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 Transformers: Power of the Primes Transformers: Power of the Primes is an Internet-based animated series created by Eric S. Calderon, Adam Beechen and F.J. DeSanto, and produced by Machinima, Inc. and Tatsunoko Production, in partnership with Hasbro Studios. Based on the Power of the Primes brand of the Transformers franchise by Hasbro, it is the third and final installment of the , being the direct sequel to "" and "". It premiered on May 1, 2018 on go90 for the U.S. audience, and on Tumblr for the international audience. It was also made available on YouTube around July 10th in