With Optimus Prime now in possession of the artifact ... There are plenty of nods to the original cartoon series, with the characters’ designs and visual consistency suggesting that a whole ...

ILM tells IndieWire about innovating a handmade animated look influenced by the '80s cartoon series for the origin story ...

The leap from animated hit to blockbuster franchise paved the way for more toy-based movies. “Autobots, engage!” When Peter ...

The latest film tells the origin story of both Optimus Prime and Megatron back when they ... action movie to be inspired by the Beast Wars cartoon. Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback are set ...

ILM tells IndieWire about innovating a handmade animated look influenced by the '80s cartoon series for the origin story about Optimus Prime and Megatron. “Transformers One,” the animated ...

TRANSFORMERS ONE (PG), 104 mins ★★★☆☆ AS befits a franchise about shape-shifting robots, Transformers has had more alternate incarnations than anyone cares to remember. And in the fortieth year ...

Spinoffs like the E.T.-with-a-yellow-robot buddy movie “Bumblebee,” the surprisingly intelligent 2010s cartoon “Transformers ... by violently killing Optimus Prime, and operatic (and ...

As a cartoon series designed to sell toys to kids ... receives the Leadership Matrix from their god Primus and becomes Optimus Prime. Realizing that their friendship has changed forever, Optimus ...

Optimus Prime transforming into a truck and rolling out with his Autobots is an image seared into anybody’s brain who watched the old 1980s “Transformers” cartoons or the more recent live-action ...

The most important thing to know about Transformers is that at its heart, it’s always been a toy story. Back in 1983, ...