The Headmasters are Still Ambitious For Transformers The shift in direction, unfortunately, didn't sit well with fans or the Transformers series, as Seasons 3 & 4 would end up being the last.

The first female character in the original 1980s cartoon, Arcee, appeared in the 1986 animated movie when writer Rob Friedman's daughter protested that there were no women Transformers.

Those touches of real-life space exploration helped give the new "Transformers" film an extra flavor, according to film's creators. "The highest grossing films of all time are science fiction movies ...