1986

«	1986	»

The year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is the third year of the Transformers brand.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Events

Non-Fiction

• April 26 — The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster occurs.
• In November, Marvel Comics celebrates its 25th Anniversary. In celebration of this event, Issue #22 of the US Transformers comic (first available in June) features a special cover; a portrait shot of Menasor bordered by many of the company's classic superhero characters.
• The Japanese video game developer NOW Production is founded.

The Transformers production

Season 3

• March 4 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1 first draft script submitted
• March 20 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2 script finalised.
• March 27 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3 script finalised.
• March 31 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2 main dialogue recording session.
• April 7 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3 main dialogue recording session.
• April 9 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3 pickup dialogue sessions for S. Marc Jordan, John Stephenson and John Moschitta.
• April 12 - Chaos (episode) first draft script submitted.
• April 22 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 revised script submitted
• April 22 - The Killing Jar (episode) first draft script submitted.
• April 24 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 script finalised.
• April 28 - Chaos (episode) revised script submitted.
• April 29 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 main dialogue recording session.
• April 29 - Chaos (episode) script finalised.
• April 30 - Already recorded Rodimus Prime dialogue performed by Ted Schwartz replaced by Dick Gautier ADR.
• April 30 - The Killing Jar (episode) second draft script submitted.
• May 6 - The Killing Jar (episode) third draft script submitted.
• May 7 - The Killing Jar (episode) main dialogue recording session.
• May 16 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5 main dialogue recording session.
• May 19 - Chaos (episode) main dialogue recording session.
• May 29 - Dark Awakening (episode) main dialogue recording session.
• May 30 - Thief in the Night revised script submitted.
• June 4 - Chaos (episode) first draft storyboards completed.
• July 9 - The Big Broadcast of 2006 (episode) script finalised.
• July 11 - Fight or Flee (episode) script submitted and finalised.
• July 28 - Grimlock's New Brain premise/outline submitted.
• July 31 - Fight or Flee (episode) main dialogue recording session.
• September 16 - Grimlock's New Brain first draft script submitted.
• November 10 - The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1 first draft script submitted.
• November 24 - The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2 script finalised.

Births

• ???? — Mia Diekow

January

• January 7 — Héctor Mena
• January 8 — Pierce Cravens
• January 24 — Edward Bosco

February

• February ???? — Diego Valenzuela
• February 1 — Jung Joo Won
• February 15 — Ami Koshimizu
• February 25 — Kaiser Johnson

March

• March 3 — Renan Freitas
• March 4 — Hiram Cárdenas
• March 5 — Constantin von Jascheroff
• March 14 — Francisco Júnior
• March 27 — Bruna Matta

April

• April 4 — David Hernán
• April 16 — Betzabé Jara
• April 25 — Helena Coppejans, Angelina Geisler
• April 29 — Gábor Joó

May

• May 5 — Felix Isenbügel
• May 7 — Felipe Zilse
• May 8 — Abby Trott
• May 10 — Erika Fong
• May 13 — Óscar Garibay
• May 16 — Megan Fox
• May 25 — Markiss McFadden
• May 26 — Adeline Chetail
• May 31 — Hiroko Ushida

June

• June 1 — Alessio Puccio
• June 3 — Ludivine Deworst
• June 5 - Dan Mora
• June 11 — Shia LaBeouf
• June 13 — Saidé García
• June 14 — Klebber Toledo

July

• July 7 — Silvio Gonzalez
• July 8 — Karina Fonseca
• July 19 — Jim Redler
• July 26 — Leo Hallerstam

August

• August 8 — Alessandro Germano
• August 18 — Zina Khakhoulia

September

• September 5 — Grzegorz Kwiecień
• September 12 — Alfie Allen
• September 13 — Marco Giansante
• September 24 — Sahil Vaid
• September 26 — Sayuri Yahagi

October

• October 6 — Alexander Vestri
• October 16 — Ahn Hyo-min
• October 17 — Mark Whitten
• October 24 — Nobuhiko Okamoto, Shinnosuke Ogami
• October 27 — Danilo Diniz

November

• November 7 — Luisa Wietzorek, Jill Böttcher
• November 15 — Matthew Patrick
• November 19 — Duio Botta
• November 24 — Rodrigo Antas

December

• December 10 — Felipe Drummond
• December 23 — Vitor Paranhos

Deaths

• August 15 — Pierre Garin
• November 11 — Roger C. Carmel
• November 22 — Scatman Crothers

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

• July 1 — Shrapnel, Bombshell, and Kickback arrive on Earth over the space bridge. Sometime over the next three days Megatron has their bodies adapted into Earth insects for disguise. Aerialbots over America!
• July 4 — Thrust, Dirge, and Ramjet arrive on Earth over the space bridge. The Decepticons attempt to drill through Hoover Dam in order to divert the water over the space bridge where it would turn turbines on Cybertron. The plot was foiled by Ricky Vasquez and the Aerialbots. Aerialbots over America!
• Upon materialization in the distant past of 1986, Cyclonus and Scourge decide to destroy a Wyoming service station and passing locomotive in a random act of anti-social behavior. Target: 2006

Deaths

• December — Barbara Larkin ...All Fall Down!

Story of Binaltech

At some point in time after 1985, but before 2005, Ravage is captured by the EDC and kept as a prisoner. He is then kept stasis locked in cassette mode inserted in his future/past self's tape deck, in order to provide his body with a "Life Essence Nucleus", as part of the III's "X-9 Revival Plan". The Ravage of the present remains unaware of his time-tossed doppelganger. Ghosts of the Past

Knights of Unicron

Smooth Jazz's vocal cords are damaged, ending his singing career, after taking part in an impromptu battle of the bands with Megatron. Behind the Music pack-in booklet

Media

Television

• The Transformers Season 2: episodes 47–49
• The Transformers Season 3: episodes 1–28
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: episodes 26-72
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010: episodes 1–7

Movies (Theatrical)

• The Transformers: The Movie

Direct-to-Video

• Scramble City: Mobilization
• Scramble City

Music

Albums

• The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Singles

• "The Touch" (7" Single)
• "The Touch" (12" Picture disc) (Europe only)
• "TRANSFORMER 2010"/"WHAT'S YOU"

Print

Comics

Comic BomBom

• Full Throttle Scramble Power!
• Transformers: Mystery of Convoy

Marvel Comics

• The Transformers (issues 16–27, ongoing)
• Transformers: The Movie (issues 1–3, 3 issues)
• G.I. Joe and the Transformers (issues 1–4, 4 issues)

Marvel UK

• The Transformers (issues 43–94, ongoing)
• Transformers: The Movie (issues 1–3, 3 issues)
• Transformers Annual 1986

TV Magazine

Manga

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (issues 1–8, 8 issues)
• The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers (issue 1, 5 issues)

Story Pages

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
• Transformers 2010 (part 1, 7 parts)

Books

Ballantine Books Find Your Fate Junior

• 4) Earthquake
• 5) Desert Flight
• 6) Decepticon Poison
• 7) Autobot Alert!
• 8) Project Brain Drain
• 9) The Invisibility Factor

Corgi Books The Transformers Adventure Game Books (U.K.)

• 3) Island of Fear
• 4) Highway Clash

Figurine Panini

• The Transformers Sticker Book

Kid Stuff Listen 'n' Look

• Slaves of the Insecticons

Kid Stuff audio cassette

• Attack of the Decepticons

Ladybird Books (UK)

• Decepticon Hideout
• Galvatron's Air Attack
• Transformers: The Movie

Macdonald Purnell activity books (UK)

• Colouring Book (Beachcomber)
• Colouring Book (Optimus Prime)
• Sticker Fun Book
• Activity Book

Marvel Books Big Looker Storybooks

• Car Show Blow Up
• The Story of Wheelie, the Wild Boy of Quintesson

Marvel Books Coloring Books

• Battle at Oil Valley
• Hot Rod's Escape
• The Invasion of the Decepticon Camp
• The Lost Treasure of Cybertron

Marvel Books Sticker Adventures

• Battle on the Junk Planet
• Galvatron Attacks

Games

Console

• Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth (Commodore 64)
• Transformers: Mystery of Convoy (Famicom)

Collections

Home Video

Channel 5 (UK)

VHS

• Transformers — Desertion of the Dinobots (1986)

Family Home Entertainment

VHS

• The Transformers — Volume 10: "Heavy Metal War"
• The Transformers — Volume 11: "Countdown to Extinction"
• The Transformers — Volume 12: "The Secret of Omega Supreme", "War Dawn", "A Plague of Insecticons"

St. Michael Video Library (UK)

VHS

• The Transformers — Dinobot Island, also includes The Revenge of Bruticus

Video Gems

VHS

• The Transformers — Arrival from Cybertron
• The Transformers — Megatron's Master Plan
• The Transformers — Desertion of the Dinobots
• The Transformers — The Key to Vector Sigma & War Dawn

Comics

Marvel UK Collected Comics

• Plague of the Insecticons!
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Winter Special

Merchandise

• TBD

Toys

U.S.

Astrotrain, Beachcomber, Blitzwing, Bumblebee, Cosmos, Dirge, Frenzy, Powerglide, Ramjet, Ravage, Rumble, Seaspray, Starscream, Thrust and Warpath were again available in 1986. Mirage, Ratchet, Sunstreaker, Thundercracker and Wheeljack were available via mail order.

Autobots

Autobot Mini-Vehicles Hubcap Outback Pipes Swerve Tailgate Wheelie		Mini-Cassettes Ramhorn / Eject Rewind / Steeljaw		Aerialbots Air Raid Fireflight Silverbolt Skydive Slingshot Superion (giftset)		Protectobots Blades First Aid Groove Hot Spot Streetwise Defensor (giftset)
Triple Changers Broadside Sandstorm Springer		Autobot Cars Blurr Hot Rod Kup		Heroes Rodimus Prime Wreck-Gar		City Commanders Ultra Magnus
Motorized Autobot Space Shuttle Sky Lynx		Cities Metroplex (w/ Six-Gun, Slammer, and Scamper)

Decepticons

Mini-Cassettes Ratbat / Frenzy		Stunticons Breakdown Dead End Drag Strip Motormaster Wildrider Menasor (giftset)		Combaticons Blast Off Brawl Onslaught Swindle Vortex		Battlechargers Runabout Runamuck
Triple Changers Octane		Predacons Divebomb Headstrong Rampage Razorclaw Tantrum		Sharkticons Gnaw		Decepticon Planes Cyclonus Scourge
City Commanders Galvatron		Cities Trypticon (w/ Brunt & Full-Tilt)

Others

• First Transformers

Mail-aways and promos

• "The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:"

Reflector (Spectro, Spyglass, Viewfinder)

• "You Have Been Chosen."
• "Decipher the Decepticon" contest
• "Prizes in Disguise" contest

• "Movie Edition" Megatron
• "Movie Edition" Optimus Prime

Japan

Astrotrain, Blitzwing, Broadcast, Bumble, Condor, Frenzy, Grimlock, Powerglide, Ramjet, Jaguar, Seaspray, Slag, Sludge, Snarl, Starscream, Swoop, Thrust and Warpath were again available in 1986.

Cybertrons

Airbots (Scramble City) C-50 Silverbolt C-51 Skydive C-52 Firebolt C-53 Sling C-54 Air Rider C-55 Superion (giftset)		Minibots C-56 Bumble (re-release) C-57 Hubcap C-58 Werve C-59 Outback C-60 Pipes		C-61 Tailgate C-62 Powerglide C-63 Beachcomber C-64 Seaspray C-80 Wheelie		Cassettbots C-65 Steeljaw C-66 Amhorn C-67 Rewind C-68 Eject
City Commander (Scramble City) C-69 Ultra Magnus Cybertron City (Scramble City) C-70 Metroflex (w/ Scamper, Six-Gun, Slammer)		Protectobots (Scramble City) C-71 Hot Spot C-72 Graze C-73 Streetwise C-74 Groove C-75 First Aid C-76 Guardian (giftset)		Cybertrons C-77 Rodimus Convoy C-78 Hot Rodimus C-79 Blurr C-81 Wreck-Gar C-82 Cher		Triple Changers C-83 Sandstorm C-84 Sprang C-85 Broadside
VS sets VSZ Sunstreaker & Skids vs Buzzsaw		"Good Bye" sets Good Bye Convoy (Alert, Ligier & Convoy)

Notes

Destrons

Stuntrons (Scramble City) D-50 Motormaster D-51 Breakdown D-52 Drag Stripe D-53 Wildrider D-54 Dead End D-55 Menasor (giftset)		Jetron D-56 Ramjet D-57 Thrust D-70 Cyclonus D-71 Scourge		Cassettrons D-58 Frenzy (re-release) D-59 Jaguar (re-release) D-60 Condor (re-release) D-61 Ratbat		Fortress Staff (Scramble City) D-62 Galvatron
Destron City (Scramble City) D-63 Dinosaurer (w/ Brunt, Full-Tilt)		Combatrons (Scramble City) D-64 Onslaught D-65 Blast Off D-66 Vorter D-67 Brawl D-68 Swindle D-69 Bruticus (giftset)		Triple Changers D-72 Octone		Animatrons D-73 Razorclaw D-74 Rampage D-75 Dimebomb D-76 Tantrum D-77 Headstrong D-78 Predaking (giftset)
VS sets VSZ Sunstreaker & Skids vs Buzzsaw		"Good Bye" sets Good Bye Megatron (Starscream & Megatron)

Robot Point mail order items

• Adams
• Dirge
• Camshaft
• Downshift
• Overdrive
• Ratchet

Notes

Europe

These are toys which have been confirmed as being released in at least one country in Europe in 1986. For more details regarding releases in specific European countries, see The Transformers (European toyline).

Autobots

Autobot Mini-Vehicles Bumblebee Hubcap Outback Pipes (inc. "Puffer" variant) Swerve Wheelie		Aerialbots Air Raid Fireflight Silverbolt Skydive Slingshot Superion (giftset)		Protectobots Blades First Aid Groove Hot Spot Streetwise Defensor (giftset)		Triple Changers Broadside Sandstorm Springer
Autobot Vehicles (Autobot Cars) Blurr Grapple Hoist Hot Rod Hound Inferno		Kup Red Alert Sideswipe Smokescreen Trailbreaker Tracks (now blue)		Autobot Leader Optimus Prime		Autobot City Commander Ultra Magnus
Autobot City Metroplex

Decepticons

Constructicons (yellow) Bonecrusher Hook Long Haul Mixmaster Scavenger Scrapper		Stunticons Breakdown Dead End Drag Strip Motormaster Wildrider Menasor (giftset)		Combaticons Blast Off Brawl Onslaught Swindle Vortex Bruticus (giftset)		Predacons Divebomb Headstrong Rampage Razorclaw Tantrum
Battlespringers (Battlechargers) Runabout Runamuck		Triple Changers Octane		Decepticon Planes Cyclonus Scourge		Decepticon Communicator Soundwave and Condor Cassette: Buzzsaw
Decepticon City Trypticon