That's not to say these vehicles are ordinary. Some of the most famous military vehicles have changed the course of history.

That being said we think Optimus Train is much more convincing in his vehicle mode compared to Starscream, who looks less like an old plane and more like a multi-coloured plastic Batarang.

Starscream starts the battle on foot, charging at you with sword swipes. Take this opportunity to unload a massive amount of damage through Slapshot, if you have him equipped.

Elsewhere, Megatron remains lost in space, after receiving the literal boot from Starscream in a War and Peace sequence that paid homage to 1986's The Transformers: The Movie.

There was a memorable moment in November's Transformers #2 (we wrote about it here) where Decepticon Starscream, dogfighting with a US Air Force fighter jet, changes into his robot form, forces ...

Yet Transformers, one of the primary boy-centric '80s franchises along with G.I. Joe and He-Man, has always had females in its history, reminds Samantha Lomow, senior vice president of Hasbro ...

The saga doesn’t end there, however. Behind some of those Transformers toys which appeared in stores across America and Europe in 1984, there’s a strange and sometimes complicated story.

We've all seen Transformers do their titular thing with ease but, when slowed down, it's quite the complicated and laborious process.

First airing in the United States in September 1984, “ The Transformers ” — starring the upstanding, peace-loving Optimus Prime and the manipulative, ruthless Megatron — introduced viewers ...