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'''''Transformers: A Visual History''''' presents an enormous trove of official and behind-the-scenes creative art | '''''Transformers: A Visual History''''' presents an enormous trove of official and behind-the-scenes creative art throughout 35 years of [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]] history. Its offerings are divided up across five major areas: [[Package art|packaging]], [[comics]], [[Cartoons|animation]], [[video games]], and [[Live-action film series|movies]]. It is the largest official ''Transformers'' reference text ever published in English. | ||
A special "limited edition" was also made available with an alternate cover, display box, and 5 collectible lithographs. | A special "limited edition" was also made available with an alternate cover, display box, and 5 collectible lithographs. | ||
==Contents== | ==Contents== | ||
* | *Foreword (by [[Ken Christiansen]]) | ||
*Introduction | *Introduction | ||
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*Acknowledgements | *Acknowledgements | ||
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[[Category:Reference texts]] | [[Category:Reference texts]] | ||
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| Publisher | Viz Media | ||||||||||||
| First published | November 12, 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Jim Sorenson | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | ISBN 1974710580 ISBN 978-1974710584 Limited Edition: ISBN 1974710572 ISBN 978-1974710577 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 408 | ||||||||||||
| Price | $49.99 USD $99.99 USD (Limited Edition) | ||||||||||||
Transformers: A Visual History presents an enormous trove of official and behind-the-scenes creative art throughout 35 years of Transformers brand history. Its offerings are divided up across five major areas: packaging, comics, animation, video games, and movies. It is the largest official Transformers reference text ever published in English.
A special "limited edition" was also made available with an alternate cover, display box, and 5 collectible lithographs.
Contents
[edit]- Foreword (by Ken Christiansen)
- Introduction
Packaging
[edit]- Generation 1 (U.S. and Japan)
- Generation 2
- Beast Wars
- Armada
- Energon
- Cybertron
- Beast Wars 10th Anniversary
- Animated
- Live-action film toylines
- Universe, both 2003 and 2008 treated together
- Generations
- Transformers Collectors' Club
- Prime
- Robots in Disguise (2015)
- Combiner Wars
- Titans Return
- Power of the Primes
- Cyberverse
- War for Cybertron: Siege
The chapter concludes with some never-before-published G1 toy technical control art by Hasbro.
Comics
[edit]- Marvel Comics: G1
- Marvel UK
- Generation 2
- Regeneration One
- Studio OX
- Dreamwave
- IDW Generation 1 (original 2005 continuity)
- IDW Expanded (the IDW 2006 Beast Wars series, G1 Marvel reprints with new cover art, and live-action movie comics)
- Fan Club
- IDW Animated comics
- Transformers: The Covenant of Primus
The chapter concludes with a gallery of homages: various Transformers comic covers that paid tribute to other famous comic art, or to older Transformers series.
Animation
[edit]- Generation 1, both U.S. and Japan
- The Transformers: The Movie
- Beast Wars
- Beast Machines
- Beast Wars II
- Beast Wars Neo
- Robots In Disguise (2001)
- Unicron Trilogy
- Animated
- Prime
- Rescue Bots
- Robots In Disguise (2015)
- Cyberverse
- Combiner Wars
- Titans Return
- Power of the Primes
The chapter concludes with a look at Transformers comic crossovers with other properties such as G.I. Joe, Visionaries, and Spider-Man.
Video Games
[edit]- Early Era (the several G1 Famicom games, the original PlayStation Beast Wars game, and the Beast Wars II Game Boy Color game)
- Armada
- War for Cybertron
- Fall of Cybertron
- Modern Era (other recent games for the PS2, PS4, and Wii U)
- Dark of the Moon
- Earth Wars
- Devastation
- Forged to Fight
- Legends
The chapter concludes with a look at "Miscellanea" - other licensed merchandise that does not neatly fit into the book's categories, such as pack-in flyers and BotCon print ads.
