It was a week before Thanksgiving 1983 when Bob Budiansky was approached about working on a new project called the “Transformers.” “Marvel Comics and (toy company) Hasbro had a deal where Marvel would ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Henry Orenstein, famed for creating the Transformers line of toys and revolutionizing the way poker is played, has died ...

To start, Kirkman described what drew him into helping to create the Energon universe: “I was born in 1978, and I was six years old when Transformers started in 1984. I saw the Transformers movie in ...