Personally, Transformers has always kind of just seemed like this dumb franchise that only existed to sell toys. And while yes, most cartoons from the ‘80s were created for that sole purpose ...

Starting in the 1980s as a toy line and cartoon, Hasbro's The Transformers franchise also had a corresponding comic book ...

or how irreverent to the squeaky-clean '80s TV cartoons. Part of the flexibility may be the fact that Transformers has had multiple continuities already, leading the toy company to state that ...

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