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The Transformers (1984)

The Transformers poster
Genre
comedy television series, science fiction television series
Country
United States
Length
4 seasons, 95 episodes
Rated
TV-Y7
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 438 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Giant robots from two warring factions, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, crash-land on Earth and continue their battle. The robots can transform into vehicles, weapons, and other objects, and they interact with human characters as the conflict unfolds.

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What happens

The Transformers is an animated action-adventure sci-fi children's television series that originally aired from September 17, 1984, to November 11, 1987, in syndication based upon Hasbro and Takara's Transformers toy line. The first television series in the Transformers franchise, it depicts a war among giant robots that can transform into vehicles and other objects. The series was produced by Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions in association with Japanese studio Toei Animation for first-run syndication. Toei co-produced the show as the main animation studio for its first two seasons, having been tasked with creating and finalizing animation models, designing transformation schemes, storyboarding some episodes, and general direction. In the third season, Toei's involvement with the production team was reduced and the animation services were shared with the South Korean studio AKOM. The show's supervising producer (Nelson Shin) was also AKOM's founder. The fourth season was entirely animated by AKOM. The series was supplemented by a feature film, The Transformers: The Movie (1986), taking place between the second and third seasons. This series is also popularly known as "Generation One", a term originally coined by fans in response to the re-branding of the franchise as Transformers: Generation 2 in 1992, which eventually made its way into official use. The series was later shown in reruns on Sci-Fi Channel and The Hub / Discovery Family. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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