The Transformers Generations: Welcome to the World
of Transformers is a great book for any Transformer fan. It
features nice clear pictures of every Transformer toy up to 1995
with Machine Wars thrown in for good measure. It even includes
the Japanese and European exclusives too! It also includes art,
including all the cartoon model sheets, and info on the
comics (being extensive enough to also cover the UK annuals!)
The only fault is it's in Japanese and I, like many
other transfans, am not fluent in Japanese. For American and
European releases the English name and function are included
(although with some spelling mistakes, for example Highbrow's
Nebulan companion is named Goat!) but that's not the case for the
Japanese releases.
So with the help of a Japanese language word processor JWP, Rob Jung's Transformers
Toy List, That
Big Transformers Checklist by M. Sipher, and the Shodouka online translator I've been
making up a list of who these Japanese characters are.
Transformers fandom's very own expert translater, Doug Dlin, has provided me with
some feedback, corrections and comments. I will integrated these, but for the
moment they are listed on my Errata page.
These pages are best viewed in Internet Explorer. Netscape doesn't
show the red and purple borders I've used to indicate Cybertrons and
Destrons.
Japan 1987 (Pages 31-32)
* Text-only
Japan 1988 (Pages 42-46) * Text-only
Japan 1989 (Pages 53-57) * Text-only
Japan 1990 (Pages 65-67) * Text-only
Japan 1991 (Pages 71-72) * Text-only
Japan 1992 (Pages 75-76) * Text-only
Errata