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Great article! Very nicely written and informative. I had no idea about the original airdates, number of theatres, etc.

Personally I never understood the irrational hate some 'elitist' Transformer fans have for the Gobots. Sure TFs are bigger, better, more accessorized, and had the better show, but this doesn't mean the Gobot figures themselves are bad. I continue to collect the better figures of both series.

Here's a question, how can "the war" expand from the cartoons into the comics when the comics came first?

The first comic came out on 9/1/1984, but the first episode aired on 9/17/1984.

Just check issue #1 and the original airdate:

http://www.seibertron.com/cartoons/epis ... rtoon_id=1

Hotrod wrote:Hasbro wanted to bring the Transformers into the world of comic books so they signed a deal with Marvel Comics to produce a Transformers comic book. Marvel was one of the most popular comic book companies. Marvel was involved with Transformers from the very beginning. The first issue of Transformers was released in September of 1984, about the same time as the cartoon began to air in the United States. The Transformers comic was set originally to only run for four issues, however, due to early success it would last for eighty issues. The success of the comic would help spread the popularity of Transformers. Transformers were now able to reach people who read comic books but may or may not have watched the cartoon.

Acually there were a few Gobots/Machine Robo comic strips produced in the UK!
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That's easily the most interesting article I've read in quite some time.

Wooo! Take that Tonka!

Frankly, I couldn't read the whole article because of how poorly it was written. I got down to, "Hasbro wanted to bring the Transformers into the world of comic books so they signed a deal with Marvel Comics to produce a Transformers comic book. Marvel was one of the most popular comic book companies." The factoid about Marvel being popular is just sort of thrown in there, and the whole article is loaded with similar comments.

"Takara decide to reset the Microman line and reintroduce the line as New Microman. It did not stop there. Both Hassenfeld Brothers and Takara decided to combine this line with the transforming accessories Hassenfeld had developed. The result was yet another line named Micro Change. This was just the beginning, because Takara was about to take the Micro Change line a few more steps forward."

The entire above paragraph was entirely pointless. It could have been omitted without hurting the article whatsoever. In particular, it has the phrases, "it did not stop there," and "this was just the beginning," which are textbook examples of things to leave out when writing.

I hate to be so critical, but these are grade school mistakes. It's got the facts in it, but it's a really horrible read. There's more to proofreading and editting than running a spellchecker.

Cool! Great job Hotrod! Awesome work on that article!

This was a nice article. Thanks.

Damn its long. Guess i should start reading now.

I cleaned up some of the code mistakes in the news article. I do not know why all the number were added in some of the words or why some of the word were cut I checked the orginal copy I cut and pasted from and these mistakes were no present. I fixed most of them in the news report.