This page is a master list of the assorted
animated television series based on the
Transformers toyline. For information on the numerous comic book series about these characters, see
Transformers (comic), and to learn how both cartoons and comics separate and inter-relate across various fictional universes, see
Transformers (fiction). Launched in 1984, the Transformers toyline was promoted through both a comic book by
Marvel Comics and an animated series produced by
Sunbow Productions. Although the comic outlived the animated series by a number of years, it was the animated series that truly captured the hearts and minds of children worldwide more so than any other piece of Transformers media from its twenty-three year history. With the original show's conclusion in 1987, original series exclusive to Japan were created which ran until 1990, and the franchise was later re-imagined with the fully CGI
Beast Wars in the late 1990s. The current run of cartoons have been co-productions between America and Japan.
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