Transformers (toy line) Transformers (toy line) The is a line of toys produced by the American toy company Hasbro and Japanese company Takara (now known as Takara Tomy). It spawned the "Transformers" media franchise. The premise behind the Transformers toyline is that an individual toy's parts can be shifted about to change it from a vehicle, a device, or an animal, to a robot action figure and back again. The taglines "More Than Meets The Eye" and "Robots In Disguise" reflect this ability. The Transformers toy-line is typically divided into two main factions: the heroic Autobots and their opponents, the evil Decepticons (traditionally
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