World of the Transformers

The rest wouldn't get their Smash invitation for a couple years.

World of the Transformers is a website created by TakaraTomy in 2007 featuring an overview of the Transformers brand. The guide information was written by Hirofumi Ichikawa, with illustrations by Ichikawa and Yuji Kaida.

Notable features

• Overview of the Transformers "world"
• Overview of the Transformers physiology
• Cybertron's history and environment
• Factions
• How Transformers are created
• Beast Era
• The multiverse
• Continuity map (pictured right)

References

• World of the Transformers site (original is dead, archive.org version)
• Complete archive of the site's text
• Video content of the site recorded by MrRald