Transformers: Generation 1 to create names and profiles for the characters. When the toy line was released, it was supported by the Marvel Comics series, an animated television series, and a gamut of other merchandising tie-ins. In 1986 a was released, generating $5,706,456 in the United States. The setup for "Transformers" is two factions of sentient alien robots: the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Both sides are from a race called Transformers - robots that can change into vehicles, mechanical devices and even animal forms. They have waged civil war for eons on their home planet of Cybertron, a war that had
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