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: Power of the Primes Shockwave and Chaos by Thunderwing, Optimus Primal and an Unknown Evil (). The winners of the first round were Ultra Magnus, Star Saber and Optimus Primal, advancing into the second round alongside the Unknown Evil as a wildcard. The poll about a month later on February 18 with Optimus Primal being chosen to become the next Prime. On January 9, 2018, it was announced that Mark Hamill, who had previously voiced Megatronus in "Transformers: Titans Return", would resume his role for "Transformers: Power of the Primes". It was also confirmed that Ron Perlman would voice Optimus Primal, after the character