Tue Oct 30 2007 at 11:59:59
The Transformers cartoon debuted in 1984 to a massively positive reception by children who couldn't wait to buy the toys featured in this new and exciting show. The stars were robots, and not just any robots,
transforming robots, which are twice as cool. As the theme song indicated, the heroic Autobots waged their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons, but they escaped every time because they could fly and the Autobots couldn't. Generally. Depending on who wrote that episode and how carefully he followed the series bible.
Hasbro's toys sold well... very well. So the 30-minute commercial continued on to season two in 1985 (still set in the then-present day of 1985) and then a movie set in 2005, and a third season in 1986 set in 2006. By that point, unfortunately, the writing quality had started to degrade and the toys were starting to get much more cheaply made. The Wheelie toy, for example, didn't so much