Transformers
by Takara Tomy
Two groups of robots who crashed to Earth in the distant past have returned to life and
are making Earth—past and present—their battleground. These are the time-travel
cartoon episodes that I spotted in the four original seasons (1984-1987) and in the Beast
Wars episodes (1996-1999) in which time travel was commonplace. I haven’t seen the
later series [Robots in Disguise (2000-2002), the Unicron Trilogy (2001-2006), the more
recent animated series (2007-2010), and the webisodes (2010)].
They were called Autobots and Decepticons. But the brutal Decepticons were driven by a
single goal: total domination. They set out to destroy the peace-loving Autobots, and a
war between the forces of good and evil raged across Cybertron.
Transformers by Takara Tomy (24 October
1985).