The series was supplemented by a feature film, The Transformers: The Movie (1986), taking place between the second and third seasons.

The fourth season was entirely animated by AKOM. The show's supervising producer ( Nelson Shin) was also AKOM's founder. In the third season, Toei's involvement with the production team was reduced and the animation services were shared with the South Korean studio AKOM. Toei co-produced the show and was the main animation studio for the first two seasons. The series was produced by Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions in association with Japanese studio Toei Animation for first-run syndication.

The first television series in the Transformers franchise, it depicts a war among giant robots that can transform into vehicles and other objects. The Transformers is an American animated television series that originally aired from September 17, 1984, to November 11, 1987, in syndicationīased upon Hasbro's Transformers toy line.