When hit, the early online fandom quickly took to calling its predecessor "Generation 1".
While most modern toys have a shelf-life of maybe six months, in the 80s a single toy could ship steadily for two years, more if the line was particularly successful.
Gather the Rescue Bots, rescue citizens and save the world with epic DinoBots! At the end of Season 2, an animated film was made, simply titled The Transformers: The Movie 1986 , which was written so that it could be easily split into four 22-minute segments for subsequent TV broadcast.