Hello There! Hey, I’m Kinda New To Transformers, But At The Same Time I Really Wanna Get Into Everything

Hello there! Hey, I’m kinda new to Transformers, but at the same time I really wanna get into everything XD So...if it’s not any trouble, can I ask what the most popular and well-known continuities are? I already know Animated, Prime, Cyberverse, G1, MTMTE, and Rescue Bots. Are there any other fandoms/continuities that I still gotta get into? XD

OoooOOoh, Transformers continuity, what a bundle of knots it is! The many, many, many Transformers continuities break down into what we on TFWiki call six or seven “families,” which look something like this:

First there’s Generation 1. Within that, from the 80s, you’ve got the original animated series and the Marvel comic, two separate continuities that tell the story of the original Transformers toyline in different ways. This continuity was built upon in the 90s to create Beast Wars and its sequel Beast Machines, set in the future of “a” Generation 1 timeline. A Japanese Beast Wars spin-off cartoon named Car Robots was imported to the US as retitled Robots in Disguise in 2001; it was treated as a separate continuity of its own, not part of the G1>BW timeline. And new stories are being told using the G1 cast all the time, with some of the most famous in the 21st century including IDW Publishing’s comic books (among them More than Meets the Eye), and the recent Prime Wars trilogy of online cartoons from Machinima.

The 2000s brought The Unicron Trilogy - three series, Transformers: Armada, Energon, and Cybertron. Each one had a cartoon, and the first two had comic books, which like G1, told different versions of the story.

After them came the live-action movies. Self explanatory!

Then there was Animated. You’ve got that covered!

After Animated, the “Aligned” continuity was introduced, merging concepts from many past series together. This includes Prime, Rescue Bots, and a new Robots in Disguise series (unconnected to the 2001 show).

Cyberverse is the newest continuity, taking a lot of cues from Aligned in terms of lore and backstory, but with a much heavier G1 flavour. Transformers as a whole in steering back around in a very “G1″ direction at the moment, as evidenced by the changing face of the live-action Bumblebee movie, and the upcoming “Siege” toyline.

We’d suggest checking out these videos, from the YouTube series “Transformers: The Basics” by wiki editor Chris McFeely, for more details!