1987

The year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is the fourth year of the Transformers brand.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Events

Non-Fiction

• Hasbro moves the license to produce full-length animated series that promote their toylines away from Sunbow Productions to DiC Entertainment. All Sunbow-administered series are to conclude at the end of their existing contracts, including The Transformers with its 3-part finale The Rebirth.
• Licensee Disguise Incorporated is founded.
• Licensee Trends International is founded.
• January 31 — The Prizes in Disguise contest ends.
• August — Game developer ISCO is founded.

Births

• ???? — Petrus Kähkönen
• February 5 — Darren Criss
• February 24 — Mayuko Iwasa
• March 8 — Tobe Nwigwe
• March 13 — Martina Felli
• March 22 — GAI
• March 23 — Daniel Warren Johnson
• March 27 — Jun Okubo
• March 30 — Théo Frilet
• April 14 — Fidel Garriga
• April 18 — Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
• April 28 — Ximena Marchant
• May 19 — Adriana Albuquerque
• June 8 — Alicia Barragán
• June 19 — Miguel Angel Leal, Mutsumi Tamura
• June 22 — Jerrod Carmichael
• June 29 — Airam Pinheiro
• July 17 — Thibaut Delmotte
• July 20 — Raphael Rossatto
• July 24 — Michael Jones
• August 10 — Chinatsu Akasaki
• August 11 — Shouta Aoi
• August 13 — Till Völger
• August 30 — Edson Matus
• September 16 — Dan Frausto
• September 21 — Andrea Oldani
• October 5 — Yvonne Greitzke
• October 9 — Erick Selim
• October 15 — Arthur Pestel
• October 28 — Rob Gavagan
• November 20 — Tomoko Ikeda
• November 25 — Carla Martelli
• December 8 — Mike Fédée
• December 9 — Michael Kühl
• December 13 — Jacopo Calatroni
• December 22 — Samuel Harjanne

Deaths

• July 22 — John Braden

Fiction

Knights of Unicron

Megatron spends the entire year engaging in Battle of the Band concerts with various other acts. His growing legion of fans emulate this tactic with tribute bands throughout Cybertron. Behind the Music pack-in booklet

Bumblebee

B-127 is sent to Earth by Optimus Prime to establish a new base for the Autobots. After crash-landing and losing his voice box and memories in a battle with Blitzwing, B-127 is found by Charlie Watson, who rechristens him "Bumblebee". With Charlie's help, Bumblebee regains his memories and prevents Shatter and Dropkick from launching a Decepticon invasion of the planet. Bumblebee later reunites with Optimus as more Autobots land on Earth. Bumblebee

Media

Television

• The Transformers Season 3: episodes 29 & 30
• The Transformers Season 4
• Transformers: The Headmasters episodes 1–24

Music

Albums

• Transformers: The Headmasters — Hit Song Collection

Singles

• "The Headmasters"/"Kimi wa Transformer"

Print

Comics

Comic Bom Bom

• Transformers (Mystery of Convoy)

Marvel Comics

• The Transformers (issues 28–39, ongoing)

Marvel UK

• The Transformers (issues 95–146, ongoing)
• Transformers Annual 1987

TV Magazine

Manga

• The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers (issues 2–5, 5 issues)
• The Great Transformer War (issues 1–3, 3 issues)
• The Headmasters (issues 1–5, 8 issues)
• The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!

Story Pages

• Transformers 2010 (parts 2–7, 7 parts)
• The Headmasters (parts ?)

Books

Ladybird Books (UK)

• Autobots Strike Oil
• Decepticons at the Pole

Corgi Books The Transformers Adventure Game Books (UK)

• 5) Swamp of the Scorpion
• 6) Desert of Danger

Games

Console

• The Headmasters (Famicom Disk System)

Collections

Home Video

Family Home Entertainment

VHS

• The Transformers: The Movie
• The Transformers — The Return of Optimus Prime

Hill Crane (Japan)

VHS & LaserDisc

• The Transformers: The Movie

Polyband (Germany)

VHS

• Transformers — Die Rückkehr von Optimus Prime (Erster Teil)
• Transformers — Die Rückkehr von Optimus Prime (Zweiter Teil)
• Transformers — Die Wiedergeburt (Erster Teil)
• Transformers — Die Wiedergeburt (Zweiter Teil)
• Transformers — Die Wiedergeburt (Dritter Teil)
• Transformers — Der Alptraum-Planet

St. Michael Video Library (UK)

VHS

• Transformers — Starscream's Ghost / The Nightmare Planet / The Ghost in the Machine

Tempo Video (UK)

VHS

• The Transformers — Heavy Metal Wars / The Girl Who Loved Powerglide

V.I.P. Video Gems (UK)

VHS

• The Transformers: The Movie

Comics

Marvel UK Collected Comics

• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7

Merchandise

• TBD

Toys

U.S.

Autobots

S.T.A.R.S.

• March 31 — The Omnibots become unavailable via mail-order. In the S.T.A.R.S. flyer "You Have Been Chosen.," it is explained that they are leaving Earth to fight a war in another universe on that day.

Decepticons

Mail-aways and promos

• "Start Your Own Decoy Collection" (Decoys packed in with carded figures)
• "Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth."

Japan

Cybertrons

Destrons

Robot Point mail order items

Beastformers

Notes

1. ↑ Omitted from the 1987 retail line-up, Repugnus (marketed as "Repug") was offered as a mail order figure that was advertised with the 1987 Beastformers figures (see below), but ultimately wasn't shipped until 1988, in Hasbro packaging. Though it doesn't appear on his packaging, he was assigned the ID number "C-98" in official marketing materials.

Europe

Autobots

Decepticons