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: The Headmasters Transformers: The Headmasters Initially, Takara, the Japanese producers of the "Transformers" toyline, imported the American "Transformers" cartoon series from 1985 to 1986. When the series came to an end with the three-part miniseries "The Rebirth" in 1987, however, Takara decided to continue the series themselves, declining to import "The Rebirth" and instead creating a full-length 35-episode spin-off series, "Transformers: The Headmasters" (two additional clips episodes were produced after the fact for direct-to-video release). Supplanting "The Rebirth"'s position in Japanese continuity, "The Headmasters" occurred one year after "The Return of Optimus Prime", introducing the title characters to the Transformers universe in