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how many transformers is their actually been mde because seibs has 1300+ but hasnt got all of them but heres a sentence that put this question in my head

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That's a good question. I'd like to know the answer to this as well. Also, is Transformers one of the biggest toy franchises based on numbers alone (as opposed to profits, popularity, etc.)?

I'm gonna say something crazy like 4000+

Toys are probably around 3000 to 4000 I guess.

Storywise you'd be looking at trillions.

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Stormwolf wrote:Toys are probably around 3000 to 4000 I guess.

Storywise you'd be looking at trillions.

Yeah, for so many toys the sheer number of characters is even more astounding.

The Hub alone probably had trillions of transformers, I can't imgaine how many there would be all together.

This is one of those tricky questions that we will probably never get a real answer from, for I bet not even Hasbro or Takara/Tomy know the true number of figures they have released.

Does this question mean how many molds have been released? Because that would be a much lower number than actual Characters that have been released, which again would be far lower than actual toys that have been released.

Example: G1 Grapple
Was released in G1, retooled for Inferno and Artfire (?) then the subsequent re-releases of those figures...
How many do we count that as???

This is doing my head in...

millions maybe

This is one of those tricky questions that we will probably never get a real answer from, for I bet not even Hasbro or Takara/Tomy know the true number of figures they have released.

Does this question mean how many molds have been released? Because that would be a much lower number than actual Characters that have been released, which again would be far lower than actual toys that have been released.

Example: G1 Grapple
Was released in G1, retooled for Inferno and Artfire (?) then the subsequent re-releases of those figures...
How many do we count that as???


This is doing my head in

i think you would count them seprately due to they have seperate bios and names.

The Master Blaster wrote:I'm gonna say something crazy like 4000+

Bah, crazy would be saying something like 1,000,000. So, I will say 1,000,000.

i_amtrunks wrote:This is one of those tricky questions that we will probably never get a real answer from, for I bet not even Hasbro or Takara/Tomy know the true number of figures they have released.

Does this question mean how many molds have been released? Because that would be a much lower number than actual Characters that have been released, which again would be far lower than actual toys that have been released.

Example: G1 Grapple
Was released in G1, retooled for Inferno and Artfire (?) then the subsequent re-releases of those figures...
How many do we count that as???

This is doing my head in...

dont forget the character repaints of the same character, such as gold jazz!

Sledge wrote:42.

lets see:
Heroic, stoic good guy leader.
Evil, scheming, a bit mad badguy leader.
Young, plucky underdog hero.
Traitorous coward 2nd in command.
Worryingly violent goodguy.
Really stupid henchman robot.
Good guy who can fly.
Bad guy who gets trashed a lot.
The dinosaur.

that makes about 10 probably, as there's always some sort of mix/remix of these characters.

mattyc1007 wrote:

This is one of those tricky questions that we will probably never get a real answer from, for I bet not even Hasbro or Takara/Tomy know the true number of figures they have released.

Does this question mean how many molds have been released? Because that would be a much lower number than actual Characters that have been released, which again would be far lower than actual toys that have been released.

Example: G1 Grapple
Was released in G1, retooled for Inferno and Artfire (?) then the subsequent re-releases of those figures...
How many do we count that as???

This is doing my head in

i think you would count them seprately due to they have seperate bios and names.

But then do you count the re-issues of the same character? Do you count the same character in a different figure? ie: Jazz and Actiomaster Jazz???

I changed my mind.

4 million.

Are we counting repaints and re-releases?