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I may be a tea-stinking dirty colonialist Brit, but thankfully the paucity of UK cartooning meant my childhood was Americanized (with a z) enough to at least include the first generation of the Transformers cartoons. However, worry not if it were never a part of yours, as Hasbro has added the entire first season of the 1984 cartoon to their YouTube channel.
As Xfire reports, the original Transformers cartoon (now known by robot-in-disguise fans as “G1") was a co-creation between Hasbro and Marvel, the former having brought over Japanese toys Diaclone and MicroChange to America, the latter hired to write a backstory for the robots to build a universe around the figures (well, a second universe, alongside the comics).
And so it came to be that Autobots and Decepticons crash-landed on a prehistoric Earth, only to lie very still for four million years, before being awoken by a volcano for some reason. (The “FOUR MILLION YEARS LATER” screen caption is a thing of joy.) They picked up right where they left off, firing lasers while shouting pithy bon mots at one another, but now fixed up to transform into Earth vehicles.
It was still better than Michael Bay’s storytelling.
Read the full article on Kotaku
