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
Evil Warriors (Masters of The Universe) creating Twistoid, before his plan was foiled by He-Man and Rotar. His later The Masters of the Universe Classics toyline bio, portray him in consistence with his minicomics apperance, futher estabilished that Twistoid faced off against his nemessis Rotar, during Second Ultimate Battle. Althought being destroyed by his counterpart, his robotic brain managed to survive and was later transferred to Evil Warriors's vehicle, Roton. In his new form, he become a self-awere war machine serving in Skeleteen's evil forces. A new Twistoid figure, was released by Mattel together with Rotar, in a 2-pack exclusive on San Diego Comics Con 2015.