While modern cinema has seen its fair share of Transformers movies since Michael Bay adapted the franchise in 2007, those films have yet to live up to a special moment from the animated 1986 ...

When fans entered the movie theaters in the summer of 1986 to watch The Transformers: The Movie, one phrase spoken by Optimus Prime before his ultimate sacrifice would become one of the most important ...

For at least one generation of “Transformers” fans, the death of Optimus Prime in the 1986 animated feature “The Transformers: The Movie” was a formative moviegoing experience, if not a fully ...

The Transformers began in 1984 as both a toy and a TV show from Hasbro about two robot divisions, the Autobots and Decepticons, engaged in a never-ending struggle for power. Decepticons set out to ...

40 years ago, Hasbro broke Transformers fans’ hearts with the release of 1986’s still excellent The Transformers: The Movie, which infamously killed off Optimus Prime. Flash forward to 2026, and ...