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This was due to the American comic not wanting to use the new characters so the UK comic was free to do whatever they liked though this has led to some confusing stories involving time travel.

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But a HUGE advantage came when Transformers The Movie came out. Now the constraints of doing stories while not affecting a main canon in anyway were difficult to deal with.

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People who have read the more recent comic series as well as watched Transformers Prime will remember the name Wreckers, well that’s because as I said, they brought this over into main stream canon. The team consisted of Impactor (the leader), Roadbuster, Whirl, Twin-Twist, Topspin, Rack’n’Ruin, Broadside, Sandstorm, and Springer a mix of characters the American comic had no interest in using as well as brand new characters like Impactor and the conjoined twins Rack’n’Ruin. These were an elite unit of Autobots that were active on a Decepticon controlled Cybertron. One of the early examples of this were the Wreckers. Not too much of a problem at the start but soon it was catching up to where the Americans were at and so they started to release original stories.īecause they couldn’t change what happened in the main story they had to get around that by often using characters that the Americans had glossed over and in some ways make brand new characters and teams. You see we got the American comics but our releasing schedule was twice the speed.

So how did these emerald isles come to effect Transformers as the probably 3rd most influential place in the world? Well it’s not too complicated it comes from the Marvel comic books.

But did you know that the UK has had a surprising amount of influence on Transformers (and not just that time we prevented a toy being sold here cause of a name they really should have googled) with concepts and characters originating from these isles ? Some of you might well know that America and Japan together are responsible for Transformers – toys made in Japan, characters made in America.