Another reviewer here makes sense of all this by stating that the merchandising for successive toy lines required new characters, so that kind of makes sense, but gee, what would have happened to Superman and Spider-Man if the comic book folks dispatched them that quickly. Following the story line well enough, I was baffled by how the Autobot heroes were so easily and arbitrarily disposed of, like Optimus Prime (there's one I remember in my kids' collection), and Ultra Magnus, with the character Hot Rod finishing out the picture as Rodimus Prime. I come by way of this picture only because it was an IMDb Top 250 selection in 1996, otherwise I wouldn't have any interest in it. They were ubiquitous on store shelves and every birthday and Christmas for a couple of years had to include at least some configuration of Transformer toys for presents. As an adult, I was an outsider looking in at the time, but my boys, aged five and seven, became total Transformers toy fans. The Transformers franchise began in 1984 with a toy line and expanded exponentially to include animation, comic books, video games and films. Reviewed by classicsoncall 7 / 10 "Of all the circuit-glitched, diode-blowing, dim-wittery - you left a piece out!"
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