Transformers: The Great War (Johnsonverse)

Transformers: The Great War is an American hybrid series based on the Transformers toyline by Hasbro. Co-produced by Hasbro Studios and Toei Animation, the series has aired on WBC since May 11, 2013. The series airs two seasons per year in the spring and fall.
==Premise==
The series serves as a follow-up to the ending of Fall of Cybertron, creating a completely new continuity using it as a jumping-off point. The series is unique in that, while the human characters and most aliens are animated, the Cybertronian characters are depicted using the actual toys from the series' toyline. In robot mode, they are animated using stop-motion, and using various methods in their alt-modes, such as a puff of air pushing cars and trucks along, watercraft being pulled on strings, and aircraft either being strung on wires or matted into the scene. They are filmed on physical sets with miniatures, live pyrotechnics, and 2D-animated humans. Toys are frequently destroyed (mainly generic soldiers from the Nickel Toys subline), and an entire production line at the factory in Berkeley, California is dedicated to churning out toys for the series.
Battles take place on a massive scale, often encompassing entire theatres of operation. The Decepticons are depicted more realistically: instead of trying to steal some MacGuffin or destroy the Autobots using some plan that makes little-to-no sense, they instead carry out actual military operations, such as carrying out raids to gather energon, destroying key strategic targets, or picking off lone Autobots. Realistic military strategies and tactics are used by both sides, which have received critical praise from military analysts and historians.
The series also makes a point to deconstruct the idea of giant alien robots on Earth. As the series begins in 1984 at the height of the Cold War, there is much initial confusion as to whether the Decepticons are Soviet weapons, before it becomes clear that yes, the Decepticons (and Autobots) are indeed of extraterrestrial origin. The series explores how human society was changed by the presence of the Cybertronians, how they adapted, and how their presence singlehandedly ended the Cold War. Common themes include cities instituting rolling blackouts due to the Decepticons draining power plants or disrupting the supply of coal and oil, as well as civil defense agencies around the world (such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency and UK Warning & Monitoring Organization) altering their plans to account for Decepticon attacks (for example, the British government created new Protect & Survive material specific to Decepticon attacks, with new films airing at the top of each hour).
==Characters==
For a full list of characters, see here.
==Development==
==Broadcast history==
==Reception==
== See Also ==
* FanFiction.net
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