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
The Transformers: The Movie Bay's films show the action as a junkyard orgy. The '86 offering slows down to allow for actors like Leonard Nimoy and, yes, even Orson Welles to give actual performances. Fans of Michael Bay's "Transformers" movies are free to enjoy them. But they'll never top the gravity and excitement of "The Transformers: The Movie"." "[N]ostalgia is a funny thing: for many of us in the 30-and-over "Transformers" fan club, that first movie was an integral part of our childhood. To hell with what the reviews said — the O.G. "Transformers" movie rocked our collective worlds," Kashann Kilson of "Inverse" wrote