Hasbro officially announces the production of The Transformers: The Movie, aiming to expand the Transformers franchise into feature films.
The Transformers: The Movie is released in theaters, bringing the Transformers franchise to the big screen with a new animated feature film.
The Transformers: The Movie becomes available on home video formats, making it accessible to a wider audience after its theatrical run.
Shockwave launches a surprise attack on Autobot City, crippling its defenses and allowing Unicron's approach.
Unicron, a massive planet-eating Transformer, arrives and destroys Autobot City, decimating the Autobot forces.
Optimus Prime fights Megatron in a heroic battle but is mortally wounded and subsequently dies, passing leadership to Ultra Magnus.
Ultra Magnus becomes the new leader of the Autobots and seeks to regroup and retaliate against the Decepticons and Unicron.
New Autobots Hot Rod, Kup, and Springer join the fight against the Decepticons, representing a new generation of heroes.
Megatron is severely damaged and is reformed and empowered by Unicron into Galvatron, becoming a more powerful threat.
Hot Rod, Kup, and the others journey across the galaxy to find the Matrix of Leadership, the key to saving Cybertron.
Hot Rod claims the Matrix of Leadership, transforming into Rodimus Prime, the new Autobot leader.
Rodimus Prime confronts and defeats Unicron, saving Cybertron from destruction and ending the tyrant's reign of terror.
