As we come up to the 30th anniversary of the Transformers brand, the TFW2005 website is giving us a little history lesson, with successive days covering successive years.

1984 - Beginning it all
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1985 - More and bigger and better
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1986 - Here's an idea! Kill everyone to make way for some new guys!
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1987 - Rise of the "--master" lines, the biggest TF toy for over 20 years, and the waning of my childhood interest.
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1988 - More "Masters", Pretenders, and the return of Optimus Prime in toy form.
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1989 - Transformers get smaller - and less culturally relevant.
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1990 - The End - but not everywhere, and not for long.
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1991 - Transformers are dead - except in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan.
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1992 - Winding down in more places, but also priming for a comeback.
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1993 - Generation 2 - Back with reissues and strange colors
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1994 - now with awesome stuff like elbows and knee joints and the first TF convention!
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1995 - Introducing the greatest Optimus Prime toy of all time (until the 2000s)
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1996 - BEEAST WAAAARRRRRSS!! (Or if you're Canadian, "Beasties!" )
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1997 - BW matures
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1998 - Transmetals, Fuzors, and Japan does its own thing
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1999 - BW ends its run with Transmetals 2
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2000 - Beast Machines and the return of vehicles east and west.
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2001 - The end of the original cartoon continuity, and the beginning of repeating reboots, dubbed anime, and a new era of collaboration between Hasbro and Takara.
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2002 - Armada, Dreamwave comics, and more stuff everyone hated, yet was an inexplicably spectacular success.
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2003 - Armada brings Transformers to new heights of success, including the first official toy of Orson Welles’ voice.
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2004 - the 20th anniversary, featuring some of the most special toys of all time, and perhaps the worst TF cartoon series of all time .
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2005 - Cybertron - possibly the most variety ever seen in a single 18 month toy line. (oh, and there’s a movie on the way in a couple years)
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2006 - the end of the anime trilogy, the 10th anniversary of Beast Wars, a small ‘filler line’ popular enough to recur for years to come, and building hype for the next year.
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2007 - Rise of the Bayformers
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2008 - Transformers Animated, taking fandom from “I hate everything about it” to “It’s full-on perfect!” in mere months
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2009 - Transformers’ 25th Anniversary and Bayformers 2: Robotic Boogaloo (AKA “That sucks” by most critics)
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2010 - Video Games, comics, and taking up space between movies.
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2011 - featuring Bayformers 4: Attack of the robo-Spock. Michael Bay said he was done after this trilogy, just like he was done after films 1 and 2.
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2012 - Transformers: Prime, Rescue Bots, new video games, and have you checked out the comics?
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2013 - Beast Hunters and some more really big and awesome stuff.
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2014 - We celebrate the “Thrilling 30” with toys touching on all eras, a fourth Bay movie on the horizon, and comics featuring the invasion of the girlbots and Megatron did WHAT!!!?
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