The Transformers (TV series) out of the gate. Japanese designer Shōhei Kohara was responsible for creating the earliest character models for the Transformers cast, greatly humanising the toy designs to create more approachable robot characters for the comic and cartoon. His designs were subsequently simplified by Floro Dery, who went on to become the lead designer for the series, creating many more concepts and designs in the future. The three-part pilot miniseries (retroactively titled "More than Meets the Eye") first aired in the United States in September 1984. The story follows Optimus Prime's heroic Autobots and Megatron's evil Decepticons as they leave their metallic
Transformers: Dark of the Moon blow your mind." Unlike the two previous "Transformers" installments, which were based solely on the script writers' endemic story, "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" was based on a novel called "", written by Alan Dean Foster. The novel is a prequel to the 2007 film "Transformers". It follows the same story structure as "Dark of the Moon", being set in 1969, the year of Apollo 11. The story structure differs slightly, though, because the novel was written merely as prequel to the first film. Due to the critically panned "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", Bay decided to remove the characters