Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)

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Cybertrons vs. Destrons

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (戦え! 超ロボット生命体 トランスフォーマー Tatakae! Chō Robot Seimeitai Transformer) is the typically ostentatious title given to the first year of the Generation 1 franchise in Japan. Released in 1985, one year after the franchise had been launched in Hasbro markets.

The franchise comprises:

• A toyline, consisting of most of the toys released by Hasbro in 1984 and 1985. Among those not released as part of FSRLTF were Jetfire, Roadbuster, Whirl, Omega Supreme, and the Deluxe Insecticons.

• Various cartoons.

• Various Manga series.

• A series of story pages, which ran alongside the manga and provided prose adventures with two page magazine spreads.

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010

is the title given to the 1986 Transformers media in Japan. It was the first instance of what would become Takara's standard method of operation—the annual rebranding of the tie-in with a new sub-title. It accompanied the fictional shift of the animated series from the present day to the 21st century, but while the original American version of the series took place over 2005/06, the Japanese version advanced the setting to 2010, hence the new name. This rebranding was not entirely followed by the toyline, which only used the 2010 branding sporadically, while toys like Metroflex or the Combatrons would feature a Scramble City branding.

Transformers: The Headmasters

Following on from Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 in 1986, The Headmasters began the period of distinction between American and Japanese products that would continue throughout the rest of Generation 1.

Transformers: Super-God Masterforce

is a Transformers franchise from Japan in 1988. Breaking radically from the previous series, The Headmasters, which was a continuation of the American series, Super-God Masterforce featured all-new characters and locations, dropping many of the futuristic elements, and focusing on human characters that bonded with robot bodies.

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory

'Tatakae! Chō Robot Seimeitai Transformers Victory) is a Transformers franchise from Japan that ran in 1989, and is part of the Generation 1 mega-franchise. It starred Star Saber and the other Brainmasters, along with Victory Leo as they fought Deathsaurus and his Breastforce and Dinoforce.

Transformers: Zone

Transformers: Zone (トランスフォーマーZ (ゾーン)), sometimes Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (戦え!超ロボット生命体トランスフォーマーZ (ゾーン)), is a Japanese Transformers franchise from 1990. The waning popularity of Transformers became evident with the advent of the Zone franchise, which received very little of the traditional media support.

Transformers: Return of Convoy

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination

Notes

• The fictional timeframe of Zone is unclear other than that it transpires soon before Return of Convoy in 2031.