. Solila panics as she sees [[Proximus]] approach. The pair try to fend off the hunter, but Solila tells Darak to simply run, as she doesn't believe either can survive facing Proximus. Darak refuses but is swiftly knocked out. Solila manages to impale Proximus with her spear, infuriating him and causing him to choke her in retaliation. A solar windstorm sends all three across the wastelands, sending the two rivals away from Proximus. Proximus throws her spear into the wind, striking Solila. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 8|Void Rivals #8}}

Darak rushes to the aid of Solila, who has miraculously survived getting impaled with her spear. Solila retracts the spear into her own body to stop the bleeding, but she eventually collapses from blood loss. Upon reaching Darak's "oasis", the [[Autobot]] [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] transforms from vehicle mode to robot mode, offering aid, although when he realizes they're organics, he's unsure how to assist. Proximus attacks once again, causing Springer to grab his sword. The two duel each other while Darak tends to Solila, causing Darak to discover the mysterious key she possesses. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 9|Void Rivals #9}} Solila springs to life and throttles Darak, telling him not to touch the key before collapsing again. Proximus ultimately flees the area after being defeated by Springer, allowing Springer to take the two into his underground lab.

When Darak removes his helmet, Springer is shocked to see the [[mind eye]] crystal on his forehead, which he recognizes as an [[Energon]] port. Realizing Solila has the same, Springer pours some of his Energon supply into the crystal. Solila awakens to find herself glowing pink as her body absorbs the Energon, to the astonishment of Darak and Springer. Springer explains that Energon is the fuel and food of the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and that while the Agorrians and Zertonians are indeed organic, their physiology has elements of a synthetic nature that appears to be Cybertronian in origin. He also reveals that the Sacred Ring itself is an engine that generates its own Energon, though he doesn’t know why. After Springer explains how the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and dwindling resources led him to search for Zerta Trion, Solila asks to learn more about Zerta, only for their conversation to be interrupted by the appearance of an entire squadron of Zertonian soldiers and weaponry. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 10|Void Rivals #10}}

Springer endeavors to protect Darak and Solila, transforming into helicopter mode to try and escape. However, the gravity of the wastelands proves too strong to achieve lift. Realizing they have nowhere to run, Solila instead decides to engage their attackers, with Springer and Darak providing backup. As the battle turns in their favor, Darak decides to let one of the fleeing Zertonians learn about Energon from Springer. Solila is concerned that Darak would give up his people's advantage, but Darak argues that since learning the truth about themselves, he doesn't see the sides anymore, just the lives of people who need help.

Back at Springer’s lab, Darak asks the Cybertronian for his help getting him and Solila to the Agorrian border, but Solila reluctantly informs Darak that this is where they must part ways. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 11|Void Rivals #11}} As she prepares to depart on her journey to find Zerta Trion, Darak objects to her going alone. However, Solila insists that if their people are to be reunited, Darak needs to continue to Agorria with Springer and find the Unifiers there. Still not wanting her to face the journey alone, Darak gives her his Handroid, much to the glove’s objections. Solila tells Darak that he reminds her of Polada, and warns him that she doesn’t want him ending up like he did. As they say goodbye, she presses her forehead to his, and their [[mind eye]]s touch. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 12|Void Rivals #12}}

Solila and the Handroid make their way through the cramped interior of the Sacred Ring. Handroid raises concerns about whether Zerta Trion would have even fit through the path, but Solila tells it to just have faith. She later muses to Handroid that she hasn't felt hungry since Springer gave her Energon. As they reach what appears to be the end of the path, Solila simply grabs a pole and jumps into the depths of the planet. She uses the pole to slow her descent against the walls as she nears the bottom and makes her landing. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 13|Void Rivals #13}}

Handroid informs Solila that he doesn't read anything ahead, but Solila feels the light of Zerta guiding her. When they come across three corridors, Solila uses the key Vill gave her to lead her to the right path. Solila and Darak find themselves briefly linked psychically, able to communicate from far distances. Solila asks Darak if he was able to make contact with Kanela's allies. Darak says no, but realizes no one asked him for it, meaning it was likely already found by the Agorrian Unifiers. Darak then informs Solila about Dulin and Zalilak knowing the true nature of their conflict, much to Solila’s shock, but both wake up before they can talk more. Solila tells Handroid about her mental meeting with Darak, and while she doesn't understand how, she accepts it as something Zerta wanted. When the pair reach a dead end on their path, Handroid suggests using the key again, but the floor opens up beneath them before she can, dropping them into a pitch-dark space. {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 14|Void Rivals #14}}

Solila and Handroid continue to fall, not sure when they will hit the bottom until Solila is saved by a green glow that surrounds her and gently touches her to the ground, an intervention she attributes to Zerta. She pulls out the [[Key to Vector Theta|key]], which continues to glow and lead her through the darkness. Following the trail of her key, Solila continues her journey until she spots a small green light in the distance. The key glows brighter as she approaches, finding it to be a small opening, perfectly sized for the key. She places it in the slot, and her view is consumed with the glowing green image of the supercomputer [[Vector Theta]]! The computer has just one question: who reactivated it? {{storylink|Void Rivals issue 15|Void Rivals #15}}
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==Toys==
===''Void Rivals''===
[[File:SDCC 2025 Void Rivals box set.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|right|Looks like the Void Rivals are entering the third dimension.]]
*'''[[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Void Rivals|Autobot Jetfire]], Zertonian Solila and [[Darak#Void Rivals|Agorrian Darak]]''' (Multi-pack, [[July 24]], [[2025]])
**''Accessories'': Spear, stand
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro)}}<ref>[[July 25]], [[2025]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T18IQaMuGVk Transformers Brand Panel Recap | SDCC 2025 | Hasbro Pulse] on YouTube, with [[Mark Maher]], [[Evan Brooks]] and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref>

:Released as part of a [[San Diego Comic-Con#2025|San Diego Comic-Con 2025]] exclusive set riffing on her first appearance, this 3.75" figure of Solila is rendered in classical ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]''-style "O-ring" format with a similar [[Darak#Void Rivals|Darak]] along with [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Void Rivals|Jetfire]] in the form of a redeco of [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|his ''Siege'' figure]] and an umpteenth reprinting of [[Void Rivals issue 1|''Void Rivals'' #1]] with an exclusive new cover by brand mainstay [[Marcelo Matere]]. She includes a small display stand that attaches to the bottom of her feet.

:This figure shares the legs and waist of ''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' [[Baroness#Collaborative|Baroness]].

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==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Solila.jpg
</gallery>
==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Pilots]]
[[Category:Void Rivals characters]]
[[Category:Zertonians]]

Void Rivals issue 8

2026-03-25T18:49:13Z

Primal primus the second:

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|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[April 2]], [[2024]]
|coverdate=April 2024
|written by=[[Robert Kirkman]]
|art by=[[Lorenzo De Felici]]
|colors by=[[Patricio Delpeche]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editor=[[Ben Abernathy]]
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'''Darak and Solila find that the dangers of the wastelands are nothing compared to the might of Proximus.'''

==Synopsis==
''Years ago, [[Solila]] and her younger brother [[Proximus|Polada]] are sold by their mother to become warriors of [[Zertonia]]. Distraught, Polada cries to his sister that he wants to go home, but Solila slaps him, telling him he can't show weakness. Polada strikes back at her in a fury, yelling that he isn't weak. The siblings continue to fight, impressing their new superior officers...''

In the present, [[Darak]] and Solila continue their journey across the wastelands. Solila tells Darak that there is someone [[Zalilak]] could send after them, if he were reckless enough. [[Handroid]] suggests the two make camp for the night, and Solila asks what awaits them in the center of the wastes. Darak says his memory is hazy, but calls it an oasis of sorts.

As the rivals continue their journey, they hear a faint whistling approaching them. An energy arrow lands in front of them and explodes. Solila panics as she sees [[Proximus]] approach. The pair try to fend off the hunter, but Solila tells Darak to simply run, as she doesn't believe either can survive facing Proximus. Darak refuses; what kind of hero would he be if he ran? Unfortunately, his bravado is met with a swift kick from Proximus, knocking him out. Proximus seems to recognize Solila, but continues his attack. With Darak still unconcious, Handroid fires at Proximus to distract him, allowing Solila to impale him on her spear, infuriating Proximus. As he begins to choke her in retaliation, a solar windstorm picks up, sending all three careening across the land. As the winds sweep the two rivals away, Proximus removes the spear from his chest and hurls it into the wind.

Darak wakes up, hopeful that the winds have taken Proximus away from them. Handroid confirms this, and detects Solila nearby. Darak searches for her and finds her in a nearby rock formation… impaled upon her own spear!

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|h4=[[Agorrian]]s|c4=
* [[Darak]] (3)

|h5=[[Zertonian]]s|c5=
* ''[[Proximus|Polada]]'' (1)
* [[Solila]] (2)
* [[Proximus]] (5)

|h6=Others||c6=
* [[Handroid]] (4)
}}

==Quotes==
"''Run!'' That's the only way you survive this. If I manage to get away from him--I'll find you!" 
"Then what kind of hero would I be?" 
"An ''alive'' one."
:—'''Solila''' and '''Darak'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Solila invokes [[Zerta]], the deity of the Zertonians who has been frequently mentioned throughout the series ever since [[Void Rivals issue 2|issue #2]].

===Real-world references===
* Proximus being an archer with arrows that can change trajectory mid-air calls to mind [[wikia:marvel:Yondu Undonta (Earth-691)|Yondu Undonta]] from [[Marvel Comics]].
* The rendering of his arrows' energy trails is reminiscent of the Omega Effect used by [[DC Comics]]' [[Wikia:dc:Darkseid (disambiguation)|Darkseid]].

===Covers (6)===
* '''Cover A:''' Proximus attacks Darak and Solila, by [[Lorenzo De Felici]].
* '''Cover B:''' Darak and Solila run from the visage of Proximus, by [[Fran Galán]].
* '''Cover C (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Proximus grasps his prey by their necks, by [[André Lima Araújo]] and [[Chris O'Halloran]].
* '''Cover D (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Solila stares down Proximus, by [[Qistina Khalidah]].
* '''Cover E (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Proximus fires from his bow, by [[Rod Reis]].
* '''Second Printing Cover:''' by [[Jason Howard]].

<gallery>
File:Void Rivals 8 Cover A.jpg
File:Void Rivals 8 Cover B.jpg
File:Void Rivals 8 Cover C.jpg
File:Void Rivals 8 Cover D.jpg
File:Void Rivals 8 Cover E.jpg
File:Void Rivals 8 2nd Ptg Cover.jpg
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
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===Reprints===
* '''''Void Rivals Volume 2: Hunted Across the Wasteland''''' ([[September 18]], [[2024]]) ISBN 1534328378 / ISBN 978-1534328372 
** Collects issues #7–12.
** Trade paperback format.

<gallery>
File:Void Rivals V2.jpg|'''''Volume 2: Hunted Across the Wasteland''''' – cover art by Lorenzo De Felici
</gallery>

==External links==

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Void Rivals issues]]

Void Rivals issue 8

2026-03-25T18:48:43Z

Primal primus the second:

{{Comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Void Rivals]]'' #8
|prev=Void Rivals issue 7
|next=Void Rivals Energon Universe 2024 Special story
|prev2=
|image=Void Rivals 8 Cover A.jpg
|caption=Looks like the Void Rivals are getting their asses kicked.
|title=
|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[April 2]], [[2024]]
|coverdate=April 2024
|written by=[[Robert Kirkman]]
|art by=[[Lorenzo De Felici]]
|colors by=[[Patricio Delpeche]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editor=[[Ben Abernathy]]
|continuity=[[Energon Universe]]
|chronology=
}}

'''Darak and Solila find that the dangers of the wastelands are nothing compared to the might of Proximus.'''

==Synopsis==
''Years ago, [[Solila]] and her younger brother [[Polada|Proximus]] are sold by their mother to become warriors of [[Zertonia]]. Distraught, Polada cries to his sister that he wants to go home, but Solila slaps him, telling him he can't show weakness. Polada strikes back at her in a fury, yelling that he isn't weak. The siblings continue to fight, impressing their new superior officers...''

In the present, [[Darak]] and Solila continue their journey across the wastelands. Solila tells Darak that there is someone [[Zalilak]] could send after them, if he were reckless enough. [[Handroid]] suggests the two make camp for the night, and Solila asks what awaits them in the center of the wastes. Darak says his memory is hazy, but calls it an oasis of sorts.

As the rivals continue their journey, they hear a faint whistling approaching them. An energy arrow lands in front of them and explodes. Solila panics as she sees [[Proximus]] approach. The pair try to fend off the hunter, but Solila tells Darak to simply run, as she doesn't believe either can survive facing Proximus. Darak refuses; what kind of hero would he be if he ran? Unfortunately, his bravado is met with a swift kick from Proximus, knocking him out. Proximus seems to recognize Solila, but continues his attack. With Darak still unconcious, Handroid fires at Proximus to distract him, allowing Solila to impale him on her spear, infuriating Proximus. As he begins to choke her in retaliation, a solar windstorm picks up, sending all three careening across the land. As the winds sweep the two rivals away, Proximus removes the spear from his chest and hurls it into the wind.

Darak wakes up, hopeful that the winds have taken Proximus away from them. Handroid confirms this, and detects Solila nearby. Darak searches for her and finds her in a nearby rock formation… impaled upon her own spear!

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|h4=[[Agorrian]]s|c4=
* [[Darak]] (3)

|h5=[[Zertonian]]s|c5=
* ''[[Polada]]'' (1)
* [[Solila]] (2)
* [[Proximus]] (5)

|h6=Others||c6=
* [[Handroid]] (4)
}}

==Quotes==
"''Run!'' That's the only way you survive this. If I manage to get away from him--I'll find you!" 
"Then what kind of hero would I be?" 
"An ''alive'' one."
:—'''Solila''' and '''Darak'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Solila invokes [[Zerta]], the deity of the Zertonians who has been frequently mentioned throughout the series ever since [[Void Rivals issue 2|issue #2]].

===Real-world references===
* Proximus being an archer with arrows that can change trajectory mid-air calls to mind [[wikia:marvel:Yondu Undonta (Earth-691)|Yondu Undonta]] from [[Marvel Comics]].
* The rendering of his arrows' energy trails is reminiscent of the Omega Effect used by [[DC Comics]]' [[Wikia:dc:Darkseid (disambiguation)|Darkseid]].

===Covers (6)===
* '''Cover A:''' Proximus attacks Darak and Solila, by [[Lorenzo De Felici]].
* '''Cover B:''' Darak and Solila run from the visage of Proximus, by [[Fran Galán]].
* '''Cover C (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Proximus grasps his prey by their necks, by [[André Lima Araújo]] and [[Chris O'Halloran]].
* '''Cover D (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Solila stares down Proximus, by [[Qistina Khalidah]].
* '''Cover E (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Proximus fires from his bow, by [[Rod Reis]].
* '''Second Printing Cover:''' by [[Jason Howard]].

<gallery>
File:Void Rivals 8 Cover A.jpg
File:Void Rivals 8 Cover B.jpg
File:Void Rivals 8 Cover C.jpg
File:Void Rivals 8 Cover D.jpg
File:Void Rivals 8 Cover E.jpg
File:Void Rivals 8 2nd Ptg Cover.jpg
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
* 4-page preview of ''Universal Monsters: Creature From the Black Lagoon Lives!''
* Explore the Energon Universe in ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 7|#7]], ''[[Cobra Commander (comic)|Cobra Commander]]'' [[Cobra Commander issue 4|#4]], and ''[[Duke (comic)|Duke]]'' [[Duke issue 5|#5]].

===Reprints===
* '''''Void Rivals Volume 2: Hunted Across the Wasteland''''' ([[September 18]], [[2024]]) ISBN 1534328378 / ISBN 978-1534328372 
** Collects issues #7–12.
** Trade paperback format.

<gallery>
File:Void Rivals V2.jpg|'''''Volume 2: Hunted Across the Wasteland''''' – cover art by Lorenzo De Felici
</gallery>

==External links==

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Void Rivals issues]]

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2026-03-16T19:19:10Z

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Micromaster

2026-01-27T18:47:41Z

Primal primus the second: /* War for Cybertron: Siege */

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'''Micromasters''' (or '''MicroMasters'''<ref>''Universe'' and ''Cybertron'' packaging.</ref>) are Transformers with small and extremely fuel-efficient bodies. Some were created that way, others were created as ordinary Transformers (or [[Macromaster|guzzlers]], as Micromasters sometimes call normal-sized Transformers) and rebuilt into Micromasters. Transforming into ([[Scale#Undersized alternate modes|usually]]) tiny cars, planes, and other vehicles, they are depicted as roughly human-sized in robot mode in most continuities.

Some Micromasters are also [[Combiner]]s. One kind are the '''[[Micromaster Combiner]]s''', who can each form either the front or back half of a combined vehicle. They are not constrained to joining only with their Combiner partner; they can join with any other as well as to the back of any [[Micro Trailer]]. In addition, there are the '''[[Combi-Micromaster]]s''', who combine into another humanoid robot. No character has ever been specifically designated as one, but the description at least fits the members of the [[Multiforce]].

The Multiforce have another name all their own, namely '''DX Micromasters'''. What exactly a DX Micromaster ''is'' has never been explained. Perhaps it's a Micromaster who is [[Action Master Elite|no longer small and extremely fuel efficient]]?

==Fiction==
===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
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[[File:Generic decepticon 3 marvel uk 230.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Makin' Micromasters!]]
The Micromasters were created by the Autobots as a downsizing means to increase fuel efficiency. ''Though at first the technology was created by the Autobots, the Decepticons were able to capture and study the [[Battle Patrol]] to learn the secrets themselves, and the first Decepticon Micromasters were born.'' {{storylink|A Small War!}}

''The Micromasters served under [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]], with [[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]] acting as one of the base's medics.'' {{storylink|Demons!}} {{storylink|Dawn of Darkness}}

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Two of the Micromaster squads were deployed to Earth to assist [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s forces, but they quickly went their own way. {{storylink|King Con!}} Soon they had all but integrated into [[New York City]] society, their small size allowing them to interact easily with humans. Only the arrival on Earth of the Decepticon [[Air Strike Patrol]] shook them loose from this position. {{storylink|The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!}}

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The Air Strike Patrol soon proved to have ulterior motives for coming to Earth, as they, along with the [[Sports Car Patrol]], were working for [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Back from the Dead}} While the Air Strike Patrol manipulated [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and Optimus Prime into a battle, the Sports Car Patrol kidnapped [[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] and laid explosives aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. {{storylink|The Resurrection Gambit!}} [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]] wasn't able to maintain control of the Ark, however, and the rest of the patrol were defeated by [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]'s [[Pretender]] team. {{storylink|All the Familiar Faces!}} {{storylink|Skin Deep}}

The Micromaster Autobots continued to play roles in the Autobot insurgency on Cybertron, though the [[Rescue Patrol (G1)|Rescue Patrol]] prepared to leave for Earth. A teleportation accident transported them to the center of Cybertron, {{storylink|Yesterday's Heroes!}} where they nearly but not quite managed to defeat the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] with help from their larger brethren. {{storylink|The Primal Scream|Primal Scream}}

''Having arrived on Earth, the Rescue Patrol tangled with the Air Strike Patrol before Optimus Prime called them off upon realising how much damage their battle was causing to the planet's environment.'' {{storylink|The Greatest Gift of All!}}

The Air Strike Patrol would eventually meet their fate in [[Louisiana]] at the hands of a pissed-off [[Dynamo|mutant oil rig worker]]. {{storylink|The Human Factor!}}

In the absence of Ratchet, Fixit served as the chief medic aboard the Ark. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}} {{storylink|The Pri¢e of Life!}}

''A few of the Micromasters were still active many years later, when the Autobots followed the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] to [[Hydrus Four]] to rescue them and prevent the resurrection of Megatron.'' {{storylink|Another Time & Place}}

====Earthforce====
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Grumpy old fogeys [[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Wheeljack]] moaned about all the confusing new [[to sell toys|types of Transformers]] in the war, Micromasters among them. {{storylink|Starting Over!}} One such Micromaster, [[Stakeout (G1)|Stakeout]], was part of the "new age" who attended [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s meeting with [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] about his old-school violent methods. Poor Stakeout was stuck under the table, unseen until Grimlock chucked it at the wall. {{storylink|Break-Away!}}

===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
[[File:Liner team.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5|The Liner Team make themselves at home on Earth.]]
"Micro" Cybertronians fall into three separate classifications: '''Micromasters''' (マイクロトランスフォーマー ''Micro Transformer''), small but otherwise normal Transformers; '''Micromaster Sixteams''' (マイクロマスター ''Micromaster''), who can combine in groups of six into larger robots; and '''[[Mini-Con]]s''' (マイクロン ''Micron''), who convert into weapons and equipment for larger Transformers to wield.

The story of these tiny Transformers began during the four-million-year period that followed [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s departure from Cybertron. A large number of the planet's non-transforming Autobot "[[Cyberdroid]]" population, unable to contribute to the war effort in any meaningful way due to their diminutive height and lack of conversion capabilities, decided instead to leave their homeworld and search for Optimus and the lost [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Most of their number were placed in hibernation capsules for the long space voyage, but this did not protect them from what was to come: partway into their journey, the Cyberdroids' ship was stuck by a dimensional shockwave, which catapulted them across the galaxy to the planet [[Earth]] in the early 1980s. The shockwave mutated and evolved their tiny bodies, granting them the ability to transform, but it also corrupted the minds of several of the crew, turning them into Decepticons. Adopting Earthly vehicular forms to hide on the strange new planet they now found themselves on, the Autobot Micromaster [[Sixliner|Liner Team]] and [[Sixturbo|Turbo Team]] searched Earth for any sign of Optimus Prime, while simultaneously working to awaken the still-hibernating forms of their brethren before the Decepticon Micromaster [[Sixwing|Wing Team]] could seize the capsules and convert the tiny 'bots within to the side of evil. {{storylink|The Transformers: Micromaster}} Precisely how the Micromasters' conflict on Earth played out is unknown; Optimus and Megatron's forces awoke a few years after they arrived, and no information has been divulged about what happened to the Micromasters during this time. In the year 2035, however, the teams seen active during the early 80s conflict were once again operative on Earth, defending it against the forces of Decepticon High Regent [[Scrash (G1)|Scrash]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (story page)|Operation Combination}}
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In the intervening years, former Autobot commander [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] took the other Micromasters under his command, becoming a Micromaster himself. Together, they decamped to another planet and built their own civilization, naming it after themselves: [[Micro|Planet Micro]]. Some elected to remain with the Autobots to help them continue the war, adopting weapon and equipment alternate modes and partnering up with larger 'bots: known examples of these "Mini-Cons" include [[Phaser (G1)|Phaser]] and [[Groundshaker (Legends)|Groundshaker]], partnered with [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] and [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]], respectively. {{storylink|Transformers 2015 Tailgate/G1 Mini-Con Chapter|Tailgate/G1 Mini-Con Chapter}}

By the year 2025, Micro had become a thriving, technologically advanced world overseen by Branch Chief [[Raikuru]], and even had representatives [[Holi]], [[Pīpō]], [[Fire]] and [[Boater]] serving in the Autobot army under [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (cartoon)|Transformers: Victory}} [[File:TFZone storypage1.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5]] The development of [[Energon Z]] on Micro led to a military reinforcement program that saw the planet overhauled, refitted with a variety of new defense systems, and renamed "Zone". With the planet's new strategic importance in the renewed war against supernatural enemies like [[Violengiguar]] and [[Dark Nova]], many high-ranking Autobots adopted alternate forms that could be used by Micromasters, like the [[Powered Master]]s and the [[Battlestars]], who each also took on a personal Micromaster partner. {{storylink|Transformers: Zone (franchise)|Transformers: Zone}} {{storylink|Transformers: Return of Convoy (franchise)|Return of Convoy}} The Micromasters' primary role was to make contact with other planets and races for the betterment of all; presumably their small, non-threatening forms were important in this task. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)#Part 5|''Zone'' story page #5}}

Following Dark Nova's defeat, the Autobot [[Air Patrol|Sky Patrol Team]] were chosen for the Autobots' [[Power Core Combination]] process. Three of their number were upgraded into full-size "[[Master Class]]" Transformer bodies able to combine with drone units to form even larger, more powerful robots. Unfortunately, while he did not undergo the process, team leader [[Eagle Eye (G1)|Eagle Eye]] defected to the Decepticons and took knowledge of the new technology with him, enabling the villains to create their own "[[Master Chaos]]" warriors, who were then used by Scrash in his 2035 campaign. {{storylink|Transformers United EX}}

Having begun life as Autobots, this is the allegiance most "Micro" 'bots retain. Aside from those turned into Decepticons by the dimensional shockwave, and the teams that those converts then themselves converted (who would all apparently regain their original Autobot allegiance by 2035 anyway), and the defector Eagle Eye, there is only one known Decepticon Micromaster team: the [[Race Track Patrol|Race Track Patrol Team]], who were known to have willingly betrayed their Autobot comrades and joined Violengiguar's forces. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)#Part 5|''Zone'' story page #9}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
Micromaster technology was developed over 3.5 million years ago in response to the dwindling energy resources on Cybertron. With Autobot and Decepticon soldiers shutting down across the planet, both sides got to work developing smaller, energy-efficient bodies for the sake of continuing the war. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye #8}} At the earliest stages, this involved downsizing troops. However, the process was unrefined, posing a danger to applicants, and worse than that, inefficient.

[[File:DW MM 4a.jpg|thumb|Cover art is better. Trust us.]]
It was Shockwave who suggested the idea of both sides pooling resources to try and create new soldiers, before letting them choose which side they wanted to take. Somehow not suspecting the leader of the Decepticons of any ulterior motive, the Autobots agreed. Using whatever energy they could scrounge together, and with Shockwave secretly using [[Vector Sigma]] itself, a great many Micromasters were created, before being sequestered in a city named "Little Iacon" to acclimate to life on Cybertron. {{storylink|Destined for Nothing}} As part of the cross-factional experiment, both sides put the new 'bots through a joint training program during which they learned about both factions, allowing them to choose which one to join. {{storylink|Victims of the Revolution}}

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Data on a [[Golden Disk (Paradron)|Golden Disk]] discovered on [[Paradron]] had predicted this development, causing [[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]] to wonder if becoming Micromasters to better interact with the universe's smaller beings was the Transformers' destiny. {{storylink|Recipe for Hate}}

Of course, the program soon fell apart, and Little Iacon fell into rioting, later labeled the "Meltdown Riots" by the Micromasters, {{storylink|Victims of the Revolution}} with both sides swooping in to grab whoever they could. This resulted in a generation of new Autobots and Decepticons hesitant to fight against those they'd been friends with, for a cause that only saw them as another step in the war. Little Iacon soon degenerated into a ghetto for the Micromasters to hang out and ignore the war entirely.

Over time, friction began to grow between some of the Micromasters and the "Guzzlers". The Decepticons, to no-one's surprise, frequently bullied or belittled their smaller comrades, often finding ways to deprive them of Energon. {{storylink|Destined for Nothing}} Or in some cases, just killed them for the small amount of Energon they carried. {{storylink|The Gray Race}}

By the time Countdown and Groundshaker returned from Operation: Containment, most of the "first-gen" Micromasters were dead. {{storylink|The Gray Race}}

On his return to Cybertron, the ambitious Skystalker tried to engineer the deaths of the larger mechanoids, only for his nemesis Countdown to talk them into presenting a unified front against the Decepticons. Once that was over, Countdown feared the brief alliance would disintegrate. His attempts at talking Big Daddy into helping maintain it went nowhere, though. {{storylink|Victims of the Revolution}}

===2005 IDW continuity===

[[File:Spotlight Nightbeat Detour and Blackjack.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|[[:File:BlackjackRecruited.jpg|Let's pretend this didn't happen...]]]]

The Micromasters were the results of [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] modifying the [[Gorlamite|organic inhabitants]] of [[Gorlam Prime]] to be able to exist in both the [[universe (universe)|universe]] and [[Dead Universe]] in anticipation of the [[Expansion]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}} The [[Sports Car Patrol]] confronted [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] beneath Gorlam Prime. {{storylink|Spotlight: Nightbeat}} Nightbeat and [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] returned to find the population frozen in a transitional, [[technorganic]] state. They were pursued by many Micromasters. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}} Jhiaxus' Micromaster lackeys were last seen being dismembered by [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]. The inhabitants of Gorlam Prime eventually emerged from their chrysalis state in new, apparently wholly mechanical, bodies. They renamed their planet '''Cybertron'''. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

Then a few years later, the entire population of "Cybertron" was lured into the Dead Universe and eaten by [[D-Void]]. Oh well. {{storylink|Heart of Darkness issue 2|Heart of Darkness #2}}

Meanwhile, the inhabitants of [[Devisiun (planet)|Devisiun]] evolved into a civilization of [[Micromaster Combiner|small combining twins]]. While linked to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s mind, [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] caught a glimpse of [[Fireshot]] and [[Vanquish]] separating from each other on their homeworld. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}} Along with several other Cybertronian colonies, they were instrumental in the formation of the [[Council of Worlds]]. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}

===Fun Publications ''Shattered Glass'' continuity===
[[File:SGRazorclawRicochet DoOver.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|[[Razorclaw (SG)|Razorclaw]], a Decepticon Micromaster, and Ricochet with his Targetmaster partner [[Nightstick (SG)|Nightstick]]]]
Micromasters were an innovation of the Decepticons during the war, refitting bots with more efficient bodies using new engineering techniques that used less materials and smaller parts. [[Whisper (SG)|Whisper]] [[Nightflight (SG)|and]] [[Storm Cloud (SG)|his]] [[Tailwind (SG)|brothers]] were among the first generation of Micromasters. These Decepticon Micromasters were nicknamed "[[Mini-Con|Mini-Cons]]", as in "mini-Decepticon". {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25|Whisper's profile in Club magazine #25}} A number of Micromasters were paired up with larger Decepticons, like Whisper with [[Sideswipe (SG)|Sideswipe]] and [[Astrotrain (SG)|Astrotrain's]] team. The Autobots would later develop their own Micromasters, and [[Ricochet (SG)|Ricochet]] would innovate the process by creating [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]], Micromasters who possessed a third weapon mode that allowed them to be wielded (or control) larger bots. {{storylink|Do Over}} Both this universe's incarnations of the [[Predacon (SG)|Predacons]] and the components of [[Superion (SG)|Superion]] were Micromasters. {{storylink|Memory's Splinter}}

===''Wings Universe''===
With Cybertron's energies dwindling, the [[Micromaster Initiative]] arose as a solution to the planet's energy woes. The Micromaster [[Cop-Tur (G1)|Cop-Tur]] teamed up with [[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]] to spread the word of this initiative and convinced [[Flak (G1)|Flak]] into joining them. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] developed Micromaster technology during the war, shortly before seizing leadership of the Decepticons from [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]. {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}} As fuel supplies ran low, both sides began substituting Micromasters in favor of full-sized units. {{storylink|Identity Politics}}

[[File:Micro-Aggressions HotRodGrimlock.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|Face it, you always wanted to see this.]]

Eventually, however, the war was called to a close. With the full-sized Autobots and Decepticons too exhausted and fuel-inefficient to fight, the Micromasters were some of the only [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]] still capable of independent movement. The Builders looked down on the Micromasters as a new manual and military class, and though they were still considered Builders, Micromasters were not initially allowed to serve on the Builder Assembly. {{storylink|Identity Politics}} As energy rations ran low, the Micromasters founded "[[Micropolis]]", a permanent cross-factional conglomeration of Micromaster bases which eventually grew into a full-fledged, Micromaster-scaled city. Hot Rod was one of the very few Builders to undergo the downsizing process. Inspired by his example, members of the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s, [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s, and [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]]s would do the same over the next seventy years. As a consequence of the low energy supplies, all Micromasters were kept at a quarter of full energon rations. {{storylink|Micro-Aggressions}}

When the Maximals and Predacons appeared on the scene, the Micromasters were made superior to their more energy-efficient successors. In instances where both sides went off-world, Micromasters served as political officers, making sure both toed the line while making sure neither worked together. {{storylink|Intersectionality}} Additionally Micromasters served as guards on important facilities such as [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] or the Forever Vaults, rather than Maximals or Predacons. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}} {{storylink|Head Games}} {{storylink|Micro-Aggressions}} When the [[Grand Uprising]] began, all Micromasters got bumped up to half-rations to better combat the growing [[Resistance (BWU)|Resistance]]. {{storylink|Micro-Aggressions}} The various Micromaster armies were pushed back all across Cybertron by [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron's]] [[Beast mode|Beast Upgrade]]. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}} The war between [[Resistance (BWU)|Resistance]] and Builder took an unexpected turn when [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]] were introduced to the mix. Under [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]'s command, the surviving Micromasters allied themselves with the [[Army of the Resistance]] to fend off the attack. After the conclusion of the first [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], full-sized Builders were almost extinct, but Micromasters remained to carry on their legacy alongside the Maximals and Predacons. {{storylink|Derailment}}
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===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
====Shell Game continuity====
Micromasters such as [[Beta Maxx (RID)|Beta Maxx]] were constructed millions of years ago, during the planet's [[Golden Age]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/30}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
====Ask Vector Prime====
In [[Aurex 1104.30-DB Zeta]], [[Brian Jones|Dr. Jones]] reverse-engineered [[combiner]] technology and applied it to a number of Mini-Cons. The upgrade changed them into Micromasters, an entirely new breed of Cybertronian life. However, the Decepticons stole this upgrade and used it to create their own team of Micromasters, who combined to form [[Devastator (Universe Micromaster)|Devastator]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 31/7/2015}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Vector Prime]] observed the many similarities between [[Mini-Con]]s, Micromasters, and [[Cyberdroid]]s, and noted that, due to [[trans-dimensional harmonic resonance]], a Mini-Con might have identical counterparts who belonged to one of these other groups in other universal clusters, while small Autobots like [[Minimus Ambus]] had Mini-Con, Micromaster, and Cyberdroid counterparts elsewhere in the [[multiverse]]. More than once, Vector opined that the distinction between the three subgroups boiled down to linguistics—in his opinion, different realities used different names to describe the same core concept. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/20}} {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/07}}

===''TransTech''===
The first Mini-Cons who arrived in [[Axiom Nexus]] were misidentified as Micromasters. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/09}}

===Full-sized Micromasters===
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For various reasons, Micromaster characters have occasionally shown up in ''Transformers'' fiction as full-sized robots in scale with regular Cybertronians.

*[[Flak (G1)|Flak]] and [[Sunrunner (G1)|Sunrunner]] in Marvel Comics' UK story, ''[[Aspects of Evil!|Aspects of Evil]]''
*[[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]], [[Groundshaker (G1)|Groundshaker]], and [[Skyhopper]] in Dreamwave's [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Generation 1 comics]]
*Flak, [[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]], [[Vanquish]], [[Terror-Tread]], [[Cement-Head]], and [[Tread Bolt]] in the ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wingsverse]]''
*[[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]], [[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]], [[Tailwind (G1)|Tailwind]], [[Barricade (G1)|Barricade]], [[Grit]], [[Knockout (G1)|Knockout]], Vanquish, [[Stakeout (G1)|Stakeout]], [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]], [[Oiler]], and [[Slide]] in IDW's [[2005 IDW continuity|2005-2018 comics]]
*[[Big Daddy (SG)|Big Daddy]] in ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''
*The [[Battle Squad]] in ''[[The Transformers: Regeneration One|Regeneration One]]''
*Tread Bolt, [[Sky High (Micromaster)|Sky High]], and [[Blaze Master]] as [[Master Class]] in ''[[Transformers United EX|United EX]]''
*[[Whisper (G1)#2019 IDW continuity|Visper]], [[Storm Cloud (G1)#2019 IDW continuity|Storm Cloud]], [[Flak (G1)|Flak]], [[Stakeout (G1)|Stakeout]], [[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]], [[Hyperdrive (Micromaster)|Hyperdrive]], [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]], [[Tracer (Micromaster)|Tracer]], [[Skystalker (G1)|Skystalker]], and [[Neutro|Groundbuster]] in IDW's [[2019 IDW continuity|2019 comics]]
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==Games==

===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] said he trusted [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] about as far as a Micromaster could throw him. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Networking}}{{Charstubgames|{{Storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}}}
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===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Micromaster technology helped play a part in the development of [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]. {{storylink|Technorganic Secrets}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:89micromaster catalog.jpg|right|upright=1.8|thumb|It [[Transformers: Zone (franchise)|sucked]] to be American.]]
:The Micromasters were first released in the US and European markets in the two final years of the Generation 1 toyline, 1989 and 1990, as a market response to the growing popularity of ''[[Micro Machines]]''. The Generation 1 Micromasters were packaged as Patrols, Squads, Transports, Stations, or Bases.

:Each Micromaster stands about two inches (5 cm) high in robot mode, making them the smallest Transformers released to that point (since surpassed by a few members of the [[Smallest Transforming Transformers]] line). Many share a standardized [[transformation scheme]] of "flip out rear of vehicle to form legs; swing up arms from side." Articulation is generally limited to swiveling shoulders and knee joints (the latter limited by conjoined uni-feet).

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Patrols''' (1989)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Off Road Patrol]] ([[Highjump (G1)|Highjump]], [[Mudslinger (G1)|Mudslinger]], [[Powertrain]], and [[Tote]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Race Car Patrol]] ([[Tailspin]], [[Free Wheeler]], [[Roadhandler (G1)|Roadhandler]], and [[Swindler]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rescue Patrol (G1)|Rescue Patrol]] ([[Seawatch]], [[Stakeout (G1)|Stakeout]], [[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]], and [[Red Hot]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-a1|[[Battle Patrol]] ([[Big Shot]], [[Sidetrack (G1)|Sidetrack]], [[Sunrunner (G1)|Sunrunner]], and [[Flak (G1)|Flak]])}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Strike Patrol]] ([[Nightflight (G1)|Nightflight]], [[Storm Cloud (G1)|Storm Cloud]], [[Whisper (G1)|Whisper]], and [[Tailwind (G1)|Tailwind]])}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Sports Car Patrol]] ([[Detour (G1)|Detour]], [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]], [[Hyperdrive (Micromaster)|Hyperdrive]], and [[Road Hugger (G1)|Road Hugger]])}}
|[[File:Micromaster-rescuepatrol-toys.jpg|thumb|The Rescue Patrol]]
</ul>
|}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Patrols''' (1990)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Construction Patrol]] ([[Neutro]], [[Groundpounder (G1)|Groundpounder]], [[Crumble]], and [[Takedown]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Air Patrol]] ([[Sky High (Micromaster)|Sky High]], [[Eagle Eye (G1)|Eagle Eye]], [[Blaze Master]], and [[Tread Bolt]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Monster Trucks Patrol]] ([[Hydraulic]], [[Slow Poke]], [[Big Hauler]], and [[Heavy Tread]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Rod Patrol]] ([[Big Daddy (G1)|Big Daddy]], [[Trip-Up]], [[Greaser]], and [[Hubs]])}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Race Track Patrol]] ([[Roller Force]], [[Barricade (G1)|Barricade]], [[Ground Hog]], and [[Motorhead (G1)|Motorhead]])}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Military Patrol]] ([[Bombshock (G1)|Bombshock]], [[Tracer (Micromaster)|Tracer]], [[Dropshot (G1)|Dropshot]], and [[Growl (G1)|Growl]])}}
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|[[File:Micromaster-sportscarpatrol-toys.jpg|thumb|The Sports Car Patrol]]
|-
|width="100%" valign="top" colspan=8|
The Patrols came carded in four-packs beginning in 1989, with a couple following in 1990. All were sold at the $5 price point. Each patrol's alternate modes generally have a recurring common theme—for example, military vehicles in the case of the Military Patrol, or planes and helicopters in the case of the Air Patrol.
|}

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{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Combiner Squads'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Metro Squad]] ([[Wheel Blaze]], [[Roadburner]], [[Oiler]], [[Slide]], [[Power Run]], and [[Strikedown]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Astro Squad]] ([[Phaser (G1)|Phaser]], [[Blast Master]], [[Moonrock]], [[Missile Master]], [[Barrage (Micromaster)|Barrage]], and [[Heave]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-d1|[[Battle Squad]] ([[Meltdown (G1)|Meltdown]], [[Half-Track (G1)|Half-Track]], [[Direct-Hit]], [[Power Punch]], [[Fireshot]], and [[Vanquish]])}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Constructor Squad]] ([[Stonecruncher (G1)|Stonecruncher]], [[Excavator (G1)|Excavator]], [[Sledge (G1)|Sledge]], [[Hammer (G1)|Hammer]], [[Grit]], and [[Knockout (G1)|Knockout]])}}
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|[[File:Micromastercombiners-vehicles.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|The First Combinental Congress]]
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|width="100%" valign="top" colspan=8|
{{main|Micromaster Combiner}}
The Combiner Squads were sold in carded six-packs in 1990. Each Squad consist of six Micromaster Combiners, thus making three vehicles in their alt mode. Micromaster Combiners transform into half of a vehicle form, which can use standardized connection plugs to combine with any other Micromaster Combiner to form a complete vehicle. Not all combinations make a lot of sense—the rear half of a dump truck connected to the front half of a space shuttle isn't anything you can win a war with, eh?
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{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Transports''' (1989)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Erector (G1)|Erector]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Overload (G1)|Overload]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-d1|[[Flattop (G1)|Flattop]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Roughstuff]]}}
|
|[[File:G1-toy Erector.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Erector? I hardly knew 'er!]]
|-
|width="100%" valign="top" colspan=8|
{{main|Micromaster Transport}}
The [[Micromaster Transport]]s are single Micromasters that come with a transforming vehicle with which they can interact in some way. Flattop transforms into a jet and comes with an aircraft carrier, whereas the other three transform into trucks and pull transforming trailers. Except for Erector's trailer, all the additional vehicles transform into jets. They were released in 1989.
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{{-}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Combiner Transports''' (1990)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Missile Launcher]] with [[Retro]] and [[Surge (G1)|Surge]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Tanker Truck]] with [[Pipeline]] and [[Gusher]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Cannon Transport]] with [[Terror-Tread]] and [[Cement-Head]]}}
|
|[[File:G1-toy TankerTruck.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|The Tanker Truck. THE Tanker Truck. Apparently it's the only tanker truck in the whole Transformers universe.]]
|-
|width="100%" valign="top" colspan=8|
{{main|Micromaster Combiner Transport}}
The Combiner Transports consist of a pair of Micromaster Combiners and a big transforming trailer. Each trailer can optionally transform into a big battle station or into two separate fighting vehicles, each manned by one of the Combiners.
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{{-}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Stations''' (1989)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot House (Micromaster)|Hot House]] with [[Hot House (facility)|fire station]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Ironworks (Micromaster)|Ironworks]] with [[Ironworks (facility)|construction station]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-d1|[[Greasepit (Micromaster)|Greasepit]] with [[Greasepit (facility)|gas station]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Airwave (Micromaster)|Airwave]] with [[Airwave (facility)|airport]]}}
|
|[[File:G1-Zone-toy Airport.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|The Airport, featuring the largest plane length to runway length ratio of any airport in the universe.]]
|-
|width="100%" valign="top" colspan=8|
The stations are big bases commanded by a single Transformer and disguised as human buildings. Hot House's station stands out a bit, as it is ''mobile'' in its alternate mode instead of being a stationary base.
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{{-}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Bases''' (1989)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Groundshaker]] with [[ATV]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]] with [[Rocket Base]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-d1|[[Skyhopper]] with [[Helicopter]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Skystalker (G1)|Skystalker]] with [[Thunder Arrow|Interstellar shuttle]]}}
|
|[[File:CountdownToy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|The Rocket Base is one hundred and forty kilometers due west of the Autobot camp.]]
|-
|width="100%" valign="top" colspan=8|
The Micromaster Bases are huge fighting vehicles that transform into even bigger battle stations. They are commanded by a single Micromaster. Countdown's and Skystalker's vehicles are a big chunk taller than those of Groundshaker and Skyhopper, indicating that these two should be seen as the respective leaders of their Micromaster factions.
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{{-}}
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Micromaster Combiner Bases''' (1990)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Battlefield Headquarters]] with [[Full-Barrel]] and [[Overflow]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Anti-Aircraft Base]] with [[Blackout (G1)|Blackout]] and [[Spaceshot]]}}
|
|[[File:G1 Anti-Aircraft Base toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|The Anti-Aircraft Base, operated by two guys who become an aircraft. Self-loathing, much?]]
|-
|width="100%" valign="top" colspan=8|
The Combiner bases are large vehicles commanded by a combiner duo. While the Decepticon Anti-Aircraft Base is pretty similar in concept to the previous year's Bases (transforming from a tank into a battle station), the Battlefield Headquarters lacks a base mode, instead transforming from an earthbound vehicle (a truck) into two airborne ones (a space shuttle and an attack jet).
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*'''Micromaster Bases''' (''Unreleased'')
:*A [[Micromaster carrier-base]]

:A resin prototype for a base akin to the Rocket Base was produced at some point, but the toy was never taken into production.

===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===
Japan as well released lots of Micromasters during their ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#1990 (Zone)|Zone]]'', ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Return of Convoy (toyline)|Return of Convoy]]'', and ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (toyline)|Operation Combination]]'' toylines (and later rereleases during ''[[The Transformers: Micromaster|Micromaster]]''). Most of them were identical to their western releases, but some were recolored or renamed and most Decepticons were depicted as Autobots. Next to this, the characterization they received in fiction differed heavily from their Western appearances, depicting them as childish, young and inexperienced compared to the bigger Transformers.

====Micro Trailer====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Return of Convoy'''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Monster Truck Patrol|Big Truck Team]] ([[Hydraulic]], [[Slow Poke]], [[Big Hauler]], and [[Heavy Tread]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Rod Patrol|Hot Rod Team]] ([[Big Daddy (G1)|Grease]], [[Trip-Up|Vanishing]], [[Greaser|Legs]], and [[Hubs|Lucas]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Military Team]] ([[Bombshock (G1)|Bombshock]], [[Tracer (Micromaster)|Tracer]], [[Dropshot (G1)|Dropshot]], and [[Growl (G1)|Growl]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Shuttle Rocket W Team]] ([[Phaser (G1)|Phaser]], [[Blast Master]], [[Moonrock]], [[Missile Master]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Fire Tanker W Team]] ([[Wheel Blaze]], [[Roadburner]], [[Oiler]], [[Slide]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Radar Hover W Team]] ([[Barrage (Micromaster)|Barrage]], [[Heave]], [[Power Run]], [[Strikedown]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Dump Shovel W Team]] ([[Hammer (G1)|Hammer]], [[Sledge (G1)|Sledge]], [[Grit]], [[Knockout (G1)|Knockout]])}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-a1|[[Crane Cannon W Team]] ([[Direct-Hit]], [[Excavator (G1)|Excavator]], [[Power Punch]], [[Stonecruncher (G1)|Stonecruncher]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jet Tank W Team]] ([[Fireshot]], [[Vanquish]], [[Meltdown (G1)|Meltdown]], [[Half-Track (G1)|Half-Track]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rescue Patrol Team]] ([[Boater]], [[Fire]], [[Holi]], [[Pīpō]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Battle Patrol Team]] ([[Gunlift]], [[Sidetrack (Zone)|Sidetrack]], [[Sunrunner (Zone)|Sunrunner]], and [[Powerbomb]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Super Car Patrol Team]] ([[Black Heat]], [[Deadhour]], [[Gingham]], [[Road Hugger (Zone)|Road Hugger]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Return of Convoy|Hot Rodimus]] (only available with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Return of Convoy|Star Convoy]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Shotbomber]] (only available with [[Sky Garry (G1)|Sky Garry]])}}
|[[File:Microtrailer.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|A Micro Trailer]]
</ul>
|}

====Micromaster Six-Teams====
Apart from releasing US-made Micromasters, Takara also developed the Micromaster concept further on their own, resulting in the Micromaster Six-Teams, Micromasters that combined to form a bigger robot similar to the full-size Transformer [[combiner]]s.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Return of Convoy'''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sixliner]] ([[Alan (G1)|Alan]], [[D-Go]], [[Joe (G1)|Joe]], [[Leaf]], [[Night]], [[Spark (G1)|Spark]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Operation Combination'''''
{{Bp-a1|[[Sixbuilder]] ([[Crush-Bull]], [[Digger]], [[Gran Arm]], [[Iron Lift]], [[Mixing]], [[Treader]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sixtrain]] ([[Atlan]], [[Converter]], [[Desire]], [[Raise]], [[San D-Go]], [[Windy (G1)|Windy]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sixturbo]] ([[Circuit (OC)|Circuit]], [[Discharge (G1)|Discharge]], [[Glide (G1)|Glide]], [[Neo-Wheel]], [[Road Police]], [[Sireen]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sixwing]] ([[Chain Gun]], [[Falcon (OC)|Falcon]], [[Flanker]], [[Missile Run]], [[Raker]], [[Supersonic]]}}
|[[File:OC-toy Sixturbo.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Sixturbo]]
</ul>
|}

====[[Powered Master]] partners====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Zone'''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Drillbuster]] (only available with [[Roadfire]], who could be purchased with or without [[Sonic Bomber (G1)|Sonic Bomber]] and [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sonic (G1)|Sonic]] (only available with [[Sonic Bomber (G1)|Sonic Bomber]], who could be purchased with or without [[Roadfire]] and [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Speeder]] (only available with [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]], who could be purchased with or without [[Sonic Bomber (G1)|Sonic Bomber]] and [[Roadfire]])}}
</ul>
|[[File:Zone-toy Drillbuster.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
|}

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Return of Convoy'''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Spinner]] (only available with [[Grandus (G1)|Grandus]])}}
</ul>
|}

===''Micro Transformers: American Rescue Team''===
[[File:Americanrescueboxart.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2]]
{{main|Micro Transformers: American Rescue Team}}

An obscure toyline released only in Japan, the one-shot ''[[Micro Transformers: American Rescue Team]]'' line saw yet ''another'' re-release of the [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#1990 (Zone)|''Zone''-era Japanese Generation 1]] [[Rescue Patrol Team]] (now dubbed the "American Rescue Team") in [[1996]], after the canceled ''[[Block Town]]'' line (which was ''also'' going feature the team—among other figures). The line itself features no branding to place it within any established continuity or timeline, the figures don't have any names beyond what they turn into, and the line lacks all forms of faction [[insignia]], making it hard to determine what the intent is for this line and who these 4 are even supposed to be.

The American Rescue Team members were each sold separately in boxes which were marked on the front as to which figure was included. Each figure came with a puzzle piece that made up a city-schemed playmat, and a sweet. All of the figures are essentially identical to both the [[Hasbro]] [[Rescue Patrol (G1)|Rescue Patrol]] and all three Takara Rescue Patrol Team releases. The only noticeable differences for this release is a "CHINA" stamp tampographed onto the leg of each member.

<ul class="iconlist">
:{{Bp-multi|[[Holi#Micro Transformers: American Rescue Team|Patrol Car]]}}
:{{Bp-multi|[[Pīpō#Micro Transformers: American Rescue Team|Ambulance]]}}
:{{Bp-multi|[[Fire#Micro Transformers: American Rescue Team|Fire Engine]]}}
:{{Bp-multi|[[Boater#Micro Transformers: American Rescue Team|High Speed Boat]]}}
</ul>
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===''Armada''===
[[File:Arm-toy Mirror.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2]]
Not originally sold as a "Micromaster" in the ''[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Armada]]'' toyline, an entry of [[Ask Vector Prime]] [[Retcon|retroactively]] referred to the combined form of [[Mini-Con]]s [[Rook (Armada)|Rook]] and [[Crosswise (Armada)|Crosswise]] as a "Micromaster".{{fact}}

:{{Bp-mc|[[Mirror]] ([[Rook (Armada)|Rook]] and [[Crosswise (Armada)|Crosswise]], only available with [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]])}}
{{--}}

===''Micromaster''===
Released in six separate waves, each of the first five waves of the ''[[The Transformers: Micromaster|Micromaster]]'' toyline comprised a reissue of a combining Sixteam from the ''Return of Convoy'' and ''Operation Combination'' toylines, while the final wave was a reissue of ''Victory''{{'}}s Multiforce, now rebranded "DX Micromasters." Each team was redeco'd from the original figures to different extents (some received entirely new color schemes, while others remained the same), but all of them featured new [[tampograph]]s and [[Paint operation|paint application]]s instead of [[sticker]]s. From the second wave onward, in every case of 12 figures, two figures were available in a rare "chase" coloration, usually representing the team's transformed or powered-up state, as featured in the storyline.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sixliner]] ([[Alan (G1)|Alan]], [[D-Go]], [[Joe (G1)|Joe]], [[Leaf]], [[Night]], [[Spark (G1)|Spark]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sixtrain]] ([[Atlan]], [[Converter]], [[Desire]], [[Raise]], [[San D-Go]], [[Windy (G1)|Windy]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sixturbo]] ([[Circuit (OC)|Circuit]], [[Discharge (G1)|Discharge]], [[Glide (G1)|Glide]], [[Neo-Wheel]], [[Road Police]], [[Sireen]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
{{Bp-a1|[[Sixwing]] ([[Chain Gun]], [[Falcon (OC)|Falcon]], [[Flanker]], [[Missile Run]], [[Raker]], [[Supersonic]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sixbuilder]] ([[Crush-Bull]], [[Digger]], [[Gran Arm]], [[Iron Lift]], [[Mixing]], [[Treader]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Decepticon Sixbuilder]] ([[Bonecrusher (Micromaster)|Bonecrusher]], [[Scavenger (Micromaster)|Scavenger]], [[Scrapper (Micromaster)|Scrapper]], [[Gren]], [[Mixmaster (Micromaster)|Mixmaster]], [[Long Haul (Micromaster)|Long Haul]])}}
|[[File:MCtoy-Sixtrain-Red-Mode.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Sixtrain "Red Mode"]]
</ul>
|}

{{toystub|waves etc}}

===''Universe'' (2003)===
The "MicroMasters" returned to North American markets in 2004 under the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' label as [[KB Toys]] [[exclusive]]s. Inspired by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s slightly-[[redeco]]ed Sixteam reissues, Hasbro decided to sell them as well. Sixturbo, Sixwing, and Sixbuilder were further redecoed and renamed to evoke the ''Generation 1'' [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]]s, [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s, and [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s, respectively. Sixtrain was not redecoed, but he was renamed according to the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' franchise]] [[Team Bullet Train]] (with a few additions).

In Europe, the Micromasters were available as mass retail releases, but in ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' (Protectobots, Constructicons) and ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' (Railbots, Aerialbots) instead of ''Universe'' packaging.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Defensor (Universe)|Defensor]] (slightly redecoed Sixturbo): [[First Aid (Universe)|First Aid]], [[Groove (Universe)|Groove]], [[Hot Spot (Universe)|Hot Spot]], [[Prowl (Universe)|Prowl]], [[Red Alert (Universe)|Red Alert]], [[Streetwise (Universe)|Streetwise]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rail Racer (Universe)|Rail Racer]] (Sixtrain): [[Midnight Express (Universe)|Midnight Express]], [[Overload (Universe)|Overload]], [[Railspike (Universe)|Railspike]], [[Rapid Run (Universe)|Rapid Run]], [[Swindle (Universe)|Swindle]], [[Tankor (Universe)|Tankor]]}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
{{Bp-a1|[[Superion (Universe)|Superion]] (redecoed Sixwing): [[Air Raid (Universe 2003)|Air Raid]], [[Fireflight (Universe Micromaster)|Fireflight]], [[Ro-Tor (Universe)|Ro-Tor]], [[Silverbolt (Universe)|Silverbolt]], [[Skydive (Universe)|Skydive]], [[Storm Jet (Universe)|Storm Jet]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Devastator (Universe Micromaster)|Constructicon Devastator]] (redecoed Sixbuilder): [[Bonecrusher (Universe Micromaster)|Bonecrusher]], [[Buckethead]], [[Hightower (Universe Micromaster)|Hightower]], [[Long Haul (Universe Micromaster)|Long Haul]], [[Quickmix (Universe)|Quickmix]], [[Scavenger (Universe Micromaster)|Scavenger]]}}
|[[File:MC-toy Sixtrain.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
</ul>
|}

===''Timelines''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="99%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Partner Micromasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Cop-Tur (G1)|Cop-Tur]]}}
{{Bp-sd|[[Krunix (SG)|Krunix]]}}
|
|[[File:Timelinestoy-CopTur.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
|-
|width="100%" valign="top" colspan=8|
These Micromasters were redecos of Mini-Cons in the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' toyline.
|}

===''Generations''===
{{groupstub}}

===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
The ''War for Cybertron: Siege'' Micromasters come in 2-packs of each member, transforming into their respective vehicle modes before combining into a 5 mm weapon for larger figures to wield. A Battle Master's effect parts can be placed in the barrels of those with gun modes, and unlike the originals, the new Micromasters feature extensive articulation with ball-jointed shoulders, knees and hips, with the rare occasion of hinged elbows. Soundwave's deployers are now integrated into this, and their cassette modes were reinvented with flip-out 5 mm posts to acts as shields. The returning Micromasters replaced the Legends Class figures of the last decade, and were replaced in turn by Core Class.
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-S4 [[Roadhandler (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Roadhandler]] & [[Swindler#War for Cybertron: Siege|Swindler]] ([[Race Car Patrol#War for Cybertron: Siege|Race Car Patrol]])}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-S5 [[Storm Cloud (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Storm Cloud]] & [[Whisper (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Visper]] ([[Air Strike Patrol#War for Cybertron: Siege|Air Strike Patrol]])}}
{{Bp-a1|WFC-S6 [[Big Shot#War for Cybertron: Siege|Autobot Topshot]] & [[Flak (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Flak]] ([[Battle Patrol#War for Cybertron: Siege|Battle Patrol]])}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|WFC-S18 [[Laserbeak (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Laserbeak]] & [[Ravage (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Ravage]] ([[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Soundwave Spy Patrol]])}}
{{Bp-a1|WFC-S19 [[Red Hot#War for Cybertron: Siege|Red Heat]] & [[Stakeout (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Stakeout]] ([[Rescue Patrol (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Rescue Patrol]])}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|WFC-S32 [[Blackjack (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Decepticon Blackjack]] & [[Hyperdrive (Micromaster)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Hyperdrive]] ([[Sports Car Patrol#War for Cybertron: Siege|Sports Car Patrol]])}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-S33 [[Highjump (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Highjump]] & [[Powertrain#War for Cybertron: Siege|Powertrain]] ([[Off Road Patrol#War for Cybertron: Siege|Off Road Patrol]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:War-for-Cybertron-Siege-Micro-Master-Race-Car-Patrol.jpg|thumb|300px|Micromasters Roadhandler and Swindler]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|WFC-S46 [[Rumble (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Rumble]] & [[Ratbat (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|Ratbat]] ([[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Soundwave Spy Patrol]])}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-S47 [[Direct-Hit#Generations|Direct-Hit]] & [[Power Punch#War for Cybertron: Siege|Power Punch]] ([[Battle Squad#War for Cybertron: Siege|Battle Squad]])}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Target]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-S58 [[Road Police#Toys/War for Cybertron: Siege|Road-Police]] & [[Wheel Blaze#Toys/War for Cybertron: Siege|Wheel Blaze]]}}
{{Bp-a1|WFC-S59 [[Groundshaker (G1)#Toys/War for Cybertron: Siege|Ground Shaker]] & [[Overair (Micromaster)#Toys/War for Cybertron: Siege|Overair]]}}
{{Bp-a1|WFC-S60 [[Ricon#Toys/War for Cybertron: Siege|Ricon]] & [[Ironworks (Micromaster)#Toys/War for Cybertron: Siege|Irontread]]}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-S61 [[Nightflight (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Nightflight]] & [[Skyhopper#War for Cybertron: Siege|Slyhopper]]}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-S62 [[Cratermaker#Toys/War for Cybertron: Siege|Cratermaker]] & [[Fireline#Toys/War for Cybertron: Siege|Fireline]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Partner Micromasters'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-S29 [[Countdown (G1)#Generations|Autobot Countdown]] (w/ [[Omega Supreme (G1)#Generations|Omega Supreme]])}}
</ul>

|
|}

===''War for Cybertron: Earthrise''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|WFC-E3 [[Trip-Up#Generations|Trip-Up]] & [[Big Daddy (G1)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Autobot Daddy-O]] ([[Hot Rod Patrol#Generations|Hot Rod Patrol]])}}
{{Bp-d1|WFC-E4 [[Bombshock (G1)#Generations|Bombshock]] & [[Growl (G1)#Generations|Decepticon Growl]] ([[Military Patrol#Generations|Military Patrol]])}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|WFC-E15 [[Roller Force]] & [[Ground Hog|Decepticon Ground Hog]] ([[Race Track Patrol]])}}
{{Bp-a1|WFC-E16 [[Phaser (G1)|Fuzer]] & [[Blast Master|Autobot Blast Master]] ([[Astro Squad]])}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Amazon (website)|Amazon]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Fireguard#Generations|Fireguard]] & [[Roadburner#Generations|Roadburner]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Barricade (G1)#Generations|Decepticon Runner]] & [[Motorhead (G1)#Generations|Motorhead]]}}
{{Bp-a1d1|[[Stingracer#Toys|Stingracer]] & [[Windstorm#Toys|Windstorm]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Phaser (G1)#Botropolis|Fuzer]] & [[Blast Master#Botropolis|Autobot Blast Master]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Missile Master#Generations|Missile Master]] & [[Moonrock#Generations|Moonrock]]}}
</ul>

|[[File:TF-WFC-E-Roller Force.jpg|thumb|250px|Micromaster Roller Force]]
|}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Battle 3-Pack'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Ravage (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Ravage]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Laserbeak]] (w/ [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#2020Netflix|Decepticon Soundwave]])}}
|width="20%" valign="top"|''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|WFC-GS10 Soundwave Spy Patrol 3rd Unit ([[Wingthing (G1)#Generations|Decepticon Wingthing]], [[Frenzy (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Decepticon Frenzy]], [[Skar (G1)#Generations|Decepticon Skar]] & [[Knok#Generations|Autobot/Decepticon Knok]])}}
</ul>
|[[File:TF-Generations-WFC-Trilogy-Voyager-Battle-3-Pack-Ravage.jpg|thumb|250px|"Micromaster" Ravage]]
|}

===''Legacy: Evolution''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|[[Lunar-Tread#Generations Selects|Lunar-Tread]] (w/ [[Guardian robot#Generations Selects|Guardian Robot]])}}
</ul>
|[[File:GenerationsSelectstoy-Lunar-Tread.jpg|thumb|250px|Micromaster Lunar-Tread]]
|}

==Notes==
[[File:MicroTFlogo.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Absolutely, positively not inspired by Micro Machines. No sir. Not at all.]]
* The original Micromaster [[play pattern]] was Hasbro's attempt to compete with [[Galoob]]'s popular ''[[Micro Machines]]'' line that had been launched in 1987, with Hasbro borrowing the multipack concept and base interconnectivity directly from the Galoob's original assortments. An early name, "Micro Transformers", was featured on the packaging of the first Micromaster Patrol assortment released in late 1988 (Air Strike Patrol, Off Road Patrol and Race Car Patrol). The name "Micromaster" only appears in plain neutral text on that early packaging, in conjunction with the name of the respective patrol. For the 1989 releases, Hasbro completely redesigned the packaging, introduced an all-new "Transformers" logo, dropped the name "Micro Transformers" and made "Micromasters" the main name of the entire line-up, very likely to avoid any marketplace confusion or legal conflicts with ''Micro Machines''. In the United States, those three aforementioned patrols (Air Strike Patrol, Off Road Patrol and Race Car Patrol) were ''only'' available in that late 1988-style packaging; however, in the United Kingdom, they were released in standard (English-only) silver packaging, complete with the new 1989-style ''Transformers'' logo. In the Netherlands, they were available in ''both'' packaging versions (with texts in French and Dutch).
* All four Micromaster Station molds were reused sans Micromasters in [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Brave (franchise)|Brave Police]]'' series a few years later, under the subline name "Distortion Machines".
* While the first ''Universe'' franchise redecoed a number of Micromaster molds as non-Micromaster characters, the [[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|newer ''Universe'' toyline]] used [[Storm Cloud (G1)|several]] [[Tread Bolt|Micromaster]] [[Countdown (G1)|characters]] as the basis of redecoes of non-Micromaster toys.
* Within the [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]—and ''only'' taking the production material for the cartoons themselves into account—the Micromasters aren't ''actually'' "micro" at all! In fact, they are just ever-so-slightly shorter than the "standard-sized" [[Autobot Cars]] from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]], which stand at four meters high—so they're basically the same height as, say, [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]. The only thing that really makes them seem as ''small'' as they are in the ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (cartoon)|Victory]]'' and ''[[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Zone]]'' cartoons, is the fact that the characters around them are ''huge''. In the original cartoon, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] stood at six meters tall. [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] is twenty-two meters tall, which puts Optimus ''roughly'' below his kneecap. Don't believe us? Look over the [[Scale charts#Generation 1 continuity family|cartoon scale charts]] we have compiled together, and the respective heights listed, and have a good laugh at the insane size differences between the characters of the original cartoon and the characters of its Japanese sequels!
** That being said, [[scale]] was never something that remained consistent from episode to episode within the cartoons themselves, despite there being references for the animators to go off of. Even the characters from the original series that appear in ''Victory'' ([[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]), don't follow these scale parameters, and most tie-in fiction depicts all of these characters as being whatever size the artist thinks is best. It's just a funny thing to point out, when taking it at face-value.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Micro Transformer''' (マイクロトランスフォーマー ''Maikuro Toransufōmā''), '''Micromaster''' (マイクロマスター ''Maikuromasutā'')
*''Italian:'' '''Microtransformers'''

==References==
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Menasor (G1)

2026-01-26T18:31:40Z

Primal primus the second: /* Legacy */

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:''Menasor is a [[Decepticon]] [[combiner]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:Menasor studioox.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Dennis the Menasor]]
'''Menasor''' was meant to be the ultimate Decepticon weapon, and perhaps he would have been if not for the fatal flaw in his design. His mind was designed to merge the psyches of the five [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] who compose his form. Unfortunately the great depth of resentment the four limb components feel towards [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], plus the extreme differences in attitude that makes them less a team and more a destruction derby, and of course the tiny detail that they're all psychotic, has created a primal psychological rift and left Menasor an unpredictable mass of conflicting, chaotic impulses.

Extremely powerful, highly mentally unstable, and prone to violent tantrums where he lashes out at anything in range, Menasor is not a weapon to point and fire, but a raging monster to turn loose on the battlefield and then get as far out of range as possible.

Menasor is the combined form of all five Stunticons:

*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (torso)
*[[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] (left arm)
*[[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] (left leg)
*[[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]] (right arm)
*[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] (right leg)

In some universes, [[Offroad (CW)|Offroad]] or [[Brake-Neck (G1)|Brake-Neck]] replaces Wildrider on the team, and sometimes the "[[roller car]]" or [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]] act as a sixth component forming a chestplate for the combiner.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Roger C. Carmel]] (English, "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2" only), [[Regis Cordic]] (English), [[Kōji Totani]] (Japanese)|[[Zhan Che]] (Chinese), [[Toni Orlandi]] (Italian, second dub), [[Edgar Wald]] (Latin American), [[Willi Röbke]] (German, ''Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1''), [[Thomas Rau]] (German, ''The Ultimate Weapon''), [[Christoph Jablonka]] (German, Generation 2 Dub of ''The Ultimate Weapon''), [[Georges Atlas]] (European French, "Cosmic Rust"), [[Jean Roche]] (European French, "Masquerade"), [[Francis Lax]] (European French, "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1"), Unknown actors (European French, "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2", "Trans-Europe Express"), [[Júlio Chaves]] (Portuguese), [[Paulo Flores]] (Portuguese, "Masquerade")}}

[[File:KtVS2 Introducing Menasor.jpg|thumb|left|Don't offend the little ones, Prime!]]
Created by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] to counteract the [[Autobot]]s' rule of the road, the Stunticons were powerful in their own right, but were also equipped with a secret ability by the Decepticon leader: they were the second Decepticon combiner team, able to merge into the towering Menasor. Megatron had the Stunticons unveil their combined form to battle the Autobots' new team, the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], but [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] had predicted Menasor's existence, and had given the Aerialbots the power to combine into [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]. Menasor quickly took the upper hand in the fight that ensued between the two giants, his sheer aggression driving the Autobot combiner back, trapping him in a landslide. Just as Menasor was charging his opponent with intent to impale him on a factory smokestack, however, [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] appeared to intercept the Stunticon gestalt's attack. Omega freed Superion, and the two Autobots overpowered Menasor, forcing him to disengage and retreat. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

[[File:CosmicRust Menasor holds aloft bug.jpg|thumb|By the power of bumblebees!]]
When the Autobots obtained the weather-manipulating [[Pearl of Bahoudin]], Megatron had the Stunticons merged into Menasor to reclaim the device. His heavy-handed efforts did more harm than good, however, as the Pearl was knocked free from [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]]'s grasp and was swept up into a cyclone of its own making. Megatron abandoned the field of battle, leaving Menasor to menace the Autobots until the Pearl's storms wiped out all life on Earth. Bumblebee, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] tried burying Menasor in a crevasse, but the giant's prodigious strength allowed him to tear free easily, forcing the Autobots back into a corner as he pressed his attack. Moments before the Autobots met their end, the <s>raging jackass</s> champion driver [[Auggie Cahnay (G1)|Auggie Cahnay]] hopped a cliff in his specially-designed car, launching it full speed ''straight into Menasor's face.'' Even Menasor couldn't shrug off an impact like that, and went down like a sack of tironium bricks. {{storylink|Trans-Europe Express}}

Menasor's size and strength were brought into play when the Decepticons targeted the [[Statue of Liberty]] for destruction, as he could wield the [[Antilla]]n [[Lightning Bug]] heat ray as a hand-held weapon. The Autobots defend the statue, and before Menasor could open fire with the Lightning Bug, a strafing run from the Aerialbots caused him to drop the weapon. His flying foes combined into Superion and the two titans grappling over the weapon until Superion triumphed, throwing Menasor so hard that he splintered into his component Stunticons, giving the Aerialbot combiner the chance to destroy the Lightning Bug. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust}}

[[File:Masquerade Menasors.JPG|left|thumb|"If you are me, then who am I? This is all way too confusing for me."]]
While gathering up the components required for a new Decepticon laser weapon, the Stunticons wound up being captured by the Autobots. Looking to find out what Megatron was up to, a squad of Autobots used [[camouflage paint]] to disguise themselves as Stunticons to infiltrate the Decepticons camp, but while they were away on the mission, Breakdown managed to shake the true Stunticons free from their cells. The team united into Menasor, who felled their Autobot captors, then smashed his way out of the Autobots' volcano and took off for the Decepticons' temporary base. His arrival confused everyone, as he insisted that the "Stunticons" already present were impostors, but the Autobots were able to maintain their deception a while longer by "merging" into a Menasor form of their own through a combination of [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]'s magnetic powers and [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]'s illusions. The two Menasors battled, but the Autobots' makeshift combination couldn't stand up to a slash from the true Menasor's sword, and their true identities were exposed. Menasor stood strong in the hail of firepower the Autobots proceeded to unleash against him, but when a cavalry of other Autobots then arrived, the combiner decided he had had enough, and fled. {{storylink|Masquerade}}

[[File:FiveFaces1 Menasor wields sword.jpg|thumb|I'll kill you if you point out that I'm just Motormaster with some cars attached to my arms!]]
When the treacherous [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] rampaged with his new [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] army, Megatron requested the assistance of the Stunticons, only to be rebuffed by Drag Strip. The Stunticons finally decided to take notice when the Combaticons' combined form of [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] defeated [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]; at first, the rowdy bunch of cars did not care if Megatron was destroyed, but they realized Starscream would not simply stop at eliminating his former leader. The team quickly formed Menasor, who dispatched Bruticus with one mighty punch. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}}

In 2005, following their expulsion from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the Stunticons retreated with the rest of the Decepticons to the planet of [[Chaar]]. When [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] returned with a pittance of [[energon]] to go around, the Decepticons began fighting over the small handful of cubes, but Menasor held back until a victor had emerged in the form of Devastator, whom he then attacked. Menasor chopped the energy-deprived [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]] combiner into his constituent 'bots, but before he could claim his prize, the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] swooped in to snatch up the cube. At that point, [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] arrived to chastise the squabbling Decepticons; Menasor and Astrotrain shared a wearied look as Cyclonus and the [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]]s mindlessly chanted their loyalty to the absent [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}}

In 2006, the Stunticons attempted to attack a weakened [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]], who was missing [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]], as he rescued a falling train. Unfortunately for them, no sooner had they combined into Menasor than [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] blasted their combined form in the back, disabling him before he even laid a hand on Defensor. {{storylink|The Ultimate Weapon}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====
{{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese continuity as described above, except the events of 2006 take place in 2010, and many additional stories are inserted into the timeline.}}
=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' story pages=====
[[File:FSRLFstorypage combaticon menasor.jpg|thumb|left|Brutisor, or Menacus. You decide!]]
When Menasor clashed with Superion in the heart of a major metropolitan area, the Stunticon combiner took the upper hand in the fight, but was bested when the Aerialbots separated and bound their opponent with energy ropes, making him an easy target for [[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]]'s firepower. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)#Part 8|Story page #8}} Later, Menasor teamed up with Devastator to wreak some havoc on the Autobots, but the Autobots had some new backup in the form of Defensor. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)#Part 12|Story page #12}}

During a later battle with the Autobots, Motormaster combined with the Combaticons to form a variant version of Menasor with [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] and [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]] as arms, and [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] and [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] as legs. The Autobots were aghast at the sight of this new menace, {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)#Part 13|Story page #13}} but likely not ''quite'' as aghast as they were at the sight of Menasor, Devastator, and Bruticus's [[:File:GestaltTrioTVMagazine.jpg|deformed bodies]] when they later gathered for another major battle. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)#Part 16|Story page #16}}

=====Scramble City=====
{{voiceactor|[[Kōji Totani]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:Scramblecity breakdown forms an arm.jpg|thumb]]

After the Aerialbots prevented an attempt by the Decepticons to attack the subterranean construction site of their Scramble City project, the Stunticons were called into action and soon combined into Menasor to battle their airborne rivals. When Superion unveiled the full extent of the Aerialbots' [[Scramble Power]], reconfiguring his limbs to increase his power, Menasor shocked the Autobots by revealing that he too had the same ability. The Stunticons had a slightly better handle on the power, too; when [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] forgot his position on the combiner, leaving Superion legless, Menasor disconnected Wildrider and had him take the place of Superion's missing limb, crippling the Aerialbot gestalt. A barrage from the other Autobots severed Wildrider, and the restored Superion toppled Menasor, but the Combaticons then arrived to aid the Stunticons. Menasor and Bruticus tag-teamed Superion, but were both stopped when [[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City itself]] was brought into battle to end the conflict. {{storylink|Scramble City: Mobilization}}

=====''Transformers 2010'' story pages=====
[[File:2010storypage mixed up menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|left]]
Following the return of Galvatron and their alliance with the [[Quintesson]]s, the Decepticons renewed their offensive against the Autobots. Menasor, Bruticus and Devastator joined the Decepticons' newest combiner [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] in battling Superion and Defensor, though Predaking did most of the work as Menasor held back and smirked at the sight of his old rivals taking a beating. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)#Part 2|Story page #2}} To fight back, the Autobots had to take the threat posed by Menasor and the other combiners into consideration and develop appropriate countermeasures. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)#Part 4|Story page #4}}

In an "imaginary tale" that proposed an alliance between the Stunticons, Aerialbots, Combaticons and Protectobots, a version of Menasor was formed who had Vortex for a right arm, [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] as his left arm, [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] as his right leg, and Fireflight as his left leg. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (story page)#Part 5|Story page #5}}

=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
{{voiceactor|[[Hōchū Ōtsuka]], [[Tomomichi Nishimura]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:HM2 menasor uses hotrod as shield.jpg|thumb|''"Made... In... China...?"'']]
The Stunticons participated in Galvatron's siege on Cybertron in the year 2011. They formed Menasor to fight their Autobot counterparts, but were steamrolled by the might and firepower of the [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Battleship Maximus]]. Returning to Earth, they were deployed to stop what appeared to be an attempt by the Aerialbots to steal a cache of Decepticon energon in the desert, but this was a feint to keep them busy and prevent them from interfering in Hot Rod's quest for the missing [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Realizing they had been had, the team formed Menasor and sped to Hot Rod's location in the Arctic, but Superion followed and took Menasor down despite his attempt to use Hot Rod as a shield. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}}

In [[San Francisco]], Menasor assisted Bruticus in using [[buridanka|a carnivorous plant]] to distract the Autobots from [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]'s plans on [[Zarak (planet)|Zarak]]. He fought against the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]]' combined form, [[Computron (G1)|Computron]]. {{storylink|Head On!! Fortress Maximus}} Much later, the Stunticons assembled in the desert as their Ninja Commander [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] began issuing orders. They formed Menasor and took part in the escalating Decepticon war effort as five separate Autobot outposts were attacked simultaneously at Sixshot's command. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg}}

[[File:HMep35 sixshot strikes menasor.jpg|thumb|left|he got hit with a getsuga tensho'']]
Following the Decepticons' apparent expulsion from Earth, Menasor was among the group who secretly did not leave the planet, but who instead withdrew to the sub-oceanic city of [[Lemuria (myth)|Lemuria]], where he oversaw the processing of [[crysmagnetal]] for Scorponok's fiendish [[Death Tower]]s. Following the towers' deployment, he joined the entire Decepticon army in battling the Autobots at the North Pole, where he would have killed [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] if Sixshot hadn't intervened on the boy's behalf, charging the combiner head-on and toppling him. When Scorponok's plan was foiled, Menasor escaped into space along with the rest of the Decepticons as the battle climaxed. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

=====''Zone''=====
{{voiceactor|[[Masato Hirano]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:MenasorZone1.jpg|thumb|Those racecars are, like, 50 stories tall.]]

Menasor was among the [[Nine Great Demon Generals]] recruited by the Decepticons' newest [[Emperor of Destruction]], [[Violengiguar]]. Outfited with new armor and weaponry—including a giant shield that he could sling at his enemies, and some kind of funky transparent-green Phantom-of-the-Opera-lookin' half-face mask—Menasor was somewhat dubiously christened the "Intelligence General" of the group, and sent forth to conquer planets in pursuit of Violengiguar's goal of creating a [[Decepticon Zone]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}} At some point, the Generals schooled [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them more than formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}

Together with Overlord and Abominus, Menasor laid waste to the world of Feminia, destroying the entire planet and nearly killing Autobot leader Star Saber. With the Autobots left in disarray, Violengiguar gathered all nine of his generals together and instructed them to gather the energy sources necessary for him to create a Decepticon Zone: the Energon Z of planet Zone, and the mysterious [[Zodiac]], concealed on Earth. Menasor joined Overlord, Abominus and Bruticus in attacking Zone; the armament of the Autobots' Zone Base was no match for the giants, and Menasor smashed the [[Gasoline Base]] component to pieces with his huge shield. Overlord tore the Energon Z power core out of Zone Base, and the team immediately departed to redenzvous with the other generals and hand over the Energon Z so they could take it with them to Earth. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}

=====e-HOBBY comics=====
Menasor was charging into battle against the Autobots when the dimensional intruder [[Grand Scourge]] suddenly dropped in through a tear in space-time. Menasor cared little about the new arrival's identity, moving in to crush him immediately. But with a single swift blow of Grand Scourge's [[Matrix Breaker]] sword, Menasor was split into his individual components. The Stunticons were then forced to combine with Grand Scourge, save Motormaster, who fled in terror. {{storylink|Decepticon Dark Commander Grand Scourge}}

=====''Generations Selects Special Comic''=====
In [[2050]], Menasor and the Decepticons joined the revolution of the [[Selector]]s against their human masters. The [[Quintesson]]s and the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcon]]s sided with the humans, and [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] attacked all while craving Angolmois Energy. In battle with a scrambled version of [[Computron (G1)|Computron]], Abominus crashed into Bruticus and Menasor and stole some of their limb components to make an even stronger version of himself. {{storylink|Abominus comic 2}}

====''TV Magazine'' comic continuity====
=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====
[[File:FSRLFmanga menasor.jpg|thumb|left]]
In the late 1980s, under orders from [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], Menasor joined the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] in an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. Though challenged by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and a unit of Autobots, Menasor made short work of them by punching all he could in the face with his giant fist. His evil was bested, however, when Prime drove up a ramp and punched ''him'' in the face. The blow was powerful enough to force him to retreat. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}}

Menasor later attacked a baseball stadium where [[Kenji]] was on a date, intending to turn it into a new Decepticon base. Kenji quickly summoned [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] and [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] to battle the Decepticon, but Menasor was immediately aided by [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. After a short skirmish, Decepticon victory seemed in the bag until Menasor got his legs knocked off. [[Groove (G1)|Groove]] and [[Blades (G1)|Blades]] then latched onto the stumps and blasted Menasor away, dumping him in the Pacific Ocean, far away from Japan. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 5|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #5}}

=====''The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers''=====
The Stunticons joined the entire Decepticon army in a raid on [[Feminia]] to capture the [[Prime Energy Tower]]. Menasor was formed along with [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]], [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] to oppose the Autobot battalion guarding the tower; they were met by the Autobots' own big soldiers Superion, Defensor and Omega Supreme, but with the addition of Predaking to the fray, the Autobots were soon outnumbered. The [[Omnibot (G1)|Omnibots]] were there to save the day, tying Predaking's legs together and causing him to topple over and crush Menasor and the other combiners under his weight. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 5|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #5}}

=====''The Great Transformer War''=====
[[File:GreatTFwar menasor vs aerialbots.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
After tearing Superion into his component Aerialbots, the Stunticons merged into Menasor and joined Bruticus in defending [[Trypticon (G1)|Dinobase]] against incursion by the Protectobots. While his men kept the pair busy, [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] used his repair bay mode to fix up the injured Aerialbots, who then blinded the giants with their dazzling "Scramble Shot" fly-by attack. {{storylink|The Great Transformer War issue 1|The Great Transformer War #1}}

=====''Super-God Masterforce'' comic=====
The image of Menasor was among a group of holograms of older Decepticons projected by [[King Poseidon]] to deceive and confuse the Autobots under [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]]'s command. {{storylink|Burn, Chokon! New Commander Super Ginrai!}}

=====''Zone'' comic=====
Menasor was among the [[Nine Great Demon Generals]] recruited by the Decepticons' newest [[Emperor of Destruction]], [[Violengiguar]]. Outfited with new armor and weaponry—including a giant shield that he could sling at his enemies, and some kind of funky transparent-green Phantom-of-the-Opera-lookin' half-face mask—Menasor was somewhat dubiously christened the "Intelligence General" of the group, and sent forth to conquer planets in pursuit of Violengiguar's goal of creating a [[Decepticon Zone]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}} At some point, the Generals schooled [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them more than formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}

Following the generals' successful destruction of the planet Feminia, which badly wounded current Autobot leader [[Star Saber (G1)|Victory Saber]], a team consisting of Menasor, Bruticus, [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] attacked the leaderless Autobot [[Micromaster]]s on the planet [[Micro|Zone]] and stole their [[Energon Z]] power source, a key component in Violengiguar's plan. As they came under an intimidating amount of firepower from [[Zone Base]], they feld with their prize; the Autobots tried to pursue them into space, but were stopped by [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] and his energy web. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Zone}}

====Full Throttle Scramble Power!====
[[File:FullThrottleScramblePower menasor doublegravitoguns.jpg|thumb|left]]
On a mission to steal energy from a power plant, the Stunticons formed Menasor to fight off the interfering Superion. With Superion weakened by a blast from the Decepticons' new electromagnetic [[Omega Wave Cannon]], Menasor reconfigured his limbs, positioning Drag Strip and Wildrider as his arms for a [[gravito-gun|Double Graviton Gun]] attack that pinned the Aerialbot down. Unfortunately for Menasor, Metroplex and the other Autobots soon arrived, and the sight of the giant city-bot left the Stunticon combiner momentarily stunned, allowing Superion to right himself. Superion disengaged Slingshot, who knocked Wildrider loose from Menasor and took his place, immobilizing the Decepticon so that Superion could stomp him into defeat. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}

====''The Animated Movie''====
[[File:TAM TPB Gestalt Fight.jpg|thumb]]
During the [[Battle of Autobot City]] in 2005, Menasor and Bruticus staged an attack on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]], occupying the attentions of Omega Supreme, Superion and Defensor and preventing them from coming to the aid of their comrades in the besieged city. {{storylink|Transformers: The Animated Movie|The Animated Movie trade paperback}}
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====''Wings Universe''====
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{{Wingsnote}}
After Cybertron entered its new Golden Age, the war between the Autobots and Decepticons still raged in space and on Earth. Menasor was permanently destroyed in battle with his nemesis, [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]. Only Breakdown, acting as one of the giant's legs at the time, managed to survive the colossal damage Menasor suffered. He swore revenge against the last surviving [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]], [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]], dedicating himself to finishing the destruction his team had started. {{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}
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===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
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''Menasor first appeared in a series of dreams experienced by [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]], in which the young boy saw the Decepticon combiner ambush Superion while the Autobot was distracted after defeating [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] in combat, only to be beaten back and buried in a landslide. Realizing in short order that these dreams were, in fact, visions of the future granted to Buster by the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] his brain had briefly housed, the Autobots and Decepticons devised a way to peer into his mind. In this dream-vision, they watched as the Stunticons formed Menasor to combat the Protectobots as they attempted to save humans at the [[Pullen Power Plant]]. Menasor found himself physically outmatched by the Protectobot gestalt Defensor, but back-up soon arrived in the form of Bruticus. While Defensor and Bruticus grappled, Superion arrived to engage Menasor; unfortunately for the Stunticon combiner, his personality problems handicapped him, with Dead End taking objection to being ordered about, leading to him firing his weapons too late to hit Superion and accidentally blasting Bruticus instead. Menasor attempted to flee, but Superion stopped his flight by opening a crevasse under his feet with his [[stress fracture cannon]].'' {{storylink|Second Generation!}} {{storylink|The Special Teams Have Arrived}}

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''Using these dreams as a blueprint'', the Decepticons constructed the Stunticons and imbued them with life via one of [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s, which siphoned off the energies of the Creation Matrix as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] used it to bring the similarly created Aerialbots to life. When the two teams subsequently met in battle over the Autobot named [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] and his human passenger, [[Donny Finkleberg]], they merged into Menasor and Superion for the first time. The two gargantuan gladiators shattered a freeway overpass (or was it an entrance ramp...?) before engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Unfortunately for the Autobots, the ever-unhelpful robot hunter named [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Circuit Breaker]] entered the fray for [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team|RAAT]] and zapped Superion, temporarily overloading his circuitry and allowing Menasor to administer the coup-de-grace, courtesy of his [[cyclone gun]]. Skids and Finkleberg disappeared in the melee, though, forcing the Stunticons to disconnect and begin searching for them anew. {{storylink|Heavy Traffic!}}

''Later, Menasor attacked a [[G.B. Blackrock|Blackrock]] fuel plant, once again drawing the attention of the Aerialbots. [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] and his team were forced to combine into Superion in order to battle the united Stunticons. Unfortunately for Silverbolt, this meant his teammates learned about his fear of heights due to the mental bleedover. Ashamed, he caused Superion to fight back extremely savagely against Menasor, almost injuring innocent civilians in the process.'' {{storylink|...Perchance to Dream}}
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====Marvel UK future timelines====
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In [[2008]], the renegade Decepticons [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] teamed up with the freelance peacekeeping agent named [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]] to assassinate Commander [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]]. Cut off from the battle by a set of blast doors, [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] summoned Menasor to help him break through and deal with the traitors. The super-robot eventually succeeded, but it was too late. Shockwave was dead, and the Decepticons were forced to accept Scourge and Cyclonus as their new leaders. {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

===The Special Teams===
A malfunction in the systems of the Autobots' new combiner team, the Aerialbots, caused them to briefly defect to the Decepticons, but when they returned to the Autobot ranks, Megatron was inspired to compensate for their loss by creating the Stunticons. After Starscream collected the freshly-created Stunticons from Cybertron, Megatron ordered them all to rendezvous with the rest of the Decepticon force at the recently evacuated [[Pullen Power Plant]]. The Stunticons merged into Menasor to smash through the Protectobots guarding the plant, but Menasor was unprepared for the Protectobots' own ability to combine into Defensor. Bruticus soon arrived to back him up, but Superion then join the fray; Menasor and Superion squared off, with the Aerialbot combiner successfully damaging Menasor's armor with his stress fracture cannon. Having taken enough lumps for one day, Menasor disengaged into the individual Stunticons and fled. {{storylink|The Special Teams}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Menasor was one of several combiner robots based on the original prototype, [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. He existed as the combined form of Motormaster's Stunticons, but was effectively forced into retirement by the [[Crisis Intervention Accord]], which outlawed the use of super-robots among the factions. {{storylink|Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages|War Within: The Dark Ages}}

At some point in Cybertron's recent history, the Stunticons were deemed psychotic and too dangerous to function in society, and as a result were placed into perpetual stasis lock inside of a [[Detention Banks|prison facility]], much to the relief of security officer [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]]. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye #6}} However, in the year 2003, in an attempt to create a diversion while he set his final plans in motion, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] surreptitiously release the Stunticons, unleashing Menasor on an unsuspecting world once again. The deranged combiner ran amok for a while, crushing Defensor and the Wreckers when they tried to stand in his way, until [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] arrived and took up the fight. Insulting the individual Stunticons as he battled, Magnus was able to fracture Menasor's mind, causing the five Stunticons' consciousnesses to began to bickering inside his head over whose fault it was that they were losing. Temporarily paralyzed by this mental turmoil, Menasor was left wide open, and Ultra Magnus rammed the combiner in the chest, forcing him to separate into his disabled component parts. {{storylink|Passive Aggression}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
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When a group of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and [[Cobra]] members ran into the Stunticons in 1930's [[Chicago]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] warned them about the existence of Menasor. Thankfully, Motormaster wasn't around to form the giant. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}}

After the Stunticons were recruited into [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]]'s army, Menasor attacked an Autobot peace ceremony, teaming up with [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] and [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]] to defeat [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} He then tracked down Optimus Prime, stomped on a [[Optimus Prime's rescuees|civilian]] Optimus had just saved, and delivered [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] to pass a message on to the Autobot leader. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}
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===''The Beast Within''===
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Just as the Decepticons were on the brink of a great victory over the Autobots, the tables turned when the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] revealed their long-hidden combined form, [[Beast (G1)|The Beast]]. This misshapen monstrosity's raw power struck fear in all the Decepticons, but the Constructicons, Combaticons and Stunticons found the courage to combine and counter-attack. When the Beast effortlessly felled Bruticus and Devastator, however, Menasor thought twice about going through with an attack, and instead cowered before the monster, begging for mercy. But the Beast had none: it seized Menasor, lifted him above its head, and tore him to pieces. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}
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===''Mystery of Convoy''===
{{see|#Games}}
====''Alternity''====
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One of a higher-dimensional [[Megatron (G1)#Alternity|Megatron]]'s many pawns in a "[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|game full of death and suffering]]", Menasor was empowered to be pitted against an [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|avatar]] of a higher-dimensional [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Alternity|Optimus Prime]], alongside endless hordes of other Decepticons. {{storylink|To Die Game!}}

====''Mystery of Convoy'' strategy guide manga====
The five Stunticons confronted Ultra Magnus as he reached the end of the [[Floating City]], combining into Menasor and opening fire on the Autobot. Magnus leapt over their blasts and returned fire, striking the combiner's weak point: the flashing spot in the middle of his forehead. {{storylink|Transformers (Mystery of Convoy)#Menasor's Weak Point is His Forehead!|Menasor's Weak Point is His Forehead!}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Things Fall Apart, Part 4: "Enemies of the System"|''Transformers'' #5]]}}
[[File:EnemiesoftheSystem menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|left|Menasor's only purpose in IDW fiction is get beaten up by everyone and everything.]]
Gestalt technology was the product of [[Nexus Prime]]'s [[Enigma of Combination]] in the ancient past of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and when it was lost, many dedicated themselves to rediscovering it. {{storylink|The Crucible}} Perhaps the most unexpected success was that accomplished by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], who stole what little of the technology had been re-engineered, reunited the scattered Stunticons after they were left behind on Earth following the Decepticon evacuation of the planet, and gave them the ability to combine into Menasor. Keeping his accomplishment a secret, Swindle forged a phoney alliance with a splinter group of Autobots led by Hot Rod, but once they had completed construction of the spacecraft to take them off Earth, he revealed his intent to steal the ship and kill the Autobots, and had the Stunticons merge into Menasor before their horrified eyes. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 4: "Enemies of the System"|Enemies of the System}} Fortunately for the Autobots, the combination wasn't seamless, and the Stunticons were left with individualized consciousnesses instead of a gestalt Menasor mind. ''Un''fortunately for Swindle's chosen first target, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]], they didn't disagree about killing him...only ''how'' to kill him. The arrival of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] gave Menasor momentary pause, long enough for [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] to recognize how uncoordinated Menasor's mind(s) was, and instruct the Autobots on exploiting that weakness. By selectively targeting the individual Stunticon components, the Autobots forced them to think of their own safety instead of Menasor's, making the giant easy prey. He was overwhelmed by their firepower, and broken down into separate Decepticons before capture. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"|Earthworks}}

The Stunticons' makeshift combination would never function again, but represented a further step in the continuing rediscovery of the technology; Shockwave studied the records of his creation, {{storylink|Shockpoint}} which fed into the Decepticons' subsequent perfection of the process. {{storylink|Before the Dawn}} When [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] later took rulership of Cybertron, he encouraged [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] to help him create a functioning combiner of his own, citing Menasor as a particularly worrisome example of a combiner created by an unlikely source. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}}

[[File:CW-returnofmenasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Basically the only time that Menasor posed a threat to anyone... for about five minutes or so.]]
After [[The Question|a particularly humiliating defeat]] resulted in [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] leaving the Stunticons, Offroad was brought in to replace him. As the Stunticons were explaining to him how they operated, they were approached by Swindle, who piqued their interest by showing them that he had with him the Enigma of Combination. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} Beforehand, Starscream had also arranged for [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]] to join the Stunticons, fully aware that the cop's anger issues would affect the personality of a combiner... {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}}

After using the Enigma to upgrade Menasor—allowing the Stunticons to properly merge their minds—the Stunticons combined, and accompanied Swindle to the colony world of [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], ready to steal anything of value from its people. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} He appeared in front of the [[Alpha Squadron]] to menace his enemies and when [[Afterburner (G2)|one of them]] tried to arrest him, he stomped the poor bot flat. By this point Swindle realized Starscream had arranged for the Stunticons to play villains so that he could take them down and become the "savior" of Caminus, but his attempts to convince Menasor to stand down were in vain due to Blackjack's influence, which turned the combiner into an unhinged, raging monster. Menasor made short work of both Camien defenders and Starscream's reinforcements from Cybertron, but was finally brought down when Starscream and Optimus Prime deployed the Autobot combiner [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], whose mental stability prevailed over Menasor's blind rage. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}}

The Stunticons and Swindle were incarcerated in Starscream's secret prison while Starscream built relations with the Camiens. {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} However, in the interim, [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] and the Constructicons returned to Cybertron and tried to use [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] to forcibly sever contact between Cybertron and Caminus, only to bet thwarted when Starscream created the Autobot combiner [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]. {{storylink|The Possible Light}} {{storylink|Mistakes and Mayhem}} Meanwhile, Starscream's advisor [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], also not wanting Starscream to form a Cybertronian empire, was colluding with Prowl. While Starscream gained Devastator's loyalty, Rattrap freed Swindle to cause a distraction while Rattrap freed Prowl. Swindle graciously complied, breaking out the Stunticons and proceeding to lie to them and several Decepticons that a better life awaited them on Caminus. The Stunticons combined into Menasor, leading the charge to Metroplex's space bridge chamber. Menasor tried to enter the portal only for Devastator to oppose him; Defensor and Superion soon joined the four-way fray. During the ensuing clash, a stray shot from Swindle hit the space bridge's control panel and destabilized the portal. Menasor and Superion fell through to an unknown, alien planet and were soon joined by Defensor and then Devastator, who demands that the other three calm down or else he would make them calm down. But then they were joined by the result of Prowl's machinations: the new combiner [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]! {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} The combiners fought as they travelled from planet to planet, and Menasor was subsequently knocked out by Defensor and dragged back to Cybertron, where Windblade and Chromia helped subdue him. {{storylink|All That Remains}}

Later, when the [[Mistress of Flame]] wanted [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] released to Camien custody, she suggested Swindle or Menasor could be handed over instead to face justice for their crimes. Wanting to keep Menasor and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] on his side, Starscream opted to release Chromia. {{storylink|Heavy}}

===''Titanium Series'' Menasor toy bio===
With the help of experimental technology, the gestalt frame of Menasor was unified into a singular body. While the dominant personality of this new body was Motormaster, the constant mental assault on him by the supressed personalities of his Stunticon teammates made Menasor little more than a destructive monster of rage and agony, making him unable to reach his potential to be the ultimate weapon.

Motormaster's control slipped only once in an occasion when Stunticons found themselves united in Menasor. {{storylink|#Titanium Series|Titanium Series Menasor}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
With [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], Menasor attempted to place a giant bust of [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]]'s head atop the Decepticon's solar tower. However, the three were unable to work as a team and sent the tower collapsing on themselves. {{storylink|Megatron's Ambition!? The Solar Tower Is Built!}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
During the Battle for [[Sherman Dam]] in [[Primax 096.0 Beta]], Menasor attacked [[Defensor (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Defensor]] while the Autobot was attempting to evacuate the workers. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask vector Prime, 2015/09/06}}

===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
Menasor was among the gathered Decepticons standing safely behind [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s force field when the combined forces of the Autobots and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] came calling. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}}

===''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoons===
{{voiceactor|[[Charlie Guzman]] (English)}}
[[File:CombinerWarsTheFallScreen.JPG|thumb|upright=1.5|left|"Hi, I'm Trypticon!"]]
The creation of Menasor and his ilk led to Optimus Prime's realization that the Transformers' civil war had become a never-ending arms race, one that could only end in Cybertron's destruction. {{storylink|Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Optimus Prime}}

Menasor and [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] fought one another, a fight that spilled over to [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]]. Menasor was able to put down his Autobot enemy for good, but was soon set upon by [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] and [[Maxima]]. Declaring that combiners were here to stay, he killed Maxima after she blasted him in the eye - but Maxima's sacrifice allowed Windblade to kill the combiner. {{storylink|The Fall}} For this incident, Windblade swore vengeance against the combiners and all who followed them. {{storylink|Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Windblade}} Menasor's remains were brought back to Cybertron, where Starscream absorbed them into his giant super-combiner form. {{storylink|A War of Giants}}

For some reason or the other, Menasor and [[Computron (G1)|Computron]] were later brought back to life. Probably due to the [[Enigma of Combination]]. {{storylink|Destruction's Dawn}}

Menasor assisted in the reconstruction efforts following the end of the Combiner Wars. {{storylink|Aftermath and Rebirth}} When [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] attacked, he and the other Combiners were recruited by the [[Mistress of Flame]] to search for [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. {{storylink|Our Heroes Respond}} They eventually reached the [[Titan (group)|Titan]], where Menasor got distracted by a flashing button and pressed it, inadvertently launching a [[Emissary (TR)|missile]]. {{storylink|The Fight Begins}} When [[Victorion]] took control of Fortress Maximus's weapons and prepared to fire them at Trypticon, Menasor spoke up in protest, noting that the barrage would hit [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] as well, but was overruled. {{storylink|Overlord and Emissary}}

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When [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] arrived at Fortress Maximus and revealed the Mistress of Flame had perished, Menasor and the other Combiners assumed him responsible and attacked. Menasor managed to grab Megatron, but was forced to release him after taking a shot to the face from his [[fusion cannon]]. Once Windblade arrived and the fight stopped long enough for Megatron to explain, Menasor fused with the other Combiners using the Enigma of Combination, turning Victorion into a super-Combiner. {{storylink|Desperate Actions}} Unfortunately, they proved no match for Trypticon and were ultimately forced to separate again, though Menasor was quick to jump back into the fray. He and Computron attempted to attack Trypticon's foot to knock him off balance, later joining the others in attacking Trypticon's fortress mode from all sides. {{storylink|In Good Hands}} When Trypticon swallowed Victorion and the Enigma, he used its power to take control of Menasor and the other Combiners, forcing them to attack Maximus and Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Consumed}} Menasor was freed form Trypticon's control after the Titan expelled the Enigma, and he bore witness to the return of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] and the death of Optimus. Believing he intended to restart the Decepticons, Menasor was all but ready to kill Megatron, but cooler heads eventually prevailed and he agreed to follow Megatron's lead in hopes of stopping Megatronus. {{storylink|All Things Must Pass}}

Unfortunately, while the others went searching for the [[Requiem Blaster (Thirteen)|Requiem Blaster]] in [[Primal Swamp]], Menasor and his team were cornered by [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Cron]]. Though he refused to admit Megatron's whereabouts and tried to fight back, he was eventually restrained by Overlord, who forced him to watch as Rodimus destroyed each of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]'s limbs. Finally cracking, Menasor confessed where the others had gone, only for Rodimus to finish Devastator off and Overlord to crush Menasor's neck, killing him again, causing his spark to float away. {{storylink|Volcanicus (episode)|Volcanicus}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon===
[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Ep1-Menasor-easter-egg.jpg|left|thumb|Teletraan I accurately predicts the Stunticons' release in the [[Transformers: Legacy|next toyline]].]]
Upon exiting the [[Dead Universe]], [[Teletraan I]] was immobilized while processing a massive data upload, {{storylink|Earthrise episode 6}} as he was seeing multiple visions of the future, {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}} one of which included Menasor. An ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' monitor would display the future data again after crash landing on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}}
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==Commercial appearances==
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*After some dramatic transforming and posing, the Stunticons and Aerialbots combined to do battle as Menasor and Superion. Superion evaded Menasor's firepower and closed in for a hand-to-hand fight, but Menasor was ready for the Aerialbot combiner and hurled him over his shoulder. Charging in to finish the job, however, Menasor was met by Superion's powerful fist and send reeling backwards to collide with a cliff-face, which collapsed and buried him. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Aerialbots and Stunticons|Aerialbots and Stunticons commercial}}
*When Menasor was wreaking havoc in a human city, either [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] or [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] stepped forth to oppose him. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#2015|Transformers Generations: Combiner Wars commercials}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Mystery of Convoy''===
*''Stage'': 5
*''Point value'': 5000
*''Hit points'': 4
[[File:MysteryofConvoy Menasor.png|right|thumb|Menasor, famous for... flying in place.]]

Menasor guards the end of the [[Floating City]], in a great dark room with three hovering platforms, firing periodic laser blasts across the room. His armor makes him invulnerable to damage, except for one spot: a conveniently glowing multicolored spot on his forehead crest. Shot enough times there, and Menasor will fall. {{storylink|Transformers: Mystery of Convoy}}
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===''Transformers: The Headmasters''===
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When the Decepticons captured some of the Autobots' greatest warriors, Menasor and [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] stood guard over [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] and [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] on the Jail planet. They were defeated and their prisoners were rescued by [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and the other freed Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)|Transformers: The Headmasters}}
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===''Transformers Legends''===
The Stunticons were created in response to the failure of a Decepticon campaign to acquire Autobot superfuel. Realizing they needed a strong ground force, the Stunticons were created by modifying Earth vehicles with Cybertronian technology, and then bringing them before Vector Sigma to be imbued with the spark of life. The Autobots brought the Aerialbots to life at the same time, and the Decepticons found themselves on the losing side until the Stunticons merged into Menasor. The Decepticons lost nonetheless, though they acquired the key to Vector Sigma as a consolation prize. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1 (Legends)|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}} Upon discovering that the key could transform Earth's organic matter into metal, the Stunticons merged once more into Menasor to fight against the Aerialbots, who attempted to stop them from transforming Earth into a new Cybertron. Menasor was defeated by Superion. {{storylink|Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Corporal Pig#As Menasor}}
Menasor appears as the third Combiner, unlockable in Challenge Events or with a gem purchase. His head is Corporal Pig's. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers Battle Circuit''===
Menasor, one of the "greatest Transformers of all time," was part of a Decepticon team that participated in a tournament on Cybertron. He faced off against a team of Autobots in a series of one-on-one matches. If he managed to defeat Bumblebee, Rodimus, Grimlock, Jetfire, and Optimus Prime, Menasor was declared to be the tournament's champion! {{storylink|Transformers Battle Circuit}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Menasor.jpg|thumb|My optic sweep specials make me more ineffective at max level!]]
Menasor participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! Menasor could be recruited to a team if all of his components were at max level. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Devastation''===
{{voiceactor|[[James Arnold Taylor]]}}

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After being defeated by the Autobots while they tried to retrieve the [[Plasma Core]], Motormaster brought out the rest of the Stunticons to form Menasor. The Autobots were able to get the better of the combiner, but he still tossed the Plasma Core to a waiting Insecticon that delivered it to Megatron (while rather petulantly complaining that no one defeated Menasor). Menasor appeared again on the ''[[Proudstar]]'' to help Devastator stop the Autobots from reaching the [[Ferrotaxis]], but both of the combiners were sent plummeting over the ledge to their apparent doom. {{storylink|Transformers: Devastation}}
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===''Transformers: Frontiers''===
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Menasor_Earth_Wars.jpg|thumb| Offroad not used, because Menasor doesn't want to seem [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|too familiar]]]]

Menasor was formed after a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Rust Renegades, and Lugnut's betrayal so that he could revive Megatron. Motormaster vowed revenge, but the personalities of the Stunticons clashed, and Menasor couldn't exactly be controlled.
{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

Menasor can be formed once all 3 to 4 star Stunticons have been collected.

*'''Class''' - Combiner
* '''Weapons''' - Menasor swings around a large sword to heavily damage any building. His sword is capable of deflecting projectiles and damage. When up close, Menasor can also stomp on enemy defenses.
*'''Abilities''':
**'''Blade Dash''' - Dash straight to a target and slash it for heavy damage
**'''Kinetic Barrier''' - Spin your blade, reflecting 75% of all damage dealt to you and dealing damage to nearby enemies
**'''Internal Conflict''' - Deal heavy damage and disable enemies over a large area while losing 20% of your max Health. If this ability kills you, disable the entire enemy base for 10–15 seconds
*'''Cooldown''': 15 seconds to 20 seconds.
[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:menasor Menasor at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Menasor was the combined form of the Stunticons, and a monstrous force of nature to be reckoned with. {{storylink|Decepticon Directive}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1menasor toy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Not [[Masquerade|Optimus Prime and the Autobots in cosplay]].]]
*'''Menasor''' ([[1986]], [[1990]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-55'''
**''Accessories:'' Head, left & right fists, left & right feet, [[roller car]]/chest plate, "blast deflector" waist plate, Motormaster's [[cyclone gun]] and [[ionizer sword]], small Stunticons' individual guns, sticker sheets (both individual packs and giftset)
{{toydesigner|[[Kaoru Matsumoto]] (TakaraTomy)<ref>[https://patents.google.com/patent/USD297039 Menasor's patent] at Google Patents.</ref>|[[Mark Watts]] (packaging artist)}}

:Menasor is formed out of all five Stunticon toys, with Motormaster serving as the central body component, and the four smaller team members as limbs, using additional attachments for Menasor's hands and feet, a mask for his head, waist armor, and a chestplate formed from the "roller car" figure included with Motormaster. He is armed with Motormaster's sword and cyclone rifle. As a "[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)#1986 (Scramble City and Transformers 2010)|Scramble City]]"-style combiner, Menasor's limbs are fully interchangeable; any of his limb-components, or any members of the other compatible combiner teams, are able to form either an arm or leg for the giant. Menasor is the smallest, but sturdiest, of the Scramble City combiners.

:Along with Metroplex, Superion, Bruticus, and Defensor, Menasor was designed for an aborted ''[[Diaclone]]'' line that would have been called ''[[Diaclone#Jizai Gattai|Jizai Gattai]]'' (自在合体 "Limitless Combination"), which was shelved to make way for the ''Transformers'' line. Menasor's five Stunticon components could be purchased either individually, or in a giftset. A Japanese "VS-A" set that would have packaged Menasor with Superion was planned, but went unreleased.

:In his original release year of 1986, Menasor's five Stunticon components could be purchased either individually, or in a [[giftset]]. The individual Stunticons were later reissued in [[Europe]] as part of the ''[[Classics (Europe)|Classics]]'' series in 1990.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Menasor/menasor.htm More information on Menasor at TFU.info]''
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===''Generation 2''===
[[File:G2 Stunticons 1995 Tomart.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|[[Generation 2 Defensor and Menasor|Yowza]].]]
*'''Menasor''' (unreleased)
**''Accessories:'' Head, left & right fists, left & right feet, [[roller car]]/chest plate, "blast deflector" waist plate, Motormaster's cyclone gun and sword, small Stunticons' individual guns
:[[Redeco]]s of all five Stunticons were planned for release in [[1994]], but were canceled, with only a handful of test shots and production samples made, including a small run of [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdowns]] produced as a [[BotCon 1994|1994 BotCon]] exclusive. Given the ''Generation 2'' toyline's handling of other combiners, it is unlikely Menasor would have been released as a giftset even if the individual figures had made it to retail.

:While the number of collectors who own ''Generation 2'' Menasor is vanishingly small in ''this'' universe, at least one collector in [[Unicron Trilogy|''another'' universe]] has managed to snag himself [[Generation 2 Defensor and Menasor|a set]]—Decepticon toy aficionado [[Shortround (Cybertron)|Shortround]]!

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===''Universe'' (2003)===
[[File:Universe2003MenasorTestshot.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Man. He looks like a rolling bruise.]]
*'''Menasor''' (Ultra Class, <s>[[2004]]</s>?)
:A redeco of ''[[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]]'' Ultra Class [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Machine Wars|Optimus Prime]] (himself a [[retool]]ing of Generation 1 [[Thunder Clash#Toys|Thunder Clash]]) as Menasor was planned as a store exclusive for the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe toyline]]'', but was ultimately canceled. It was initially supposed to be Motormaster, but trademark issues forced a name change.

::*''[http://www.iaconone.com/datatrax/datatrax_002.php Unproduced Universe Menasor package art at Iacon One Datatrax]''

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===''Classics''===
[[File:ClassicsLOCMenasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Not [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]].]]
*'''Menasor''' (Classic Legends, [[2007]])
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] (deco artist)}}
:This black and purple [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]] [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends of Cybertron]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#LOC1|Optimus Prime]] transforms into a futuristic truck cab. It was intended to be Motormaster, but the name [[trademark]] could not be obtained. The toy was given the name "Menasor", and the super robot's function of "Super Warrior," effectively making him Menasor, not Motormaster.

:This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Zone]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/ClassicsMenasor/menasor.htm More information on ''Classics'' Menasor at TFU.info.]''
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===''Titanium Series''===
[[File:Titanium-toy Menasor.JPG|upright=1.67|thumb|Not [[Dark Hot Rod]].]]
*'''Menasor''' (6" Cybertron Heroes, [[2007]])
**''Accessories:'' Rifle, display stand
:A [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] [[exclusive]] first sold at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2007, Menasor is a redeco of the ''[[Titanium Series]]'' [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|Rodimus Prime]], transforming into a Cybertronic Winnebago-ish thing.

:According to this Menasor's bio, he is a single entity built from the bodies of the individual Stunticons and controlled by their psychotic, permanently unified minds.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Decepticon/SDCCMenasor/menasor.htm More information on ''Titanium'' Menasor on TFU.info.]''
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-Toy Menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Now, where's my Trucker hat?]]
*'''Menasor''' (Micro-Changer Combiner, 2013)
**''Set number'': '''A7308'''
**''Pieces'': '''90'''
{{toydesigner|[[Ed Masiello]] (Hasbro)}}

:Part of the third wave of [[Kreon]] [[Micro-Changer]] combiner sets, Menasor comes as a set of four component Kreons: Breakdown, Dead End, Drag Strip, and Motorbreath. The Kreons can be built into their robot modes or their vehicle modes, or they can be built into Menasor by taking them apart and combining their pieces.

:Like the entire Micro Changer combiner sets, Menasor comes with only one Kre-O display brick, and a sticker sheet composed of his leg detailing and a ''Kre-O'' logo. Due to the leg stickers being slightly transparent, applying them into the black-colored leg parts can render the details being semi-transparent. The instructions also did not mention on where you should put the ''Kre-O'' logo sticker. Also, Menasor's combined mode's waist part is somehow prone to falling off from the assembly while posing, and he has a problem standing straight due to how the legs are constructed.

:As Kreon combiners only involve four components, ''Kre-O'' [[Wildrider (G1)#Kre-O|Brake-Neck]] instead ended up as a Series 4 blind-bagged figure. However he can built along with the gestalt if you have any creativity.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/Kre-OMenasor/menasor.htm More information on Menasor at TFU.info]''

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*'''Combiner Robot Mega Pack''' (3-pack, 2016)
**''Set number'': '''B6425'''
**''Pieces'': '''245'''
:3 years later, the 3 Micro-Changer combiners, Superion, Bruticus, and Menasor was reissued and released as a 3-pack. The toys were unchanged from their individual releases.

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===''Combiner Wars''===
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[[File:Generations CW Menasor.JPG|thumb|upright=1.67|Still not Optimus Prime and the Autobots in cosplay...[[Optimus Maximus (G1)|or is he?]] ]]
*'''Decepticon Dragstrip''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
*'''Dead End''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
*'''Motormaster''' (Voyager Class, 2015)
*'''Breakdown''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
*'''Decepticon Offroad''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
:*'''Brake-Neck''' (Deluxe Class, 2015)
*'''Decepticon Blackjack''' (Legends Class, 2015)
**''Accessories:'' Sword (formed from Motormaster's sword and gun), 4 hands/feet, 4 small weapons
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)|[[Marcelo Matere]] (packaging artist)}}

:Part of the ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' subline, ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' Menasor is an entirely new mold Scramble City-style combiner made up of four Deluxe figures ([[Drag Strip (G1)#Combiner Wars|Dragstrip]], [[Breakdown (G1)#Combiner Wars|Breakdown]], [[Dead End (G1)#Combiner Wars|Dead End]], and new member [[Offroad (CW)#Toys|Offroad]]) as limbs, a Voyager figure ([[Motormaster (G1)#Combiner Wars|Motormaster]]) as the torso, and [[Blackjack (G1)#Generations|Blackjack]] for the chestplate. He can wield a large, [[5 mm post]] sword formed by connecting Motormaster's smaller sword to his gun and can also hold any of the Deluxe components' smaller weapons. He was announced at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] [[2014]] along with fellow combiner Superion. His stock photo cleverly concealed an online listing image of ''Generations'' Huffer and Blackjack. A few months after the other Stunticons' release, [[Wildrider (G1)#Generations|Brake-Neck]] (actually Wildrider, renamed due to trademark reasons) was announced and released shortly thereafter, intended to replace Offroad and complete the original Stunticon roster.

:Menasor is considered the least-stable Combiner of the entire ''Combiner Wars'' line, due to the various design failures that plague Motormaster's design which will more likely than not cause him to fall apart. Such issues include but are not limited to: bad hip articulation due to poorly-designed ratchet joints which complicates his ability to stand any way other than straight and stiff (further complicated by the lack of ankle articulation necessary to compensate), shoulder mechanisms that come untabbed due to weak lock tolerances if the arms are moved, a problematic waist swivel caused by the skirt flap being attached to the stomach instead of the pelvis, and the inability to keep Blackjack securely attached to the chest due to incorrectly-molded sizing in the tabs. Although the hip ratchet problem was (slightly) resolved with an updated re-release of Motormaster that included remolded ratchets, the other problems were not addressed by the rerelease or subsequent redecos.

:Although heavily based on the G1 design for Menasor, the Generations iteration of Menasor instructs the legs to be attached with the car body facing forward, as opposed to facing backwards like the G1 toy. Although the undersides of the Stunticons resemble the G1 toys enough to resemble the G1 design if attached backwards, doing so will rob Menasor of his functional knees, ironic due to the fact the reverse was done to give the G1 Menasor toy functioning knees.

:As a part of the first and second wave promotion in Hasbro's Asian markets, a free sticker sheet for the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s and [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticon]]s was given out when purchasing any four Deluxe Class toys from those waves. As such, Menasor was given Generation 1 toy-esque stickers for the owner to apply if they wanted.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-generations-combiner-wars-free-g1-sticker-sheet-with-tru-singapore/32469/ Aerialbot and Stunticon sticker promotion on Seibertron.com]</ref> These sticker sheets did not include stickers for Brake-Neck or Blackjack, however.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Decepticon/CWMenasor/menasor.htm More information on ''Generations'' Menasor at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Transformers-Generations-Combiner-Wars-G2-Menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|[[Shortround (Cybertron)|Shortround]] would have a field day at this.]]
*'''Menasor''' (Collection Pack, 2015)
**''Accessories:'' Sword, Stunticon weapons/extremities
:A [[redeco]] of the ''Combiner Wars'' Stunticons, based on their cancelled [[#Generation 2|''Generation 2'' toys]]. Well, okay, [[Circular reporting|technically]], this set is based on [http://air-hammer.deviantart.com/art/G2-Stunticons-Digibash-471989649 somebody's digibash] based on [http://cybertron.ca/boards/showthread.php?p=76573 somebody's hand-painted recreation] of the cancelled ''Generation 2'' toys, including an erroneous purple and silver [[Breakdown (G1)#CWG2|Breakdown]] and some other errors. This set replaces Offroad with [[Wildrider (G1)#CWG2|Brake-Neck]], and includes [[Blackjack (G1)#CWG2|Blackjack]]. G2 Menasor is available as a box set, and comes with a collector card and a poster of ''Combiner Wars'' G1 Menasor printed on cardstock paper, both presented inside an envelope.

:This set's Motormaster has the improved hip ratchet joints.

:The second set of stock photos shows Menasor as ''hideously'' mistransformed in combined mode, and some shots also depicted the head with only one horn, the other being broken off.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2016/Decepticon/CWMenasor/menasor.htm More information on ''Combiner Wars'' G2 Menasor at TFU.info]''
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===''Unite Warriors''===
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[[File:TakaraTomy-UW02-Menasor.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Oh, no room for Offroad, huh? Well fine, I'll go build my own combiner! With Blackjack! And hookers!]]
*'''Menasor''' (giftset, [[August 22]], [[2015]])
**''ID number:'' '''UW-02'''
**''Accessories:'' Sword (formed from Motormaster's sword and gun), 4 hands/feet, 4 small weapons
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] and [[Hisao Nishimoto]] (TakaraTomy)}}
:Takara's ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' iteration of Menasor was sold in a gift set including all five "Stuntrons" (minus [[Runabout (RID)|the Blackjack mold]]) with Wildrider (a retooled Dead End) included instead of Offroad. He has numerous changes in deco to better match his look in the Generation 1 cartoon. Most notably, Motormaster has more black on his vehicle mode, "Drag Stripe" has red details instead of purple, and Dead End lacks his usual gold stripe. The set also features some minor improvements to the original sculpts, such as improved hip-ratchets for Motormaster for increased stability. In addition, Breakdown's hand/foot/gun accessory (which was designed with the intended Sunstreaker redeco/retool in mind, doubling as his "supercharger" engine) was replaced with another version of Dragstrip's hand/foot/gun accessory, which also increases the symmetry for the hands and feet.

:As the entirety of Motormaster is molded in [[Gold Plastic Syndrome#Other notable instances|swirly plastic]], Menasor/Motormaster's waist can eventually crack and split the torso in half.

:Printed on his instructions is the second chapter of ''[[Unite Warriors Offshot]]''. Undocumented in the instructions, ''Unite Warriors'' Menasor's chest can attach ''Adventure'' [[Runabout (RID)|Runabout]] (or his mold mates Blackjack and Rodimus) on his combined mode chest.

:The giftset also included a collector commemorative coin when purchased in select retailers outside Japan.
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:TF-Legacy-Combiner-Menasor.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|ゴゴゴゴ (''Menacing'')]]
*'''Menasor''' ([[2022]], [[2023]])
**'''1 of 5: [[Drag Strip (G1)#Legacy|Decepticon Dragstrip]]'''
**'''2 of 5: [[Wildrider (G1)#Legacy|Decepticon Wild Rider]]'''
**'''3 of 5: [[Dead End (G1)#Legacy|Dead End]]'''
**'''4 of 5: [[Breakdown (G1)#Legacy|Breakdown]]'''
**'''5 of 5: [[Motormaster (G1)#Legacy|Decepticon Motormaster]]'''
**''Origin universe'': '''G1 Universe'''
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Takio Ejima]] and [[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)|[[John Warden]] (concept), [[Dan Khanna]] (concept artist)}}

:The first combiner figure released in the main ''Generations'' line since ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'', ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy]]'' Menasor is based heavily on the character's appearance in the original Generation 1 cartoon. To match this design—which depicted the Stunticons as if they were simply hanging off Menasor's limbs, rather than actually forming the limbs themselves—the toy features a very unconventional combination method that involves Motormaster's trailer splitting into five combiner-body pieces—two arms, two legs, and a torso—to which the individual Stunticons attach. When attached to the arm pieces, hidden buttons on the arm Stunticons are pressed that allow them to split in two, giving Menasor a full range of elbow articulation; the leg Stunticons, meanwhile, activate an auto-transform feature in the leg pieces themselves, closing up the front of the leg to "complete" its appearance. Motormaster himself forms the upper block of the chest and the head. Nearly every one of Menasor's joints is constructed using strong ratchets, adding a great deal of stability to him overall.
[[File:Hasbro China Tmall Exclusive Legacy Menasor Boxset.jpg|thumb|left]]

:As the other Stunticons themselves do not actually play a role in the combination process, it is possible—and indeed, advertised on the back of Motormaster's packaging—to combine most of the trailer pieces into a skeletal, incomplete Menasor even if you don't have any of the limb-bots. Unlike past toys of Menasor, the ''Legacy'' Stunticons are not interchangeable, each designed to form a specific limb; at most, you can swap the legs, Breakdown and Wild Rider, for one another. Although the ''Legacy'' Stunticons are not designed to be reverse-compatible with the older ''Combiner Wars'' figures, Motormaster's combination system features ''Combiner Wars'' joint-sized recesses, which technically allow any ''Combiner Wars''-compatible figure to be used as a leg for Menasor, although the connected ''Combiner Wars'' leg will not secure inside the recess and not scale properly if used with a native Menasor leg. The middle portion of Motormaster's trailer is also not involved in the combination. ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' [[Superion (G1)#Age of the Primes|Superion]] makes use of the same frame system as Menasor, and can swap his parts with him, although the bots that connect to the frames cannot be attached to the other combiner’s ones, in addition to the fact Superion's legs are somewhat shorter than Menasor's. Both of his shins share identical detailing due to the scrapped original plan for Breakdown to be a straight redeco of Wildrider with zero retooling.

:One peculiar thing about Menasor's combination is that the instructions display Wildrider on the ''right'' leg, where Breakdown would normally be, but the back of Motormaster's box art displays Wildrider in the ''left'' leg, which is more accurate to Menasor's animation model.

:His forearms have molded details based on his arm blasters from "[[Masquerade]]".

:According to designer [[John Warden]], he devised the basics of this unique combination scheme with Shogo Hasui, passing a napkin back and forth as they split a hamburger.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I remember famously splitting a hamburger Hasui, I tell this story all the time, where we went to a bar and grill and the hamburger was too big, and so we split it down the middle, and we were drawing on napkins having a back-and-forth to each other, and during that meeting we devised the idea of how to make Menasor. He would have to be this Commander class character flanked by a bunch of Deluxes.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/08/03/sdcc-2024-hasbro-interview-john-wardens-return-generations-studio-series-combiners-more-513802|name=John Warden|site=TFW2005|title=SDCC 2024 Hasbro Interview – John Warden’s Return, Generations, Studio Series, Combiners, More!|year=2024|month=08|day=03}}</ref>

: Due to the spotty distribution of the original ''Legacy'' Breakdown figure for three years after its release, collectors often had incomplete Menasors unless they were forced to acquire the "G2 Universe" version of Breakdown as a replacement.

:In January 2023, the entirety of Menasor was sold as a box set exclusive to Hasbro China's Tmall store. It contained all 5 components, unchanged and in their original packaging, inside a larger box decorated with an illustration of Menasor. The set came with an enamel pin based on the combiner's original G1 box illustration. The set was limited to 100 copies.

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[[File:TF-Legacy-ToyDeco-Menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Stunticon Menasor''' (Giftset, [[2023]])
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Stunticon Menastor''' (スタンティコンメナソー)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''TL-90'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[2025]] [[March 29]]
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Takio Ejima]] and [[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released as a giftset, "Stunticon Menasor" is formed from five redecos of the above ''Legacy'' figures, this time based on their original 1986 toy decos. Out of the five figures, only [[Breakdown (G1)#LegacyGiftset|Breakdown]] received an optional alternate head to match his toy design.

:Menasor's five components were revealed at San Diego Comic Con 2023, and sold in a [[Hasbro Pulse]] exclusive giftset. Said giftset features a similar layout to the original Generation 1 Menasor boxset, and even includes a bio and tech specs on the back. Neat!

:The set itself went up for pre-order on [[August 1]]st.
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==Merchandise==
===Transformers Ramune===
[[File:Ramune menasor keshi.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Menasor''' (1986)
**''ID number:'' '''3'''
:An unpainted figurine of Menasor was available as part of the second range of [[Kabaya]]'s line of ''[[Transformers Ramune]]'' [[candy toy]]s, tying in with the ''Scramble City'' toyline. Like all figures in the series, Menasor was sold in a [[Blindpacking|blindpacked]] box with fizzy "ramune" candy, and featured a main body was made of hard red plastic, with soft grey PVC limbs articulated at the hips and shoulders.

*'''Menasor''' (1986)
:Later in 1986, in the third ''Ramune'' wave, Menasor was among the characters immortalized as a soft rubber figurine, known as a ''keshigomu'' in Japan. He was available in either red, blue, or yellow colors, and as before, came blindpacked with ramune candy. While similar to the separate range of ''keshigomu'' figures released by Takara that would later be imported by Hasbro as part of their [[Decoy]] promotion, Menasor and his wave-mates saw no American release.
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===Forms Robo===
*'''Menasor''' (1986)
:Menasor was also part of the small ''[[Forms Robo]]'' collection of larger ''keshigomu'', with this chunkier version of the character standing at around twice the height of his ''Ramune'' figure. Like the other figures in this series, Menasor was packaged in an individual baggie and was available in red, blue, green, and yellow.

===Gaia Scramble/Transformers Gum===
[[File:Kabaya menasor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
*'''Menasor''' (2013)
:This incarnation of Menasor is formed by combining the separate Stunticons available in two of [[Kabaya]]'s lines of [[candy toy]]s: Dead End, Breakdown, Drag Strip and Wildrider were available as part of the ''[[Gaia Scramble]]'' line, while Motormaster was released through the ''[[Transformers Gum]]'' line. All five figures are snap-together model kits that use stickers for details and come with a stick of gum; Dead End and Breakdown share a mold, as do Drag Strip and Wildrider, each kit affecting minor differences in how they are assembled to differentiate the figures beyond color, which, aside from Motormaster, bear no resemblance to any previous established color schemes for the Stunticons.
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===Transformers Trading Card Game===
[[File:W2Menasor.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Menasor, Menacing Colossus''' (2019)
**[[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]], Paranoid Scout
**[[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]], Doomed Loner
**[[Drag Strip (G1)|Decepticon Drag Strip]], Cutthroat Warrior
**[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], Stunticon Leader
**[[Offroad (CW)|Offroad]], All-Terrain Soldier
**'''Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners'''
**''Stars: ''25

:One of the titular [[combiner]]s from the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]] Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners, Menasor, Menacing Colossus can be formed by playing the Action card [[Enigma of Combination|Stunticon Enigma]] while the Character cards for all five [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] are in Bot Mode while on the battlefield and/or the KO area.

:Menasor, Menacing Colossus' art is based on the [[Combiner Wars (franchise)|Combiner Wars]] version of Menasor, with [[Offroad (CW)|Offroad]] replacing [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]]. Like the Combiner Wars version of Menasor, [[Blackjack (G1)|Blackjack]] is depicted as a chestplate despite not being included in the card set.
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===''Transformers Character Card''===
[[File:Transformers Character Card Superion and Menasor.jpg|upright=1|thumb]]
*'''Superion & Menasor Set''' ([[February 6]], [[2023]])
**''ID number:'' '''37 & 38'''

:Released as part of the sixth wave of the [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive ''[[Transformers Character Card]]'' series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (with his components [[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]], [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]], [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] and [[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]]) and Menasor (with ''his'' components [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]], [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]], [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]], [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] and [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]) along with [[bio|character profiles]] and [[Tech Spec|tech specs]].
::*''[[Source:Transformers Character Card#38|Translation of Menasor's Transformers Character Card]]''

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==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Universe-unreleased-Menasor-art.jpg|Unused ''Universe'' packaging art
Machinima-CW-Menasor.jpg|Machinima ''Combiner Wars'' model.
</gallery>

==Notes==
[[File:MenasorEarly.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Menasor got dressed in a rush this morning.]]
[[File:MenasorDevastationConcept.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]

* Menasor's [[instructions]] and [[package art]] depict Drag Strip and Breakdown as his arms, and Wildrider and Dead End as his legs, while the [[character model]] used for the cartoon and comic—which has gone on to become the "default" arrangement for Menasor in most subsequent media—makes Drag Strip and Dead End the arms, and Breakdown and Wildrider the legs. An alternate model, designed by [[Studio OX]] for the ''[[TV Magazine]]'' manga and story pages, seen at the top of this article, makes Drag Strip and Wildrider the arms, and Breakdown and Dead End the legs. Drag Strip's the only one in the same place in every configuration!
* An alternate animation character sheet from the original cartoon exists for Menasor. It features all of the limbs in different orientations (the arms upside-down, the legs upside down and reversed with the car sides facing front) from the final model ''and'' the chest sports an Autobot symbol, suggesting, perhaps, that the Stunticon and Aerialbot toy factions may have originally been the other way around. This model was used for the toy [[commercial]] which appeared to introduce the Stunticons and Aerialbots, though with the faction symbol corrected.
* The animators frequently misinterpreted Menasor's character model in the original cartoon. Instead of having the four small Stunticons as his actual limbs (with, for example, his fist directly attached to Drag Strip's form), he was drawn as though the four cars attached on top of generic blocky limbs that extended from Motormaster.
** Menasor's original design featured in IDW's [[The Transformers (IDW)|ongoing series]] features a modified version of this idea; Motormaster's separating parts form the torso, forearms, hands, and feet of Menasor's body, with the Stunticons filling the missing gaps in the body. When Menasor returned after being rebuilt by the Enigma of Combination, his design was altered to resemble the toy featured in the concurrently running ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' toyline, and returns to the traditional combiner limb setup.
** Conversely, Menasor's appearance in ''[[Transformers: Devastation]]'' combines his classic Generation 1 and ''Combiner Wars'' designs. While combining, the Stunticons instead attach directly on top of Motormaster's limbs before merging with them to form Menasor's limbs. The resulting Menasor design uses the torso and arms from his G1 design, and uses the CW design for the legs, chest and head. Offroad is featured in this design instead of Wildrider, and although he does not appear with the Stunticon grouping prior to combining or when Menasor briefly separates, Blackjack takes the place of the Roller Car on Menasor's chest, materializing directly from Motormaster himself.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Menasor''' (メナゾール ''Menazōru'', メナソー ''Menasō'')
*''French:'' '''Menasor''' (European French cartoon dub, and Canada, carded Stunticon limbs only), '''Confusio''' (Canada, Motormaster's box and Menasor giftset)
*''Italian:'' '''Pentacar''' (toyline and season 3), '''Ultrax''' (cartoon)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēitiān Hǔ''' (飞天虎, "Flying Tiger")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Ameaçador''' (Brazil comic)
*''Russian:'' '''Megasaur''' (Мегазавр ''Megazavr'')
*''Polish:'' '''Minozaury''' or '''Minozaur''' ("Minosaurs" or "Minosaur", "Masquerade"), '''Minotaur''' ("Cosmic Rust"), '''Megazaur''' ("Megasaur", one line of dialogue in "Masquerade")

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Alternity Decepticons]]
[[Category:Classics Decepticons]]
[[Category:Combined forms]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars Decepticons]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars Combiners]]
[[Category:Dreamwave Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Earth Wars Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 toy Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 2 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generations Selects Decepticons]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Decepticons]]
[[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legacy Decepticons]]
[[Category:Marvel Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Mystery of Convoy Decepticons]]
[[Category:SDCC exclusives]]
[[Category:Second Cybertron Alliance]]
[[Category:Stunticons]]
[[Category:Super-God Masterforce Decepticons]]
[[Category:The Headmasters Decepticons]]
[[Category:Transformers Character Card Decepticons]]
[[Category:Transformers Roleplaying Game Decepticons]]
[[Category:Unite Warriors Decepticons]]
[[Category:Unreleased toys]]
[[Category:Wings Universe Decepticons]]
[[Category:Zone Decepticons]]

Transformers (2023) issue 16

2026-01-14T08:36:24Z

Primal primus the second: /* Errors */

{{Comicstory
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|prev=Transformers (2023) issue 15
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|image=Transformers 2023 16 Cover A.jpg
|caption=
|title=
|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[January 8]], [[2025]]
|coverdate=January 2025
|written by=[[Daniel Warren Johnson]]
|art by=[[Jorge Corona]]
|colors by=[[Sarah Stern]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editor=[[Ben Abernathy]]
|production design=[[Andres Juarez]]
|production=[[Ashby Florence]]
|continuity=[[Energon Universe]]
|chronology=
}}

'''The Autobots are caught in the crossfire of a Decepticon civil war, and the only hope to end it may be the return of an even greater evil.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:TF2023 no. 16 – Devastator and Bruticus duke it out in a forest.JPG|left|250px|thumb]]
Despite her reservations, [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] leads [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] across the war-torn wastes of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to what was once the home of Cliffjumper's [[clan]], long forgotten by the [[Decepticon]]s ever since they destroyed it in a bombing campaign. Cliffjumper digs through the rubble to find a [[spark canister]] he had hidden away; though there isn't enough remaining to bring back any of his friends, he says there's the possibility it can be used to create something new.

On [[Earth]], [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] orders the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s to merge into [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] to combat [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. As [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], Soundwave, and their respective troops clash, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] are caught in the middle of the carnage. [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] tries to reason with Starscream, but the one-time Decepticon leader is too obsessed with revenge and reveals the truth of what he and Soundwave did to [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. As Starscream rants about the universe being made only for the strong, Thundercracker uses the [[H.I.S.S. tank]] remote control to steer Starscream's body off a ledge. The blue [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] then transforms and flies away, abandoning Soundwave to the fury of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Optimus decides the [[Autobot]]s must intervene, fearing that the Decepticons’ senseless violence could damage the dam and endanger the humans. However, he is again overcome with visions and rage, firing his [[fusion cannon]] straight at the dam. Water bursts through the structure and sweeps away all the [[Transformer]]s. As the water rushes through the woods, Optimus spots two children on bikes fleeing from the waves. He tries to save them but is unable to reach them. Luckily, they are saved by the timely arrival of [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], who uses his force field to protect the “strange little creatures,” who managed to survive nearly being crushed by the combiners.

Back on Cybertron, the Autobots return to their makeshift headquarters and Elita explains to Cliffjumper that they’ve been unable to communicate with any other Autobot resistances and that they could be the only ones left. Elita asks Cliff what he plans to do with the sparks in the canister, and he reveals his plan to take them to the [[Well of All Sparks|Well of Sparks]]. Elita reveals that the Well is deep in Decepticon-controlled territory, but Cliff insists that they need a new warrior to help them, something Bluestreak echoes. And afterward, Cliff will return to Earth. To [[Carly (G1)|Carly]].

Meanwhile, Carly and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] set off on their search for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] with [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] and [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]. Elsewhere, in some desert, [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] finds that which he was sent to find: [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], sitting in a cave, wounded and blinded. Megatron thanks Laserbeak as he grabs the bird, pulls out some of his cables and connects them to his eyes; he orders Laserbeak to act as his eyes and guide him to the Decepticons.

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (1)
* [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] (2)
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (3)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (14)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (15)
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (21)
* [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (22)
* [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] (25)
* [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (26)

|c2=
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (4)
* [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (5)
* [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (6)
* [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (7)
* [[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (8)
* [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (9)
* [[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (10)
* [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (11)
* [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (12)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (16)
* [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (19)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (20)
* ''[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]]'' (23)
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (27)
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (28)

||c3=
* Kevin (17)
* Kevin's friend (18)
* [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] (24)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (26)
}}

==Quotes==
"You think Soundwave is any different than me?! It was '''both''' of us that tore your precious Skywarp to pieces, all for his useful metals!!!" 
"You-- you lie!" 
"Wake up from your naïveté, Thundercracker!!! The universe is only for the strong!!! [[Turborat]] eat turborat! Spark versus spark! '''METAL ON METAL!'''"
:—'''Starscream''' shocks '''Thundercracker''' with news about their brother.

"Sorry I'm late to the party, I woke up and almost got crushed by [[Devastator_(G1)#Energon Universe|those]] [[Bruticus_(G1)#Energon Universe|two]]! What in the spark is going on?" 
"Chaos."
:—A newly reactivated '''Trailbreaker''' finds '''Optimus Prime''' in a bad spot.

"My old friend. It has been too long. I must thank you. For finding me, wandering this desolate landscape. But thanks to your temporary sacrifice... I can now, see. Now guide me to my warriors."
:—No longer blind, '''Megatron''' has returned.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* We first learned about the destruction of Cliffjumper's clan in [[Transformers (2023) issue 4|issue #4]].
* Thundercracker initially believed the Autobots to be responsible for what became of Skywarp when he was revived in [[Transformers (2023) issue 5|issue #5]], but now knows that it was Starscream and Soundwave that used the Seeker to rebuild [[Teletraan I]].
* This is the first time Astrotrain has used his steam train mode in the Energon Universe.
* It was unknown why Astrotrain was locked away aboard the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' other than his rage against Megatron when we first saw him back in [[Transformers (2023) issue 8|issue #8]]. Here, we learn that Megatron was responsible for "ending his love."
* Optimus Prime has been experiencing strange visions ever since [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparky]] entered the [[Matrix of Leadership]] in [[Transformers (2023) issue 6|issue #6]]. However, these visions have been growing more and more corrupted, along with Optimus' eyes turning purple with rage, since [[Transformers (2023) issue 12|issue #12]].
* MEGATRON RETURNS! The Decepticon leader was last seen in the series proper to be frozen in a block of ice in issue #4, though readers of ''[[Cobra Commander (comic)|Cobra Commander]]'' know that he was taken by the denizens of [[Cobra-La]] to be studied. He escaped from [[Cobra-La]] in [[Transformers Energon Universe 2024 Special story|the ''Transformers'' segment]] of the ''[[Energon Universe 2024 Special]]'', though losing his (remaining) eye to [[Golobulus]] in the process.

===''Transformers'' references===
* Devastator says, "Prepare for Devastation, Bruticus!", a line spoken in ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' by Devastator himself.
* Starscream's line, "Sniveling FOOL! You cannot kill what is unkillable!", to Soundwave, during their fight, is an obvious reference to multiple pieces of Transformers media where Starscream survives death through various ways. Such as surviving as a ghost, having an immortal spark, or by having a piece of the AllSpark connected to him.
* Thundercracker’s decision to abandon the Decepticons fits in with earlier portrayals of him, calling to mind both his original toy file card and his appearances in the [[2005 IDW continuity]].
* The Well of Sparks, more commonly known as the "Well of All Sparks" is a longtime piece of ''Transformers'' mythology, first appearing in the [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]] in ''[[Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages]]'' [[Conflagration|#6]].

===Errors===
* When Soundwave orders Thundercracker to help him fight Starscream and Astrotrain, his Decepticon insignia is coloured red instead of purple.

===Covers (18)===
* '''Cover A:''' Bruticus vs. Devastator, by Daniel Warren Johnson & [[Mike Spicer]].
* '''Cover B:''' Bruticus emerges from a smoking forest, by Jorge Corona & Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover C (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Connecting cover, by [[Karl Kerschl]].
* '''Cover D (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Soundwave vs. Starscream, by [[Manabu Yashiro]].
* '''Cover E (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Laserbeak perches on Megatron's arm, by [[Homare]].
* '''Second Printing Cover A:''' Blast Off, by [[Jason Howard]].
* '''Second Printing Cover B:''' Trailbreaker, by Jason Howard.
* '''Big Time Collectibles Cover A:''' by [[John Giang]].
* '''Big Time Collectibles Cover B:''' by [[Mico Suayan]].
* '''Big Time Collectibles MegaCon 2025 Cover A:''' Foil Virgin Variant, by John Giang.
* '''Big Time Collectibles MegaCon 2025 Cover B:''' Foil Virgin Variant, by Mico Suayan.
* '''The 616 Comics Cover A:''' by [[Tiago da Silva]].
* '''The 616 Comics Cover B:''' by Tiago da Silva.
* '''TopShelfComic Series 2 Mystery Packs Cover A:''' by [[Jimbo Salgado]] & [[Alex Sinclair]].
* '''TopShelfComic Series 2 Mystery Packs Cover B:''' Black & White Variant, by Jimbo Salgado.
* '''TopShelfComic Series 2 Mystery Packs Cover C:''' "Thank You" Foil Virgin Variant, by Jimbo Salgado.
* '''BeachsideHobbies MegaCon 2025 Cover:''' by [[Johnny Desjardins]].
* '''Unknown Comics Cover:''' by [[Chad Hardin]].

<gallery>
File:Transformers 2023 16 Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Cover C.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Cover D.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Cover E.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 2nd Ptg Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 2nd Ptg Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 John Giang Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Mico Suayan Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 John Giang Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Mico Suayan Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 The 616 Comics Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 The 616 Comics Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Jimbo Salgado Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Jimbo Salgado Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Jimbo Salgado Cover C.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Johnny Desjardins Cover.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Unknown Comics Cover.jpg
</gallery>

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===Reprints===
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<gallery>
File:Transformers 2023 V3.jpg|'''''Volume 3: Combiner Chaos''''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 V3 DM Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 3: Combiner Chaos'' Direct Market Exclusive''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
</gallery>

==External links==

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Transformers (2023) issues]]

Transformers (2023) issue 16

2026-01-14T08:36:00Z

Primal primus the second: /* Notes */

{{Comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' #16
|prev=Transformers (2023) issue 15
|next=Transformers (2023) issue 17
|image=Transformers 2023 16 Cover A.jpg
|caption=
|title=
|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[January 8]], [[2025]]
|coverdate=January 2025
|written by=[[Daniel Warren Johnson]]
|art by=[[Jorge Corona]]
|colors by=[[Sarah Stern]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editor=[[Ben Abernathy]]
|production design=[[Andres Juarez]]
|production=[[Ashby Florence]]
|continuity=[[Energon Universe]]
|chronology=
}}

'''The Autobots are caught in the crossfire of a Decepticon civil war, and the only hope to end it may be the return of an even greater evil.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:TF2023 no. 16 – Devastator and Bruticus duke it out in a forest.JPG|left|250px|thumb]]
Despite her reservations, [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] leads [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] across the war-torn wastes of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to what was once the home of Cliffjumper's [[clan]], long forgotten by the [[Decepticon]]s ever since they destroyed it in a bombing campaign. Cliffjumper digs through the rubble to find a [[spark canister]] he had hidden away; though there isn't enough remaining to bring back any of his friends, he says there's the possibility it can be used to create something new.

On [[Earth]], [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] orders the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s to merge into [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] to combat [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. As [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], Soundwave, and their respective troops clash, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] are caught in the middle of the carnage. [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] tries to reason with Starscream, but the one-time Decepticon leader is too obsessed with revenge and reveals the truth of what he and Soundwave did to [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. As Starscream rants about the universe being made only for the strong, Thundercracker uses the [[H.I.S.S. tank]] remote control to steer Starscream's body off a ledge. The blue [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] then transforms and flies away, abandoning Soundwave to the fury of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. Optimus decides the [[Autobot]]s must intervene, fearing that the Decepticons’ senseless violence could damage the dam and endanger the humans. However, he is again overcome with visions and rage, firing his [[fusion cannon]] straight at the dam. Water bursts through the structure and sweeps away all the [[Transformer]]s. As the water rushes through the woods, Optimus spots two children on bikes fleeing from the waves. He tries to save them but is unable to reach them. Luckily, they are saved by the timely arrival of [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], who uses his force field to protect the “strange little creatures,” who managed to survive nearly being crushed by the combiners.

Back on Cybertron, the Autobots return to their makeshift headquarters and Elita explains to Cliffjumper that they’ve been unable to communicate with any other Autobot resistances and that they could be the only ones left. Elita asks Cliff what he plans to do with the sparks in the canister, and he reveals his plan to take them to the [[Well of All Sparks|Well of Sparks]]. Elita reveals that the Well is deep in Decepticon-controlled territory, but Cliff insists that they need a new warrior to help them, something Bluestreak echoes. And afterward, Cliff will return to Earth. To [[Carly (G1)|Carly]].

Meanwhile, Carly and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] set off on their search for [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] with [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] and [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]. Elsewhere, in some desert, [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] finds that which he was sent to find: [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], sitting in a cave, wounded and blinded. Megatron thanks Laserbeak as he grabs the bird, pulls out some of his cables and connects them to his eyes; he orders Laserbeak to act as his eyes and guide him to the Decepticons.

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (1)
* [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] (2)
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (3)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (14)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (15)
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (21)
* [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (22)
* [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] (25)
* [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (26)

|c2=
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (4)
* [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (5)
* [[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (6)
* [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (7)
* [[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (8)
* [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (9)
* [[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (10)
* [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (11)
* [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] (12)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (16)
* [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (19)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (20)
* ''[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]]'' (23)
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (27)
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (28)

||c3=
* Kevin (17)
* Kevin's friend (18)
* [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] (24)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (26)
}}

==Quotes==
"You think Soundwave is any different than me?! It was '''both''' of us that tore your precious Skywarp to pieces, all for his useful metals!!!" 
"You-- you lie!" 
"Wake up from your naïveté, Thundercracker!!! The universe is only for the strong!!! [[Turborat]] eat turborat! Spark versus spark! '''METAL ON METAL!'''"
:—'''Starscream''' shocks '''Thundercracker''' with news about their brother.

"Sorry I'm late to the party, I woke up and almost got crushed by [[Devastator_(G1)#Energon Universe|those]] [[Bruticus_(G1)#Energon Universe|two]]! What in the spark is going on?" 
"Chaos."
:—A newly reactivated '''Trailbreaker''' finds '''Optimus Prime''' in a bad spot.

"My old friend. It has been too long. I must thank you. For finding me, wandering this desolate landscape. But thanks to your temporary sacrifice... I can now, see. Now guide me to my warriors."
:—No longer blind, '''Megatron''' has returned.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* We first learned about the destruction of Cliffjumper's clan in [[Transformers (2023) issue 4|issue #4]].
* Thundercracker initially believed the Autobots to be responsible for what became of Skywarp when he was revived in [[Transformers (2023) issue 5|issue #5]], but now knows that it was Starscream and Soundwave that used the Seeker to rebuild [[Teletraan I]].
* This is the first time Astrotrain has used his steam train mode in the Energon Universe.
* It was unknown why Astrotrain was locked away aboard the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' other than his rage against Megatron when we first saw him back in [[Transformers (2023) issue 8|issue #8]]. Here, we learn that Megatron was responsible for "ending his love."
* Optimus Prime has been experiencing strange visions ever since [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparky]] entered the [[Matrix of Leadership]] in [[Transformers (2023) issue 6|issue #6]]. However, these visions have been growing more and more corrupted, along with Optimus' eyes turning purple with rage, since [[Transformers (2023) issue 12|issue #12]].
* MEGATRON RETURNS! The Decepticon leader was last seen in the series proper to be frozen in a block of ice in issue #4, though readers of ''[[Cobra Commander (comic)|Cobra Commander]]'' know that he was taken by the denizens of [[Cobra-La]] to be studied. He escaped from [[Cobra-La]] in [[Transformers Energon Universe 2024 Special story|the ''Transformers'' segment]] of the ''[[Energon Universe 2024 Special]]'', though losing his (remaining) eye to [[Golobulus]] in the process.

===''Transformers'' references===
* Devastator says, "Prepare for Devastation, Bruticus!", a line spoken in ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' by Devastator himself.
* Starscream's line, "Sniveling FOOL! You cannot kill what is unkillable!", to Soundwave, during their fight, is an obvious reference to multiple pieces of Transformers media where Starscream survives death through various ways. Such as surviving as a ghost, having an immortal spark, or by having a piece of the AllSpark connected to him.
* Thundercracker’s decision to abandon the Decepticons fits in with earlier portrayals of him, calling to mind both his original toy file card and his appearances in the [[2005 IDW continuity]].
* The Well of Sparks, more commonly known as the "Well of All Sparks" is a longtime piece of ''Transformers'' mythology, first appearing in the [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]] in ''[[Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages]]'' [[Conflagration|#6]].

==Errors==
* When Soundwave orders Thundercracker to help him fight Starscream and Astrotrain, his Decepticon insignia is coloured red instead of purple.

===Covers (18)===
* '''Cover A:''' Bruticus vs. Devastator, by Daniel Warren Johnson & [[Mike Spicer]].
* '''Cover B:''' Bruticus emerges from a smoking forest, by Jorge Corona & Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover C (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Connecting cover, by [[Karl Kerschl]].
* '''Cover D (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Soundwave vs. Starscream, by [[Manabu Yashiro]].
* '''Cover E (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Laserbeak perches on Megatron's arm, by [[Homare]].
* '''Second Printing Cover A:''' Blast Off, by [[Jason Howard]].
* '''Second Printing Cover B:''' Trailbreaker, by Jason Howard.
* '''Big Time Collectibles Cover A:''' by [[John Giang]].
* '''Big Time Collectibles Cover B:''' by [[Mico Suayan]].
* '''Big Time Collectibles MegaCon 2025 Cover A:''' Foil Virgin Variant, by John Giang.
* '''Big Time Collectibles MegaCon 2025 Cover B:''' Foil Virgin Variant, by Mico Suayan.
* '''The 616 Comics Cover A:''' by [[Tiago da Silva]].
* '''The 616 Comics Cover B:''' by Tiago da Silva.
* '''TopShelfComic Series 2 Mystery Packs Cover A:''' by [[Jimbo Salgado]] & [[Alex Sinclair]].
* '''TopShelfComic Series 2 Mystery Packs Cover B:''' Black & White Variant, by Jimbo Salgado.
* '''TopShelfComic Series 2 Mystery Packs Cover C:''' "Thank You" Foil Virgin Variant, by Jimbo Salgado.
* '''BeachsideHobbies MegaCon 2025 Cover:''' by [[Johnny Desjardins]].
* '''Unknown Comics Cover:''' by [[Chad Hardin]].

<gallery>
File:Transformers 2023 16 Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Cover C.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Cover D.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Cover E.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 2nd Ptg Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 2nd Ptg Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 John Giang Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Mico Suayan Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 John Giang Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Mico Suayan Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 The 616 Comics Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 The 616 Comics Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Jimbo Salgado Cover A.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Jimbo Salgado Cover B.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Jimbo Salgado Cover C.jpg
File:Transformers 2023 16 Johnny Desjardins Cover.jpg
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</gallery>

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* Four-page preview for ''Invincible Universe: Battle Beast''

===Reprints===
* '''''Transformers Volume 3: Combiner Chaos''''' ([[May 14]], [[2025]]) ISBN 1534329897 / ISBN 978-1534329898
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #13–18 and the [[Transformers Energon Universe 2024 Special story|''Transformers'' story]] from ''[[Energon Universe 2024 Special]]''.
** Trade paperback format.
** Variant covers:
*** '''Direct Market Exclusive:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer. ISBN 978-1534332683

<gallery>
File:Transformers 2023 V3.jpg|'''''Volume 3: Combiner Chaos''''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 V3 DM Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 3: Combiner Chaos'' Direct Market Exclusive''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
</gallery>

==External links==

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Transformers (2023) issues]]

The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers

2026-01-01T18:17:24Z

Primal primus the second: /* Collections */

[[File:LSotW 1cvrB.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|They're all gonna die.]]
'''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' is a 5-issue limited series published by [[IDW Publishing]] in [[2010]] set in the [[2005 IDW continuity]].

It follows the re-assembly of the [[Wreckers]] team after the events of ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' maxiseries, among other things.

The premise of the series was generated editorially. [[Nick Roche]] asked to do art for the series, only finding out later that he would also be writing the series. [[James Roberts]] is his co-writer, but only started being credited for the script from #2 (though he did #1's Rotorstorm profile). The prolific [[Josh Burcham]] provides the colors. Incentive covers were provided by [[Trevor Hutchison]].

A sequel miniseries again written and drawn by Roche, ''[[The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers]]'', was announced at San Diego ComicCon 2015. It began release in November 2015.

{{quote|noquote=true|'''KP:''' "...and obviously, we've got Wreckers." 
'''NR:''' "Wot?" 
'''KP:''' "Wreckers... no? Um, a bunch of guys..." 
'''NR:''' "Great balls, I'm supposed to be [expletive deleted] writing and drawing that!"|'''Nick Roche''' suddenly realizes the enormity of his looming workload in the midst of an August 2009 interview}}

{{chapters |style=3|next=The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers|series=lsotw|content=
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|#1]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|#2]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|#3]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|#4]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|#5]]
<div class="list-header">Bonus stories:</div>
* [[Dead Men's Boots]]
* [[Bullets]]
* [[Out of Bullets]]
* [[Escape (G1)|Escape]]
* [[Zero Point]]
* [[In Word and Deed]]
}}

==Overview==
{{quote|Hey! You look like a mark: wanna buy some action and adventure? Sure you do, you gullible chump. And what better place to find it than in Roche & Roberts' 'Last Stand of The Wreckers'! It's about [[Garrus-9|a prison]] that fell to the Decepticons a coupla years back, but since then something screwy has occurred, and neither side - Autobot or Decepticon - has had any communication with The Last Resort since. When the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] aren't available, and when you've got a bunch of Euro-exclusive toys that aren't too busy, then it's time to send for The Wreckers!|Nick Roche <ref>[http://tfio.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=staffaves&action=display&thread=716 Transformers Ireland Online]</ref>}}

{{quote|It's a story of sacrifice and betrayal, and of good people dying in ''stupid, pointless ways''.|[[Verity Carlo]]}}

===Notes===
* In an interview, Roche said that he would be playing with the idea that the Wreckers has "an ever-changing line-up".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkqheta3GE Nick Roche interview by Moonbase Two]</ref>
* This series is like [[Christmas]] if you love minor characters. New Wreckers [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] and [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] had not been in ''any'' previous fiction before, and [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] had only had a minor cameo; the same is true of most of the evil [[Predator (subgroup)|Predators]], and [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]'s only previous English-language fiction had been cameo appearances. Hell, even [[Fearswoop (G1)|Fearswoop]] shows up at one point. All of these guys had [[The Transformers (European toyline)|European toys]] in the early 90s: it's time for a ''new'' decade to get the nostalgia!
** Then add in Ultra Magnus (who worked with the Wreckers in Marvel UK), [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] (a frequent Marvel UK character), [[Impactor (G1)|the first issue cliffhanger]], [[Squadron X]]...
* The violence is deliberate, to make it absolutely unambiguous when Transformers are getting killed.<ref>[http://moonbase2.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=601856 Moonbase 2 interview]</ref>
** The deaths of protagonists are uniformly all horrible and potentially avoidable, and none of them are glorious battles to the death. A recurring theme, brought up in #3 and #5, is of good people dying in pointless ways.
* Overlord was chosen as a villain since Roche and Roberts figured nobody else would be using him, so there'd be no contradictions.
* Both [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and [[Grimlock (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Grimlock]] were originally intended to be large players in the series. Scorponok (his consciousness taken out of [[Abraham Dante]] and put back in his body by [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]]) would have acted as Overlord's go to guy for crazy science and would develop [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] as a steroid analogue. The nucleon would power fighters up but damage their mental state. Scorponok would have solved the problem of not having a head by stealing [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus']]. Grimlock would have been dosed up on nucleon, trapping him in his dinosaur form, and rendering him a psychotic beast. Overlord was to have gone on to use him as the final opponent for anyone who progressed far enough in the arena. It was then intended that Overlord's defeat would come from the Wreckers knocking him into the arena with the enraged Grimlock. Although Grimlock did indeed have a minor part in the series, it was decided to deliberately minimalise any 'big name' characters at Garrus-9 so as not to overshadow the Wreckers.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2uzQB1GqS0 Auto Assembly 2010 Last Stand of the Wreckers Panel]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DPbginVXE Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview], 30:06 - 31:03</ref>
* In the first draft, Springer, Perceptor and Kup ''all'' die. In later plans, one of them was going to die during planning, but in the end Roche and Roberts weren't allowed to do it<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DPbginVXE Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview], 19:00 - 19:40</ref> and one they could do, they say in the trade, they chickened out of. Impactor, however, was ''never'' going to die!
* The back of the comic features character profiles, designed as entries on an internal Autobot database called "[[Autopedia]]". The entries are stubs, but you can help the Transformers' wiki by expanding them!
* The trade paperback features different profiles than the individual issues. The TPB profiles use British spelling.

{{quote|"Nick, James and Josh actually did those [profiles] completely free of charge to add something EXTRA to the comic for you because they love you."|'''[[Andy Schmidt]]''' <ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=7747 IDW forums]</ref>}}

* At least two panels featuring Verity are edited from the trade paperback release in the hardcover. Her shocked face after Kup tells her about Overlord is altered in the hardcover, and the panel of her rolling past the room where Springer and Impactor are arguing gives her a redrawn head. These changes appear to be for aesthetics.{{fact|Comparison images please.}}

==Collections==
* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' ([[September 1]], [[2010]]) ISBN 1600107168 / ISBN 978-1600107160
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** Bonus material includes the 11-page prose story "[[Bullets]]", ''[[Transformers: Mosaic|Mosaic]]: [[Dead Men's Boots]]'', [[profile]]s for Snare and Overlord, a "movie poster" of the series, a page of "Fisitron's Facts", and a page of sketches called "Prison Slops".
** A cover gallery is ''not'' included, but in light of what we got, who cares!
** The profiles that were in the miniseries ''aren't'' in the trade. Roche told Moonbase 2 in 2010 that this was deliberate because he and IDW want to ''[[to sell toys|sell more comics]]''. We still love ya, Nick!
** Trade paperback format.

* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' ([[February 22]], [[2012]]) ISBN 1613771266 / ISBN 978-1613771266
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** Bonus material includes the 11-page prose story "[[Bullets]]", "[[Out of Bullets]]", ''[[Transformers: Mosaic|Mosaic]]: [[Dead Men's Boots]]'', 7 pages of [[profile]]s, series covers, script extracts, guest artwork, a page on [[Squadron X]], the 2-page comic "[[Escape (G1)|Escape]]", 2 pages of promotional artwork, a page of "Fisitron's Facts", 2 pages of Pin-Ups, a first draft, the 5-page prose story "[[Zero Point]]" and the 1-page comic "[[In Word and Deed]]".
** Hardcover format.

* '''''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Six]]''''' ([[May 9]], 2012) ISBN 1613771835 / ISBN 978-1613771839
** Collects [[The Transformers (IDW)|''The Transformers'' (2009)]] issues [[...For All Mankind|#1]]–[[Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"|6]], ''[[The Transformers: Bumblebee|Bumblebee]]'' issues [[The Hanging Sword|#1]]–[[Wings of Wax|4]], ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5, and ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight|Spotlight]]: [[Ride-Along|Prowl]]''.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers'' Red Label Edition''' ([[August 21]], [[2013]])
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** On top of the regular Hardcover extras, the Red Label extras include a mounted signature page signed by Nick Roche, Guido Guidi and James Roberts and hand-numbered to 250. This special edition also contains a portfolio of six lithographs featuring the team-up illustrations Guido Guidi and Nick Roche drew for the Blue Label edition. Stamped with the IDW Limited Red Foil Imprint, this edition also includes: an exclusive cover only available through this IDW Limited release; a limited-edition, custom-designed tray case; a vellum title-page overlay; new end pages; and a red satin ribbon bookmark. The original price was $125. More info [http://idwlimited.com/shop/transformers-last-stand-of-the-wreckers-deluxe-hardcover-red-label/ here]
** Hardcover format.

* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers'' Black Label Edition''' ([[August 21]], 2013)
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** The Black Label Edition was limited to only 50 copies and cost $250.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers'' Blue Label Edition''' ([[August 21]], 2013)
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** The most rare of the 3 labeled editions, the Blue Label was limited to 10 copies at $350 a pop. A detailed "unboxing" of the set is [http://comicsalliance.com/idw-limited-transformers-the-last-stand-of-the-wreckers-preview/ described here].
** Hardcover format.

* '''''[[Transformers: The Wreckers Saga]]''''' ([[July 4]], [[2018]]) ISBN 1684052211 / ISBN 978-1684052219
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5, ''[[The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers|Sins of the Wreckers]]'' issues [[Sins of the Wreckers issue 1|#1]]–[[Sins of the Wreckers issue 5|5]], and ''[[Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers|Requiem of the Wreckers]]''.
** Bonus material includes all of the covers, the 11-page prose story "[[Bullets]]", ''[[Transformers: Mosaic|Mosaic]]: [[Dead Men's Boots]]'', the 2-page comic "Escape", the 5-page prose story "[[Zero Point]]", the 1-page comic "[[In Word and Deed]]" and [[profile]]s for Rotorstorm, Pyro, Guzzle, Ironfist, Impactor, Snare and Overlord.
** The profiles are all curtailed, some ending awkwardly in the middle of sentences, presumably to fit two profiles on a single page for this release.
** Trade paperback format.

* '''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Volume 45: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' ([[May 16]], [[2018]])
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5, ''Spotlight: Prowl'', and ''The Transformers'' (2009) #1.
** Bonus material includes an interview with Nick Roche, pre-production sketches and story drafts.
** Hardcover format.

<gallery>
File:IDW-LSOTW-TPB.jpg|'''''Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' – cover art by [[Nick Roche]] and [[Josh Burcham]].
File:IDW-LSOTW-HC.jpg|'''''Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' – cover art by [[Trevor Hutchison]].
File:IDWCollection6.jpg|'''''The IDW Collection Volume Six''''' – cover art by [[E. J. Su]]
File:IDW-Wreckers-Saga.jpg|'''''The Wreckers Saga''''' – cover art by Nick Roche.
File:DefinitiveG1Collection_v45.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 45: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' – cover art by [[Don Figueroa]], Nick Roche and [[John Wycough]]
</gallery>

===International reprints===
* '''''Transformers: Wreckers sista strid''''' ([[June 8]] [[2018]]) ISBN 978-91-88131-23-2
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** Swedish reprint volume published from [[Ades Media]], translated by [[Johan Boström]].
** Includes all extras from the English hardcover, as well as ''[[Spotlight: Kup]]'' and "[[Everything in Its Right Place]]" plus ''Wreckers: Sweclassified'', a short article from Boström.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''The Wreckers: Complete Version''''' (January, [[2019]]) ISBN 978-7531959953
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** Chinese reprint volume published from [[DMAN]].
** The hardcover version is based on its US counterpart, and the collected content is also based on it.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' ([[July 31]], [[2019]]) ISBN 978-4864914437
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** Japanese reprint volume published from [[Villagebooks]], translated by [[Eugene Ishikawa]] and [[Keisuke Tsubono]], includes a booklet with a commentary written by [[Akihisa Koike]] and Eugene Ishikawa.
** The hardcover version is based on its US counterpart, and the collected content is also based on it.
** Trade paperback format.

<gallery>
File:LSOTW SWECover.jpg|'''''Wreckers sista strid''''' – cover art by Trevor Hutchison.
File:LSOTW_JP_cover.jpg|'''''Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' – cover art by [[Tasuku Tajima]].
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkqheta3GE&t=21m45s Moonbase 2 interview with Nick Roche about the series] — AutoAssembly 2009, [[August 24]], [[2009]]
* [http://www.oneshallstand.com/articles/wreckers.html One Shall Stand interview with Roche and Roberts]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Last Stand of the Wreckers}}
[[Category:IDW (2005) comic series]]
[[Category:Last Stand of the Wreckers issues| ]]

The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers

2026-01-01T18:16:52Z

Primal primus the second: /* Collections */

[[File:LSotW 1cvrB.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|They're all gonna die.]]
'''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' is a 5-issue limited series published by [[IDW Publishing]] in [[2010]] set in the [[2005 IDW continuity]].

It follows the re-assembly of the [[Wreckers]] team after the events of ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' maxiseries, among other things.

The premise of the series was generated editorially. [[Nick Roche]] asked to do art for the series, only finding out later that he would also be writing the series. [[James Roberts]] is his co-writer, but only started being credited for the script from #2 (though he did #1's Rotorstorm profile). The prolific [[Josh Burcham]] provides the colors. Incentive covers were provided by [[Trevor Hutchison]].

A sequel miniseries again written and drawn by Roche, ''[[The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers]]'', was announced at San Diego ComicCon 2015. It began release in November 2015.

{{quote|noquote=true|'''KP:''' "...and obviously, we've got Wreckers." 
'''NR:''' "Wot?" 
'''KP:''' "Wreckers... no? Um, a bunch of guys..." 
'''NR:''' "Great balls, I'm supposed to be [expletive deleted] writing and drawing that!"|'''Nick Roche''' suddenly realizes the enormity of his looming workload in the midst of an August 2009 interview}}

{{chapters |style=3|next=The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers|series=lsotw|content=
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|#1]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|#2]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|#3]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|#4]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|#5]]
<div class="list-header">Bonus stories:</div>
* [[Dead Men's Boots]]
* [[Bullets]]
* [[Out of Bullets]]
* [[Escape (G1)|Escape]]
* [[Zero Point]]
* [[In Word and Deed]]
}}

==Overview==
{{quote|Hey! You look like a mark: wanna buy some action and adventure? Sure you do, you gullible chump. And what better place to find it than in Roche & Roberts' 'Last Stand of The Wreckers'! It's about [[Garrus-9|a prison]] that fell to the Decepticons a coupla years back, but since then something screwy has occurred, and neither side - Autobot or Decepticon - has had any communication with The Last Resort since. When the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] aren't available, and when you've got a bunch of Euro-exclusive toys that aren't too busy, then it's time to send for The Wreckers!|Nick Roche <ref>[http://tfio.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=staffaves&action=display&thread=716 Transformers Ireland Online]</ref>}}

{{quote|It's a story of sacrifice and betrayal, and of good people dying in ''stupid, pointless ways''.|[[Verity Carlo]]}}

===Notes===
* In an interview, Roche said that he would be playing with the idea that the Wreckers has "an ever-changing line-up".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkqheta3GE Nick Roche interview by Moonbase Two]</ref>
* This series is like [[Christmas]] if you love minor characters. New Wreckers [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] and [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] had not been in ''any'' previous fiction before, and [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] had only had a minor cameo; the same is true of most of the evil [[Predator (subgroup)|Predators]], and [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]'s only previous English-language fiction had been cameo appearances. Hell, even [[Fearswoop (G1)|Fearswoop]] shows up at one point. All of these guys had [[The Transformers (European toyline)|European toys]] in the early 90s: it's time for a ''new'' decade to get the nostalgia!
** Then add in Ultra Magnus (who worked with the Wreckers in Marvel UK), [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] (a frequent Marvel UK character), [[Impactor (G1)|the first issue cliffhanger]], [[Squadron X]]...
* The violence is deliberate, to make it absolutely unambiguous when Transformers are getting killed.<ref>[http://moonbase2.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=601856 Moonbase 2 interview]</ref>
** The deaths of protagonists are uniformly all horrible and potentially avoidable, and none of them are glorious battles to the death. A recurring theme, brought up in #3 and #5, is of good people dying in pointless ways.
* Overlord was chosen as a villain since Roche and Roberts figured nobody else would be using him, so there'd be no contradictions.
* Both [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and [[Grimlock (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Grimlock]] were originally intended to be large players in the series. Scorponok (his consciousness taken out of [[Abraham Dante]] and put back in his body by [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]]) would have acted as Overlord's go to guy for crazy science and would develop [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] as a steroid analogue. The nucleon would power fighters up but damage their mental state. Scorponok would have solved the problem of not having a head by stealing [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus']]. Grimlock would have been dosed up on nucleon, trapping him in his dinosaur form, and rendering him a psychotic beast. Overlord was to have gone on to use him as the final opponent for anyone who progressed far enough in the arena. It was then intended that Overlord's defeat would come from the Wreckers knocking him into the arena with the enraged Grimlock. Although Grimlock did indeed have a minor part in the series, it was decided to deliberately minimalise any 'big name' characters at Garrus-9 so as not to overshadow the Wreckers.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2uzQB1GqS0 Auto Assembly 2010 Last Stand of the Wreckers Panel]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DPbginVXE Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview], 30:06 - 31:03</ref>
* In the first draft, Springer, Perceptor and Kup ''all'' die. In later plans, one of them was going to die during planning, but in the end Roche and Roberts weren't allowed to do it<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DPbginVXE Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview], 19:00 - 19:40</ref> and one they could do, they say in the trade, they chickened out of. Impactor, however, was ''never'' going to die!
* The back of the comic features character profiles, designed as entries on an internal Autobot database called "[[Autopedia]]". The entries are stubs, but you can help the Transformers' wiki by expanding them!
* The trade paperback features different profiles than the individual issues. The TPB profiles use British spelling.

{{quote|"Nick, James and Josh actually did those [profiles] completely free of charge to add something EXTRA to the comic for you because they love you."|'''[[Andy Schmidt]]''' <ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=7747 IDW forums]</ref>}}

* At least two panels featuring Verity are edited from the trade paperback release in the hardcover. Her shocked face after Kup tells her about Overlord is altered in the hardcover, and the panel of her rolling past the room where Springer and Impactor are arguing gives her a redrawn head. These changes appear to be for aesthetics.{{fact|Comparison images please.}}

==Collections==
* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' ([[September 1]], [[2010]]) ISBN 1600107168 / ISBN 978-1600107160
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** Bonus material includes the 11-page prose story "[[Bullets]]", ''[[Transformers: Mosaic|Mosaic]]: [[Dead Men's Boots]]'', [[profile]]s for Snare and Overlord, a "movie poster" of the series, a page of "Fisitron's Facts", and a page of sketches called "Prison Slops".
** A cover gallery is ''not'' included, but in light of what we got, who cares!
** The profiles that were in the miniseries ''aren't'' in the trade. Roche told Moonbase 2 in 2010 that this was deliberate because he and IDW want to ''[[to sell toys|sell more comics]]''. We still love ya, Nick!
** Trade paperback format.

* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' ([[February 22]], [[2012]]) ISBN 1613771266 / ISBN 978-1613771266
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** Bonus material includes the 11-page prose story "[[Bullets]]", "[[Out of Bullets]]", ''[[Transformers: Mosaic|Mosaic]]: [[Dead Men's Boots]]'', 7 pages of [[profile]]s, series covers, script extracts, guest artwork, a page on [[Squadron X]], the 2-page comic "[[Escape]]", 2 pages of promotional artwork, a page of "Fisitron's Facts", 2 pages of Pin-Ups, a first draft, the 5-page prose story "[[Zero Point]]" and the 1-page comic "[[In Word and Deed]]".
** Hardcover format.

* '''''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Six]]''''' ([[May 9]], 2012) ISBN 1613771835 / ISBN 978-1613771839
** Collects [[The Transformers (IDW)|''The Transformers'' (2009)]] issues [[...For All Mankind|#1]]–[[Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"|6]], ''[[The Transformers: Bumblebee|Bumblebee]]'' issues [[The Hanging Sword|#1]]–[[Wings of Wax|4]], ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5, and ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight|Spotlight]]: [[Ride-Along|Prowl]]''.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers'' Red Label Edition''' ([[August 21]], [[2013]])
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** On top of the regular Hardcover extras, the Red Label extras include a mounted signature page signed by Nick Roche, Guido Guidi and James Roberts and hand-numbered to 250. This special edition also contains a portfolio of six lithographs featuring the team-up illustrations Guido Guidi and Nick Roche drew for the Blue Label edition. Stamped with the IDW Limited Red Foil Imprint, this edition also includes: an exclusive cover only available through this IDW Limited release; a limited-edition, custom-designed tray case; a vellum title-page overlay; new end pages; and a red satin ribbon bookmark. The original price was $125. More info [http://idwlimited.com/shop/transformers-last-stand-of-the-wreckers-deluxe-hardcover-red-label/ here]
** Hardcover format.

* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers'' Black Label Edition''' ([[August 21]], 2013)
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** The Black Label Edition was limited to only 50 copies and cost $250.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers'' Blue Label Edition''' ([[August 21]], 2013)
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** The most rare of the 3 labeled editions, the Blue Label was limited to 10 copies at $350 a pop. A detailed "unboxing" of the set is [http://comicsalliance.com/idw-limited-transformers-the-last-stand-of-the-wreckers-preview/ described here].
** Hardcover format.

* '''''[[Transformers: The Wreckers Saga]]''''' ([[July 4]], [[2018]]) ISBN 1684052211 / ISBN 978-1684052219
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5, ''[[The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers|Sins of the Wreckers]]'' issues [[Sins of the Wreckers issue 1|#1]]–[[Sins of the Wreckers issue 5|5]], and ''[[Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers|Requiem of the Wreckers]]''.
** Bonus material includes all of the covers, the 11-page prose story "[[Bullets]]", ''[[Transformers: Mosaic|Mosaic]]: [[Dead Men's Boots]]'', the 2-page comic "Escape", the 5-page prose story "[[Zero Point]]", the 1-page comic "[[In Word and Deed]]" and [[profile]]s for Rotorstorm, Pyro, Guzzle, Ironfist, Impactor, Snare and Overlord.
** The profiles are all curtailed, some ending awkwardly in the middle of sentences, presumably to fit two profiles on a single page for this release.
** Trade paperback format.

* '''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Volume 45: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' ([[May 16]], [[2018]])
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5, ''Spotlight: Prowl'', and ''The Transformers'' (2009) #1.
** Bonus material includes an interview with Nick Roche, pre-production sketches and story drafts.
** Hardcover format.

<gallery>
File:IDW-LSOTW-TPB.jpg|'''''Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' – cover art by [[Nick Roche]] and [[Josh Burcham]].
File:IDW-LSOTW-HC.jpg|'''''Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' – cover art by [[Trevor Hutchison]].
File:IDWCollection6.jpg|'''''The IDW Collection Volume Six''''' – cover art by [[E. J. Su]]
File:IDW-Wreckers-Saga.jpg|'''''The Wreckers Saga''''' – cover art by Nick Roche.
File:DefinitiveG1Collection_v45.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 45: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' – cover art by [[Don Figueroa]], Nick Roche and [[John Wycough]]
</gallery>

===International reprints===
* '''''Transformers: Wreckers sista strid''''' ([[June 8]] [[2018]]) ISBN 978-91-88131-23-2
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** Swedish reprint volume published from [[Ades Media]], translated by [[Johan Boström]].
** Includes all extras from the English hardcover, as well as ''[[Spotlight: Kup]]'' and "[[Everything in Its Right Place]]" plus ''Wreckers: Sweclassified'', a short article from Boström.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''The Wreckers: Complete Version''''' (January, [[2019]]) ISBN 978-7531959953
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** Chinese reprint volume published from [[DMAN]].
** The hardcover version is based on its US counterpart, and the collected content is also based on it.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' ([[July 31]], [[2019]]) ISBN 978-4864914437
** Collects ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' issues #1–5.
** Japanese reprint volume published from [[Villagebooks]], translated by [[Eugene Ishikawa]] and [[Keisuke Tsubono]], includes a booklet with a commentary written by [[Akihisa Koike]] and Eugene Ishikawa.
** The hardcover version is based on its US counterpart, and the collected content is also based on it.
** Trade paperback format.

<gallery>
File:LSOTW SWECover.jpg|'''''Wreckers sista strid''''' – cover art by Trevor Hutchison.
File:LSOTW_JP_cover.jpg|'''''Last Stand of the Wreckers''''' – cover art by [[Tasuku Tajima]].
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkqheta3GE&t=21m45s Moonbase 2 interview with Nick Roche about the series] — AutoAssembly 2009, [[August 24]], [[2009]]
* [http://www.oneshallstand.com/articles/wreckers.html One Shall Stand interview with Roche and Roberts]

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Please remember to utilize the preview button, we don't need several minor edits clogging up the recent changes page. Also, if you are making small edits (like the ones you've been making to the [[Spike Witwicky (G1)]] article), I would suggest checking the "This is a minor edit" box before saving, as this helps filter out the larger edits from the minor ones, depending on other users' preference setups. For further information on this see our [[Help:Style guide#Minor and major edits|style guide]] help page. -- [[User:Fanofcoolstuff27|Fanofcoolstuff27]] ([[User talk:Fanofcoolstuff27|talk]]) 10:26, 19 April 2022 (EDT)
:The reason I didn't set my small changes to pages as minor edits was because I was, and am still quite new to being an editor on Tfwiki.net. Due to this, I would forget to tick my minor contributions as minor edits.[[User:Primal primus the second|Primal primus the second]] ([[User talk:Primal primus the second|talk]]) 09:00, 2 October 2025 (EDT)

== Another reminder ==

This is ''another'' reminder to use the '''preview button''' before saving an edit, we don't need multiple tiny edits in a single article taking up a bunch of space in the recent changes log. Also, I would highly recommend reading (or rereading) the style guide page and other help pages in the welcome box at the top of this page as the majority of your edits are not up to standard and are being reverted. -- [[User:Fanofcoolstuff27|Fanofcoolstuff27]] ([[User talk:Fanofcoolstuff27|talk]]) 05:48, 21 May 2022 (EDT)
:As I said before, the reason I didn't set my small changes to pages as minor edits was because I was, and am still quite new to being an editor on Tfwiki.net. Due to this, i would forget to tick my minor contributions as minor edits.[[User:Primal primus the second|Primal primus the second]] ([[User talk:Primal primus the second|talk]]) 09:00, 2 October 2025 (EDT)
== Greatshot/JG1 ==

Hi, I'm not sure why you removed the entire Victory section from [[Greatshot/JG1]]. I'd suggest if you're going to make a major change to an article like that, you should at least include some explanation in the Summary field, and possibly bring it up on the relevant talk page first. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 06:37, 25 May 2022 (EDT)
:My edits to Greatshot's page were a futile attempt. I remembered in Greatshot's Main Page that his information on his "Victory" section had a style used for when a character has a sub-page of that fiction while the main page has a shortened edition. However, at the time, the main information about Greatshot was in Sixshot's page. Being very naïve, I tried to delete that info and try to find the shortened edition that linked to Greatshot as the main article, but I was new and unexperienced.[[User:Primal primus the second|Primal primus the second]] ([[User talk:Primal primus the second|talk]]) 08:58, 2 October 2025 (EDT)

==Don't edit other people's User pages==
Look, it's one thing to link-fix or replace a to-be-deleted image on another user's page, that's simple maintenance. But there's no reason to do the kind of editing you did to Adamcs's page, especially as it's been untouched for over a decade. Don't do that again. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 16:20, 3 September 2025 (EDT)
:The reasons for me changing his page was because I was put off by how cluttered his "shop" was (text was not properly segmented, and images were not given direct links). I deeply regret my changes to Adamcs' user page. Like I said before, I am still new to this site, and I'm still trying to get the hang of it.[[User:Primal primus the second|Primal primus the second]] ([[User talk:Primal primus the second|talk]]) 08:58, 2 October 2025 (EDT)

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==2026==
* '''[[January 7|Jan 7]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 17|#17]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 14|Jan 14]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 28|#28]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 21|Jan 21]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 18|#18]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 28|Jan 28]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 26|#26]] and ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]] [[The Transformers Compendium|UK Compendium]] [[The Transformers UK Compendium Volume 1|Volume 1]]'' TPB are released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 31|Jan 31]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[The Transformers: MPG|MPG-17]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MPGStyleGen|Optimus Prime Style Gen.]], TS GE-02 [[Thundercracker (WFC)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]], TS-13 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS116|Bumblebee]], AOTP-21 [[Flatline (G1)#Age of the Primes|Decepticon Flatline]], and AOTP-22 [[Onyx Prime#Age of the Primes|Onyx Prime]].
* '''[[February 11|Feb 11]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 29|#29]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 18|Feb 18]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 19|#19]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 25|Feb 25]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 27|#27]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 28|Feb 28]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''[[Missing Link]]'' C-01N [[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Missing Link|Nemesis Prime]] (w/[[Giza (POTP)#Missing Link|Giza]]) ''[[Dramatic Capture Series]]'' Decepticons Part 2 [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Dramatic Capture Series|Skywarp]] and [[Insecticon (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Insecticons]] ([[Kickback (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Kickback]], [[Shrapnel (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Shrapnel]], and [[Bombshell (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Bombshell]]).
* '''[[March 11|Mar 11]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 30|#30]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 18|Mar 18]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 20|#20]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 25|Mar 25]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 28|#28]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 28|Mar 28]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-23 [[Quintus Prime#Age of the Primes|Quintus Prime]], AOTP-24 [[Blast Off (G1)#Age of the Primes|Blast Off]], AOTP-25 [[Sureshot (G1)#Age of the Primes|Sureshot]], AOTP-26 [[Quickstrike (BW)#Age of the Primes|Quickstrike]], AOTP-27 [[Jalopy#Age of the Primes|Junkion Jalopy]], AOTP-28 [[Sideways (Armada)#Age of the Primes|Sideways]], [[Studio Series]] TS-14 [[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]], TS-15 [[Windcharger (G1)#Studio Series|Windcharger]], [[The Transformers: MPG|MPG-18]] [[Hauler#MPG|Road Hauler]] and ''[[Missing Link]]'' C-10 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Missing Link|Ultra Magnus]] (w/[[Deerstalker]]).
* '''[[April 1|Apr 1]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]] Volume 3: Dreadnok War'' TPB is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[April 25|Apr 25]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-29 [[Amalgamous Prime#Age of the Primes|Amalgamous Prime]], AOTP-30 [[Brawl (G1)#Age of the Primes|Brawl]], AOTP-31 [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)#Age of the Primes|Junkion Wreck-Gar]], [[Studio Series]] TS-16 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SSTLK|Decepticon Barricade]], TS-17 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSNemesis|Nemesis Prime]] and TS-18 [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Soundwave]].
* '''[[May 26|May 26]] —''' ''Transformers Deluxe Edition Book 2'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]]
* '''[[May 30|May 30]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-32 [[Big Convoy#Age of the Primes|Maximal Big Convoy]], AOTP-33 [[Razorclaw (Universe)#Age of the Primes|Razorclaw]], [[Studio Series]] TS-19 [[Bumblebee_(G1)/toys#SSDevastation|Bumblebee]], TS-20 [[Optimus_Prime_(One)#Studio_Series|Orion Pax]], TS-21 [[Wheeljack_(Movie)#SSQue|Wheeljack (Que)]] and TS-22 [[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio_Series|Alpha Trion]].
* '''[[June 17|Jun 17]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Worst Bot Ever]] - [[Bot Swap!]]'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment|Skybound Comet]].
* '''[[June 23|Jun 23]] —''' ''Void Rivals Deluxe Edition Book 2'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]]
* '''[[June 30|Jun 30]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Worst Bot Ever]] - [[Bot Swap!]]'' (digital) is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment|Skybound Comet]].

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==2026==
* '''[[January 7|Jan 7]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 17|#17]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 14|Jan 14]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 28|#28]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 21|Jan 21]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 18|#18]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 28|Jan 28]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 26|#26]] and ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]] [[The Transformers Compendium|UK Compendium]] [[The Transformers UK Compendium Volume 1|Volume 1]]'' TPB are released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 31|Jan 31]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[The Transformers: MPG|MPG-17]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MPGStyleGen|Optimus Prime Style Gen.]], TS GE-02 [[Thundercracker (WFC)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]], TS-13 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS116|Bumblebee]], AOTP-21 [[Flatline (G1)#Age of the Primes|Decepticon Flatline]], and AOTP-22 [[Onyx Prime#Age of the Primes|Onyx Prime]].
* '''[[February 11|Feb 11]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 29|#29]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 18|Feb 18]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 19|#19]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 25|Feb 25]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 27|#27]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 28|Feb 28]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''[[Missing Link]]'' C-01N [[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Missing Link|Nemesis Prime]] (w/[[Giza (POTP)#Missing Link|Giza]]) ''[[Dramatic Capture Series]]'' Decepticons Part 2 [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Dramatic Capture Series|Skywarp]] and [[Insecticon (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Insecticons]] ([[Kickback (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Kickback]], [[Shrapnel (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Shrapnel]], and [[Bombshell (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Bombshell]]).
* '''[[March 11|Mar 11]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 30|#30]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 18|Mar 18]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 20|#20]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 25|Mar 25]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 28|#28]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 28|Mar 28]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-23 [[Quintus Prime#Age of the Primes|Quintus Prime]], AOTP-24 [[Blast Off (G1)#Age of the Primes|Blast Off]], AOTP-25 [[Sureshot (G1)#Age of the Primes|Sureshot]], AOTP-26 [[Quickstrike (BW)#Age of the Primes|Quickstrike]], AOTP-27 [[Jalopy#Age of the Primes|Junkion Jalopy]], AOTP-28 [[Sideways (Armada)#Age of the Primes|Sideways]], [[Studio Series]] TS-14 [[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]], TS-15 [[Windcharger (G1)#Studio Series|Windcharger]], [[The Transformers: MPG|MPG-18]] [[Hauler#MPG|Road Hauler]] and ''[[Missing Link]]'' C-10 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Missing Link|Ultra Magnus]] (w/[[Deerstalker]]).
* '''[[April 1|Apr 1]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]] Volume 3: Dreadnok War'' TPB is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[April 25|Apr 25]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-29 [[Amalgamous Prime#Age of the Primes|Amalgamous Prime]], AOTP-30 [[Brawl (G1)#Age of the Primes|Brawl]], AOTP-31 [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)#Age of the Primes|Junkion Wreck-Gar]], [[Studio Series]] TS-16 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SSTLK|Decepticon Barricade]], TS-17 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSNemesis|Nemesis Prime]] and TS-18 [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Soundwave]].
* '''[[May 26|May 26]] —''' ''Transformers Deluxe Edition Book 2'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]]
* '''[[May 30|May 30]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-32 [[Big Convoy#Age of the Primes|Maximal Big Convoy]], AOTP-33 [[Razorclaw (Universe)#Age of the Primes|Razorclaw]], [[Studio Series]] TS-19 [[Bumblebee_(G1)/toys#SSDevastation|Bumblebee]], TS-20 [[Optimus_Prime_(One)#Studio_Series|Orion Pax]], TS-21 [[Wheeljack_(Movie)#SSQue|Wheeljack (Que)]] and TS-22 [[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio_Series|Alpha Trion]].
* '''[[June 17|Jun 17]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Worst Bot Ever]] - [[Bot Swap!]]'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment|Skybound Comet]].
* '''[[June 23|Jun 23]] —''' ''Void Rivals Deluxe Edition Book 2'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]]
* '''[[June 30|Jun 30]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Worst Bot Ever]] - [[Bot Swap!]]'' (digital) is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment|Skybound Comet]].

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==2026==
* '''[[January 7|Jan 7]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 17|#17]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 14|Jan 14]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 28|#28]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 21|Jan 21]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 18|#18]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 28|Jan 28]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 26|#26]] and ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]] [[The Transformers Compendium|UK Compendium]] [[The Transformers UK Compendium Volume 1|Volume 1]]'' TPB are released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 31|Jan 31]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[The Transformers: MPG|MPG-17]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MPGStyleGen|Optimus Prime Style Gen.]], TS GE-02 [[Thundercracker (WFC)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]], TS-13 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS116|Bumblebee]], AOTP-21 [[Flatline (G1)#Age of the Primes|Decepticon Flatline]], and AOTP-22 [[Onyx Prime#Age of the Primes|Onyx Prime]].
* '''[[February 11|Feb 11]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 29|#29]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 18|Feb 18]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 19|#19]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 25|Feb 25]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 27|#27]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 28|Feb 28]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''[[Missing Link]]'' C-01N [[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Missing Link|Nemesis Prime]] (w/[[Giza (POTP)#Missing Link|Giza]]) ''[[Dramatic Capture Series]]'' Decepticons Part 2 [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Dramatic Capture Series|Skywarp]] and [[Insecticon (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Insecticons]] ([[Kickback (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Kickback]], [[Shrapnel (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Shrapnel]], and [[Bombshell (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Bombshell]]).
* '''[[March 11|Mar 11]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 30|#30]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 18|Mar 18]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 20|#20]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 25|Mar 25]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 28|#28]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 28|Mar 28]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-23 [[Quintus Prime#Age of the Primes|Quintus Prime]], AOTP-24 [[Blast Off (G1)#Age of the Primes|Blast Off]], AOTP-25 [[Sureshot (G1)#Age of the Primes|Sureshot]], AOTP-26 [[Quickstrike (BW)#Age of the Primes|Quickstrike]], AOTP-27 [[Jalopy#Age of the Primes|Junkion Jalopy]], AOTP-28 [[Sideways (Armada)#Age of the Primes|Sideways]], [[Studio Series]] TS-14 [[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]], TS-15 [[Windcharger (G1)#Studio Series|Windcharger]], [[The Transformers: MPG|MPG-18]] [[Hauler#MPG|Road Hauler]] and ''[[Missing Link]]'' C-10 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Missing Link|Ultra Magnus]] (w/[[Deerstalker]]).
* '''[[April 1|Apr 1]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]] Volume 3: Dreadnok War'' TPB is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[April 25|Apr 25]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-29 [[Amalgamous Prime#Age of the Primes|Amalgamous Prime]], AOTP-30 [[Brawl (G1)#Age of the Primes|Brawl]], AOTP-31 [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)#Age of the Primes|Junkion Wreck-Gar]], [[Studio Series]] TS-16 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SSTLK|Decepticon Barricade]], TS-17 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSNemesis|Nemesis Prime]] and TS-18 [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Soundwave]].
* '''[[May 26|May 26]] —''' ''Transformers Deluxe Edition Book 2'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]]
* '''[[May 30|May 30]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-32 [[Big Convoy#Age of the Primes|Maximal Big Convoy]], AOTP-33 [[Razorclaw (Universe)#Age of the Primes|Razorclaw]], [[Studio Series]] TS-19 [[Bumblebee_(G1)/toys#SSDevastation|Bumblebee]], TS-20 [[Optimus_Prime_(One)#Studio_Series|Orion Pax]], TS-21 [[Wheeljack_(Movie)#SSQue|Wheeljack (Que)]] and TS-22 [[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio_Series|Alpha Trion]].
* '''[[June 17|Jun 17]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Worst Bot Ever]] - [[Bot Swap!]]'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment|Skybound Comet]].
* '''[[June 23|Jun 23]] —''' ''Void Rivals Deluxe Edition Book 2'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]]
* '''[[June 30|Jun 30]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Worst Bot Ever]] - [[Bot Swap!]]'' (digital) is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment|Skybound Comet]].

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==2026==
* '''[[January 7|Jan 7]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 17|#17]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 14|Jan 14]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 28|#28]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 21|Jan 21]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 18|#18]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 28|Jan 28]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 26|#26]] and ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]] [[The Transformers Compendium|UK Compendium]] [[The Transformers UK Compendium Volume 1|Volume 1]]'' TPB are released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 31|Jan 31]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[The Transformers: MPG|MPG-17]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MPGStyleGen|Optimus Prime Style Gen.]], TS GE-02 [[Thundercracker (WFC)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]], TS-13 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS116|Bumblebee]], AOTP-21 [[Flatline (G1)#Age of the Primes|Decepticon Flatline]], and AOTP-22 [[Onyx Prime#Age of the Primes|Onyx Prime]].
* '''[[February 11|Feb 11]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 29|#29]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 18|Feb 18]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 19|#19]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 25|Feb 25]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 27|#27]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 28|Feb 28]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''[[Missing Link]]'' C-01N [[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Missing Link|Nemesis Prime]] (w/[[Giza (POTP)#Missing Link|Giza]]) ''[[Dramatic Capture Series]]'' Decepticons Part 2 [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Dramatic Capture Series|Skywarp]] and [[Insecticon (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Insecticons]] ([[Kickback (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Kickback]], [[Shrapnel (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Shrapnel]], and [[Bombshell (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Bombshell]]).
* '''[[March 11|Mar 11]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 30|#30]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 18|Mar 18]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 20|#20]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 25|Mar 25]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 28|#28]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 28|Mar 28]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-23 [[Quintus Prime#Age of the Primes|Quintus Prime]], AOTP-24 [[Blast Off (G1)#Age of the Primes|Blast Off]], AOTP-25 [[Sureshot (G1)#Age of the Primes|Sureshot]], AOTP-26 [[Quickstrike (BW)#Age of the Primes|Quickstrike]], AOTP-27 [[Jalopy#Age of the Primes|Junkion Jalopy]], AOTP-28 [[Sideways (Armada)#Age of the Primes|Sideways]], [[Studio Series]] TS-14 [[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]], TS-15 [[Windcharger (G1)#Studio Series|Windcharger]], [[The Transformers: MPG|MPG-18]] [[Hauler#MPG|Road Hauler]] and ''[[Missing Link]]'' C-10 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Missing Link|Ultra Magnus]] (w/[[Deerstalker]]).
* '''[[April 1|Apr 1]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]] Volume 3: Dreadnok War'' TPB is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[April 25|Apr 25]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-29 [[Amalgamous Prime#Age of the Primes|Amalgamous Prime]], AOTP-30 [[Brawl (G1)#Age of the Primes|Brawl]], AOTP-31 [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)#Age of the Primes|Junkion Wreck-Gar]], [[Studio Series]] TS-16 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SSTLK|Decepticon Barricade]], TS-17 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSNemesis|Nemesis Prime]] and TS-18 [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Soundwave]].
* '''[[May 26|May 26]] —''' ''Transformers Deluxe Edition Book 2'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]]
* '''[[May 30|May 30]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-32 [[Big Convoy#Age of the Primes|Maximal Big Convoy]], AOTP-33 [[Razorclaw (Universe)#Age of the Primes|Razorclaw]], [[Studio Series]] TS-19 [[Bumblebee_(G1)/toys#SSDevastation|Bumblebee]], TS-20 [[Optimus_Prime_(One)#Studio_Series|Orion Pax]], TS-21 [[Wheeljack_(Movie)#SSQue|Wheeljack (Que)]] and TS-22 [[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio_Series|Alpha Trion]].
* '''[[June 17|Jun 17]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Worst Bot Ever]] - [[Bot Swap!]]'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment|Skybound Comet]].
* '''[[June 23|Jun 23]] —''' ''Void Rivals Deluxe Edition Book 2'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]]
* '''[[June 30|Jun 30]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Worst Bot Ever]] - [[Bot Swap!]]'' (digital) is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment|Skybound Comet]].

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Main Page/schedule

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==2026==
* '''[[January 7|Jan 7]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 17|#17]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 14|Jan 14]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 28|#28]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 21|Jan 21]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 18|#18]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 28|Jan 28]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 26|#26]] and ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]] [[The Transformers Compendium|UK Compendium]] [[The Transformers UK Compendium Volume 1|Volume 1]]'' TPB are released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[January 31|Jan 31]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[The Transformers: MPG|MPG-17]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#MPGStyleGen|Optimus Prime Style Gen.]], TS GE-02 [[Thundercracker (WFC)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]], TS-13 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS116|Bumblebee]], AOTP-21 [[Flatline (G1)#Age of the Primes|Decepticon Flatline]], and AOTP-22 [[Onyx Prime#Age of the Primes|Onyx Prime]].
* '''[[February 11|Feb 11]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 29|#29]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 18|Feb 18]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 19|#19]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 25|Feb 25]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 27|#27]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[February 28|Feb 28]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''[[Missing Link]]'' C-01N [[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Missing Link|Nemesis Prime]] (w/[[Giza (POTP)#Missing Link|Giza]]) ''[[Dramatic Capture Series]]'' Decepticons Part 2 [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Dramatic Capture Series|Skywarp]] and [[Insecticon (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Insecticons]] ([[Kickback (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Kickback]], [[Shrapnel (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Shrapnel]], and [[Bombshell (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Bombshell]]).
* '''[[March 11|Mar 11]] —''' ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 30|#30]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 18|Mar 18]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 20|#20]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 25|Mar 25]] —''' ''[[Void Rivals]]'' [[Void Rivals issue 28|#28]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[March 28|Mar 28]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-23 [[Quintus Prime#Age of the Primes|Quintus Prime]], AOTP-24 [[Blast Off (G1)#Age of the Primes|Blast Off]], AOTP-25 [[Sureshot (G1)#Age of the Primes|Sureshot]], AOTP-26 [[Quickstrike (BW)#Age of the Primes|Quickstrike]], AOTP-27 [[Jalopy#Age of the Primes|Junkion Jalopy]], AOTP-28 [[Sideways (Armada)#Age of the Primes|Sideways]], [[Studio Series]] TS-14 [[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]], TS-15 [[Windcharger (G1)#Studio Series|Windcharger]], [[The Transformers: MPG|MPG-18]] [[Hauler#MPG|Road Hauler]] and ''[[Missing Link]]'' C-10 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Missing Link|Ultra Magnus]] (w/[[Deerstalker]]).
* '''[[April 1|Apr 1]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]] Volume 3: Dreadnok War'' TPB is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[April 25|Apr 25]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-29 [[Amalgamous Prime#Age of the Primes|Amalgamous Prime]], AOTP-30 [[Brawl (G1)#Age of the Primes|Brawl]], AOTP-31 [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)#Age of the Primes|Junkion Wreck-Gar]], [[Studio Series]] TS-16 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SSTLK|Decepticon Barricade]], TS-17 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSNemesis|Nemesis Prime]] and TS-18 [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Soundwave]].
* '''[[May 26|May 26]] —''' ''Transformers Deluxe Edition Book 2'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]]
* '''[[May 30|May 30]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases [[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]] AOTP-32 [[Big Convoy#Age of the Primes|Maximal Big Convoy]], AOTP-33 [[Razorclaw (Universe)#Age of the Primes|Razorclaw]], [[Studio Series]] TS-19 [[Bumblebee_(G1)/toys#SSDevastation|Bumblebee]], TS-20 [[Optimus_Prime_(One)#Studio_Series|Orion Pax]], TS-21 [[Wheeljack_(Movie)#SSQue|Wheeljack (Que)]] and TS-22 [[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio_Series|Alpha Trion]].
* '''[[June 17|Jun 17]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Worst Bot Ever]] - [[Bot Swap!]]'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment|Skybound Comet]].
* '''[[June 23|Jun 23]] —''' ''Void Rivals Deluxe Edition Book 2'' is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]]
* '''[[June 30|Jun 30]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Worst Bot Ever]] - [[Bot Swap!]]'' (digital) is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment|Skybound Comet]].

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Netflix

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[[Image:Netflix.jpg|right|300px|]]
'''Netflix''' is a United States-based multinational home entertainment company. While beginning solely as a mail-order DVD rental service in the United States, it primarily operates as an online video streaming service featuring films and television series available in numerous countries across the globe. Netflix also hosts its own original content not found on any other network or service, including the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' and ''[[Transformers: BotBots (cartoon)|BotBots]]'' animated series.

In 2012, [[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]] signed a 10-year deal with Netflix allowing series from the Hasbro library to be included on Netflix's online streaming service.<ref>[http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/10/netflix-signs-multi-year-deal-with-hasbro-and-knowing-is-half/ Netflix signs multi-year deal with Hasbro -- and knowing is half the battle]</ref> In addition to legacy content, programs from [[Hub Network|The Hub]]/[[Discovery Family]] were included in the deal, with episodes premiering on the service after their broadcast seasons have ended. While multiple Transformers series were added to the service as a result of this, half of them were delisted in 2015, while the other half were reduced to only their first seasons in 2018. This deal expired in February 2022, leading to nearly every ''Transformers'' cartoon being delisted from the service over the following year in most regions, save for the United States; these were finally removed from the service in 2025, leaving only the Netflix exclusive series. Pursuant to Netflix's deal with pay channel {{w|Epix (TV channel)|Epix}}, films from the [[Paramount Pictures]] library were made available on the service several months after their original cable broadcast, though subsequent films like ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' now go straight to [[Paramount+]] first, only coming to Netflix much later. As of December 2025, they are currently in the process of acquiring [[Warner Bros.]]

In addition to video streaming, Netflix also has a presence in the mobile gaming space, with several mobile game releases that can only be played by those with an active Netflix subscription.

Currently, Netflix's streaming service is almost available worldwide, but their available catalog varies significantly from region to region (with the exception of Netflix originals, which are generally available in all regions), and content is constantly phased in and out depending on distribution agreements with the original rights holders. As a result, the lists below may be out of date at the time you're reading this, and are frequently subject to change:

==Transformers TV series — Available {{CURRENTYEAR}}==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Country
! ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''
! ''[[Transformers: BotBots (cartoon)|BotBots]]''
! ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]'' (Season 1)
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Argentina
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Australia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Belgium
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Brazil
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Canada
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes*
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Colombia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Czech Republic
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|France
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Germany
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Greece
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hong Kong
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hungary
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Iceland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|India
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Israel
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Italy
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Japan
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Lithuania
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Malaysia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Mexico
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Netherlands
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|New Zealand
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Philippines
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Poland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Portugal
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Romania
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Russia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Singapore
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Slovakia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Africa
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Korea
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Spain
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Sweden
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Switzerland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Thailand
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Turkey
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Ukraine
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|United Kingdom
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|United States
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|}

==Transformers films — Available {{CURRENTYEAR}}==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Country
! ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''
! ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''
! ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Argentina
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Australia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Belgium
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Brazil
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Canada
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Colombia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Czech Republic
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|France
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Germany
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Greece
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hong Kong
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hungary
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Iceland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|India
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Israel
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Italy
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Japan
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Lithuania
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Malaysia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Mexico
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Netherlands
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|New Zealand
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Philippines
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Poland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Portugal
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Romania
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Russia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Singapore
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Slovakia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Africa
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Korea
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Spain
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Sweden
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Switzerland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Thailand
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Turkey
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Ukraine
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|United Kingdom
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|United States
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|}

==Transformers mobile games==
* ''[[Transformers: Forged to Fight]]''

==Discontinued Transformers TV series and movies==
* ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'' — Removed in 2015
* ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars: Transformers]]'' — Removed in 2015
* ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'' — Removed in 2015
* ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' — Seasons 2–3 and ''[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]'' removed in 2018, fully removed in 2025
* ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' — Seasons 2–4 removed in 2018, Season 1 removed in 2022 (except USA), fully removed in 2025
* ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' — Seasons 2–4 removed in 2018, Season 1 removed in 2022 (except USA), fully removed in 2025
* ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' — Season 1 removed in 2022, Season 2 removed in 2023 (except Russia), fully removed in 2025
* ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy]]'' — Removed in 2024

==Notes==
* For several years, other services that carried ''Prime'', ''Rescue Bots'' or ''Robots in Disguise'' (such as [[Tubi]] or [[Hasbro#Streaming video|Roku]]) were missing their first seasons, presumably due to Netflix locking up exclusivity as a result of the aforementioned deal with Hasbro. This eventually passed in the leadup to the shows being removed from Netflix.
* Shortly after the launch of ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'', Netflix added eight characters from the series as selectable profile icons, including [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]].
* In 2022, [[Scanline]], a visual effects studio who worked on the [[live-action film series]], would be purchased by Netflix. While becoming the service's in-house effects studio, the deal between the two parties still has Scanline remain an independent company and free to work for other producers, similar to [[Industrial Light & Magic]]'s deal with [[Disney]].
* So far, ''[[Transformers Collaborative#Stranger Things × Transformers|Stranger Things]]'' is the only Netflix property ''Transformers'' has had a crossover with.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.netflix.com Netflix website]
* {{w|Netflix|Netflix on Wikipedia}}

[[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Streaming platforms]]
[[Category:Video game companies]]

Netflix

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[[Image:Netflix.jpg|right|300px|]]
'''Netflix''' is a United States-based multinational home entertainment company. While beginning solely as a mail-order DVD rental service in the United States, it primarily operates as an online video streaming service featuring films and television series available in numerous countries across the globe. Netflix also hosts its own original content not found on any other network or service, including the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' and ''[[Transformers: BotBots (cartoon)|BotBots]]'' animated series.

In 2012, [[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]] signed a 10-year deal with Netflix allowing series from the Hasbro library to be included on Netflix's online streaming service.<ref>[http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/10/netflix-signs-multi-year-deal-with-hasbro-and-knowing-is-half/ Netflix signs multi-year deal with Hasbro -- and knowing is half the battle]</ref> In addition to legacy content, programs from [[Hub Network|The Hub]]/[[Discovery Family]] were included in the deal, with episodes premiering on the service after their broadcast seasons have ended. While multiple Transformers series were added to the service as a result of this, half of them were delisted in 2015, while the other half were reduced to only their first seasons in 2018. This deal expired in February 2022, leading to nearly every ''Transformers'' cartoon being delisted from the service over the following year in most regions, save for the United States; these were finally removed from the service in 2025, leaving only the Netflix exclusive series. Pursuant to Netflix's deal with pay channel {{w|Epix (TV channel)|Epix}}, films from the [[Paramount Pictures]] library were made available on the service several months after their original cable broadcast, though subsequent films like ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' now go straight to [[Paramount+]] first, only coming to Netflix much later. As of December 2025, they are currently in the process of acquiring [[Warner Bros.]]

In addition to video streaming, Netflix also has a presence in the mobile gaming space, with several mobile game releases that can only be played by those with an active Netflix subscription.

Currently, Netflix's streaming service is almost available worldwide, but their available catalog varies significantly from region to region (with the exception of Netflix originals, which are generally available in all regions), and content is constantly phased in and out depending on distribution agreements with the original rights holders. As a result, the lists below may be out of date at the time you're reading this, and are frequently subject to change:

==Transformers TV series — Available {{CURRENTYEAR}}==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Country
! ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''
! ''[[Transformers: BotBots (cartoon)|BotBots]]''
! ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]'' (Season 1)
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Argentina
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Australia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Belgium
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Brazil
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Canada
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes*
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Colombia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Czech Republic
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|France
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Germany
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Greece
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hong Kong
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hungary
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Iceland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|India
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Israel
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Italy
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Japan
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Lithuania
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Malaysia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Mexico
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Netherlands
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|New Zealand
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Philippines
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Poland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Portugal
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Romania
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Russia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Singapore
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Slovakia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Africa
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Korea
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Spain
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Sweden
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Switzerland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Thailand
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Turkey
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Ukraine
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|United Kingdom
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|United States
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|}

==Transformers films — Available {{CURRENTYEAR}}==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Country
! ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''
! ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''
! ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''
! ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Argentina
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Australia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Belgium
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Brazil
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Canada
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Colombia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Czech Republic
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|France
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Germany
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Greece
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hong Kong
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Hungary
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Iceland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|India
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Israel
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Italy
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Japan
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Lithuania
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Malaysia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Mexico
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Netherlands
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|New Zealand
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Philippines
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Poland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Portugal
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Romania
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Russia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Singapore
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Slovakia
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Africa
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|South Korea
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Spain
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Sweden
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Switzerland
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Thailand
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Turkey
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|Ukraine
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
|-
| style="text-align:left"|United Kingdom
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | No
|-
| style="text-align:left"|United States
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Yes
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
| style="background: #FFD2D2" | No
|}

==Transformers mobile games==
* ''[[Transformers: Forged to Fight]]''

==Discontinued Transformers TV series and movies==
* ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'' — Removed in 2015
* ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars: Transformers]]'' — Removed in 2015
* ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'' — Removed in 2015
* ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' — Seasons 2–3 and ''[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]'' removed in 2018, fully removed in 2025
* ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' — Seasons 2–4 removed in 2018, Season 1 removed in 2022 (except USA), fully removed in 2025
* ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' — Seasons 2–4 removed in 2018, Season 1 removed in 2022 (except USA), fully removed in 2025
* ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' — Season 1 removed in 2022, Season 2 removed in 2023 (except Russia), fully removed in 2025
* ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy]]'' — Removed in 2024

==Notes==
* For several years, other services that carried ''Prime'', ''Rescue Bots'' or ''Robots in Disguise'' (such as [[Tubi]] or [[Hasbro#Streaming video|Roku]]) were missing their first seasons, presumably due to Netflix locking up exclusivity as a result of the aforementioned deal with Hasbro. This eventually passed in the leadup to the shows being removed from Netflix.
* Shortly after the launch of ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'', Netflix added eight characters from the series as selectable profile icons, including [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]].
* In 2022, [[Scanline]], a visual effects studio who worked on the [[live-action film series]], would be purchased by Netflix. While becoming the service's in-house effects studio, the deal between the two parties still has Scanline remain an independent company and free to work for other producers, similar to [[Industrial Light & Magic]]'s deal with [[Disney]].
* So far, ''[[Transformers Collaborative#Stranger Things × Transformers|Stranger Things]]'' is the only Netflix property ''Transformers'' has had a crossover with.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.netflix.com Netflix website]
* {{w|Netflix|Netflix on Wikipedia}}

[[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Streaming platforms]]
[[Category:Video game companies]]

Studio Series/By franchise

2025-12-06T14:19:20Z

Primal primus the second: /* Deluxe Class */

{{suite}}
The following is a '''list of ''[[Studio Series]]'' toys by [[Franchises|franchise]]'''.

{{TOC|limit=3}}

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers''===
{{nav-movie}}
{{STMovie}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
{{nav-rotf}}
{{STROTF}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{nav-dotm}}
{{STDOTM}}

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{nav-aoe}}
{{STAOE}}

===''The Last Knight''===
{{nav-tlk}}
{{STTLK}}

===''Bumblebee''===
{{nav-Bumblebee}}
{{STBee|tak=yes}}

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{nav-rotb}}
{{STROTB|tak=yes}}

==Animated films==
===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
{{nav-tftm}}
{{STTFTM}}

===''One''===
{{nav-one}}
{{STOne}}

==Video games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{nav-wfc}}
{{STWFC}}
===''Reactivate''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Reactivate
|image=Transformers Reactivate Logo.png
|imagesize=500px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate#Toyline|Toyline]]
}}

====Deluxe Class====
[[File:RiseBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+10 Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="80%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' (2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}{{--}}

===''Devastation''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Devastation
|image=Transformers Devastation logo.jpg
|imagesize=400px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Devastation|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Devastation#Toys inspired by this game|Toys]]
}}

[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Gamer-Edition-Deluxe-TFD-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|Devastation Optimus Prime]]
====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2025 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|width="30%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2026 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]]}}
|}

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]]}}
</ul>
|}

==Others==
===''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''===
{{Nav
|continuityfamily=Movie continuity family
|franchise=Transformers: The Ride – 3D
|image=Transformers the Ride.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: The Ride – 3D|Ride]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Universal Studios|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Universal-Studios-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|48 As Seen In Parks Megatron]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multiple retailers''' (2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

===Energon Universe===
{{Nav
|franchise=Energon Universe
|image=Energon Universe logo.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]''
|c2=
* [[Energon Universe#Toyline|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse''' (2026)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Studio Series/By franchise

2025-12-06T14:18:46Z

Primal primus the second: /* Deluxe Class */

{{suite}}
The following is a '''list of ''[[Studio Series]]'' toys by [[Franchises|franchise]]'''.

{{TOC|limit=3}}

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers''===
{{nav-movie}}
{{STMovie}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
{{nav-rotf}}
{{STROTF}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{nav-dotm}}
{{STDOTM}}

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{nav-aoe}}
{{STAOE}}

===''The Last Knight''===
{{nav-tlk}}
{{STTLK}}

===''Bumblebee''===
{{nav-Bumblebee}}
{{STBee|tak=yes}}

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{nav-rotb}}
{{STROTB|tak=yes}}

==Animated films==
===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
{{nav-tftm}}
{{STTFTM}}

===''One''===
{{nav-one}}
{{STOne}}

==Video games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{nav-wfc}}
{{STWFC}}
===''Reactivate''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Reactivate
|image=Transformers Reactivate Logo.png
|imagesize=500px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate#Toyline|Toyline]]
}}

====Deluxe Class====
[[File:RiseBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+10 Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="80%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' (2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}{{--}}

===''Devastation''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Devastation
|image=Transformers Devastation logo.jpg
|imagesize=400px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Devastation|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Devastation#Toys inspired by this game|Toys]]
}}

[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Gamer-Edition-Deluxe-TFD-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|Devastation Optimus Prime]]
====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2025 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2026 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]]}}
|}

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]]}}
</ul>
|}

==Others==
===''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''===
{{Nav
|continuityfamily=Movie continuity family
|franchise=Transformers: The Ride – 3D
|image=Transformers the Ride.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: The Ride – 3D|Ride]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Universal Studios|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Universal-Studios-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|48 As Seen In Parks Megatron]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multiple retailers''' (2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

===Energon Universe===
{{Nav
|franchise=Energon Universe
|image=Energon Universe logo.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]''
|c2=
* [[Energon Universe#Toyline|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse''' (2026)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Studio Series/By franchise

2025-12-06T14:15:51Z

Primal primus the second: /* Devastation */

{{suite}}
The following is a '''list of ''[[Studio Series]]'' toys by [[Franchises|franchise]]'''.

{{TOC|limit=3}}

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers''===
{{nav-movie}}
{{STMovie}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
{{nav-rotf}}
{{STROTF}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{nav-dotm}}
{{STDOTM}}

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{nav-aoe}}
{{STAOE}}

===''The Last Knight''===
{{nav-tlk}}
{{STTLK}}

===''Bumblebee''===
{{nav-Bumblebee}}
{{STBee|tak=yes}}

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{nav-rotb}}
{{STROTB|tak=yes}}

==Animated films==
===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
{{nav-tftm}}
{{STTFTM}}

===''One''===
{{nav-one}}
{{STOne}}

==Video games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{nav-wfc}}
{{STWFC}}
===''Reactivate''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Reactivate
|image=Transformers Reactivate Logo.png
|imagesize=500px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate#Toyline|Toyline]]
}}

====Deluxe Class====
[[File:RiseBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+10 Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="80%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' (2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}{{--}}

===''Devastation''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Devastation
|image=Transformers Devastation logo.jpg
|imagesize=400px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Devastation|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Devastation#Toys inspired by this game|Toys]]
}}

[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Gamer-Edition-Deluxe-TFD-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|Devastation Optimus Prime]]
====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2025 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]]}}
</ul>
|}

==Others==
===''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''===
{{Nav
|continuityfamily=Movie continuity family
|franchise=Transformers: The Ride – 3D
|image=Transformers the Ride.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: The Ride – 3D|Ride]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Universal Studios|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Universal-Studios-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|48 As Seen In Parks Megatron]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multiple retailers''' (2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

===Energon Universe===
{{Nav
|franchise=Energon Universe
|image=Energon Universe logo.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]''
|c2=
* [[Energon Universe#Toyline|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse''' (2026)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Studio Series/By franchise

2025-12-06T14:13:43Z

Primal primus the second: /* Deluxe Class */

{{suite}}
The following is a '''list of ''[[Studio Series]]'' toys by [[Franchises|franchise]]'''.

{{TOC|limit=3}}

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers''===
{{nav-movie}}
{{STMovie}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
{{nav-rotf}}
{{STROTF}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{nav-dotm}}
{{STDOTM}}

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{nav-aoe}}
{{STAOE}}

===''The Last Knight''===
{{nav-tlk}}
{{STTLK}}

===''Bumblebee''===
{{nav-Bumblebee}}
{{STBee|tak=yes}}

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{nav-rotb}}
{{STROTB|tak=yes}}

==Animated films==
===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
{{nav-tftm}}
{{STTFTM}}

===''One''===
{{nav-one}}
{{STOne}}

==Video games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{nav-wfc}}
{{STWFC}}
===''Reactivate''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Reactivate
|image=Transformers Reactivate Logo.png
|imagesize=500px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate#Toyline|Toyline]]
}}

====Deluxe Class====
[[File:RiseBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+10 Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="80%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' (2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}{{--}}

===''Devastation''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Devastation
|image=Transformers Devastation logo.jpg
|imagesize=400px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Devastation|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Devastation#Toys inspired by this game|Toys]]
}}

[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Gamer-Edition-Deluxe-TFD-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|Devastation Optimus Prime]]
====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2025 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2026 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]]}}
</ul>
|}

==Others==
===''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''===
{{Nav
|continuityfamily=Movie continuity family
|franchise=Transformers: The Ride – 3D
|image=Transformers the Ride.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: The Ride – 3D|Ride]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Universal Studios|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Universal-Studios-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|48 As Seen In Parks Megatron]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multiple retailers''' (2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

===Energon Universe===
{{Nav
|franchise=Energon Universe
|image=Energon Universe logo.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]''
|c2=
* [[Energon Universe#Toyline|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse''' (2026)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Studio Series/By franchise

2025-12-06T14:10:45Z

Primal primus the second: /* Devastation */

{{suite}}
The following is a '''list of ''[[Studio Series]]'' toys by [[Franchises|franchise]]'''.

{{TOC|limit=3}}

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers''===
{{nav-movie}}
{{STMovie}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
{{nav-rotf}}
{{STROTF}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{nav-dotm}}
{{STDOTM}}

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{nav-aoe}}
{{STAOE}}

===''The Last Knight''===
{{nav-tlk}}
{{STTLK}}

===''Bumblebee''===
{{nav-Bumblebee}}
{{STBee|tak=yes}}

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{nav-rotb}}
{{STROTB|tak=yes}}

==Animated films==
===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
{{nav-tftm}}
{{STTFTM}}

===''One''===
{{nav-one}}
{{STOne}}

==Video games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{nav-wfc}}
{{STWFC}}
===''Reactivate''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Reactivate
|image=Transformers Reactivate Logo.png
|imagesize=500px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate#Toyline|Toyline]]
}}

====Deluxe Class====
[[File:RiseBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+10 Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="80%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' (2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}{{--}}

===''Devastation''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Devastation
|image=Transformers Devastation logo.jpg
|imagesize=400px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Devastation|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Devastation#Toys inspired by this game|Toys]]
}}

[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Gamer-Edition-Deluxe-TFD-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|Devastation Optimus Prime]]
====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2025 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="35%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2026 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]]}}
</ul>
|}

==Others==
===''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''===
{{Nav
|continuityfamily=Movie continuity family
|franchise=Transformers: The Ride – 3D
|image=Transformers the Ride.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: The Ride – 3D|Ride]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Universal Studios|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Universal-Studios-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|48 As Seen In Parks Megatron]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multiple retailers''' (2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

===Energon Universe===
{{Nav
|franchise=Energon Universe
|image=Energon Universe logo.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]''
|c2=
* [[Energon Universe#Toyline|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse''' (2026)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Studio Series/By franchise

2025-12-06T14:10:20Z

Primal primus the second: /* Devastation */

{{suite}}
The following is a '''list of ''[[Studio Series]]'' toys by [[Franchises|franchise]]'''.

{{TOC|limit=3}}

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers''===
{{nav-movie}}
{{STMovie}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
{{nav-rotf}}
{{STROTF}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{nav-dotm}}
{{STDOTM}}

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{nav-aoe}}
{{STAOE}}

===''The Last Knight''===
{{nav-tlk}}
{{STTLK}}

===''Bumblebee''===
{{nav-Bumblebee}}
{{STBee|tak=yes}}

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{nav-rotb}}
{{STROTB|tak=yes}}

==Animated films==
===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
{{nav-tftm}}
{{STTFTM}}

===''One''===
{{nav-one}}
{{STOne}}

==Video games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{nav-wfc}}
{{STWFC}}
===''Reactivate''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Reactivate
|image=Transformers Reactivate Logo.png
|imagesize=500px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate#Toyline|Toyline]]
}}

====Deluxe Class====
[[File:RiseBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+10 Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="80%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' (2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}{{--}}

===''Devastation''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Devastation
|image=Transformers Devastation logo.jpg
|imagesize=400px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Devastation|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Devastation#Toys inspired by this game|Toys]]
}}

[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Gamer-Edition-Deluxe-TFD-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|Devastation Optimus Prime]]
====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2025 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2026 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]]}}
</ul>
|}

==Others==
===''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''===
{{Nav
|continuityfamily=Movie continuity family
|franchise=Transformers: The Ride – 3D
|image=Transformers the Ride.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: The Ride – 3D|Ride]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Universal Studios|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Universal-Studios-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|48 As Seen In Parks Megatron]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multiple retailers''' (2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

===Energon Universe===
{{Nav
|franchise=Energon Universe
|image=Energon Universe logo.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]''
|c2=
* [[Energon Universe#Toyline|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse''' (2026)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Studio Series/By franchise

2025-12-06T14:09:09Z

Primal primus the second: /* Devastation */

{{suite}}
The following is a '''list of ''[[Studio Series]]'' toys by [[Franchises|franchise]]'''.

{{TOC|limit=3}}

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers''===
{{nav-movie}}
{{STMovie}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
{{nav-rotf}}
{{STROTF}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{nav-dotm}}
{{STDOTM}}

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{nav-aoe}}
{{STAOE}}

===''The Last Knight''===
{{nav-tlk}}
{{STTLK}}

===''Bumblebee''===
{{nav-Bumblebee}}
{{STBee|tak=yes}}

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{nav-rotb}}
{{STROTB|tak=yes}}

==Animated films==
===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
{{nav-tftm}}
{{STTFTM}}

===''One''===
{{nav-one}}
{{STOne}}

==Video games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{nav-wfc}}
{{STWFC}}
===''Reactivate''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Reactivate
|image=Transformers Reactivate Logo.png
|imagesize=500px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate#Toyline|Toyline]]
}}

====Deluxe Class====
[[File:RiseBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+10 Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="80%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' (2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}{{--}}

===''Devastation''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Devastation
|image=Transformers Devastation logo.jpg
|imagesize=400px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Devastation|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Devastation#Toys inspired by this game|Toys]]
}}

[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Gamer-Edition-Deluxe-TFD-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|Devastation Optimus Prime]]
====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2025 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2026 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]]}}
</ul>
|}

==Others==
===''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''===
{{Nav
|continuityfamily=Movie continuity family
|franchise=Transformers: The Ride – 3D
|image=Transformers the Ride.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: The Ride – 3D|Ride]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Universal Studios|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Universal-Studios-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|48 As Seen In Parks Megatron]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multiple retailers''' (2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

===Energon Universe===
{{Nav
|franchise=Energon Universe
|image=Energon Universe logo.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]''
|c2=
* [[Energon Universe#Toyline|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse''' (2026)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Studio Series/By franchise

2025-12-06T14:08:27Z

Primal primus the second: /* Deluxe Class */

{{suite}}
The following is a '''list of ''[[Studio Series]]'' toys by [[Franchises|franchise]]'''.

{{TOC|limit=3}}

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers''===
{{nav-movie}}
{{STMovie}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
{{nav-rotf}}
{{STROTF}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{nav-dotm}}
{{STDOTM}}

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{nav-aoe}}
{{STAOE}}

===''The Last Knight''===
{{nav-tlk}}
{{STTLK}}

===''Bumblebee''===
{{nav-Bumblebee}}
{{STBee|tak=yes}}

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{nav-rotb}}
{{STROTB|tak=yes}}

==Animated films==
===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
{{nav-tftm}}
{{STTFTM}}

===''One''===
{{nav-one}}
{{STOne}}

==Video games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{nav-wfc}}
{{STWFC}}
===''Reactivate''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Reactivate
|image=Transformers Reactivate Logo.png
|imagesize=500px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate#Toyline|Toyline]]
}}

====Deluxe Class====
[[File:RiseBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+10 Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="80%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' (2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}{{--}}

===''Devastation''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Devastation
|image=Transformers Devastation logo.jpg
|imagesize=400px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Devastation|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Devastation#Toys inspired by this game|Toys]]
}}

[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Gamer-Edition-Deluxe-TFD-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|Devastation Optimus Prime]]
====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2025 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2026 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]]}}
</ul>
|}

==Others==
===''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''===
{{Nav
|continuityfamily=Movie continuity family
|franchise=Transformers: The Ride – 3D
|image=Transformers the Ride.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: The Ride – 3D|Ride]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Universal Studios|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Universal-Studios-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|48 As Seen In Parks Megatron]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multiple retailers''' (2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

===Energon Universe===
{{Nav
|franchise=Energon Universe
|image=Energon Universe logo.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]''
|c2=
* [[Energon Universe#Toyline|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse''' (2026)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Studio Series/By franchise

2025-12-06T14:08:07Z

Primal primus the second: /* Deluxe Class */

{{suite}}
The following is a '''list of ''[[Studio Series]]'' toys by [[Franchises|franchise]]'''.

{{TOC|limit=3}}

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers''===
{{nav-movie}}
{{STMovie}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
{{nav-rotf}}
{{STROTF}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{nav-dotm}}
{{STDOTM}}

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{nav-aoe}}
{{STAOE}}

===''The Last Knight''===
{{nav-tlk}}
{{STTLK}}

===''Bumblebee''===
{{nav-Bumblebee}}
{{STBee|tak=yes}}

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{nav-rotb}}
{{STROTB|tak=yes}}

==Animated films==
===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
{{nav-tftm}}
{{STTFTM}}

===''One''===
{{nav-one}}
{{STOne}}

==Video games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{nav-wfc}}
{{STWFC}}
===''Reactivate''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Reactivate
|image=Transformers Reactivate Logo.png
|imagesize=500px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate#Toyline|Toyline]]
}}

====Deluxe Class====
[[File:RiseBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+10 Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="80%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' (2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}{{--}}

===''Devastation''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Devastation
|image=Transformers Devastation logo.jpg
|imagesize=400px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Devastation|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Devastation#Toys inspired by this game|Toys]]
}}

[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Gamer-Edition-Deluxe-TFD-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|Devastation Optimus Prime]]
====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2025 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2026 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]]}}
</ul>
|}

==Others==
===''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''===
{{Nav
|continuityfamily=Movie continuity family
|franchise=Transformers: The Ride – 3D
|image=Transformers the Ride.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: The Ride – 3D|Ride]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Universal Studios|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Universal-Studios-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|48 As Seen In Parks Megatron]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multiple retailers''' (2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

===Energon Universe===
{{Nav
|franchise=Energon Universe
|image=Energon Universe logo.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]''
|c2=
* [[Energon Universe#Toyline|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse''' (2026)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Studio Series/By franchise

2025-12-06T14:06:38Z

Primal primus the second: /* Deluxe Class */

{{suite}}
The following is a '''list of ''[[Studio Series]]'' toys by [[Franchises|franchise]]'''.

{{TOC|limit=3}}

==Live-action film series==
===''Transformers''===
{{nav-movie}}
{{STMovie}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
{{nav-rotf}}
{{STROTF}}

===''Dark of the Moon''===
{{nav-dotm}}
{{STDOTM}}

===''Age of Extinction''===
{{nav-aoe}}
{{STAOE}}

===''The Last Knight''===
{{nav-tlk}}
{{STTLK}}

===''Bumblebee''===
{{nav-Bumblebee}}
{{STBee|tak=yes}}

===''Rise of the Beasts''===
{{nav-rotb}}
{{STROTB|tak=yes}}

==Animated films==
===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
{{nav-tftm}}
{{STTFTM}}

===''One''===
{{nav-one}}
{{STOne}}

==Video games==
===''War for Cybertron''===
{{nav-wfc}}
{{STWFC}}
===''Reactivate''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Reactivate
|image=Transformers Reactivate Logo.png
|imagesize=500px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Reactivate#Toyline|Toyline]]
}}

====Deluxe Class====
[[File:RiseBumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+10 Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="80%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' (2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}{{--}}

===''Devastation''===
{{Nav
|franchise=Transformers: Devastation
|image=Transformers Devastation logo.jpg
|imagesize=400px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: Devastation|Video game]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Devastation#Toys inspired by this game|Toys]]
}}

[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Gamer-Edition-Deluxe-TFD-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|Devastation Optimus Prime]]
====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment''' (2025 onwards)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|}

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="50%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs''' (2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]]}}
</ul>
|}

==Others==
===''Transformers: The Ride – 3D''===
{{Nav
|continuityfamily=Movie continuity family
|franchise=Transformers: The Ride – 3D
|image=Transformers the Ride.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* [[Transformers: The Ride – 3D|Ride]]
|c2=
* [[Transformers: Universal Studios|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Universal-Studios-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|48 As Seen In Parks Megatron]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multiple retailers''' (2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

===Energon Universe===
{{Nav
|franchise=Energon Universe
|image=Energon Universe logo.png
|imagesize=348px
|c1=
* ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]''
|c2=
* [[Energon Universe#Toyline|Toys]]
}}

====Exclusives====
[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]
{| style="margin-left:1em;"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse''' (2026)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Studio Series

2025-12-06T14:01:17Z

Primal primus the second: /* Deluxe Class */

{{nav-studio}}
{{suite}}
[[File:StudioSeries-01-MV1-Deluxe-Bumblebee-w backdrop.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|From L'Oreal]]
First revealed at New York [[Toy Fair 2018]], the '''''Transformers: Studio Series''''' (aka '''''Transformers Generations: Studio Series''''') toyline is a celebration under the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' banner of over ten years of [[live-action film series|films]], with characters from every movie represented. It has also coincided with ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'', ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'', and ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'', acting as the collector-oriented tie-in for these films, similar to ''Generations'' for the ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)|Age of Extinction]]'' toyline. ''Studio Series'' would later add toys based on ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' and video games such as ''[[Transformers: Devastation]]''.

In the first seven years of the toyline, each figure was numbered with an indication of their movie of origin and came with a cardboard backdrop–the eponymous "studio"<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It's called "Studio Series" partly because Hasbro envisioned fans using the included backdrops as miniature "studios" when taking photos of the toys for social media.|link=https://twitter.com/tfwiki/status/1136078338706104320|name=Transformers Wiki (Matthew Karpowich)|site=Twitter|year=2019|month=06|day=05}}</ref>–depicting a notable scene from their respective fictional appearance. Backdrops were often repeated between separate figures to represent the same scene, and were rescaled accordingly for toys in different [[size class]]es.

With rough robot mode [[scale]] as a line-wide goal, each figure is sized in relation to other toys, even in the same size class; within the Deluxe Class, 18 Bumblebee is shorter than 10 Jazz and 01 Bumblebee, who are in turn shorter than 04 Ratchet and 11 Lockdown.

The toyline boasts greater [[show-accuracy|screen-accuracy]] than previous lines, due its focus on relative scale and its making use of CG models pulled from films or games for reference when possible. This approach does fall short for the initial toys from all the concurrent movies though, as they were designed early in their respective film's development.

{{TOC|limit=3}}
==Hasbro ''Studio Series'' toyline==
{{note|The following is an overview of the toyline in release order. For the toys listed by their franchise branding, see '''[[Studio Series/By franchise]]'''.}}
===2018===
The first year of ''Studio Series'' saw the core Autobot cast from ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' right out the gate along with a healthy spread of figures from other films, including the concurrently released ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''.

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|01 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' 1977 Camaro)}}
{{Bp-d1|02 [[Stinger (AOE)#Studio Series|Decepticon Stinger]] (''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|03 [[Crowbar#Studio Series|Crowbar]] (''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|04 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Ratchet]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|10 [[Jazz (Movie)#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|11 [[Lockdown (ROTF)#Studio Series|Lockdown]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|16 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#SS16|Autobot Ratchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|17 [[Shadow Raider#Studio Series|Shadow Raider]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-a1|18 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS18|Bumblebee]] (''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' Beetle)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|22 [[Dropkick (Movie)#Studio Series|Dropkick]] (''Bumblebee'' SuperCobra)}}
{{Bp-d1|23 [[KSI Sentry#Studio Series|KSI Sentry]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:StudioSeries-03-MV3-Deluxe-Crowbar.jpg|thumb|200px|03 Deluxe Class [[Crowbar#Studio Series|Crowbar]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|05 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|06 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Starscream]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|12 [[Brawl (Movie)#Studio Series|Decepticon Brawl]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|13 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|14 [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Ironhide]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|21 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SS21|Starscream]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:StudioSeries-13-MV2-Voyager-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|13 Voyager Class [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Megatron]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|07 [[Grimlock (AOE)#Studio Series|Grimlock]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|08 [[Blackout (Movie)#Studio Series|Decepticon Blackout]] (''Transformers'' w/ [[Scorponok (Movie)#Studio Series|Scorponok]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:StudioSeries-08-MV1-Leader-Blackout.jpg|thumb|200px|08 Leader Class [[Blackout (Movie)#Studio Series|Decepticon Blackout]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
The earliest exclusives in ''Studio Series'' were hit hard by the bankruptcy of [[Toys"R"Us]] in several countries. Thundercracker was only available for a very short window at TRU, and only in store. Likewise, the Bumblebee/Charlie 2-pack was also intended for Toys"R"Us, but ultimately only released that way in Canada, which still had Toys"R"Us by the time it came out. Both releases were eventually made available through numerous online retailers such as [[BigBadToyStore]], [[Entertainment Earth]], ToyWiz, and TFSource.

The Bumblebee Then & Now Two-pack was exclusive to [[Target]] and BigBadToyStore in the United States and to Kmart in Australia. The Bumblebee Vol. 1 Retro Rock Garage set debuted at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2018 and was later also made available via [[Hasbro Toy Shop]]. The Bumblebee Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway set appears to have been an "online exclusive" shared between the same retailers that offered Thundercracker and Bumblebee/Charlie. We say "appear" because the Retro Pop Highway set was ''also'' available at GameStop stores in the United States, ''and'' both sets were ''also'' listed in Diamond Comic Distributors' ''Previews'' catalog, so really the only "exclusivity" for these appears to be that neither of them is available from [[Walmart]] or Target.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Voyager Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|09 [[Thundercracker (Movie)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|15 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS15|Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'' 1977 Camaro, w/ [[Charlie Watson#Studio Series|Charlie]])}}
{{Bp-a1d1|19 Vol. 1 Retro Rock Garage (''Bumblebee'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS19|Bumblebee]] (1977 Camaro)}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Dairu#Studio Series|Dairu]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Uruaz#Studio Series|Uruaz]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|20 Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway (''Bumblebee'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS20|Bumblebee]] (Beetle)}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Uriad#Studio Series|Uriad]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Zauru#Studio Series|Zauru]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee Then & Now Two-Pack}}
:{{Bp-a1|24 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS24|Bumblebee 1967 Volkswagen Beetle]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|25 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS24|Bumblebee 2016 Chevrolet Camaro]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-20-Vol2-retro-Pop-Highway-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|20 Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway]]
|}

;Asia only
Meanwhile, in Hasbro Asia markets: a special Bumblebee with battle damage deco was [[Campaign item|given away]] to customers who purchased at least 100 SGD of ''Studio Series'' and/or ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' products in Singaporean Toys"R"Us stores; and in China, the purchase of ''Studio Series'' products from Hasbro's official TaoBao online shop on May 15, 2018, entered buyers into a lucky draw with the chance of receiving one of 300 battle damaged Bumblebees or one of 88 Blackouts in camouflage deco.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Singapore (Toys"R"Us)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|01 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BattleDamagedTRU|Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'' 1977 Camaro)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''China (TaoBao)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|01 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SSTaoBao|Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'' 1977 Camaro)}}
{{Bp-d1|08 [[Blackout (Movie)#TaoBao|Decepticon Blackout]] (''Transformers'' w/ [[Scorponok (Movie)#TaoBao|Scorponok]])}}
</ul>
|
|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Hasbro-TaoBao-exclusive-Blackout.jpg|thumb|200px|TaoBao exclusive 08 Leader Class [[Blackout (Movie)#TaoBao|Decepticon Blackout]]]]
|}
{{-}}
----

===2019===
Falling on the tenth anniversary of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', the [[2019]] product saw a return of the film's starring combiners, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS32|Jetwing Optimus Prime]] and a hugely ambitious [[Devastator (ROTF)#Studio Series|Devastator]], which necessitated a release over two years.

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|26 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS26|WWII Bumblebee]] (''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|27 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS27|Clunker Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|28 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Barricade]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|29 [[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|30 [[Crankcase (DOTM)#Studio Series|Crankcase]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|39 [[Cogman#Studio Series|Cogman]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|40 [[Shatter#Studio Series|Shatter]] (''Bumblebee'' Plymouth)}}
{{Bp-d1|41 [[Scrapmetal (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Scrapmetal]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|45 [[Drift (AOE)#SS45|Autobot Drift]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|46 [[Dropkick (Movie)#SS46|Dropkick]] (''Bumblebee'' Javelin)}}
{{Bp-d1|47 [[Hightower (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Hightower]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-MVBB-40-Deluxe-Shatter.jpg|thumb|200px|40 Deluxe Class [[Shatter#Studio Series|Shatter]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|32 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS32|Optimus Prime]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|33 [[Bonecrusher (Movie)#Studio Series|Bonecrusher]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|37 [[Rampage (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Rampage]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|38 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS38|Optimus Prime]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|42 [[Long Haul (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Long Haul]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|43 [[KSI Boss#Studio Series|KSI Boss]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-38-MVBB-Voyager-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|38 Voyager Class [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS38|Optimus Prime]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|34 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS34|Megatron]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Igor#Studio Series|Igor]])}}
{{Bp-a1|35 [[Jetfire (Movie)#Studio Series|Jetfire]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|44 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS44|Optimus Prime]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-35-MV2-Leader-Jetfire.jpg|thumb|200px|35 Leader Class [[Jetfire (Movie)#Studio Series|Jetfire]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
As with the previous year's Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway, the Drift and Baby Dinobots set was available from multiple online retailers. Battle Damaged Megatron was first found stocked by Hong Kong shops, long before it was available both online and in store at Toys"R"Us in Canada and Target in the U.S.

"As Seen In Parks" Megatron was officially exclusive to Universal Studios, but was released (almost a ''year'' after he had been officially revealed) in Hasbro's Asian markets first. Due to the global {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}, the toy was ended up being released exclusively via online retailers in the U.S.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Voyager Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|31 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS31|Battle Damaged Megatron]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Leader Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]] (''[[Transformers: The Ride – 3D]]'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="40%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|36 [[Drift (AOE)#Studio Series|Autobot Drift]] & [['Tops#Studio Series|Dinobot 'Tops]], [[Pterry#Studio Series|Dinobot Pterry]], [[Sharp-T#Studio Series|Dinobot Sharp T]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-MV5-Deluxe-Drift.jpg|thumb|200px|36 Deluxe [[Drift (AOE)#Studio Series|Autobot Drift]]]]
|}
{{-}}
----

===2020===
[[2020]] ended up being, to date, the final year of the line to focus exclusively on the live-action film series with following years introducing other franchises to ''Studio Series''. This year saw the completion of ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Devastator while ''Dark of the Moon'' received a lot of focus ahead of the film's 10th anniversary with toys for major players like Sentinel Prime and Shockwave. Finally, Megatron would receive a toy based on his 2007 design, completing that film's main Decepticon line-up after two years (well, except the tiny [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]).

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 8'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|49 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS49|Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'' 2008 Concept Camaro)}}
{{Bp-a1|50 [[Hot Rod (DOTM)#Studio Series|WWII Autobot Hot Rod]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-d1|51 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#Studio Series|Soundwave]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Laserbeak (DOTM)#Studio Series|Laserbeak]])}}
{{Bp-a1|52 [[Chromia (ROTF)#Studio Series|Chromia]] • [[Arcee (Movie)#Studio Series|Arcee]] • [[Elita-One (Movie)#Studio Series|Elita-1]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 9'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|57 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS57|Offroad Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|58 [[Roadbuster (DOTM)#Studio Series|Roadbuster]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|59 [[Shatter#SS59|Shatter]] (''Bumblebee'' Harrier)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 10'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|62 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS62|Soundwave]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|63 [[Topspin (DOTM)#Studio Series|Topspin]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|64 [[Cliffjumper (Movie)#Studio Series|Cliffjumper]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Generations-Studio-Series-50-WWII-Hot-Rod.jpg|thumb|200px|50 Deluxe Class [[Hot Rod (DOTM)#Studio Series|WWII Autobot Hot Rod]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 8'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|53 [[Mixmaster (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Mixmaster]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|54 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS54|Megatron]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 9'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|60 [[Scrapper (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Scrapper]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1d1|61 [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)#Studio Series|Sentinel Prime]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}} 
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 10'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|65 [[Blitzwing (BB)#Studio Series|Blitzwing]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|67 [[Skipjack (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Skipjack]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Voyager-Blitzwing.jpg|thumb|200px|65 Voyager Class [[Blitzwing (BB)#Studio Series|Blitzwing]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|55 [[Scavenger (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Scavenger]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1d1|56 [[Shockwave (Movie)#Studio Series|Shockwave]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Brains#Studio Series|Brains]], [[Wheelie (ROTF)#Studio Series|Wheelie]], and [[NEST#Studio Series|Paratrooper]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|66 [[Overload (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Overload]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-MV2-Leader-Overload.jpg|thumb|200px|66 Leader Class [[Overload (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Overload]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
2020 saw the release of Leadfoot at Target, the enormous Devastator box set at multiple retailers, and the beginnings of the Target exclusive ''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'' line in celebration of everybody's favourite little yellow Autobot. Toys in the latter line are earmarked by the addition of "BB" to their ID numbers.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|68 [[Leadfoot (DOTM)#Studio Series|Leadfoot]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Steeljaw (DOTM)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|15BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW15|Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'' 1977 Camaro w/ [[Charlie Watson#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Charlie]])}}
{{Bp-a1|26BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW26|WWII Bumblebee]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|40BB [[Shatter#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Shatter]] (''Bumblebee'' Plymouth)}}
{{Bp-a1|74BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW74|Bumblebee]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'' w/ [[Sam Witwicky#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Sam Witwicky]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-multi|69 [[Devastator (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Devastator]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')
:{{Bp-d1|[[Scavenger (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Scavenger]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Hightower (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Hightower]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Scrapmetal (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Scrapmetal]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Skipjack (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Skipjack]]}}}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
:{{Bp-d1|[[Long Haul (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Long Haul]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Scrapper (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Scrapper]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Overload (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Overload]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Mixmaster (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Mixmaster]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-SS-68-Deluxe-Leadfoot.jpg|thumb|200px|68 Deluxe Class [[Leadfoot (DOTM)#Studio Series|Leadfoot]] (w/ [[Steeljaw (DOTM)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]])]]
|}
{{-}}
----

===2021===
For [[2021]]'s new product, ''Studio Series'' started to include characters from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', in celebration of the film's 35th anniversary. These toys feature a separate numbering system in Hasbro markets that utilizes "86" before the number of the respective figure. The '86 figures follow the same style, scale and play pattern of those from the concurrent ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' toyline, complete with [[Fire Blast effect|blast effect]] compatibility and [[5 mm post|5 mm port]]s that can support the [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]]. The introduction of '86 figures unfortunately came at the expense of the live-action movie Dinobots who were put on the back burner in favor of the '86 Dinobots. Gnaw also makes the first non-Autobot or Decepticon entry in the toyline.

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 11'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-01 [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]] (''[[The Transformers: The Movie|The Movie]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-02 [[Kup (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Kup]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-03 [[Blurr (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Blurr]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 12'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|70 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS70|B-127]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|71 [[Dino#Studio Series|Autobot Dino]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 13'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|74 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS74|Bumblebee]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'' w/ [[Sam Witwicky#SS74|Sam Witwicky]])}}
{{Bp-a1|75 [[Jolt (ROTF)#Studio Series|Jolt]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-qu2|86-08 [[Gnaw (G1)#Studio Series|Gnaw]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 14'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|78 [[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#SS78|Sideswipe]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-86-01-Deluxe-Autobot-Jazz.jpg|thumb|200px|86-01 Deluxe Class [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 11'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-04 [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Hot Rod]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|86-05 [[Scourge (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Scourge]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 12'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|72 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SS72|Starscream]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 13'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|76 [[Thrust (Movie)#Studio Series|Thrust]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-09 [[Wreck-Gar (G1)#Studio Series|Wreck-Gar]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 14'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|86-10 [[Sweep (G1)#Studio Series|Decepticon Sweep]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:SS76-Bumblebee-Thrust.jpg|thumb|200px|76 Voyager Class [[Thrust (Movie)#Studio Series|Thrust]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-06 [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Grimlock]] & [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Autobot Wheelie]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|73 [[Grindor (ROTF)#Studio Series|Grindor]] & [[Ravage (ROTF)#Studio Series|Ravage]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-07 [[Slag (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Dinobot Slug]] & [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)#Studio Series|Daniel Witwicky]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:SS-toy Grimlock 86.jpg|thumb|200px|86-06 Leader Class [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Grimlock]] & [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Wheelie]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
The ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' line further expanded in 2021 to include multi-packs. Target also received reissues of Battle Damaged Megatron and the Then & Now Two-Pack.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Battle Packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|18BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW18|Bumblebee]] VS 46BB [[Dropkick (Movie)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Dropkick]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|27BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW27|Clunker Bumblebee]] VS 28BB [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Barricade]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="25%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|79BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW79|High Octane Bumblebee]] VS 02BB [[Stinger (AOE)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Decepticon Stinger]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="15%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Buzzworthy-Bumblebee-High-Octane-Bumblebee-VS-Decepticon-Stinger.jpg|thumb|200px|79BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW79|High Octane Bumblebee]] VS 02BB [[Stinger (AOE)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Decepticon Stinger]]]]
|}
{{-}}
----

===2022===
In [[2022]], ''Studio Series'' adopted the Core Class price point that debuted in the ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' toyline, producing both characters too small for Deluxe Class as well as pocket-sized versions of the main cast like in [[Legends Class (2005)|days of yore]]. Notably, unlike the larger figures in the line, the toys in the Core Class are not numbered.

2022 also saw the first shift in the line’s packaging design, conforming to Hasbro’s initiative to reduce packaging waste. Box sizes were slightly reduced, with plastic clamshells and windows phased out in favor of decorated cardboard backings and small open windows respectively. Leader Class figures switched to a completely closed box design. Core Classes do not have the display backdrops, but retain the new decorated cardboard backings.

====Core Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (Movie)#SSBB|Shockwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Ravage (ROTF)#SSBB|Ravage]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Spike Witwicky (G1)#Studio Series|Exo-Suit Spike Witwicky]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Ratchet (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Ratchet]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheelie (G1)#SSCore|Autobot Wheelie]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Laserbeak (DOTM)#SSCore|Laserbeak]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Rumble (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Decepticon Rumble (Blue)]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-Core-Class-Bumblebee-Ravage.jpg|thumb|200px|Core Class [[Ravage (ROTF)#SSBB|Ravage]]]]
|}

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 15'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|80 [[Brawn (ROTF)#Studio Series|Brawn]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|81 [[Wheeljack (Movie)#Studio Series|Wheeljack]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|82 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#SS82|Autobot Ratchet]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-11 [[Perceptor (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Perceptor]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 16'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|84 [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#SS84|Ironhide]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|85 [[Arcee (Movie)#SS85|Arcee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 17'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-16 [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Arcee]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|87 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS87|Bumblebee]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|88 [[Sideways (ROTF)#Studio Series|Sideways]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 18'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|92 [[Crosshairs (AOE)#Studio Series|Crosshairs]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|93 [[Hot Rod (DOTM)#SS93|Autobot Hot Rod]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:SS-toy Brawn.jpg|thumb|200px|80 Deluxe Class [[Brawn (ROTF)#Studio Series|Brawn]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 15'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|83 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS83|Soundwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-04 [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Hot Rod]] (''The Movie'', [[package refresh]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 16'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-14 [[Junkyard (G1)#Studio Series|Junkheap]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 17'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|89 [[Thundercracker (Movie)#SS89|Thundercracker]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|90 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS90|Galvatron]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 18'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-17 [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ironhide]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-Voyager-Class-Bumblebee-Soundwave.jpg|thumb|200px|83 Voyager Class [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS83|Soundwave]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 8'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|86-12 [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Coronation Starscream]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 9'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-15 [[Sludge (G1)#Studio Series|Dinobot Sludge]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 10'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|91 [[The Fallen/toys#Studio Series|The Fallen]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Leader-ROTF-The-Fallen.jpg|thumb|200px|91 Leader Class [[The Fallen/toys#Studio Series|The Fallen]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
2022 saw the first in a line of exclusives themed around [[NEST]] in the online exclusive N.E.S.T. Bumblebee, a new assortment of ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxes from Target, and a special commemorative multi-pack of Autobots for the 15th anniversary of ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' available at [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]].

In late 2022, a second wave of ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxes were briefly listed by the wholesaler NDA Toys, with accompanying stock renders, and seemed to fill the pair of conspicuous gaps in the ''Studio Series'' numbering system. A listing for a third wavemate was also discovered months later. Unfortunately, Target opted to cancel their release due to poor sales of the previous wave.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/original-plans-for-individual-releases-of-hatchet-and-earth-mode-hound-were-cancelled/48011/ "Original Plans for Individual Releases of Hatchet and Earth Mode Hound were Cancelled"] at Seibertron.</ref> Hound was eventually released in 2024 for ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]'' and Hatchet and Bumblebee in 2025 for the main ''Studio Series'' line.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|77 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS77|N.E.S.T. Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'' w/ "[[NEST#SS77|mini figure]]")}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|70BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW70|B-127]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-02BB [[Kup (G1)/toys#BW8602|Kup]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-13BB [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#BW8613|Cliffjumper]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Movie 1 15th Anniversary Multipack (''Transformers'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|04 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Autobot Ratchet]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|10 [[Jazz (Movie)#SS15thAnniversary|Autobot Jazz]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|14 [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Ironhide]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|32 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Optimus Prime]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|49 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxe Class''' (''canceled'')
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-18BB [[Hound (G1)/toys#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Autobot Hound]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|94BB [[Hatchet (DOTM)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Hatchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BWnewVW|Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'' Beetle)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:SS77-NEST-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|77 Deluxe Class [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS77|N.E.S.T. Bumblebee]]]]
|}
{{-}}
----

===2023===
''Studio Series'' expanded in scope in [[2023]], not only with toys for ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''–the first new ''Transformers'' movie since the line's early days–but also into the world of the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'' video game. These "Gamer Edition" toys feature unique packaging and a separate numbering system that we've chosen to represent as beginning with a plus (+), though the actual toy packaging stylizes the symbol as a little D-pad. Neat! It also introduced the Commander Class range of figures from ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'', starting with Ultra Magnus, who was revealed at San Diego Comic Con 2023 by [[Flint Dille]].

====Core Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Arcee (Movie)#SSCore|Arcee]] (''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Freezer#Toys|Terrorcon Freezer]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys#SSCore|Ironhide]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SSCore|Bumblebee]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 8'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Frenzy (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Decepticon Frenzy (Red)]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Noah Díaz#Toys|Noah Díaz Exo-Suit]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Novakane#Toys|Terrorcon Novakane]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-SS-Core-ROTB-Arcee.jpg|thumb|200px|Core Class [[Arcee (Movie)#SSCore|Arcee]]]]
|}

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 19'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|97 [[Airazor (ROTB)#Studio Series|Airazor]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|100 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS100|Bumblebee]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 20'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+01 [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]] ([[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|''War for Cybertron'')]]}}
{{Bp-d1|+02 [[Barricade (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Barricade]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 21'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-22 [[Brawn (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Brawn]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|+05 [[Cliffjumper (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Cliffjumper]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 22'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-ter|104 [[Nightbird (ROTB)#SS104|Nightbird]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|105 [[Mirage (Movie)#SS105|Autobot Mirage]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-SS-WFC-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+01 Deluxe Class [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 19'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|98 [[Cheetor (ROTB)#Studio Series|Cheetor]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|99 [[Battletrap (ROTB)#Studio Series|Battletrap]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 20'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+03 [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Optimus Prime]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 21'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|103 [[Rhinox (ROTB)#Studio Series|Rhinox]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-d1|+04 [[Megatron (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Megatron]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 22'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-23 [[Ratchet (G1)/toys#SSVoyager|Autobot Ratchet]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-SS-98-Voyager-ROTB-Cheetor.jpg|thumb|200px|98 Voyager Class [[Cheetor (ROTB)#Studio Series|Cheetor]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 11'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-ter|101 [[Scourge (ROTB)#Studio Series|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 12'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-19 [[Snarl (G1)#Studio Series|Dinobot Snarl]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 13'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|106 [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Studio Series|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:StudioSeriestoy-ScourgeLeader.jpg|thumb|200px|101 Leader Class [[Scourge (ROTB)#Studio Series|Scourge]]]]
|}

====Commander Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-21 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ultra Magnus]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-Commander-Class-86-21-Ultra-Magnus.jpg|thumb|200px|86-21 Commander Class [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ultra Magnus]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
There were further releases in ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' this year, some of which continued the range of NEST-themed redecoes, and none of which were released in waves or regular assortments. Another ''Transformers'' 15th anniversary set, this time for most of the Decepticons, was available on Amazon.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|96BB [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#BW96|N.E.S.T. Autobot Ratchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Voyager Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|95BB [[Bonecrusher (Movie)#BW95|N.E.S.T. Bonecrusher]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|102BB [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#BBROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Leader Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|44BB [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#BW44|Optimus Prime]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|07BB [[Grimlock (AOE)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Grimlock]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-24BB [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Ironhide]] / 86-20BB [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Prowl]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:Buzzworthy-Bumblebee-95BB-NEST-Bonecrusher.jpeg|thumb|200px|95BB Voyager Class [[Bonecrusher (Movie)#BW95|N.E.S.T. Bonecrusher]]]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Movie 1 15th Anniversary Decepticon Multipack (''Transformers'')}}
:{{Bp-d1|06 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Starscream]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|08 [[Blackout (Movie)#SS15thAnniversary|Decepticon Blackout]] (w/ [[Scorponok (Movie)#SS15thAnniversary|Scorponok]])}}
:{{Bp-d1|28 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Barricade]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|54 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}
----

===2024===
[[2024]] introduced figures marked as "Concept Art" releases–based on character designs created for films which ultimately did not appear in the finished product. ''Bumblebee'', having left a variety of designs on the cutting room floor during its tumultuous post-production, was the primary source for this initial round of "Concept Art" releases. Figures from the unreleased ''[[Transformers: Reactivate]]'' game would also be added under the "Gamer Edition" banner, sharing its numbering system, while the long-running ''The Transformers: The Movie'' Dinobots lineup came to a close this year with Swoop.

Another addition for 2024 was the "A-Level" assortment, a concept being introduced across multiple Hasbro collector lines to distribute toys of high-profile, in-demand characters outside of the normal wave-based assortments, meaning they can remain available for retailers to order (and thus for fans to buy) for a longer period of time. The inaugural ''Studio Series'' A-Level Deluxe Class case was home to the first toy for the concurrent ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'' film; taking advantage of the film's standalone nature, Hasbro chose to decrease the scale of its ''Studio Series'' toys for affordability, placing leaders Optimus Prime and Megatron in Deluxe rather than their more typical Voyager or Leader size classes.<ref>[[April 25]], [[2024]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s06YE02e844 Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream | April 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Mark Maher]], and [[Evan Brooks]].</ref>

Leader Class figures would finally adopt the open-window packaging design of the other size classes this year, while thicker cardboard was used for all boxes aside from the Core Class.

Except for the Deluxes, the first wave was made available early alongside ''[[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy United|Legacy: United]]'' products at [[Singapore Comic Con#2023|Cybertron Fest 2023]].

====Core Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 9'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Mohawk#Toys|Decepticon Mohawk]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Rumble (ROTF)#Studio Series|Concept Art Decepticon Rumble]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 10'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Steeljaw (G1)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 11'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SSCore|Starscream]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Frenzy (Movie)#Studio Series|Concept Art Decepticon Frenzy]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-MV6-Core-Starscream.jpg|thumb|200px|Core Class [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SSCore|Starscream]]]]
|}

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 23'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-p1|107 [[Scorponok (ROTB)#Studio Series|Predacon Scorponok]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|108 [[Wheeljack (ROTB)#Studio Series|Wheeljack]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 24'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|111 [[Sunstreaker (ROTF)#Studio Series|Concept Art Sunstreaker]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|+07 [[Sideswipe (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Sideswipe]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-qu2|86-08 [[Gnaw (G1)#Studio Series|Gnaw]] (''The Movie'', package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 25'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|+08 [[Soldier (unit)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Decepticon Soldier]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|114 [[Megatron (One)#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]] (''[[Transformers: Reactivate|Reactivate]]'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:Studio-Series-TF-One-OP.jpg|thumb|200px|112 Deluxe Class [[Optimus Prime (One)#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]]]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|112 [[Optimus Prime (One)#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-29 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 23'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|+06 [[Starscream (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Starscream]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-24 [[Scrapheap (G1)#Studio Series|Junkion Scrapheap]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 24'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|110 [[Shockwave (Movie)#SS110|Shockwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 25'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|113 [[Skywarp (Movie)#Studio Series|Skywarp]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+09 [[Ratchet (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Autobot Ratchet]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-86-24-Voyager-Scrapheap.jpg|thumb|200px|86-24 Voyager Class [[Scrapheap (G1)#Studio Series|Junkion Scrapheap]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 14'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|109 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSConcept|Concept Art Megatron]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-m1|106 [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Studio Series|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'', package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 15'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-26 [[Swoop (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Dinobot Swoop]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 16'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-30 [[Springer (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Springer]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Concept-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|109 Leader Class [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSConcept|Concept Art Megatron]]]]
|}

====Commander Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-31 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:StudioSeries86CommanderOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|86-31 Commander Class [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
With the ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' branding being rotated out of circulation, its signature Target-exclusive cartoon-style redecoes of ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toys were released in normal ''Studio Series'' packaging. Another Amazon "15th Anniversary" multipack was released, this time for ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''. Similar to the [[#Exclusives|first year]] of ''Studio Series'', a limited amount of specially painted Optimus Primes were given to people who spent at least HKD$3000 at the Hasbro Hong Kong Fans Expo 2024. There were also Target exclusive reissues of 49 Bumblebee and 51 Soundwave.
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Voyager Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-25 [[Blaster (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Blaster]] & [[Eject (G1)#Studio Series|Eject]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-27 [[Brawn (G1)/toys#SStwopack|Brawn]] / 86-28 [[Ratchet (G1)/toys#SStwopack|Autobot Ratchet]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|''Revenge of the Fallen'' 15th Anniversary Autobot Multipack (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|32 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSROTF15th|Optimus Prime]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|35 [[Jetfire (Movie)#SSROTF15th|Jetfire]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|52 [[Chromia (ROTF)#SSROTF15th|Chromia]], [[Arcee (Movie)#SSROTF15th|Arcee]], [[Elita-One (Movie)#SSROTF15th|Elita-1]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Hong Kong Fans Expo 2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|112 [[Optimus Prime (One)#BattleDamage|Optimus Prime (Limited Edition Battle Damage Ver.)]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-ROTF-15th-Multipack-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|''Revenge of the Fallen'' 15th Anniversary Autobot Multipack]]
|}
{{-}}
----

===2025===
Beginning with 2025's spring wave, the line's packaging was completely refreshed for the first time, notably seeing a return to plastic windows and the abandonment of the line's signature ID numbers and backdrop displays, on a new design in alignment with the concurrent ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' toyline.<ref>[https://youtu.be/70HJMtOWpk0?list=TLPQMjcxMDIwMjSvhwDwAHRwJQ&t=1092 1027 Hasbro Pulse Premium Event 2024!] with [[Nate Purswell]], [[Evan Brooks]], and [[Mark Maher]], on the official [[Hasbro Pulse]] Youtube channel</ref> In this vein, the unique "Gamer Edition" branding for video game-based toys was removed. ''Studio Series'' also began shifting from four waves per year to three, reducing the amount of repacked figures and allowing more time for each wave to stay on shelves. As part of these changes, 2025's initial winter wave served as a sort of stopgap offering, comprised of multiple [[package refresh]]es (including two previously cancelled ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxe figures!) and redecoes, functioning like an additional wave of 2024 product prior to the spring relaunch.<ref>"Like United wave 5, this wave is somewhat of a last minute addition while being as cost effective as possible, it’s also why we haven’t seen the updated mainline packaging yet because it’s kind of considered a extension of the 2024 lineup."—[https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/hasbro-at-mcm-london-comic-con-25-27-october.1268848/page-15#post-22808424 Jtprime17, TFW2005, 2024/10/26]</ref> Tragically, the Core Class was discontinued.

[[2025]] saw another combiner in ''The Transformers: The Movie'' [[Devastator (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Devastator]]. Learning from previous combiner releases, all six Constructicons were scheduled to be released within one calendar year to make them easier to collect. The toyline also saw the addition of the ''[[Transformers: Devastation]]'' video game, celebrating its tenth anniversary.

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 27'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-p1|115 [[Double Punch (ROTB)#Studio Series|Double Punch]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|116 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS116|Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'' Beetle)}}
{{Bp-d1|94 / 117 [[Hatchet (DOTM)#Studio Series|Decepticon Hatchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#Studio Series|B-127/Bumblebee]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 28'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Bonecrusher (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Bonecrusher]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (Movie)#SSQue|Wheeljack (Que)]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]] (''The Movie'', package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 29'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#Studio Series|Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[KSI Widow#Studio Series|Concept Art KSI Widow]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Scavenger (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Scavenger]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (One)#Studio Series|Starscream]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:StudioSeriestoy-HatchetDOTM.jpg|thumb|200px|94 / 117 Deluxe Class [[Hatchet (DOTM)#Studio Series|Decepticon Hatchet]]]]
|}
{{-}}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 27'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|+11 [[Skywarp (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Skywarp]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-a1|102 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'', package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 28'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Ironhide (WFC)#Studio Series|Ironhide]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Scrapper (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Scrapper]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-multi|[[Sentinel Prime (One)#Studio Series|Sentinel Prime]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 29'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Mixmaster (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Mixmaster]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (WFC)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:TF-SS-TFTM-Voyager-Scrapper.jpg|thumb|200px|Voyager Class [[Scrapper (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Scrapper]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 17'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|86-31 [[Galvatron (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Galvatron]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-m1|116 / 118 [[Apelinq (ROTB)#Studio Series|Apelinq]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 18'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSAOEKnight|Optimus Prime]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (Movie)#Studio Series|Shockwave]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Brains#Studio Series|Brains]], [[Wheelie (ROTF)#Studio Series|Wheelie]], and [[NEST#Studio Series|Paratrooper]], package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 19'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Grimlock]] / [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Autobot Wheelie]] (''The Movie'', package refresh)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[file:StudioSeriesAOELeaderOptimusPrime.jpeg|thumb|200px|Leader Class [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSAOEKnight|Optimus Prime]]]]
|
|}

====Commander Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Hook (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Hook]] / [[Long Haul (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Long Haul]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[file:StudioSeries86CommanderHookandLongHaul.jpg|thumb|200px|Commander Class [[Hook (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Hook]] and [[Long Haul (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Long Haul]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
The "MTMTE Collection" is Target's new subline of exclusives in North America, replacing ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee''. Overload's product description also labelled it as the "Power Collection." Amazon continued its trend of faction-based "15th anniversary" sets, though such branding has been omitted from this year's packaging. Similar to last year, the Hasbro Hong Kong Fans Expo 2025 saw another limited run of hand-painted Optimus Primes given out for for spending at least HKD$5000 at the booth.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]] (''Devastation'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]] (''Devastation'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Voyager Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#SSMTMTE|Optimus Prime]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (WFC)/toys#SSMTMTE|Megatron]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Leader Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Overload (ROTF)#SSMTMTE|Constructicon Overload]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'', package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]] (''Devastation'')}}
{{Bp-a1d1|[[Perceptor (G1)/toys#SSMultipack|Autobot Perceptor]] / [[Ratbat (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ratbat]] / [[Ramhorn (G1)#Studio Series|Ramhorn]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[file:TF-SS86-Deluxe-Perceptor.jpg|thumb|200px|Deluxe Class [[Perceptor (G1)/toys#SSMultipack|Autobot Perceptor]]]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Amazon'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|''Revenge of the Fallen'' 3 Pack (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[The Fallen/toys#SSROTF-3pk|The Fallen]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSROTF-3pk|Megatron]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SSROTF-3pk|Soundwave]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Hong Kong Fans Expo 2025'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-31 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SS86BattleDamage|Optimus Prime (Battle Damage Limited Edition)]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}
----

===2026===
[[2026]] would finally see the introduction of Titan Class to ''Studio Series'' with a remake of ''Age of Extinction'' Grimlock after 8 years, along with a promise to actually finish his [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot team]] this time around. In a sort of trade, ''Studio Series'' getting the annual Titan release saw its usual Commander figure being moved to ''Age of the Primes'' to give it two figures in the price point. ''Studio Series'' also saw the addition of the [[Energon Universe]], the toyline's first endeavor into ''Transformers'' comics.

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 30'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SSTLK|Barricade]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Studio Series|Windcharger]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]] (''Devastation'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#Studio Series|Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[File:SS-One-Airachnid.jpg|thumb|200px|Deluxe Class [[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 30'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio Series|Alpha Trion]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Thundercracker]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[File:TF-SS-ONE-Voyager-Alpha-Trion.jpg|thumb|200px|Voyager Class [[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio Series|Alpha Trion]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 20'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSNemesis|Nemesis Prime]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Soundwave]] / [[Buzzsaw (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Buzzsaw]] / [[Laserbeak (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Laserbeak]] / [[Ravage (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Ravage]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[File:TF-SS86-Leader-Soundwave.jpg|thumb|200px|Leader Class [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Soundwave]]]]
|}

====Titan Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (AOE)#SSTitan|Grimlock]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|}

{{comingsoontoy| Wave 1}}
{{--}}

====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]]]
|-
|}

{{comingsoontoy}}

{{anchor|TakaraTomy}}

==TakaraTomy ''Studio Series'' toyline==
Similar to ''Power of the Primes'', in Takara's '''''Transformers Studio Series''''' (トランスフォーマースタジオシリーズ ''Toransufōmā Sutajio Shirīzu'') line, all figures are identical to their Hasbro counterparts, forgoing Takara's past practice of using more movie-accurate paint jobs. This is most likely due to the line being an official collaboration between Hasbro and [[TakaraTomy]], much like the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece#Masterpiece Movie Series|Masterpiece Movie Series]]'' line. ID numbering differs after number 8 compared to the Hasbro releases, since some of the exclusives are not released in Japan. Introduced to the line in 2021, Takara includes characters from ''The Transformers: The Movie'' in its pre-existing ''Studio Series'' numbering system, whereas Hasbro assigns them ID numbers prefixed by "86". Takara also assigns ID numbers to Core Class figures, which go unnumbered in Hasbro markets. From wave 4 through wave 12, the packages featured the franchise's 35th anniversary logo. Toys would eventually use entirely closed boxes starting with wave 29.

{{note|Toys in italics are exclusive to the TakaraTomy line.}}

=== Regular retail ===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" style="margin-right:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1''' ([[April 21]], [[2018]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-01 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-02 [[Stinger (AOE)#Studio Series|Decepticon Stinger]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-03 [[Crowbar#Studio Series|Crowbar]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-04 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Ratchet]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-05 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-06 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Starscream]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-07 [[Grimlock (AOE)#Studio Series|Grimlock]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-08 [[Blackout (Movie)#Studio Series|Blackout]] (''Transformers'' w/ [[Scorponok (Movie)#Studio Series|Scorponok]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2''' ([[July 21]], 2018)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-09 [[Jazz (Movie)#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-10 [[Lockdown (ROTF)#Studio Series|Lockdown]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-11 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-12 [[Brawl (Movie)#Studio Series|Brawl]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3''' ([[September 15]], 2018)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-13 [[Shadow Raider#Studio Series|Shadow Raider]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-14 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#SS16|Ratchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-15 [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Ironhide]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4''' ([[October 27]], 2018)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-16 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS18|Bumblebee]] (Beetle, ''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-17 [[KSI Sentry#Studio Series|KSI Sentry]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-18 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SS21|Starscream]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5''' ([[January 26]], [[2019]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-19 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS26|World War II Bumblebee]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-20 [[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-21 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Decepticon Barricade]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-22 [[Crankcase (DOTM)#Studio Series|Crankcase]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6''' ([[March 23]], 2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-23 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS27|Rusty Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-24 [[Bonecrusher (Movie)#Studio Series|Bonecrusher]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-25 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS32|Optimus Prime]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-26 [[Jetfire (Movie)#Studio Series|Jetfire]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-27 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS34|Megatron]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Igor#Studio Series|Igor]])}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-28 [[Dropkick (Movie)#Studio Series|Dropkick]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7''' ([[April 27]], 2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-29 [[Shatter#Studio Series|Shatter]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-30 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS38|Optimus Prime]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-31 [[Cogman#Studio Series|Cogman]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-32 [[Scrapmetal (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Scrapmetal]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-33 [[Rampage (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Rampage]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 8''' ([[July 27]], 2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-34 [[Long Haul (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Long Haul]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-35 [[KSI Boss#Studio Series|KSI Boss]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 9''' ([[August 31]], 2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-36 [[Dropkick (Movie)#SS46|Dropkick 2]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-37 [[Hightower (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Hightower]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-38 [[Drift (AOE)#SS45|Sky Drift]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-39 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS44|Jetwing Optimus Prime]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 10''' ([[January 25]], [[2020]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-40 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS49|New Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-41 [[Chromia (ROTF)#Studio Series|Chromia]] • [[Arcee (Movie)#Studio Series|Arcee]] • [[Elita-One (Movie)#Studio Series|Elita-1]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-42 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#Studio Series|Soundwave]] with [[Laserbeak (DOTM)#Studio Series|Laserbeak]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-43 [[Mixmaster (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Mixmaster]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 11''' ([[February 29]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-44 [[Hot Rod (DOTM)#Studio Series|WWII Autobot Hot Rod]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-45 [[Shockwave (Movie)#Studio Series|Shockwave]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Brains#Studio Series|Brains]], [[Wheelie (ROTF)#Studio Series|Wheelie]], and [[NEST#Studio Series|Paratrooper]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 12''' ([[March 28]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-46 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS54|Megatron]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-47 [[Scavenger (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Scavenger]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 13''' ([[April 25]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-48 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS57|Offroad Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-49 [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)#Studio Series|Sentinel Prime]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 14''' ([[May 30]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-50 [[Roadbuster (DOTM)#Studio Series|Roadbuster]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-51 [[Scrapper (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Scrapper]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 15''' ([[June 27]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-52 [[Shatter#SS59|Shatter 2]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 15.5''' ([[August 1]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-54 [[Overload (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Overload]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 16''' ([[August 29]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-53 [[Cliffjumper (Movie)#Studio Series|Cliffjumper]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 17''' ([[September 26]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-55 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS62|Soundwave]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-56 [[Topspin (DOTM)#Studio Series|Topspin]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 18''' ([[October 23]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-57 [[Blitzwing (BB)#Studio Series|Blitzwing]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 19''' ([[November 28]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-58 [[Leadfoot (DOTM)#Studio Series|Leadfoot]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Steeljaw (DOTM)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 20''' ([[April 20]], [[2021]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-59 [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-60 [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Hot Rod]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-61 [[Kup (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Kup]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 21''' ([[May 29]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-62 [[Scourge (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Scourge]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-63 [[Blurr (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Blurr]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-64 [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Grimlock]] & [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Autobot Wheelie]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 22''' ([[June 26]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-65 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS70|B-127]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 23''' ([[July 31]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-66 [[Dino#Studio Series|Autobot Dino]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-67 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SS72|Starscream]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 24''' ([[August 7]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-68 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS74|Bumblebee]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 25''' ([[November 27]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-69 [[Wreck-Gar (G1)#Studio Series|Wreck-Gar]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-qu2|SS-70 [[Gnaw (G1)#Studio Series|Gnaw]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-71 [[Slag (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Slug]] & [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)#Studio Series|Daniel Witwicky]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' ([[February 26]], [[2022]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-73 [[Thrust (Movie)#Studio Series|Thrust]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-74 [[Jolt (ROTF)#Studio Series|Jolt]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 27''' ([[April 30]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-75 [[Perceptor (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Perceptor]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-76 [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Studio Series|New Destruction Emperor Starscream]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-77 [[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#SS78|Sideswipe]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 28''' ([[May 28]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-78 [[Ravage (ROTF)#SSBB|Ravage]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-79 [[Shockwave (Movie)#SSBB|Shockwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-80 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#SS82|Autobot Ratchet]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-81 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS83|Soundwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 29''' ([[June 25]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-82 [[Sweep (G1)#Studio Series|Decepticon Sweep]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-83 [[Brawn (ROTF)#Studio Series|Brawn]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-84 [[Wheeljack (Movie)#Studio Series|Wheeljack]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 30''' ([[August 27]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-85 [[Spike Witwicky (G1)#Studio Series|Exo-Suit Spike Witwicky]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-86 [[Arcee (Movie)#SS85|Arcee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-87 [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#SS84|Ironhide]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-88 [[Junkyard (G1)#Studio Series|Junkheap]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-89 [[Sludge (G1)#Studio Series|Dinobot Sludge]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 31''' ([[October 29]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-90 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS87|Bumblebee]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-91 [[Sideways (ROTF)#Studio Series|Sideways]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-92 [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Arcee]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 32''' ([[November 26]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-93 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS90|Galvatron]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-94 [[Thundercracker (Movie)#SS89|Thundercracker]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 33''' ([[February 25]], [[2023]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-95 [[Crosshairs (AOE)#Studio Series|Crosshairs]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-96 [[Hot Rod (DOTM)#SS93|Hot Rod]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-97 [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ironhide]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 34''' ([[March 25]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-98 [[Wheelie (G1)#SSCore|Autobot Wheelie]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-99 [[Ratchet (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ratchet]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-100 [[The Fallen/toys#Studio Series|Fallen]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 35''' ([[April 29]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-101 [[Laserbeak (DOTM)#SSCore|Laserbeak]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-102 [[Rumble (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Rumble (Blue)]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 36''' ([[June 24]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-103 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS100|Bumblebee]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|SS-104 [[Battletrap (ROTB)#Studio Series|Battletrap]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 37''' ([[July 29]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-ter|SS-105 [[Freezer#Studio Series|Terrorcon Freezer]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{bp-a1|SS-106 [[Arcee (Movie)#SSCore|Arcee]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{bp-m1|SS-107 [[Airazor (ROTB)#Studio Series|Airazor]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 38''' ([[August 26]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-m1|SS-108 [[Cheetor (ROTB)#Studio Series|Cheetor]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{bp-ter|SS-109 [[Scourge (ROTB)#Studio Series|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 39''' ([[September 30]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-110 [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#SSCore|Ironhide]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-111 [[Snarl (G1)#Studio Series|Dinobot Snarl]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 40''' ([[October 28]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS GE-01 [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS GE-02 [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS GE-03 [[Barricade (WFC)#Studio Series|Barricade]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 41''' ([[November 25]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-112 [[Brawn (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Brawn]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-m1|SS-113 [[Rhinox (ROTB)#Studio Series|Rhinox]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS GE-04 [[Megatron (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS GE-05 [[Cliffjumper (WFC)#Studio Series|Cliffjumper]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 42''' ([[December 30]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-114 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SSCore|Bumblebee]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 43''' ([[January 28]], [[2024]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-115 [[Frenzy (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Frenzy (Red)]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-116 [[Noah Díaz#Studio Series|Noah Díaz Excel Suit]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-117 [[Ratchet (G1)/toys#SSVoyager|Ratchet]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 44''' ([[February 25]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|SS-118 [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Studio Series|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-119 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ultra Magnus]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-ter|SS-120 [[Nightbird (ROTB)#Studio Series|Nightbird]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 45''' ([[March 31]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-ter|SS-121 [[Novakane#Studio Series|Novakane]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-122 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 46''' ([[April 28]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-123 [[Mohawk#Toys|Mohawk]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-124 [[Rumble (ROTF)#Studio Series|Rumble]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-125 [[Scrapheap (G1)#Studio Series|Scrapheap]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{bp-d1|SS GE-06 [[Starscream (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Starscream]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 47''' ([[May 26]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-p1|SS-126 [[Scorponok (ROTB)#Studio Series|Scorponok]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-127 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSConcept|Megatron]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 48''' ([[August 25]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-128 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SSCore|Starscream]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 49''' ([[September 29]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-129 [[Blaster (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Blaster]] (''The Movie'' w/ [[Eject (G1)#Studio Series|Eject]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 50''' ([[October 27]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-130 [[Shockwave (Movie)#SS110|Shockwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-131 [[Sunstreaker (ROTF)#Studio Series|Sunstreaker]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-132 [[Swoop (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Swoop]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS GE-07 [[Sideswipe (WFC)#Studio Series|Sideswipe]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 51''' ([[November 24]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-133 [[Wheeljack (ROTB)#Studio Series|Wheeljack]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-134 [[Optimus Prime (One)#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 52''' ([[December 29]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-135 [[Steeljaw (G1)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-136 [[Skywarp (Movie)#Studio Series|Skywarp]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-137 [[Springer (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Springer]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS GE-08 [[Soldier (unit)#Studio Series|Decepticon Soldier]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 53''' ([[February 22]], [[2025]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-138 [[Megatron (One)#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-139 [[Frenzy (Movie)#Studio Series|Decepticon Frenzy]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-140 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS GE-09 [[Ratchet (WFC)#Studio Series|Ratchet]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 54''' ([[March 29]], 2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-141 [[Mirage (Movie)#SS105|Mirage]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-142 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 55''' ([[May 31]], 2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-p1|SS-143 [[Double Punch (ROTB)#toys|Double Punch]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-144 [[Hatchet (DOTM)#Studio Series|Hatchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-145 [[Galvatron (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Galvatron]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-m1|SS-146 [[Apelinq (ROTB)#toys|Apelinq]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS GE-10 [[Skywarp (WFC)#Studio Series|Skywarp]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|}

====Second phase====
Beginning in July 2025, TakaraTomy switched to different packaging, matching Hasbro's switch. With this, it was decided to reset the numbering, with new initials '''TS''' standing for '''Transformers Series''' (トランスフォーマーシリーズ)<ref>https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1886973512122032413</ref>.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" style="margin-right:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1''' ([[July 26]], [[2025]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|TS-01 [[Bumblebee (One)#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-multi|TS-02 [[Sentinel Prime (One)#Studio Series|Sentinel Prime]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-03 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSAOEKnight|Optimus Prime]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-04 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Optimus Prime (Devastation)]]}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-05 [[Bonecrusher (G1)#Studio Series|Bonecrusher]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-06 [[Scrapper (G1)#Studio Series|Scrapper]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS GE-01 [[Ironhide (WFC)#Studio Series|Ironhide]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2''' ([[August 30]], [[2025]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|TS-07 [[Hook (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Hook]] & [[Long Haul (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Long Haul]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3''' ([[November 29]], [[2025]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|TS-08 [[Scavenger (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Scavenger]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-09 [[Mixmaster (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Mixmaster]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-10 [[Starscream (One)#Studio Series|Starscream]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-11 [[Elita-1 (One)#Studio Series|Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-12 [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4''' ([[January 31]], [[2026]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|TS GE-02 [[Thundercracker (WFC)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-13 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS116|Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5''' ([[March 28]], [[2026]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|TS-14 [[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-15 [[Windcharger (G1)#Studio Series|Windcharger]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6''' ([[April 25]], [[2026]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|TS-16 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SSTLK|Decepticon Barricade]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-17 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSNemesis|Nemesis Prime]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-18 [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Soundwave]] Set (''The Movie'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7''' ([[May 30]], [[2026]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|TS-19 [[Bumblebee_(G1)/toys#SSDevastation|Bumblebee]] (''Devastation'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-20 [[Optimus_Prime_(One)#Studio_Series|Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-21 [[Wheeljack_(Movie)#SSQue|Wheeljack (Que)]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-22 [[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio_Series|Alpha Trion]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|}

===Exclusives===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Tokyo Comic Con#2018|Tokyo Comic Con 2018]]/[[TakaraTomy Mall]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|SS-EX Vol. 1 Retro Rock Garage (''Bumblebee'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS19|Bumblebee]] (1977 Camaro)}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Dairu#Studio Series|Dairu]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Uruaz#Studio Series|Uruaz]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Omni7'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-EX [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#7NetBattleDamage|1967 Rusty Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Toys"R"Us]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-EX [[Drift (AOE)#Studio Series|Autobot Drift]] with [[Mini Dinobot#Studio Series|Mini Dinobot]]s (''The Last Knight'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[TakaraTomy Mall]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-EX [[Skipjack (ROTF)#Studio Series|Skipjack]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1d1|TS-EX [[Perceptor (G1)/toys#SSMultipack|Perceptor]] Set (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:TF-BB-SS-EX-Rusty-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|SS-EX [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#7NetBattleDamage|1967 Rusty Bumblebee]] (Takara single-packed release of 24 Bumblebee)]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Lawson Ticket'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|''SS-EX [[Nemesis Prime (AOE)#Studio Series|Nemesis Prime]] (Bumblebee)''}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Transformers 40th Anniversary Expo'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|''SS-EX [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SSEXCore|Bumblebee]] (Dark of the Moon)''}}
{{Bp-d1|''SS-EX [[Nemesis Prime (AOE)#SSROTB|Nemesis Prime (40th Anniversary Ver.)]] (Rise of the Beasts)''}}
</ul>
|}

===''Premium Finish''===
{{nav-pf}}
In 2021, TakaraTomy decided to go back to its old ways and launched the short-lived ''[[Transformers Premium Finish|Premium Finish]]'' toyline, featuring re-releases of some ''Studio Series'' figures with much more movie-accurate decoes. This line has its own numbering system, and, with the exception of the first Bumblebee, also notes the figure's movie of origin. ''Premium Finish'' was imported to western markets via [[Hasbro Pulse]].

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1''' ([[October 30]], [[2021]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|PF SS-01 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Premium Finish|Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2''' ([[November 27]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|PF SS-02 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Premium Finish|Optimus Prime]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3''' ([[December 29]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|PF SS-03 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Premium Finish|Megatron]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4''' ([[January 29]], [[2022]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|PF SS-04 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#Premium Finish|Ratchet]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:TF-Premium-Finish-PF-SS-02-BB-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|PFSS-02 Optimus Prime]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5''' ([[July 30]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|PF SS-05 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#PFSS05|Optimus Prime]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

==Merchandise==
A wearable Bumblebee helmet was released as a Target exclusive, tying into the ''Bumblebee'' film, similar to the Optimus Prime helmet made for ''The Last Knight''. A series of [[Jada Toys]] ''Hollywood Rides'' vehicles were also made to tie into ''Studio Series'', using the toyline's packaging style and even a couple of backdrop artworks, though they were also released in generic non-''Studio Series'' packaging.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Roleplay items'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#Studio Series 2|Bumblebee Showcase Helmet]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime Deluxe Role Play Set}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Hollywood Rides'' 1/24 Scale'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#Studio Series|Bumblebee 1977 Chevy Camaro]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#SS2006Chevy|Bumblebee 2006 Chevy Camaro Concept]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#Jada Toys|Sideswipe]] (unreleased)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Hollywood Rides'' 1/32 Scale'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#SSTLK1-32|Bumblebee 2016 Chevy Camaro]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#SS1-32|Optimus Prime]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#SSTLK1-32|Western Star 5700XE Optimus Prime]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#Canceled1-32|Sideswipe]] (unreleased)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Bumblebee_Studio_Series_Helmet.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bumblebee Showcase Helmet]]
|}
{{-}}

==Notes==
*In July 2017, photos of a computer screen taken during an internal Hasbro presentation were leaked to the public that revealed, among other things, the very ''existence'' of the ''Studio Series'' general retail line-up, though not the actual title "Studio Series" yet (which was later revealed through separate leaks). The fact that the slides incorrectly featured projected release dates for "2017" instead of 2018 (which included dates ''predating'' the leak) led some fans to assume that the still unannounced line-up had long since been canceled. It wouldn't be until several leaks later that Hasbro ''finally'' acknowledged the existence of the ''Studio Series'' line, and revealed the first few [[wave]]s during New York [[Toy Fair 2018]], even offering a limited quantity of the first wave of Deluxe Class figures as an early release through the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] website. Simultaneously, [[TakaraTomy]] revealed their version of the line at [[Wonder Festival]] Winter 2018.
*Among the figures whose existence was revealed through the aforementioned July 2017 leak that were ''not'' officially unveiled at Toy Fair was Voyager Class Ironhide, who made his worldwide debut at retail in Singapore in June 2018. Subsequently, Hasbro announced the redeco of Voyager Class Starscream (based on his appearance in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''), the final figure revealed through the July 2017 leak, via their "[[Hasbro Pulse]]" Instagram account a few days before [[San Diego Comic-Con]], even though they ''still'' hadn't officially acknowledged the existence of Ironhide by that point.
*Like with previous movie-based lines, ''Studio Series'' also assigned code names to at least some of its characters. In 2018, the "theme" for those code names was "Australian race horses":
{{collist|3|
:::*Bumblebee: "Stryker"
:::*Dropkick: "Blue Lightning" or "Blue Light"
:::*Megatron: "Fox"
:::*Optimus Prime: "Radar"
:::*KSI Sentry: "Sentry"
:::*Shadow Raider: "Mercenary"
:::*Shatter: "Red Lightning" or "Red Light"
}}
:The code names of many of the other figures, assuming they even ''had'' code names, are still unknown, as those toys have (thus far) consistently been listed under their actual characters' names. Meanwhile, a listing for a supposed Voyager Class figure using the code name "Destroyer" later turned out to be a mislabeled Energon Igniters Speed Series [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#Bumblebee|Barricade]] from the [[Transformers: Bumblebee (toyline)|''Bumblebee'' movie toyline]], with which the ''Studio Series'' shares its code names.
*A few of the Deluxes and Voyagers of the [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)#Generations .28Series M4.29|previous]] [[Transformers: The Last Knight (toyline)#Premier Edition|two]] movie toylines scale fairly well with ''Studio Series'' figures. To this extent, [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Deluxe Class toys 5|a]] [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#ThirdTLKDeluxe|few]] [[Nitro Zeus#Toys|molds]] [[Cogman#Deluxe|were]] also redecoed in this toyline as well [[Nitro Zeus#Toys|as a]] [[Drift (AOE)#Premier Edition|few]] [[Berserker#Toys|retools]]. Furthermore, the static figurine of [[Quintessa (TLK)#Toys|Quintessa]] scales well among these toys and also seems to serve as an inspiration for later pack-in figurines like [[Wheelie (ROTF)#Studio Series|Wheelie]], [[Brains#Studio Series|Brains]], and the [[Mini Dinobot#Toys|Mini Dinobot]]s.
*One of the biggest [[Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers|misconceptions]] surrounding the ''Studio Series'' toyline is that there is a [[Subline imprint|subline]] called "Studio Series 86". This came about from leaked listings on Walmart's website where the number "86" was misinterpreted as part of the toyline's title, rather than the ID numbers of those toys. While the toys based on characters from the [[1986]] movie do feature a separate numbering system, the line itself doesn't acknowledge them as being any different from the live-action movie toys they are sold alongside. That being said, ''‘86'' as a shorthand for ''The Transformers: The Movie'' figures saw widespread use amongst fans and even the toy designers, eventually appearing in official marketing material as well.<ref>[[July 25]], [[2025]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T18IQaMuGVk?t=1038 Transformers Brand Panel Recap | SDCC 2025 | Hasbro Pulse] on YouTube, with [[Mark Maher]], [[Evan Brooks]], and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref>
**While it has never been confirmed, the move to include 1986 characters in the ''Studio Series'' toyline after three years of continuous focus on the live-action films, was likely done to allow Hasbro and TakaraTomy to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the film, without stepping on the toes of the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' 25th anniversary, which was celebrated as a part of the ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (franchise)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''. Evidence suggesting this is the inclusion of some of the film's main characters ([[Cyclonus (G1)/toys#Kingdom|Cyclonus]], [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Kingdom|Rodimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)/toys#Kingdom|Galvatron]]) being sold in the concurrently-ran ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' toyline and the shared design aesthetics of the toys between both lines.
*Due to the cancellation of Hound, the toyline's numbering system is missing 86-18. Additionally, 79, 86-13, 86-20, 95, and 96 are only assigned to the ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' version of the line.
**74 ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Bumblebee and 102 ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Prime are the only toys to be re-released in the regular line after debuting in ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee''.
**TakaraTomy's version of the line has skipped over "72" for unknown reasons.
**Junkion Scrapheap and ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Ironhide both use the 86-24 number. Optimus Prime and Galvatron also share the number 86-31.
*The last wave to use ID numbers in 2025 was quite a mess. Perhaps they just gave up in the face of its impending doom.
**As mentioned above, Galvatron reused Optimus Prime's number of 86-31.
**Hatchet's original ID number for his cancelled ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' release was 94. When he was finally released 2 years later, his packaging had the number 117, but his product description and instructions still used 94.
**The original ID number for the cancelled Bumblebee from the same wave is unknown, as there are no other gaps that it might have occupied. The main line release's product description and stock photos used 117 like Hatchet, but 116 is the only number present on the final product.
**Apelinq's stock photos, product description, backdrop, and instructions use 116, while only the box (and a small number of backdrops) uses 118, the last number in Hasbro's line.
*The instructions of the ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' "[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Worlds Collide]]" set mistakenly label it as part of ''Studio Series'', under the ''Transformers'' movie.
*The introduction of the "Gamer Edition" banner led Hasbro to review the full back catalogue of [[video games]] they retained ownership over, including more esoteric options, such as the [[Family Computer|Nintendo Famicom]] ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy]]'' or the [[Nintendo 64]] ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals]]!''<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Pretty much all of it. Think the clear winner will probably be, everybody wants some Devastation stuff, we need to figure out how to do some cell shading for it. Continuing from WFC, think FOC is on the table. Team has even joked about doing Mystery of Convoy, doing some sort of dot deco or something like that. We have the Ultra Magnus now and we have the Rodimus from Kingdom, it’s like why not. Why not some N64 Transmetals too? We can get some of that in there, there’s a lot of options. If it’s been in a video game, we have the opportunity to look at it, taking a little bit of a cue from what the Star Wars team did with their gamer stuff. There’s no licensing issues, we own all of that, it’s all on the table for us. But with the live action movie stuff, there’s always that stuff going on, you still have to deal with Paramount and the licensors.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/28/sdcc-2023-hasbro-show-floor-qa-legacy-studio-series-video-games-more-488215|name=Hasbro|site=TFW2005|title=SDCC 2023 Hasbro Show Floor Q&A – Legacy, Studio Series, Video Games, More!|year=2023|month=07|day=28}}</ref>
*To ensure game-accuracy in the "Gamer Edition" toys, designer [[Sam Smith]] booted up some of the games on older hardware to look at the textures of the in-game models;<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Sam had to load up the games on older platforms because there were some deco details we couldn’t find – we have the CAD, but it’s not colored. So we had to find some of the character details within the games themselves.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/28/sdcc-2023-hasbro-show-floor-qa-legacy-studio-series-video-games-more-488215|name=Hasbro|site=TFW2005|title=SDCC 2023 Hasbro Show Floor Q&A – Legacy, Studio Series, Video Games, More!|year=2023|month=07|day=28}}</ref> although Hasbro had all the files for ''Fall of Cybertron'', they were only able to receive concept art from the publishers of ''War for Cybertron'', and were only able to rip the raw CAD from the game files themselves.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=We do, but it’s very interesting. FOC, we have everything. For WFC, we had to rip it ourselves, because they could not find it – they kept sending concept art instead, which we didn’t want, we need the CAD. So we booted up an old computer and ripped them all out from there. Which was a learning experience and a long weekend, because we just wanted to get it right, so that’s why we did it like that.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/28/sdcc-2023-hasbro-show-floor-qa-legacy-studio-series-video-games-more-488215|name=Hasbro|site=TFW2005|title=SDCC 2023 Hasbro Show Floor Q&A – Legacy, Studio Series, Video Games, More!|year=2023|month=07|day=28}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
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[[File:StudioSeries-01-MV1-Deluxe-Bumblebee-w backdrop.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|From L'Oreal]]
First revealed at New York [[Toy Fair 2018]], the '''''Transformers: Studio Series''''' (aka '''''Transformers Generations: Studio Series''''') toyline is a celebration under the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' banner of over ten years of [[live-action film series|films]], with characters from every movie represented. It has also coincided with ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'', ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'', and ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'', acting as the collector-oriented tie-in for these films, similar to ''Generations'' for the ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)|Age of Extinction]]'' toyline. ''Studio Series'' would later add toys based on ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' and video games such as ''[[Transformers: Devastation]]''.

In the first seven years of the toyline, each figure was numbered with an indication of their movie of origin and came with a cardboard backdrop–the eponymous "studio"<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It's called "Studio Series" partly because Hasbro envisioned fans using the included backdrops as miniature "studios" when taking photos of the toys for social media.|link=https://twitter.com/tfwiki/status/1136078338706104320|name=Transformers Wiki (Matthew Karpowich)|site=Twitter|year=2019|month=06|day=05}}</ref>–depicting a notable scene from their respective fictional appearance. Backdrops were often repeated between separate figures to represent the same scene, and were rescaled accordingly for toys in different [[size class]]es.

With rough robot mode [[scale]] as a line-wide goal, each figure is sized in relation to other toys, even in the same size class; within the Deluxe Class, 18 Bumblebee is shorter than 10 Jazz and 01 Bumblebee, who are in turn shorter than 04 Ratchet and 11 Lockdown.

The toyline boasts greater [[show-accuracy|screen-accuracy]] than previous lines, due its focus on relative scale and its making use of CG models pulled from films or games for reference when possible. This approach does fall short for the initial toys from all the concurrent movies though, as they were designed early in their respective film's development.

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==Hasbro ''Studio Series'' toyline==
{{note|The following is an overview of the toyline in release order. For the toys listed by their franchise branding, see '''[[Studio Series/By franchise]]'''.}}
===2018===
The first year of ''Studio Series'' saw the core Autobot cast from ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' right out the gate along with a healthy spread of figures from other films, including the concurrently released ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''.

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|01 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' 1977 Camaro)}}
{{Bp-d1|02 [[Stinger (AOE)#Studio Series|Decepticon Stinger]] (''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|03 [[Crowbar#Studio Series|Crowbar]] (''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|04 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Ratchet]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|10 [[Jazz (Movie)#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|11 [[Lockdown (ROTF)#Studio Series|Lockdown]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|16 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#SS16|Autobot Ratchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|17 [[Shadow Raider#Studio Series|Shadow Raider]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-a1|18 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS18|Bumblebee]] (''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' Beetle)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|22 [[Dropkick (Movie)#Studio Series|Dropkick]] (''Bumblebee'' SuperCobra)}}
{{Bp-d1|23 [[KSI Sentry#Studio Series|KSI Sentry]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:StudioSeries-03-MV3-Deluxe-Crowbar.jpg|thumb|200px|03 Deluxe Class [[Crowbar#Studio Series|Crowbar]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|05 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|06 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Starscream]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|12 [[Brawl (Movie)#Studio Series|Decepticon Brawl]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|13 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|14 [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Ironhide]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|21 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SS21|Starscream]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:StudioSeries-13-MV2-Voyager-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|13 Voyager Class [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Megatron]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|07 [[Grimlock (AOE)#Studio Series|Grimlock]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|08 [[Blackout (Movie)#Studio Series|Decepticon Blackout]] (''Transformers'' w/ [[Scorponok (Movie)#Studio Series|Scorponok]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:StudioSeries-08-MV1-Leader-Blackout.jpg|thumb|200px|08 Leader Class [[Blackout (Movie)#Studio Series|Decepticon Blackout]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
The earliest exclusives in ''Studio Series'' were hit hard by the bankruptcy of [[Toys"R"Us]] in several countries. Thundercracker was only available for a very short window at TRU, and only in store. Likewise, the Bumblebee/Charlie 2-pack was also intended for Toys"R"Us, but ultimately only released that way in Canada, which still had Toys"R"Us by the time it came out. Both releases were eventually made available through numerous online retailers such as [[BigBadToyStore]], [[Entertainment Earth]], ToyWiz, and TFSource.

The Bumblebee Then & Now Two-pack was exclusive to [[Target]] and BigBadToyStore in the United States and to Kmart in Australia. The Bumblebee Vol. 1 Retro Rock Garage set debuted at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2018 and was later also made available via [[Hasbro Toy Shop]]. The Bumblebee Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway set appears to have been an "online exclusive" shared between the same retailers that offered Thundercracker and Bumblebee/Charlie. We say "appear" because the Retro Pop Highway set was ''also'' available at GameStop stores in the United States, ''and'' both sets were ''also'' listed in Diamond Comic Distributors' ''Previews'' catalog, so really the only "exclusivity" for these appears to be that neither of them is available from [[Walmart]] or Target.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Voyager Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|09 [[Thundercracker (Movie)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|15 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS15|Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'' 1977 Camaro, w/ [[Charlie Watson#Studio Series|Charlie]])}}
{{Bp-a1d1|19 Vol. 1 Retro Rock Garage (''Bumblebee'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS19|Bumblebee]] (1977 Camaro)}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Dairu#Studio Series|Dairu]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Uruaz#Studio Series|Uruaz]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|20 Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway (''Bumblebee'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS20|Bumblebee]] (Beetle)}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Uriad#Studio Series|Uriad]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Zauru#Studio Series|Zauru]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee Then & Now Two-Pack}}
:{{Bp-a1|24 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS24|Bumblebee 1967 Volkswagen Beetle]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|25 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS24|Bumblebee 2016 Chevrolet Camaro]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-20-Vol2-retro-Pop-Highway-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|20 Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway]]
|}

;Asia only
Meanwhile, in Hasbro Asia markets: a special Bumblebee with battle damage deco was [[Campaign item|given away]] to customers who purchased at least 100 SGD of ''Studio Series'' and/or ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' products in Singaporean Toys"R"Us stores; and in China, the purchase of ''Studio Series'' products from Hasbro's official TaoBao online shop on May 15, 2018, entered buyers into a lucky draw with the chance of receiving one of 300 battle damaged Bumblebees or one of 88 Blackouts in camouflage deco.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Singapore (Toys"R"Us)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|01 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BattleDamagedTRU|Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'' 1977 Camaro)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''China (TaoBao)'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|01 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SSTaoBao|Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'' 1977 Camaro)}}
{{Bp-d1|08 [[Blackout (Movie)#TaoBao|Decepticon Blackout]] (''Transformers'' w/ [[Scorponok (Movie)#TaoBao|Scorponok]])}}
</ul>
|
|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Hasbro-TaoBao-exclusive-Blackout.jpg|thumb|200px|TaoBao exclusive 08 Leader Class [[Blackout (Movie)#TaoBao|Decepticon Blackout]]]]
|}
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===2019===
Falling on the tenth anniversary of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', the [[2019]] product saw a return of the film's starring combiners, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS32|Jetwing Optimus Prime]] and a hugely ambitious [[Devastator (ROTF)#Studio Series|Devastator]], which necessitated a release over two years.

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|26 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS26|WWII Bumblebee]] (''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|27 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS27|Clunker Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|28 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Barricade]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|29 [[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|30 [[Crankcase (DOTM)#Studio Series|Crankcase]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|39 [[Cogman#Studio Series|Cogman]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|40 [[Shatter#Studio Series|Shatter]] (''Bumblebee'' Plymouth)}}
{{Bp-d1|41 [[Scrapmetal (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Scrapmetal]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|45 [[Drift (AOE)#SS45|Autobot Drift]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|46 [[Dropkick (Movie)#SS46|Dropkick]] (''Bumblebee'' Javelin)}}
{{Bp-d1|47 [[Hightower (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Hightower]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-MVBB-40-Deluxe-Shatter.jpg|thumb|200px|40 Deluxe Class [[Shatter#Studio Series|Shatter]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|32 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS32|Optimus Prime]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|33 [[Bonecrusher (Movie)#Studio Series|Bonecrusher]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|37 [[Rampage (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Rampage]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|38 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS38|Optimus Prime]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|42 [[Long Haul (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Long Haul]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|43 [[KSI Boss#Studio Series|KSI Boss]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-38-MVBB-Voyager-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|38 Voyager Class [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS38|Optimus Prime]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|34 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS34|Megatron]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Igor#Studio Series|Igor]])}}
{{Bp-a1|35 [[Jetfire (Movie)#Studio Series|Jetfire]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|44 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS44|Optimus Prime]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-35-MV2-Leader-Jetfire.jpg|thumb|200px|35 Leader Class [[Jetfire (Movie)#Studio Series|Jetfire]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
As with the previous year's Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway, the Drift and Baby Dinobots set was available from multiple online retailers. Battle Damaged Megatron was first found stocked by Hong Kong shops, long before it was available both online and in store at Toys"R"Us in Canada and Target in the U.S.

"As Seen In Parks" Megatron was officially exclusive to Universal Studios, but was released (almost a ''year'' after he had been officially revealed) in Hasbro's Asian markets first. Due to the global {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}, the toy was ended up being released exclusively via online retailers in the U.S.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Voyager Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|31 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS31|Battle Damaged Megatron]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Leader Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|48 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSUniversal|As Seen In Parks Megatron]] (''[[Transformers: The Ride – 3D]]'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="40%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|36 [[Drift (AOE)#Studio Series|Autobot Drift]] & [['Tops#Studio Series|Dinobot 'Tops]], [[Pterry#Studio Series|Dinobot Pterry]], [[Sharp-T#Studio Series|Dinobot Sharp T]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-MV5-Deluxe-Drift.jpg|thumb|200px|36 Deluxe [[Drift (AOE)#Studio Series|Autobot Drift]]]]
|}
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===2020===
[[2020]] ended up being, to date, the final year of the line to focus exclusively on the live-action film series with following years introducing other franchises to ''Studio Series''. This year saw the completion of ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Devastator while ''Dark of the Moon'' received a lot of focus ahead of the film's 10th anniversary with toys for major players like Sentinel Prime and Shockwave. Finally, Megatron would receive a toy based on his 2007 design, completing that film's main Decepticon line-up after two years (well, except the tiny [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]).

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 8'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|49 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS49|Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'' 2008 Concept Camaro)}}
{{Bp-a1|50 [[Hot Rod (DOTM)#Studio Series|WWII Autobot Hot Rod]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
{{Bp-d1|51 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#Studio Series|Soundwave]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Laserbeak (DOTM)#Studio Series|Laserbeak]])}}
{{Bp-a1|52 [[Chromia (ROTF)#Studio Series|Chromia]] • [[Arcee (Movie)#Studio Series|Arcee]] • [[Elita-One (Movie)#Studio Series|Elita-1]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 9'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|57 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS57|Offroad Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|58 [[Roadbuster (DOTM)#Studio Series|Roadbuster]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|59 [[Shatter#SS59|Shatter]] (''Bumblebee'' Harrier)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 10'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|62 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS62|Soundwave]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|63 [[Topspin (DOTM)#Studio Series|Topspin]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|64 [[Cliffjumper (Movie)#Studio Series|Cliffjumper]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Generations-Studio-Series-50-WWII-Hot-Rod.jpg|thumb|200px|50 Deluxe Class [[Hot Rod (DOTM)#Studio Series|WWII Autobot Hot Rod]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 8'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|53 [[Mixmaster (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Mixmaster]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|54 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS54|Megatron]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 9'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|60 [[Scrapper (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Scrapper]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1d1|61 [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)#Studio Series|Sentinel Prime]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}} 
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 10'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|65 [[Blitzwing (BB)#Studio Series|Blitzwing]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|67 [[Skipjack (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Skipjack]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Voyager-Blitzwing.jpg|thumb|200px|65 Voyager Class [[Blitzwing (BB)#Studio Series|Blitzwing]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|55 [[Scavenger (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Scavenger]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1d1|56 [[Shockwave (Movie)#Studio Series|Shockwave]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Brains#Studio Series|Brains]], [[Wheelie (ROTF)#Studio Series|Wheelie]], and [[NEST#Studio Series|Paratrooper]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|66 [[Overload (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Overload]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-MV2-Leader-Overload.jpg|thumb|200px|66 Leader Class [[Overload (ROTF)#Studio Series|Constructicon Overload]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
2020 saw the release of Leadfoot at Target, the enormous Devastator box set at multiple retailers, and the beginnings of the Target exclusive ''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'' line in celebration of everybody's favourite little yellow Autobot. Toys in the latter line are earmarked by the addition of "BB" to their ID numbers.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|68 [[Leadfoot (DOTM)#Studio Series|Leadfoot]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Steeljaw (DOTM)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|15BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW15|Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'' 1977 Camaro w/ [[Charlie Watson#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Charlie]])}}
{{Bp-a1|26BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW26|WWII Bumblebee]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|40BB [[Shatter#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Shatter]] (''Bumblebee'' Plymouth)}}
{{Bp-a1|74BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW74|Bumblebee]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'' w/ [[Sam Witwicky#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Sam Witwicky]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-multi|69 [[Devastator (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Devastator]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')
:{{Bp-d1|[[Scavenger (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Scavenger]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Hightower (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Hightower]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Scrapmetal (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Scrapmetal]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Skipjack (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Skipjack]]}}}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
:{{Bp-d1|[[Long Haul (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Long Haul]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Scrapper (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Scrapper]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Overload (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Overload]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Mixmaster (ROTF)#SSBoxset|Constructicon Mixmaster]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-SS-68-Deluxe-Leadfoot.jpg|thumb|200px|68 Deluxe Class [[Leadfoot (DOTM)#Studio Series|Leadfoot]] (w/ [[Steeljaw (DOTM)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]])]]
|}
{{-}}
----

===2021===
For [[2021]]'s new product, ''Studio Series'' started to include characters from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', in celebration of the film's 35th anniversary. These toys feature a separate numbering system in Hasbro markets that utilizes "86" before the number of the respective figure. The '86 figures follow the same style, scale and play pattern of those from the concurrent ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' toyline, complete with [[Fire Blast effect|blast effect]] compatibility and [[5 mm post|5 mm port]]s that can support the [[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]]. The introduction of '86 figures unfortunately came at the expense of the live-action movie Dinobots who were put on the back burner in favor of the '86 Dinobots. Gnaw also makes the first non-Autobot or Decepticon entry in the toyline.

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 11'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-01 [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]] (''[[The Transformers: The Movie|The Movie]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-02 [[Kup (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Kup]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-03 [[Blurr (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Blurr]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 12'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|70 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS70|B-127]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|71 [[Dino#Studio Series|Autobot Dino]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 13'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|74 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS74|Bumblebee]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'' w/ [[Sam Witwicky#SS74|Sam Witwicky]])}}
{{Bp-a1|75 [[Jolt (ROTF)#Studio Series|Jolt]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-qu2|86-08 [[Gnaw (G1)#Studio Series|Gnaw]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 14'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|78 [[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#SS78|Sideswipe]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-86-01-Deluxe-Autobot-Jazz.jpg|thumb|200px|86-01 Deluxe Class [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 11'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-04 [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Hot Rod]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|86-05 [[Scourge (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Scourge]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 12'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|72 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SS72|Starscream]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 13'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|76 [[Thrust (Movie)#Studio Series|Thrust]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-09 [[Wreck-Gar (G1)#Studio Series|Wreck-Gar]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 14'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|86-10 [[Sweep (G1)#Studio Series|Decepticon Sweep]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:SS76-Bumblebee-Thrust.jpg|thumb|200px|76 Voyager Class [[Thrust (Movie)#Studio Series|Thrust]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-06 [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Grimlock]] & [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Autobot Wheelie]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|73 [[Grindor (ROTF)#Studio Series|Grindor]] & [[Ravage (ROTF)#Studio Series|Ravage]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-07 [[Slag (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Dinobot Slug]] & [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)#Studio Series|Daniel Witwicky]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:SS-toy Grimlock 86.jpg|thumb|200px|86-06 Leader Class [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Grimlock]] & [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Wheelie]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
The ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' line further expanded in 2021 to include multi-packs. Target also received reissues of Battle Damaged Megatron and the Then & Now Two-Pack.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Battle Packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|18BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW18|Bumblebee]] VS 46BB [[Dropkick (Movie)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Dropkick]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|27BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW27|Clunker Bumblebee]] VS 28BB [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Barricade]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="25%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|79BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW79|High Octane Bumblebee]] VS 02BB [[Stinger (AOE)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Decepticon Stinger]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="15%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Buzzworthy-Bumblebee-High-Octane-Bumblebee-VS-Decepticon-Stinger.jpg|thumb|200px|79BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW79|High Octane Bumblebee]] VS 02BB [[Stinger (AOE)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Decepticon Stinger]]]]
|}
{{-}}
----

===2022===
In [[2022]], ''Studio Series'' adopted the Core Class price point that debuted in the ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' toyline, producing both characters too small for Deluxe Class as well as pocket-sized versions of the main cast like in [[Legends Class (2005)|days of yore]]. Notably, unlike the larger figures in the line, the toys in the Core Class are not numbered.

2022 also saw the first shift in the line’s packaging design, conforming to Hasbro’s initiative to reduce packaging waste. Box sizes were slightly reduced, with plastic clamshells and windows phased out in favor of decorated cardboard backings and small open windows respectively. Leader Class figures switched to a completely closed box design. Core Classes do not have the display backdrops, but retain the new decorated cardboard backings.

====Core Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (Movie)#SSBB|Shockwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Ravage (ROTF)#SSBB|Ravage]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Spike Witwicky (G1)#Studio Series|Exo-Suit Spike Witwicky]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Ratchet (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Ratchet]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheelie (G1)#SSCore|Autobot Wheelie]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Laserbeak (DOTM)#SSCore|Laserbeak]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Rumble (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Decepticon Rumble (Blue)]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-Core-Class-Bumblebee-Ravage.jpg|thumb|200px|Core Class [[Ravage (ROTF)#SSBB|Ravage]]]]
|}

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 15'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|80 [[Brawn (ROTF)#Studio Series|Brawn]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|81 [[Wheeljack (Movie)#Studio Series|Wheeljack]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|82 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#SS82|Autobot Ratchet]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-11 [[Perceptor (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Perceptor]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 16'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|84 [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#SS84|Ironhide]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|85 [[Arcee (Movie)#SS85|Arcee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 17'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-16 [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Arcee]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|87 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS87|Bumblebee]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|88 [[Sideways (ROTF)#Studio Series|Sideways]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 18'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|92 [[Crosshairs (AOE)#Studio Series|Crosshairs]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|93 [[Hot Rod (DOTM)#SS93|Autobot Hot Rod]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:SS-toy Brawn.jpg|thumb|200px|80 Deluxe Class [[Brawn (ROTF)#Studio Series|Brawn]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 15'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|83 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS83|Soundwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-04 [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Hot Rod]] (''The Movie'', [[package refresh]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 16'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-14 [[Junkyard (G1)#Studio Series|Junkheap]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 17'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|89 [[Thundercracker (Movie)#SS89|Thundercracker]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|90 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS90|Galvatron]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 18'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-17 [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ironhide]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-Voyager-Class-Bumblebee-Soundwave.jpg|thumb|200px|83 Voyager Class [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS83|Soundwave]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 8'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|86-12 [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Coronation Starscream]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 9'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-15 [[Sludge (G1)#Studio Series|Dinobot Sludge]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 10'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|91 [[The Fallen/toys#Studio Series|The Fallen]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Leader-ROTF-The-Fallen.jpg|thumb|200px|91 Leader Class [[The Fallen/toys#Studio Series|The Fallen]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
2022 saw the first in a line of exclusives themed around [[NEST]] in the online exclusive N.E.S.T. Bumblebee, a new assortment of ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxes from Target, and a special commemorative multi-pack of Autobots for the 15th anniversary of ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' available at [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]].

In late 2022, a second wave of ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxes were briefly listed by the wholesaler NDA Toys, with accompanying stock renders, and seemed to fill the pair of conspicuous gaps in the ''Studio Series'' numbering system. A listing for a third wavemate was also discovered months later. Unfortunately, Target opted to cancel their release due to poor sales of the previous wave.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/original-plans-for-individual-releases-of-hatchet-and-earth-mode-hound-were-cancelled/48011/ "Original Plans for Individual Releases of Hatchet and Earth Mode Hound were Cancelled"] at Seibertron.</ref> Hound was eventually released in 2024 for ''[[Generations Selects (toyline)|Generations Selects]]'' and Hatchet and Bumblebee in 2025 for the main ''Studio Series'' line.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|77 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS77|N.E.S.T. Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'' w/ "[[NEST#SS77|mini figure]]")}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|70BB [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BW70|B-127]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-02BB [[Kup (G1)/toys#BW8602|Kup]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-13BB [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#BW8613|Cliffjumper]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Movie 1 15th Anniversary Multipack (''Transformers'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|04 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Autobot Ratchet]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|10 [[Jazz (Movie)#SS15thAnniversary|Autobot Jazz]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|14 [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Ironhide]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|32 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Optimus Prime]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|49 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxe Class''' (''canceled'')
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-18BB [[Hound (G1)/toys#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Autobot Hound]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|94BB [[Hatchet (DOTM)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Hatchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BWnewVW|Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'' Beetle)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:SS77-NEST-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|77 Deluxe Class [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS77|N.E.S.T. Bumblebee]]]]
|}
{{-}}
----

===2023===
''Studio Series'' expanded in scope in [[2023]], not only with toys for ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''–the first new ''Transformers'' movie since the line's early days–but also into the world of the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]'' video game. These "Gamer Edition" toys feature unique packaging and a separate numbering system that we've chosen to represent as beginning with a plus (+), though the actual toy packaging stylizes the symbol as a little D-pad. Neat! It also introduced the Commander Class range of figures from ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'', starting with Ultra Magnus, who was revealed at San Diego Comic Con 2023 by [[Flint Dille]].

====Core Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Arcee (Movie)#SSCore|Arcee]] (''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Freezer#Toys|Terrorcon Freezer]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Ironhide (G1)/toys#SSCore|Ironhide]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SSCore|Bumblebee]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 8'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Frenzy (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Decepticon Frenzy (Red)]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Noah Díaz#Toys|Noah Díaz Exo-Suit]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Novakane#Toys|Terrorcon Novakane]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-SS-Core-ROTB-Arcee.jpg|thumb|200px|Core Class [[Arcee (Movie)#SSCore|Arcee]]]]
|}

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 19'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|97 [[Airazor (ROTB)#Studio Series|Airazor]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|100 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS100|Bumblebee]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 20'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+01 [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]] ([[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|''War for Cybertron'')]]}}
{{Bp-d1|+02 [[Barricade (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Barricade]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 21'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-22 [[Brawn (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Brawn]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|+05 [[Cliffjumper (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Cliffjumper]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 22'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-ter|104 [[Nightbird (ROTB)#SS104|Nightbird]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|105 [[Mirage (Movie)#SS105|Autobot Mirage]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-SS-WFC-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|+01 Deluxe Class [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 19'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|98 [[Cheetor (ROTB)#Studio Series|Cheetor]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|99 [[Battletrap (ROTB)#Studio Series|Battletrap]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 20'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+03 [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Optimus Prime]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 21'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|103 [[Rhinox (ROTB)#Studio Series|Rhinox]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-d1|+04 [[Megatron (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Megatron]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 22'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-23 [[Ratchet (G1)/toys#SSVoyager|Autobot Ratchet]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-SS-98-Voyager-ROTB-Cheetor.jpg|thumb|200px|98 Voyager Class [[Cheetor (ROTB)#Studio Series|Cheetor]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 11'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-ter|101 [[Scourge (ROTB)#Studio Series|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 12'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-19 [[Snarl (G1)#Studio Series|Dinobot Snarl]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 13'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|106 [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Studio Series|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:StudioSeriestoy-ScourgeLeader.jpg|thumb|200px|101 Leader Class [[Scourge (ROTB)#Studio Series|Scourge]]]]
|}

====Commander Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-21 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ultra Magnus]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-Commander-Class-86-21-Ultra-Magnus.jpg|thumb|200px|86-21 Commander Class [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ultra Magnus]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
There were further releases in ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' this year, some of which continued the range of NEST-themed redecoes, and none of which were released in waves or regular assortments. Another ''Transformers'' 15th anniversary set, this time for most of the Decepticons, was available on Amazon.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|96BB [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#BW96|N.E.S.T. Autobot Ratchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Voyager Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|95BB [[Bonecrusher (Movie)#BW95|N.E.S.T. Bonecrusher]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|102BB [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#BBROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Leader Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|44BB [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#BW44|Optimus Prime]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|07BB [[Grimlock (AOE)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Grimlock]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-24BB [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Ironhide]] / 86-20BB [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Prowl]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:Buzzworthy-Bumblebee-95BB-NEST-Bonecrusher.jpeg|thumb|200px|95BB Voyager Class [[Bonecrusher (Movie)#BW95|N.E.S.T. Bonecrusher]]]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Movie 1 15th Anniversary Decepticon Multipack (''Transformers'')}}
:{{Bp-d1|06 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Starscream]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|08 [[Blackout (Movie)#SS15thAnniversary|Decepticon Blackout]] (w/ [[Scorponok (Movie)#SS15thAnniversary|Scorponok]])}}
:{{Bp-d1|28 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Barricade]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|54 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS15thAnniversary|Megatron]]}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}
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===2024===
[[2024]] introduced figures marked as "Concept Art" releases–based on character designs created for films which ultimately did not appear in the finished product. ''Bumblebee'', having left a variety of designs on the cutting room floor during its tumultuous post-production, was the primary source for this initial round of "Concept Art" releases. Figures from the unreleased ''[[Transformers: Reactivate]]'' game would also be added under the "Gamer Edition" banner, sharing its numbering system, while the long-running ''The Transformers: The Movie'' Dinobots lineup came to a close this year with Swoop.

Another addition for 2024 was the "A-Level" assortment, a concept being introduced across multiple Hasbro collector lines to distribute toys of high-profile, in-demand characters outside of the normal wave-based assortments, meaning they can remain available for retailers to order (and thus for fans to buy) for a longer period of time. The inaugural ''Studio Series'' A-Level Deluxe Class case was home to the first toy for the concurrent ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'' film; taking advantage of the film's standalone nature, Hasbro chose to decrease the scale of its ''Studio Series'' toys for affordability, placing leaders Optimus Prime and Megatron in Deluxe rather than their more typical Voyager or Leader size classes.<ref>[[April 25]], [[2024]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s06YE02e844 Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream | April 2024] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Mark Maher]], and [[Evan Brooks]].</ref>

Leader Class figures would finally adopt the open-window packaging design of the other size classes this year, while thicker cardboard was used for all boxes aside from the Core Class.

Except for the Deluxes, the first wave was made available early alongside ''[[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy United|Legacy: United]]'' products at [[Singapore Comic Con#2023|Cybertron Fest 2023]].

====Core Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 9'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Mohawk#Toys|Decepticon Mohawk]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Rumble (ROTF)#Studio Series|Concept Art Decepticon Rumble]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 10'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Steeljaw (G1)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 11'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SSCore|Starscream]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Frenzy (Movie)#Studio Series|Concept Art Decepticon Frenzy]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Studio-Series-MV6-Core-Starscream.jpg|thumb|200px|Core Class [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SSCore|Starscream]]]]
|}

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 23'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-p1|107 [[Scorponok (ROTB)#Studio Series|Predacon Scorponok]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|108 [[Wheeljack (ROTB)#Studio Series|Wheeljack]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 24'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|111 [[Sunstreaker (ROTF)#Studio Series|Concept Art Sunstreaker]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|+07 [[Sideswipe (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Sideswipe]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-qu2|86-08 [[Gnaw (G1)#Studio Series|Gnaw]] (''The Movie'', package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 25'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|+08 [[Soldier (unit)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Decepticon Soldier]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|114 [[Megatron (One)#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|+10 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#SSReactivate|Gamer Edition Bumblebee]] (''[[Transformers: Reactivate|Reactivate]]'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:Studio-Series-TF-One-OP.jpg|thumb|200px|112 Deluxe Class [[Optimus Prime (One)#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]]]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|112 [[Optimus Prime (One)#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-29 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 23'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|+06 [[Starscream (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Starscream]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-a1|86-24 [[Scrapheap (G1)#Studio Series|Junkion Scrapheap]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 24'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|110 [[Shockwave (Movie)#SS110|Shockwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 25'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|113 [[Skywarp (Movie)#Studio Series|Skywarp]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|+09 [[Ratchet (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Autobot Ratchet]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-86-24-Voyager-Scrapheap.jpg|thumb|200px|86-24 Voyager Class [[Scrapheap (G1)#Studio Series|Junkion Scrapheap]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 14'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|109 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSConcept|Concept Art Megatron]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-m1|106 [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Studio Series|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'', package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 15'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-26 [[Swoop (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Dinobot Swoop]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 16'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-30 [[Springer (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Springer]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-Concept-Megatron.jpg|thumb|200px|109 Leader Class [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSConcept|Concept Art Megatron]]]]
|}

====Commander Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-31 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:StudioSeries86CommanderOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|86-31 Commander Class [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
With the ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' branding being rotated out of circulation, its signature Target-exclusive cartoon-style redecoes of ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toys were released in normal ''Studio Series'' packaging. Another Amazon "15th Anniversary" multipack was released, this time for ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''. Similar to the [[#Exclusives|first year]] of ''Studio Series'', a limited amount of specially painted Optimus Primes were given to people who spent at least HKD$3000 at the Hasbro Hong Kong Fans Expo 2024. There were also Target exclusive reissues of 49 Bumblebee and 51 Soundwave.
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Voyager Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-25 [[Blaster (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Blaster]] & [[Eject (G1)#Studio Series|Eject]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-27 [[Brawn (G1)/toys#SStwopack|Brawn]] / 86-28 [[Ratchet (G1)/toys#SStwopack|Autobot Ratchet]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|''Revenge of the Fallen'' 15th Anniversary Autobot Multipack (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|32 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSROTF15th|Optimus Prime]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|35 [[Jetfire (Movie)#SSROTF15th|Jetfire]]}}
:{{Bp-a1|52 [[Chromia (ROTF)#SSROTF15th|Chromia]], [[Arcee (Movie)#SSROTF15th|Arcee]], [[Elita-One (Movie)#SSROTF15th|Elita-1]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Hong Kong Fans Expo 2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|112 [[Optimus Prime (One)#BattleDamage|Optimus Prime (Limited Edition Battle Damage Ver.)]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Studio-Series-ROTF-15th-Multipack-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|''Revenge of the Fallen'' 15th Anniversary Autobot Multipack]]
|}
{{-}}
----

===2025===
Beginning with 2025's spring wave, the line's packaging was completely refreshed for the first time, notably seeing a return to plastic windows and the abandonment of the line's signature ID numbers and backdrop displays, on a new design in alignment with the concurrent ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' toyline.<ref>[https://youtu.be/70HJMtOWpk0?list=TLPQMjcxMDIwMjSvhwDwAHRwJQ&t=1092 1027 Hasbro Pulse Premium Event 2024!] with [[Nate Purswell]], [[Evan Brooks]], and [[Mark Maher]], on the official [[Hasbro Pulse]] Youtube channel</ref> In this vein, the unique "Gamer Edition" branding for video game-based toys was removed. ''Studio Series'' also began shifting from four waves per year to three, reducing the amount of repacked figures and allowing more time for each wave to stay on shelves. As part of these changes, 2025's initial winter wave served as a sort of stopgap offering, comprised of multiple [[package refresh]]es (including two previously cancelled ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Deluxe figures!) and redecoes, functioning like an additional wave of 2024 product prior to the spring relaunch.<ref>"Like United wave 5, this wave is somewhat of a last minute addition while being as cost effective as possible, it’s also why we haven’t seen the updated mainline packaging yet because it’s kind of considered a extension of the 2024 lineup."—[https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/hasbro-at-mcm-london-comic-con-25-27-october.1268848/page-15#post-22808424 Jtprime17, TFW2005, 2024/10/26]</ref> Tragically, the Core Class was discontinued.

[[2025]] saw another combiner in ''The Transformers: The Movie'' [[Devastator (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Devastator]]. Learning from previous combiner releases, all six Constructicons were scheduled to be released within one calendar year to make them easier to collect. The toyline also saw the addition of the ''[[Transformers: Devastation]]'' video game, celebrating its tenth anniversary.

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 27'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-p1|115 [[Double Punch (ROTB)#Studio Series|Double Punch]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|116 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS116|Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'' Beetle)}}
{{Bp-d1|94 / 117 [[Hatchet (DOTM)#Studio Series|Decepticon Hatchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#Studio Series|B-127/Bumblebee]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Devastation Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 28'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Bonecrusher (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Bonecrusher]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (Movie)#SSQue|Wheeljack (Que)]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]] (''The Movie'', package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 29'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#Studio Series|Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[KSI Widow#Studio Series|Concept Art KSI Widow]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Scavenger (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Scavenger]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (One)#Studio Series|Starscream]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:StudioSeriestoy-HatchetDOTM.jpg|thumb|200px|94 / 117 Deluxe Class [[Hatchet (DOTM)#Studio Series|Decepticon Hatchet]]]]
|}
{{-}}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 27'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|+11 [[Skywarp (WFC)#Studio Series|Gamer Edition Skywarp]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-a1|102 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'', package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 28'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Ironhide (WFC)#Studio Series|Ironhide]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Scrapper (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Scrapper]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-multi|[[Sentinel Prime (One)#Studio Series|Sentinel Prime]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 29'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Mixmaster (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Mixmaster]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (WFC)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:TF-SS-TFTM-Voyager-Scrapper.jpg|thumb|200px|Voyager Class [[Scrapper (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Scrapper]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 17'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|86-31 [[Galvatron (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Galvatron]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-m1|116 / 118 [[Apelinq (ROTB)#Studio Series|Apelinq]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 18'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSAOEKnight|Optimus Prime]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (Movie)#Studio Series|Shockwave]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Brains#Studio Series|Brains]], [[Wheelie (ROTF)#Studio Series|Wheelie]], and [[NEST#Studio Series|Paratrooper]], package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 19'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Grimlock]] / [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Autobot Wheelie]] (''The Movie'', package refresh)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[file:StudioSeriesAOELeaderOptimusPrime.jpeg|thumb|200px|Leader Class [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSAOEKnight|Optimus Prime]]]]
|
|}

====Commander Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Hook (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Hook]] / [[Long Haul (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Constructicon Long Haul]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[file:StudioSeries86CommanderHookandLongHaul.jpg|thumb|200px|Commander Class [[Hook (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Hook]] and [[Long Haul (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Long Haul]]]]
|}

====Exclusives====
The "MTMTE Collection" is Target's new subline of exclusives in North America, replacing ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee''. Overload's product description also labelled it as the "Power Collection." Amazon continued its trend of faction-based "15th anniversary" sets, though such branding has been omitted from this year's packaging. Similar to last year, the Hasbro Hong Kong Fans Expo 2025 saw another limited run of hand-painted Optimus Primes given out for for spending at least HKD$5000 at the booth.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Deluxe Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]] (''Devastation'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Wheeljack (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Wheeljack]] (''Devastation'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Voyager Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#SSMTMTE|Optimus Prime]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (WFC)/toys#SSMTMTE|Megatron]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Leader Class'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Overload (ROTF)#SSMTMTE|Constructicon Overload]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'', package refresh)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''MTMTE Collection'' Multi-packs'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Air Warrior#Studio Series|Elite Seeker]] / [[Ground Soldier#Studio Series|Ground Soldier]] (''Devastation'')}}
{{Bp-a1d1|[[Perceptor (G1)/toys#SSMultipack|Autobot Perceptor]] / [[Ratbat (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ratbat]] / [[Ramhorn (G1)#Studio Series|Ramhorn]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[file:TF-SS86-Deluxe-Perceptor.jpg|thumb|200px|Deluxe Class [[Perceptor (G1)/toys#SSMultipack|Autobot Perceptor]]]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Amazon'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|''Revenge of the Fallen'' 3 Pack (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[The Fallen/toys#SSROTF-3pk|The Fallen]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSROTF-3pk|Megatron]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SSROTF-3pk|Soundwave]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Hong Kong Fans Expo 2025'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|86-31 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SS86BattleDamage|Optimus Prime (Battle Damage Limited Edition)]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}
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===2026===
[[2026]] would finally see the introduction of Titan Class to ''Studio Series'' with a remake of ''Age of Extinction'' Grimlock after 8 years, along with a promise to actually finish his [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot team]] this time around. In a sort of trade, ''Studio Series'' getting the annual Titan release saw its usual Commander figure being moved to ''Age of the Primes'' to give it two figures in the price point. ''Studio Series'' also saw the addition of the [[Energon Universe]], the toyline's first endeavor into ''Transformers'' comics.

====Deluxe Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 30'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SSTLK|Barricade]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Studio Series|Windcharger]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''"A Level" assortment'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)#SSDevastation|Devastation Bumblebee]] (''Devastation'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#Studio Series|Orion PaX]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
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|width="20%" valign="top"|
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|width="20%" valign="top"|
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|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[File:SS-One-Airachnid.jpg|thumb|200px|Deluxe Class [[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]]]]
|}

====Voyager Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 30'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio Series|Alpha Trion]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Thundercracker]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[File:TF-SS-ONE-Voyager-Alpha-Trion.jpg|thumb|200px|Voyager Class [[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio Series|Alpha Trion]]]]
|}

====Leader Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 20'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSNemesis|Nemesis Prime]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Soundwave]] / [[Buzzsaw (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Buzzsaw]] / [[Laserbeak (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Laserbeak]] / [[Ravage (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Ravage]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
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|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[File:TF-SS86-Leader-Soundwave.jpg|thumb|200px|Leader Class [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Soundwave]]]]
|}

====Titan Class====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (AOE)#SSTitan|Grimlock]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|}

{{comingsoontoy| Wave 1}}
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====Exclusives====
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Pulse'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"rowspan=2|[[File:GensEUOptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#EnergonUniverse|Energon Universe Optimus Prime]]]]
|-
|}

{{comingsoontoy}}

{{anchor|TakaraTomy}}

==TakaraTomy ''Studio Series'' toyline==
Similar to ''Power of the Primes'', in Takara's '''''Transformers Studio Series''''' (トランスフォーマースタジオシリーズ ''Toransufōmā Sutajio Shirīzu'') line, all figures are identical to their Hasbro counterparts, forgoing Takara's past practice of using more movie-accurate paint jobs. This is most likely due to the line being an official collaboration between Hasbro and [[TakaraTomy]], much like the ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece#Masterpiece Movie Series|Masterpiece Movie Series]]'' line. ID numbering differs after number 8 compared to the Hasbro releases, since some of the exclusives are not released in Japan. Introduced to the line in 2021, Takara includes characters from ''The Transformers: The Movie'' in its pre-existing ''Studio Series'' numbering system, whereas Hasbro assigns them ID numbers prefixed by "86". Takara also assigns ID numbers to Core Class figures, which go unnumbered in Hasbro markets. From wave 4 through wave 12, the packages featured the franchise's 35th anniversary logo. Toys would eventually use entirely closed boxes starting with wave 29.

{{note|Toys in italics are exclusive to the TakaraTomy line.}}

=== Regular retail ===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" style="margin-right:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1''' ([[April 21]], [[2018]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-01 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-02 [[Stinger (AOE)#Studio Series|Decepticon Stinger]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-03 [[Crowbar#Studio Series|Crowbar]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-04 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Ratchet]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"| 
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-05 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-06 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Starscream]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-07 [[Grimlock (AOE)#Studio Series|Grimlock]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-08 [[Blackout (Movie)#Studio Series|Blackout]] (''Transformers'' w/ [[Scorponok (Movie)#Studio Series|Scorponok]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2''' ([[July 21]], 2018)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-09 [[Jazz (Movie)#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-10 [[Lockdown (ROTF)#Studio Series|Lockdown]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-11 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-12 [[Brawl (Movie)#Studio Series|Brawl]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3''' ([[September 15]], 2018)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-13 [[Shadow Raider#Studio Series|Shadow Raider]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-14 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#SS16|Ratchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-15 [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Ironhide]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4''' ([[October 27]], 2018)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-16 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS18|Bumblebee]] (Beetle, ''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-17 [[KSI Sentry#Studio Series|KSI Sentry]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-18 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SS21|Starscream]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5''' ([[January 26]], [[2019]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-19 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS26|World War II Bumblebee]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-20 [[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Sideswipe]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-21 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Decepticon Barricade]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-22 [[Crankcase (DOTM)#Studio Series|Crankcase]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6''' ([[March 23]], 2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-23 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS27|Rusty Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-24 [[Bonecrusher (Movie)#Studio Series|Bonecrusher]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-25 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS32|Optimus Prime]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-26 [[Jetfire (Movie)#Studio Series|Jetfire]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-27 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS34|Megatron]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Igor#Studio Series|Igor]])}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-28 [[Dropkick (Movie)#Studio Series|Dropkick]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7''' ([[April 27]], 2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-29 [[Shatter#Studio Series|Shatter]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-30 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS38|Optimus Prime]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-31 [[Cogman#Studio Series|Cogman]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-32 [[Scrapmetal (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Scrapmetal]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-33 [[Rampage (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Rampage]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 8''' ([[July 27]], 2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-34 [[Long Haul (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Long Haul]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-35 [[KSI Boss#Studio Series|KSI Boss]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 9''' ([[August 31]], 2019)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-36 [[Dropkick (Movie)#SS46|Dropkick 2]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-37 [[Hightower (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Hightower]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-38 [[Drift (AOE)#SS45|Sky Drift]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-39 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS44|Jetwing Optimus Prime]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 10''' ([[January 25]], [[2020]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-40 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS49|New Bumblebee]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-41 [[Chromia (ROTF)#Studio Series|Chromia]] • [[Arcee (Movie)#Studio Series|Arcee]] • [[Elita-One (Movie)#Studio Series|Elita-1]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-42 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#Studio Series|Soundwave]] with [[Laserbeak (DOTM)#Studio Series|Laserbeak]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-43 [[Mixmaster (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Mixmaster]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 11''' ([[February 29]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-44 [[Hot Rod (DOTM)#Studio Series|WWII Autobot Hot Rod]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-45 [[Shockwave (Movie)#Studio Series|Shockwave]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Brains#Studio Series|Brains]], [[Wheelie (ROTF)#Studio Series|Wheelie]], and [[NEST#Studio Series|Paratrooper]])}}
</ul>
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|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 12''' ([[March 28]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-46 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS54|Megatron]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-47 [[Scavenger (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Scavenger]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 13''' ([[April 25]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-48 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS57|Offroad Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-49 [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)#Studio Series|Sentinel Prime]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 14''' ([[May 30]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-50 [[Roadbuster (DOTM)#Studio Series|Roadbuster]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-51 [[Scrapper (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Scrapper]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 15''' ([[June 27]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-52 [[Shatter#SS59|Shatter 2]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 15.5''' ([[August 1]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-54 [[Overload (ROTF)#Studio Series|Decepticon Overload]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 16''' ([[August 29]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-53 [[Cliffjumper (Movie)#Studio Series|Cliffjumper]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 17''' ([[September 26]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-55 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS62|Soundwave]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-56 [[Topspin (DOTM)#Studio Series|Topspin]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 18''' ([[October 23]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-57 [[Blitzwing (BB)#Studio Series|Blitzwing]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 19''' ([[November 28]], 2020)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-58 [[Leadfoot (DOTM)#Studio Series|Leadfoot]] (''Dark of the Moon'' w/ [[Steeljaw (DOTM)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 20''' ([[April 20]], [[2021]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-59 [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Jazz]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-60 [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Hot Rod]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-61 [[Kup (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Kup]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 21''' ([[May 29]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-62 [[Scourge (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Scourge]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-63 [[Blurr (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Blurr]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-64 [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Grimlock]] & [[Wheelie (G1)#Studio Series|Autobot Wheelie]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 22''' ([[June 26]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-65 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS70|B-127]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 23''' ([[July 31]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-66 [[Dino#Studio Series|Autobot Dino]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-67 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SS72|Starscream]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 24''' ([[August 7]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-68 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS74|Bumblebee]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 25''' ([[November 27]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-69 [[Wreck-Gar (G1)#Studio Series|Wreck-Gar]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-qu2|SS-70 [[Gnaw (G1)#Studio Series|Gnaw]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-71 [[Slag (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Slug]] & [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)#Studio Series|Daniel Witwicky]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 26''' ([[February 26]], [[2022]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-73 [[Thrust (Movie)#Studio Series|Thrust]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-74 [[Jolt (ROTF)#Studio Series|Jolt]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 27''' ([[April 30]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-75 [[Perceptor (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Perceptor]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-76 [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Studio Series|New Destruction Emperor Starscream]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-77 [[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#SS78|Sideswipe]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 28''' ([[May 28]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-78 [[Ravage (ROTF)#SSBB|Ravage]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-79 [[Shockwave (Movie)#SSBB|Shockwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-80 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#SS82|Autobot Ratchet]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-81 [[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#SS83|Soundwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
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|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 29''' ([[June 25]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-82 [[Sweep (G1)#Studio Series|Decepticon Sweep]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-83 [[Brawn (ROTF)#Studio Series|Brawn]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-84 [[Wheeljack (Movie)#Studio Series|Wheeljack]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 30''' ([[August 27]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-85 [[Spike Witwicky (G1)#Studio Series|Exo-Suit Spike Witwicky]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-86 [[Arcee (Movie)#SS85|Arcee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-87 [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#SS84|Ironhide]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-88 [[Junkyard (G1)#Studio Series|Junkheap]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-89 [[Sludge (G1)#Studio Series|Dinobot Sludge]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 31''' ([[October 29]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-90 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS87|Bumblebee]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-91 [[Sideways (ROTF)#Studio Series|Sideways]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-92 [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Arcee]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 32''' ([[November 26]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-93 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SS90|Galvatron]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-94 [[Thundercracker (Movie)#SS89|Thundercracker]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 33''' ([[February 25]], [[2023]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-95 [[Crosshairs (AOE)#Studio Series|Crosshairs]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-96 [[Hot Rod (DOTM)#SS93|Hot Rod]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-97 [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ironhide]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 34''' ([[March 25]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-98 [[Wheelie (G1)#SSCore|Autobot Wheelie]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-99 [[Ratchet (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ratchet]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-100 [[The Fallen/toys#Studio Series|Fallen]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 35''' ([[April 29]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-101 [[Laserbeak (DOTM)#SSCore|Laserbeak]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-102 [[Rumble (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Rumble (Blue)]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 36''' ([[June 24]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-103 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS100|Bumblebee]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|SS-104 [[Battletrap (ROTB)#Studio Series|Battletrap]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 37''' ([[July 29]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-ter|SS-105 [[Freezer#Studio Series|Terrorcon Freezer]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{bp-a1|SS-106 [[Arcee (Movie)#SSCore|Arcee]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{bp-m1|SS-107 [[Airazor (ROTB)#Studio Series|Airazor]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 38''' ([[August 26]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{bp-m1|SS-108 [[Cheetor (ROTB)#Studio Series|Cheetor]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{bp-ter|SS-109 [[Scourge (ROTB)#Studio Series|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 39''' ([[September 30]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-110 [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#SSCore|Ironhide]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-111 [[Snarl (G1)#Studio Series|Dinobot Snarl]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 40''' ([[October 28]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS GE-01 [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS GE-02 [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS GE-03 [[Barricade (WFC)#Studio Series|Barricade]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 41''' ([[November 25]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-112 [[Brawn (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Brawn]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-m1|SS-113 [[Rhinox (ROTB)#Studio Series|Rhinox]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS GE-04 [[Megatron (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS GE-05 [[Cliffjumper (WFC)#Studio Series|Cliffjumper]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 42''' ([[December 30]], 2023)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-114 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SSCore|Bumblebee]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 43''' ([[January 28]], [[2024]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-115 [[Frenzy (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Frenzy (Red)]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-116 [[Noah Díaz#Studio Series|Noah Díaz Excel Suit]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-117 [[Ratchet (G1)/toys#SSVoyager|Ratchet]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 44''' ([[February 25]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|SS-118 [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Studio Series|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-119 [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Ultra Magnus]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-ter|SS-120 [[Nightbird (ROTB)#Studio Series|Nightbird]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 45''' ([[March 31]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-ter|SS-121 [[Novakane#Studio Series|Novakane]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-122 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 46''' ([[April 28]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-123 [[Mohawk#Toys|Mohawk]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-124 [[Rumble (ROTF)#Studio Series|Rumble]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-125 [[Scrapheap (G1)#Studio Series|Scrapheap]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{bp-d1|SS GE-06 [[Starscream (WFC)/toys#Studio Series|Starscream]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 47''' ([[May 26]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-p1|SS-126 [[Scorponok (ROTB)#Studio Series|Scorponok]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-127 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#SSConcept|Megatron]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 48''' ([[August 25]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-128 [[Starscream (Movie)/toys#SSCore|Starscream]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 49''' ([[September 29]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-129 [[Blaster (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Blaster]] (''The Movie'' w/ [[Eject (G1)#Studio Series|Eject]])}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 50''' ([[October 27]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-130 [[Shockwave (Movie)#SS110|Shockwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-131 [[Sunstreaker (ROTF)#Studio Series|Sunstreaker]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-132 [[Swoop (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Swoop]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS GE-07 [[Sideswipe (WFC)#Studio Series|Sideswipe]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 51''' ([[November 24]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-133 [[Wheeljack (ROTB)#Studio Series|Wheeljack]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-134 [[Optimus Prime (One)#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 52''' ([[December 29]], 2024)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-135 [[Steeljaw (G1)#Studio Series|Steeljaw]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-136 [[Skywarp (Movie)#Studio Series|Skywarp]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-137 [[Springer (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Autobot Springer]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS GE-08 [[Soldier (unit)#Studio Series|Decepticon Soldier]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 53''' ([[February 22]], [[2025]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-138 [[Megatron (One)#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-139 [[Frenzy (Movie)#Studio Series|Decepticon Frenzy]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-140 [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS GE-09 [[Ratchet (WFC)#Studio Series|Ratchet]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 54''' ([[March 29]], 2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-141 [[Mirage (Movie)#SS105|Mirage]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|SS-142 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 55''' ([[May 31]], 2025)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-p1|SS-143 [[Double Punch (ROTB)#toys|Double Punch]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-144 [[Hatchet (DOTM)#Studio Series|Hatchet]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS-145 [[Galvatron (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Galvatron]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-m1|SS-146 [[Apelinq (ROTB)#toys|Apelinq]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-d1|SS GE-10 [[Skywarp (WFC)#Studio Series|Skywarp]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|}

====Second phase====
Beginning in July 2025, TakaraTomy switched to different packaging, matching Hasbro's switch. With this, it was decided to reset the numbering, with new initials '''TS''' standing for '''Transformers Series''' (トランスフォーマーシリーズ)<ref>https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/1886973512122032413</ref>.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" style="margin-right:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1''' ([[July 26]], [[2025]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|TS-01 [[Bumblebee (One)#Studio Series|Bumblebee]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-multi|TS-02 [[Sentinel Prime (One)#Studio Series|Sentinel Prime]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-03 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSAOEKnight|Optimus Prime]] (''Age of Extinction'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-04 [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#SSDevastation|Optimus Prime (Devastation)]]}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-05 [[Bonecrusher (G1)#Studio Series|Bonecrusher]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-06 [[Scrapper (G1)#Studio Series|Scrapper]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS GE-01 [[Ironhide (WFC)#Studio Series|Ironhide]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2''' ([[August 30]], [[2025]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|TS-07 [[Hook (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Hook]] & [[Long Haul (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Long Haul]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3''' ([[November 29]], [[2025]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|TS-08 [[Scavenger (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Scavenger]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-09 [[Mixmaster (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Mixmaster]] (''The Movie'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-10 [[Starscream (One)#Studio Series|Starscream]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-11 [[Elita-1 (One)#Studio Series|Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-12 [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Megatron]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4''' ([[January 31]], [[2026]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|TS GE-02 [[Thundercracker (WFC)#Studio Series|Thundercracker]] (''War for Cybertron'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-13 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS116|Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5''' ([[March 28]], [[2026]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|TS-14 [[Airachnid (One)#Studio Series|Airachnid]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-15 [[Windcharger (G1)#Studio Series|Windcharger]] (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 6''' ([[April 25]], [[2026]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|TS-16 [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#SSTLK|Decepticon Barricade]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-17 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SSNemesis|Nemesis Prime]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-d1|TS-18 [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Studio_Series|Soundwave]] Set (''The Movie'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 7''' ([[May 30]], [[2026]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|TS-19 [[Bumblebee_(G1)/toys#SSDevastation|Bumblebee]] (''Devastation'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-20 [[Optimus_Prime_(One)#Studio_Series|Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-21 [[Wheeljack_(Movie)#SSQue|Wheeljack (Que)]] (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|TS-22 [[Alpha Trion/toys#Studio_Series|Alpha Trion]] (''One'')}}
</ul>
|}

===Exclusives===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Tokyo Comic Con#2018|Tokyo Comic Con 2018]]/[[TakaraTomy Mall]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|SS-EX Vol. 1 Retro Rock Garage (''Bumblebee'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS19|Bumblebee]] (1977 Camaro)}}
:{{Bp-a1|[[Dairu#Studio Series|Dairu]]}}
:{{Bp-d1|[[Uruaz#Studio Series|Uruaz]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Omni7'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-EX [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#7NetBattleDamage|1967 Rusty Bumblebee]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Toys"R"Us]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|SS-EX [[Drift (AOE)#Studio Series|Autobot Drift]] with [[Mini Dinobot#Studio Series|Mini Dinobot]]s (''The Last Knight'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[TakaraTomy Mall]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|SS-EX [[Skipjack (ROTF)#Studio Series|Skipjack]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-a1d1|TS-EX [[Perceptor (G1)/toys#SSMultipack|Perceptor]] Set (''The Movie'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:TF-BB-SS-EX-Rusty-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|200px|SS-EX [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#7NetBattleDamage|1967 Rusty Bumblebee]] (Takara single-packed release of 24 Bumblebee)]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Lawson Ticket'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|''SS-EX [[Nemesis Prime (AOE)#Studio Series|Nemesis Prime]] (Bumblebee)''}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Transformers 40th Anniversary Expo'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|''SS-EX [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SSEXCore|Bumblebee]] (Dark of the Moon)''}}
{{Bp-d1|''SS-EX [[Nemesis Prime (AOE)#SSROTB|Nemesis Prime (40th Anniversary Ver.)]] (Rise of the Beasts)''}}
</ul>
|}

===''Premium Finish''===
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In 2021, TakaraTomy decided to go back to its old ways and launched the short-lived ''[[Transformers Premium Finish|Premium Finish]]'' toyline, featuring re-releases of some ''Studio Series'' figures with much more movie-accurate decoes. This line has its own numbering system, and, with the exception of the first Bumblebee, also notes the figure's movie of origin. ''Premium Finish'' was imported to western markets via [[Hasbro Pulse]].

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1''' ([[October 30]], [[2021]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|PF SS-01 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Premium Finish|Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2''' ([[November 27]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|PF SS-02 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Premium Finish|Optimus Prime]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3''' ([[December 29]], 2021)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|PF SS-03 [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Premium Finish|Megatron]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4''' ([[January 29]], [[2022]])
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|PF SS-04 [[Ratchet (Movie)/toys#Premium Finish|Ratchet]] (''Transformers'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:TF-Premium-Finish-PF-SS-02-BB-Optimus-Prime.jpg|thumb|200px|PFSS-02 Optimus Prime]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 5''' ([[July 30]], 2022)
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|PF SS-05 [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#PFSS05|Optimus Prime]] (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
</ul>
|}
{{-}}

==Merchandise==
A wearable Bumblebee helmet was released as a Target exclusive, tying into the ''Bumblebee'' film, similar to the Optimus Prime helmet made for ''The Last Knight''. A series of [[Jada Toys]] ''Hollywood Rides'' vehicles were also made to tie into ''Studio Series'', using the toyline's packaging style and even a couple of backdrop artworks, though they were also released in generic non-''Studio Series'' packaging.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Roleplay items'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#Studio Series 2|Bumblebee Showcase Helmet]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime Deluxe Role Play Set}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Hollywood Rides'' 1/24 Scale'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#Studio Series|Bumblebee 1977 Chevy Camaro]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#SS2006Chevy|Bumblebee 2006 Chevy Camaro Concept]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#Jada Toys|Sideswipe]] (unreleased)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''''Hollywood Rides'' 1/32 Scale'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#SSTLK1-32|Bumblebee 2016 Chevy Camaro]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#SS1-32|Optimus Prime]] (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#SSTLK1-32|Western Star 5700XE Optimus Prime]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (Movie)/toys#Canceled1-32|Sideswipe]] (unreleased)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Bumblebee_Studio_Series_Helmet.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bumblebee Showcase Helmet]]
|}
{{-}}

==Notes==
*In July 2017, photos of a computer screen taken during an internal Hasbro presentation were leaked to the public that revealed, among other things, the very ''existence'' of the ''Studio Series'' general retail line-up, though not the actual title "Studio Series" yet (which was later revealed through separate leaks). The fact that the slides incorrectly featured projected release dates for "2017" instead of 2018 (which included dates ''predating'' the leak) led some fans to assume that the still unannounced line-up had long since been canceled. It wouldn't be until several leaks later that Hasbro ''finally'' acknowledged the existence of the ''Studio Series'' line, and revealed the first few [[wave]]s during New York [[Toy Fair 2018]], even offering a limited quantity of the first wave of Deluxe Class figures as an early release through the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] website. Simultaneously, [[TakaraTomy]] revealed their version of the line at [[Wonder Festival]] Winter 2018.
*Among the figures whose existence was revealed through the aforementioned July 2017 leak that were ''not'' officially unveiled at Toy Fair was Voyager Class Ironhide, who made his worldwide debut at retail in Singapore in June 2018. Subsequently, Hasbro announced the redeco of Voyager Class Starscream (based on his appearance in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''), the final figure revealed through the July 2017 leak, via their "[[Hasbro Pulse]]" Instagram account a few days before [[San Diego Comic-Con]], even though they ''still'' hadn't officially acknowledged the existence of Ironhide by that point.
*Like with previous movie-based lines, ''Studio Series'' also assigned code names to at least some of its characters. In 2018, the "theme" for those code names was "Australian race horses":
{{collist|3|
:::*Bumblebee: "Stryker"
:::*Dropkick: "Blue Lightning" or "Blue Light"
:::*Megatron: "Fox"
:::*Optimus Prime: "Radar"
:::*KSI Sentry: "Sentry"
:::*Shadow Raider: "Mercenary"
:::*Shatter: "Red Lightning" or "Red Light"
}}
:The code names of many of the other figures, assuming they even ''had'' code names, are still unknown, as those toys have (thus far) consistently been listed under their actual characters' names. Meanwhile, a listing for a supposed Voyager Class figure using the code name "Destroyer" later turned out to be a mislabeled Energon Igniters Speed Series [[Barricade (Movie)/toys#Bumblebee|Barricade]] from the [[Transformers: Bumblebee (toyline)|''Bumblebee'' movie toyline]], with which the ''Studio Series'' shares its code names.
*A few of the Deluxes and Voyagers of the [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)#Generations .28Series M4.29|previous]] [[Transformers: The Last Knight (toyline)#Premier Edition|two]] movie toylines scale fairly well with ''Studio Series'' figures. To this extent, [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Deluxe Class toys 5|a]] [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#ThirdTLKDeluxe|few]] [[Nitro Zeus#Toys|molds]] [[Cogman#Deluxe|were]] also redecoed in this toyline as well [[Nitro Zeus#Toys|as a]] [[Drift (AOE)#Premier Edition|few]] [[Berserker#Toys|retools]]. Furthermore, the static figurine of [[Quintessa (TLK)#Toys|Quintessa]] scales well among these toys and also seems to serve as an inspiration for later pack-in figurines like [[Wheelie (ROTF)#Studio Series|Wheelie]], [[Brains#Studio Series|Brains]], and the [[Mini Dinobot#Toys|Mini Dinobot]]s.
*One of the biggest [[Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers|misconceptions]] surrounding the ''Studio Series'' toyline is that there is a [[Subline imprint|subline]] called "Studio Series 86". This came about from leaked listings on Walmart's website where the number "86" was misinterpreted as part of the toyline's title, rather than the ID numbers of those toys. While the toys based on characters from the [[1986]] movie do feature a separate numbering system, the line itself doesn't acknowledge them as being any different from the live-action movie toys they are sold alongside. That being said, ''‘86'' as a shorthand for ''The Transformers: The Movie'' figures saw widespread use amongst fans and even the toy designers, eventually appearing in official marketing material as well.<ref>[[July 25]], [[2025]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T18IQaMuGVk?t=1038 Transformers Brand Panel Recap | SDCC 2025 | Hasbro Pulse] on YouTube, with [[Mark Maher]], [[Evan Brooks]], and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref>
**While it has never been confirmed, the move to include 1986 characters in the ''Studio Series'' toyline after three years of continuous focus on the live-action films, was likely done to allow Hasbro and TakaraTomy to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the film, without stepping on the toes of the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' 25th anniversary, which was celebrated as a part of the ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (franchise)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''. Evidence suggesting this is the inclusion of some of the film's main characters ([[Cyclonus (G1)/toys#Kingdom|Cyclonus]], [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Kingdom|Rodimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)/toys#Kingdom|Galvatron]]) being sold in the concurrently-ran ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' toyline and the shared design aesthetics of the toys between both lines.
*Due to the cancellation of Hound, the toyline's numbering system is missing 86-18. Additionally, 79, 86-13, 86-20, 95, and 96 are only assigned to the ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' version of the line.
**74 ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Bumblebee and 102 ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Prime are the only toys to be re-released in the regular line after debuting in ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee''.
**TakaraTomy's version of the line has skipped over "72" for unknown reasons.
**Junkion Scrapheap and ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' Ironhide both use the 86-24 number. Optimus Prime and Galvatron also share the number 86-31.
*The last wave to use ID numbers in 2025 was quite a mess. Perhaps they just gave up in the face of its impending doom.
**As mentioned above, Galvatron reused Optimus Prime's number of 86-31.
**Hatchet's original ID number for his cancelled ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' release was 94. When he was finally released 2 years later, his packaging had the number 117, but his product description and instructions still used 94.
**The original ID number for the cancelled Bumblebee from the same wave is unknown, as there are no other gaps that it might have occupied. The main line release's product description and stock photos used 117 like Hatchet, but 116 is the only number present on the final product.
**Apelinq's stock photos, product description, backdrop, and instructions use 116, while only the box (and a small number of backdrops) uses 118, the last number in Hasbro's line.
*The instructions of the ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' "[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Worlds Collide]]" set mistakenly label it as part of ''Studio Series'', under the ''Transformers'' movie.
*The introduction of the "Gamer Edition" banner led Hasbro to review the full back catalogue of [[video games]] they retained ownership over, including more esoteric options, such as the [[Family Computer|Nintendo Famicom]] ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy]]'' or the [[Nintendo 64]] ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals]]!''<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Pretty much all of it. Think the clear winner will probably be, everybody wants some Devastation stuff, we need to figure out how to do some cell shading for it. Continuing from WFC, think FOC is on the table. Team has even joked about doing Mystery of Convoy, doing some sort of dot deco or something like that. We have the Ultra Magnus now and we have the Rodimus from Kingdom, it’s like why not. Why not some N64 Transmetals too? We can get some of that in there, there’s a lot of options. If it’s been in a video game, we have the opportunity to look at it, taking a little bit of a cue from what the Star Wars team did with their gamer stuff. There’s no licensing issues, we own all of that, it’s all on the table for us. But with the live action movie stuff, there’s always that stuff going on, you still have to deal with Paramount and the licensors.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/28/sdcc-2023-hasbro-show-floor-qa-legacy-studio-series-video-games-more-488215|name=Hasbro|site=TFW2005|title=SDCC 2023 Hasbro Show Floor Q&A – Legacy, Studio Series, Video Games, More!|year=2023|month=07|day=28}}</ref>
*To ensure game-accuracy in the "Gamer Edition" toys, designer [[Sam Smith]] booted up some of the games on older hardware to look at the textures of the in-game models;<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Sam had to load up the games on older platforms because there were some deco details we couldn’t find – we have the CAD, but it’s not colored. So we had to find some of the character details within the games themselves.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/28/sdcc-2023-hasbro-show-floor-qa-legacy-studio-series-video-games-more-488215|name=Hasbro|site=TFW2005|title=SDCC 2023 Hasbro Show Floor Q&A – Legacy, Studio Series, Video Games, More!|year=2023|month=07|day=28}}</ref> although Hasbro had all the files for ''Fall of Cybertron'', they were only able to receive concept art from the publishers of ''War for Cybertron'', and were only able to rip the raw CAD from the game files themselves.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=We do, but it’s very interesting. FOC, we have everything. For WFC, we had to rip it ourselves, because they could not find it – they kept sending concept art instead, which we didn’t want, we need the CAD. So we booted up an old computer and ripped them all out from there. Which was a learning experience and a long weekend, because we just wanted to get it right, so that’s why we did it like that.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/28/sdcc-2023-hasbro-show-floor-qa-legacy-studio-series-video-games-more-488215|name=Hasbro|site=TFW2005|title=SDCC 2023 Hasbro Show Floor Q&A – Legacy, Studio Series, Video Games, More!|year=2023|month=07|day=28}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Generation 1 toylines]]
[[Category:Generations toylines]]
[[Category:Live-action film series toylines]]
[[Category:Studio Series]]

Transformers (2023 comic)

2025-12-03T18:28:30Z

Primal primus the second:

{{Disambig3|Transformers}}

[[File:Transformers 2023 1 cvr.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|You don't have to be the greatest Prime ever. You just have to be the greatest you.]]

'''''Transformers''''' is an ongoing comic series from [[Skybound Entertainment]] that debuted on [[October 4]], [[2023]]. It is the first ''Transformers'' title released under Skybound, following previous publisher [[IDW Publishing]]'s loss of the license in [[2022]]. The series is part of the [[Energon Universe]], sharing continuity with Skybound's ''[[Void Rivals]]'' and ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' comics.

{{chapters|align=center|title=''Transformers'' issues:|content=
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 1|#1]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 2|#2]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 3|#3]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 4|#4]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 5|#5]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 6|#6]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 7|#7]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 8|#8]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 9|#9]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 10|#10]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 11|#11]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 12|#12]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 13|#13]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 14|#14]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 15|#15]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 16|#16]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 17|#17]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 18|#18]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 19|#19]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 20|#20]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 21|#21]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 22|#22]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 23|#23]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 24|#24]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 25|#25]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 26|#26]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 27|#27]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 28|#28]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 29|#29]]
* [[Transformers (2023) issue 30|#30]]
}}

==Overview==
While coping with losing his older brother, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], and his girlfriend, [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] discover the derelict ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' spacecraft just as the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s have reactivated. With Decepticon leader [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] mysteriously missing, the Cybertronian [[Great War (G1)|civil war]] resumes on [[Earth]], forcing [[human]]ity to reckon with the alien invaders. With the Decepticons seeking to suck Earth dry of its energy to fuel their conquest of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], and his few remaining troops are forced to utilize what limited resources they have to protect the planet. Meanwhile, tensions among the Decepticons are high; [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] clash for leadership and slowly drive the faction to split down the middle.

==Creative team==
[[Daniel Warren Johnson]] wrote and drew the series for the first six issues, with colors provided by Johnson's longtime collaborator, [[Mike Spicer]]. With issue #7, Johnson shifted into purely scripting the series, with [[Jorge Corona]] taking over as the primary artist. Johnson left the series as a writer following issue #24. Skybound founder and ''Void Rivals'' writer [[Robert Kirkman]] took over as the series' writer beginning with issue #25, with [[Dan Mora]] as the main artist (until #30) and Spicer remaining onboard as colorist.

The series has also featured several guest artists and fill-ins for some issues: [[Jason Howard]] was the artist for issues #13 and #14, [[Sarah Stern]] served as colorist for issues #15 and #16, and issue #19 featured art by [[Ludo Lullabi]] with colors by [[Adriano Lucas]].

==Collections==
* '''''Transformers Volume 1: Robots in Disguise''''' ([[May 8]], [[2024]]) ISBN 1534398171 / ISBN 978-1534398177
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #1–6.
** Trade paperback format.
** Variant covers:
*** '''Blackbird Comics & Coffeehouse Exclusive:''' by [[Matthew Allison]]. Limited to 300 copies. ISBN 978-1534327818
*** '''Comics Etc. Exclusive:''' by [[Stewart McKenny]] & [[John Law]]. Limited to 300 copies.
*** '''Direct Market Exclusive:''' by [[Jonboy Meyers]]. Exclusively sold through the comic book direct market. ISBN 978-1534327726
*** '''Gotham City Limit Exclusive:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer. Limited to 300 copies. ISBN 978-1534327771
*** '''Jonathan Comics Exclusive:''' by Jason Howard. Limited to 300 copies.
*** '''Things From Another World Exclusive:''' by [[Frédéric Pham Chuong]]. Limited to 400 copies. ISBN 978-1534327887
*** '''TopShelfComic Fan Expo Dallas Exclusive:''' by [[Pasquale Ferrara]]. Limited to 300 copies.

* '''''Transformers Volume 2: Transport to Oblivion''''' ([[November 13]], [[2024]]) ISBN 1534345272 / ISBN 978-1534345270
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #7–12.
** Trade paperback format.
** Variant covers:
*** '''Direct Market Exclusive:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer. Exclusively sold through the comic book direct market. ISBN 978-1534354869
*** '''TopShelfComic Exclusive:''' by [[David Mack]]. Limited to 300 copies.
*** '''Verse Comics Exclusive:''' by [[Kei Zama]]. ISBN 978-1534326729

* '''''Transformers Deluxe Edition Book 1''''' ([[April 30]], [[2025]]) ISBN 1534328238 / ISBN 978-1534328235
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #1–12.
** Hardcover format.
** Variant covers:
*** '''Bookdelivery Exclusive:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer. Limited to 200 copies. ISBN 978-1534328679
*** '''Direct Market Exclusive:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer. Exclusively sold through the comic book direct market. ISBN 978-1534329607
*** '''[[Hasbro Pulse]] Exclusive:''' by [[Tom Whalen]]. ISBN 978-1534398414
*** '''TopShelfComic Exclusive:''' by [[Marcelo Matere]]. Limited to 200 copies.

* '''''Transformers Volume 3: Combiner Chaos''''' ([[May 14]], [[2025]]) ISBN 1534329897 / ISBN 978-1534329898
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #13–18 and the [[Transformers Energon Universe 2024 Special story|''Transformers'' story]] from ''[[Energon Universe 2024 Special]]''.
** Trade paperback format.
** Variant covers:
*** '''Direct Market Exclusive:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer. Exclusively sold through the comic book direct market. ISBN 978-1534332683

* '''''Transformers Volume 4: Conquer and Control''''' ([[November 26]], [[2025]]) ISBN 1534332588 / ISBN 978-1534332584
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #19–24 and the [[Transformers Energon Universe 2025 Special story|''Transformers'' story]] from ''[[Energon Universe 2025 Special]]''.
** Trade paperback format.

<gallery>
File:Transformers 2023 V1.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise''''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Blackbird Comics & Coffeehouse Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Blackbird Comics & Coffeehouse Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Matthew Allison]]
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Comics Etc. Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Comics Etc. Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Stewart McKenny]] & [[John Law]]
File:Transformers 2023 V1 DM Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Direct Market Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Jonboy Meyers]]
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Gotham City Limit Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Gotham City Limit Exclusive''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Jonathan Comics Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Jonathan Comics Exclusive''' – cover art by Jason Howard
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Things From Another World Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Things From Another World Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Frédéric Pham Chuong]]
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Pasquale Ferrara Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' TopShelfComic Fan Expo Dallas Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Pasquale Ferrara]]
File:Transformers 2023 V2.jpg|'''''Volume 2: Transport to Oblivion''''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 V2 DM Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 2: Transport to Oblivion'' Direct Market Exclusive''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 V2 TopShelfComic Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 2: Transport to Oblivion'' TopShelfComic Exclusive''' – cover art by [[David Mack]]
File:Transformers 2023 V2 Verse Comics Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 2: Transport to Oblivion'' Verse Comics Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Kei Zama]]
File:Transformers 2023 B1.jpg|'''''Deluxe Edition Book 1''''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 B1 Bookdelivery Cover.jpg|'''''Deluxe Edition Book 1'' Bookdelivery Exclusive''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 B1 DM Cover.jpg|'''''Deluxe Edition Book 1'' Direct Market Exclusive''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 B1 Hasbro Pulse Cover.jpg|'''''Deluxe Edition Book 1'' [[Hasbro Pulse]] Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Tom Whalen]]
File:Transformers 2023 B1 TopShelfComic Cover.jpg|'''''Deluxe Edition Book 1'' TopShelfComic Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Marcelo Matere]]
File:Transformers 2023 V3.jpg|'''''Volume 3: Combiner Chaos''''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 V3 DM Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 3: Combiner Chaos'' Direct Market Exclusive''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 V4.jpg|'''''Volume 4: Conquer and Control''''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 B2.jpg|
</gallery>

===International Printings===
====China====
The Chinese version was translated by [[NOTRAB]] and released by Tiandi Press in China.

* '''''Transformers: Reignition of War''''' ([[November]], [[2024]]) ISBN 978-7545586046
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #1–6.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''Transformers: No Way Home''''' ([[November]], [[2024]]) ISBN 978-7545586053
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #7–12.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''Transformers: Hope in the Abyss''''' (TPA) ISBN 978-7545536027
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #13–18 and the [[Transformers Energon Universe 2024 Special story|''Transformers'' story]] from ''[[Energon Universe 2024 Special]]''.
** Hardcover format.

<gallery>
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Chinese.JPG|'''''Transformers: Reignition of War''''' (变形金刚：战火重燃)
File:Transformers 2023 V2 Chinese.JPG|'''''Transformers: No Way Home''''' (变形金刚：故土难归)
</gallery>

====Germany====
* '''''Transformers Band 1: Roboter unter uns!''''' ([[February 26]], [[2025]]) ISBN 1534398171 / ISBN 978-1534398177
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #1–6.
** Trade paperback format.

* '''''Transformers Band 2: Der Durchbruch''''' ([[July 29]], [[2025]])
** Collects ''Transformers'' issues #7–12.
** Trade paperback format.

<gallery>
File:Transformers 2023 V1 German.jpg|'''''Band 1: Roboter unter uns!'''''
</gallery>

====Hungary====
* '''''Energon Universe: A Teljes Gyűjtemény 1.''''' ([[August 27]], [[2025]]) ISBN TBA
** Collects ''[[Void Rivals]]'' issues #1-6, ''Transformers'' issues #1–6, and ''[[Duke (comic)|Duke]]'' issues #1-5.
** Hardcover format.

* '''''Energon Universe: A Teljes Gyűjtemény 2.''''' ([[2025]], TBA) ISBN TBA
** Collects ''[[Cobra Commander]]'' issues #1-5, ''Transformers'' issues #7–12, ''Void Rivals'' issues #7-12, and the ''[[Energon Universe 2024 Special]]''.
** Hardcover format.

<gallery>
File:Energon Universe C1 Hungarian.jpg
File:Energon Universe C2 Hungarian.jpg
</gallery>

==Awards and nominations==
===2024 Eisner Awards===
* Best Continuing Series '''(WINNER)'''
* Best Writer/Artist - Daniel Warren Johnson '''(WINNER)'''
* Best Lettering - [[Rus Wooton]]; shared nomination with 10 other series, including ''Void Rivals''

==Notes==
* [[FIRRIB|Frenzy is red, Rumble is blue.]]
* Before the comic's release, the first issue of Void Rivals laid the groundwork for the series, featuring a guest appearance by Jetfire. Skybound hadn't formally announced their license acquisition and the aforementioned Jetfire appearance was a surprise reveal.

[[Category:Energon Universe media]]
[[Category:Skybound titles]]

International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"

2025-11-24T21:30:35Z

Primal primus the second: /* Covers (4) */

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|title=International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"
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'''Strange things are afoot in North Korea.'''

==Synopsis==
A television news anchor reports that the discovery by spy satellites of [[energon]] manufacturing by [[North Korea]], leaving the [[United States of America|United States]] uneasy due to North Korea's history of pursuing nuclear weapons.

[[File:KimJongDu.jpg|left|275px|thumb|I have daddy issues]]
In the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]], [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] drives through the fence separating the North and the [[South Korea|South]] and starts to attack South Korean soldiers. He is struck by a shell from a tank, but the tank is vaporized by another tank—who transforms, revealing himself as [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]. Jet fighters scrambled to attack the invaders are cut down in the air by [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]], who transforms and joins the others on the ground. Onslaught radios their boss, North Korean dictator [[Kim Jong Du]], and reports that the battle is over. Kim, arriving at the head of a large North Korean military force, is pleased; [[Seoul]] will be theirs in hours at this rate.

At [[Skywatch]] headquarters, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Spike Witwicky]] reflects that North Korean collaboration with the [[Decepticon]]s was inevitable. Consulting [[Joe Henderson (G1)|Joe Henderson]] about the specifics of the situation, he is unable to learn anything besides the presence of seventeen energon production facilities in North Korea—and evidence of one further [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] in play not yet sighted at the border.

Elsewhere in the base, [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] explains to a Skywatch engineer the internal workings of Cybertronians, using a relaxed [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] as an example. [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] expresses his hesitancy to [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] about giving their knowledge to the [[human]]s, but Bumblebee replies that not only have the humans given them similar access to human information, they've also supplied the [[Autobot]]s with all the energon they need. Spike enters the room, asking to speak to the leader of the Autobots. Jetfire, Ratchet and Cliffjumper all gesture to Bumblebee, but Spike insists on [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]].

Spike finds Optimus Prime sitting in the now-open cell where he was previously detained, which he claims helps him to think. He requests Prime's help to deal with the Combaticons, who are more organized and powerful than any Decepticon they've had to bring in before. Bumblebee accepts his request, but before he can assemble a team, Campolongo bursts in to tell them that the President is making a live address.

The [[President of the United States|President]] announces the act of aggression from North Korea towards the South, and that Cybertronians were involved on the side of the aggressors. He then declares that any nation collaborating with Cybertronians or using their technology will be considered to be in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Aware of the problems this causes for him and the Autobots, Spike orders that everyone act as if the base was under communications blackout and no one had heard the address. He then continues preparing for the mission.

==Featured characters==
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* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (10)
* [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] (11)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] (12)
* [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] (13)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] (14)
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* [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] (3)
* [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] (4)
* [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] (5)
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* [[Nina]] (1)
* Korean DMZ soldiers (2)
* [[Kim Jong Du]] (6)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (7)
* [[Skywatch]] Personnel (8)
* [[Joe Henderson (G1)|Joe Henderson]] (9)
* [[Campolongo]] (15)
* [[Browne|President Browne]] (16)
}}

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* The newsreader at the start fills in with some worldbuilding: an international incident between the Koreas was brewing when Megatron invaded, nobody's sure when or how North Korea changed leader, and the lack of noise from North Korea isn't suspicious because "several corners of the globe are still without power or communications" after ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]''. That last bit is a bit worrying when the Decepticons were kicked off Earth ''three years ago!''
* Of course for that to be the reason ''why'' North Korea's silence isn't considered suspicious, North Korea must've been attacked itself.
* Henderson reveals that the North Koreans have been producing enough energon for five Cybertronians to consume, though future issues make it clear that not all five Combaticons are together, only the three featured in this issue and the unknown fourth (later revealed as [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]). Perhaps they were making extra energon [[Blast Off (G1)|just in case]].

===Transformers references===
* Onslaught's license plate reads "D-64", the [[List of Japanese ID numbers|Japanese ID number]] of his original toy.
* Ratchet discusses removing a burr from one of Cliffjumper's rotator nodes, a reference to [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]]'s line from the [[The Transformers: The Movie|1986 movie]].

===Real-life references===
* The North Korean leader in this issue, Kim Jong Du, while being said to be the son of {{w|Kim Jong Il}}, is clearly based off his likeness. The American President, however, looks nothing like [[Barack Obama]].
* The title is a reference to a {{w|The Land Ironclads|short story by H.G. Wells}}.

===Errors===
* When Henderson is describing Energon to Spike, he says "Our own experiments with the substance has shown that it's too unstable to store for more than a few months". It should be "Our own experiments... ''have'' shown".
* Almost all of the Transformers have changed bodies again between issues. For the first time in a very, very long time, they are drawn to the specifications of their original Generation 1 [[character model]]s, with only slight variations for necessity (Ratchet, for instance, sports electrocardiogram graphics on his shoulders instead of his traditional [[Red Cross]] symbols). Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are the exceptions, with the former in a Dery-ized version of his recent [[Don Figueroa]] design, and the latter in a cross between his Dodge Challenger body Don Figueroa used in [[Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"|issue #6]] and [[Chee Yang Ong]]'s simplified take of it seen at the conclusion of [[The Transformers: Bumblebee|his mini-series]], plus various elements lifted from an unused Don Figueroa design shown on the alternate cover of [[Things Fall Apart, Part 4: "Enemies of the System"|issue #5]] (which is also the design used for Cliffjumper in the first few issues of the ongoing). This was after an artistic error depicted him in his traditional Volkswagen body in his [[All His Engines|last appearance]].
** Just like with issue #8, Guido shared a little info on IDW boards about drawing this issue. He said: "Actually at first I was using Don's designs, then I was asked to do my own thing. Because of that and other reasons almost half of #9 pages have been re-drawn from scratch or heavily patched with changes. This didn't happen with #10–12, you'll see."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120923102010/http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=192461 Guido post in which he says that IDW asked him to not bother with Dons designs, and to redraw half of the issue he already made using his own preference in design.]</ref>

===Covers (4)===
* '''Cover A:''' Bumblebee taking cover behind debris under fire from the Combaticons; art by [[Don Figueroa]] and colors by [[James Brown]].
* '''Cover B:''' The Combaticons; art by [[Guido Guidi]] and colors by James Brown.
* '''Cover RI:''' Concept art of Optimus Prime; art by Don Figueroa.
* '''Auto Assembly 2010 exclusive cover:''' Swindle auctions a boxed set of [[Scott McNeil]], [[Derrick J. Wyatt]], and [[Garry Chalk]] [[toy]]s to his fellow Combaticons at [[Auto Assembly 2010]]; art by [[Nick Roche]], colors by [[Liam Shalloo]].

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File:TFvol1 9cvrA.jpg|Hey, why don't you boss Ultra Magnus around some more, 'Bee? I'm sure he'll come running.
File:TFvol1 9cvrB.jpg|We've been hired by [[Sunbow Productions|Sunbow]] to take over!
File:TFvol1 9cvrRI.jpg|Freaky faces are the right of all sentient beings.
File:TFvol1 9cvrAuto.jpg|These will not have any resale value.
</gallery>

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===Reprints===
* '''''The Transformers, Volume 2: International Incident''''' ([[December 8]], [[2010]]) ISBN 1600108040 / ISBN 978-1600108044
** Collects ''The Transformers'' (2009) issues #7–12.
** Bonus material includes art from all covers, including design sketches from Don Figueroa.
** Trade paperback format.

* '''''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Seven]]''''' ([[October 17]], [[2012]]) ISBN 1613774060 / ISBN 978-1613774069
** Collects ''[[Infestation (IDW)|Infestation]]'' issues [[The Transformers: Infestation issue 1|#1]]–[[The Transformers: Infestation issue 2|2]], ''The Transformers'' (2009) issues #7–18, and ''[[The Transformers: Ironhide|Ironhide]]'' issues [[The Iron Age|#1]]–[[Any Old Iron|4]].
** Hardcover format.

* '''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Volume 47: International Incident''''' ([[March 3]], [[2019]])
** Collects ''[[The Transformers: Bumblebee|Bumblebee]]'' issues [[The Hanging Sword|#1]]–[[Wings of Wax|4]], and ''The Transformers'' (2009) issues #9–12.
** Bonus material includes an interview with ''Zander Cannon'' and breakdowns for pages 1–4 of each issue of the ''Bumblebee'' mini-series.
** Hardcover format.

<gallery>
File:IDW ongoing tpb2.jpg|'''''Volume 2: International Incident''''' – cover art by [[Guido Guidi]] and [[James Brown]]
File:IDWCollection7.jpg|'''''The IDW Collection Volume Seven''''' – cover art by [[E. J. Su]]
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v47.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 47: International Incident''''' – cover art by [[Don Figueroa]] and Guido Guidi
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:IDW The Transformers issues]]

November 19

2025-11-19T18:23:32Z

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<noinclude>{{cal-date|11|19}}</noinclude>

* '''[[1930]] —''' [[Luiz Brandão]] (Brazilian voice of [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]]) is born.
* '''[[1951]] —''' [[Wolff von Lindenau]] (German voice of [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]) is born.
* '''[[1952]] —''' [[Axel Lutter]] (German voice of [[Starscream (Movie)#Transformers film|Starscream]], [[Carmine Fanzone]], [[Silas]], [[Sky Lynx (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon|Sky Lynx]] and more) is born.
* '''[[1960]] —''' [[Hiroshi Naka]] (Japanese voice of [[Alpha Trion]] and [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] in "[[The Rebirth]]") is born.
* '''[[1970]] —''' [[So-yeong Lee]] (Korean voice of [[Miko Nakadai]], [[June Darby]] and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]) is born.
* '''[[1985]] —''' The ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Transformers]]'' episode "[[Triple Takeover]]" premieres in the US.
* '''[[1986]] —''' [[Duio Botta]] (Brazilian voice of [[Tristan]]) is born.
* '''1986 —''' The ''Transformers'' episode "[[The Burden Hardest to Bear]]" premieres in the US.
* '''[[1992]] —''' [[Alessandro Campaiola]] (Italian voice of [[Burgertron]] and [[Noah Díaz]]) is born.
* '''[[1996]] —''' The ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[The Trigger, Part 2]]" premieres in the US.
* '''[[1997]] —''' [[Marcus Eni]] (Brazilian voice of [[Bumblebee (One)|B-127]]) is born.
* '''1997 —''' The ''Beast Wars'' episode "[[Double Jeopardy (episode)|Kick of the Spider Woman]]" premieres in Japan.
* '''[[2003]] —''' ''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe]]'' [[Trial by Fire|issue 3]] is released in the US by [[Dreamwave Productions]].
* '''[[2005]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Galaxy Force]]'' episode "[[Optimus (episode)|The Final Planet Force]]" premieres in Japan.
* '''[[2007]] —''' ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]] — Complete Season Two'' is released on DVD in the UK by [[Sony]].
* '''[[2008]] —''' ''[[Transformers: The Reign of Starscream|The Reign of Starscream]]'' TPB and ''[[Spotlight: Optimus Prime]]'' 3D-version are released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''2008 —''' ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]] — Volume 02: Stagione Uno Parte Seconda'' is released on DVD in Italy by [[Medianetwork Communication]].
* '''[[2011]] —''' The ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' reissue of [[Devastator (G1)/toys#Encore|Devastator]] is released in Japan.
* '''2011 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episode "[[Operation: Breakdown]]" premieres in [[Italy]].
* '''2011 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episodes "[[Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap]]" and "[[Con Job]]" premieres in [[France]].
* '''2011 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episode "[[Sick Mind]]" premieres in [[Spain]].
* '''[[2013]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] announces that [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] is the winner of the "Fan's Choice" ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' poll.
* '''2013 —''' The final-third of the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'' movie, "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising - Part 3]]", premieres in episode form on [[Hub Network|The Hub]].
* '''[[2014]] —''' ''[[The Transformers: Primacy|Primacy]]'' [[Primacy issue 4|#4]], and ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise]]'' Volume 6 TPB are released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''2014 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]'' episode "[[What Rises Above]]" premieres in [[Hungary]].
* '''[[2016]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' episode "[[Mini-Con Madness (RID)|Mini-Con Madness]]" premieres on Cartoon Network in the US.
* '''[[2017]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' episode "[[The Golden Knight]]" premieres in [[Hungary]].
* '''[[2018]] —''' [[Isidro Olace]] (Latin American Spanish voice of [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]], [[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] and more) dies at age 83.
* '''[[2019]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' episode "[[Secret Science]]" premieres in [[Brazil]].
* '''[[2022]] —''' [[Jason David Frank]] (voice of [[Emissary (TR)|Emissary]] in ''[[Transformers: Titans Return (cartoon)|Titans Return]]'') passes away at the age of 49 due to suicide.
* '''2022 —''' The ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' episode "[[Moo-ving In]]" premieres in [[Brazil]].
* '''[[2023]] —''' [[Mizuho Suzuki]] (voice of [[Unicron]] in the Japanese dub of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'') passes away at 96.
* '''2023 —''' [[Peter Spellos]] (voice of [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]]) also passes away at the age of 69 from pancreatic cancer.
* '''2023 —''' The ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' episode "[[House Rules|Is It Good? Is It Bad? Swindle]]" premieres in [[Japan]].
* '''[[2024]] —''' Western Pre-orders for the the ''[[T-SPARK#Synergenex|Synergenex]]'' Series Godzilla x Transformers [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Synergenex|Megatron Type Godzilla]] go up.
* '''[[2025]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 14|#14]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].

November 19

2025-11-19T18:22:26Z

Primal primus the second:

<noinclude>{{cal-date|11|19}}</noinclude>

* '''[[1930]] —''' [[Luiz Brandão]] (Brazilian voice of [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]]) is born.
* '''[[1951]] —''' [[Wolff von Lindenau]] (German voice of [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]) is born.
* '''[[1952]] —''' [[Axel Lutter]] (German voice of [[Starscream (Movie)#Transformers film|Starscream]], [[Carmine Fanzone]], [[Silas]], [[Sky Lynx (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon|Sky Lynx]] and more) is born.
* '''[[1960]] —''' [[Hiroshi Naka]] (Japanese voice of [[Alpha Trion]] and [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] in "[[The Rebirth]]") is born.
* '''[[1970]] —''' [[So-yeong Lee]] (Korean voice of [[Miko Nakadai]], [[June Darby]] and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]) is born.
* '''[[1985]] —''' The ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Transformers]]'' episode "[[Triple Takeover]]" premieres in the US.
* '''[[1986]] —''' [[Duio Botta]] (Brazilian voice of [[Tristan]]) is born.
* '''1986 —''' The ''Transformers'' episode "[[The Burden Hardest to Bear]]" premieres in the US.
* '''[[1992]] —''' [[Alessandro Campaiola]] (Italian voice of [[Burgertron]] and [[Noah Díaz]]) is born.
* '''[[1996]] —''' The ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[The Trigger, Part 2]]" premieres in the US.
* '''[[1997]] —''' [[Marcus Eni]] (Brazilian voice of [[Bumblebee (One)|B-127]]) is born.
* '''1997 —''' The ''Beast Wars'' episode "[[Double Jeopardy (episode)|Kick of the Spider Woman]]" premieres in Japan.
* '''[[2003]] —''' ''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe]]'' [[Trial by Fire|issue 3]] is released in the US by [[Dreamwave Productions]].
* '''[[2005]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Galaxy Force]]'' episode "[[Optimus (episode)|The Final Planet Force]]" premieres in Japan.
* '''[[2007]] —''' ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]] — Complete Season Two'' is released on DVD in the UK by [[Sony]].
* '''[[2008]] —''' ''[[Transformers: The Reign of Starscream|The Reign of Starscream]]'' TPB and ''[[Spotlight: Optimus Prime]]'' 3D-version are released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''2008 —''' ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]] — Volume 02: Stagione Uno Parte Seconda'' is released on DVD in Italy by [[Medianetwork Communication]].
* '''[[2011]] —''' The ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' reissue of [[Devastator (G1)/toys#Encore|Devastator]] is released in Japan.
* '''2011 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episode "[[Operation: Breakdown]]" premieres in [[Italy]].
* '''2011 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episodes "[[Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap]]" and "[[Con Job]]" premieres in [[France]].
* '''2011 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episode "[[Sick Mind]]" premieres in [[Spain]].
* '''[[2013]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] announces that [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] is the winner of the "Fan's Choice" ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' poll.
* '''2013 —''' The final-third of the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'' movie, "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising - Part 3]]", premieres in episode form on [[Hub Network|The Hub]].
* '''[[2014]] —''' ''[[The Transformers: Primacy|Primacy]]'' [[Primacy issue 4|#4]], and ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise]]'' Volume 6 TPB are released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''2014 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]'' episode "[[What Rises Above]]" premieres in [[Hungary]].
* '''[[2016]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' episode "[[Mini-Con Madness (RID)|Mini-Con Madness]]" premieres on Cartoon Network in the US.
* '''[[2017]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' episode "[[The Golden Knight]]" premieres in [[Hungary]].
* '''[[2018]] —''' [[Isidro Olace]] (Latin American Spanish voice of [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]], [[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] and more) dies at age 83.
* '''[[2019]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' episode "[[Secret Science]]" premieres in [[Brazil]].
* '''[[2022]] —''' [[Jason David Frank]] (voice of [[Emissary (TR)|Emissary]] in ''[[Transformers: Titans Return (cartoon)|Titans Return]]'') passes away at the age of 49 due to suicide.
* '''2022 —''' The ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' episode "[[Moo-ving In]]" premieres in [[Brazil]].
* '''[[2023]] —''' [[Mizuho Suzuki]] (voice of [[Unicron]] in the Japanese dub of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'') passes away at 96.
* '''2023 —''' [[Peter Spellos]] (voice of [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]]) also passes away at the age of 69 from pancreatic cancer.
* '''2023 —''' The ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' episode "[[House Rules|Is It Good? Is It Bad? Swindle]]" premieres in [[Japan]].
* '''[[2024]] —''' Western Pre-orders for the the ''[[T-SPARK#Synergenex|Synergenex]]'' Series Godzilla x Transformers [[Megatron (G1)/toys|Megatron Type Godzilla]] go up.
* '''[[2025]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe (2024 comic)|G.I. Joe]]'' [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 14|#14]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].

Ironhide (G1)/gallery

2025-11-15T19:48:28Z

Primal primus the second: /* Marvel Comics continuity */

{{suite}}

==Sunbow cartoon==
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</gallery>

===Continuations===
<gallery>
File:BattleLines ironhide pretty concernin.jpg|''Wings Universe'' Cybertronian robot mode
File:BaldigusChapter1 CybertronVehicle.jpg
</gallery>

==Marvel Comics continuity==
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</gallery>
===Continuations===
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</gallery>

==Dreamwave comics==
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File:Dreamwave-The War Within-Ironhide.jpg|Cybertron robot and vehicle modes concept art
File:Dreamwave-The War Within-Ironhide Bumblebee.jpg|Cybertron robot and vehicle modes concept art in color
File:WarWithin5 ironhide.jpg|Cybertron robot mode
File:WarWithin1 ironhide cyb alt mode.jpg|Cybertron vehicle mode
</gallery>

==2005 IDW continuity==
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File:HuntForSoundwave Prowlvehicle.jpg
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File:TFvol1 4cvrRI.jpg
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File:IronhideWFCArt.jpg|High Moon Studios robot mode concept
File:WFC-Ironhidevehicle.jpg|High Moon Studios vehicle mode concept
</gallery>

==2019 IDW continuity==
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File:Titans IronhidePledge.jpg
File:SeaOfRustPartII-Altmodes.jpg
</gallery>

==Other media==
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File:HoSIronhide.jpg
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File:Ironhide BW 2021.jpg
</gallery>

[[Category:Galleries]]

Destro issue 5

2025-11-14T20:02:17Z

Primal primus the second: /* Covers (6) */

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|date=[[October 16]], [[2024]]
|coverdate=October 2024
|written by=[[Dan Watters]]
|art by=[[Andrei Bressan]]
|colors by=[[Adriano Lucas]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
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}}

'''Destro returns to reclaim his company from the Crimson Twins, but a far greater threat leads to an alliance the likes of which the world has never seen.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Tomax and Xamot]] give [[Cobra Commander]] a tour of the [[M.A.R.S.]] headquarters, where they are already busy acquainting themselves with the company’s technological advancements - minus the defective [[Battle Android Trooper]]s, of course. However, waiting for them in his secret chamber is [[Destro]]! At that moment, [[Scrap-Iron]] and [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz|Chameleon]] attack, with Chameleon using her fluke pulse to disarm the [[Crimson Guard]]'s [[H.I.S.S. tank]]s. Destro questions if Cobra Commander is allied with the Paolis now, who responds that they offer the financial means to grow [[Cobra]]'s armies, especially since they can't rely on the B.A.T.s. The Paolis attack Destro, reiterating their promise to kill him themselves. Meanwhile, the Crimson Guard is attacked by [[Mercer]], having disguised himself as one of their own. He and Chameleon herd them into a basement full of B.A.T.s, which Destro activates via remote while he fends off the Twins. The few that manage to escape the B.A.T.s flee outside, only to be met by the [[Overkill (G.I. Joe)|Overkill]]-controlled drones.

With their army decimated, Destro reveals to the Twins all that he's discovered in his travels, including the Overkill A.I., and has come to one conclusion: there are [[Transformer|forces emerging in the world]] far beyond the squabbles of M.A.R.S. and [[Extensive Enterprises]], and the only way to maintain their power in a world ever at war, they must unite under the banner of Cobra, much to the satisfaction of Cobra Commander. He then orders the Commander and the Paolis out of his house.

Later, Astoria and Destro meet for lunch. Astoria asks if she'll ever get to meet this mysterious "Commander," but Destro suspects that he was her anonymous benefactor who helped fund Overkill’s development. But Destro does not trust Overkill or the Commander. He launches one of his recovered nuclear warheads towards the Overkill satellite in orbit, destroying it. Initially horrified, Astoria agrees it's for the best and thanks Destro as the two share a kiss.

Destro later meets with [[Darklon (G.I. Joe)|Darklon]] at the [[Tomb of the Family Destro]]. Darklon apologizes for his hasty sale of M.A.R.S. to the Crimson Twins, but says that its ended well with them all united with Cobra. Destro reveals his plan to let the Commander build up Cobra, then install himself as the organization’s leader when the opportunity allows. Darklon assures Destro that he will have his support as family, but Destro questions his loyalty; after all, he doesn’t hear the voices of their ancestors as Destro does, and he does not wear his family mask. As punishment for handing M.A.R.S. over so easily, Destro forces Darklon's scorching hot mask onto his face, just as their ancestor had been punished long ago.

At Cobra headquarters, a Cobra Trooper reports to the Commander about Destro’s destruction of the Overkill satellite. The trooper then reports that something else is entering the atmosphere above the [[Pacific Ocean]] made of an alloy that their scans can’t identify but appears to be organic in nature. The Cobra Commander is eager to see what new gifts [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] has brought him.

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in photos. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|h1=[[M.A.R.S.]]|c1=
* [[Battle Android Trooper]]s (5)
* [[Destro]] (6)
* [[Scrap-Iron]] (7)
* [[Mercer]] (9)
* [[Darklon (G.I. Joe)|Darklon]] (10)

|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=
* [[Cobra Commander]] (3)
* [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz]]/[[Chameleon (G.I. Joe)|Chameleon]] (8)
* Cobra Trooper (11)

|h3=[[Extensive Enterprises]]|c3=
* [[Tomax and Xamot]] (1 & 2)
* [[Crimson Guard]] (4)
}}

==Quotes==
"How was this meant to go, Destro? You, standing alone against our army?" 
"I’m not alone... I have three soldiers."
:—'''Tomax''' and '''Destro'''

"He acted as you predicted. He did indeed launch nuclear armaments to impress a woman."
:—A '''Cobra Trooper''' on Destro’s romantic gestures

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* When last we saw M.A.R.S. HQ, it was destroyed by the burgeoning Cobra organization back in ''[[Cobra Commander (comic)|Cobra Commander]]'' [[Cobra Commander issue 5|#5]]. Evidently, it has been rebuilt and is back in use, right down to the [[S.N.A.K.E.]] armors being developed that we first glimpsed in ''[[Duke (comic)|Duke]]'' [[Duke issue 1|#1]].
* Destro's collection of nuclear warheads was established in [[Destro issue 2|issue #2]].
* We learned about the Clan Destro's tradition of wearing masks to honor their ancestor in [[Destro issue 3|issue #3]].
* The final pages depict what appears to be the pieces of Cybertron falling to Earth from ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 12|#12]]. This gives us our clearest indication of the timeline for where the G.I. Joe titles fall relative to the main ''Transformers'' series. However, see ''Errors''.

===''G.I. Joe'' references===
* Tomax and Xamot are finally seen wearing their classic costumes.
* The Crimson Twins being able to feel each other’s pain comes from their original ''A Real American Hero'' incarnations, an extension of their overall psychic connection that allowed them to communicate with each other.
* Astoria taking on the Chameleon codename has an added layer as she takes on the dual roles of Cobra's femme fatale and Destro's love interest typically occupied by the [[Baroness]], as the original Chameleon was created to be a trademark-replacement for the Baroness.
* Darklon's mask is finally shown this issue.

===Real-life references===
* Tomax and Xamot's ability to feel each other’s pain is also based on the novella ''{{w|The Corsican Brothers}}'' by {{w|Alexandre Dumas}}.

===Errors===
* The end of this issue pretty clearly takes place at the same time as ''Transformers'' #12, ''buuuuut'' that means we have to squeeze all the G.I. Joe miniseries (except maybe [[Scarlett (comic)|Scarlett]]) in between ''Transformers'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 2|#2]] (where [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] first encountered [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]) and #12, which, thanks mainly to the implicit and explicit timeskips, doesn’t really work, as the ''Transformers'' ongoing features no such major timeskips. Oops?

===Other notes===
*

===Covers (6)===
* '''Cover A:''' Destro versus Tomax and Xamot, by Andrei Bressan & Adriano Lucas.
* '''Cover B:''' The forces of Cobra reflected in Destro’s helmet, by [[Sanford Greene]].
* '''Cover C (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Connecting cover, by [[Nikola Čižmešija]].
* '''Cover D (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Chameleon on explosion background, by [[Marco Ferrari]].
* '''Cover E (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' M.A.R.S. attacks, by [[Taurin Clarke]].
* '''Gotham City Limit Cover:''' Mercer Flexing his muscular arms, by [[Tyler Kirkham]].

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</gallery>

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** Trade paperback format.

<gallery>
File:Destro V1.jpg|'''''Volume 1: The Enemy''''' – cover art by Andrei Bressan and Adriano Lucas
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:Destro issues]]

Destro issue 4

2025-11-14T20:00:06Z

Primal primus the second: /* Covers (6) */

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|title=
|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[September 18]], [[2024]]
|coverdate=September 2024
|written by=[[Dan Watters]]
|art by=[[Andrei Bressan]]
|colors by=[[Adriano Lucas]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editors=[[Ben Abernathy]]
|continuity=[[Energon Universe]]
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}}

'''Destro discovers the truth behind the recent attacks against him, while Tomax and Xamot make moves with a powerful new ally.'''

==Synopsis==
Having not been seen for eight days following Chameleon's attack, [[Destro]] has been presumed dead and [[Tomax and Xamot]] are ready to seize [[M.A.R.S.]] for themselves, meeting with [[Darklon (G.I. Joe)|Darklon]] - now the acting CEO of his cousin's company - in [[Darklonia]]. While Darklon initially balks at the idea of selling his family's company, the Crimson Twins present him with a ''very'' generous check. Darklon reluctantly accepts and orders [[Mercer]] to prepare a demonstration of the [[Battle Android Trooper]]s. The Twins are impressed with the B.A.T.'s offensive capabilities, wondering why Destro hadn’t unveiled them before, though they soon get their answer as the B.A.T.s turn on each other after eliminating their targets. Upon seeing their flaw, the Twins call them utterly unmarketable.

Meanwhile, Destro has been pouring through the files he received from [[General Flagg]], learning all sorts of secrets about military operations, including one involving [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Conrad "Duke" Hauser]] encountering an [[Starscream (G1)|an intelligent plane]]. As he learns, this report led to further investigation of who could be behind such technology, leading the [[CIA]] to infiltrate various American companies. On a list of infiltrated companies, one stands out to Destro: [[Hybrid Technologies]].

Destro ends up crashing the party of [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz]], who is shocked to see him alive. She invites him to a meeting room upstairs, but flees out the back door. Destro alerts [[Scrap-Iron]] to her position, and as Astoria exits the building, the M.A.R.S. weaponsmith fires a rocket at her. However, Astoria turns around and neutralizes the missile with an EMP blast... one that appears to come from her own body! Destro reveals that he had deduced the truth: [[Desmond Carlton-Ritz|her father]] had always dreamed of what robotic enhancements could do for humanity, experimenting with them on Astoria. ''She'' was Chameleon the entire time, using a blonde wig and goggles to disguise herself. Destro also believes her to be behind the attack on the Darklonia arms fair, but she reveals that she was only responsible for attacking him in the [[Scottish Highlands]], only doing so out of the (incorrect) belief that he was aware of Project: [[Overkill (G.I. Joe)|Overkill]].

Project: Overkill was her and her father’s pet project: a "peacekeeping" artificial intelligence that could learn about and neutralize potential threats before they happen on a global scale. Astoria believed it to be a path to world peace, but Destro sees it for what it is: the ultimate weapon. She then reveals that the Overkill AI woke up before it was ready and, while still working with Astoria, has begun making its own decisions; Overkill attacked the arms fair against her orders because it perceived it to be a threat. And Astoria is afraid of what it might do next. When Destro asks where the AI is, she reveals it to be watching them from a satellite in orbit.

Now acting as the heads of M.A.R.S. Industries, Tomax and Xamot dig through Destro’s files, discovering one of his recent contacts. Believing their goals more mutually aligned than that of Destro, the Crimson Twins arrange a meeting… with [[Cobra Commander]]!

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in photos. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|h1=[[M.A.R.S.]]|c1=
* [[Mercer]] (3)
* [[Darklon (G.I. Joe)|Darklon]] (4)
* [[Battle Android Trooper]]s (5)
* [[Destro]] (6)
* [[Scrap-Iron]] (10)

|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=
* [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz]]/[[Chameleon (G.I. Joe)|Chameleon]] (9)
* [[Cobra Commander]] (11)

|h3=[[Extensive Enterprises]]|c3=
* [[Tomax and Xamot]] (1 & 2)

|h4=Others|c4=
* [[General Flagg]] (7)
* Private [[Dana Ferrez]] (8)
}}

==Quotes==
“Listen. James McCullen Destro is —'''was'''— my cousin. M.A.R.S. Industries has been owned by our clan for centuries.” 
“Yes. But look at this really big check.”
:—'''Darklon''' and '''Xamot'''

"Destro. I-It’s wonderful to see you. I heard you were dead." 
“I was. But Hell couldn’t afford my consultation fee, so I came back.”
:—'''Astoria''' and '''Destro'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Darklon has been ruling Darklonia since he and Destro aided the revolution back in [[Destro issue 1|issue #1]].
* Through the files he gained from General Flagg, Destro learns of the circumstances that brought Duke to his door in the ''[[Duke (comic)|Duke]]'' miniseries. While Duke had briefly alluded to it in [[Duke issue 5|Duke #5]], Destro appears to now have the full story concerning Hauser’s encounter with Starscream back in ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 2|#2]].
* While the fact that the apparently dud missile was working perfectly well was discovered by Scrap-Iron last issue, this issue reveals why it didn’t work: Astoria’s cyborg implants.
* Scrap-Iron’s comment last issue of weapons thinking for themselves proves to be foreshadowing for the revelations about the Overkill AI this issue.

===''G.I. Joe'' references===
* As stated previously, Overkill is traditionally the name of Cobra's robotic/cyborg agent that serves as commander of the Battle Android Troopers. Here, Overkill has been reimagined as an artificial intelligence.
** Overkill's satellite features a green, gold, and red color scheme, evoking the colors of the original Overkill action figure.
* It’s also worth noting that Astoria is depicted here as having cybernetic implants, in a distinct echo of the second incarnation of Overkill.

===''Transformers'' references===
* Astoria demanding her employees party echoes a similar scene from her debut episode of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]], “[[The Girl Who Loved Powerglide]]”, with the quote “It’s my party and I’ll get us all blacked out if I want to” even paraphrasing her G1 counterpart’s line of “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.”
** Astoria also had an inexplicable ability to jinx any machine she touches in her debut episode. Here, it's explained to be a personal EMP burst provided by her robotic implants. It may also explain the superhuman durability and strength she had in that episode as well.

===Real-life references===
* The above-referenced line also serves as a paraphrasing of the chorus to {{w|Leslie Gore}}’s classic 1963 pop song “{{w|It's My Party}}”.

===Errors===
* Private Ferrez’s uniform should be displaying her Armed Forces branch on her left breast, not her first name.

===Other notes===
* In this issue, Destro gives a name to Astoria’s late father: Desmond.

===Covers (6)===
* '''Cover A:''' Destro and Chameleon attacked by drone, by Andrei Bressan & Adriano Lucas.
* '''Cover B:''' Destro rocking that drip, by [[Siya Oum]].
* '''Cover C (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Connecting cover, by [[Nikola Čižmešija]].
* '''Cover D (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Scrap-Iron on explosion background, by [[Travis Moore]] & Adriano Lucas.
* '''Cover E (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Chameleon takes aim, by [[Homare]].
* '''Gotham City Limit Cover:''' Scrap-Iron controlling his Anti Armor Drone, by [[Tyler Kirkham]].

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File:Destro 4 Cover A.jpg|
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File:Destro 4 Cover C.jpg|
File:Destro 4 Cover D.jpg|
File:Destro 4 Cover E.jpg|
File:Destro 4 Gotham City Limit Cover.jpg|
</gallery>

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===Reprints===
* '''''Destro Volume 1: The Enemy''''' ([[December 4]], [[2024]]) ISBN 1534357688 / ISBN 978-1534357686 
** Collects issues #1–5.
** Trade paperback format.

<gallery>
File:Destro V1.jpg|'''''Volume 1: The Enemy''''' – cover art by Andrei Bressan and Adriano Lucas
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:Destro issues]]

Destro issue 2

2025-11-14T19:55:21Z

Primal primus the second: /* Covers (6) */

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|caption=
|title=
|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[July 17]], [[2024]]
|coverdate=July 2024
|written by=[[Dan Watters]]
|art by=[[Andrei Bressan]]
|colors by=[[Adriano Lucas]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editors=[[Ben Abernathy]]
|continuity=[[Energon Universe]]
|chronology=
}}

'''M.A.R.S. and Extensive Enterprises go to war! Whoever wins, the world will lose.'''

==Synopsis==
After the devastating attack on [[Darklonia]], [[Destro]] addresses his [[Iron Grenadier]]s, assuring them that though the damage [[Extensive Enterprises]] did was considerable, their retaliation will be far worse, for [[M.A.R.S.]] has the greater firepower. Meanwhile, [[Tomax and Xamot]] address their [[Crimson Guard]] and tell them that Destro's false flag attack on his own fair will not sully their reputation. If Destro wants a war, they will give him one. After all, Extensive has the superior manpower.

The two companies engage in a series of battles: M.A.R.S. attacks a Crimson Guard training ground in [[Belarus]] to cripple their army. However, their [[Despoiler]]s are quickly eliminated by the Guards' [[Assault System Pod]]s, weapons stolen from M.A.R.S. themselves. In contrast, the Crimson Guard attacks a factory in [[South Carolina]] that is secretly manufacturing [[Battle Android Trooper]]s. However, unbeknownst to them, the facility also contains M.A.R.S.'s primary store of [[Energon]]. Not wanting the fuel to fall into enemy hands, Destro orders all B.A.T.s in the facility to be activated. Though damaged by the destruction of the facility, the android troops crawl out of the flaming rubble and eliminate their targets. Witnessing the destruction their war is causing, both parties decide it’s time for parlay.

Destro invites the Paolis to the [[Scrapheap of Empires]], a massive landfill in the middle of the [[Pacific Ocean]] where nations across the globe have dumped their old weapons of war and a fitting place to settle their conflict, lest they turn the entire world into a similar wasteland. Tomax balks at Destro calling for a ceasefire when he started this war, prompting the Laird to insist that, unlike the twins, he does not lie. Each side sticks to their story, and when Tomax threatens him again, Destro reveals he has a nuclear warhead aimed at their position. Ultimately, the CEOs agree that they will focus more on corporate warfare than physical combat.

Destro then returns to his ancestral home in the [[Scotland|Scottish Highlands]] to once more seek counsel from his ancestors. As he speaks to them of how only those with Destro blood can know the location of this tomb, [[Chameleon (G.I. Joe)|a lone assassin]] waits for him in the mountains outside...

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in photos. 
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* [[Destro]] (1)
* [[Iron Grenadier]]s (2)
* [[Battle Android Trooper]]s (6)

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* [[Tomax and Xamot]] (3 & 4)
* [[Crimson Guard]]smen (5)
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* [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz|Chameleon]] (7)
}}

==Quotes==

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* While the narrative certainly implied Tomax and Xamot to be behind the attack on Darklonia last issue, it was never stated outright. This issue confirms they were not behind the attack… so who was?
* Destro’s possession of Energon, first given to him by [[Cobra Commander]] in [[Cobra Commander (comic)|Cobra Commander]] [[Cobra Commander issue 5|#5]] is still unknown, much like the existence of the B.A.T.s, which were established to be a secret last issue.

===''G.I. Joe'' references===
* One of the Crimson Guardsmen shown without his helmet has blond hair, making him resemble the "Fred" operatives from the original ''[[G.I. Joe (comic)|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'' comic from [[Marvel Comics]].
* The Crimson Guard is shown using the Assault System Pod (A.S.P.), a classic Cobra vehicle from the 1984 range of toys. Fittingly, they are colored red, similar to how the A.S.P. were decoed in the 2004 "Operation Crimson Sabotage" box set.
** The A.S.P. is also shown being pulled by a V.A.M.P.-esque jeep.
* Chameleon, introduced in this issue, has an interesting conceptual history. Introduced in 2000 as a trademark replacement for the [[Baroness]], Chameleon was the Baroness’ long-lost, near-identical half-sister who used their resemblance to infiltrate Cobra on behalf of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. She was later used in a similar (though slightly more complicated) manner in [[IDW Publishing]]’s [[Hasbro Universe]], which gave her real name as "Erika Le Tene". Recently, [[Renegade Game Studios]] included her in their "[[Cobra/Con Fusion]]" adventure scenario for the G.I. Joe and [[Transformers Roleplaying Game]]s, now with the real name of Eléa Cisarovna. What will the Energon Universe version look like? Only time will tell.
* Chameleon reports to [[Overkill (G.I. Joe)|Overkill]], the cyborg commander of the B.A.T.s from the ''G.I. Joe vs. Cobra'' incarnation of the franchise.

===Covers (6)===
* '''Cover A:''' Destro, Tomax and Xamot, and an army of B.A.T.s engulfed in flame, by Andrei Bressan & Adrian Lucas.
* '''Cover B:''' Tomax and Xamot reflected in Destro’s face, by [[Riley Rossmo]].
* '''Cover C (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Connecting cover, by [[Nikola Čižmešija]].
* '''Cover D (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Tomax on explosion background, by [[Jeff Spokes]].
* '''Cover E (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Destro and his accoutrements, by [[Yasmine Putri]].
* '''Gotham City Limit Cover:''' Xamot and Tomax back to back, by [[Tyler Kirkham]].

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* Codename: [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] continues in ''Scarlett''!
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===Reprints===
* '''''Destro Volume 1: The Enemy''''' ([[December 4]], [[2024]]) ISBN 1534357688 / ISBN 978-1534357686 
** Collects issues #1–5.
** Trade paperback format.

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==References==
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Chromedome (G1)/2005 IDW continuity

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[[File:mtmte 50 chromedome's last wishes.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|What it's like being IDW Chromedome.]]
An ex-copper and quiet academic with burning passions, '''Chromedome''' falls easily in love and even more easily into really bad ideas and self-destructive habits. But he can totally quit [[mnemosurgery]] any time, guys! He just has a ''reason'' why this one time, it's okay.

He's [[Conjunx Endura]] with [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rewind]]. Although they're practically inseparable most of the time, deep down, Chromedome fears Rewind would leave him for [[Dominus Ambus|his previous partner]].

{{first|[[Chaos Part One: Lamentations|''The Transformers'' #24]]}}

{{bigquote|Cynical? [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], I was '''''suicidal'''''...but then I met someone who saw the '''''best''''' in everyone—even me. Maybe there's someone out there who can save your life, too.|Chromedome|"[[Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations]]"}}

==Fiction==
===A scientist before the war===
[[File:MTMTE9 early Chromedome.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|In addition to neuroscience, his other interests include funny cat GIFs and ''[[Sherlock Holmes|Sherlock]]'' slashfic.]]
'''Tumbler of Iacon''' was [[Reproduction|constructed cold]] long before he adopted the name "Chromedome". {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

Before the [[Great War (G1)|war]], during the days of the [[Clampdown (event)|Clampdown]], Tumbler was a mechaforensic scientist in the police force. The poor bugger was nicknamed "Unlucky" because he had to work with [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]], the most anal, full-autopsy loving officer of all time. Despite Prowl's Prowlness, the two had an ambiguous, more-than-partners relationship. Tumbler had a strong interest in [[mnemosurgery]], the science of hacking into Transformer minds and "reading" their memories, and was fascinated by the conspiracy theories of the [[Institute]], a supposed secret group used by the authorities to brainwash dissidents.

Tumbler and Prowl investigated the assassination of [[Sherma|Senator Sherma]], whose corpse had been marked with a Decepticon insignia, and backtracked his whereabouts to the posh [[Translucentica Heights]]. Unfortunately, the killer had struck again before they arrived, murdering a second senator! {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} Tumbler attempted to chase down a suspect, who perished in a fiery crash. Investigating the second victim's home, the two police 'bots learned from the warden [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] that the senator, [[Momus]] was secretly a Decepticon. The group were suddenly set upon a second attacker, but were saved by the timely arrival of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]], a fellow law enforcement officer. Pax had learned from his senator friend, [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], that Sherma was also a secret Decepticon sympathizer, making it clear that the murders being committed ''against'' Decepticons, rather than ''by'' them.

[[File:Chromedome notices hands Patternism.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1]]
Pax was able to identify that the killers had been using borrowed bodies, so Prowl and Tumbler set out to investigate the nearest [[Relinquishment Clinic]], passing a Decepticon protest along the way. Although innocuous at first glance, the pair eventually found a secret facility beneath the clinic Tumbler believed to be the Institute. Along with proof that the killers had indeed been using borrowed bodies, Tumbler also discovered a list of citizens organized by threat level. Meeting back up in [[Rodion]], Orion Pax was able to use the list and other evidence he'd gathered to realize the true plot in motion: the Senate had arranged for the pro-Decepticon senators' murders so that the swift solving of the crimes would boost Decepticon faith in the Senate, increasing the turn-out for the recently created [[Decepticon Registration Act]]. The Senate then planned to detonate a bomb at the late [[Nominus Prime]]'s memorial service, hidden inside a fake [[Matrix of Leadership]], and blame it on the Decepticons, giving them an excuse to use the Registration Act list, found by Tumbler, to round up and brainwash the dissidents. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}}

With a plan to stop the bomb plot in place, Tumbler borrowed a replica Matrix from police armorer [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], to be switched by Pax for the Matrix-bomb. At a concerned Prowl's insistence, Tumbler was left behind during the 'heist' to switch the Matrix, and was instead assigned to guard Shockwave with Pax's colleague [[Roller (IDW)|Roller]] at a safehouse. Unfortunately, the safehouse was attacked by Senate thugs, and whilst Pax arrived back there in time, he was forced to allow the enforcers to take Shockwave in return for Roller's life. Tumbler quickly led Pax to the Institute facility he had found with Prowl, only to find it deserted. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}} Tumbler was present when he and his fellow officers busted [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] for peddling [[simultronic]]s. {{storylink|Post}}

[[File:BeforeandAfter-TheWorseTheDeath.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|right|"Everyone calls me Chromedome, but my real name is MySpace -- wait, wait, no."]]
In the aftermath of the full-scale Decepticon rebellion, the new Prime, [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta]], moved the Institute to a new, remote location, "rebranding" it as the 'New Institute'. Knowing of Tumbler's interest in neuroscience through Prowl, Zeta recruited the forensics officer as an apprentice cerebroscientist under [[Trepan]]. Working at the New Institute, he acquired the nickname "Chromedome" in reference to his prodigious skills as a mnemosurgeon and lobotomist, which he would eventually adopt as his regular name. When [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] located and attacked the facility, Chromedome was in the middle of a procedure on the Decepticon [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]], but was interrupted by a blast through his midsection. Luckily, the medic [[Pharma (G1)|Pharma]] was on hand to save the mnemosurgeon's life. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}}

Over time, after the war had begun proper, Chromedome came to resent his mnenosurgical abilities and became cynical over their use. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} Many things he had to do during wartime were things that, in hindsight, he would regret. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}} However, Chromedome would also find love, in the form of [[Scattergun]], [[Mach (G1)|Mach]] and [[Pivot]], becoming [[Conjunx Endura]] with each, only to also lose them one by one. Each time, Chromedome would be so overwhelmed by the grief he would use his mnemosurgery skills to erase all knowledge of his lovers. Each time [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]] would plead with his friend not to do so, and Chromedome would assure him he wouldn't, only to turn around and do just that the minute Brainstorm was out the door. This led an unknowing Chromedome to assume he had a naturally low supply of innermost energon, rather than actually being drained from having made so many deathbed offerings in his life. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}

Eventually, Chromedome was on the verge of suicide due to the immense burden of his abilities and the terrible side-effects they had on his own mental health. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}} It was then, at his lowest point, that he went to a repurposed Relinquishment Clinic to end it, but found [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rewind]] searching fruitlessly for [[Dominus Ambus]]. {{storylink|Before & After}} He formed a deep friendship with the diminutive archivist. Chromedome credited Rewind's optimism and caring nature as having saved his life, and the two were nearly inseparable since. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}} Indeed, [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] has been known to claim them as being "closer than [[Rack'n'Ruin (G1)|Rack'n'Ruin]]" {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}} and Rewind had named Chromedome as his [[Conjunx Endura]]. {{storylink|Before & After}}

[[File:Brainstorm Chromedome infodump.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.55|A little known earlier detonation of the [[Metafictional bomb|meta bomb]].]]
Chromedome was stationed at [[Kimia Facility]] when [[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Cyclonus]] and the [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]]s invaded. {{storylink|Chaos Part One: Lamentations|Lamentations}} He survived and managed to escape before the facility's destruction, leaving in an escape pod together with Brainstorm and a number of other Autobots. They were soon rescued by, as he put it, [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|a psychopath in pink armor]], and made a joke at Swerve's expense. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings|Kings}}

As Arcee told the survivors about [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]] and [[D-Void]]'s master plan to bring the [[Dead Universe]] into the actual universe, Chromedome and [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]] felt a bit overwhelmed by the massive "info dump" and wondered if other species ever had to worry about saving the universe. {{storylink|Chaos Part Four: Genesis|Genesis}}

[[File:Chromedome Prowl RemembranceDay.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|One prick deserves another... or five.]]
Weeks later, after D-Void's threat had ended and Cybertron had been reborn, Prowl summoned Chromedome and revealed to him that Overlord, recently defeated and captured by the [[Wreckers]], had not in fact had his spark removed and imprisoned, as the official story had claimed. Instead, he had been rebuilt, as part of an initiative by Prowl to uncover the secret to the immense power and endurance of Overlord and the other [[Phase Sixer]]s. With interrogation and the gift of a new body ineffective in making the Decepticon prisoner talk, Chromedome's former partner now sought for him to interface with Overlord and find the secret in his memories, a complex procedure that would be highly dangerous to the mnemosurgeon. When Chromedome refused, not wanting to break his promise to Rewind to stop interfacing, Prowl attempted to blackmail him with an unsavoury secret from the mnemosurgeon's past. Desperate to avoid Rewind learning this story, Chromedome attacked Prowl and forcibly interfaced with him, erasing from his old friend's memory both the blackmail threat and the knowledge that let him make it. He subsequently left the office, telling Prowl, oblivious to his attack, that he'd consider the proposal to work on Overlord. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}}

Somewhere around that time, Chromedome and Rewind attended the Festival of Lost Light. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}}

===The ''Lost Light''===
[[File:Chromedome Prowl Liars.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|"And another thing! You ''deserved'' that memory wi- aaah... I mean, what memory wipe?"]]

After Optimus Prime's subsequent appearance and departure from Cybertron, Chromedome chose to join the [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]]'s crew of the ''[[Lost Light]]'', alongside Rewind. Prowl, angry with this decision, tried to persuade him to stay, noting that Chromedome was "gifted" and his talents were still required on Cybertron, with the plan regarding Overlord left unspoken due to Rewind's presence. Eventually, realizing he wouldn't get anywhere with the argument, Chromedome gave up and left with Rewind, leaving Prowl to fume alone in his office.

Not long afterwards, Chromedome, Rewind, and [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] were headed to the ''Lost Light'', with Chromedome verbally jabbing at Rewind's impractical [[Alternate mode|alt mode]] along the way. Suddenly, a fight between [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Cyclonus]] crossed their paths, as well as [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]], who had just escaped being trapped underground for six million years. Chromedome helped Tailgate out of the ground, but the small Cybertronian fainted when he saw that his escape had accidentally injured Whirl. Chromedome and the rest decided to take both Whirl and Tailgate aboard ''Lost Light'' for repairs. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}

After the ''Lost Light'' suffered a premature [[Quantum generator|quantum jump]] and ended up halfway across the galaxy, forty Autobots were sucked out of a hull breach and sent plummeting to the surface of a nearby planetoid. Once the ship had landed there, Chromedome, Rewind, and [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] aided in the recovery of missing crew members, pulling the stowaway Cyclonus from a lake. Later, Chromedome and others came across [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], who had also crash-landed on the planet and was being pursued by some unknown [[Legislator|sword-carrying robots]]. After Chromedome removed the "fiddly" [[inhibitor claw]] attached to Skids, the long thought-dead Autobot sprung into action and defeated his one remaining pursuer, much to the amazement of the others. Later, Chromedome was present when Rodimus addressed the crew. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|Hangers On}}

[[File:Chromedome mnemosurgery ChaosOfWarmThings.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.66|You know, sometime I'd just like games night NOT to end in me sticking my fingers in a corpse.]]
When a [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]] was thought to have been let loose aboard the ''Lost Light'', Rodimus asked Chromedome to use his abilities to help identify it. Despite Rewind's reservations, Chromedome complied, hacking into [[Shock (G1)|Shock]]'s mind to see the deceased Autobot's last memories. They did indeed tell of a violent attack by a Sparkeater, and Chromedome recoiled in pain and collapsed. After Chromedome recovered, he described the Sparkeater's appearance to the others. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} After the Sparkeater business had been resolved, Chromedome and Rewind were present for the grand opening of [[Swerve's]]. {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}} A few days after, he enjoyed a drink with Rewind and a tipsy Skids in [[Swerve's|Swerve's new bar]]. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} When the Lost Light was hit by [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s thumb (disconnected from its owner) Chromedome helped Brainstorm, Highbrow seal the hole while Trailbreaker used his forcefield to prevent them from being sucked out into the vacuum of space. He was presented with a [[Rodimus Star]] for his part in repairing the ship. Chromedome and Highbrow then discussed Rodimus Stars with Tailgate, who noted their shared "head-themed" nicknames. Later, he was paralyzed along with (nearly) everyone else on board of the ship when Brainstorm accidentally activated one of his experimental weapons. He eventually recovered, and was awarded another Rodimus Star "for exceptional endurance in the face of adversity". {{storylink|The Reluctant Specialist}} Curious about Skids's ever-present handgun (and the mental block which seemingly kept Skids from remembering it), Chromedome swiped the gun at the bar and turned it over to Brainstorm for analysis. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}}

Days later, over another round of drinks, Chromedome demonstrated his talent of being able to identify someone by the sound of their transformation alone. He offered some sympathy to Tailgate over the latter's studying under Ultra Magnus and displayed disgust when Tailgate mentioned trying to invite Cyclonus over to the table. However, the casual atmosphere came to a violent end when a mentally-disturbed Fortress Maximus entered the bar and abruptly shot [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] at pointblank range. {{storylink|Interiors}}

Chromedome later checked in with Brainstorm to find out what was up with Skids' gun. Brainstorm managed to blow the thing up while examining it, but also named it a "binary gun" after recognizing it could only hold two cartridges. He also noted that its engineering seemed to indicate that the gun came from the Institute. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}}

[[File:Chromedome mnemosurgery MTMTEAnnual2012.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Existential angst!]]
Chromedome suffered a brief bout of false recall, where he re-experienced the memory of [[Skyfall (G1)|Skyfall]]'s death- one of the unpleasant side-effects of his mnemosurgeries. He attended Tailgate's Autobot initiation ceremony, and he, Rewind, and Brainstorm placed bets with [[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] as to how long it would take for Rodimus to say "[['Til all are one]]" in his speech. After representatives of the [[Galactic Council]] showed up, Chromedome was among the Autobots teleported to the surface of [[Theophany]] to explore the ruins of [[Crystal City]], which had been subject to some unknown siege and left desolate. They discovered an inert [[Titan (group)|Titan]] under the city, and Rodimus ordered Chromedome to hack into the giant's [[brain module]] and read its memories, hoping to discover what happened to Crystal City. While preparing to do so, Chromedome and Skids had a brief chat about their similar outlooks on life and its larger meaning. With a disapproving Rewind looking on, Chromedome hacked into the Titan's memory, and discovered it was still alive. Chromedome collapsed in pain, images torn from the Titan's brain reverberating through his mind, as the giant woke with a start and fired an eye-blast that struck the Galactic Council's ship in orbit. Once recovered, Chromedome explained that the Titan was attempting to will its [[spark]] to leave its body, having barely any power left and being totally paralyzed. Chromedome wanted to attempt to re-enter the Titan's mind, as the glimpses he caught indicated that its memories contained much of the information that they were seeking. With the Galactic Council's troops bearing down on them and the ''Lost Light'' under attack, Rodimus chose to set the Titan free instead of pillaging its mind. After some of its mass was shrunk by Brainstorm, the Titan had enough power to teleport the Autobots back to their ship, and the ''Lost Light'' quantum-jumped to safety. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

Days later Skids, inspired by his discussion with Chromedome in Crystal City, wanted to let the mnemosurgeon unlock his missing memories. Chromedome admitted that he himself was curious about the mystery of Skids' past and agreed to do it. After hacking into Skids' mind, Chromedome discovered the memories of the year prior to Skids' joining the crew of the ''Lost Light'' had been replaced by an imperative to escape. Chromedome dug deeper and found the erased memories still locked inside Skids' head, but once he caught a glimpse of them, he quickly withdrew. Chromedome told Skids that the buried memories were so horrifying and traumatic that it was better for everyone, Skids himself included, that they never resurface. Skids reluctantly agreed, but asked Chromedome about a piece of music he kept hearing in his head. Chromedome admitted that he heard it in there too, identified it as "[[The Empyrean Suite]]", and prayed that Skids would never come to understand its significance. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}

In order to restore the recovering [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]'s mind, Chromedome and others were assembled by Rewind to tell a story from the Clampdown era. Chromedome explained to the others that the story would help reestablish critical neural connections in Rung's brain. He started off the story, but he and Rewind got briefly distracted trying to figure out how many times Prowl had flipped a table over in their presence. {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|Post Hoc}} By the end of the story, the ship's alarms were sounding, and Chromedome scrambled for battle stations with the others. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}

[[File:BeforeandAfter-SilentTreatment.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|Not "''like'' an old married couple", they literally ''are'' an old married couple.]]

As they headed to [[Temptoria]] in the ''[[Leading Light]]'', Chromedome and Rewind argued over the latter's insistence of joining them in battle, despite being technically exempt from combat. Though Chromedome enthusiastically took part in the battle on Temptoria against a small force of Decepticons, when he returned to the shuttle, he found that Rewind had been gravely injured in an explosion. Back on the ''Lost Light'', [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] talked Chromedome into performing a jumpstart on Rewind to save the smaller 'Bot's spark. While waiting to hear if the procedure had worked or not, Chromedome got to chatting with Tailgate about how he and Rewind had met, of Rewind's lost “master”, (a progressive ‘Bot by the name of [[Dominus Ambus]]). Rewind had never stopped looking for the missing Ambus and even made Chromedome promise to continue the search if anything ever happened to him.

The jumpstart procedure failed, as Chromedome's own spark was "low yield". Sent to his quarters to recharge, an emotionally vulnerable Chromedome spoke to Drift through his door. Drift offered to show him something in the basement that would give the Autobots an advantage and prevent any more tragedies like Rewind's from ever happening again. Before Chromedome could answer, however, First Aid contacted him with the news that Whirl had a compatible spark to be used to save Rewind. A happy reunion ensued. {{storylink|Before & After}}

Despite this, Chromedome met with Brainstorm and Drift and learned the secret of Overlord's presence on the ''Lost Light''. Despite his previous refusal to Prowl, the fresh memory of Rewind's near-death was enough for Chromedome to agree to use his talents on the Decepticon, in the hope that "Autobot Phase Sixers" could prevent any such tragedies from happening again. Over the next several days, Chromedome visited Overlord in the [[slow cell]] multiple times, acclimating himself to the Decepticon's mental architecture. As a safeguard in the event of Overlord's escape, he subtly altered the Decepticon's memories so as to make him associate the phrase "'til all are one!" with defeat in combat, knowing that Rodimus would undoubtedly say this in a battle. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} In-between visits to Overlord, Chromedome took time to be interviewed for Rewind's documentary about life on the ''Lost Light''. {{storylink|Little Victories}}

[[File:RemembranceDay-Chromedome.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|left|This is something Rung would also call "a super bad idea".]]
Feeling bold, Chromedome began visiting Overlord's cell without informing his co-conspirators in advance, and confronted Overlord directly in his memories. He compelled Overlord to lead him through his memories to the [[Foundry]], when [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]], [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], and [[Rossum]] used [[ununtrium]] to reinforce his endoskeleton and transform him into one of the [[Warriors Elite]]. Although Chromedome found his answers, he was taken unawares by Overlord also having mnemosurgical training, allowing the Decepticon to loop them through a shared memory and take control of the mental environment. With Chromedome helpless, Overlord browsed through the Autobot's memories at will until he found the security codes to unlock the slow cell. With this, Overlord escaped, taunting a weakened Chromedome with the knowledge that the five seconds it would take him to cross the cell in pursuit would equal thirty minutes of killin' time for Overlord aboard the ship. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}}

Sure enough, Chromedome exited the slow cell into chaos, as the crew of the ''Lost Light'' battled vainly against the superwarrior. Luckily, a true-to-form Rodimus uttered his catch phrase, causing a sudden nervous attack in Overlord which gave Fortress Maximus an opening to overpower the Decepticon. Per Drift's back-up plan, Overlord was forced back into the slow cell, which was readied to eject into space. Tragically, one of Drift's [[sword]]s, stolen during the battle, blocked the cell door open, and heroically Rewind climbed inside the cell to remove the blade. Once he did, the door closed automatically, severing Chromedome's left arm and trapping Rewind inside with Overlord. Desperately speaking some final words to his partner (which Rewind could not hear through the door), Chromedome watched helplessly as the cell was jettisoned. Unwilling to leave Rewind to Overlord's tender mercies, Chromedome personally manned the weapons array of the ''Lost Light'' and blew the slow cell to pieces, apparently killing Rewind in the process. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}}

[[File:TheGloaming-iloveyou.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|I love you too, guys!]]
As Rewind and the other victims were laid to rest, Chromedome seemed to hold together remarkably. Only Brainstorm knew what was really going on in his friend's head, and confronted Chromedome in his suite after the funeral. Brainstorm tried to remind Domey of his other Conjunx Endura over the years -- [[Mach (G1)|Mach]], [[Pivot]], [[Scattergun]]—each of whom Chromedome forcibly removed from his own memories using mnemosurgery once they died, as he couldn't cope with the loss. Brainstorm pleaded with Chromedome not to do it again, and honor Rewind by remembering him. He passed on a final message from Rewind, a memory stick the little bot threw through the cell door as it was closing. These final words and expression of love from Rewind were enough to stop Chromedome from injecting and convince him to hold onto the memory of his lost love. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}

[[File:RemainInLight2-ChromedomeAltMode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|"The ladies say that Scooter's the fastest ride in town. Catch-A-Ri.. oh, I just realized that's an insult."]]
Shortly afterwards, Chromedome visited Ratchet in the medibay for reconstruction of his left arm. As he entered, a [[cybercrosis|panicked]] Tailgate barged past him. Before work on the arm was complete, the ''Lost Light'', pursuing the missing Ultra Magnus, arrived at a vast portal in space, and Chromedome watched from the observation deck. Beyond the portal was the long lost [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]], and the mnemosurgeon was recruited by Rodimus for the landing party. The group descended, though not before Chromedome promised Skids to search for answers regarding his amnesia, and on the moon's surface they found an active hot spot of gestating [[spark]]s. Before long, however, the party was set upon by [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]] and his cadre of [[Titan Hunter]]s, {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} forcing them to flee into a nearby [[Titan (group)|Titan]] "graveyard". Their flight was futile, and the entire group was soon captured, whereupon their gracious host was revealed as [[Solomus|Tyrest]], who accused them of crimes against creation. On the way to their cell, Chromedome noticed an apparently immobile Ultra Magnus. The landing party quickly got to chatting with their new cellmate, who revealed himself to be [[Minimus Ambus]], spark brother of Rewind's lost friend [[Dominus Ambus]]. Even though they were all locked up at the behest of Tyrest, Chromedome didn't share Tailgate's impatience to escape their shared prison cell. He quickly chastised the [[Mini Vehicle|Minibot]] for calling him "Domey", the personal nickname that Rewind once used. The group stewed in their prison for some time until an observant Rung deduced something from Minimus's mannerisms—that their cellmate was none other than Ultra Magnus! {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}}

Chromedome listened intently to Minimus's explanation with the others, learning the secret of the [[Magnus Armor]]. When Skids and Swerve were teleported into their holding cell and Skids was revealed by Minimus to be considered a criminal, Chromedome assumed it had something to do with the "binary gun" the theoretician had been carrying. When Tyrest's enforcer [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] introduced them to another new cellmate, Chromedome revealed to Skids that he had read his memories wrong. What he had thought was a buried imperative in Skids's mind to "escape", was actually a name- the name of their new cellmate, [[Getaway]]! {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}

[[File:ArmTheLonely-Chromedome.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|Sometimes we like to throw a bone to the artists out there looking for a rear-view reference shot.]]
Getaway explained things to Chromedome and the others, formally identifying the binary gun as a [[nudge gun]]. With Getaway's help, Chromedome was able to connect the dots and understand the gaps in Skids's memory. Once everyone found out that Tyrest had gone mad and needed to be stopped, Getaway asked for donated parts from his cellmates to escape their prison. For his part, Chromedome gave Getaway the syringes from his fingers, allowing the escapist to take down the Legislator guarding them. The group armed-up and headed to Tyrest's control room for a confrontation. Unfortunately, the Chief Justice was prepared for them, activating a weapon that paralyzed the Autobots. Tyrest then turned on his [[universal killswitch]], a device intended to kill any Transformers that were [[Reproduction|constructed cold]]. Having been so, Chromedome began dying slowly and painfully. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}} Ultimately, the killswitch was deactivated and Tyrest's plans foiled. In the aftermath, Chromedome visited a dying Tailgate, whose [[cybercrosis]] was in its final stages. Noting Cyclonus's bedside vigil, Chromedome respectfully departed to let the two say their goodbyes. {{storylink|Remain in Light 5 of 5: This Calamitous Life|This Calamitous Life}}

After Orion Pax arrived aboard the ''Lost Light'', Chromedome attended the welcome party at Swerve's. {{storylink|Black Metal: Dark Cybertron Chapter 2|Black Metal}} He took part in the underwater battle on [[Hydrophena]], defending [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] against the [[Ammonite]] forces, {{storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}} {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}} and was teleported along with the rest ''Lost Light'' to Cybertron after they managed to get the Titan's space bridge in working order. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} Crash-landing on the planet's surface, Chromedome disembarked with the rest of the crew and fought in the massive battle against their Ammonite attackers and the undead [[Quintessa (IDW)|Necrotitan]]. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}}

[[File:TheBecoming-throw.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.6|Prowl just can't BELIEVE someone would throw him off a cliff just for laughing at a widower.]]
In the aftermath of the Necrotitan's defeat, Ultra Magnus tried to convince Chromedome to read Metroplex's mind, a request the mnemosurgeon rebuffed. Feeling depressed, he went to ruminate atop a cliff on the outskirts of New Iacon, where Prowl found him. A bitter argument erupted between the two, with Prowl blaming Chromedome's earlier mnemosurgery on him for leaving his mind vulnerable to [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s control, and Chromedome faulting Prowl for smuggling Overlord aboard the ''Lost Light''. Rage overcame Chromedome when Prowl expressed pleasure that this had indirectly led to Rewind's death, and he attacked the police-bot, hurling him off a cliff and pummeling him until Ultra Magnus intervened. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} However, the altercation was cut short by 70 billion more of Shockwave's Ammonites, who Chromedome engaged on the ground alongside Whirl and Arcee. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

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===Second Launch===
[[File:TowardsPeace ChromedomeGrieving.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb|right|He then tried to cheer up by selecting a random episode of ''Futurama'' to watch, but tragically wound up with "Jurassic Bark".]]
When the crisis had passed and Megatron had seemingly surrendered and defected to the Autobots, Optimus Prime attempted to have Chromedome extract Megatron's memories for use in court. The former Decepticon leader vehemently refused to allow this, citing his fear that the extraction might be used as a cover for [[Shadowplay]]. Megatron was able to finagle his way out of a verdict and subsequently joined the ''Lost Light'' as its new captain. Chromedome opted to rejoin the expedition but soon fell into a deep depression, shutting himself away in his habitation suite and listening to Rewind's final message over and over in the dark, much to the concern of his friends. Chromedome was startled into action, however, when the last words of his lover's message suddenly changed into an agonized scream. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}}

Deeply perturbed, he sought out [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] for some answers, and while initially angered by the detective's skeptcism, the appearance of Rewind's apparent ghost galvanized Nightbeat into action. The two returned to Nightbeat's quarters to gather more detective equipment, where Chromedome voiced his belief that he was probably being punished for not continuing to search for Dominus Ambus. Their converstion was interrupted when the pair discovered that the outside wall of Nightbeat's hab suite had disappeared. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} A few minutes later, Rodimus summoned Chromedome and Nightbeat to examine what appeared to be his own corpse, ignoring Chromedome's concerns about injecting into a cadaver. All Chromedome was able to find were Rodimus's "red letter" days, which, combined with the matching energon, caused something of an existential crisis in Rodimus. Then the wall behind everyone vanished.

[[File:TheRoadNotTaken-vostortureschromedome.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8]]
When it became clear that the ship was slowly and inexplicably vanishing, Chromedome evacuated on the [[Rodpod]].{{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} When the crewmembers began disappearing as well, Chromedome was one of the afflicted. {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} Those Autobots who were unaffected by the disappearances discovered that the quantum engine failure of the ''Lost Light'' had created a second, on-course, ''Lost Light'', which had been attacked and destroyed by the [[Decepticon Justice Division|DJD]] some eighteen months prior.

The "other" Chromedome had been tormented by the Decepticons during their attack, offered to be spared if he wiped his memories of Rewind. Chromedome refused, so DJD member [[Vos (G1)|Vos]] had snapped off his mnemosurgical needles and stabbed him to death. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} After coming across the wreckage of the ship, the [[Mortilus|Necrobot]], unaware of the quantum accident, added "Chromedome's" name to his list of deceased Transformers. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}

[[File:TheRoadNotTaken-ChromedomeRewind.jpg|upright=1.6|right|thumb|*fart*]]
Once Rewind — the sole surviving member of the duplicate ''Lost Light'' and the cause of Chromedome's strange visions — had reset the ailing quantum engines, the paradox was resolved and the main ''Lost Light'' and its crew members rematerialized, Chromedome among them. Skids gave him a pair of [[magna-clamp]]s and told him to go to the outside of the ship. The two lovers sat side by side for a while before embracing. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} Upon their return to the ''Lost Light'', Rewind opted to live in his own, separate hab suite, which upset Chromedome. Rewind explained that the two weren't technically each other's actual spouse and that he felt more comfortable starting out again with Chromedome with some degree of separation. {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now}}

This peace was to be short-lived: during a celebration at Swerve's to commemorate their recent adventure, Brainstorm was seemingly revealed to be a Decepticon double-agent, poisoning the crew of the ship and escaping across time and space by using the time machine in his [[Time case|briefcase]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} The first hint that something had gone wrong came when Rewind awoke from a bad dream about the "[[Dark Dawn]]", a genocidal event that had never happened in their timeline. {{storylink|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|The Custom-Made Now}}

[[File:AllOurParlousYesterdays MnemoHandshake.jpg|upright=1.0|thumb|left]]
Believing that he had traveled back in time to kill Orion Pax and preemptively end the war, a group of Autobots who shared the same spark-type with Brainstorm were assembled to pursue him, using a quantum duplicate of Brainstorm's briefcase. In the event that the team would inadvertently reveal the future to inhabitants of the past, Chromedome was temporarily augmented with the ability to erase anyone's memory with a simple handshake. The time traveling team first landed in [[1st Cycle 502]], four million years ago, where they helped Orion Pax and his team of renegade [[Outlier (group)|outliers]] protect a [[hot spot (phenomenon)|hot spot]] from [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]]'s [[Elite Guard]]. After needing to follow Brainstorm again through another time jump, Chromedome shook hands with everyone, accidentally causing Optimus Prime and the others to forget [[Roller (IDW)|Roller]]'s fate and—to Rodimus's horror—fail to permanently warn Trailbreaker about his death in four million years. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}}

The team's next stop was in 51st Cycle 500, where Chromedome confronted the new problem of potentially bumping into himself. Brainstorm timejumped again (to [[4th Cycle 499]]) and the team followed, and this time Chromedome and Rewind staked out the [[Rodion]] police headquarters with Whirl. As they waited, Rewind troubled Chromedome with the suggestion of possibly using time travel to save Rewind's previous spouse, Dominus Ambus. Their discussion of timetravel ethics was interrupted when three Senate thugs arrived at Police HQ, setting off Whirl on a rampage due to his shared history with them. Chromedome and Rewind managed to stop Whirl, but not before they accidentally caused the chain of events that would later lead to Senator Shockwave's capture. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}}

[[File:PredestinationAnExpertsGuide ChromedomeHugsRewind.jpg|upright=1.6|right|thumb]]
It became increasingly clear that, rather than killing Megatron, Brainstorm had instead been trying to manipulate events in such a way as to prevent the rise of Megatron, and with his plans going increasingly awry, a desperate Brainstorm time-jumped to the moment of Megatron's creation, pointing a gun at the half-built 'bot who would one day become Megatron. Though the Autobots were able to talk him down, Rewind, who had had his databanks overwritten with information about [[Functionist Universe|the series of events that would come to pass if Megatron was never born]], decided to shoot Megatron himself, seemingly dooming Cybertron to a genocidal [[Functionism|functionist]] regime in exchange for sparing the rest of the galaxy from the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]].

However, the group did not end up changing history, as the nature of time travel meant that Rewind was always fated to kill Megatron; after replacing Megatron's original spark with a [[Point One Percenter]] spark from the future, the team tied up loose ends and returned to their own time. Chromedome reaching out to Rewind in his vulnerable moment had caused the two to bridge the rift that had been between them, and the pair began to share a hab suite once again. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} Sometime after returning, Chromedome spoke to the ship's higher ups, arguing that Rewind's actions were down to trauma; as a result of which no action was charged against him. During Brainstorm's trial, Chromedome served as Brainstorm's defense, when he was the first 'bot to be brought before the [[Lost Light Internal Affairs Committee]]. {{storylink|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

[[File:TheOneWhereTheyGoToEarth-table.jpg|left|thumb|Ultra Magnus was shunned after admitting his favourite season was the fourth.]]
In the aftermath of the ''Lost Light'' attending Thunderclash's pre-wake, the ship held a dance-off, where Chromedome and Rewind attended, dancing together. {{storylink|The Frail Gaze}} Shortly after, it turned out Swerve had been slowly dying for some time, and to aid their shipmate the ''Lost Light'' crew used their [[holomatter]] avatars to navigate "[[Swearth]]" in the hopes of finding him. A subsequent medical examination revealed that Swerve had nearly succumbed to an old bullet wound inflicted by the mysterious [[Dominus Ambus|Agent 113]] as part of his unorthodox method of relaying information. {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

[[File:TheNotKnowing ChromedomeRewindDecide.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6]]
Among the information encoded within the bullet was data regarding the legendary "[[Mortilus|Necrobot]]" and his supposed base of operations. Chromedome was present as Rewind informed Rodimus about the mysterious being, and spoke up in favor of investigating the [[Necroworld|planet]] where the Necrobot lived, hoping to help his conjunx find out more about the fate of Dominus Ambus. After arriving on the Necroworld, the group learned how the Necrobot kept track of Cybertronians through holographic statues; Chromedome deduced that there was a central database all the statues were connected to, meaning that it was possible to learn who was alive or dead through who had a statue switched on. Rewind was understandably terrified and asked Chromedome for guidance; Chromedome felt that it wasn't for him to choose, so when Rewind chose to search, it turned out that Dominus had been listed as "deactivated".

Later, Chromedome tried to comfort a devastated Rewind by offering to "smudge" his memories of what happened, only for Nightbeat to show up wanting to show them something. It was a list of the "[[Disappeared]]:" 'bots who had been unaccounted for, and Dominus's name was at the bottom of the list. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

A few days later, Chromedome and Rewind were at Swerve's together, their hand-holding witnessed by a passing Cyclonus. {{storylink|The Lopsided Triangle}} Shortly thereafter, Cyclonus and Tailgate were involved in an altercation. Wondering what had just happened, Rodimus had Chromedome inject into Cyclonus. The injection took a heavy strain on Chromedome. {{storylink|Speak, Memory: Part 1}} A few hours later, the serial killer Sunder went on a rampage through the ''Lost Light'', his first victim being Skids. Chromedome soon turned up, and realized Skids was remembering the events at Grindcore that had caused the amnesia Chromedome had examined the year before. He injected to try and make sure Skids didn't remember what had happened while Rung and Tailgate went after Sunder. {{storylink|Speak, Memory! (Part 2)}}

Chromedome attended the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s movie night where Rewind was showing a documentary about the beginning of the war. As the documentary reached the section on Megatron's killing of Sentinel Prime, Brainstorm commented that the former Autobot leader had a lot in common with his killer, prompting Chromedome to point out the irony of someone so obsessed with the purity of the Autobot "brand" being similar to the leader of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}}

[[File:NoGunsNoSwordsNoBriefcases RewindTimeFissure.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.9]]
Around December of that year, Chromedome was one of many crewmembers who took advantage of "time fissures" present in Swerve's to look back on the past, including "his" Rewind, something Rung warned him against. Afterward he took part in a toast to "surprises". {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}

Some months later, Chromedome was one of several members of the crew who took part in a fight on [[Miliarium]] against marauding [[Rust Giant]]s. On returning to the ''Lost Light'', Rewind was subjected to a powerful psychic attack of unknown origin. When Rodimus assembled a team to investigate, Rewind and Chromedome were part of the away team — made up of others who had experienced the attack — dispatched to track the signal to its source. The search led them to a strange hollow planet, which turned out to be the Necroworld; they didn't get far before they were attacked by a massive Decepticon armada, forcing them to retreat to the Necrobot's fortress before they were shot down. Discovering that the Necrobot himself perished, the group learned that disgraced escapologist [[Getaway]] had led the rest of the ''Lost Light'' in a mutiny designed to lure Rodimus, Megatron, and his sympathisers off the ship... and leave them to the tender mercies of the [[Decepticon Justice Division]]. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}

[[File:it's not your choice to make.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|*muffled sobbing*]]
The D.J.D. stuck to their script, and, after a brief attack on the fortress, retreated to give their victims eight hours to weigh up their limited options and stew in their fear. Nightbeat found a potential way offworld by using one of the late Necrobot's teleport chambers, but Velocity discovered a basement filled with pods that seemingly contained organic lifeforms. Unwilling to let the organics be massacred by the DJD, nobody opted to leave. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 2: The Sun in Flight|The Sun in Flight}} As the team dug in for a fight, Chromedome and Rewind had an argument, each belieing that the other should have used the teleport chamber to escape. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} When Ratchet and Drift arrived on the planet, they managed to capture the mysterious "[[Dominus Ambus|Pet]]" that accompanied the DJD. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} Despite still being weak from injecting Tailgate some months before, {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} Chromedome volunteered to operate on the creature in the hopes of learning where the DJD had hidden their starship. An hour later, after recording his last will and testament, he prepared to inject. Despite Rodimus's orders to just do a quick probe of recent memories, Chromedome began feeling off, and, ignoring Ratchet's demand to stop, he went deeper.

Much to his horror, Chromedome found that The Pet was not a simple animal, but a [[beast mode]] Cybertronian who had been "[[Domestication|domesticated]]" by the DJD; even as Ratchet shouted that the procedure was killing him, he felt confident that he could reverse the process. Ignoring the protests, Chromedome delved deeper and made a terrifying discovery: The Pet was Dominus Ambus, who had once been the infamous "Agent 113" Even as Ratchet and Rewind yelled at him to stop, he kept going, feeling (and saying) that Rewind couldn't have room for both the people he loved in his life. Unable to watch Chromedome kill himself, Rewind made the choice to abort the procedure by slicing off his arm, leaving Dominus to die.

[[File:mtmte54 KRACK.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5|Fun? FUN?! How DARE you! How many have to die for you to get your sick jollies?! HOW MANY?]]
Some hours later, with D.J.D.-related death imminent, a repaired Chromedome morosely agreed with Velocity's encasement of the day's proceedings as "torture". {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} Then Velocity hit on an idea to give them an edge in the upcoming execution: since extreme trauma to Tailgate had made his quantum-engine radiated spark surge and briefly power up others, doing that now could give them an edge against the enemy. Skids stepped forward and Chromedome, to his dismay, had to help his friend relieve the horrors of Grindcore and all the blotted-out guilt, his last injection being to drive him over the edge.

In the ensuing battle, a supercharged Chromedome was sought out by Overlord, who mocked the mnemosurgeon for letting the first Rewind die... prompting an enraged Chromedome to punch him across the battlefield. All too soon, however, the charge burned out and Chromedome and the others were surrounded on all sides. Only the arrival of Megatron, armed with a new fusion cannon, allowed them to fall back to the fortress. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} During all of the carnage and high drama of Megatron's obliteraton of the D.J.D., Chromedome stayed at the back, silently looking at Skids' dead body. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}
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===After Dominus===
[[File:Anomie ChromedomeLasso.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.3|Wrangled me a bigot. Yee-hah.]]
Once the dust had settled from the battle against the D.J.D., Chromedome was part of the team Rodimus assembled to return to Cybertron for help using the reassembled teleporter. While the teleporter did bring them to ''a'' Cybertron, it had somehow deposited them on the Cybertron of the [[Functionist Universe]]. Almost immediately after arriving, he and the rest of the team were placed under arrest by [[Twelve-of-Twelve]] and his [[Functionary|Functionaries]]. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|Some Other Cybertron}} As they were paraded through a crowd to shame them on their way to imprisonment, Rewind pointed out to Chromedome that Cybertron had no moon, proving that this was the Functionist Universe. After a grenade thrown by a member of the [[Anti-Vocationist League]] took out two of the group's Functionary escorts, Chromedome was freed from his restraints and joined in the battle. As Twelve-of-Twelve attacked Rodimus, Chromedome lassoed a chain around his neck and pulled him in, though the councilor managed to teleport away before he could do anything else. Soon after the fight was over, [[Six-of-Twelve]] began broadcasting across Cybertron, Chromedome seeming somewhat in disbelief that the councilor's head resembled [[Matrix of Leadership|The Matrix]]. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|Anomie}} When the League teleported Team Rodimus to [[Kalis|Adaptica]], Chromedome attended the meeting with estranged councilor member [[Nine-of-Twelve]]. When the alternate [[Anode]] arrived, Chromedome denied any involvement with the mysterious U.F.O. just outside Cybertronian orbit. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 3: A World Misplaced|A World Misplaced}}

[[File:ModesOfProduction HateOutwards.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.9]]
When the U.F.O. was revealed to be [[Moonbase Two|Luna 2]], Chromedome joined the others on the balcony in staring at it before it unleashed its tractor beams. While Megatron handled the defense of the city, Chromedome joined Rodimus in heading to rescue the alternate [[Rung (G1)|Rung]] and [[Vector Sigma]] from the Functionists. When the group arrived outside Vector Sigma's chamber however they found the Council had already gained access to the supercomputer but that they had ''not'' used Rung to access the chamber. When Rodimus bravely tackled [[Six-of-Twelve]], Chromedome <s>pointed out the colossal error in judgment </s> warned that his brave leader would now have to fight eleven councilors as they entered the chamber. Like all, Chromedome was horrified to see {{storylink|Dissolution Part 4: Bad Moon Rising|Bad Moon Rising}} Six-of-Twelve using the false Matrix to suspend Rodimus in an agony beam. Ratchet came to their rescue by pretending to hold the alternate Rung hostage. After they teleported back to the surface and took over the [[Cog (facility)|Cog]], Rung displayed his ability to create [[photonic crystal]]s and explained why the Council hadn't slain him prompting Chromedome to ask why the Council hadn't gone public with the photonic crystals for a year and pointed out that Vector Sigma was sealed off by [[ununtrium]] but Rung explained how the Council had turned everything to their own advantage. After Rung revealed that the Functionists were building an army to exterminate all non-Cybertronian life in the galaxy, Rewind leaned on Chromedome as he despaired over the hatred the Cybertronians had for aliens. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 5: Modes of Production|Modes of Production}} After the Cog had crashed in Adaptica and Brainstorm and Roller had worked out how to save everyone, Chromedome held hands with Rewind at the first (non-functional) matter transporter before they ran to a second (functional) one where the group teleported to Luna 2 and teleported the moon to Necroworld. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 6: This Machine Kills Fascists|This Machine Kills Fascists}} When Rodimus announced his [[Skip|incredibly morbid plan]] to escape Necroworld, Chromedome and Rewind held hands. {{storylink|After Megatron (A Dissolution Epilogue)|After Megatron}}

Aboard the cramped spacecraft, Chromedome and Rewind climbed aboard the sleeping Roller's alternate mode to "canoodle" much to the ex-cop's shock when he awoke. The three went to Rodimus about this issue who simply could not bring himself to even pretend to care before he ushered everyone out when a call came in from [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. Concurrently, the increasingly petty and ridiculous prank war between [[Anode]] and [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] reached its climax with Rewind accidentally being raked by [[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Cyclonus]]'s [[Great Sword]]. Chromedome immediately turned on Cyclonus before [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] broke up the fighting. To top it all off, an increasingly intangible Ratchet was sinking through the floor, Skip was shrinking and [[Ten]] declared that the fate of the universe hinged upon everyone following his commands. {{storylink|Sardines}}

[[File:YouAreHere ChromedomeRewindDominus.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.25]]
At Ten's instructions, Team Rodimus reconfigured Skip's engines to access the [[Warren]] to get to a [[Mederi]] facility only for the mass-displacement to give out, forcing them all to "abandon Skip". They awoke to find themselves in what appeared to be the Afterspark, having presumably died from exposure to super-compressed space. {{storylink|The Everlasting Voices (1): Metastasis|Metastasis}} Along with Rewind, Chromedome reconciled with his quantum duplicate of Rewind and Dominus Ambus, the quartet ready to ascend together. At that moment, the Afterspark shorted out, revealing the realm to have been the original Mederi, an ancient euthanasia clinic that used telepathic constructs to put its inhabitants at ease before killing them, the first Rewind and Dominus were merely projections of what Chromedome and Rewind hoped to find in the Afterspark. As the group grappled with this revelation, as well as the inexplicability of Tailgate having joined them, they were suddenly beset by sparkeaters made from the former ''Lost Light'' crew! {{storylink|The Everlasting Voices (3): You Are Here|You Are Here}}

After a failed attempt to reason with the sparkeaters, the group rolled out before reinforcements arrived. When the ''Lost Light'' appeared overhead, Chromedome was part of the group that remained behind to try and use Mederi to cure their crewmates. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 1): A Dance Before Dying|A Dance Before Dying}} After curing the sparkeaters via concussive medicine, the organic telepaths began counting down, heralding the opening of a massive rift in space. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 2): Lūstrāre|Lūstrāre}}

Having retaken command of the ''Lost Light'', Rodimus loaded everyone aboard but the ship's engines were unable to match the rift's gravity, being dragged into the [[Benzene Cluster]], now populated by five duplicates of Cybertron. Touching down on one, the crew was quickly taken prisoner by the forces of the [[Adaptus|Grand Architect]]. When Froid and Sunder were shoved in, the latter revealed to Chromedome that he'd managed a quick scan of the Architect's head before the being had forced him out and stripped him of his mnemosurgery. After Froid explained that the multiple Cybertrons were an upscaled [[God Gun]] which opened a portal to the next universe over, out from which came Megatron flying point amongst a fleet of starships. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 3): Farsickness|Farsickness}}

[[File:ASparkAmongEmbers Lucky.jpg|thumb|left|upright=2.0]]
After reassuring that he wasn't invading, Megatron directed everyone to the real threat, a massive planet-sized effigy of Primus, one that Chromedome recognized as the [[Functionist Universe]]'s Cybertron granted a [[robot mode]]. When Megatron came to rescue, Chromedome was part of the group that managed to be pulled aboard the ''[[Last Light (ship)|Last Light]]''. After Megatron had caught everyone up on the Functionist Council's schemes, he revealed that "Primus" was still populated by the citizenry of Cybertron. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 4): The Return of the King|The Return of the King}} After the rest of the group had managed to free themselves, and discover that Rung was the true Primus, everyone touched down on the last Cybertron for a group brainstorm, hitting on the idea of using twelve copies of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to overload Cybertron's twelve [[Hot spot (phenomenon)|hot spots]] to wipe out the Functionist Council in Vector Sigma. When the [[Omega Guardian]]s speaking through the Magnificence expressed their displeasure at this via deadly energy bolts, Chromedome and Rewind took Rung away so he could make the Matrices. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 5): The Unremembering|The Unremembering}}

Retiring to his quarters, Rung told Chromedome and Rewind to appreciate the other and left them to hug. Their session was interrupted when Rodimus came to see what was taking so long, the three discovering that creating the duplicates had killed Rung. Chromedome was sent to [[Port Residua]] with Rewind to guard Roller, managing to hold off the Functionaries until Rodimus delivered a rousing speech that allowed everyone to open their Matrix, overloading Vector Sigma and killing the Functionists. Returning to the ''Lost Light'' everyone saw that Luna 1's hot spot had been reactivated by Cybertron shunting the energy wave, bearing a final "Don't Forget Me" from Rung. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 6): A Spark Among Embers|A Spark Among Embers}}

[[File:LL25 ChromedomeRewind.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.6|"Just keep your head down...there's two of us in here now, remember?"]]
As the crew took stock, Prowl arrived to inspect "New Cybertron" before declaring that, since the Knights of Cybertron didn't exist, Megatron would once again have to stand trial, this time with the Galactic Council presiding. Over Rodimus's protests, Megatron agreed to go quietly but was nonetheless allowed to join the ''Lost Light'' for one last "victory lap" cruise. When Chromedome and Rewind took a last walk, they discovered Rung's quarters and the model starships, unaware that the lasting effects of Adaptus' information creep had caused them to forget their friend. As the crew prepared to quantum jump home, the science team proposed the risky gamble of recreating the malfunctioning launch, thereby quantum duplicating themselves before then shunting the duplicates into a parallel universe to ensure that the ''Lost Light'''s adventures would never truly end. When the time came however, the ship simply wound up back on Cybertron where the ''Lost Light'' was disassembled following a last drink. Afterwards, Chromedome and Rewind left for a trip to [[Milnex]], where Rewind was eager to check out the census center there.

With no more adventures to be had, Chromedome became a grief counselor for a time before Rewind, obsessed with gathering as much information as he could about the Functionist Universe, succumbed to [[Delta's Malady]], trapping him in data stick form. Chromedome retired to look after his partner, inserting him in the back of his head as a means to communicate. Centuries later, Chromedome and Rewind attended Ratchet's funeral, Chromedome having a conversation with Drift after the proceedings.

And far away, in some distant corner of the multiverse, the duplicate Lost Light materialized, ready to set sail for an infinity of new adventures. {{storylink|How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2}}

==INSIRT continuity==
[[File:Timeless-EjectChromedomeStylor.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2]]
Long ago on Cybertron, Chromedome served in the [[Autobot Police]] and harbored an interest in the field of mnemosurgery. Over time, he was able to use his highly decorated partner Prowl's status to pursue this interest, developing the ability to extract information directly from a suspect's mind. However, as time passed, Chromedome found himself called upon not only to read minds, but rewrite them, altering a subject's memories and personality. Seeking to escape the burden of these duties, he buried his past and his talents. Eventually, though, he would come to meet Rewind, another Autobot with an interest in memories. Though it took some time, Chromedome eventually let the smaller Autobot into his life. {{storylink|Chromedome (G1)#Timelines|''Timelines'' Chromedome bio card}}

Some time later, Chromedome and Rewind would become crewmembers of the ''Lost Light'', and, along with [[Stylor]] and ex-Decepticon mercenary [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]], formed the [[INSIRT|Intelligence and Notable Surreptitious Information Recovery Team]], a group tasked with uncovering any mysteries that might threaten the ship's quest to find the Knights of Cybertron. {{storylink|INSIRT|INSIRT Tech Spec}} INSIRT's duties took them to the [[Vestigial Cortical Complex]], a Decepticon memory storage facility that Rewind became very excited about. After they located the facility, an impatient Treadshot made a door by way of explosion, allowing Chromedome, Rewind and Stylor to file inside. {{storylink|Timeless}}

===''Recordicons''===
At some point Rewind died, and [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity#Recordicons|Brainstorm]] set Chromedome up on a date with [[Eject (G1)#Recordicons|Eject]]. {{storylink|Recordicons issue 27|Recordicons #27}}
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==Notes==
*The fact that Chromedome originally used to go by a different name was first brought up in [[Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|issue #9]] of ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'': In that issue, his name was written in quotation marks in Rewind's diagram, and when Chromedome himself was about to mention his original name, Rewind cut him off, arguing that it would make the story they were telling too "confusing". The out-of-universe reason for this was that writer [[James Roberts]] wanted to trick readers into believing that his unmentioned original name held some significance, causing rampant speculation. In [[Remembrance Day|issue #14]] of the same series, it was finally revealed that his original name was the completely insignificant "Tumbler"; the real revelation was that his ''current'' name, "Chromedome", was the one that had a deeper meaning, as it was originally a nickname given to him at the "[[Institute|New Institute]]" where he used to work under [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]], a rather surprising twist in the light of the events of the "Shadowplay" three-parter. The name "Tumbler" itself was derived from Chromedome's vehicle mode bearing a passing resemblance to the vehicle of the same name from Christopher Nolan's [[Batman]] movies.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=And as for why (in terms of vanilla original names) it's Tumbler: https://t.co/dbQlnK2OKl|link=https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/1574277050562510848|name=James Roberts|site=Twitter|year=2022|month=09|day=26|(defunct=)}}</ref>
* "Timeless" co-writer [[Jesse Wittenrich]] would later reveal his intention that the Rewind depicted in "Timeless" was being projected into Chromedome's mind by Stylor, and that the actual Rewind was deceased. Vestigial remnants of this plot point remain in the published comic, in the form of Stylor's constant physical contact with Chromedome, and Treadshot never acknowledging Rewind.<ref>"Hmm. Obvious IDW nod is obvious but... TCC Stylor's "power" was going to be that he could access and edit Chromedome's mind, allowing Stylor the ability to generate and project Rewind into Chromedome's active consciousness. Letting Chromedome continue to see and hear his husband even with Rewind, at that point, being dead and all. In the somewhat planned extended TFSS comic, Ultra Magnus would try to convince Chromedome that Stylor was a dangerous "parasite", but in the end Chromedome wouldn't have been able to let Rewind "die" again and would stay buddies with Stylor. (If you read the page that did get published, you'll see that Stylor never loses physical contact with Chromedome when Rewind is around. And Treadshot never interacts with Rewind.) So I guess what I'm saying is... "Cool! Both Stylors have memory powers!!""—[https://web.archive.org/web/20170915234139/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/99399-post-pictures-of-your-special-arm/page-1044#entry3318823 Jesse Wittenrich on the Allspark Forums, 2016/08/23]</ref> Whether this holds true in the completed comic or is merely [[authorial intent]] is an exercise left to the reader.
*[[James Roberts]] has said that IDW Prowl and Chromedome had a "stronger bond" than just being partners.<ref>[http://theunderbase.libsyn.com/the-underbase-deconstructs-shadowplay "The Underbase Podcast Deconstructs Shadowplay"], 17:17 - 14:58</ref>
*[[:File:TheGloaming Toxin.jpg|An erroneously coordinated appearance]] by Chromedome in [[The Gloaming|''More than Meets the Eye'' #16]] was caught in time by [[Josh Burcham]], who recoloured the 'bot into [[Toxin]], an unofficial character created for [[Unofficial conventions|TFcon 2011]].
* Chromedome's present day alt mode looks suspiciously like a light runner from the ''{{w|Borderlands (series)|Borderlands}}'' franchise.
* Chromedome's [[:File:MTMTE9 early Chromedome.jpg|"Shadowplay"-era body]] (distinct from his present day one) inspired his [[Chromedome (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Deluxe Class figure]]. Amusingly, this toy briefly appeared as his present day body in [[Crucible (Part 1): A Dance Before Dying|''Lost Light'' #19]] because no one supplied [[E. J. Su]] with reference models.

==References==
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[[Category:IDW (2005) Autobots]]
[[Category:Lost Light crew]]
[[Category:Mnemosurgeons]]
[[Category:Law enforcement]]

Transformers (2023) issue 2

2025-11-09T14:36:28Z

Primal primus the second: /* Covers (19) */

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|caption=Once you pop, you can’t stop.
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|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[November 7]], [[2023]]
|coverdate=November 2023
|written by=[[Daniel Warren Johnson]]
|art by=Daniel Warren Johnson
|colors by=[[Mike Spicer]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editors=[[Sean Mackiewicz]] & [[Jonathan Manning]]
|continuity=[[Energon Universe]]
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'''The Autobots must learn to adapt to Earth with scant resources, while the Decepticons gather more energon to rebuild their army.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] walks through a wood, marveling at the natural beauty of Earth. The plants, the animals, the scenery; he finds it all breathtaking. However, his serenity is interrupted upon hearing a crunch underneath his foot: he's stepped on a small [[deer]], killing it. Optimus leans down, cradling the creature with remorse. [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] emerges from the woods and reassures Optimus that it was an accident. Optimus tells Spike that this world is so fragile compared to his own. Seeing the [[Autobot]] leader's despair, Spike decides to change the subject of the conversation and asks Optimus about his name. Optimus tells him that the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] title denotes him as leader of the Autobots and was passed to him by the previous leader of their kind. Optimus in turn inquires about Spike's name, who reveals that [[Mrs. Witwicky|his mom]] used to call him "Spikey" before she passed away due to his hair always sticking up as a child. Optimus is confused; he’s never heard the terms "mom" or "dad" before, though he does know the concept of "family." Spike then asks Optimus about where he comes from, prompting Optimus to tell him about [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and the war between the Autobots and [[Decepticon]]s that has raged for the past two centuries. The Autobots' forces eventually dwindled from the Decepticons' relentless onslaught to the point where they were forced to flee the planet aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''. However, their escape was attacked by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and the Decepticons. The last thing Optimus saw before they crashed into the mountain was Earth. Optimus thanks Spike for assisting him during the battle, saying that he's not sure they would have escaped without him. Spike in turn offers condolences for [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]].

[[File:TF2023 – Cliffjumper freaks out.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.35|Sorry Cliff, but with Bumblebee gone, you're the closest thing we got to a [[kid-appeal character]].]]
Their somber heart-to-heart is soon interrupted by the newly reactivated [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], whom [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] was able to successfully repair. Optimus warmly greets his old friend, but Cliffjumper is not nearly as taken with Earth as his commander, freaking out upon seeing Spike and [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] and bumping into the trees. Carly tells him to calm down. After all, if anyone should be freaking out about the giant robots from space, it's her. This gets Cliffjumper to calm down and the two shake hands. Inside the quarry, Ratchet has set about trying to revive the other Autobots, but has used up the last of their energon reserves fixing Cliffjumper. Optimus considers using the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to replenish their energon, but Ratchet says they can't. The Matrix is connected to Prime's own life force and if they lose him, they lose everything. Cliffjumper remarks that if they're running out of energon, the Decepticons will hopefully have the same problem.

Meanwhile, at the power plant [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparky]] and [[Davey]] work at, a police officer is surveying the damage caused by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s attack and taking statements, not believing [[Jordie|the plant manager]]'s story about a giant robot. The officer says they'll get some detectives out here to investigate, but a panicked Sparky insists they need to call in the Army. As the officer tries to reassure Sparky, [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] drops from the sky, destroying his patrol car. Behind him descend Starscream and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] carrying an energy transfer module stolen from the ''Ark'', which will allow them to more efficiently convert energon from the plant. The police officer tries to shoot at Starscream, much to Sparky's protests, only for Starscream to step on him. As the Decepticons begin to drain the plant of its energy, Soundwave intercepts a transmission from the U.S. military asking a nearby pilot under the callsign "[[Frosting]]" to intercept their attack. Amused at the idea of the "squishies" trying to fight them, Starscream goes to intercept the fighter. He dogfights with them for a bit before transforming and smacking the jet down. The pilot and his ride-along eject, but Starscream catches up to Frosting and squashes him between his hands. The other soldier activates a button on his parachute, converting it into a winged jetpack. As Starscream advances, he pulls out his flare gun and fires at the Decepticon, getting a lucky shot at his eye before retreating. Starscream opts to give up on the minor annoyance and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] flies away to fight another day.

Back at the plant, Sparky takes one of the patrol cars as he is chased down by Skywarp. Before he can catch the human, however, Frosting's F-18 comes crashing down on top of him and Soundwave, allowing Sparky to slip away. The resulting explosion is seen by the Autobots and Carly and Spike realize that the plant is under attack. Feeling responsible for bringing their war to this planet, Optimus opts to face the Decepticons, despite Ratchet's protest about their need to find their own energy sources. Optimus assigns Cliffjumper to stay with Ratchet and protect their sleeping comrades. Spike decides to come along to help his dad, which Optimus reluctantly allows. Carly tries to stop him, saying they need to get back home to their parents, but Spike insists. She decides to leave for home alone. As she drives back towards town, she is spotted by [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], who identifies the image of Optimus Prime Carly drew on her van earlier that day. She arrives home to find Sparky already there, dressed in his old Army fatigues and carrying several guns. Carly asks where her dad is, and Sparky answers that "they" killed him; Davey is dead.

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==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
* ''[[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]'' (5)
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (7)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (9)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (10)
* [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] (11)
* [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (12)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (13)
* [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] or [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (14) (See "Errors" below)
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (15)
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (16) (See "Errors" below)

|c2=
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (3)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (4)
* ''[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'' (6)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (20)
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (21)
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (24)

|c3=
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (2)
* [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] (8)
* Police officer (17)
* [[Jordie]] (18)
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky|"Sparky" Witwicky]] (19)
* [[Frosting]] (22)
* [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (23)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Spike:''' "Um... Hi... Nice to meet y--" 
'''Cliffjumper:''' "Ah, we're not there yet, my man. Yeeesh... You're like a [[turborat]]-- creepy, little--" 
'''Carly:''' "Oh, please." 
'''Cliffjumper:''' "Yeow! How many of you '''are''' there?" 

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Spike identifies the town he and Carly live in as [[Farmingham]].
* Having been merely hinted at in the last issue, the flashback to the war on Cybertron gives us our first look at Megatron, though his whereabouts are still unknown. ([[Cobra Commander (comic)|#WhereIsMegatron]])
* While mentioned but not seen last issue, this issue gives us our first appearance of Laserbeak, still out scouting for new sources of energy.
* This issue confirms what Jetfire alluded to last issue, that unlike most incarnations of the ''G1'' story, the war has only been raging for two centuries instead of the more traditional four million years.
* Ratchet refers to deactivated brothers ''and sisters''. While [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] has previously been seen on the cover of the last issue (which confirms [[Female Transformer|female transformers]] exist in this continuity), this issue implies she's not the only female Autobot aboard the Ark... though exactly who these other female Autobots are is currently unknown.

===Transformers references===
[[File:TF2023 issue 2 Prowl erased his name.jpg|thumb|right|200px|I'm not Kiryu. My name is Joryu.]]
* Cliffjumper compares Spike to a [[turborat]], a form of Cybertronian wildlife that first appeared in [[Form Follows Function|the fourth issue]] of [[Tom Scioli]] and [[John Barber]]'s ''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]''.
* The police cars of the FPD are quite clearly based on [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], retaining his Japanese police car color layout, twin red siren lights (as opposed to red and blue) and the “highway patrol” markings on the back (none of which really make sense on an American city patrol car, but we'll let that slide.)
* Furthering the reference, in Daniel Warren Johnson's Director's Commentary for this issue, prior to Mike Spicer coloring the pages it is seen that DWJ had given a "PROWL" license plate to the police car Sparky steals to escape Skywarp and Soundwave. The car's license plate is blank in the final release.

===G.I. Joe references===
* First Sergeant Conrad S. Hauser, codename '''DUKE''', makes his debut in the [[Energon Universe]] in this issue ahead of [[Duke (comic)|his own title]] debuting next month.
* While [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] doesn’t exist yet in this continuity, it seems the U.S. military has been developing some hi-tech tools, such as the jetpack Duke uses. This could be a new take on Jet Mobile Propulsion Unit (J.U.M.P.) jetpack from the ''G.I. Joe'' toyline, which Duke famously used in the opening sequence of ''G.I. Joe: The Movie''.

===Real-world references===
* Frosting’s name is painted on the side of his jet’s cockpit, a real practice common on United States fighter aircraft. It’s worth noting, however, that the formatting is slightly off. His rank and full name should be on one line, with his callsign printed below. Instead, it lists simply his rank, first name, and callsign on the same line.

===Storytelling notes===
* Apparently, DWJ at one point considered modelling Spike on photos of himself as a kid—but he quickly decided it felt weird.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I did play with one design of Spike which kind of looked like me as a kid, but it just felt a little weird. So I was like, "I'm not going to do that." But I did think about it!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=809s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref> For Spike's final design, DWJ wanted to give him big ears, and make him appear "racially ambiguous". His [[Marty McFly]] jacket wasn't particularly a reference, just an aesthetic preference of DWJ's.<ref>{{citesocial|quote="How did I decide on drawing Spike?" How did I draw... I was trying to draw somebody- I really like drawing characters with like really large ears, 'cause I love drawing ears, so there was one excuse. And I wanted to try and make him look kind of like... racially ambiguous? So there was that. Other than that, you know, I was, with that kind of jacket- like the- people say like the Marty McFly jacket, I just really like drawing those kinds of jackets. I'm not necessarily trying to go for an 80s vibe, but it just felt right. So I was trying to just come up with something that felt natural, and that's kind of what you got there, was the design of Spike.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=1328s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
* On the first page, DWJ drew close-up panels of an {{w|American goldfinch}} and a {{w|Rhododendron macrophyllum|coast rhododendron}}—the {{w|List of U.S. state birds|state bird}} and {{w|List of U.S. state and territory flowers|state flower}} of {{w|Washington (state)|Washington}}.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This—I forget what bird this is, but it is the [state] bird of Washington. This is the state flower. [...] And this is just a toad that has no relevance to the state of Washington.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=454s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref> Colorist Mike Spicer evidently was not told which specific species had been drawn, so they're just in random colors.
* The issue's opening scene, where Optimus Prime accidentally steps on a deer, was one that Hasbro got cold feet about. DWJ's editor suggested changing the animal for a squirrel, but DWJ was able to fight for the scene as he'd envisioned it. Following on from last issue, the scene draws further inspiration from ''{{w|The Iron Giant}}'', in which the Iron Giant sees a deer get killed.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Starting off with the [...] deer scene, which I wrote in the outline of the issue one outline to kind of give to everybody involved—Hasbro, Skybound—an idea of where I'm taking the story, and some of the beats. And this was initially totally fine, but, you know, I think maybe Hasbro read it a second time, and they were ''very'' nervous about Optimus stepping on a deer. So I definitely had to fight for this one. And to be fair to Hasbro, you know, I don't think they necessarily knew like the vibe that I was going to try and give this scene. In no way was I trying to do this for laughs, or to like... you know, be cheeky, or... in any way like disrespectful to the character of Optimus Prime. I honestly felt like this is the perfect 180 contrast to Starscream in issue one, squishing a dude. This just felt right. It felt like the perfect one-two of Starscream squishing and then Optimus accidentally hurting, not even a human but an innocent deer, and being completely wrecked. I've seen on Twitter, people are having a really hard time with the fact that Optimus Prime would accidentally step on a deer when a deer would run away... I don't know, what can I say, you know? A writer can't think of everything! So, yes, I remember one of my editors was like, "maybe he could step on a squirrel instead of a deer, to keep Hasbro happy?" and I was like, "Nope! Has to be a deer. Nobody feels the way they feel when they see a dead squirrel on the side of the road, versus a deer." This is also a subtle nod to one of my favorite films, ''The Iron Giant''—it is a bit different, because Optimus is directly responsible for hurting the deer, whereas the Iron Giant in the movie just sees the deer get killed. And I didn't really... with ''The Iron Giant'', it's very much that the robot in ''The Iron Giant'' is a little bit more of a baby, whereas Optimus Prime is of course way more like brainy, and able to process things in a more advanced way, that the Iron Giant was still just kind of grasping. So it is a different tone, but it is a little subtle homage to one of my favorite robot movies. So yeah, but anyway, so I definitely had to fight for this scene. And again, Hasbro I think had a right to be nervous, but I remember like writing, like in the conversation, about whether or not to do this scene, I was like, "Hey, I'm going to treat this with the utmost respect, and I think that this scene will be talked about as an Optimus Prime moment for a very long time to come, and I know I can pull it off." It's not like me stroking my back or whatever, inflating my own ego, I was just so confident, this scene ''screamed'' out to me as one of the absolute necessary scenes in the entire series. It just had to be in there. [...] I really did try and make this something to, you know, you could like ruminate over.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=201s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
* For the planet Cybertron, DWJ looked to ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' for reference.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=You can see this is loosely modeled after the Cybertron that we see in the 1986 movie, surprise, surprise. You know, I didn't know how much I wanted to show of Cybertron [...] for story reasons, but I figured, you know, get a nice big shot. I used a dinner plate to draw this large sphere, and then just kind of riffed for the rest of it. And this is all screen tone [...] with a little bit of highlights, call these the ''Akira'' highlights, you know that video of the lady dotting the background of the ''Akira'' cells. So definitely doing that here.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=874s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
* Beachcomber, seen getting shot in flashback, is one of DWJ's favorite Autobots.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So we got one of my favorite Autobots here, Beachcomber, who is seemingly dying. Mmm, can't say more about that.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=939s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
* Prime's [[trailer]] being established as the Autobots' makeshift base stemmed from a feeling that previous ''Transformers'' media had underutilised the trailer, or downplayed its significance relative to Prime himself.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I never thought that Optimus's trailer was used enough in all the fiction—TF fiction, TF stories—that I saw. I always love that trailer, it's like- this is like a direct shoutout to the toy, of like this little robot that we don't really see that often in the show, in the cartoon, in the movie, in the comics (at least in the Marvel Comics that I'm most familiar with). So just definitely wanted to show that- and this like tiny little race car, you know? All secondary stuff when it comes to the toy—I mean like, we're really here for Optimus—but since they kind of are escaping from the Ark, it was kind of important to me that they have a new base, with still some Cybertronian tech, that's why this is here.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=1410s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
* Carly is seen adding Optimus Prime to her van's mural, following on from the previous issue, where she remarked that the painting was missing something. According to DWJ, this was primarily a mercenary bit of plotting to give Laserbeak a reason to follow her at the end of the issue<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So here, I was trying to give Carly some personality, and also later on in the issue it's important storywise that Laserbeak finds Carly—otherwise, you know, the story has trouble progressing. And this matters an issue #3, which I will not give away. But Laserbeak somehow needed to follow Carly, and I was like racking my head, I was like, "Why would he follow Carly from the Ottawa base?" Like, what would give him a reason to follow this heavy metal van, where he would probably just like leave it and go look at something else. So I was like, "Well, what if Carly was like, an artist, and she painted on her heavy metal van a picture of Optimus Prime, which like, would obviously attract the attention of an evil Decepticon." So that was written in- this, right here, her working with the airbrush, was directly just so that I would have a fun way for Carly to be followed by a bad guy. And I drew the heck out of this airbrush—you know, I do love airbrushes—drawing Optimus here. It's a very subtle detail, but of course, it's important, you know?|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=1543s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>—from Laserbeak's POV, we can see him zooming in on the drawing of Prime, with his heads-up-display reading "!!".
* The police car seen this issue is drawn as Prowl as a way of deliberately playing with readers' expectations.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I know what you're all thinking: "Is this actually Prowl?" And... I have no comment, okay? Maybe it'll transform into Prowl in like issue #20, maybe it won't, okay? Who knows! I'm not going to pretend that this ''isn't'' the car that is Prowl, but that's all I can say about that, so... maybe I'm just swerving you, you know? You have no idea. This is what I really like about ''Transformers'', I'm playing with your expectations. You have no idea truly what's coming.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=1652s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
* The Energon converter is another plot device, as DWJ needed a quick-and-dirty way of solving the Decepticons' fuel problem. After the fact, he realised they resembled the scream canisters from ''{{w|Monsters, Inc.}}''!<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Talk about a McGuffin! Having to draw like this technological thing that can, like, harvest energy... You know, we're all doing our best here, you know? I'm writing genre fiction, I'm writing ''The Transformers'', we got to find a way to get Energon, I got to figure out a way to make this work, I'm under a deadline, I'm writing a script, you got some great ideas, you got some whatever ideas... Here we've got this, like, Energon harvester, that just is like totally random! And I was like, "Yeah, this is in the Autobots' Ark, so." You know, don't want to give away the trade secrets too much, but what can I say, uh... This is like a bit of a way to get me out of trouble, 'cause I was like, "I'm not sure how they're going to get Energon. I guess I'll draw something that looks relatively cool." Definitely did not realize that these look like the scream canisters from ''Monsters, Inc.!'' You know, there is no origin originality anymore, I don't know. I'm doing my best here.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=1783s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
* The Seeker who stomps on the cop was originally intended as Skywarp, not Starscream! After spotting the coloring error, DWJ decided it didn't actually matter, so it remains that way in the final issue.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This was meant to be Skywarp that was smooshing this cop, but Mike accidentally colored it Starscream, and I was like, "Eh, it actually doesn't matter!" So I didn't make him change it.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=1882s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref> In the previous panel, Starscream is standing on the other side of the Energon converter from the cop.
* Unsurprisingly, the confrontation between Duke and Starscream, which serves to set up Duke's own miniseries, was mandated by Skybound, but DWJ had a lot of freedom over the specifics.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I love this scene. You know, it was requested to me by Skybound that I include a... some sort of interaction between which we now—spoiler alert—know is Duke and Starscream.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=2365s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
** DWJ came up with Frosting's callsign after seeing his wife's leftover cupcake frosting in the freezer!<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I had to come up- you know, when you're writing, you know these scenes like this, where it's like a character like Frosting that you know is not going to be around for that long... you're just kind of riffing, you know? And I was like, "Oh, what would be a cool call sign?" And I just was like, I saw, I was like looking in my freezer, and my wife makes a lot of cupcakes—thanks be to God—and so she makes so many cupcakes, she actually makes a bunch of frosting at a time, and she'll freeze what she doesn't use. And I saw that frosting in the freezer and I was like, "Frosting would be a great, great call sign." And thus we have Frosting.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=2387s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
** The {{w|McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet|F-18}} is specifically drawn as the older model, as seen in ''{{w|Independence Day}}'', instead of the revised F-18D.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This is the F-18—let me see if I can remember... there's two, the F-18D—this is the old F-18 from ''Independence Day''. The F-18D has a square exhaust opening, and I wanted to go old school. So... I am a nerd!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=2451s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
** DWJ improvised the design for Duke's high-tech jetpack, and at [[Robert Kirkman]]'s prompting, came up with the story beat where he shoots Starscream with a flare gun.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This is fun, I had to come up with a jetpack design on the fly—I literally designed on the fly. And I remember Robert- so Robert was like, had kind of some oversight over this scene, and he said like, "Hey, it's really important that Duke seems cool, like he can handle himself in a fight. Even though he's like, just a regular pilot, he needs to like seem really badass." And so I was like, "Well, what if he like shot Starscream in the face with a flare gun? You know, and thinking on his feet." And I do like this a lot.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=2631s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>
* Optimus Prime is drawn mid-transformation in remarkable detail. DWJ was never satisfied by on-panel depictions of transformation in the Marvel or IDW comics.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Here we have Optimus transforming. And this is the first time I really tried to make it intentional, like... I don't know, like, I really wanted this to be cool, so I just drew the heck out of it. I gotta be honest, I was never a fan of either the- I was not a fan of like, in the Marvel Comics, when it would be like, either Optimus in robot form having just transformed, with a bunch of lines—just like random, like, you know, parallel lines against his body, implying that he just finished transforming—or the opposite where he's like a truck, and there's just a bunch of lines. And I was just like, "Ah... it just feels so... just feels like a missed opportunity!" Or in some of the, like, IDW comics, where it's like, they don't really draw transforming much at all. So I was like, "Well, it's a huge part of the vibe, I want to like... draw it!" And it's also really fun to get like, really out there with it, you know like? Just make things look weird in passing, and like an opportunity to show some really fun tech, that's a little messier than what the G1 designs are really known for.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg&t=2954s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS #2 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=11|day=29}}</ref>

===Errors===
* As mentioned above, the wildlife on the first page is miscolored; the Goldfinch is colored blue, while the pink rhododendron is skewed towards red.
* On page 4, 'millennia' is mis-spelled as 'millenia'.
* Amongst the deactivated Autobots in the quarry is Sideswipe who appears to be miscolored as [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], and a bot who appears to be either Inferno or Grapple (with their wheels on the side of their legs rather than their foot) in the colors of [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]].
* On page 11, when Duke is alerting Frosting about an incoming bogey on their radar, his flight helmet is miscolored pink as if he were Frosting. Duke is sitting in the weapon systems officer's seat behind Frosting's pilot seat, therefore he would be the one to see Starscream on the radar screen, and not Frosting telling his passenger of an unidentified aircraft.
* On page 12, the round speech bubble is mistakenly pointed to Starscream instead of Frosting's F-18. If it were Starscream saying the line, then the speech bubble would be angular and boxy, plus Starscream was the one taking shots the previous panel, not Frosting.

===Other trivia===
* This issue contains a four page preview for ''[[Duke (comic)|Duke]]'' [[Duke issue 1|#1]].

===Covers (19)===
* '''Cover A:''' Starscream attacks Frosting, by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover B:''' Optimus Prime transforms as he drives off a cliff, by [[Afu Chan]].
* '''Cover C (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Connecting cover by [[Orlando Arocena]].
* '''Cover D (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons, by [[Bryan Hitch]] & [[Alex Sinclair]].
* '''Cover E (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Duke uses his jetpack against Starscream, by [[Tom Reilly]].
* '''Second Printing Cover A:''' Duke, by [[Jason Howard]].
* '''Second Printing Cover B:''' Soundwave, by Jason Howard.
* '''Second Printing Cover C:''' Cliffjumper, by Jason Howard.
* '''Third Printing Cover:''' by [[Gerald Parel]] & [[Frédéric Pham Chuong]].
* '''Fourth Printing Cover:''' by [[Nikola Čižmešija]].
* '''Fifth Printing Cover:''' Starscream stands on a pile of corpses, by [[Stefano Simeone]].
* '''Sixth Printing Cover:''' by [[Jon Lam]].
* '''Seventh Printing Cover:''' by [[Eric Canete]].
* '''Eighth Printing Cover:''' by [[Patricia Martín Samaniego]].
* '''Transformers Battersea Seventh Printing Cover A:''' by [[Simon Parr]]. Limited to 2,024 copies.
* '''Transformers Battersea Seventh Printing Cover B:''' Black & White variant. Limited to 400 copies.
* '''Transformers Battersea Seventh Printing Cover A:''' Spot foil variant. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Transformers Battersea Seventh Printing Cover B:''' Foil variant. Limited to 400 copies.

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==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTay0C-zg Director's commentary by Daniel Warren Johnson]

==References==
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[[Category:Transformers (2023) issues]]

November 2

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Primal primus the second:

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* '''[[1927]] —''' Artist [[Steve Ditko]] is born.
* '''[[1942]] —''' [[Walter Cruz]] (Brazilian voice of [[Porter C. Powell]]) is born.
* '''[[1946]] —''' [[Richard Newman]] (voice of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] and ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' [[Vector Prime]]) is born. Yes, Yes!
* '''[[1947]] —''' [[Show Ryuzanji]] (voice of [[Magmatron]]) is born.
* '''[[1950]] —''' [[Paolo Buglioni]] (Italian voice of [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]] and [[Ron Witwicky]]) is born.
* '''[[1951]] —''' [[Ginny McSwain]] (voice of [[McSwain]] as well as voice director of [[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]) is born.
* '''[[1954]] —''' Writer [[Brian Augustyn]] is born.
* '''[[1964]] —''' Actress [[Luna Lauren Velez]] ([[Breanna Diaz]] in ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts]]'') is born.
* '''[[1965]] —''' [[Kim Sun-yeong]] (Korean voice of [[Kelly (RID)|Kelly]] and [[Jenny (RID)|Jenny]]) is born.
* '''[[1966]] —''' [[Luisa Ziliotto]] (Italian voice of [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]]) is born.
* '''[[1967]] —''' [[Akira Ishida]] (Voice of [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] in ''[[Q-Transformers (cartoon)|Q-Transformers]]'') is born.
* '''[[1969]] —''' [[Víctor Hugo Aguilar]] (Mexican voice of [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise (2015)]] [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]], [[Aerobolt]] as well as [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]) is born.
* '''[[1971]] —''' Artist [[John Watson]] is born.
* '''[[1972]] —''' [[Masanori Tomita]] (voice of a [[Great Convoy]]) is born.
* '''[[1977]] —''' [[Gilduin Tissier]] (European French voice of [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]] in the [[live-action film series]]) is born.
* '''[[1978]] —''' [[Akira Tomisaka]] (Japanese voice of [[Alexis Thi Dang]], [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] and [[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]]) is born.
* '''[[1980]] —''' [[Vanesa Silva]] (Chilean voice of [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]) is born.
* '''[[1983]] —''' [[Konrad Bösherz]] (German voice of [[Burgertron]]) is born.
* '''[[1988]] —''' [[Bence Berkes]] (Hungarian voice of [[Kicker Jones]], [[Coby Hansen]], [[Kade Burns]] and [[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Rescue Bots Academy]] [[Hot Shot (Prime)#Rescue Bots Academy cartoon|Hot Shot]]) is born.
* '''[[1990]] —''' [[Abel Musa]] (Chilean voice of [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]]) is born.
* '''[[1997]] —''' The ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)]]" premieres in the [[United States of America|US]].
* '''[[2011]] —''' ''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' [[Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden|#29]] and ''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers: Volume 5: Chaos Theory]]'' are released in the US by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''2011 —''' [[Esteban Hernandez Sanchez]] (European French voice of [[Kris Díaz]]) is born.
* '''[[2012]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episode "[[Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour]]" premieres on [[Hub Network|The Hub]].
* '''[[2016]] —''' ''[[Revolution]]'' [[The New Colossus|#4]] and ''[[Informed|Till All Are One: Revolution]]'' are released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''[[2018]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' episode "[[Maccadam's]]" airs on the [[Cartoon Network]] app and website.
* '''[[2019]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Rescue Bots Academy]]'' episodes "[[Tune Out]]" and "[[Metal Munchers]]" premiere on [[Discovery Family]].
* '''2019 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' episode "[[Spotted]]" premieres in [[Germany]].
* '''2019 —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece Movie]]'' MPM-9 [[Jazz (Movie)#Masterpiece|Jazz]].
* '''2019 —''' The [[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]] movie makes its Latin American television broadcast debut on ''Fox Premium Movies''.
* '''[[2021]] —''' [[Raimund Krone]] (German voice of [[Daytrader]], [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] and [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]]) dies at age 75.
* '''[[2022]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass II|Shattered Glass II]]'' [[Shattered Glass II issue 3|#3]] is released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''[[2023]] —''' [[Threezero]] reveals the MDLX [[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Threezero|Sideswipe]] in full color.

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2005 IDW continuity

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Primal primus the second: /* Robots in Disguise */

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[[File:ChaosTheory1 montage.jpg|thumb|upright=2|This is around a ''fifth'' of what happened.]]

The '''2005 IDW continuity''' is the storyline of [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] reboot comic book series, launched in [[2005]] and running until [[2018]]. It re-imagined the traditional [[Autobot]]-[[Decepticon]] [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] as a galaxy-spanning conflict, with [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] abandoned as a dead husk and teams from both sides covertly operating on various alien worlds to defend or destroy the native populations—including [[Earth]].

Later stories abandoned the cloak-and-dagger conflict in favor of a more traditional take on the Cybertronian war, before ending the war entirely. While early stories stuck to a small cast focusing mostly on the more-familiar 1984 characters, as the universe progressed its scope slowly expanded to cover more and more characters and concepts from late "Generation 1" and beyond. In addition to adapting characters from other continuities (such as [[Knock Out (G1)|Knock Out]] and [[Blackarachnia (BW)#2005 IDW continuity|Blackarachnia]]), authors felt free to introduce entirely new characters (such as [[Drift (G1)|Drift]], [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], and [[Aileron]]) with substantive roles. Many new minor characters were also included throughout the series.

A 2016 retcon/expansion established that this continuity was part of the shared [[Hasbro Universe]]; two years later it was brought to an end with a [[Transformers: Unicron|climactic battle]] against [[Unicron]] before IDW debuted its [[2019 IDW continuity|rebooted ''Transformers'' continuity]] the next year.

Having run almost continuously for 13 years in some form or another, IDW's first ''Transformers'' universe is one of the largest and most developed ''Transformers'' continuities. Many of the plots and character arcs from "Phase 2" onward earned widespread praise from both devoted ''Transformers'' [[fandom|fans]] and the broader comic book/science fiction industries.

==Overview==
===Simon Furman and the "-ations" era===
[[File:TF Spotlight v1.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|right|The [[Furmanism|down-to-earth one—literally.]]]]
{{chapters|title=''-ations'':|align=left|content=
<div class="list-header">''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]''</div>
* [[Infiltration issue 0|#0]]
* [[Infiltration issue 1|#1]]
* [[Infiltration issue 2|#2]]
* [[Infiltration issue 3|#3]]
* [[Infiltration issue 4|#4]]
* [[Infiltration issue 5|#5]]
* [[Infiltration issue 6|#6]]
 <div class="list-header">''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]''</div>
* [[Stormbringer issue 1|#1]]
* [[Stormbringer issue 2|#2]]
* [[Stormbringer issue 3|#3]]
* [[Stormbringer issue 4|#4]]
 <div class="list-header">''[[The Transformers: Spotlight|Spotlight]] Volume 1''</div>
* [[Spotlight: Shockwave|Shockwave]]
* [[Spotlight: Nightbeat|Nightbeat]]
* [[Spotlight: Hot Rod|Hot Rod]]
* [[Spotlight: Sixshot|Sixshot]]
* [[Spotlight: Ultra Magnus|Ultra Magnus]]
 <div class="list-header">''[[The Transformers: Escalation|Escalation]]''</div>
* [[Escalation issue 1|#1]]
* [[Escalation issue 2|#2]]
* [[Escalation issue 3|#3]]
* [[Escalation issue 4|#4]]
* [[Escalation issue 5|#5]]
* [[Escalation issue 6|#6]]
 <div class="list-header">''New Avengers/Transformers''</div>
* [[Man and Machine, Part One|#1]]
* [[Man and Machine, Part Two|#2]]
* [[Man and Machine, Part Three|#3]]
* [[Man and Machine, Part Four|#4]]
 <div class="list-header">''Spotlight Volume 2''</div>
* [[Spotlight: Soundwave|Soundwave]]
* [[Spotlight: Kup|Kup]]
* [[Spotlight: Galvatron|Galvatron]]
* [[Spotlight: Optimus Prime|Optimus Prime]]
* [[Spotlight: Ramjet|Ramjet]]
 <div class="list-header">''[[The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]''</div>
* [[Devastation issue 1|#1]]
* [[Devastation issue 2|#2]]
* [[Devastation issue 3|#3]]
* [[Devastation issue 4|#4]]
* [[Devastation issue 5|#5]]
* [[Devastation issue 6|#6]]
 <div class="list-header">''Spotlight Volume 3''</div>
* [[Spotlight: Blaster|Blaster]]
* [[Spotlight: Arcee|Arcee]]
* [[Spotlight: Mirage|Mirage]]
* [[Spotlight: Grimlock|Grimlock]]
* [[Spotlight: Wheelie|Wheelie]]
 <div class="list-header">''Spotlight Volume 4'' / ''[[Revelation (IDW)|Revelation]]''</div>
* [[Spotlight: Cyclonus|Cyclonus]]
* [[Spotlight: Hardhead|Hardhead]]
* [[Spotlight: Doubledealer|Doubledealer]]
* [[Spotlight: Sideswipe|Sideswipe]]
 <div class="list-header">''[[The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots|Maximum Dinobots]]''</div>
* [[Maximum Dinobots issue 1|#1]]
* [[Maximum Dinobots issue 2|#2]]
* [[Maximum Dinobots issue 3|#3]]
* [[Maximum Dinobots issue 4|#4]]
* [[Maximum Dinobots issue 5|#5]]
 <div class="list-header">''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]''</div>
* [[Megatron Origin issue 1|#1]]
* [[Megatron Origin issue 2|#2]]
* [[Megatron Origin issue 3|#3]]
* [[Megatron Origin issue 4|#4]]
}}

Veteran ''Transformers'' writer Simon Furman helmed the IDW continuity in its infancy, writing almost every series and one-shot to be released in its first few years. It began with [[2005]]'s ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]'' series, which ran for seven issues (including an introductory issue #0), which did away with the traditional "crashed on Earth 4 million years ago" origin in favour of a slow-burning "hiding in plain sight" storyline with emphasis on human characters, not dissimilar to the approach that was taken two years later by the [[Transformers (film)|live-action movie]]. However, detractors of this focus on human characters inspired the four-issue ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'' miniseries, which checked in on the ruined [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. At this time, the concurrent ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight|Spotlight]]'' run of one-shots began. The first six of these ([[Spotlight: Shockwave|Shockwave]], [[Spotlight: Nightbeat|Nightbeat]], [[Spotlight: Hot Rod|Hot Rod]], [[Spotlight: Sixshot|Sixshot]], [[Spotlight: Ultra Magnus|Ultra Magnus]], [[Spotlight: Soundwave|Soundwave]]) elaborated on details from the first two miniseries and introduced cast members and concepts for [[2006]]'s six-issue ''[[The Transformers: Escalation|Escalation]]'' miniseries. The ''Spotlight'' issues for [[Spotlight: Galvatron|Galvatron]], [[Spotlight: Optimus Prime|Optimus Prime]], [[Spotlight: Blaster|Blaster]] and [[Spotlight: Arcee|Arcee]] followed on from the events of that miniseries. The Earth-based conflict reached a climax in [[2007]]'s six-issue ''[[The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'' miniseries, and at this point (as evidenced by the apocryphal "Hail and Farewell" ''[[Transformers: Mosaic]]'' strip) Furman had sweeping plans for further series. However, IDW decided to switch directions for a major reboot, forcing Furman to squeeze the conclusion to the storyline he'd been building across the ''Spotlight'' stories into the four ''[[Revelation (IDW)|Revelation]]'' issues. His plans for tying up the Earth-based plots meanwhile escaped largely unscathed, with ''[[Spotlight: Grimlock]]'' leading into the five-issue ''[[The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots|Maximum Dinobots]]'' miniseries.

A few other writers contributed to the universe in its infancy:
* [[Nick Roche]] created ''[[Spotlight: Kup]]'', taking place sometime between ''Stormbringer'' and ''Spotlight: Optimus Prime''.
* [[Stuart Moore]] wrote a pair of titles loosely tying into ''Escalation'':
** ''[[New Avengers/Transformers]]'', a four-issue crossover taking place during the first issue of that miniseries;
** ''[[Spotlight: Ramjet]]'', which takes place in its immediate aftermath.
* [[George Strayton]] wrote ''[[Spotlight: Mirage]]'', which takes place mostly in a parallel dimension—however, a portion of the story is set in the main universe some time after ''Maximum Dinobots''. It was originally planned to be released after ''Spotlight Grimlock'', which would have reflected the chronological order, but the release order was switched.
* [[Klaus Scherwinski]] co-wrote the standalone ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]'' with Furman.
* [[Eric Holmes]] wrote ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin]]''—this four-issue miniseries was originally conceived with Dreamwave's Generation 1 continuity in mind, but [[Chaos Theory Part 1|later stories]] [[Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|massaged it]] [[The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|into place]] as the earliest dedicated flashback series in the IDW continuity.
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====Chuck Dixon and "Evolutions"====
[[File:Hearts of Steel 1ri.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|right|The "look what they turn into in this" one.]]
{{chapters|title=''Evolutions'':|align=left|content=
<div class="list-header">''Hearts of Steel Volume 1''</div>
* [[Hearts of Steel issue 1|#1]]
* [[Hearts of Steel issue 2|#2]]
* [[Hearts of Steel issue 3|#3]]
* [[Hearts of Steel issue 4|#4]]
 <div class="list-header">''Infestation 2 Volume 2''</div>
* [[Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1|#1]]
* [[Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 2|#2]]
}}

In the early days of IDW's Transformers comics, plans were made for a full line of Elseworlds-style miniseries under the title "''[[The Transformers: Evolutions|Evolutions]]''", planned to run alongside the main IDW continuity. The first of these, the four-issue ''[[Hearts of Steel]]'', took place in an alternate timeline where the Transformers' first contact with humanity was in the late 19th century. This plan was shelved as focus shifted to comics based on the live action movies, but the later ''[[Infestation 2]]'' tie-in returned to this timeline. Both of these stories were written by [[Chuck Dixon]] with art by [[Guido Guidi]]. They would be little more than a footnote, were it not for the fact that [[Revolutionaries|much, ''much'' later]], a version of the events of these titles was folded into the mainstream continuity.
{{--}}

===Shane McCarthy and ''All Hail Megatron''===
[[File:All Hail Megatron TPB vol1.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|right|The [[GEEWUN|Gee-one.]]]]
{{chapters|title=''All Hail Megatron'':|align=left|content=
<div class="list-header">''All Hail Megatron Volume 1''</div>
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 1|#1]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 2|#2]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 3|#3]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 4|#4]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 5|#5]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 6|#6]]
 <div class="list-header">''All Hail Megatron Volume 2''</div>
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 7|#7]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 8|#8]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 9|#9]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 10|#10]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 11|#11]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 12|#12]]
 <div class="list-header">''All Hail Megatron Volume 3'' / ''Spotlight Volume 5''</div>
* [[Spotlight: Blurr|Blurr]]
* [[Spotlight: Jazz|Jazz]]
* [[Spotlight: Drift|Drift]]
* [[Spotlight: Cliffjumper|Cliffjumper]]
* [[Spotlight: Metroplex|Metroplex]]
 <div class="list-header">''All Hail Megatron Volume 4''</div>
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 13|#13]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 14|#14]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 15|#15]]
* [[All Hail Megatron issue 16|#16]]
}}

During 2008, in an attempt to entice new readers, IDW brought on new writer [[Shane McCarthy]] for a twelve-issue maxiseries titled ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron]]'' and another run of five mostly-standalone ''Spotlight'' issues ([[Spotlight: Blurr|Blurr]], [[Spotlight: Cliffjumper|Cliffjumper]], [[Spotlight: Drift|Drift]], [[Spotlight: Metroplex|Metroplex]] (by [[Andy Schmidt]]) and [[Spotlight: Jazz|Jazz]] (by [[Josh van Reyk]] & [[Shaun Knowler]]). When the established fanbase's reaction to this new direction was... ''lukewarm,'' McCarthy suddenly began bringing more elements from Furman's run starting with issue #7, and following the series IDW released a four-issue "Coda" bringing some of Furman's ideas back to the fore. Each issue of the Coda contained two different stories by different writers, and most were set after the main series (with the exception of the two stories in issue #15 which respectively take place before and after ''Spotlight: Drift''). McCarthy later returned with a four-issue ''[[The Transformers: Drift]]'' miniseries, set before that same ''Spotlight'' issue.

[[File:FCBD 2009 coverB.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.8|The Serious Realistic Military Fiction™ one.]]

====IDW Publishing's ''G.I. Joe''====
Late in 2008, IDW acquired the license to publish ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' comics from the previous holder, [[Devil's Due Press]]. Though their new G.I. Joe continuity—spearheaded by Chuck Dixon, [[Mike Costa]], [[Christos Gage]] and ''Joe'' alumnus [[Larry Hama]], with later contributions coming from writers like {{w|Fred Van Lente}} and {{w|Karen Traviss}}—took a similar approach to IDW's Transformers continuity, with a modernised, more "realistic" take on the original '80s premise, the two were not initially intended to take place in the same universe—indeed, the apocalyptic aftermath of ''All Hail Megatron'' seemingly left that impossible.

More than half a decade later, however, it was established via retcon that the events of both IDW's Transformers and G.I. Joe were part of a wider, shared "Hasbro Universe"; [[#"Revolution"|see below]] for details. While the majority of IDW's G.I. Joe comics aren't under this wiki's remit, and they certainly aren't required reading for later series in this continuity, you can see a full list of their titles on the {{i|G.I. Joe (franchise)#IDW G.I. Joe series|''G.I. Joe'' franchise page}} at our sister {{i|Main Page|IDW Hasbro Wiki}}.
{{--}}

===Mike Costa and ''The Transformers''===
[[File:IDW TF vol1.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|right|The [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|action movie]] one.]]
{{chapters|title=''The Transformers'':|align=left|content=
<div class="list-header">Volume 1: "For All Mankind"</div>
* [[...For All Mankind|#1]]
* [[Things Fall Apart, Part 1: "New Arrivals, Old Encounters"|#2]]
* [[Things Fall Apart, Part 2: "A Rude Awakening"|#3]]
* [[Things Fall Apart, Part 3: "Seasons in Flight"|#4]]
* [[Things Fall Apart, Part 4: "Enemies of the System"|#5]]
* [[Things Fall Apart, Part 5: "Earthworks"|#6]]
 <div class="list-header">''Bumblebee''</div>
* [[The Hanging Sword|#1]]
* [[The Impossible Knot|#2]]
* [[The Gift Horse|#3]]
* [[Wings of Wax|#4]]
 <div class="list-header">''Last Stand of the Wreckers''</div>
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|#1]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|#2]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|#3]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|#4]]
* [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|#5]]
 <div class="list-header">Volume 2: "International Incident"</div>
* [[All His Engines‎|#7]]
* [[Scrapper (issue)|#8]]
* [[International Incident Part 1: "The Land Ironclads"|#9]]
* [[International Incident Part 2: "Ranks of Bronze"|#10]]
* [[International Incident Part 3: "Hawk Among the Sparrows"|#11]]
* [[International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"|#12]]
 <div class="list-header">Volume 3: "Revenge of the Decepticons"</div>
* [[Heart Like a Wheel‎|#13]]
* [[Revenge of the Decepticons Part 1: The Demolished Man|#14]]
* [[Revenge of the Decepticons Part 2: Altered Carbon|#15]]
* [[Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies‎|#16]]
* [[Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome‎|#17]]
* [[Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine|#18]]
 <div class="list-header">''Ironhide''</div>
* [[The Iron Age|#1]]
* [[Iron in the Blood|#2]]
* [[Ironing Out the Details|#3]]
* [[Any Old Iron|#4]]
 <div class="list-header">''Drift''</div>
* [[Drift issue 1|#1]]
* [[Drift issue 2|#2]]
* [[Drift issue 3|#3]]
* [[Drift issue 4|#4]]
 <div class="list-header">''Infestation Volume 1''</div>
* [[The Transformers: Infestation issue 1|#1]]
* [[The Transformers: Infestation issue 2|#2]]
 <div class="list-header">Volume 4: ''Heart of Darkness''</div>
* [[Heart of Darkness issue 1|#1]]
* [[Heart of Darkness issue 2|#2]]
* [[Heart of Darkness issue 3|#3]]
* [[Heart of Darkness issue 4|#4]]
 <div class="list-header">Volume 5: "Chaos Theory"</div>
* [[Space Opera Part 1: The Stars My Destination|#19]]
* [[Space Opera Act 2: Out of the Silent Planet|#20]]
* [[The Transformers issue 21|#21]]
* [[Chaos Theory Part 1|#22]]
* [[Chaos Theory Part 2|#23]]
 <div class="list-header">Volume 6: "Police Action"</div>
* [[Police Action: Part 1|#25]]
* [[Police Action Part 2: Only Forward|#27]]
* [[Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden|#29]]
* ''[[Ride-Along|Spotlight: Prowl]]''
 <div class="list-header">Volume 7: "Chaos"</div>
* [[Chaos Part One: Lamentations|#24]]
* [[Chaos Part Two: Numbers|#26]]
* [[Chaos Part Three: Kings|#28]]
* [[Chaos Part Four: Genesis|#30]]
* [[Pax Cybertronia (issue)|#31]]
}}

Another major change in direction came in late [[2009]], when new writer [[Mike Costa]] (already known for his critically acclaimed work on IDW's ''{{i|G.I. Joe: Cobra}}'') was brought on board to spearhead a brand new ongoing series, titled simply ''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]''. This series ran throughout [[2010]] and [[2011]] for thirty-one issues telling a continuous story, though several other spinoffs were released during this time:
* Editor Andy Schmidt wrote ''[[The Transformers Continuum]]'', a prose summary intended to bring new readers up to speed—but the resulting account was ridden with errors, and widely panned.
* [[Zander Cannon]] wrote ''[[The Transformers: Bumblebee]]'', a four-issue miniseries taking place between issues #3 and #5 of the ongoing series and aimed at a slightly younger audience than usual.
* Fan-favourite writer/artist Nick Roche (''Spotlight: Kup'' and "[[Everything in Its Right Place]]" from [[All Hail Megatron issue 15|''All Hail Megatron'' #15]]) returned alongside new writer [[James Roberts]] with the five-issue ''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' miniseries, set in deep space during the first arc of the ongoing.
* Mike Costa himself wrote two additional titles:
** ''[[Ride-Along|Spotlight: Prowl]]'', a one-shot told mostly in post-''All Hail Megatron'' flashback but with a framing device set after issue #7 of the ongoing series, initially planned to be told later as part of the ongoing series itself but published early in response to fan backlash to Prowl's characterisation;
** ''[[The Transformers: Ironhide]]'', another four-issue miniseries set on Cybertron some time before [[Space Opera Part 1: The Stars My Destination|the later "Space Opera" story arc]].
* McCarthy returned for the aforementioned ''The Transformers: Drift'' miniseries, set before his previous ''Spotlight'' issue.
* [[Dan Abnett]] and [[Andy Lanning]] wrote a pair of [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]]-centric titles:
** ''[[Infestation (IDW)|Infestation]]'', two issues set after the first arc of the ongoing series and tying into IDW's otherwise-disconnected multi-franchise "zombie invasion" crossover;
** ''[[The Transformers: Heart of Darkness]]'', a poorly-received four-issue mini-series starring Galvatron and tying into the events of ''Infestation''.
{{--}}

===James Roberts, John Barber, and "Phase Two"===
[[File:MTMTE vol1.jpg|upright=1|thumb|left|The sad gay space one.]]
[[File:RID vol3.jpg|upright=1|thumb|right|The [[John Barber|continuity fixing]] one.]]
{{chapters|title="Season 1":|align=left|content=
<div class="list-header">''More Than Meets The Eye Volume 1''</div>
* [[Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|"The Death of Optimus Prime"]]
* [[Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|#1]]
* [[Liars, A to D Part 2: Hangers On|#2]]
* [[Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|#3]]
 <div class="list-header">''More Than Meets The Eye Volume 2''</div>
* [[Life After the Big Bang|#4]]
* [[How Ratchet Got His Hands Back|#5]]
* [[Interiors|#6]]
* [[Rules of Disengagement (issue)|#7]]
* [[Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|#8]]
 <div class="list-header">''More Than Meets The Eye Volume 3''</div>
* [[Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|Annual 2012]]
* [[Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc|#9]]
* [[Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|#10]]
* [[Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|#11]]
 <div class="list-header">''More Than Meets The Eye Volume 4''</div>
* [[Before & After|#12]]
* [[More than Meets the Eye issue 13|#13]]
* [[Remembrance Day|#14]]
* [[Under Cold Blue Stars|#15]]
* [[The Gloaming|#16]]
 <div class="list-header">''More Than Meets The Eye Volume 5''</div>
* [[Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|#17]]
* [[Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|#18]]
* [[Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|#19]]
* [[Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|#20]]
* [[More than Meets the Eye issue 21|#21]]
* [[Little Victories|#22]]

 <div class="list-header">''Robots in Disguise Volume 1''</div>
* [[The Autonomy Lesson (issue)|#1]]
* [[The World & Everything in It|#2]]
* [[Stick Together|#3]]
* [[Devisive|#4]]
* [[A Better Tomorrow|#5]]
 <div class="list-header">''Robots in Disguise Volume 2''</div>
* [[Syndromica (1)|#6]]
* [[Interference Patterns|#7]]
* [[Dinobot Hunt (IDW)|#8]]
* [[Night and the City|#9]]
 <div class="list-header">''Robots in Disguise Volume 3''</div>
* [[Primus: All Good Things|Annual 2012]]
* [[Syndromica (2)|#10]]
* [[The End of the Beginning of the World|#11]]
 <div class="list-header">''Robots in Disguise Volume 4''</div>
* [[City on Fire|#12]]
* [[The Verge|#13]]
* [[Before the Dawn|#14]]
* [[Plan for Everything|#15]]
* [[Heavy Is the Head|#16]]
 <div class="list-header">''Robots in Disguise Volume 5''</div>
* [[Shockwaves|#17]]
* [[Second Exodus|#18]]
* [[Homecoming (IDW)|#19]]
* [[Three Monologues|#20]]
* [[Shockpoint|#21]]
* [[Soundwaves (issue)|#22]]

 <div class="list-header">''Dark Prelude''</div>
* [[Omega's Conundrum|Orion Pax]]
* [[The Hunting Party (IDW)|Thundercracker]]
* [[Spotlight: Megatron|Megatron]]
* [[The Question|Bumblebee]]
* [[The Reluctant Specialist|Trailcutter]]
* [[The Waiting Game|Hoist]]
 <div class="list-header">''Dark Cybertron Volume 1''</div>
* [[Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|#1]]
* [[Black Metal: Dark Cybertron Chapter 2|#2]]
* [[Winners & Losers: Dark Cybertron Chapter 3|#3]]
* [[Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|#4]]
* [[Finest Hour: Dark Cybertron Chapter 5|#5]]
* [[No Exit: Dark Cybertron Chapter 6|#6]]
 <div class="list-header">''Dark Cybertron Volume 2''</div>
* [[The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|#7]]
* [[Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|#8]]
* [[Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|#9]]
* [[The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|#10]]
* [[Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|#11]]
* [[...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|#12]]

 <div class="list-header">''Autocracy''</div>
* [[Law and Disorder|#1]]
* [[Parasites|#2]]
* [[The Hunt for Soundwave|#3]]
* [[Cause and Effect|#4]]
* [[Ruins|#5]]
* [[Purge|#6]]
* [[Choices|#7]]
* [[Overthrown|#8]]
* [[Transformation (issue)|#9]]
* [[Rise|#10]]
* [[Broadcast|#11]]
* [[Endgame|#12]]
 <div class="list-header">''Monstrosity''</div>
* [[Derelicts|#1]]
* [[Wreckage (issue)|#2]]
* [[Faces of Darkness|#3]]
* [[Rage (IDW)|#4]]
* [[Fallout (issue)|#5]]
* [[Underworld (IDW)|#6]]
* [[Prey (issue)|#7]]
* [[Massacre|#8]]
* [[Unleashed|#9]]
* [[The Illusion of Control|#10]]
* [[Annihilation|#11]]
* [[Belly of the Beast (issue)|#12]]
 <div class="list-header">''Primacy''</div>
* [[Primacy issue 1|1]]
* [[Primacy issue 2|2]]
* [[Primacy issue 3|3]]
* [[Primacy issue 4|4]]
}}

[[2012]] ushered in not one but ''two'' new ongoing series as successors to the previous series, kicking off with a one-shot titled "[[Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime]]" and beginning what many fans would come to describe as a "golden age" of Transformers comics. In [[The Transformers: The IDW Collection|their hardback compendiums]], IDW themselves distinguished these titles from everything that had come before by labeling them "Phase Two".

This new era was helmed by two writers:
* [[James Roberts]] (having made a name for himself with ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'') wrote ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye]]'', in which [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]] led the crew of the ''[[Lost Light]]'' into space to find the mystical [[Knights of Cybertron]].
* [[John Barber]] (writer of [[IDW Publishing#Live-action film series|IDW's tie-ins to the live-action movies]]) wrote ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'', in which [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] led those remaining on Cybertron through the aftermath of the [[Great War (G1)#2005 IDW continuity|Great War]].

Initially, these series were outlined for sixteen issues each, with the two plots running in parallel. A "Primus" Annual was released for each series, creating a loose two-part story ([[Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|the ''More than Meets the Eye'' Annual]] takes place concurrently with its [[Rules of Disengagement (issue)|seventh]] and [[Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|eighth]] issues, while [[Primus: All Good Things|the ''Robots in Disguise'' Annual]] takes place after [[Night and the City|its ninth issue]]). The success of both series led to them being extended, and IDW began working in partnership to produce issues that could also be packed in with [[Hasbro]]'s [[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30 (2013–2014)|figures]]. The first batch of these was six ''Spotlight'' issues, later collected as "Dark Prelude", with a common thread focusing on [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]:
* ''[[Omega's Conundrum|Spotlight: Orion Pax]]'', written by James Roberts and taking place some time before ''[[Spotlight: Blurr]]''
* ''[[The Hunting Party (IDW)|Spotlight: Thundercracker]]'', written by John Barber and taking place some time before ''[[Spotlight: Metroplex]]''
* ''[[Spotlight: Megatron]]'', created by Nick Roche and taking place immediately after [[Heart Like a Wheel|issue #13]] of [[The Transformers (IDW)|the previous ongoing series]]
* ''[[The Question|Spotlight: Bumblebee]]'', taking place in the background of the [[Police Action: Part 1|"Police Action"]] [[Police Action Part 2: Only Forward|story]] [[Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden|arc]] of the previous ongoing series
* ''[[The Reluctant Specialist|Spotlight: Trailcutter]]'' and ''[[The Waiting Game|Spotlight: Hoist]]'', written by James Roberts and set between [[How Ratchet Got His Hands Back|issues #5]] [[Interiors|and #6]] of ''More than Meets the Eye''.

While Roberts used issues #17-22 of his series as an extended "season finale", Barber used his extended run to set up [[2013]]'s twelve-issue ''[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]'' crossover, which was told across alternating issues of both series and co-written by both authors.

Around this time [[Chris Metzen]] and [[Flint Dille]] (the latter of whom wrote for [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original Generation 1 animated series]]) wrote a trio of connected prequel stories: ''[[The Transformers: Autocracy]]'', ''[[The Transformers: Monstrosity]]'', and ''[[The Transformers: Primacy]]''. These were ostensibly set sometime after ''Megatron Origin'', ''Spotlight: Orion Pax'' and ''Spotlight: Blurr'', but Metzen and Dille treated continuity rather loosely (apparently having planned to write a prequel to ''the original cartoon'', not the IDW comics) and few ideas from these series were picked up in any significant capacity by the other writers, aside from as the basis for further retcons.

===Post-''Dark Cybertron'', Mairghread Scott, and ''Windblade''===
[[File:IDWCountdownTo50RetailerIncentiveMilnePerez.jpg|upright=3|thumb|centre|The increasingly author appeal-y ones.]]
{{chapters|title="Season 2":|align=left|content=
<div class="list-header">''More Than Meets The Eye Volume 6''</div>
* [[World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|#28]]
* [[World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|#29]]
* [[World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|#30]]
* [[Twenty Plus One|#31]]
* [[Slaughterhouse|#32]]
* [[slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|#33]]
 <div class="list-header">''More Than Meets The Eye Volume 7''</div>
* [[Births, Deaths, and Interventions|#34]]
* [[The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue|#35]]
* [[Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|#36]]
* [[Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|#37]]
* [[Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|#38]]
 <div class="list-header">''More Than Meets The Eye Volume 8''</div>
* [[The Permanent Revolution|#39]]
* [[Our Steps Will Always Rhyme|#40]]
* [[The Sensuous Frame|#41]]
* [[The Frail Gaze|#42]]
* [[The One Where They Go to Earth|#43]]
* [[The Not Knowing|#44]]
 <div class="list-header">''More Than Meets The Eye Volume 9''</div>
* [[Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots|#45]]
* [[Animals|#46]]
* [[The Lopsided Triangle|#47]]
* [[Speak, Memory: Part 1|#48]]
* [[Speak, Memory! (Part 2)|#49]]
 <div class="list-header">''More Than Meets The Eye Volume 10''</div>
* [[More than Meets the Eye issue 50|#50]]
* [[The Dying of the Light Part 2: The Sun in Flight|#51]]
* [[The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|#52]]
* [[The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|#53]]
* [[The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|#54]]
* [[The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|#55]]

 <div class="list-header">''Windblade''</div>
* [[A 'Bot and Her City|#1]]
* [[A Long Way Down|#2]]
* [[Windblade issue 3|#3]]
* [[Windblade issue 4|#4]]
 <div class="list-header">''Robots in Disguise Volume 6''</div>
* [[Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|#28]]
* [[Earthfall Part 2: Detonation Boulevard|#29]]
* [[Earthfall Part 3: The Mind Bomb|#30]]
* [[Earthfall Part 4: Full Fathom Five|#31]]
* [[Earthfall Part 5: I Dream of Wires|#32]]
 <div class="list-header">''Robots in Disguise Volume 7''</div>
* [[The World of Tomorrow|#33]]
* [[The Crucible|#34]]
* [[Onyx Interface Part One: Signals, Calls, and Marches|#35]]
* [[Onyx Interface Part Two: Vs.|#36]]
* [[Onyx Interface Part Three: ONoffON|#37]]
* [[The Onyx Interface Conclusion: The Obliterati|#38]]
 <div class="list-header">''Combiner Wars''</div>
* [[First Contact (IDW)|Opening Salvo]]
* [[The Sum and Its Parts|Part 1]]
* [[The Possible Light|Part 2]]
* [[Mistakes and Mayhem|Part 3]]
* [[You, Me, and the Universe|Part 4]]
* [[All That Remains|Part 5]]
 <div class="list-header">''Windblade: Distant Stars''</div>
* [[Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|#4]]
* [[Race Against the Light|#5]]
* [[Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|#6]]
* [[The Will of the Few|#7]]
* [[An Uneventful Night|"Combiner Hunters"]]
 <div class="list-header">''The Transformers Volume 8''</div>
* [[Now and On Earth|#42]]
* [[South of Heaven|#43]]
* [[The Transgressors|#44]]
* [[The Nothing Man|#45]]
 <div class="list-header">''The Transformers Volume 9''</div>
* [[Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|#46]]
* [[Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|#47]]
* [[Conquerors Part 3: Helden|#48]]
* [[Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|#49]]
 <div class="list-header">''The Transformers Volume 10''</div>
* [[The Transformers issue 50|#50]]
* [[All Hail Optimus Part 2: Edge of the Earth|#51]]
* [[All Hail Optimus Part 3: The Medium and the Message|#52]]
* [[All Hail Optimus Part 4: It's Beginning To And Back Again|#53]]
* [[All Hail Optimus Part 5: As Above...So Below|#54]]
* [[All Hail Optimus Part 6: No Fair Fights|#55]]

 <div class="list-header">Drift - Empire of Stone''</div>
* [[Drift - Empire of Stone issue 1|#1]]
* [[Drift - Empire of Stone issue 2|#2]]
* [[Drift - Empire of Stone issue 3|#3]]
* [[Drift - Empire of Stone issue 4|#4]]

 <div class="list-header">''Redemption of the Dinobots''</div>
* [[City of Steel (issue)|''Punishment'' #1]]
* [[Fight or Flee (issue)|#2]]
* [[Quest for Fire|#3]]
* [[The Killing Jar (issue)|#4]]
* [[Forever Is a Long Time Coming (issue)|#5]]
* ''[[The Transformers: Redemption|Redemption]]''

 <div class="list-header">''Sins of the Wreckers''</div>
* [[Sins of the Wreckers issue 1|#1]]
* [[Sins of the Wreckers issue 2|#2]]
* [[Sins of the Wreckers issue 3|#3]]
* [[Sins of the Wreckers issue 4|#4]]
* [[Sins of the Wreckers issue 5|#5]]

 <div class="list-header">''Till All Are One Volume 1''</div>
* [[07:00:00|#1]]
* [[Applicable Skills|#2]]
* [[Things We Said We'd Never Do|#3]]
* [[The Line Between Us|#4]]

 <div class="list-header">''Titans Return''</div>
* [[The Last Autobot|"Titans Return"]]
* [[White Light|''The Transformers'' #56]]
* [[White Heat|#57]]
* [[Ten to Midnight|''More than Meets the Eye'' #56]]
* [[Last Light (issue)|#57]]
}}

[[File:TAAO-V1.jpg|upright=1|thumb|right|The Till All Are one.]]
In [[2014]], after ''Dark Cybertron'', new writer [[Mairghread Scott]] (previously known for her work on ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Transformers: Prime]]'') was brought on board for ''[[The Transformers: Windblade]]''. This four-issue miniseries starred [[Windblade (G1)|a new female Autobot]], the result of Hasbro's "Fan-Built Bot" poll, and continued with intrigue on Cybertron. Meanwhile, the two ongoings continued apace, splitting back off in their own directions but sharing a common thread of flashbacks to the immediate aftermath of ''Dark Cybertron''. The story of ''Robots in Disguise'' transitioned to Earth, and [[Onyx Interface Part One: Signals, Calls, and Marches|shortly thereafter]] the series changed its name to "''The Transformers''" to prevent confusion with [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|a new animated series]] (and causing a great deal of confusion with [[The Transformers (IDW)|Mike Costa's ongoing series]]). ''More than Meets the Eye'' continued mostly without interruption through [[2015]] until [[The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|issue #55]]. [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] briefly departed the main cast in [[Our Steps Will Always Rhyme|issue #40]] to take part in the four-issue ''[[The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone]]'' miniseries (written, of course, by Shane McCarthy) and [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] departed after [[The One Where They Go to Earth|issue #43]] to participate in IDW's next big event—''[[Combiner Wars (comic)|Combiner Wars]]''.

John Barber teamed up with Livio Ramondelli on ''[[The Transformers: Punishment]]'', a digital-first comic that would lead directly into this new event. ''Combiner Wars'' was told in alternating issues of ''The Transformers'' (starting with [[First Contact (IDW)|issue #39]]) and a renewed ''Windblade'' series (renumbered back to [[The Sum and Its Parts|#1]]). As with ''Dark Cybertron'', these comics were packed in with various figures. A ''[[An Uneventful Night|Combiner Hunters]]'' one shot was released, taking place between the first epilogue to the event (in [[Now and On Earth|''The Transformers'' #42]]) and the second (in [[Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|''Windblade'' #4]]). Windblade's story continued for [[Race Against the Light|another]] [[Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|three]] [[The Will of the Few|issues]], creating a combined total of eleven issues across two miniseries.

''The Transformers'' plowed ahead, with three brief sidetracks:
* ''[[The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers]]'', Nick Roche's five-issue sequel to ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'', taking place between [[The Transgressors|issues #44]] [[The Nothing Man|and #45]];
* ''[[The Transformers Holiday Special]]'' containing three stories by Scott, Roberts and Barber taking place between issues #45 [[Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|and #46]];
* ''[[The Transformers: Redemption]]'', Barber's sequel to ''Punishment'' taking place parallel to issues #46-[[Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|49]].

At their conclusion, the ongoings briefly converged for ''[[Titans Return (comic)|Titans Return]]''. This event consisted of [[The Last Autobot|a one-shot]] followed by a pair of stories told in ''The Transformers'' issues #[[White Light|56]]-[[White Heat|57]] and ''More than Meets the Eye'' issues #[[Ten to Midnight|56]]-[[Last Light (issue)|57]]. Around this time, Mairghread Scott got a fully-fledged ongoing of her own in the form of ''[[The Transformers: Till All Are One]]''; the book suffered a highly delayed launch, and its events seem to begin after the events of ''Titans Return''.

===''Revolution'' and "Phase Three"===
[[File:Rev4 HasbroUniverse.jpg|upright=3.5|thumb|centre|The "tip out the toybox" one.]]
{{chapters|title="Season 3":|align=left|content=
<div class="list-header">''ROM Volume 1''</div>
* [[Earthfall: Prelude|#0]]
* [[Earthfall|#1]]
* [[Earthfall, Part 2|#2]]
* [[Earthfall, Part 3|#3]]
* [[Earthfall, Part 4|#4]]

 <div class="list-header">''Micronauts Volume 1''</div>
* [[Micronauts issue 1|#1]]
* [[Micronauts issue 2|#2]]
* [[Micronauts issue 3|#3]]
* [[Micronauts issue 4|#4]]
* [[Micronauts issue 5|#5]]
* [[Micronauts issue 6|#6]]

 <div class="list-header">''Action Man''</div>
* [[To the Victors the Spoils|Prologue]]
* [[Absolute Beginners|#1]]
* [[England, Half English|#2]]
* [[Out of the Way|#3]]
* [[Mr Love and Justice|#4]]

 <div class="list-header">''Revolution''</div>
* [[Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|#0]]
* [[Concorde Hymn|#1]]
* [[The Divine Source of Liberty|#2]]
* [[O Ship of State|#3]]
* [[The New Colossus|#4]]
* [[Valley Forge|#5]]
 <div class="list-header">''Revolution: Heroes''</div>
* ''[[Field Test|ROM]]''
* ''[[M.A.S.K.: Revolution|M.A.S.K.]]''
* ''[[Micronauts: Revolution|Micronauts]]''
* ''[[D.T.A.|G.I. Joe]]''
* ''[[The Modern World|Action Man]]''
 <div class="list-header">''Revolution: Transformers''</div>
* [[Informed|''Till All Are One'']]
* [[Thundercracker & Buster Save the World|''The Transformers'']]
* [[Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!|''More than Meets the Eye'']]
* [[The Transformers Holiday Special|Holiday Special]]

 <div class="list-header">''Lost Light Volume 1''</div>
* [[Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|#1]]
* [[Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|#2]]
* [[Dissolution Part 3: A World Misplaced|#3]]
* [[Dissolution Part 4: Bad Moon Rising|#4]]
* [[Dissolution Part 5: Modes of Production|#5]]
* [[Dissolution Part 6: This Machine Kills Fascists|#6]]
 <div class="list-header">''ROM Volume 2''</div>
* [[Reinforcements, Part 1|#5]]
* [[Reinforcements, Part 2|#6]]
* [[Reinforcements, Part 3|#7]]
* [[Reinforcements, Part 4|#8]]
* [[Reinforcements, Part 5|#9]]
* [[Cold Fire|Annual]]
 <div class="list-header">''Rom vs. Transformers: Shining Armor''</div>
* [[Shining Armor issue 1|#1]]
* [[Shining Armor issue 2|#2]]
* [[Shining Armor issue 3|#3]]
* [[Shining Armor issue 4|#4]]
* [[Shining Armor issue 5|#5]]
 <div class="list-header">''Micronauts Volume 2''</div>
* [[Micronauts issue 7|#7]]
* [[Micronauts issue 8|#8]]
* [[Micronauts issue 9|#9]]
* [[Micronauts issue 10|#10]]
* [[Micronauts issue 11|#11]]
 <div class="list-header">''Micronauts: Into the Microspace''</div>
* [[Micronauts Annual 2017|Annual]]
 <div class="list-header">''Till All Are One Volume 2''</div>
* [[Informed|Revolution]]
* [[Ping|#5]]
* [[Desperate Times|#6]]
* [[Desperate Measures (Till All Are One)|#7]]
* [[Rubicon|#8]]
 <div class="list-header">''G.I. Joe Volume 1''</div>
* [[G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|#1]]
* [[G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 2|#2]]
* [[G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 3|#3]]
* [[G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|#4]]
 <div class="list-header">''Revolutionaries Volume 1''</div>
* [[Crisis Intervention|#1]]
* [[Enter the Shadow|#2]]
* [[The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb|#3]]
* [[The Iron Klaw|#4]]
 <div class="list-header">''M.A.S.K. Volume 1''</div>
* [[M.A.S.K. issue 1|#1]]
* [[M.A.S.K. issue 2|#2]]
* [[M.A.S.K. issue 3|#3]]
* [[M.A.S.K. issue 4|#4]]
* [[M.A.S.K. issue 5|#5]]
 <div class="list-header">''Optimus Prime Volume 1''</div>
* [[New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen|#1]]
* [[New Cybertron Part 2: A Lonely Pillar on the Plain|#2]]
* [[New Cybertron Part 3: Behind My Bleeding Back|#3]]
* [[New Cybertron Part 4: Dance Among the Shadows|#4]]
* [[New Cybertron Part 5: Future Glories Lost|#5]]
* [[New Cybertron End: Feel Safe Without Regrets|#6]]
 <div class="list-header">''Redemption of the Dinobots''</div>
* ''[[The Transformers: Salvation|Salvation]]''

 <div class="list-header">''Lost Light Volume 2''</div>
* [[After Megatron (A Dissolution Epilogue)|#7]]
* [[An Axe to Break the Ice|#8]]
* [[Chasing the Infinite|#9]]
* [[The Plotters' Club (Part 1): Full Circle|#10]]
* [[The Plotters' Club (Part 2): Filling in the Blanks|#11]]
* [[The Plotters' Club (Part 3): Journey's End|#12]]
 <div class="list-header">''ROM Volume 3''</div>
* [[Interlude (ROM)|#10]]
* [[ROM issue 11|#11]]
* [[ROM issue 12|#12]]
* [[ROM issue 13|#13]]
* [[ROM issue 14|#14]]
 <div class="list-header">''Micronauts: Wrath of Karza''</div>
* [[Wrath of Karza issue 1|#1]]
* [[Wrath of Karza issue 2|#2]]
* [[Wrath of Karza issue 3|#3]]
* [[Wrath of Karza issue 4|#4]]
* [[Wrath of Karza issue 5|#5]]
 <div class="list-header">''Till All Are One Volume 3''</div>
* [[Heavy|#9]]
* [[The Price of You|#10]]
* [[If I Know You|#11]]
* [[Your First Mistake|#12]]
* [[The Chosen One|Annual]]
 <div class="list-header">''G.I. Joe Volume 2''</div>
* [[G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|#5]]
* [[G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|#6]]
* [[G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|#7]]
* [[G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 8|#8]]
* [[G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|#9]]
 <div class="list-header">''Revolutionaries Volume 2''</div>
* [[Strange Visitors|#5]]
* [[Power and Glory|#6]]
* [[When Eagles Scream|#7]]
* [[Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|#8]]
 <div class="list-header">''M.A.S.K. Volume 2''</div>
* [[The Deathstone|Annual]]
* [[The Origin of V.E.N.O.M. Part 1|#6]]
* [[The Origin of V.E.N.O.M. Part 2|#7]]
* [[M.A.S.K. issue 8|#8]]
* [[M.A.S.K. issue 9|#9]]
* [[M.A.S.K. issue 10|#10]]
 <div class="list-header">''Optimus Prime Volume 2''</div>
* [[The Next Day, and the Next|#7]]
* [[What It's Really Like|#8]]
* [[Ghost Stories|Annual]]
* [[The Life of Sideswipe|#9]]
* [[Origin Myths|#10]]
 <div class="list-header">''Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook''</div>
* [[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 1|#1]]
* [[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 2|#2]]
* [[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 3|#3]]

 <div class="list-header">''Transformers/G.I. JOE: First Strike''</div>
* [[First Strike issue 0|#0]]
* [[First Strike issue 1|#1]]
* [[First Strike issue 2|#2]]
* [[First Strike issue 3|#3]]
* [[First Strike issue 4|#4]]
* [[First Strike issue 5|#5]]
* [[First Strike issue 6|#6]]
* ''[[The Origins of Evil]]''
 <div class="list-header">''Optimus Prime Volume 3''</div>
* [[Unification Day: Dawn|''Optimus Prime: First Strike'']]
* [[Unification Day: Dusk|''The Transformers: First Strike'']]
* [[Primeless, Part 1|#11]]
* [[Primeless, Part 2|#12]]
* [[The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|#13]]
* [[The Dead Come Home, Part 2 (of 2)|#14]]
 <div class="list-header">''Lost Light Volume 3''</div>
* [[Sardines|#13]]
* [[The Ties That Bind (issue)|#14]]
* [[Kill All 'Cons|#15]]
* [[The Everlasting Voices (1): Metastasis|#16]]
* [[The Everlasting Voices (2): The God War|#17]]
* [[The Everlasting Voices (3): You Are Here|#18]]
 <div class="list-header">''Rom & The Micronauts''</div>
* ''[[Micronauts: First Strike]]''
* ''[[ROM: First Strike]]''
* [[Small World|#1]]
* [[Microspace Knight|#2]]
* [[Entropy|#3]]
* [[Asymmetric Warfare|#4]]
* [[Gods and Monsters|#5]]
 <div class="list-header">''Scarlett's Strike Force''</div>
* ''[[G.I. Joe: First Strike]]''
* ''[[M.A.S.K.: First Strike]]''
* [[Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|#1]]
* [[Scarlett's Strike Force issue 2|#2]]
* [[Scarlett's Strike Force issue 3|#3]]
 <div class="list-header">''Optimus Prime Volume 4''</div>
* [[The Falling, Chapter 1: Surfeit of Primes|#15]]
* [[The Falling, Chapter 2: Another Mine|#16]]
* [[The Falling, Chapter 3: The Ground|#17]]
* [[The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|#18]]
* [[The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|#19]]
* [[The Falling, Chapter 5: Endless Forever|#20]]
* [[The Falling, Chapter 6: Unforgivable|#21]]
 <div class="list-header">''Transformers vs. Visionaries''</div>
* [[Schismatic|#1]]
* [[Cybertron No More|#2]]
* [[Desperate Measures (Transformers vs. Visionaries)|#3]]
* [[Good Men|#4]]
* [[The Curtain|#5]]
 <div class="list-header">''The Wreckers Saga''</div>
* ''[[Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers|Requiem of the Wreckers]]''
 <div class="list-header">''Lost Light Volume 4''</div>
* [[Crucible (Part 1): A Dance Before Dying|#19]]
* [[Crucible (Part 2): Lūstrāre|#20]]
* [[Crucible (Part 3): Farsickness|#21]]
* [[Crucible (Part 4): The Return of the King|#22]]
* [[Crucible (Part 5): The Unremembering|#23]]
* [[Crucible (Part 6): A Spark Among Embers|#24]]
* [[How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2|#25]]
 <div class="list-header">''Optimus Prime Volume 5''</div>
* [[Unstopped and Unstoppable|#22]]
* [[Time Will Rust|#23]]
* [[A Sunrise Dark|#24]]
* [[Post|#25]]
* [[Starscream: The Movie (comic)|Annual 2018]]
 <div class="list-header">''Unicron''</div>
* [[Our Darkest|#0]]
* [[Last Stand (Unicron)|#1]]
* [[Stranger Eons|#2]]
* [[Our Finest|#3]]
* [[Road's End|#4]]
* [[Assembly (Unicron)|#5]]
* [[Ceremony|#6]]
}}

[[File:Revolution-TPB.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|right|The ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]'' one.]]
This was when things got reaaally crazy.

In [[2016]], IDW announced the "[[Hasbro Universe]]"—a new direction for the Transformers continuity that will slowly bring other Hasbro properties into the fold. The first steps in building this new shared universe came in the form of a new six-issue series for the ''[[Micronauts (comic)|Micronauts]]'', written by [[Cullen Bunn]], and later for ''[[ROM (comic)|ROM]]'' (issues #0–4 courtesy of [[Chris Ryall]] and [[Christos Gage]]) and ''[[Action Man (comic)|Action Man]]'' (a four-issue miniseries from John Barber). IDW's previous ''{{i|G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe}}'' comics were retroactively folded into the continuity, supposedly having taken place in the time since ''All Hail Megatron''. Barber and Bunn teamed up to set these properties on a collision course in ''[[Revolution]]'', the most ambitious [[crossover]] event in history.

IDW presented a checklist for the event at the back of each issue, but the publication order of the tie-ins didn't match the main series due to various delays and complications. For reference, a sequential ordering would be as follows:
* [[Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|''Revolution'' #0]]
* [[Concorde Hymn|''Revolution'' #1]]
* ''[[Field Test|ROM: Revolution]]''
* ''[[M.A.S.K.: Revolution]]'' (scheduled after #2, but introduces M.A.S.K. for their appearance there)
* [[The Divine Source of Liberty|''Revolution'' #2]]
* ''[[Micronauts: Revolution]]''
* ''[[Informed|Till All Are One: Revolution]]'' (scheduled before #4, but set between #2 and #3, building on the reveal from the ''Micronauts'' tie-in)
* [[O Ship of State|''Revolution'' #3]]
* ''[[D.T.A.|G.I. Joe: Revolution]]''
* ''[[Thundercracker & Buster Save the World|The Transformers: Revolution]]''
* ''[[The Modern World|Action Man: Revolution]]''
* [[The New Colossus|''Revolution'' #4]] (scheduled before the tie-ins for ''The Transformers'' and ''Action Man'', but takes place afterwards)
* [[Valley Forge|''Revolution'' #5]]
* ''[[Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!|More than Meets the Eye: Revolution]]'' (a standalone comedy issue not referenced by the main series, scheduled before #5)

After the publication of ''Revolution'', a non-canon three-issue spoof of the event was released: ''[[Aw Yeah Revolution!]]'' written by [[Art Baltazar]] in the style of his other comics. Originally solicited for five issues, the series was seemingly truncated down to three issues.

[[File:FirstStrike TPBcvr.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|left|The "go buy ''Visionaries''" one.]]
''[[The Transformers: Till All Are One|Till All Are One]]'' continued to run from issues #5–12, while ''More than Meets the Eye'' was relaunched as ''[[The Transformers: Lost Light]]''. Roberts' story was still playing catch-up, chronologically speaking, but was so disconnected from everything else that it ran until issue #25 without really interacting with the rest of the Hasbro Universe. He found out that ''Lost Light'' was to be cancelled at issue #25 while writing issue #12, resulting in a great deal of reshuffling of plot threads from that point on. Scott's plans, however, were to be truncated even earlier, by IDW's next crossover.

''ROM'' continued until issue #14. A pair of flashback stories focused on the Space Knight were also released: [[Cold Fire|an annual]] and a five-issue ''[[Rom vs. Transformers: Shining Armor]]'' crossover miniseries. These stories are probably best read after issue #10, which included a similar flashback. ''Micronauts'' continued until issue #11, with [[Micronauts Annual 2017|an additional annual]] taking place between issues #9 and #10, before concluding in a five-issue miniseries titled ''[[Micronauts: Wrath of Karza]]''.

New [[G.I. Joe vol. 5|''G.I. Joe'']] and ''[[M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand|M.A.S.K.]]'' series were launched. [[Aubrey Sitterson]]'s ''G.I. Joe'' ran for nine issues; eschewing the "realistic" approaches of earlier authors, Sitterson's take on the premise was one that incorporated overt science-fiction and fantasy elements, including the surprise introduction of [[Skywarp (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Skywarp]] as a supporting character. Meanwhile, [[Brandon M. Easton|Brandon Easton]]'s ''M.A.S.K.'' ran for ten issues. [[The Deathstone|An ''M.A.S.K.'' annual]] by the co-writer of IDW's next event saw them team up with the ''G.I. Joe'' cast, but various inconsistencies with Easton's timeline make placing it chronologically a little tricky (the collected editions just put it between issues #5 and #6).

''The Transformers'' was relaunched as ''[[Optimus Prime (comic)|Optimus Prime]]''. [[Ghost Stories|An annual]] was published under a generic ''Transformers'' label, taking place between issues #8 and #9. John Barber also released ''[[The Transformers: Salvation]]'', the final part of his ''Redemption of the Dinobots'' trilogy (the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s would later show up in issue #13). At the same time, Barber also wrote the eight-issue team book ''[[Revolutionaries]]'', which continued plot threads from ''The Transformers'', ''Action Man'', and ''Revolution'' while featuring frequent guest-stars from the other series. After issue #10 of ''Optimus Prime'', IDW's next crossover began.

Three issues of the [[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook]] profile series were released—in addition to profiles on various characters in the universe, each issue included a four-page comic story. [[2017]]'s ''[[First Strike]]'' event, written by Mairghread Scott and David A. Rodriguez, brought the Transformers and G.I. Joe together in a six-issue miniseries. A series of backup strips titled ''[[The Origins of Evil]]'' ran alongside the event. Meanwhile, four loosely-connected two-part tie-in stories were published for other series, taking place concurrently with the crossover without directly factoring into its events:
* ''Optimus Prime'' #11–12
* ''[[Unification Day: Dawn|Optimus Prime: First Strike]]'' & ''[[Unification Day: Dusk|Transformers: First Strike]]''
* ''[[G.I. Joe: First Strike]]'' & ''[[M.A.S.K.: First Strike]]''
* ''[[Micronauts: First Strike]]'' & ''[[ROM: First Strike]]''
[[File:Unicron-Bcovers-JamesRaiz.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|right|The Unicron-eats-every-one.]]

Following the event, the non-''Transformers'' books were relaunched as ''[[Rom & the Micronauts]]'' by Gage and ''[[Scarlett's Strike Force]]'' by Sitterson. Sitterson's story was cancelled prematurely, ending on a cliffhanger in issue #3, with the script to issue #4 and outlines to the rest of the series later being released on his Patreon. Gage fared a little better, releasing the planned five issues of the miniseries.

Another ''Optimus Prime'' two-parter, #13 and #14's "The Dead Come Home", picked up where the event left off. Scott returned one final time to tie up her dangling plot threads in a ''Till All Are One'' annual; Barber wrote another annual set roughly concurrently with hers and leading into his next six-issue arc, "The Falling". The five-issue ''[[Transformers vs. Visionaries]]'' miniseries introduced another old Hasbro property to the universe, and Roche returned in its immediate aftermath for ''[[Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers]]'', the final part of his ''Wreckers Saga''.

The 2005 IDW continuity finally drew to a close in [[2018]] with Barber's six-issue ''[[Transformers: Unicron]]'' crossover. An additional issue #0 was released a little out-of sequence for [[Free Comic Book Day]]; the events of ''Optimus Prime'' #22, released three months later, bookend those of that issue and are intended to be read afterwards. To check in on the Hasbro Universe at large, a series of four-page back-up strips (mostly by those books' creative teams) were printed alongside the event.

Following the continuity's conclusion, IDW published a chronological prose recap of the entire story in the form of ''[[Transformers: Historia]]'' by [[Chris McFeely]]. In [[2020]], quite unexpectedly, Chris Ryall returned for the three-issue ''[[Rom: Dire Wraiths]]'' flashback miniseries, set in the Hasbro Universe.

A [[Transformers (2019 comic)|new series]] set in [[2019 IDW continuity|a fully-rebooted continuity]] began in [[2019]].
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==Collected editions==
[[File:IDWCollection1.jpg|upright=1|thumb|right|The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume one.]]
Every single comic published as part of the 2005 IDW continuity, bar one (see below), has been collected in at least one trade paperback. Each trade paperback typically collects four to six issues, usually forming one or more complete arcs.

Since 2010 IDW has also been collecting stories in hardback with ''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection]]'', which presents stories in a "suggested reading order" that ultimately leaves much to be desired. Phase One was collected across eight volumes, the first two of which were also collected together in [[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Compendium, Vol. 1|a paperback compendium]]. Phase Two's collections numbered twelve, with a reading order that haphazardly jumps back and forth between the two ongoings. Phase Three managed to eke out three volumes before IDW's losing of the license forced publication of the collections to cease, cutting off right before [[First Strike]]. Still, these collections remain the only way of getting many of the older series new in print.

If you live in the UK, [[Hachette]]'s ''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]'' similarly attempted to print every story in hardback along with previous [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] and [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] series. The reading order presented in this partwork, however, is every bit as baffling as that of ''The IDW Collection'' and is further complicated by the fact that individual volumes are ''themselves'' released out of order to keep people subscribed for the full duration of the run.

''Requiem of the Wreckers'' was only collected as part of a larger trade paperback—''[[Transformers: The Wreckers Saga]]'', containing over ten issues that had already seen release in prior collections. It was later released in Vol. 80 of the aforementioned ''Definitive G1 Collection''.

A similar situation would have occurred for the [[Micronauts Annual 2017|2017 ''Micronauts'' annual]], which would have been collected as part of ''[[Micronauts (comic)|Micronauts: Into the Microspace]]''. Unfortunately, the trade was cancelled, leaving this annual as the only comic of this continuity '''not''' to have been collected in a trade.

==Timeline==
''See main article: [[2005 IDW timeline]].''
{{note|As information about the IDW universe was slowly revealed in non-chronological order, this timeline is intended mainly as a reference for people who are already familiar with it.}}

==Artists==
{{Creatorstub|accurate information on more artists and colourists. Notable missing include [[Livio Ramondelli]], [[Joana Lafuente]], [[Priscilla Tramontano]], [[Marcelo Matere]], [[Josh Perez]], [[Rob Ruffolo]]}}
Many artists contributed to the IDW continuity across its thirteen-year run.

===Line art===
[[File:Infiltration EJ covers.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|right|The "{{w|Ultimate Marvel}}" one.]]
* [[Alex Milne]] illustrated a whopping 1407 pages. He was the main artist of ''Megatron Origin'', ''The Transformers: Drift'', ''More than Meets the Eye'', ''Rom vs. Transformers'', and ''Transformers: Unicron''. In addition, he worked on ''Spotlight: Arcee'', several issues of the 2009 ''Transformers'' series, an issue of ''Optimus Prime'' and an issue of ''Lost Light''.
* [[Andrew Griffith]] worked on 1020 pages, most notably as the main artist of ''Robots in Disguise'', but also contributing to many others, such as a coda story in ''All Hail Megatron'', inking 2 issues of ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'', the full series of ''Micronauts: Wrath of Karza'' (with [[Ron Joseph]]), 3 pages of ''Lost Light'', one issue ''Optimus Prime'', 4 pages of the Annual 2018, 7 pages of issue 24, and 7 pages of the sixth issue of ''Transformers: Unicron''.
* [[Guido Guidi]] illustrated 722 pages for ''Hearts of Steel'', ''Infestation 2'', ''All Hail Megatron'', ''Spotlight: Galvatron'', ''Spotlight: Mirage'', ''Drift - Empire of Stone'', ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'', ''The Transformers'', ''More than Meets the Eye'', ''Robots in Disguise'', ''Revolutionaries'', and ''Optimus Prime: First Strike''.
* [[Nick Roche]] illustrated 603 pages, including ''Spotlight'' issues for Shockwave, Hot Rod, Kup, Hardhead, and Megatron along with ''Infestation'' and ''The Death of Optimus Prime''. He was the main artist on ''Maximum Dinobots'', and also contributed to ''Devastation'', the ''All Hail Megatron'' Coda, ''The Transformers'', and ''More than Meets the Eye''. He was the creative force behind IDW's ''Wreckers'' stories.
* [[E. J. Su]] illustrated 511 pages. He was the main artist for ''Infiltration'', ''Escalation'', ''Devastation'', and ''Revelation'', in which he redesigned many G1 characters with a sense of realism and updated, modern alternate modes, while still being relatively faithful to the originals. He also illustrated ''Spotlight: Jazz'', ''Spotlight: Prowl'', the flashback sequences in ''All Hail Megatron'' #7, and ''The Transformers'' #7. Years later, he would return to the IDW comics for the final arc of ''Lost Light''.
[[File:Earthworks menasor vs autobots.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|right|The "[[:File:IDWongoing1 dons new style.jpg|Oh Primus, Rodimus, what happened to your face?]]" one.]]
* [[Jack Lawrence]] created 320 pages over 16 issues of ''Lost Light''.
* [[Don Figueroa]] illustrated 297 pages including the entirety of ''Stormbringer'' and ''Spotlight: Optimus Prime''. He also contributed [[All Hail Megatron issue 13#"Old Ways"|a story]] to the ''All Hail Megatron'' Coda. For the 2009 ongoing series, to which he contributed eight issues, Don brought an entirely new (and controversial) aesthetic, with detailed and complex designs that were evocative of those used in [[Live-action film series|the live-action film series]]. He was also responsible for designing [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s stealth bomber form.
* [[Brendan Cahill]] illustrated 270 pages including the entirety of the "Police Action" storyline in ''The Transformers'' and several contributions to ''Robots in Disguise'', ''More than Meets the Eye'', ''Lost Light'', and ''Requiem of the Wreckers''.
* [[Kei Zama]] illustrated 246 pages as they were the main artist of ''Optimus Prime'', as well as contributing 9 pages to the sixth issue of ''Unicron''.
* [[Casey Coller]] illustrated 205 pages, including ''Spotlight: Blurr'', ''Spotlight: Drift'', the entirety of ''Ironhide'', and a couple of contributions to ''All Hail Megatron'', ''The Transformers'' and Barber's various ongoings. He regularly provided variant covers.
* [[Saren Stone]] created 132 pages for ''Windblade'' and ''Robots in Disguise''.
* [[Ulises Fariñas]] created 89 pages for ''Heart of Darkness''. He was clearly unfamiliar with Transformers and his artwork did no favors for the already-disjointed writing, resulting in perhaps the most-reviled miniseries in IDW ''Transformers'' history.
* [[Emiliano Santalucia]] illustrated 52 pages across ''Spotlight: Blaster'' and ''All Hail'' Megatron #9, #10, and #14.
* [[James Raiz]] illustrated 41 pages—a few for ''Maximum Dinobots'', and the entirety of ''More than Meets the Eye'' #22.
* [[Jimbo Salgado]] and [[Emil Cabaltierra]] contributed 37 pages total in the ''More than Meets the Eye'' Annual.
* [[Robert Deas]] illustrated 14 pages of ''All Hail Megatron'' #9.
* [[Marcelo Ferreira]] pencilled 6 pages of the last issue of ''Drift - Empire of Stone''.

===Colors===
* [[Josh Burcham]] colored an amazing 2029 pages. He started almost at the beginning with ''Infiltration'' #1, the full ''Stormbringer'' arc, 5 ''Spotlights'' and 2 issues of ''Devastation''. He colored the main set of ''All Hail Megatron'' plus an issue and a half of the coda, 2 issues of ''Maximum Dinobots'' and all issues of ''Last Stand of the Wreckers''. Into "Phase 2", he worked on ''The Death of Optimus Prime'', 23 issues of ''More than Meets the Eye'', "The Thirteenth Day of Christmas" (art and colors), the full ''Sins of the Wreckers'' series, 6 issues of ''The Transformers'' Vol. 2, and work on ''More than Meets the Eye: Revolution''. Finally he colored 21 issues of ''Optimus Prime'', its Annual and the ''Requiem of the Wreckers'' one-shot.

==Toyline==
Although IDW's stories were never really intended to promote any particular toyline being produced by Hasbro, over the years there were many instances of Hasbro looking to IDW's character designs for inspiration, or vice versa! The following list can be broadly split into the following categories:
* Toys in '''bold''' are directly inspired in some part by their appearance in the comics.
* Toys which are underlined share a "common ancestor" with an IDW design, usually in the form of a particular piece of concept art.
* The rest were either directly used for reference by IDW's artists, or specifically requested by Hasbro for inclusion in the comics.

===''Stormbringer''===
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{{Bp-a1|[[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Classics|''Classics'' Jetfire]]}}
</ul>
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<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Scoop (G1)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Scoop]]''' (head only, later used in ''Dark Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Spotlight''===
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{{Bp-d1|[[Ramjet (G1)/toys#Classics|''Classics'' Ramjet]] (''Spotlight: Ramjet'')}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Galvatron (G1)/toys#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Galvatron]]''' (''Spotlight: Galvatron'')}}
</ul>
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<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#T30Deluxe|''Thrilling 30'' Orion Pax]]''' (''Spotlight: Blurr'')}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Blurr (G1)/toys#Legacy|''Legacy'' Blurr]]''' (''Spotlight: Blurr)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#T30Deluxe|''Thrilling 30'' Thundercracker]] (''Spotlight: Thundercracker'')}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Landmine (Energon)#Energon|''Energon'' Landmine]] (''Spotlight: Trailcutter'', artist error)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Megatron Origin''===
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<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Ratbat (G1)/toys#Generations|''Generations'' Ratbat]]''' (head only)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Sentinel Prime (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Sentinel Prime]]''' (loose inspiration only, later used in ''Titans Return'')}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Devastation''===
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<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Jhiaxus (G2)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Jhiaxus]]''' (sculpt only, colors later used in ''Dark Cybertron'')}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''All Hail Megatron''===
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{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/toys#MasterpieceUS|''Masterpiece'' Starscream]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|''Masterpiece'' Thundercracker]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|''Masterpiece'' Skywarp]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Thrust (G1)/toys#Gentei! Gentei!|''Gentei! Gentei!'' Thrust]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#Classics|''Classics'' Astrotrain]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Octane#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Tankor]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Dropshot (G1)#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Dropshot]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Scourge (G1)/toys#Generations|''Generations'' Scourge]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Univ2008Dx|''Universe'' Hound]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Prowl]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sunstreaker (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Sunstreaker]]}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Perceptor (G1)/toys#Transformers (2010)|''Reveal the Shield'' Perceptor]]''' (details only)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Blurr (G1)/toys#Generations|''Generations'' Blurr]]''' (head only)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Drift (G1)#Generations|''Generations'' Drift]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Kup (G1)/toys#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Kup]]''' (later used in ''Revolutionaries'')}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Perceptor (G1)/toys#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Perceptor]]'''}}
* '''[[Sparkplug Witwicky#Kre-O|''Kre-O'' Colonel Daniel Witwicky]]'''
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TFU08-toy Dropshot.jpg|right|200px|thumb|''Universe'' Dropshot put in a surprise appearance in ''All Hail Megatron''.]]
|}

===''The Transformers''===
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|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Silverbolt (G1)#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Silverbolt]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Silverstreak]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Smokescreen (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Smokescreen]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Drag Strip (G1)#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Drag Strip]] (loose inspiration only)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Windcharger (G1)#Transformers (2010)|''Reveal the Shield'' Windcharger]]}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Thrilling 30|''Thrilling 30'' Legends Optimus Prime]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#T30Deluxe|''Thrilling 30'' Deluxe Bumblebee]]'''}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#T30Deluxe|''Thrilling 30'' Deluxe Megatron]]'''}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Sunstorm (G1)#Masterpiece|''Masterpiece'' Sunstorm]] (sculpt only)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Acid Storm (G1)#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Acid Storm]] (deco only) / [[Acid Storm (G1)#Masterpiece|''Masterpiece'' Acid Storm]] (sculpt only)}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Thrilling 30|''Thrilling 30'' Legends Megatron]]'''}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Starscream (G1)/toys#GenLegends|''Thrilling 30'' Legends Starscream]]''' / '''[[Starscream (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Starscream]]'''}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Skywarp]]''' (Legends/Leader)}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Thundercracker]]''' (Legends/Leader)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Generations Leader TC.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Guido Guidi's updated version of E.J. Su's Seeker design was the basis for several toys.]]
|}

===''Last Stand of the Wreckers''===
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{{Bp-a1|'''[[Guzzle (DOTM)#Dark of the Moon|''Dark of the Moon'' Guzzle]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Springer (G1)/toys#Thrilling 30|''Thrilling 30'' Springer]]'''}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Impactor (Prime)#Generations|''Fall of Cybertron'' Impactor]]''' (head only)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Impactor (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Timelines'' Impactor]]''' (head only)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Impactor (G1)#AmazonFanVote3Pack|''Siege'' Decepticon Impactor]]''' (head only)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Drift''===
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{{Bp-a1|'''[[Drift (G1)#Generations|''Legends'' Deadlock]]''' (deco only)}}
</ul>
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|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Lockdown (ROTF)#Revenge of the Fallen|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Lockdown]]}}
</ul>
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|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
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===''The Death of Optimus Prime''===
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{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Timelines|''Timelines'' Sideswipe]]}}
</ul>
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|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
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===''More than Meets the Eye / Lost Light''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
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<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Swerve (G1)#Thrilling 30|''Thrilling 30'' Swerve]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Tailgate (G1)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Tailgate]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Trailbreaker (G1)/toys#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Trailcutter]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Brainstorm (G1)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Brainstorm]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Brainstorm (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Titan Force Brainstorm]]''' (head and deco only)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Whirl (G1)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Whirl]]''' (loose inspiration only)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Skids (G1)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Skids]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Gears (G1)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Gears]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Hoist (G1)/toys#T30Deluxe|''Thrilling 30'' Hoist]]''' (head only, later used in ''Spotlight: Hoist'')}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sandstorm (G1)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Sandstorm]]}}
{{Bp-mc|[[High Wire (Armada)#Armada|''Armada'' High Wire]] (repurposed as [[Tripodeca]])}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Ratchet (WFC)#Robots in Disguise|''Prime'' Ratchet]] (vehicle mode only, artist error)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[IP infringement|''Mastermind Creations'' Calidus]]''' (vehicle mode only, artist error)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[IP infringement|''Mastermind Creations'' Stray]]''' (vehicle mode only, artist error)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Drift (G1)#Adventure|''Adventure'' Drift]]''' (head only)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Blades (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Blades]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rook (CW)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Rook]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Defensor (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Defensor]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Windcharger (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Windcharger]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Ultra Magnus / Minimus Ambus]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Megatron]]''' (stickers only)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Chromedome (G1)#Timelines|''Timelines'' Chromedome]]''' (head only)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Rewind (G1)#Timelines|''Timelines'' Rewind]]''' (head only)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Chromedome (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Chromedome]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Rewind (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Rewind]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Getaway#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Breakaway]]''' (head only)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Cerebros (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Cerebros]] (robot mode only)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Roller (IDW)#Unite Warriors|''Unite Warriors'' Wandering Roller]]''' (deco only)}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Rung (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' Rung]]'''}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Black Shadow (G1)#Generations|''Generations'' Sky Shadow]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Vehicon (Prime)#FirstEdition|''Prime'' Vehicon]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Vehicon (Prime)#CyberverseAir|''Prime'' Air Vehicon]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Insecticon (WFC)#Prime|''Prime'' Insecticon]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Tarn (G1)#Legacy|''Legacy'' Comic Universe Tarn]]'''}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:TF-Generations-WFC-E-Battle-Master-Rung.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Rung finally made the jump to toy form in the ''Siege'' line, as a [[Battle Master]].]]
|}

===''Robots in Disguise''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Rumble (G1)/toys#United|''United'' Rumble]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Frenzy (G1)/toys#United|''United'' Frenzy]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (WFC)/toys#Generations|''Fall of Cybertron'' Starscream]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (WFC)#Generations|''Fall of Cybertron'' Shockwave]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (WFC)/toys#War for Cybertron|''War for Cybertron'' Cybertronian Soundwave]] / [[Soundwave (WFC)/toys#Fall of Cybertron|''Fall of Cybertron'' Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Laserbeak (WFC)#Generations|''Fall of Cybertron'' Laserbeak]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Onslaught (WFC)#Retail|''Fall of Cybertron'' Onslaught]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Brawl (WFC)#Retail|''Fall of Cybertron'' Brawl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Blast Off (FOC)#Retail|''Fall of Cybertron'' Blast Off]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Skywarp]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Dreadwing (G2)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Dreadwing]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Blitzwing (G1)/toys#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Blitzwing]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Mirage (G1)/toys#Classics|''Classics'' Mirage]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Warpath (G1)#Generations|''Generations'' Warpath]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (WFC)#Generations|''Fall of Cybertron'' Jazz]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Sideswipe (WFC)#Generations|''Fall of Cybertron'' Sideswipe]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Generations|''War for Cybertron'' Cybertronian Bumblebee]] / '''[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Legends Bumblebee]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#Goldfire|''Thrilling 30'' Goldfire]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#T30Deluxe|''Thrilling 30'' Waspinator]]}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Rhinox (BW)/toys#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Rhinox]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Rattrap (BW)/toys#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Rattrap]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Alpha Bravo#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Alpha Bravo]]}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Arcee (G1)/toys#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Arcee]]''' (head only)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|[[File:Generationstoy-BumblebeeBlazemaster.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Andrew Griffith's version of Bumblebee's ''War for Cybertron'' design served as the basis of his ''Thrilling 30'' toy.]]
|}

===''Autocracy Trilogy''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Heavy Load (Universe)#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Heavy Load]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Hailstorm (TF 2010)#Transformers (2010)|''Hunt for the Decepticons'' Hailstorm]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Lugnut (TF 2010)#Transformers (2010)|''Reveal the Shield'' Lugnut]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bulkhead (Prime)#Prime|''Prime'' Bulkhead]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Dark Cybertron''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (Armada)/toys#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' ''Armada'' Starscream]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Mini-Con Assault Team#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Mini-Con Assault Team]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Tankor (BM)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Tankor]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Nautica (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Nautica]]''' (head/turbines only)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Windblade (G1)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Windblade]]}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Windblade (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Windblade]]'''}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Chromia (G1)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Chromia]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Arcee (G1)/toys#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Arcee]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Crosscut (G1)#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Crosscut]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Generations|''Thrilling 30'' Jetfire]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Windblade''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Rippersnapper (Prime)#Prime|''Prime'' Rippersnapper]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Windrazor (Prime)#Cyberverse|''Prime'' Windrazor]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Twinstrike (Prime)#Cyberverse|''Prime'' Twinstrike]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Combiner Wars''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Motormaster (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Motormaster]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Dead End (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Dead End]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Breakdown (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Breakdown]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Drag Strip (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Drag Strip]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Offroad (CW)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Offroad]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Blackjack (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Blackjack]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Air Raid (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Air Raid]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Skydive]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Fireflight (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Firefly]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Silverbolt (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Silverbolt]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Spot (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Hot Spot]] (artist error)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Optimus Prime]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Combiner Hunters''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Arcee (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Combiner Hunters Arcee]] (sculpt non-canonical)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Windblade (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Combiner Hunters Windblade]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Chromia (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Combiner Hunters Chromia]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Till All Are One''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/toys#Power of the Primes|''Power of the Primes'' Starscream]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (Cyberverse)#Toys|''Cyberverse'' Starscream]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Onslaught (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Onslaught]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Swindle (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Swindle]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Blast Off (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Blast Off]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Vortex (G1)#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Vortex]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Brawl (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Brawl]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Titans Return''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Infinitus#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Infinitus]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Sovereign#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Sovereign]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Optimus Prime''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)#Toys|''Cyberverse'' Optimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)#Toys|''Cyberverse'' Bumblebee]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (Cyberverse)#Toys|''Cyberverse'' Shockwave]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Seaspray (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Seaspray]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Beachcomber (G1)#Power of the Primes|''Power of the Primes'' Beachcomber]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Transformers vs. Visionaries''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Quickswitch#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Quickswitch]] (robot mode only)}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Thrustinator|''Timelines'' Thrustinator]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Requiem of the Wreckers''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Smolder (PCC)#Power Core Combiners|''Power Core Combiners'' Smolder]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Steamhammer (PCC)#Power Core Combiners|''Power Core Combiners'' Steamhammer]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

===''Unicron''===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Broadside (Classics)#Classics|''Classics'' Broadside]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Sledge (Classics)#Classics|''Classics'' Sledge]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Wideload (Classics)#Classics|''Classics'' Wideload]]}}
</ul>
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

{{toystub|Flame Toys, Evergreen, and perhaps even 3P? ''Siege'' Chromia has roots in IDW as mentioned by John Warden}}

==Notes==
[[File:Spotlight Octane unused.jpg|upright=0.67|thumb|right|The [[Octane#Titans Return|Oct-one]].]]
[[File:Spotlight Cosmos panel.jpg|upright=0.67|thumb|right|The UFOne.]]
* The IDW continuity overtook the original [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel Comics US continuity]] in terms of raw issue count with issue #6 of the 2009 ongoing series. [[Primus]] only knows how many more issues there are now.
* When IDW first picked up the ''Transformers'' license, Simon Furman pitched a story that would have tied in to his idea for a ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' ongoing comic, and would possibly have been in continuity with the [[Dreamwave Productions]] comics. The G1 story would have begun with the destruction of Cybertron and the discovery that the destruction of [[Unicron]] in the [[universal stream|Aurex cluster]] had destabilized the entire [[omniverse]]. To save all of existence, the Autobots would have travelled across the galaxy attempting to reassemble an artifact called the 'Decepticon Matrix', which would have resurrected Unicron. This plot parallels that of ''Cybertron'', in which the Autobots seek out the [[Cyber Planet Key]]s to revive [[Primus]]. [[Vector Prime]] would have appeared in both series, travelling between universes to guide both groups of Autobots in their quest. It seems that series would then have come together with the concurrent ''Cybertron'' comic as Transformers from across the [[multiverse]] were brought together for a final, epic clash.<ref>Pitch printed in ''[[The Transformers: The Best of Simon Furman]]''</ref>
* A couple of other ultimately-unused pitches are known to the public:
** Alongside ''Spotlight: Kup'', [[Nick Roche]] came up with his own idea for a ''Spotlight: Blurr'' issue, taking place on a battlefield entirely in the space of a single second. This was felt to be a little too high-concept. Another unused idea was for a ''Spotlight: Roadbuster'', about him "training his cadets and doing terrible things to them", which later informed ''Sins of the Wreckers''.<ref name=TFN2022>Nick Roche at TFNation 2022, 2022/08/14</ref>
** In [[2007]], Roche and [[James Roberts]] pitched an [[Octane]]-based issue of ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight]]'' to IDW.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=In 2007, @jroberts332 and I attempted to pitch Spotlight: Octane. Here's the cover and character design. https://t.co/5fS4W2grfz|link=https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/737318150660886529|name=NickRoche|site=Twitter|year=2016|month=5|day=30|(defunct=)}}</ref> Some of the concepts from the pitch were later used in ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]''.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Not a script, but James wrote a very extensive outline which he then hacked down. Some of it has shown up in MTMTE. https://t.co/7sjztgmVv5|link=https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/737321240428486656|name=NickRoche|site=Twitter|year=2016|month=5|day=30|(defunct=)}}</ref>
** Roche also pitched a ''Spotlight: Rumble'', first alluded to in the ''Sins of the Wreckers'' trade paperback, which described it as [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] on "a weapons grade pub-crawl" being tailed by [[Stakeout (G1)|Stakeout]].<ref>Sins of the Wreckers TPB - "Noisemaze Logic"</ref> At his panel at [[TFNation]] 2022, Roche gave a more detailed summary: with Laserbeak and Ravage seen early in Furman's run, but Rumble and Frenzy absent, it would have seen Rumble waking up on an alien planet with a hangover, a wanted fugitive of [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]], who sends a cadet, Stakeout, to bring him in. Rumble finds himself in trouble, and Stakeout is forced to try and keep him alive so that he can arrest him; the two are "handcuffed to each other". Rumble doesn't want to use his piledrivers because he's hungover, but ultimately does so he can get away, knocking out Stakeout in the process. Rumble would have turned into a motorbike in this issue, and there would've been a chase through the streets of the alien city. Stakeout's role as Magnus' cadet made its way into ''Sins'', and Rumble (perhaps through coincidence) wound up as a motorcycle in [[John Barber]]'s run.<ref name=TFN2022 />
** A ''Spotlight: [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]'' was announced at [[San Diego Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con 2008]] for release in 2009, with art by [[Andrew Griffith]], to be written by [[Chris Mowry]].<ref>{{citesocial|quote=If you're a comics or Transformers fan (or both) you may have seen this shown at Comic-Con. Well, I've finally decided to post it here. Just think of it as a preview...|link=https://www.deviantart.com/glovestudios/art/Cosmos-97118564|name=Andrew Griffith|site=deviantART|year=2008|month=09|day=06}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=After a not so revealing IDW panel today at SDCC, there were only a few new tidbits of upcoming releases by IDW. They confirmed that a Spotlight Cosmos is in the works, and they talked about the upcoming Spotlight Blurr a little.|link=https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/idw-news-from-sdcc-spotlight-cosmos/13613/|name=Skalor|site=Seibertron|title=IDW News From SDCC (Spotlight Cosmos!)|year=2008|month=07|day=25}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote=Spotlight: Cosmos Chris Mowry and Andrew Griffith art. Some time in 2009. Tie in with Acsention / All Hail timelines|link=https://tformers.com/transformers-sdcc-2008-day-2-idw-transformers-gi-joe-panel/9904/news.html|name=BaCon|site=TFormers|title=SDCC 2008 Day 2 - IDW Transformers & GI Joe Panel|year=2008|month=07|day=25}}</ref> Later, though, Mowry announced on a (now defunct) IDW forum thread that the project was likely postponed or cancelled altogether, citing demotivation as a result of fan backlash towards IDW's output at the time.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=If it's done, it will be made to fit into the "universe" as neatly as possible. But in all honesty, the reaction to things as of late with G1-related stories really has me not interested in doing this at all. There seems to be a "bash it before you see it" epidemic as of late, so I really have to ask myself "why bother?" I've said it before, I'm a lucky guy who has been given some incredible opportunities. But this isn't my main job, I don't NEED to do this. Recent events have really made me take a closer look at this. We all have a right to express our opinions, but the blatant disrespect and rudeness that people have—and continue to show—towards creators or the fans that speak up for them, is really discouraging. We'll see, though. I've got a few other things to finish up first, and Andrew and I do have a rough outline of where we want this to go. If it's going to happen, you'll hear it here first. But in our minds, Cosmos is absolutely clunky. We're not going to make him a secret agent or anything. On second thought....|link=http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=5052|name=Chris Mowry|site=the IDW forums|defunct=y}}</ref> Now, the cover art is the only piece of this we've officially seen... but in May 2009, the unofficial ''[[Transformers: Mosaic]]'' strip "I Am..." was released, created by Mowry and Griffith. How exactly this was related is unknown.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.deviantart.com/transformers-mosaic/art/I-AM-123825255|name=''Transformers: Mosaic''|site=deviantART|title=I Am...|year=2009|month=05|day=27}}</ref>
** A four-issue miniseries titled ''[[Legacy of Rust]]'' was planned at some point, starring [[Punch (G1)|Punch/Counterpunch]] and [[Jimmy Pink]].<ref name="tformers.com">https://tformers.com/article.php?sid=15437</ref> It was announced as being in development by [[Andy Schmidt]] at [[San Diego Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con 2010]], and brought up again at [[BotCon 2011]].<ref>https://tformers.com/transformers-botcon-2011-idw-publishing-chaos-begins-panel/15843/news.html</ref> All four issues were written by [[Stuart Moore]],<ref>https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2015/02/windblade-returns-in-transformers-combiner-wars/</ref> but the title was delayed <ref name="tformers.com"/> until changes in the IDW universe meant that it could no longer be released without significant rewrites to fit the new status quo, and the scripts have yet to be revealed to the public.
* In a couple of cases, in-canon material by writers on the continuity has been published in an unofficial capacity online:
** After the release of ''[[Spotlight: Cyclonus]]'', Nick Roche posted [http://web.archive.org/web/20100104064123/http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=77231 a one-page joke comic] finishing a dropped plot thread.
** Later, Josh Burcham illustrated [https://dcjosh.tumblr.com/post/107665292031/its-done-the-mtmte-22-deleted-scene-in-all-its a short deleted scene] by James Roberts, originally written for ''More than Meets the Eye'' #22 but cut for space.
* It was originally unclear whether [[Kelly Thompson]]'s ''{{i|Jem and the Holograms (comic)|Jem and the Holograms}}'' comics were part of the Hasbro Universe or not. Some version of the band was shown to exist there, but later information meant that events in that series were incompatible with those that took place in the Hasbro Universe at large.
* {{i|Paul Allor}}'s ''{{i|Clue (comic)|Clue}}'' miniseries was in a similar situation, as its story gave no indication that it was taking place in the Hasbro Universe. However, the [[Hasbro Tribune]] was printed in the back of the first issue, and [[Sarah Gaydos]] later "officially confirmed" that it was indeed part of the continuity, so... we ''guess'' it's canon? <ref>{{citesocial|quote=Bombshell revelation from @sarahgaydos at today's @IDWPublishing panel: Clue DOES take place in the Hasbro shared universe. Official canon, no takebacks.|link=https://twitter.com/PaulAllor/status/969761848399548417|name=Paul Allor|site=Twitter|year=2018|month=03|day=03}}</ref>
* ''[[Synergy: A Hasbro Creators Showcase]]'' was released in the aftermath of the continuity, featuring an autobiographical comic by Mairghread Scott and some short strips focusing on Hasbro Universe characters (but generally not set in the canon).

==External links==
* [https://tfwikicommunity.wordpress.com/reading-guides/idw/ IDW Reading Guide] at the TFWiki community blog

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Continuities]]
[[Category:IDW (2005)| ]]

Reflector (G1)

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Primal primus the second:

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{{disambigm|Reflector (disambiguation)|Refractor}}
:''Reflector is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:ReflectorG1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|It's a Kodak moment. Top down: Viewfinder, Spyglass, Spectro]]
'''Reflector''' (aka '''Refraktor''') likes to watch. He lives (they live?) to observe anything and everything, from scenery, to wildlife, to architecture. But above all else, Reflector likes to watch his (their?) comrades, learn their dark secrets, and profit from them. Reflector is also very impressed with his (their?) own abilities both in the fields of observation and blackmail.

Reflector is generally composed of three separate robots—[[Spectro]], [[Spyglass]], and [[Viewfinder]]—who combine into the one single-lens-reflex camera [[alternate mode|altmode]] that is Reflector. He is (they are?) also the leader (leaders?) of the [[Photon (subgroup)|Photons]].

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Chris Latta]] (English), [[Yoku Shioya]] (Japanese), [[Keiichi Nanba]] (Japanese, "Fire in the Sky")|[[Frank Todaro]] (English, "[[Transformers 40th Anniversary Event]]"), [[Wang Wèi]] (Chinese), [[Ulrich Bernsdorff]] (German), [[Gerd Wiedenhofen]] (German, ''Generation 2'', "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1"), [[Willy Schäfer]] (German, ''Generation 2'', "S.O.S. Dinobots"), [[Mário Monjardim]] (Portuguese), [[Francisco José]] (Portuguese, "Roll for It"), [[Orlando Drummond]] (Portuguese, "Divide and Conquer"), [[Carlos Seidl]] (Portuguese, "Autobot Spike"), [[Marco Ribeiro]] (Portuguese, "Generation 2", Audio News Dub), [[Paulo Maeda]] (Portuguese, "Generation 2", Audio Brasil dub), [[Edgar Givry]] (European French), [[Jean Roche]] (European French, "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1"), [[Jacques Ferrière]] (European French, "Roll for It"), [[Francis Lax]] & [[Georges Atlas]] (European French, "Divide and Conquer"), Unknown (European French, "Autobot Spike")}}

[[File:MTME1 Reflector camera.jpg|left|thumb|[[Scale]] in a camera-con? Don't be silly.]]
Reflector was among the warriors who accompanied [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] aboard the Decepticons' [[Nemesis (G1)|space cruiser]] during its assault on the [[Autobot]]s' [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] four million years ago. When the Ark crashed on [[Earth]], Reflector was entombed in stasis with the other Transformers and awoke with the other Decepticons in [[1984]]. Withdrawing from the Ark, the Decepticons immediately set about constructing a temporary base for themselves, and Reflector and [[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] were assigned to patrol the perimeter. As they surveyed the desert landscape, Reflector expressed his disbelief that the Autobots had also survived the crash. Thundercracker then spotted something off in the distance, and Reflector transformed to camera mode so that Thundercracker could use him to zoom in on the mystery object. Reflector dispensed a Polaroid photograph of the truck that had caught their attention, and Thundercracker reported the intruder to Megatron as a possible Autobot (which it wasn't). {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

[[File:GenericDecepticons MTMTE.jpg|upright=1.6|thumb|Anything you need reflected? I (we?) gotcha covered.]]
Reflector later battled the Autobot forces on an offshore oil rig, {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} and joined in the Decepticons' attack on [[Sherman Dam]]. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} Reflector participated in the battle royale with the Autobots shortly before the Decepticons' failed attempt at returning to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] aboard a new space cruiser. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}} Numerous [[Photon (subgroup)|robots sharing Reflector's design]], who existed in addition to the core trio, also took part in these activities. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}}

While the Decepticons were in the midst of testing their new intergalactic "[[space bridge]]" transport system, Reflector took part in two battles with the Autobots when the heroic robots tried to interfere with the test run. The battle ended badly when Megatron was sucked through the space bridge and back to Cybertron, {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion (episode)|Transport to Oblivion}} but Reflector seemed unfazed by the apparent loss of his leader, as he went on to carry out orders that had previously been given to him and began staking out the laboratory of [[antimatter]] researcher [[Alcazar|Doctor Alcazar]]. Using his photographic abilities to obtain the entry code for the laboratory's security system in secret, Reflector concluded his stakeout just as Megatron returned to Earth, and he quickly reported his findings to the Decepticon leader. Reflector subsequently followed Megatron back to the lab and entered the entry code for him, allowing the villains to enter the complex stealthily. Reflector was no doubt rather cheesed off to learn that his spying had been for naught when it turned out that Alcazar had gotten rid of the antimatter formula by transmitting it to [[Chip Chase]]. When the Decepticons acquired the formula from Chip, Reflector helped charge [[energon cube]]s with the antimatter they created, and then participated in the subsequent battle with the Autobots, which ended when the antimatter cubes Megatron was using to power himself threatened to overload. {{storylink|Roll for It}}

[[File:ReflectorCartoon1.jpg|left|thumb|I (we?) see EVERYTHING!]]
Reflector later worked with [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] and [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] on another attempt to transport energon cubes to Cybertron via the space bridge. A group of Autobots soon arrived to investigate the Decepticon goings-on, but Reflector was quick to act and dazzled them with a blinding flash from his central lens. The Autobots soon got themselves together, though, and Reflector was dispatched when his duplicates were hurled into one another, causing them to recombine into one. Reflector's component selves later took part in a Decepticon attack on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] and were fired upon by [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]], but the three robots were confident that the Earth germ couldn't hit all of them at once. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}}

[[File:FireintheSky Reflector formation.jpg|thumb|Presenting... the Cirque du So-lame! ok I'll show myself out.]]
Reflector did most of the grunt work when the Decepticons sought to drain the energy of the [[Earth's core]] via a crystal shaft in the Arctic, operating machinery and gathering energon cubes. When their digging unearthed the frozen Autobot [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], Reflector tried attacking the towering robot by running at him in a sort of cheerleader-pyramid formation, only to be—unsurprisingly—knocked to the ground with a swipe of Skyfire's arm. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}}

Along with [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Laserbeak]], Reflector gathered valuable intelligence on the [[Great Falls]] hydroelectric power station, and he took part in the attack that their information-gathering helped facilitate. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Soon after, Reflector went with the other Decepticons on a mission to Peru in another attempt to seize the power of the Earth's core. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain (episode)|Fire on the Mountain}} Later still, Reflector was part of the Decepticon team who tried harnessing energy from an unstable meteorite. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}

When the Decepticons used their space bridge to pull Cybertron itself into Earth's orbit in order to reap the energy released by the natural disasters that would result, Reflector was at Megatron's side as the Decepticon leader watched the construction of a hydroelectric energy collector. When an unexpectedly strong tidal wave demolished the structure, Megatron and Reflector escaped aboard a transport ship, though Reflector was given pause to wonder on the fate of the Decepticons' human ally, [[Doctor Arkeville]]. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}}

[[File:SOSDinobots Great Falls.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]

After taking part in another energy-raiding attempt with the help of new arrivals the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], {{storylink|A Plague of Insecticons}} Reflector joined the other Decepticons in relinquishing his [[power chip rectifier]] to a machine that would transfer all of the Decepticons' special abilities to Megatron, enabling him to best [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] easily in a one-on-one duel. During the combat, Megatron employed Reflector's power to generate a brilliant flash of light to blind Optimus Prime. When Megatron's deception was exposed, Reflector and the other Decepticons were sent tumbling into a river of lava by the enraged Autobots. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

Learning that the Autobots had transferred Spike's mind into a robot body, Megatron had Reflector watch over Autobot Headquarters, and his spying soon bore fruit when the unstable "Autobot Spike" came bursting through a wall and flew off. Reflector followed and summoned the other Decepticons to his position. Megatron proceeded to try and turn Spike against the Autobots, but the attempt ultimately ended in failure. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}}

Reflector joined in the Decepticons' attempt to conquer [[Washington, D.C.]], {{storylink|City of Steel (episode)|City of Steel}} followed Megatron in an attempt to hijack a rocket, {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots (episode)|Attack of the Autobots}} and clashed with the Insecticons over stolen [[electro-cell]]s. {{storylink|Traitor (episode)|Traitor}} A little later, he helped battle the Autobots for control of [[korlonium crystal]]s. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}} After this, having being absent for a prolonged period, Reflector reappeared as part of a group of Decepticons on the rampage in [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]], {{storylink|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court (episode)|A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court}} and soon after, he was among the Decepticons who coated themselves with [[electrum]] to cause havoc. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon (episode)|The Golden Lagoon}} Reflector later battled the mutinous Starscream and his [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}}

Reflector was present at the [[Battle of Autobot City]] and the coronation of Starscream soon afterward. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}
{{note|Reflector’s involvement in these events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the comic mini-series ''[[Transformers: The Animated Movie]]''.}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====
=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' story pages=====
Reflector was amongst the Decepticons who attacked New York City early in their conflict with the Autobots on Earth. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)#Part 1|Broadcasting on TV! Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers}}

=====''The Battle of the Star Gate''=====
The Reflector trio were amongst the Decepticons who attacked the ''[[Trigger]]'' as it neared completion. They took it over easily, thanks in part to the human collaborator, [[Trov]]. One human, [[Makoto (Star Gate)|Makoto]], had been overlooked by the Decepticons however, and managed to pin down Reflector and the rest of the group under Megatron's command in the ''Trigger''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s rail room with a powerful electromagnetic field. Reflector was almost sent hurdling to the farthest side of the galaxy by the ''Trigger'', but a blast from Megatron's fusion cannon disabled the portal. Then the Autobots showed up, and the two factions began their battle aboard the space station. The Decepticons lost the fight and fled. {{storylink|First Contact (Star Gate)|First Contact}}

=====''Generations Selects Special Comic''=====
In [[2050]], Reflector was one of the Decepticons supporting the [[Selector]] revolt at [[Neo Scramble City]]. {{storylink|Volcanicus comic 1}}

During the skirmish, [[Angolmois Energy]] began to erupt from the planet's surface. Reflector was caught in the corrupting backwash of one of the geysers. {{storylink|Abominus comic 2}}

====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic====
[[File:SRLF4 astrotrain snaps metroplex.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|After a long day at work, the Autobot city sat down for a beer.]]
[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] photographed the incomplete [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] with the aid of Reflector's camera mode, so that Megatron could decipher whether or not it was powerful enough to stand up to [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 3|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #3}}

====Full Throttle Scramble Power!====
The Decepticons constructed a new weapon to pursue their energy-plundering campaign on Earth, the [[Omega Wave Cannon]]. Reflector and Shockwave were charged with manning the device's control as other teams of the Decepticons would go out and attack power plants to retrieve the energy stored within them. The whole plot was foiled when [[Jenny (G1)|Jenny]], a captive of the Decepticons, managed to reprogram Starscream into blowing up the Omega Wave Cannon's controls. Reflector was sent tumbling away from his post. He then followed Megatron into battle, but was forced to flee along with the rest of the Decepticons when a massive amount of Autobot reinforcements joined the fray. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}
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====''Wings Universe''====
{{Wingsnote}}
The Reflector trio were "one" of fourteen [[Decepticon Warlord|Warlords]] that arose championing the Decepticon cause. His / their legion, the [[Photon (subgroup)|Photons]], were an endless series of identical Cybertronians apparently patterned after their leader. As the [[Elite Guard|Autobot Elite Guard]] began picking off the Decepticon Warlords one at a time, Reflector attended the War Councils with the other Decepticon leaders to discuss strategy. It was Reflector who suggested they pool secrets and information for the greater good of the Decepticon cause. It was also Reflector who assimilated his / their Photons into the ranks of [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s Decepticons after the Warlords gave up their secrets to each other. This merger allowed him / them to avoid certain destruction when [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]] sent an unwitting suicide bomber to the next council meeting, wiping out all the remaining Warlords besides Megatron. {{storylink|A Team Effort}}

As [[Devastator (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Devastator]] breached [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]'s walls, Reflector was there with the rest of Megatron's forces. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 5}}

====''Cloud''====
The Reflector of "OG001 Spacetime" was one of several Decepticons who wound up on the receiving end of a beating from a [[Megatron (Cloud)|Megatron from another universe]], as he fought his way through them to get to [[Optimus Prime (Cloud)|his world's Optimus Prime]] and the super-powerful entity [[SARA]]. {{storylink|TFC-A01}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
[[File:Reflectormarvel.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|A [[To sell toys#Hi-and-die|hi-then-die]] who didn't even get to say hi!]]
A robot resembling Viewfinder was seen decorating the cavern floor of [[Mount St. Hilary]] after all the [[Decepticon]]s were rendered inoperative by [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]'s poisoned fuel. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

====''Transformers '84''====
As the [[Great War (G1)|war]] raged on Cybertron, Reflector was among the many Decepticons seen battling the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers '84 issue 0|'84 #0}}

===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
Using the human power known as "imagination," S.T.A.R.S. recruits could perceive what it was like to be Reflector. {{storylink|You Have Been Chosen.}}

Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Reflector was (maybe) amongst the Decepticons who lay in wait to ambush Optimus and the Autobots. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}}

Evidently, the battle went in the Decepticons' favour, as Optimus was forced to send some of his troops away to fetch reinforcements. {{storylink|Transformers Combat Data}} Later, Reflector discovered that the same squad of Autobots was out scouting for new energy source. {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}

{{note|Reflector is never seen in any of the illustrations depicting "Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction," but is implied to be involved as all other toys advertised in the flyer are participants in the battle.}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:BrothersBurden Reflector.jpg|thumb|left|"Who added Sky-Lynx to our Skype call?!"]]

''Reflector was part of Megatron's crew, active on Earth in the 1980s before the ''[[Ark II]]'' incident. When Megatron was snatched up by the Keepers, not all Decepticons fell into line under Starscream's maniacal command. [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and the three Reflector robots chose to make a stand against Starscream's leadership at [[Hoover Dam]], outside the Decepticon's new base in [[Las Vegas]]. Spyglass and Skywarp drew [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s electronic attention, prompting Starscream and his communications officer to make an appearance at the Dam. As Skywarp rejected Starscream's rule, the other Reflector robots leapt out of hiding to attack the usurper. The battle quickly turned against Skywarp and Reflector, though, as Soundwave's sonic attack ripped Spectro apart, sending him over the edge of the dam and into stasis lock. Once Skywarp was disabled as well, Spyglass and Viewfinder wisely chose to abdicate to Starscream. {{storylink|Transformers: Hardwired|Hardwired}}''

''The surviving two Reflector parts remained under Starscream's command only as long as necessary, and left Las Vegas with Megatron's splinter faction of Decepticons soon after their former leader returned to Earth. {{storylink|Transformers: Annihilation|Annihilation}} After the Decepticons reunited, Reflector was instrumental in several attempts at blackmail and media manipulation against the [[President of the United States]], first recording him whimpering helplessly in Megatron's massive hand during an attack on the White House, and later sending the media outlets footage of the U.S. Armed Forces attempting to assassinate Autobots AND Decepticons in the Nevada desert.''

''A "inferior copy" of'' {{storylink|Transformers: Fusion|Fusion}} Reflector remained on Cybertron and worked for [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], monitoring the planet and its inhabitants for him from a central mainframe. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} They were destroyed by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when he broke ranks with Shockwave's command structure; using Soundwave's expertise, Starscream delayed footage of himself as he encroached on Shockwave's monitor womb, within which the Reflector trio were posted. They thus were unable to foresee Starscream sneaking up on them, and he blasted all three 'cons to death. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (issue)|Countdown to Extinction}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:GIJoevsTF4 Reflector.jpg|thumb|{{w|Kool-Aid Man|"Oh Yeah!"}}]]
The three Reflector components were among the Transformers who crashed on Earth millions of years in the past, and upon being discovered by humans, they were reprogrammed to serve the terrorist organization [[Cobra]]. The Autobot [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] eventually restored everyone's original programming, and the angry Reflector trio broke into Cobra's control center to teach the fleshlings a thing or two about messing with their heads. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} Reflector was then ordered by Megatron to assist [[Doctor Mindbender]] and [[Firefly]] while they used the [[SPS Satellite]] to create [[energon cube]]s. When [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] arrived to halt their scheme, the three Reflectors attacked him, but were easily swatted aside. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}}

[[File:ArtofWar4 Reflector message.jpg|left|thumb|30th anniversary Viewfinder, Spyglass and Spectrum Gold Edition! Buy Now! (''while stocks last'')]]
In a dark alternate future where the Decepticons had conquered Earth, three black Reflectors guarded human slaves imprisoned near a factory, but were killed by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], [[Tomax and Xamot]]. As this future was also full of multiple [[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]], [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon swarms]] and [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage packs]], it is possible these Reflectors were some sort of [[Cloning|clones]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #3}}

Viewfinder was present for a Decepticon gathering on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], during which [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] took control of the Decepticon army. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} During a subsequent Decepticon assault on an Autobot peace ceremony, the Reflector trio were charged with delivering a message to Optimus Prime. After being carried to Prime in [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]'s palm, Viewfinder used his chest lens to project a hologram of Serpent O.R., allowing the Decepticon leader to negotiate with Prime. Reflector came under attack by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] during the negotiation, but Viewfinder managed to continue the transmission despite being injured. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
Early in the war, the Reflector trio tried to stop an Autobot prison break in the [[Citadel]] only to be blown away by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]. {{storylink|Rise}} Spectro and Spyglass were later seen aboard a Decepticon orbital outpost, terrified of walking down the same hallway as [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sixshot}}

[[File:AHM3 Reflector Rumble.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
All three Reflector units (speaking entirely in unison), eventually joined [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] on [[Earth]], and helped defeat the Autobots there. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}} Following this victory, the Reflector trio help destroy [[New York City]] along with the other Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|All Hail Megatron #3}} Spectro and Spyglass enjoyed "playing games" with the city's fleshy inhabitants, but were disappointed about how easily they came apart. Viewfinder preferred to brood by himself, while still echoing the other two's dialogue. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} Reflector stayed with Megatron when [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] rebelled against his leader {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}, and fought back against the Autobots when they returned to Earth. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} The Decepticons were ultimately defeated {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}} and Viewfinder and Spectro left the planet aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. {{storylink|Uneasy Lies the Head}} Spyglass was left behind, however, and was still trying to get off the planet two years later. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 1: "New Arrivals, Old Encounters"|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}}

In the aftermath of the war with [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]] and [[D-Void]], the trio was instructed by [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] to undertake a special mission beginning with the theft of [[Turmoil]]'s time-sliding space cruiser. {{storylink|Night and the City}} Using the ship, they were supposed to locate [[LV-117]] and report its circumstances back to Shockwave, but were unprepared for the planet's erratic movement through time. Appearing out of nowhere right in front of them, LV-117 flung the Reflector trio over one hundred years into the past, depleting the ship's fuel supply and causing it to crash. {{storylink|Syndromica (2)}}

Viewfinder was killed in the crash when a large piece of the bridge's shattered canopy impaled through his chest. Spectro and Spyglass survived and eventually they located [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], who had previously crashed on the same planet and had been building an escape vessel with a [[Varta|friendly alien]]. They managed to hijack the vessel shortly before it launched by threatening to kill Wheelie's friend, but the tiny Autobot removed the safety catch from his energon converter before disembarking, causing it to explode violently shortly after takeoff, killing the last two fragments of Reflector's being. {{storylink|Spotlight: Wheelie}}

====''Timelines''====
[[File:BotCon2016 Reflector CardArt.jpg|left|thumb|upright=.5|Yeah! Punch that card user!]]
After the apparent death of Viewfinder, Spectro and Spyglass sought out [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] to stabilize them for individualized life. However, when Viewfinder's body was recovered from LV-117, it was discovered that exposure to [[Ore-1]] would allow his spark to be reignited, and thus Reflector was reborn from this process. {{storylink|#Combiner Wars|BotCon 2016 Reflector profile card}}

===''Hearts of Steel''===
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The Reflector trio were three of the many Decepticons under Starscream's command during Earth's industrial revolution. They helped oversee the construction of the railway that would allow The [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] to reach [[New York City|New York]]. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}}

{{IDW HOS}}

===''Alternity''===
[[File:Worldisflat alternity bumblebee.jpg|left|thumb|"I swear to god Peppy, if you say "do a barrel roll" one more time..."]]

Three Reflector units hailing from an unknown [[universal stream]] were among the minions serving under [[Megatron (G1)#Alternity|Megatron]] during his complicated, cross-dimensional war with the Autobot [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]]. This incarnation of Reflector was a [[Pretender]], with each of his components able to disguise itself as an ordinary-sized human being.

Reflector was dispatched to [[Primax 905.0 Beta|universal stream 905.0 Beta]] to search for the source of a new dimensional flux of previously unheard type. In their Pretender guises, the trio tracked the source of the disruption to the [[Otsuka Museum of Art]], and found that it was a strange tablet. Reflector was about to make off with the tablet when he was accosted by [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Bumblebee]] and [[Arcee (Energon)|Elita Seven]], and his components promptly dropped their Pretender forms to battle the little Autobot. Unfortunately for Reflector, he was no match for the unearthly powers of an Alternity: Bumblebee snatched the tablet away, and with a snap of his fingers, reduced Reflector to a nearly two-dimensional state. From across the dimensions, Megatron saw his minions collapse like paper, and lashed out with his tesseractal swords, destroying the museum and the tablet, and wounding Bumblebee. By the time Bumblebee came to, Reflector was long gone. {{storylink|The World Is Flat!}}
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===''Mazinger Z versus Transformers''===
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
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Refraktor was a [[Cybertronian military insignia|Ground Force Espionage Raider]], whose function specialized in recon. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' webpage}}<ref name=Siege>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/siege ''Siege'' website]</ref> During the war for Cybertron, he was stationed inside the Decepticon stronghold, [[Helex (polity)|Helex]]. {{storylink|Source:Teletraan-1 Data Files|''Siege'' Teletraan-1 Data Files}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
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{{voiceactor|[[Frank Todaro]] ([[Siege episode 2|''Siege'' #2]], [[Earthrise episode 4|''Earthrise'' #4]], English), [[Kaiser Johnson]] ([[Siege episode 5|''Siege'' #5]] "Desperate Decepticon", English), [[Edward Bosco]], [[Shawn Hawkins]] ([[Earthrise episode 1|''Earthrise'' #1]] "Factory Worker", English), [[Mark Whitten]] ([[Earthrise episode 3|''Earthrise'' #3]] "Decepticon Refugee", English)|[[Júlio Monjardim]] (Portuguese), [[Julián Rodríguez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Esteban Desco]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

Refraktor was part of the Decepticon ambush team that attacked the Autobots looking for the [[AllSpark]]. He fought with [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] during the battle. {{storylink|Siege episode 2}}
Refraktor was present when Mirage attempted to infiltrate the Decepticon camp using a hologram. He fights Mirage again in a rematch. Refracktor was confused by all of Mirage's cloned holograms and was finally taken out of the fight by Mirage and Wheeljack. {{storylink|Siege episode 3}}
Refraktor was part of the Decepticon ranks that attacked the Ark. {{storylink|Siege episode 6}}

Refracktor was part of the Decepticons that traveled to the [[Nebulos|Nebulon]] Station aboard the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''. [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] ordered his Decepticons to attack [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]. After an explosion, he reported to [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] that Megatron cannot be found. Starscream assumed that Megatron was dead and took command of the Decepticon forces. The Decepticons broke into the area where the Autobots were and began to attack, but were ordered to cease fire when a wounded Megatron arrived, being supported by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. He ran over to help Megatron. Scorponok then attacked again, forcing Refraktor to counter-attack. Once Scorponok retreated, Megatron ordered the Decepticons to terminate the Autobots. Scorponok returned and attacked the Decepticons, allowing the Autobots to escape. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 4}}

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===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The World In Your Eyes Part Three|''Transformers'' #3]]}}

[[File:TheWorldInYourEyesPart3 AscenticonGuardVolunteers.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

Refraktor was a veteran of the [[War of the Threefold Spark]]. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two}} In the post-war era, Refraktor joined the Ascenticons and was one of the first four recruits for the [[Ascenticon Guard]]. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}} However, Refraktor led a secret double life: as one of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s many operatives, he regularly reported highly sensitive intelligence regarding [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s increasingly volatile political movement back to the head of Cybertron's intelligence division. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

After [[Rubble]] had been murdered, Bumblebee petitioned to join the Ascenticon Guard, but neither Refraktor nor [[Flywheels|Skytread]] thought he was up to the task. When Skytread ran his mouth, Bumblebee punched him in the face, and Refraktor took a backhand before [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]] broke up the fighting. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}} When [[Barricade (IDW)|Barricade]], who'd been implicated in Rubble's murder, received asylum at [[Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Cybertron)|Ascenticon Headquarters]], Refraktor and the other members of the Ascenticon Guard took up defensive positions when [[Security Operations]] tried to intervene. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five}} After the Ascenticons got a rebrand, Refraktor accompanied Soundwave to a standoff in the [[Cybertronian Mountains]] where he met up with Starscream and brought him up to speed on everything that'd happen while he was away. Starscream angrily pointed out that he'd neglected to tell Starscream the most important revelation—Bumblebee, known associate of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]], had joined the Ascenticon Guard. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part Two}}

[[File:WarWorldHunt-Refraktor.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]

After the [[Tether]] fell and caused mass destruction in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], Refraktor went on patrol with the rest of the Ascenticon Guard as they helped out with search and rescue operations. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} Eventually, however, as tensions mounted, Megatron fast-tracked a coup and successfully overthrew the Senate entirely after rebranding him and his followers as "Decepticons". Beforehand, Refraktor privately alerted Starscream of the impending coup and warned him to lay low until the dust had settled. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: We Have Deceived You|We Have Deceived You}} When the Autobots and their allies tried to rescue Orion Pax and Sentinel from Decepticon captivity, Refraktor and [[Crasher (G1)|Crasher]] were on sentry duty outside the captured Senate building when [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] ran them over. {{storylink|War World: Prime}}

Refraktor was on patrol with [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] and [[Airwave (facility)|Airwave]] when they decided to harass [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]'s clinic and intimidate the medics who worked there into surrendering any Autobot sympathizers. However, Ratchet was less compliant than they'd hoped and [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] eventually scared them into leaving when he threatened to turn a swarm of [[Diagnostic Drone|diagnostic drone]]s upon the three. {{storylink|Escape Part One}}

Refraktor also joined the Decepticon Guard in driving Security Operations away from one of their holding cells and freed some useful prisoners. During the operation, however, Refraktor cornered a member of Sec-Ops named [[Vibes]]. At Starscream's direction, he slipped Vibes a tip about [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Titan (group)|Titan]][[spark]]s. Starscream had been forced to share some of his cards with Megatron and Starscream, so he wanted Optimus Prime to have some of the same intelligence to keep himself potentially useful. While the injured Starscream underwent repairs, Refraktor reported on his successful mission, but warned Starscream that his loyalty would only stretch so far, especially as Megatron seemed to be winning. Starscream warned Refraktor not to get too cocky and start thinking for himself at a time like this. {{storylink|War World: Hunt}}

Incidentally, Refraktor was targeted by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] as a potential source of information as well. The enterprising casino owner tagged Refraktor as a favored patron, one who might get more talkative after some specially-refined energon. It may have been from him that Swindle learned the location of the [[Enigma of Combination]]. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Swindle's II|Swindle's II}} Refraktor and the Decepticons were soon deployed to the Sea of Rust in search of the Enigma. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust II|Sea of Rust II}}
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===''Transformers/Ghostbusters''===
[[File:GhostsOfCybertron1-Reflector.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

Reflector was part of the final battle of the Great War that saw the Autobots flee Cybertron aboard the ''Ark'' before [[Gozer]] arrived on Cybertron. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 1}}

===''Transformers vs. The Terminator''===
[[File:EnemyOfMyEnemyPart3-energoncubes.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

When the ''Ark'' rebooted in 1984, its repair beams first struck Skywarp, who proceeded to revive the Decepticon army. After the stasis-locked Autobots had been destroyed, the Decepticons attacked Earth. The humans responded by founding [[Skywatch]] which itself created [[Skynet]] and an army of [[T-800]] Terminator robots. Refraktor perished in the Skynet-Decepticon conflict, {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Two}} and by the year [[2029]] one of his bodies was part of a mass grave outside [[Los Angeles]]. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part One}}

To avert the Decepticon threat, a lone T-800 travelled back to 1984 to try and destroy them before they conquered the world. The time traveller's intervention allowed the Autobots to be reactivated prompting the Decepticons to retreat from the ''Ark''. Conducting a scouting mission with the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], Refraktor reported to Megatron on the energy production capabilities of a nearby [[Cyberdyne Systems]] facility, taking part in the subsequent attack on it. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Two}} Once the facility had been conquered, Refraktor began filling up [[energon cube]]s before the Autobots arrived. Confident that he could crush the T-800 that they'd allied with, Refraktor was unprepared for the android throwing a bomb directly on his face and detonating it, killing him instantly. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}}

===''My Little Pony/Transformers''===
[[File:Finale-ArceeDoublecross.jpg|thumb|right]]

Refraktor was one of the many Cybertronians who'd been captured and [[magic]]ally brainwashed by [[King Sombra]]. When the Autobots and their pony friends launched a counterattack, [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] used [[Applejack]]'s transforming [[exosuit|exo-suit]] to rescue both him and [[Doublecross]] by breaking the spell.

After he'd been returned to normal, Refraktor stood guard at the Decepticon [[space bridge|spacebridge]] as the [[Wonderbolts]] took a caged Sombra back to the land of [[Equestria]]. {{storylink|Finale (The Magic of Cybertron)|Finale}}

===''Canon/Transformers''===
On [[Earth]], "Refraktor-1", the central component of the camera mode, was altered by the [[AllSpark]] into a new body that could transform into a Canon [[EOS R5]] camera. However, with a stand-in, the other Refraktor units were able to still combine into their camera mode. Refraktor sought the [[Quantum Dial]] as a clue to solving the mystery of his ability to split. {{storylink|#Canon/Transformers 2|Decepticon Refraktor R5 bio}}
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===Energon Universe===
[[File:TF2023 no. 5 – Reflector is Outmatched.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.25]]
Reflector was part of the Decepticon crew who attacked the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''. He was revived in the present day to bolster the Decepticon ranks. Upon being revived, Reflector was curious about what had happened to [[Megatron (G1)#Energon Universe|Megatron]], but [[Starscream (G1)#Energon Universe|Starscream]] ordered him to drop it and focus on the mission.

Starscream then airlifted him into battle against the Autobots at the Farmingham Dam, dropping into battle guns blazing and with an acronym-based quip at the ready. Unfortunately for him, he dove toward [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Energon Universe|Optimus Prime]], who was equipped with Megatron's arm, and therefore his [[fusion cannon]]. Reflector had just enough time to realize how fragged he was before he was eviscerated in a single shot. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 5|Transformers #5}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (N64)===
In one of several possible timelines, the time-traveling [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] Ravage broke into the ''Ark'' while its occupants were still in stasis and downloaded protoform cloning data from Reflector, among several others. He then returned to his future, planning to revive the Decepticons in new clone bodies and begin their conquest anew. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)}}

===''Sector Seven'' game===
Dubbed "[[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial]] - 115", a video of Reflector transforming in the midst of a child's birthday party reached the public through "hacked evidence" files. {{storylink|Sector Seven (game)}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
Reflector rallied with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] when the latter became Decepticon leader in Megatron's absence. The Autobots soon had the Decepticons defeated and Starscream's plan thwarted. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (Legends)|Countdown to Extinction}} After the Decepticons discovered a [[Crystal of Power]] in [[South America]], Starscream and Reflector were sent to steal materials for a cannon. They succeeded, despite Autobot interference, though the Autobots later managed to destroy the cannon anyway. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain (Legends)|Fire on the Mountain}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
Reflector is an "Accessory" character, giving Deceptihogs he's attached to a boost to their weapon's power. This bonus can be increased with upgrades won from random-prize Crates or in the "[[King Pig|Shockwave]]'s Tower" mini-game.

He can be unlocked by purchasing him with Gems in the Barracks, with Tokens during specific [[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)/Challenge Events|Challenge Events]], or won from Crates and [[King Pig|Shockwave]]'s Tower. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[file:ReflectorEarthWars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Three in one, one in three, we are the ones who heal thee.]]
Spyglass, Spectro, and Viewfinder were selected to spy on and gather intelligence on the [[Nova Power Core|Nova Core]]. They sneaked through the base's security and found the Nova Core. Unfortunately, by their own incompetence and curiosity they removed the device with the power plant still running. As soon as the reactor was set off, Reflector fled the scene.
{{storylink| Transformers: Earth Wars/Events|Project Supernova}}

Reflector was out of contact while the two snipers [[Wildrider (G1)|Brake-Neck]] and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] fought it out. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Bit of a Longshot}}

Viewfinder had absorbed most of the damage from the blast, and the other two set up a shielding unit to protect them while they complete repairs. Megatron reminded them of their mission, and Brake-Neck reminded them of Smokescreen. They naively thought they could be three less targets by transforming into camera mode. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Battle Hardened}}

Reflector soon informed Megatron they were back to being 100% operational and going to make a move to recover the Nova Core. As the battle was taking place, they were spotted by Smokescreen. Reflector asked Brake-Neck fpr cover fire, but he refused and told Spyglass it was stupid of them to be in an open field in the first place. Then Viewfinder was hit by a sniper bullet as they ran and cranked up their shields.

As [[First Aid (G1)#Transformers: Earth Wars|First Aid]] headed to an extraction site where his Medi-bots would meet him, Brake-Neck was compromised by Smokescreen, and Reflector stole the Core and tried to take off with it. First Aid intervened, and... unexpectedly, Spectro dropped the Nova Core into water, of all things. The Core went critical, and First Aid convinced Reflector to help him shield the energy as the Nova Core went into meltdown. The Nova Core faded, and Viewfinder only asked that the Autobot not tell Megatron about what just happened. Then Viewfinder got hit by Brake-Neck's bullet, much to his irritation {{storylink| Transformers: Earth Wars/Events| Big Bang!}}

When Reflector came through the Spacebridge, Shockwave thought it was malfunctioning, seeing as it had multiple lifeforms coming through at once. After they made their entrance, Starscream warned Shockwave about their meddlesome nature, to which Shockwave replied that the four of them would get along well together.

While Swindle was having a sale with Luca, Reflector eavesdropped on the two, and learnt Luca had a "plan" for Starscream involving a box. Naturally, Reflector went to tattle on Starscream about the ploy. Starscream destroyed the box, much to Swindle's chagrin. Apparently it wasn't a trap, but in fact a gift for Starscream's Inception Day! - Cybertron-21, a high-fidelity holographic battlefield simulator. Starscream was shocked he had just destroyed a game (in mint condition). Reflector thought that it was a bad call to have done that, and they decide to go back to blackmailing people. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}

*'''Class:''' Medic
*'''Lowest Star rating''': 2 stars
*'''Weapons:''': Viewfinder uses a medi-gun of unusual make in which it shoots out health bombs, instead of one continuous stream. Spectro and Spyglass both use medi-beams like Hook and Shockwave to provide 40-45% resistant shields. If any of Reflectors' components are not healing bots, they use their pistols to shoot targets.
*'''Ability: Reflector Team Up! '''Summon Spectro and Spyglass, each with an ability to shield friendly bots blocking 40/45% of incoming damage.
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points +2 cost increase.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:reflector Reflector at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
The Reflectors were a team of Decepticons who specialized in light-based warfare, including holograms and optical misdirection. The three leaders of the group could combine into a single alternate mode, but the many [[Photon (subgroup)|Photon]] [[drone]]s based on their body-types could not. The Reflector trio spent most of their time on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], supervising the [[Assembly Forge]] responsible for constructing new Decepticon [[drone]]s. {{storylink|Decepticon Directive}}

==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
{{anchor|Generation 1}}
[[File:G1-toy Reflector.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|We three kings of orient are... Left to right: Spectro, Viewfinder, Spyglass]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Reflector''' (Mail-away, [[1986]]/[[1987]]; wide release in Japan, [[1985]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number:'' '''21'''
:*''Accessories:'' Spectro's [[shutter gun]], Viewfinder's [[lens laser]], Spyglass' [[opto blaster]], flash cube/missile launcher, 3 missiles, telephoto lens
{{toydesigner|[[Hideaki Yoke]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Shinji Aramaki]] (concept artist)}}
:Reflector is composed of three distinct robots that combine to form a camera that most closely resembles a 1969 Ricoh 126C-Flex TLS: [[Viewfinder#Toys|Viewfinder]] as the central component with the lens, [[Spectro#Toys|Spectro]] as the right-side component with the shutter button, and [[Spyglass#Toys|Spyglass]] as the left-side component with the flashcube. It actually has play functions that simulate an actual camera: the viewfinder actually works (though one needs to stand about 8' back to see anything clearly), and the shutter button clicks when pressed in.

:Reflector was first sold in Japan in 1985 as an ordinary retail item. While [[Hasbro]] originally planned him for release in 1984 (thus him appearing in the cartoon), they delayed selling him in the U.S. until 1986, and only then via mail-order from a [[The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:|direct-mail flyer promoting ''The Transformers: The Movie'']]''.'' (Amusingly, this came just as the character was being quietly and fully phased out of the fiction.) The toy would be a common offering in [[Pack-in material|pack-in flyers]] from then on, at a cost of $10 and two [[Robot Point]]s. Naturally, the Hasbro version has the flashcube missile launcher's spring removed, while the Takara version has it at regular missile-launching strength. Oddly, the Decepticon [[insignia]] decals on Spyglass and Spectro are inverted from the norm, being silver symbols with purple outlines, something not seen elsewhere in the first two years of G1 figures.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Spectro/spectro.htm More information on (part of) Reflector at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/SpyGlass/spyglass.htm More info on another part of Reflector at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Viewfinder/viewfinder.htm More info on yet another part of Reflector at TFU.info]''
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===''Generations''===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Sideswipe vs. Reflector''' (unreleased Toys"R"Us exclusive 2-pack, planned for ca. 2011)}}</ul>
:This figure would have been a [[Retool#Gang-molded alternate parts|pretool]]/redeco of ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)#Hasbro Reveal the Shield subline|Reveal the Shield]]'' Deluxe Class [[Perceptor (G1)/toys#Transformers (2010)|Perceptor]], utilizing that toy's alternate head sculpt based on Perceptor's original 1985 toy's head (which does bear a passing resemblance to Viewfinder). It was inteded to be released as part of a [[Toys"R"Us]] [[exclusive]] two-pack with [[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Generations|Sideswipe]], a redeco of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Sideswipe (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|Sideswipe]] in Sideswipe's ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' colors. The head sculpt intended for Reflector was first acknowledged by Hasbro at the [[BotCon 2010]] design panel,<ref name="botcon 2010">http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/botcon-2010-hasbro-designers-panel-170066/</ref> and was later used by TakaraTomy for the [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive ''Generations'' [[Magnificus (G1)#Generations|Magnificus]] figure. The intended deco sheets for the two figures were revealed by the unofficial [[Pete Sinclair|Pete]]'s Robot Convention on Facebook in 2020, but later taken down again at the request of Hasbro.

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====''Thrilling 30''====
[[File:GenT30-toy Reflector.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Didn't there used to be two more of you, you?"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skrapnel & Reflector''' (Legends Class, [[2014]])}}</ul>
:*''Series / Number'': '''02 / #007'''
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] and [[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}
:Part of the sixth wave of 2012-onwards ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30 (2013–2014)|Generations]]'' Legends Class toys, ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' "[[Shrapnel (G1)#Generations|Skrapnel]]" comes with Reflector, a smaller robot based on [[Viewfinder]]'s [[package art]]. Reflector can transform into a camera or a weapon modeled after Shrapnel's grenade launcher, both of which Skrapnel can wield via its [[5 mm post]], or mount onto Skrapnel's back in insect mode. The only way Reflector's camera mode can be held right-side-up is loosely by the unfolded robot arms–the 5mm post is on ''top'' of the camera, and is sculpted to resemble a camera's flashcube.

:[[Stock photography]] of Reflector depicts him with his [[:File:GenerationsSkrapnelandReflectortoypromo.jpg|arms swapped, and therefore facing backwards.]] This mold was redecoed into [[Spy-Eye (Diaclone)#Toys|Spy-Eye]] for [[BotCon 2015]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/GenReflector/reflector.htm More information on ''Generations'' Reflector at TFU.info]''
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===''Masterpiece''===
{{anchor|MasterpieceGoldMegsReflector}}
[[File:MP-05G-Reflector.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Doesn't split into three figures, doesn't transform, doesn't take photos]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Megatron Gold Ver.''' (December [[2014]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''MP-5G'''
:A non-transforming Reflector comes with [[Megatron (G1)/toys#MP5G|MP-5G Megatron]], the Hasbro Asia gold-chrome redeco of the MP-5 mold Megatron.
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===''Combiner Wars''===
[[File:BotCon2016toy-Reflector.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|The only camera here is a dash-cam.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Reflector''' (3-pack, [[2016]])}}</ul>
:Released as a [[BotCon 2016]] souvenir exclusive, ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' Reflector (Spectro, Spyglass, and Viewfinder) is a three-pack of a singular redeco and retool of ''Combiner Wars'' [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|Shockwave]], utilizing the mold's existing alternate head. Reflector transforms into a spaceship based on Shockwave's Cybertronian handgun mode. Undocumented in the instructions, Reflector can transform into a gun mode for any ''Combiner Wars'' gestalt.

:Hasbro has encouraged finding ways to combine the three into a vaguely camera-shaped object, and as such there are multiple [[Fan mode|unofficial attempts]].

:This version of the mold was also used to make BotCon 2016 [[Flash Sentry#Generations|Flash Sentry]]. This mold also served as the model for the non-toy ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' incarnation of [[Movor#Beast Wars: Uprising|Movor]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2016/Decepticon/BCReflector/reflector.htm More information on Combiner Wars Reflector at TFU.info]''

::*[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-toy-discussion/1065216-new-botcon-2016-configuration.html Deceptigtar's instructions]
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===''War for Cybertron: Siege''===
[[File:Siege-toy Refraktor.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Have fun finding three of me!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Refraktor''' (Deluxe Class, June [[2019]])}}</ul>
:*''Hasbro ID Number'': '''WFC-S36'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID Number'': '''SG-28'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[August 24]], 2019
:*''Hidden message code'': '''REFLECTOR'''
:*''Accessories:'' "EMM Distortion Blaster"/tripod part, "HPR Telefocal Shield"/lens part, "Bioscale Compression Rotor"/chest module
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro),<ref name=seibertron>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/siege-red-alert-revealed-stock-photos-for-nycc-siege-figures-design-notes-from-warden-nycc/42180/ Design notes] from [[Hasbro]] designer [[John Warden]] at [[San Diego Comic-Con#2018|San Diego Comic-Con 2018]], at Seibertron.com</ref> [[AJ Piejko-Brown]] (packaging)}}
:''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' '''Refraktor''' (thanks, [[trademark]]!) is a single-packaged Deluxe figure based on [[Viewfinder]]'s robot design, although the figure includes a removable 'chest module' which allows one to recreate [[Spectro]] or [[Spyglass]] instead.<ref name=seibertron/> As standalone robots, each Refraktor bot on its own can transform into an "artillery hovercraft"<ref name=seibertron /> that might be ''generously'' interpreted as marginally reminiscent of the BotCon 2016 redecoes above. Purchasing three units and combining them allows the formation of the classic camera mode, looking vaguely like a modern digital reflex body. To this end, each Refraktor includes a blaster and a shield which form one-third of the camera tripod and lens, respectively, with the Viewfinder "chest module" connecting the tripod for stability. Though not suggested in the instructions, you can also pop the other two chest modules into the empty sockets on top of each of the camera's sides, simulating the aperture and shutter speed controls on a real camera. Unlike most ''Siege'' figures, the Refraktors lack battle damage. Unfortunately, this figure [[Miscolorings based on the Generation 1 cartoon|suffers from a citogenerated]] red wrist stripe which was not actually there in the original cartoon.

:Inputting the blacklight code "Reflector" into the Teletraan-1 page on Hasbro's website reveals a desktop wallpaper containing a preview of the Refraktor Reconnaissance Team, notably before the official reveal at [[San Diego Comic-Con]].

:Due to the need for three Refraktors to make a camera, Hasbro wholesalers allowed independent retailers to order entire cases composed solely of them, outside the normal waves and case assortments offered to big-box retailers. As of 2019 this is not unusual and most figures are available this way.

:This mold was later redecoed to make ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)#Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (2020-2022)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' [[Scrapface#Toys|Scrapface]], as well as retooled into ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Comic Edition|Comic Edition]]'' [[Xaaron#Generations Comic Edition|Emirate Xaaron]]. It also serves as the basis for the non-toy character [[Shamble]] as well as ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Reflector (SG)|Reflector]]'s appearance in IDW's ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (IDW)|Shattered Glass]]'' comic.

{{-}}{{anchor|3pack}}
[[File:Siege-toy Refraktor 3pack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|This time you can tell us apart!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Refraktor Reconnaissance Team 3-Pack''' (Multi-pack, [[September 1]], [[2019]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' 3 "Telefocal Shields"/lens parts, 3 "Shutter Blaster/Lens Laser/Optic Blaster" rifles, "Flash Launcher" flashcube, "Shutter Armor", 3 "Bioscale Compression Rotors"/torso-parts, Kremzeek blast effect
{{toydesigner|[[AJ Piejko-Brown]] (packaging)}}

:One of many many ''many'' online exclusives revealed and opened for pre-order during [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2019, this set features three copies of the Deluxe figure above, only this time decoed to match the original Reflector toy layouts (mostly). Each robot also comes with extra accessories to make the combined camera mode look that much more like an actual modern-ish camera while still evoking the original toy, adding a flashcube for Spyglass, a grip/shutter-button for Spectro, and a viewfinder for Viewfinder.

:The set also includes a [[Kremzeek#War for Cybertron: Siege|Kremzeek]] figurine, which is compatible with the ''Siege'' "blast effect" system. Neat!

:This set was originally intended to be a [[HasCon 2019]] exclusive, but that event was indefinitely postponed.<ref>https://www.bbcw.com/product.php?productid=52162&cat=&page=9</ref>

:These three decoes (without the added equipment) were used for some of the [[:File:Refraktor Generics.jpg|background Refraktors]] in the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon]].
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy''===
[[File:WFCT-toy Scrapface.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|What's in a name?...besides an obvious insult.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Scrapface''' (Deluxe Class, 2020)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''WFC-05'''
:*''TakaraToy release date'': [[November 28]], 2020
:*''Accessories:'' blaster/tripod part, shield/lens part, chest module
{{note|This toy was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as an [[Angolmois Energy|Angolmois]]-corrupted form of Reflector in ''[[Generations Selects Special Comic]]''.}}
:Part of the first assortment of toys promoting the [[Netflix]] [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon]], [[Scrapface#Toys|Scrapface]] is a blue-and-red redeco of ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' [[Reflector (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Refraktor]], transforming into a Cybertronian "artillery hovercraft. Scrapface is molded almost entirely in shades of grey plastic with his splashes of colour being an extensive paint wash; this gives him the appearance of being covered in accumulated grime and battle scars.

:As with any version of this mold, Scrapface can also transform into one third of a camera, allowing buyers to combine three units into Reflector's classic camera mode ([[Shortpacking|good luck with getting three, though!]]). The shield becomes one third of a telephoto lens, while his blaster becomes one third of a tripod.

:The military insignia on Scrapface's box has him as a Ground Division Infantry Private, while his instructions place him in the Espionage unit like his Refraktor mold-mates. Given a similar copy/paste error in the concurrent Voyager Class [[Hotlink (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Hotlink]]'s instructions, the box probably has it right.

:This toy, like all of the Netflix ''War For Cybertron Trilogy'' toys, was a [[Walmart]] exclusive in the U.S. and Canada, and a [[TakaraTomy]] Mall exclusive in Japan.

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[[File:WFCT-toy Refraktor Centurion.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Deluxe Centurion Drone''' (Deluxe Class with accessories pack, [[2020]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''WFC-E33'''

:A small, non-transforming accessory of Refraktor in camera mode is included as part of the ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' [[Centurion droid#Toys|Deluxe Centurion Drone Weaponizer Pack]]. Refraktor is scaled so it may be paired with its Deluxe and Voyager contemporaries, though the handle placement makes it basically impossible for toys without swivel wrists to "use" it correctly, and even those with swivel wrists might have a hard time getting it to face level. Oh well!

:Unlike fellow accessory-bots [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#E33|Megatron]] and [[Soundwave (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy|Soundwave]], Refraktor is completely unpainted. Also, Refraktor is curiously based on the original ''[[Micro Change]]''-mold toy, rather than either ''Siege'' iteration ''or'' the original cartoon model, the latter slightly odd given the original-cartoon-centric theme of the accessory pack.
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===''Canon/Transformers''===
[[File:TF-Canon-Transformers-Refraktor-R5.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|You thought it was Megatron? It was me, '''''REFLECTOR!''''']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Decepticon Refraktor R5''' (2023)}}</ul>
:*Accessories: Camera Cap/Shield, three-part small camera accessory, [[Quantum Dial]]
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] (TakaraTomy) and [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] (Robot parts and accessory)}}
:An exclusive to [[TakaraTomy Mall]], ''[[Canon/Transformers]]'' Refraktor is a roughly Leader Class-sized figure that transforms into a fully licensed Canon EOS R5 digital camera. The toy is 80% the size of the genuine article and features a removable lens attachment, though it must be reattached to him before he can transform to robot mode since it forms his head and arms. The lens cap is removable and is used as a shield in robot mode. His included "Quantum Dial" accessory can be pegged onto his lens, just behind the front element. He also comes with a small version of his alternate mode from the original ''Transformers'' cartoon, which can split into three pieces, in homage to the original Reflector toy. As a bit of an easter egg and likely a nod to the original Reflector having three components, Refraktor has three very small "lenses" sculpted into his forehead, though they are almost entirely concealed by his helmet. The head must be unscrewed and the face removed (which can be quite difficult) to reveal them.

:Both his Quantum Dial and small camera accessory can be pegged into his palms. His hands feature a range of movement, with the thumb and index finger being articulated and the remaining fingers joined together.

:This mold was also used to make the concurrently released ''Canon/Transformers'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Canon/Transformers|Optimus Prime R5]] and the subsequent [[Nemesis Prime R5]] retool.
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===''Dramatic Capture Series''===
[[File:TF-DCS-Reflector.jpg|thumb|300px]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Decepticons Part 1''' (Multi-pack, ([[2025]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': [[November]] [[2025]]
:*''Accessories:'' 3 shields/lens parts, 3 rifles, flashcube, shield/grip, 3 shutters/torso-parts, 2 parts shoulder armor/viewfinders,[[Kremzeek]] blast effect

:The fifth ''[[Dramatic Capture Series]]'' box set comes with the trio of Reflector [[redeco]]ed from the ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' toy into more saturated cartoon-accurate colors, they come with the accessories from their [[Reflector (G1)#3pack|multi-pack release]]. Reflector(s) is packed with an additional [[Thundercracker (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Thundercracker]] figure.

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Decepticons Part 2''' ([[2026]])}}</ul>
:*''Release date'': February 2026

:The later ''Dramatic Capture Series'' set "Decepticons Part 2" consisted of [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Dramatic Capture Series|Skywarp]], [[Kickback (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Kickback]], [[Bombshell (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Bombshell]], and [[Shrapnel (G1)#Dramatic Capture Series|Shrapnel]]. Included among its accessories was a Reflector camera - a painted version of the ''[[Reflector (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'' camera listed above.
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==Merchandise==
===''Transformers Milk Caramel''===
[[File:Tfcaramel reflector.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Sweet and observant, like a mother. Who takes pictures of your every action.]]
*'''Reflector''' (1985)
:A small soft-rubber figurine of Reflector (known as a ''keshigomu'' in Japan) was released as part of [[Kabaya]]'s ''[[Transformers Milk Caramel]]'' line of [[candy toy]]s. Based specifically on the Viewfinder toy, the figure was available in multiple colors and came packaged with a piece of chocolate-covered caramel.
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===''Transformers Gum''===
*'''Reflector''' (1985)
**''Accessories:'' Spectro's "Shutter Gun", Viewfinder's "Lens Laser", Spyglass' "Optic Blaster", flash cube/missile launcher, missile, telephoto lens
:Essentially a downsized version of the original Reflector toy, the ''[[Transformers Gum]]'' kit is sculpted from black, red and grey plastic, features stickers rather than paint applications for details, and came with a stick of gum.
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===Decoy===
[[File:ReflectorDecoy1.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|"HI! I'M SUPPOSED TO BE CONSPICUOUS! AM I DOING IT RIGHT? HI!"]]
*'''Destron Hero Collection 22''' (multi-pack, 1986)
:Reflector was among the larger ''keshigomu'' developed by Takara, molded from soft purple rubber and initially sold in a multi-pack with twenty-one other Decepticon figurines. The figure, based on Reflector's animation model (unlike the earlier ''Caramel'' figure), features a number etched into its back which is the sum total of Reflector's [[Tech Spec]] ratings, for use in the various simple games that could be played with the figures. Reflector was later available in a peach coloration as part of various other multi-packs.

*'''Reflector''' (1987)
**''Decoy number:'' '''52'''
:The Reflector figurine was later brought over to [[Hasbro]] markets as part of the [[Decoy]] promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number (52, in Reflector's case). Like all Decepticons Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded [[Throttlebot]]s, [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] and [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]], and was, very early on in the promotion, available in an alternate red coloration that was only packed in with the Throttlebots. Unsurprisingly, this red figurine is much rarer.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Decoys/Reflector/reflector.htm More information on Reflector at TFU.info]''
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===''ReAction''===
*'''Reflector''' (2022)
:Released in the fifth wave of [[Super7]]'s line of multi-property 3.75-inch "retro" action figures, ''[[ReAction]]'' Reflector is a non-converting 3 3/4-inch action figure based on his appearance in the original cartoon, with 5 points of articulation (swivel neck, shoulders, hips) and holes in his feet for use with some variety of stand. Unlike the various other accessory-less figures in the ''ReAction'' line, both of Reflector's hands are open to hold accessories he doesn't have.

:As with all releases in the ''ReAction'' toyline, Reflector comes packaged on a small cardback that emulates the nostalgic packaging style of [[Kenner]]'s ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' action figures from the late 1970s to early '80s.
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===''Transformers Character Card''===
[[File:Transformers Character Card Reflector and Mirage.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|]]
*'''Rije & Refraktor Set''' ([[December]], [[2023]])
**''ID number:'' '''75 & 76'''
:Released as part of the tenth wave of the [[e-HOBBY]] exclusive ''[[Transformers Character Card]]'' series, this pair of holographic trading cards depict super-deformed art of "[[Mirage (G1)|Rije]]" and "Refraktor" (in his traditional form of [[Spectro]], [[Spyglass]] and [[Viewfinder]]) along with [[bio|character profiles]] and [[Tech Spec|tech specs]].
::*''[[Source:Transformers Character Card#76|Translation of Reflector's Transformers Character Card]]''

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==Notes==
[[File:PreReflector.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Say "Cheese" and die.]]
*Reflector was originally the "Camera Robo" from Takara's ''[[Micro Change]]'' sub-series of the ''[[Microman|New Microman]]'' line. The only noteworthy difference between the two releases, besides the whole missile-launcher-neuter-in-the-United-States thing, is that the ''Microman'' release has "MICROX" emblazoned on the center unit's decals instead of "REFLECTOR".
*Not so surprisingly, the Camera Robo was first designed as a single unit. Apparently, the primary designer of the final toy, and possibly this initial design, was mecha designer [[Shinji Aramaki]], who designed the robots for ''{{w|Megazone 23}}'' and ''{{w|Genesis Climber Mospeada}}''.
*Reflector's role early in the cartoon makes it seem likely his toy was originally planned for inclusion in the initial 1984 line, a theory supported by the inclusion of a Hasbro product code consistent with the other 1984 toys in [[Teletraan I]]'s files on the Decepticons in "[[Heavy Metal War]]". Why Hasbro decided not to release it so late in the game is unknown, as is the reason they later reversed that decision to make it a viable mail-away. In accordance with Hasbro's decision not to release the figure, the [[Production bible|series story bible]] specifically discouraged writers from use of the character after season one ended.<ref>[http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#043 Reflector's page in the series bible]</ref> Indeed, following "City of Steel", Reflector is never called for by an episode script again, and appears only in group shots of the Decepticons at the animators' discretion.
*At the script stage, Reflector was intended to be a singular robot who possessed the ability to split into three duplicates, identical save for the lens aperture in the chest of the robot who forms the center of their camera mode, who all act with the same mind and talk in unison, with the same voice. This ability was never shown on-screen, having apparently been consciously erased from the series: it was displayed in deleted scenes from "[[Divide and Conquer]]", "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]", and "[[War of the Dinobots]]". However, "Divide and Conquer" ''did'' show the three robots ''re-combining'', as the three components collide with one another and disappear until only one is left. Reflector was usually just seen in his triplicate state most of the time, but on rare occasions, he would appear as a single robot. His character model was also [[:File:GenericDecepticons MTMTE.jpg|sometimes]] used for [[generic]] Decepticon troops.
*In the Japanese dub of ''The Transformers'' cartoon, and in true anime fashion, Reflector announces the name of his special attack every time he uses it: "Flash Beam!"
*Amusingly, the mailaway flyer for Reflector's original toy advertised it as coming with a "flashcube and ''laser'' sheet", presumably due to someone in marketing misreading the [[instructions]]' "flashcube and ''label'' sheet".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Reflector''' (リフレクター ''Rifurekutā''), '''Refraktor''' (リフレクター ''Rifurekutā'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fǎnshèjìng''' (Taiwan, 反射鏡, "Reflector"), '''Zhàoxiàngjī''' (China, 照相机, "Camera")

==References==
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[[Category:Alternity Decepticons]]
[[Category:Cloud Decepticons]]
[[Category:Combined forms]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars Decepticons]]
[[Category:Deceptihogs]]
[[Category:Decoys]]
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[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 toy Decepticons]]
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[[Category:Generations Selects Decepticons]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Decepticons]]
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[[Category:Marvel Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]
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[[Category:Pretenders]]
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[[Category:Second Cybertron Alliance]]
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[[Category:Transformers Roleplaying Game Decepticons]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron: Earthrise Decepticons]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron: Kingdom Decepticons]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron: Siege Decepticons]]
[[Category:Wings Universe Decepticons]]
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Template:STTLK

2025-10-14T20:26:20Z

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<noinclude>A listing of all toys branded with ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (franchise)|The Last Knight]]'' in ''[[Studio Series]]''.
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:{{Bp-a1|24 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS24|Bumblebee 1967 Volkswagen Beetle]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
:{{Bp-a1|25 [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS24|Bumblebee 2016 Chevrolet Camaro]] (''The Last Knight'')}}
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<noinclude>[[Category:Studio Series listing templates| 5]]</noinclude>

G.I. Joe (2024) issue 5

2025-10-11T10:54:33Z

Primal primus the second: /* Covers */

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|caption=
|title=
|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[March 19]], [[2025]]
|coverdate=March 2025
|written by=[[Joshua Williamson]]
|art by=[[Tom Reilly]]
|colors by=[[Jordie Bellaire]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editors=[[Ben Abernathy]]
|publication design=[[Andres Juarez]]
|production=[[Ashby Florence]]
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}}

'''After being captured by Cobra, the Joes stage a daring escape. Meanwhile, Cobra Commander modified the Brainwave Scanner with Doctor Monev.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Mercer]] welcomes the captured [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joes]] to [[Cobra]]’s [[M.A.R.S.|M.A.R.S. Industries]] base. Before he brings them to [[Cobra Commander]], however, he reintroduces [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] to his old enemy, [[Destro]], who has him beat him up. Destro comments that Duke is good at taking a lot of punishment, but perhaps his real weakness lies within his team. At that moment, he begins threatening to torture [[Baroness]], who dares him to try. [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz|Chameleon]] offers to do it, but Destro shuts her down. Returning his attention to Duke and co., he asks how they were able to intercept Cobra at both the [[Brainwave Scanner]] shipping site and the [[Doctor Venom|Doctor Monev]] kidnapping. Duke laughs and, without knowing if he was even there, orders [[Clutch (G.I. Joe)|Clutch]] to attack.

Thankfully, Clutch ''was'' present in the room, and even better, he was sitting inside a [[H.I.S.S. tank]], which he uses to pelt the Cobra officers with a torrent of [[Energon]] gunfire. While Mercer shields his boss, [[Ripper (G.I. Joe)|Ripper]] cowers on the ground [[Cobra Commander issue 5|once again]], and Duke and the Joes take cover behind the tanks.

Simultaneously, in another part of the facility, Cobra Commander and Doctor Archibald Monev work on the modifications to the Brainwave Scanner. Monev points out the sounds of battle in the distance, but the Commander brushes it off. He then tells him about a side effect of the Scanner’s modifications: while it will enslave the minds of everyone within its five-mile blast radius, because of the Energon’s strength, anyone within a one-mile radius will have their minds wiped completely. Cobra Commander brushes this off as well, calling it “a worthy sacrifice” and telling his hostage to get back to work.

Back in the other room, [[Tomax and Xamot]] arrive on the scene, and [[Scrap-Iron]] brings out the bazooka to blow up Clutch’s H.I.S.S. The Joe leaps out of the vehicle just in time to escape the explosion and joins his teammates in their hiding spot. He shoots Duke’s handcuffs, and the team discuss their next course of action. Baroness says they can’t fight without weapons, to which [[Risk (G.I. Joe)|Risk]] responds that they can fight with their fists. Duke agrees and adds that they can grab weapons off of the Cobra troops they fight on the way out. Destro orders his men to prepare to shoot them dead, but the Joes unexpectedly come out screaming. As planned, they fight their way through the enemy troops, snatching their weapons and using them against them. Duke lobs a bomb at Destro and Chameleon. Tomax and Xamot leave in disgust at the M.A.R.S. CEO’s handling of the situation. The Joes run out to the helipad, where they steal a transport helicopter, although Destro gives chase in a [[F.A.N.G.]] Inside the stolen chopper, Baroness notices him, and then notices that Duke isn’t with them in the vehicle.

Within the M.A.R.S. headquarters, Monev and Cobra Commander marvel at the former’s work on the Brainwave Scanner. The Commander suggests readying the bomb for transport, but Monev reminds him that Destro didn’t bring a test subject for them. As he leans into the machine, his captor pushes him inside. The restraints lock him in his seat, and, despite the protests that the device could kill him, the Commander pulls the lever. While the Scanner does its work, Destro contacts his partner-in-crime and informs him about the Joes’ escape. Because of the commotion, more military troops may be on the way, so they need to hasten their plans. Cobra Commander tells him he’ll take care of the bomb’s transportation and hangs up, but before he can leave, Duke holds a gun to his head and demands to know who he is.
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==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|h1=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c1=
*[[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (3)
*[[Baroness]] (4)
*[[Risk (G.I. Joe)|Risk]] (5)
*[[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] (6)
*[[Cover Girl]] (7)
*[[Clutch (G.I. Joe)|Clutch]] (12)

|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=
*[[Mercer]] (1)
*Cobra Troopers (2)
*[[Destro]] (8)
*[[Ripper (G.I. Joe)|Ripper]] (9)
*[[Scrap-Iron]] (10)
*[[Astoria Carlton-Ritz|Chameleon]] (11)
*[[Cobra Commander]] (13)
*[[Tomax and Xamot]] (15 & 16)

|h3=Others|c3=
* [[Doctor Venom|Archibald Monev]] (14)
}}

==Quotes==
"How did you know Clutch was here?” 
"I guessed." 
"'''YOU GUESSED?!'''"
:—'''Baroness''' continues to learn how crazy her leader is.

"If I die today… I’m glad to know it’s alongside this team. For Rock ‘n Roll." 
"For Rock ‘n Roll." 
"Just one thing left to say… '''YO JOE!''' 
"They’re '''mad.'''

:—'''Duke''' and the Joes prepare to make their big push, while '''Destro''' comments on the plan’s insanity.

"What… What are you '''doing?'''” 
"Testing it." 
"Please… No. It could '''kill''' me." 
"It could."

:—'''Cobra Commander''' shows how little he cares for others, '''Dr. Monev''' included.

"'''Who the Hell are you?'''

:—'''Duke''' finally meets '''Cobra Commander''' face-to-face.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Mercer references his and Duke’s prior meetings in the first issues of ''[[Duke (comic)|Duke]]'' and this series, as well as his encounters with Destro in the former.
* Chameleon once again calls Destro “lover,” referencing the relationship that started between them at the end of [[Destro (comic)|his self-titled series]].
* Clutch has been hiding out amongst Cobra’s ranks since the end of [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 2|issue 2]].
* Ripper cowers on the ground when the battle begins, just as he did when a similar Energon gunfight broke out in ''[[Cobra Commander issue 5]]'', something which itself was due to all the harrowing events he endured fighting the Commander and [[Nemesis Enforcer]] alongside his fellow [[Dreadnok]]s in prior issues of that series.
* The Joes pay tribute to [[Rock 'n Roll]], who was killed by [[Cobra Viper]]s at the end of [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 1|issue 1]], before making their last stand.

===''G.I. Joe'' references===
* When threatening to torture Duke’s team, Destro targets Baroness, which may be in part due to their romantic connection in prior stories.
* The Joes make their escape in a Cobra transport helicopter, a non-toy vehicle that appeared frequently in the original ''[[G.I. Joe (comic)|A Real American Hero]]'' comics.

===Real-life references===

===Errors===
* On page 10, panel 4, Clutch shoots Duke’s handcuffs off, but he is seen with them on in the first panel of the next page. They disappear again in panel 2, and aren’t seen on his wrists afterwards.

===Covers===
* '''Cover A:''' Destro holds a hologram of the captured Joes, by Tom Reilly.
* '''Cover B:''' Baroness punches Destro, by [[David Finch]], [[Sandra Hope]], and [[Adriano Lucas]].
* '''Cover C:''' Baroness, by [[Ryan Sook]].
* '''Cover D (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' G.I. Joe charges into battle with Clutch and Cover Girl in a [[Vamp|V.A.M.P.]], half of a connecting cover with [[G.I. Joe (2024) issue 6|issue 6]] depicting a battle between them and Cobra, by [[Karl Kerschl]].
* '''Cover E (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' [[Cobra Valkyries|Cobra Valkyrie]] on an explosion background, by [[Travis Moore]] and Adriano Lucas.
* '''Cover F (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Design specs for the G.I. Joe V.A.M.P., by [[E. J. Su]].
* '''The 616 Comics Cover:''' Cobra Commander, by [[Tyler Kirkham]].

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G.I. Joe (2024) issue 1

2025-10-11T10:50:53Z

Primal primus the second: /* Covers */

{{Comicstory
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|title=
|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[November 13]], [[2024]]
|coverdate=November 2024
|written by=[[Joshua Williamson]]
|art by=[[Tom Reilly]]
|colors by=[[Jordie Bellaire]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editors=[[Ben Abernathy]]
|production design=[[Andres Juarez]]
|production=[[Ashby Florence]]
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}}

'''A daring, highly trained special mission force dedicated to defending human freedom. A ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. This is how their war begins.'''

==Synopsis==
Following his grueling ordeals with [[M.A.R.S.|M.A.R.S. Industries]] and [[Starscream (G1)|that giant robot that turned into a plane]], First Sergeant [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Conrad "Duke" Hauser]] has been placed in command of the newly formed special mission force codenamed [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. During a training exercise with his new team, the [[JUMP Jet Pack|JUMP]] jet pack used by [[Baroness|Anastasia "Baroness" Cisarovna]]—Duke's most controversial recruit with both his fellow Joes and Colonel [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]]—ends up malfunctioning. Duke dives down to rescue her, much to the Baroness' annoyance. In a meeting with Hawk afterwards, Duke reflects that for as skilled as his team is, they're not yet ready to face the enemy.

Meanwhile, in [[Springfield (G.I. Joe)|Springfield, USA]]—headquarters of the clandestine [[Cobra]] organization—[[Destro]] meets with [[Cobra Commander]] to discuss the next phase of their plans for world domination using the mysterious substance [[energon]]. Destro presents the Commander with his next innovation: a rifle using energon not just as a power source, but as ammunition. Cobra Commander hisses with satisfaction at this new laser weapon.

At a nightclub in [[Abu Dhabi]], an operative codenamed [[Risk (G.I. Joe)|Risk]] confronts a local boss, who has previously refused to talk to him. After taking out his bodyguards singlehandedly, Risk delivers one simple message to the boss: don't sell to M.A.R.S. Industries. At that moment, he gets a message on a wrist communicator, ordering him to “return home."

Duke watches the sun rise above the [[Pit (G.I. Joe)|Pit]]. Hawk joins him, and Duke confides that he isn't sure how to turn the Joes into a proper team, feeling they should all be doing what he would do, but Hawk counters that what will make G.I. Joe work is each member's distinct differences. He then tells Duke to get some rest: G.I. Joe has their first mission tomorrow.

The next morning, Duke briefs the Joes on their mission: a piece of recovered technology from the wreckage of the [[Cybertron (planet)|alien world]] that recently fell into the [[Pacific Ocean]] is currently being studied at a facility in [[Colorado]]. However, a series of break-ins at various advanced technology facilities across the world makes this a potential target. The Joes' mission is to protect the facility and make sure the alien technology doesn't fall into the wrong hands. At that same time, Destro briefs the Cobra Troopers on the target of their next mission to acquire more energon... a lab in Colorado! Destro orders the Troopers to support [[Mercer]] and his [[Cobra Viper]]s so they can get in, acquire the technology, and get out as quickly as possible. However, Cobra Commander has other ideas, believing this to be the moment that Cobra should step out of the shadows.

At the Colorado facility, Baroness is indignant that their first mission has them acting as glorified babysitter, leading to an exchange of snipes between her and [[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]]. However, their bickering is interrupted by the facility's power going out. The screens on the lab computers goes static, then turns red with the Cobra insignia. Outside, a [[F.A.N.G.]] fires on the top floor of the facility, forcing the Joes to take cover as a squad of Cobra Troopers siege the building. Duke orders [[Rock 'n Roll]], [[Clutch (G.I. Joe)|Clutch]], and [[Cover Girl]] to get the asset away from the facility while Stalker and Baroness cover them, opting to take out the F.A.N.G. himself by diving out the window. Though he is able to take out the helicopter's pilot, the Cobra forces quickly overwhelm the Joes, bolstered by the arrival of Mercer and his Vipers wielding Destro's new energon blasters. The Vipers corner Clutch and Cover Girl, but Rock 'n Roll does his best to take them on and allow the others to escape. However, as he charges confidently at the Vipers, he is blasted through multiple times by their energon-powered fire!
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|h1=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c1=
* [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (1)
* [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] (4)
* [[Clutch (G.I. Joe)|Clutch]] (5)
* [[Cover Girl]] (6)
* [[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] (7)
* [[Rock 'n Roll]] (8)
* [[Baroness]] (9)
* [[Risk (G.I. Joe)|Risk]] (20)

|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=
* [[Battle Android Trooper]] (3)
* [[Destro]] (10)
* Cobra Troopers (11)
* [[Laszlo Vandermeer]] (12)
* [[Scrap-Iron]] (13)
* [[Cobra Commander]] (14)
* [[Mercer]] (15)
* Cobra Officer (22)
* [[Cobra Viper]]s (23)

|h3=Others|c3=
* ''[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'' (2)
* Bouncer (16)
* “Boss" (17)
* Bodyguard (18)
* Boss's entourage (19)
* ''[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'' (21)
}}

==Quotes==
"We already got '''you'''. We don't need more. We need '''them''' to be the best version of '''themselves'''. And that is what is going to make '''G.I. Joe''' different than any other command you've ever had and any team in the world."
:—'''Hawk''' giving Duke reassurance.

"Kill everyone there but one. Leave a witness to spread the word of our glory. Let them fear the name... '''''Cobra'''''."
:—'''Cobra Commander'''

'''Clutch:''' "If we break this, does that mean we have to buy it?" 
'''Cover Girl:''' "Hardly the time for '''jokes''', Clutch." 
'''Mercer:''' "If you want to '''gift wrap''' that for us, that would be just fine." 

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* The opening page recaps the events that led to Duke leading the G.I. Joe team in four panels:
** Panel one: Duke's encounter with Starscream in ''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers (2023) issue 2|#2]]
** Panel two: Duke and Clutch fleeing from Rock 'n Roll's drones in ''[[Duke (comic)|Duke]]'' [[Duke issue 2|#2]].
** Panel three: Duke destroying the B.A.T. from [[Duke issue 5|''Duke'' #5]].
** Panel four: Duke agreeing to join Hawk's new team at the end of ''Duke'' #5.
* The drones the Joes fight in their training exercise are the same ones Rock 'n Roll controlled in ''Duke'' #2.
* Springfield previously appeared as Cobra's base of operations in ''[[Cobra Commander (comic)|Cobra Commander]]'' [[Cobra Commander issue 5|#5]], though it went unnamed in that issue.
* Dr. Laszlo Vandermeer is seen working on Cobra's energon projects, as he was established to be doing in ''Cobra Commander'' #5.
* Until now, Cobra has mostly kept to the shadows, though it is mentioned that the world has "seen what [Cobra] can do," referencing the use of the B.A.T.s in the revolution of [[Darklonia]] seen in ''[[Destro (comic)|Destro]]'' [[Destro issue 1|#1]].
* When we first see Cobra Commander, he is tinkering with the mechanical claw weapon that he used to dispatch [[Nemesis Enforcer]] during their battle in [[Cobra Commander issue 4|''Cobra Commander'' #4]].
* Though his face is kept in shadow, this issue marks the first time we see the Commander without his helmet or the bandages that covered the wounds he got from the spores in [[Cobra-La]] back in [[Cobra Commander issue 1|''Cobra Commander'' #1]].
* Clutch previously built a prototype of the [[VAMP]] in ''Duke'' #2.
* Clutch references Cover Girl's hair changing from the auburn we saw her with in the pages of ''Duke''.
* In his mission brief, Duke references the existence of the [[Transformer]]s, showing the Joes the same photo of Optimus Prime that was seen at the end of [[Duke issue 5|''Duke'' #5]]. He also mentions the events of the second arc of ''Transformers'', with the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s spotted in the Pacific Ocean and a piece of Cybertron falling into the ocean.
** He also references a series of break-ins at weapon and tech facilities, including M.A.R.S., referring to Cobra's attack on M.A.R.S. facilities in ''Cobra Commander'' #5. This pattern also fits with Cobra's attack on the [[Sato]] building looking for the [[Sword of Life]] in ''[[Scarlett (comic)|Scarlett]]''.
* Destro says he was told Duke died in an explosion, referring to how the government publicized his "death" in ''Duke'' #5.
* While we've seen Cobra Troopers and Officers appear in the pages of ''Scarlett'' and ''Destro'', this issue gives us our first appearance of the Cobra Vipers, led by Mercer.

===''G.I. Joe'' references===
* The Joes are wearing [https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/82/jump/ JUMP jet packs] during their training exercise.
* In keeping with tradition, Springfield is only identified as "Springfield, USA," with no specific state given.
* Destro using Energon to give Cobra laser-based weapons as opposed to traditional firearms provides an in-universe reason to mirror the use of laser weapons for both Cobra and the Joes in the ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' cartoon.
* Though her toy was designed with auburn hair, Cover Girl appeared with blonde hair in the original ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' animated miniseries "The M.A.S.S. Device," likely in a bid to visually distinguish her from [[Scarlett]]. She was later redesigned to better resemble her toy, and subsequent iterations of the character have oscillated between the auburn and blonde look. This series splits the difference by having it be an in-universe dye job.
* Mercer has traditionally been depicted as an ex-Cobra Viper, and here is portrayed as the de-facto leader of the Vipers. His new design is therefore a hybridization of the standard Viper uniform and his usual sleeveless outfit.

===''Transformers'' references===
* The A cover for this issue depicts G.I. Joe and Cobra standing over the bodies/pieces of several Transformers, including Optimus Prime, [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]].

===Other notes===
* Continuing the trend started by ''Transformers'' and ''Duke'', Skybound released a promotional ashcan for this issue at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2024, containing an uncolored, unlettered preview of the first 12 pages and several pages of character designs. A second version was released at [[New York Comic Con]] a few months later, this time with the preview pages in color and a different set of character designs.
* The Baroness and Stalker's conversation in Russian roughly translates as follows:
:'''Baroness:''' "Shut up, you stupid old pig. Or I'll slit your throat in your sleep." 
:'''Stalker:''' "Try that and I'll not only kick your ass, I'll drag you right back to your mommy and daddy and tell them how their little princess got into this messed up life. They brought you into this world, so maybe they'll do me a favor and take you out."

===Covers (42)===
{{comicstub|42/60 covers documented}}
* '''Cover A:''' A wraparound cover featuring G.I. Joe on the front side and Cobra on the back, by Tom Reilly and Jordie Bellaire.
* '''Cover B:''' The Joe team, by [[Jerome Opeña]] and [[Dave Stewart]].
* '''Cover C:''' Cover Girl facing off against [[Tomax and Xamot]], by [[Brett Booth]], [[John Livesay]] and [[Andrew Dalhouse]]
* '''Cover D:''' Cobra, by [[David Finch]], [[Danny Miki]] and [[Dave McCaig]].
* '''Cover E:''' Duke attacking Cobra Commander, reflected in the Commander's mask, by [[Lee Bermejo]].
* '''Cover F:''' Baroness, by [[Sozomaika]].
* '''Cover G:''' [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz|Chameleon]], by [[Jenny Frison]].
* '''Cover H (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Baroness, one of a series of connecting variants featuring the female characters of G.I. Joe, by [[David Nakayama]].
* '''Cover I (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Cover Girl on an explosion background, by [[Jeff Spokes]].
* '''Cover J (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' H.I.S.S. tank schematics, by [[E. J. Su]].
* '''Cover K (1:100 Copy Incentive):''' Risk and Baroness, by [[Jonboy Meyers]] and [[Ryan Kinnaird]].
* '''Cover L (1:250 Copy Incentive):''' Risk design and info, by Tom Reilly and [[Andres Juarez]].
* '''Cover M (1:500 Copy Incentive):''' Sketch version of Cover D, by David Finch.
* '''Cover N:''' Blank sketch cover with the Joe star insignia.
* '''Cover O:''' Blank sketch cover with the Cobra insignia.
* '''Cover P:''' Foil version of Cover A, by Tom Reilly and Jordie Bellaire.
* '''Cover Q:''' Foil version of Cover G, by Jenny Frison.
* '''Cover R:''' Die cut foil cover of Cobra Commander's mask, by [[Andrea Milana]] and Andres Juarez.
* '''The 616 Comics Cover A:''' by [[Nathan Szerdy]].
* '''The 616 Comics Cover B:''' by [[Ivan Tao]].
* '''The 616 Comics Cover C:''' by Ivan Tao.
* '''TopShelfComic Cover:''' by [[David Mack]].
* '''East Side Comics / The Comic Corner Cover:''' by [[Natali Sanders]].
* '''East Side Comics / KRS Comics Cover A:''' by [[Lesley Li]].
* '''East Side Comics / KRS Comics Cover B:''' by [[Cedric Poulat]].
* '''Comic Spot / Crimson Fable Studios/ Gabe's Cave / Krum's World / Pastime Comics Cover:''' by [[Peter Smith]].
* '''Things From Another World Cover:''' by [[Ryan G. Browne]].
* '''Epikos CCG / Nirvana Comics Cover:''' by [[Mayday Trippe]].
* '''CBNS / Gotham City Limit / Stronghold Collectibles Cover:''' by [[Tyler Kirkham]].
* '''Third Eye Comics Cover A:''' by [[Alexis Ziritt]].
* '''Afshari Comics Cover:''' by [[Javan Jordan]].
* '''Big Clutch / Bigg Legg / Wanted Comix Cover A:''' by [[Joe Benitez]] and [[Peter Steigerwald]].
* '''Big Clutch / Bigg Legg / Wanted Comix Cover B:''' by Joe Benitez and Peter Steigerwald.
* '''Clobberin' Comics Cover:''' by [[Dan Panosian]].
* '''Southern Comics Cartel / Syndicate Comics Cover:''' by [[Deegan Puchkors]] and [[Kyle Petchock]].
* '''Impulse Creations Cover:''' by [[Mico Suayan]].
* '''Mike Mayhew Studio Cover A:''' by [[Mike Mayhew]].
* '''Mike Mayhew Studio Cover B:''' by Mike Mayhew.
* '''Midtown Comics Cover:''' by [[Ben Harvey]].
* '''Third Eye Comics Cover B:''' by [[Rian Gonzales]].
* '''Sybound Shop Cover A:''' by [[José Lima Araújo]] and [[Chris O'Halloran]].
* '''Sybound Shop Cover B:''' by José Lima Araújo and Chris O'Halloran.

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===Reprints===
* '''''G.I. Joe Volume 1: The Cobra Strikes!''''' ([[June 18]], [[2025]]) ISBN 1534328076 / ISBN 978-1534328075 
** Collects issues #1–6.
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Transformers (2023) issue 1

2025-10-02T13:05:11Z

Primal primus the second: /* Errors */

{{Comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers (2023 comic)|Transformers]]'' #1
|prev=Void Rivals issue 1
|next=Transformers (2023) issue 2
|image=Transformers 2023 1 cvr.jpg
|caption=Alright, let's do this one more time.
|publisher=[[Image Comics]] [[Skybound Entertainment]]
|date=[[October 4]], [[2023]]
|coverdate=October 2023
|written by=[[Daniel Warren Johnson]]
|art by=Daniel Warren Johnson
|colors by=[[Mike Spicer]]
|letters by=[[Rus Wooton]]
|editor=[[Sean Mackiewicz]]
|design by=[[Andres Juarez]]
|continuity=[[Energon Universe]]
|chronology=
}}

'''After centuries of slumber, the Autobots and Decepticons awaken in a strange new world.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] finds his father, [[Sparkplug Witwicky|"Sparky" Witwicky]], asleep in a bar. Spike asks his father how long he's been there, to which [[Danny]], the bartender, answers that he has been there since noon. Sparky notices that Spike has his brother [[Jimmy Witwicky|Jimmy]]'s telescope with him. Spike tells him that he and [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] plan to visit [[Hanger's Rock]] to see the full moon. He says it helps him remember Jimmy, to which Sparky grouses that it's better to forget. Spike fires back at his father, telling him he won't end up like Jimmy. Meanwhile, [[Jerry (G1)|another patron]] drunkenly ranted about seeing a giant boxy jet fly down from space. Their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Sparky's co-worker, [[Davey]], who is here to pick him up for their shifts. Sparky tells Spike that he has to grow up eventually, to which Spike angrily asks if he means being like him. As the adults drive off, Carly arrives to pick Spike up in her van. Carly consoles a dejected Spike by suggesting they "pretend they're on another planet".

The pair climbs the mountain at Hanger's Rock for a better view and to discuss their future ambitions. Spike recently has been accepted to the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he wishes to follow in Jimmy's footsteps and become an astronaut. However, he's reluctant to tell his father about it since Jimmy's death. Carly, meanwhile, has been looking at art schools, but she and her father are struggling to make it work financially. Carly takes Spike's hand, telling him how sorry she is about what's going on with his family. As the two teenagers lean in closer, an earthquake shakes the ground, causing the mountain to split open and sending the two plummeting into the depths below. Recovering, they find themselves inside a giant circular structure — the booster of a [[Ark (G1)|gigantic spacecraft]]. Spike ventures further inside the starship and sees the primary control room, littered with the mangled bodies of what appears to be some giant robots.

[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] flies into the ''Ark'' and transforms, grateful to have found his fallen friends. He activates [[Teletraan I|Teletraan One]] to repair and reconstruct his fellow Cybertronians, granting them new forms he found on [[Earth]]. The first reactivated is [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. Jetfire warmly greets his old friend, having not seen him in centuries. Starscream thanks Jetfire for waking him and says he's glad he "picked the right side" before immediately turning to the nearby [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and blasting his head off. The stunned Jetfire, unaware that their people have been at war for the past hundred years, tries to stop him, but Starscream turns his [[null-ray]] on his old friend for opposing. Starscream aims his weapon at [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] next, but a reconstructed [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] stops him!

As the [[Autobot]] leader and [[Decepticon]] warrior fight, Prime notices the humans and instinctively dives to protect them from Starscream's fire. [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]'s intervention halts Starscream's attack right as Teletraan One reconstructs [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. Realizing the computer is reconstructing them randomly, Starscream tells Skywarp to bring their fellow Decepticons closer. Optimus realizes that the Decepticons will outnumber them and orders a retreat, telling Ratchet to load their fellow Autobots into his new form's trailer while he fends off their opponents. When he reaches for his [[ion blaster]], a revived [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] intercepts him with cannon fire. As he recovers, he sees Bumblebee's remains, cradling him in despair before being beset by Starscream and [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. Seeing this, Spike and Carly run out and push Prime's blaster to him, allowing him to fight back.

[[File:TF2023 – Prime & Ratchet vehicle modes.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]

Left with no choice, Optimus fires at Teletraan One, destroying the computer and preventing the remaining Decepticons from being reconstructed. As Teletraan explodes, Optimus grabs Carly and Spike. He and Ratchet transform and drive out of the ''Ark'' into the mountains below, Starscream and Skywarp in hot pursuit despite their low [[energon]] levels. Jetfire regains consciousness and follows them, firing on Starscream, much to his regret. Starscream volleys back, critically wounding Jetfire. Fortunately for the Autobots, Skywarp's energy reserves dwindled, forcing the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] to retreat.

Needing to recuperate, Spike leads the Autobots to an abandoned quarry. As he succumbs to his injuries, Jetfire apologizes to Optimus; so much has changed since he left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in hopes of saving it. Optimus tries to use the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to heal Jetfire, but Ratchet tells him that his injuries are too extreme. Optimus grips his old friend's hand as he passes, lamenting his failure.

In the ''Ark'', Soundwave reports to Starscream that he cannot fix Teletraan One, as they lack the necessary energon and raw materials. They are the only Decepticons left until it's repaired. Soundwave has already sent [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] to scout for possible energon sources, but harvesting it falls to Starscream since he has the most energon reserved. Begrudgingly, Starscream accepts. After all, he is the leader of the Decepticons now.

As Davey and Sparky end their shift at the nearby power plant, Davey tries to talk to Sparky about his recent troubles, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Starscream, irritated he has to be the one doing all the work. The pair try to escape, but Starscream notices them. Sparky hides inside the plant while the giant alien snatches up Davey. Starscream smiles as he crushes Davey in his hand, amused at how fragile, squishy, and pathetic the humans are.

{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (11)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (12)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (13)
* [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (14)
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (15)
* [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (16)
* [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (18)

|c2=
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (8)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (9)
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (10)
* [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (19)
* [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] (20)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (21)

|c3=
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky|"Sparky" Witwicky]] (1)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (3)
* [[Danny]] (4)
* [[Jerry (G1)|Jerry]] (5)
* [[Davey]] (6)
* [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] (7)

|c4=
* [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (17)
}}

==Quotes==
"Where are you going? Isn't that... Jimmy's?" 
"Yeah. Carly and I were going to check out the full moon tonight, remember? On top of Hanger's Rock?" 
"Looking at '''stars''' again, huh?" 
"Doing this kind of thing... it reminds me of him." 
"Why would you want to remember? It's best to '''forget''' all that." 
"Is that how you're gonna '''live''' now? Just pretending he didn't '''exist?'''" 
:—'''Sparky''' and '''Spike''' touch on their trauma

"...You must forgive me. I have been away for centuries. I did not know about this war. I did not know you were the new Prime..." 
"I remember the day you left our home to find a way to save it." 
"And you... were so '''young''' then." 
"Much has changed since you left our planet. All for the worse." 
:—'''Jetfire''' and '''Optimus Prime''' rekindle their friendship

"Why are you all looking at '''me?'''" 
"You have the most energon reserved. Thus the harvesting is up to '''you.''' It's what Meg--" 
"'''Do not''' say his name. '''I''' am the leader of the Decepticons now." 
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Soundwave'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Jetfire's arrival on Earth follows his awakening in the [[Void Rivals issue 1|first issue]] of ''[[Void Rivals]]''. How long precisely he was asleep is a little unclear. In ''Void Rivals'', he mentions being in stasis for millions of years, but here, he says he was away for merely centuries. Due to the syntax used, it could be that Jetfire was ''searching'' for centuries but ''asleep'' for millions of years. The following issue confirms the centuries' time frame, making ''Void Rivals'' use millions of years the outlier. However, later issues revealed that the ''Ark'' had crashed millions of years ago.
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] hinted at Cybertron's energon shortage in ''Void Rivals'' [[Void Rivals issue 4|#4]].
* After being attacked by Starscream, Jetfire is leaking yellow fluid. It would appear to confirm that the yellow fuel used by [[Darak]] and [[Solila]] to reactivate him was indeed energon.
* Soundwave and Starscream allude to the absence of the usual Decepticon leader, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Hmm... [[Transformers Energon Universe 2024 Special story|where could he be?]]
* Yes, Bumblebee is dead, having been destroyed by Starscream. The other Transformers are offline, including Thundercracker, whose reassembly is interrupted.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Thundercracker's not killed, he just was not fully built. [...] S'not like I shot him in the heart or something. Just FYI.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3774s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
* One of the many body parts strewn about the ''Ark'' is a green arm that is supposed to belong to the Autobot tracker [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]. However, the events detailed in the ''[[Energon Universe 2025 Special]]'' [[G.I. Joe Energon Universe 2025 Special story|''G.I. Joe'' story]] make that impossible.

===Transformers references===
* Like with ''Void Rivals'', this new series draws heavy influence from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]]:
** The character designs all pull directly from Generation 1.
** The ''Ark''{{'}}s crash into a mountain and the Autobots and Decepticons being repaired by Teletraan One unfolds like the premiere episode, "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]", right down to one of the Decepticons having reactivated first. The "error" of the Transformers having their Earth-inspired designs before they receive their Earth alternate modes also carries over.
** Spike, Sparkplug, and Carly were all core characters in the Generation 1 cartoon, though they have been heavily reimagined in the series, especially Carly. This version of Sparkplug goes by "Sparky".
** Starscream and Jetfire / Skyfire, having been old friends, Jetfire helping Starscream out of ignorance to the war, as well as Jetfire dying after dogfighting Starscream, brings to mind "[[Fire in the Sky]]".
* Optimus Prime gains the upper hand over Starscream with a fist and a resounding "never", similar to ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

===Real-world references===
* Sparky's flashbacks on the first page of the issue feature imagery of Sparky in a conflict, much like the [[Vietnam War]] and the explosion of a space shuttle reminiscent of the {{w|Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster}}; based on the context, it seems likely that Jimmy was one of the victims in the latter. However, these are merely stylistic renderings of purely fictional events, as later events and the broader Energon Universe stories are set firmly in the present day.
* Appropriately, Sparky is drinking at a {{w|Veterans of Foreign Wars|VFW}} bar.
* Carly's van art features several staples of van murals, such as a wizard inspired by {{w|Gandalf}} from ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'', a barbarian resembling {{w|Conan the Barbarian|Conan}}, and a fantasy castle and dragon.
* Optimus Prime enters the scene by ''clotheslining'' Starscream—this being the signature move of "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada, one of DWJ's favorite wrestlers.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=And of course, next we have a rainmaker clothesline, as one does. This is a wrestling move, this is one of my favorite wrestlers, Kazuchika Okada from New Japan Pro Wrestling. Of course, you know, the rainmaker, the lariat, is not new in professional wrestling, and by the end of this series it will not be new to Transformers.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2508s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref><ref>[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4pwff3 Kazuchika Okada Finisher- Rainmaker - Dailymotion]</ref>

===Storytelling notes===
As both writer and artist on this ''Transformers'' series, Daniel Warren Johnson has a rare level of creative freedom while composing the issue and using the art to tell the story. He covered some of these creative choices in a "director's commentary" live stream on his YouTube channel. Our issue analysis includes reproduced key insights.
* DWJ keeps a copy of [[IP infringement|Magic Square]]'s "Light of Peace" figure close at hand, which affects his take on Optimus Prime.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This is the Optimus Prime figure that Magic Square put out this past year in 2023. It's an update, so it has a new head sculpt, it looks just like the movie, the '86 movie which of course has been my bible. He looks so good that you can actually like, kind of pose him, and he looks pretty dynamic. And I knew that, man, if the toy looks this cool in real life, then I can make him look really cool... like look at this, it looks great, he looks kind of alive.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=798s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref> He notes that he especially avoids having Prime's "boots" flare out; he tries to draw them perfectly straight.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Another thing that I'll notice, that I'll give you a little preview of things to come artwise: you'll see Optimus's legs, you know, traditionally, you know, he's got kind of the 1970s design aesthetic here, which I think the Marvel Comics did, where, you know, the leg kind of comes out... like so it makes kind of like a boot cut kind of style for his like lower half of his leg. And I hate drawing that. I hate drawing that. Look how straight these legs are. As this series goes on you're going to see these legs get straighter and straighter. It's a stylistic thing something that I've been kind of like- it's been bugging me about drawing Optimus Prime, and it's just, I cannot stand drawing those legs widening out at the bottom. It's like, something about it, it just like, makes my eyes hurt. I've never liked it in the comics, it always read weird to me that they got wider. Some characters- like I remember when practicing, I was drawing Jazz. Jazz gets really wide, and if it's like, if it's really confident, like big and chunky, or Cliffjumper, big, chunky, no big deal. This? Like, Optimus's legs going wider? It just like, is it going wider is it not going w- anyway these are the ramblings of a crazy lunatic comic book artist.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2699s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
* His primary ''Transformers'' comics influence comes from [[Marvel Comics]] and [[Dreamwave Productions]].<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I wanted to just highlight this poster that I had in my bedroom when I was like 16, when Pat Lee made this imagery. You know, I was a huge ''Transformers'' fan of course when I was growing up, and I read mostly the Marvel Comics, 'cause that was the only thing that was available at the time, and here we have the Pat Lee comics of course that Dreamwave put out. I was so excited, I thought it looked awesome. I still do appreciate its blockiness now. So this is another reason why I wanted to do the project, 'cause like I just remember these feelings, and these like super bright colors that like were so awesome... and just being excited with like every cover, and I just felt like a kid. [...] And of course this image, like this is very satisfying, I knew I didn't want to get this bulbous with the designs, but you know I can't say I wasn't influenced by the absolutely outlandishness of these kind of like larger-than-life characters, so.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=997s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref> In the latter's case, we'll note that their [[Prime Directive|opening miniseries]] prominently featured the ''[[Ark II]]'' disaster, which drew heavily from the real-world Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster.
* The story's first page consists of five vertically stacked cinematic landscape panels, with Sparky's flashbacks interspersed by a panel of the ''Ark'' crashing and of Prime's deactivated body. It gives us an idea of what's been going through Sparky's mind at the bar. In particular, the panel of Optimus Prime is bookended by Spike's offscreen dialogue, getting his dad's attention. Prime is often considered a sort of father figure in pop culture.
** At Hasbro's request, DWJ avoided being too specific about the conflict.<ref name=Hasbro_Mandates>{{citesocial|quote=So here we've got the first page, and you can kind of see here, Hasbro wanted me to be be very like... don't show what kind of war it is... which is fine, and I did have to change these engines from three engines, which I just thought was a little cleaner, to five engines, like the ''Ark'' is, so I didn't think they'd care that much about being on model when it came to the ''Ark'' but they did!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1316s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
** DWJ wanted to streamline the ''Ark''{{'}}s design to have just three rear thrusters, but Hasbro insisted on having five,<ref name=Hasbro_Mandates/> necessitating the digital addition of two more to the later splash page of the ship's engines.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So again, I had to make a bit of an edit. The original art has just three engines, so I had to add these digitally—which I did not want to do, but Hasbro wanted it, so, okay, you know? It's okay, it's okay, it's all right, it is what it is...|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1845s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
* The second page aims to bring the story into reality,<ref name=Page_2>{{citesocial|quote=I really wanted to go all in on the first half of this page, and like really sell to you how lived in this world is. Even though it's a ''Transformers'' book it was very important to me that we got a vibe and a sense of where the human characters come from. And there's nothing more fun, than drawing the heck out of, than like a crappy VW hall. [...] It was a hard thing to draw, but it was also fun. I had to kind of photobash a bunch of different VFW bars—obviously didn't want to take from any one specifically, or any one bar specifically, just kind of taking the best of everything and kind of combining it into one. And this bartender, Danny the bartender, I'm a big fan of, he just kind of stands there. And of course the old guy that maybe has seen something crazy... total shout out to—even his like haircut is the same as, and the hat, as—''{{w|The Iron Giant}}'', so a little shout out there. [...] It doesn't really [take place in a specific time period like the '80s or '90s] in my opinion, there might be other people in the Energon Universe that have a different time, we don't really have a time period in place. I find time periods in comics like ''Transformers'' to be completely unnecessary. If I'm trying to make historical fiction then of course it is important, but when it comes to making things like the Transformers I have just never cared. JFK is not getting assassinated in the background on television here, so it's just not part of the story. But you will notice there's no cell phones, so. But that's cuz I hate writing stories with cell phones in them.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1406s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref> with much more detailed panels of varying shapes and sizes and a muted earthen color palette.
** DWJ used references from several different {{w|Veterans of Foreign Wars|VFW}} bars to arrive at the location seen in the comic.<ref name=Page_2/>
** As Spike and Sparky exit, the cluttered interior gives way to the orange evening sky, with the generous negative space often physically separating Spike from his distant father.
** DWJ notes that the final panel of this spread is technically wrong; based on the scene's perspective, Spike should be sinking into the ground. It was necessary so as not to obscure Carly's van,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I have a bit of a goof, a bit of a mistake [...] if you actually like do the perspective here, the way it should be done, it makes no sense. He would be sinking into the ground, he's like in quicksand right now, but I could not figure out a better dynamic shot choice that would show Carly and her artistic ability with this van. Like I tried to do it like this way, and it didn't really work, because it covered up too much of the van, and I realized just how big he would have to be, like his whole face would have to be like over here and it just didn't work. I wanted him to be in the middle, but then it also didn't make sense. So I was just like beating my head against the wall like, I hope this is okay, I hope people don't notice.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1516s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref> which is the same model of vehicle that appears in DWJ's previous original comic series, ''[https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/murder-falcon Murder Falcon]''.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Of course the dragon wagon, the van used in Murder Falcon.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1578s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref> Mike Spicer has colored the van using blue-pink tones, strongly contrasting with the orange that otherwise dominates the spread. As we turn the page, these nighttime hues take over the story, marking the beginning of a transition toward the unreal.
* DWJ drew the mountain landscape to resemble an alien planet, highlighting the feeling of "otherworldliness".<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This also is one of my favorite panels in the book. I wanted to start getting a little crazy, a little more intense with the shot choices, to kind of start getting us into the vibe of otherworldliness. This looks a little bit like they're exploring Mars, that was the goal, completely clear sky, really pushing the envelope when it comes to dynamic composition.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1635s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
* As the earthquake begins, we get the first instance of hand-lettered sound effects, drawn into the lineart by DWJ. These appear more prominently and frequently as we transition towards comic-book action.
[[File:TF2023 1 Splash pages composition.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2|Diagram illustrating DWJ's intended flow for the back-to-back splash pages.]]
* The reveal of the ''Ark'' paired across the two-page spread with another splash page of the deactivated Autobots. DWJ hoped to create a seamless transition, with the reader's gaze traveling down towards the inset panels at the bottom left, then following Spike and Carly across to the right before traveling up into the scene.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This was a goal, this was the goal: to have these pages be bleeding into each other. [...] You know I don't like to do this very often, you have like two splash pages back-to-back, because they kind of like... it gets a little messy here. But you know I usually like- if I have a big splash here [on the left], I'll usually have something a little more reserved over here [on the right], and I won't have it bleed over to the left side of the page. But with here, you'll actually notice that I was trying to get people to read from... obviously you're reading here, then you go down, left to right, into this bottom part of the page, and have your eye trail up instead of going over here [diagonally across the center fold] to the top. So I was using these kind of inset panels to kind of get you to read that way.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=1985s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref> Mike Spicer's coloring (exaggerated in the diagram on the right) again reinforces this intent, with the blue shade of the rocks at the bottom of the right-hand page carrying over from the left-hand page.
** Meanwhile, all lines of perspective inside the room point outside toward a tiny approaching Jetfire.
* Jetfire is one of Robert Kirkman's favorite Transformers, and his role in this series came entirely from Robert Kirkman's broad-strokes outline.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=So, full disclosure: Robert Kirkman came up with the Jetfire idea. Jetfire is one of Robert's favorite Transformers, and that's why he was chosen. He's also like part of the lore and it was kind of like in this big outline that Jetfire was the one that comes in and finds the Autobots on Earth in the ''Ark''- Autobots and Decepticons. But he doesn't have knowledge about the war. So you know I can't give away too much, but that was a Robert Kirkman call, and I was happy to do it. I was a little afraid about drawing Jetfire at first, but I'm actually- of course I write the script first where he dies, because it's just what the story needed, but then as I got to drawing him I was like, "I really like drawing this guy, I'm so sad I have to kill him!"|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3301s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
* The shock death of Bumblebee was a deliberate choice, as DWJ felt like audiences would be getting a little tired of seeing Bumblebee everywhere. Surprisingly, Hasbro felt the same way and asked if there was a way to write Bumblebee out of the series! DWJ also apparently doesn't enjoy drawing Bumblebee, which informed the decision,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Let me be totally honest about the Bumblebee page, let me address this. I do really- I do like Bumblebee. I don't like drawing Bumblebee, I don't like those rivets in his arms. That's not the only reason why he had to go, I just honestly wanted to change things up. I just wanted to change things up, and I had seen a lot of Bumblebee, I think we all have, in a lot of ''Transformers'' media, and I just thought it would be a fun little swerve. And this is actually funny, our contact over at Hasbro was also a little tired of seeing Bumblebee everywhere, and he actually asked, before he saw my script, he's like, "is there any way we can not use Bumblebee in the main line?" And I told him, I was like, "I got good news for you!" He had to go, he had to go. Sorry Bumblebee fans, sorry to let you down like that, I am so sorry. They are Transformers, maybe they'll come back... but not for a long time. It's Cliff's time baby! You said it!|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2545s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref> which perhaps doesn't bode too well for Cliffjumper!
* When Starscream turned on Jetfire, DWJ struggled to get the composition exactly right, as he needed to clarify that Jetfire was gravely wounded.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I wanted to make sure that everybody knew that Jetfire was gravely injured by this blast, which means I couldn't really white it out, had to be clear.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2498s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
* Prime uses several wrestling moves on Starscream. DWJ had previously created the original comic series ''[https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/do-a-powerbomb Do A Powerbomb!]'', which had a central theme of loss—a recurring motif throughout this first ''Transformers'' issue.
* As Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker look identical in black-and-white, DWJ labels them in his lineart so colorist Mike Spicer can easily distinguish them.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Also notice the color notes I had to leave for Mike, because Skywarp and Starscream look exactly alike in black and white.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2839s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
* Prime instinctively knows about his trailer, and its sudden appearance in the story is a riff on classic media, where Prime's trailer would often appear and disappear out of nowhere, per the story's needs.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=This is a little shoutout to like, the not-making-any-sense of ''Transformers'', where you know, very conveniently, this trailer just shows up out of nowhere. So you know, Prime's like, "What are we going to do?" and he's like, "We could use my trailer!" Look sometimes you just have to have fun and not think too much about the story.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3131s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
* As Prime's face is uniquely inexpressive, DWJ had to get creative to show his emotions to the reader, relying a lot on the character's eyes. Additionally, he tries to channel Prime's feelings through Spike.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Optimus is a character that does not emote—less so than even the rest of the cast, because of the face shield, because so much of his face is taken up, and he's really only got those eyes to work with. And I found that I was needing a way to channel Optimus through something, and I'm kind of trying to channel that through Spike, if you can't tell. I have a tendency to not be subtle, so... in life and in comics.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3516s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref> When Spike sees Prime kneeling over Bumblebee's body, he seems to recognize the grief this alien robot is experiencing.
* Among this sequence's many creative sound effects, highlights like "GRAPPLE" and "ROLL" accompany the action. Floating components fill the air with clicks and buzzes as the Transformers reassemble.
* DWJ contrived the situation where Spike and Carly must push Prime's gun into his reach to give the human characters agency during the action sequence.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Sliding the gun! Super fun! I rewrote this scene a few times because the humans were just sitting, screaming, you know? Spike and Carly like, "Oh my god, what's happening!?" behind some rocks, and I was like, "They need to have some agency, they need to get involved somehow." And so that is why I had them push the gun, and it forces action, it just forces movement in a story, it gives Spike personality and like bravery, and I'm very happy with this moment. It's very hard to not just write fight scenes where it's just like fight fight fight fight fight, and finding new ways to tie everybody together, and I wish I had more time to do this but of course we work in genre fiction where there are deadlines, and sometimes that can't happen, but I was glad that I was able to figure this one out.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=3543s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref> The "SKRKK" sound effect of the weapon scraping along the floor follows the lines of action.
* When Prime orders "Transform and roll out!" the comic shifts to a landscape orientation, requiring you to turn it in your hands. It is awesome.
* Ratchet's updated alternate mode came simply from a dissatisfaction with his classic Nissan look.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Any reason you went with a more modern style van, a Ford Transit rather than the traditional Nissan Vanette for Ratchet? You know what, I just didn't like the way the Nissan looked, so I just, I really wanted something different. I just wanted something different, so.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=2966s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
* DWJ was keen to develop the Decepticons beyond their classic cartoonishly evil characterization, with a key example in this issue being Soundwave's evident concern for the injured Ravage.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It's all about this, baby. It's all about trying to give some... you know... something other than... "The Decepticons are all evil, raah!" Like, Soundwave is a bad dude—but man, he loves his tapes, and one of these tapes is hurting bad and he's feeling real bad about it.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=4410s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>
* For Davey's gruesome death at the hand of Starscream, Hasbro requested it occur off-panel. The beat was intended to set the stakes of the comic without being egregiously gory and seems to mark a huge turning point for Sparky.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Hasbro asked for Davey to be killed offscreen, which I was totally fine with. Did want to get kind of messy with it, though, because I did want to kind of make a little bit of a statement. You know, it's a book that your kids can read, but you know, not everybody's going to make it, so.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0&t=4593s|name=Daniel Warren Johnson|site=YouTube|title=TRANSFORMERS Issue 1 DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY|year=2023|month=10|day=05}}</ref>

===Errors===
* Bumblebee's body is near Optimus Prime's trailer, despite earlier being across the ship near Teletraan One when Starscream blew his head open.
* Starscream's forearms are coloured like Optimus' when he ''cracks his knuckles'' before tackling the Autobot Leader.
* When forced to break off his pursuit of the Autobots, Starscream's speech balloon points to Skywarp.

===Other trivia===
* Before its official release, an ashcan copy of this issue was available exclusively at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2023. The ashcan had certain pages removed to prevent spoilers and featured concept art and designs for various characters.
* In early solicitations for this issue, the cover had an original logo with blue text broken over two lines;<ref>[https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG230407 ''Transformers'' #1 CVR A JOHNSON - PREVIEWSworld]</ref> the final cover uses the standard modern logo, leaving some unsightly negative space above Prime's head. Hasbro requested this change.
* This issue sold out at the distributor level before it was officially released, prompting Skybound to announce a second printing the day before it hit retailer shelves.
* ''Transformers'' #1 was the best-selling comic issue of 2023, according to ICv2 industry sales estimates.<ref>[https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/56290/top-50-comics-full-year-2023 ICv2: Top 50 Comics - Full Year 2023]</ref>
* Whilst not necessarily an error, Starscream refers to Prime's 'eyes' with the human term instead of 'optics'.

===Covers (101)===
With over 100 to choose from, ''Transformers'' #1 features more variant covers than any other single ''Transformers'' comic issue by a ''long shot''.
{{Comicstub|101/116 covers documented}}
* '''Cover A:''' Optimus Prime emerges from an explosion, by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover B:''' The Autobots, by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover C:''' The Decepticons, by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer.
* '''Cover D:''' Optimus Prime destroys Starscream, by [[Ryan Ottley]] & [[Annalisa Leoni]].
* '''Cover E (1:10 Copy Incentive):''' Connecting cover, by [[Orlando Arocena]].
* '''Cover F (1:25 Copy Incentive):''' Optimus leaps on Starscream to save Carly's van as Laserbeak and Ravage attack, by [[Cliff Chiang]].
* '''Cover G (1:50 Copy Incentive):''' Optimus Prime, by [[Francis Manapul]].
* '''Cover H (1:100 Copy Incentive Foil):''' Starscream holds Bumblebee's head, by [[Ian Bertram]] & [[Gus Storms]].
* '''Cover I:''' Blank sketch cover.
* '''Second Printing Cover A:''' Optimus Prime, by [[Jason Howard]].
* '''Second Printing Cover B:''' Starscream, by Jason Howard.
* '''Second Printing Cover C:''' The 'Bots, by [[Lewis LaRosa]] & [[Rico Renzi]].
* '''Second Printing Cover D:''' The 'Cons, by Lewis LaRosa & Rico Renzi.
* '''Second Printing Cover E:''' Bumblebee's fate, by [[Greg Tocchini]].
* '''Third Printing Cover:''' by [[Gerald Parel]].
* '''Fourth Printing Cover:''' by [[Clayton Henry]].
* '''Fifth Printing Cover A:''' by [[Filya Bratukhin]].
* '''Fifth Printing Cover B:''' by Filya Bratukhin.
* '''Sixth Printing Cover:''' by [[Mahmud Asrar]].
* '''Seventh Printing Cover A:''' by Filya Bratukhin & [[Rex Lokus]].
* '''Seventh Printing Cover B:''' by Filya Bratukhin.
* '''Eighth Printing Cover:''' by [[Patrick Gleason]].
* '''Ninth Printing Cover:''' by [[Simon Parr]].
* '''Tenth Printing Cover A:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer.
* '''Tenth Printing Cover B:''' Starscream takes Optimus' place, by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer.
* '''Tenth Printing Cover C:''' by [[Lorenzo De Felici]].
* '''Tenth Printing Cover D:''' by [[Jorge Corona]] & Mike Spicer.
* '''Tenth Printing Cover E:''' by [[David Nakayama]].
* '''Tenth Printing Cover F:''' by [[Taurin Clarke]].
* '''Tenth Printing Cover G:''' by [[E. J. Su]].
* '''Tenth Printing Cover H:''' by Jason Howard.
* '''Tenth Printing Cover I:''' by [[Andrei Bressan]] & [[Adriano Lucas]].
* '''Tenth Printing Cover J:''' by Andrei Bressan & Adriano Lucas.
* '''Eleventh Printing Cover:''' by [[Iban Coello]] & Adriano Lucas.
* '''Twelfth Printing Cover:''' by [[Howard Porter]] & [[Romulo Fajardo Jr.]]
* '''Sound Chip Edition Cover A:''' Foil Autobot Insignia.
* '''Sound Chip Edition Cover B:''' Foil Decepticon Insignia.
* '''Stadium Comics Cover:''' by [[Santa Fung]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Comic Grail Vault Singapore Comic Con 2023 Cover A:''' by [[Von Randal]] & [[Alex Guimarães]]. Limited to 800 copies.
* '''Comic Grail Vault Singapore Comic Con 2023 Cover B:''' by Von Randal & Alex Guimarães. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Black Saber Comics Cover:''' by [[Alan Quah]] & [[Komikaki Studio]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Bird City Comics New York Comic Con 2023 Cover:''' by [[Hector Trunnec]]. Limited to 400 copies.
* '''East Side Comics Cover:''' by [[Lina Rojas|DarlsDraws]]. Limited to 300 copies.
* '''Whatnot Cover A:''' by [[Siya Oum]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Whatnot Cover B:''' by Siya Oum. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''TransMissions Podcast Cover:''' by E. J. Su. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''MFKIG 2023 Cover:''' by [[Ainsworth Lin]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Bang Comics / Forbidden Planet Cover A:''' by [[Flaviano Armentaro]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Bang Comics / Forbidden Planet Cover B:''' by Flaviano Armentaro. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Memory Lane Comics Cover:''' by [[Hayden Sherman]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Spectral Comics New York Comic Con 2023 Cover:''' by [[Rod Reis]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics / ComicTom101 Cover A:''' by [[Rafael Grassetti]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics / ComicTom101 Cover B:''' by Rafael Grassetti. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics / ComicTom101 New York Comic Con 2023 Cover:''' by Rafael Grassetti. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''JJL Collectibles / The Comic Vault Cover:''' by [[Matthew Roberts]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''The Comic Mint New York Comic Con 2023 Cover:''' by [[Mike Bowden]] & [[Pez Fred]]. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Big Time Collectibles / Scott's Collectables Cover A:''' by [[John Giang]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Time Collectibles / Scott's Collectables Cover B:''' by John Giang. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Time Collectibles Cover A:''' by John Giang. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Time Collectibles Cover B:''' by John Giang. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Big Clutch / JJ's Comics and Art / Rupp's Comics / Wanted Comix Cover A:''' by [[Maria Lopez]] & Mike Spicer. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Clutch / JJ's Comics and Art / Rupp's Comics / Wanted Comix Cover B:''' by Maria Lopez & Mike Spicer. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Clutch / JJ's Comics and Art / Rupp's Comics / Wanted Comix Cover C:''' by Maria Lopez & Mike Spicer. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Ultimate Comics Cover A:''' by [[Juni Ba]]. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Ultimate Comics Cover B:''' by Juni Ba. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Shop.seibertron.com Cover:''' by [[Marco Ferrari]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Jonathan Comics / The 616 Comics Cover:''' by [[Vincenzo Federici]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Comic Traders / Epic Nation Collectibles New York Comic Con 2023 Cover:''' by [[Francesco Tomaselli]]. Limited to 900 copies.
* '''Condemned Comics Cover:''' by [[Christopher Mitten]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Skottieyoung.com Cover:''' by [[Skottie Young]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics / Clan McDonald Comics / Hawkins Collectibles Cover A:''' by [[Ryan Barry]] & Mike Spicer. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Carnivore Comics / Clan McDonald Comics / Hawkins Collectibles Cover B:''' by Ryan Barry & Mike Spicer. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''GameStop Cover:''' by [[Andrea Sorrentino]].
* '''TopShelfComic Tenth Printing Cover A:''' by [[Andy Duso]]. Limited to 300 copies.
* '''TopShelfComic Tenth Printing Cover B:''' by [[Erik Elizarrez]]. Limited to 300 copies.
* '''TopShelfComic Tenth Printing Cover C:''' by [[Jimbo Salgado]]. Limited to 300 copies.
* '''TopShelfComic Tenth Printing Cover D:''' by Jimbo Salgado. Limited to 300 copies.
* '''TopShelfComic Tenth Printing Cover E:''' by Jimbo Salgado. Limited to 300 copies.
* '''Claytoncrain.com Fifth Printing Cover A:''' by [[Clayton Crain]]. Limited to 242 copies.
* '''Claytoncrain.com Fifth Printing Cover B:''' by Clayton Crain.
* '''Claytoncrain.com Seventh Printing Cover A:''' by Clayton Crain. Limited to 242 copies.
* '''Claytoncrain.com Seventh Printing Cover B:''' by Clayton Crain. Limited to 242 copies.
* '''American Library Association Third Printing Cover:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer.
* '''Big Clutch / [[eBay]] New York Comic Con 2023 Cover:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Clutch MegaCon 2024 Fourth Printing Cover:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Felix Comic Art Cover A:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer.
* '''Felix Comic Art Cover B:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''PX Tenth Printing Cover:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson.
* '''San Diego Comic-Con 2023 Cover A:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer.
* '''San Diego Comic-Con 2023 Cover B:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson.
* '''Skybound Gift Cover:''' by Daniel Warren Johnson.
* '''Davidnakayama.com / Unknown Comics Tenth Printing Cover:''' by David Nakayama.
* '''Things From Another World Cover:''' by [[Frédéric Pham Chuong]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''TopShelfComic Eleventh Printing Cover:''' by Jimbo Salgado & [[David Baron]]. Limited to 300 copies.
* '''Big Time Collectibles Tenth Printing Cover A:''' by John Giang. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Big Time Collectibles Tenth Printing Cover B:''' by John Giang. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Jonboymeyers.com Fan Expo Denver Seventh Printing Cover A:''' by [[Jonboy Meyers]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Jonboymeyers.com Fan Expo Denver Seventh Printing Cover B:''' by Jonboy Meyers. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''The Comic Mint MegaCon 2025 Tenth Printing Cover:''' by [[Keven Mallqui]]. Limited to 300 copies.
* '''Comic Spot MegaCon 2025 Tenth Printing Cover:''' by [[Peter Smith]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Kaboom Comics Tenth Printing Cover:''' by [[Ramsey Ramirez]] & [[Thomas Mason]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Transformers Battersea Eighth Printing Cover A:''' by Simon Parr. Limited to 2,024 copies.
* '''Transformers Battersea Eighth Printing Cover B:''' by Simon Parr. Limited to 400 copies.
* '''Transformers Battersea Eighth Printing Cover C:''' by Simon Parr.
* '''Skottieyoung.com Second Printing Cover:''' by Skottie Young. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Skottieyoung.com Fourth Printing Cover:''' by Skottie Young. Limited to 2,000 copies.
* '''MBartist Tenth Printing Cover:''' by [[Steven Ahola]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''The 616 Comics Eleventh Printing Cover A:''' by [[Tiago da Silva]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''The 616 Comics Eleventh Printing Cover B:''' by Tiago da Silva. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Whatnot Fifth Printing Cover A:''' by [[Tom Whalen]].
* '''Whatnot Fifth Printing Cover B:''' by Tom Whalen.
* '''Whatnot Fifth Printing Cover C:''' by Tom Whalen.
* '''Tylerkirkhamart.com / Unknown Comics Tenth Printing Cover:''' by [[Tyler Kirkham]]. Limited to 1,000 copies.
* '''Big Clutch Tenth Printing Cover A:''' Blank sketch cover. Limited to 500 copies.
* '''Big Clutch Tenth Printing Cover B:''' Blank sketch cover. Limited to 500 copies.

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File:Transformers 2023 V1.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise''''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Blackbird Comics & Coffeehouse Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Blackbird Comics & Coffeehouse Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Matthew Allison]]
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Comics Etc. Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Comics Etc. Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Stewart McKenny]] & [[John Law]]
File:Transformers 2023 V1 DM Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Direct Market Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Jonboy Meyers]]
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Gotham City Limit Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Gotham City Limit Exclusive''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Jonathan Comics Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Jonathan Comics Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Jason Howard]]
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Things From Another World Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' Things From Another World Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Frédéric Pham Chuong]]
File:Transformers 2023 V1 Pasquale Ferrara Cover.jpg|'''''Volume 1: Robots in Disguise'' TopShelfComic Fan Expo Dallas Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Pasquale Ferrara]]
File:Transformers 2023 B1.jpg|'''''Deluxe Edition Book 1''''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 B1 Bookdelivery Cover.jpg|'''''Deluxe Edition Book 1'' Bookdelivery Exclusive''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 B1 DM Cover.jpg|'''''Deluxe Edition Book 1'' Direct Market Exclusive''' – cover art by Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
File:Transformers 2023 B1 Hasbro Pulse Cover.jpg|'''''Deluxe Edition Book 1'' [[Hasbro Pulse]] Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Tom Whalen]]
File:Transformers 2023 B1 TopShelfComic Cover.jpg|'''''Deluxe Edition Book 1'' TopShelfComic Exclusive''' – cover art by [[Marcelo Matere]]
</gallery>

==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joUZgObXmU0 Director's commentary by Daniel Warren Johnson]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:Transformers (2023) issues]]

User talk:Primal primus the second

2025-10-02T13:00:07Z

Primal primus the second:

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==Preview button==
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Please remember to utilize the preview button, we don't need several minor edits clogging up the recent changes page. Also, if you are making small edits (like the ones you've been making to the [[Spike Witwicky (G1)]] article), I would suggest checking the "This is a minor edit" box before saving, as this helps filter out the larger edits from the minor ones, depending on other users' preference setups. For further information on this see our [[Help:Style guide#Minor and major edits|style guide]] help page. -- [[User:Fanofcoolstuff27|Fanofcoolstuff27]] ([[User talk:Fanofcoolstuff27|talk]]) 10:26, 19 April 2022 (EDT)
:The reason I didn't set my small changes to pages as minor edits was because I was, and am still quite new to being an editor on Tfwiki.net. Due to this, i would forget to tick my minor contributions as minor edits.[[User:Primal primus the second|Primal primus the second]] ([[User talk:Primal primus the second|talk]]) 09:00, 2 October 2025 (EDT)
== Another reminder ==

This is ''another'' reminder to use the '''preview button''' before saving an edit, we don't need multiple tiny edits in a single article taking up a bunch of space in the recent changes log. Also, I would highly recommend reading (or rereading) the style guide page and other help pages in the welcome box at the top of this page as the majority of your edits are not up to standard and are being reverted. -- [[User:Fanofcoolstuff27|Fanofcoolstuff27]] ([[User talk:Fanofcoolstuff27|talk]]) 05:48, 21 May 2022 (EDT)
:As I said before, the reason I didn't set my small changes to pages as minor edits was because I was, and am still quite new to being an editor on Tfwiki.net. Due to this, i would forget to tick my minor contributions as minor edits.[[User:Primal primus the second|Primal primus the second]] ([[User talk:Primal primus the second|talk]]) 09:00, 2 October 2025 (EDT)
== Greatshot/JG1 ==

Hi, I'm not sure why you removed the entire Victory section from [[Greatshot/JG1]]. I'd suggest if you're going to make a major change to an article like that, you should at least include some explanation in the Summary field, and possibly bring it up on the relevant talk page first. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 06:37, 25 May 2022 (EDT)
:My edits to Greatshot's page were a futile attempt. I remembered in Greatshot's Main Page that his information on his "Victory" section had a style used for when a character has a sub-page of that fiction while the main page has a shortened edition. However, at the time, the main information about Greatshot was in Sixshot's page. Being very naïve, I tried to delete that info and try to find the shortened edition that linked to Greatshot as the main article, but I was new and unexperienced.[[User:Primal primus the second|Primal primus the second]] ([[User talk:Primal primus the second|talk]]) 08:58, 2 October 2025 (EDT)

==Don't edit other people's User pages==
Look, it's one thing to link-fix or replace a to-be-deleted image on another user's page, that's simple maintenance. But there's no reason to do the kind of editing you did to Adamcs's page, especially as it's been untouched for over a decade. Don't do that again. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher|talk]]) 16:20, 3 September 2025 (EDT)
:The reasons for me changing his page was because I was put off by how cluttered his "shop" was (text was not properly segmented, and images were not given direct links). I deeply regret my changes to Adamcs' user page. Like I said before, I am still new to this site, and I'm still trying to get the hang of it.[[User:Primal primus the second|Primal primus the second]] ([[User talk:Primal primus the second|talk]]) 08:58, 2 October 2025 (EDT)