The Transformers: Best of UK

Following along the same lines of Generations, IDW Publishing next began a series of Marvel UK reprints focusing on collections of stories similar to those previously published by Titan Books. The first of these was Target: 2006, immediately followed by several series under the moniker Best of UK. The Best of UK series, along with Target:2006, were much like Generations, in that they featured brand new covers that were either recreations of the original cover or a depiction of some important scene in the issue. However, unlike Generations, these comics were sold at full price ($3.99 U.S.)

Six series have been produced so far.

• Target: 2006 (published 04/2007–08/2007)
• Best of UK: Dinobots (published 09/2007–04/2008)
• Best of UK: Space Pirates (published 03/2008–07/2008)
• Best of UK: Time Wars (published 08/2008–12/2008)
• Best of UK: City of Fear (published 02/2009–06/2009)
• Best of UK: Prey (published 08/2009–12/2009)

Items of note

These collections are not necessarily the same as their Titan counterparts.

• IDW's Dinobots collection included a story from the Marvel U.S. series to round out the pattern of containing two stories (or parts) per issue. The issue was not in the trade paperback, however.
• IDW's Space Pirates started with the "Space Pirates!" arc (issues #182–187), followed by "Worlds Apart!" (issues #130–131, part of Titan's Time Wars collection) and "Wrecking Havoc" (issues #172–173). The Titan reprint began with "Salvage!" (issues #160–161, and not in IDW's version), followed by "Wrecking Havoc", the "Space Pirates!" arc and "Ark Duty" from the Transformers Annual 1988 (also not in IDW's collection).
• IDW's Time Wars started with "Dry Run!" (issue #189), followed by "Altered Image!" and "All in the Minds!" (Both in Transformers Annual 1989), "Firebug!" (issue #188, part of Titan's City of Fear collection) and the "Time Wars" arc (issues #199–205). Titan's collection starts with "World's Apart!" (from IDW's Space Pirates), followed by "Dry Run!", "Altered Image!", "All in the Minds!" and the "Time Wars" arc.
• IDW's City of Fear collection coincides with Titan's for the first three stories: "City of Fear!", "Legion of the Lost!" and "Meltdown!". "Enemy Action!" was not in Titan's, but rather in their Legacy of Unicron collection. "Deadly Games!" was in both collections and concluded IDW's. The Titan collection instead included "Firebug!", "The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire" and "Kup's Story!".
• IDW's Prey included: "Prey!",

while Titan's included: "Prey!", "The Harder They Die!", "Under Fire!", "Distant Thunder!", "Resurrection!", "Grudge Match!" and stories from the 1987 Annual and 1989 Annual.

Collections

• Best of UK Omnibus (September 23, 2009) ISBN 1600104894 / ISBN 978-1600104893

• Contains Best of UK: Dinobots, Best of UK: Space Pirates, Best of UK: Time Wars
• Bonus material: cover gallery