1986

The year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is the third year of the Transformers brand.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Events

Non-Fiction

• April 26 — The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster occurs.
• In November, Marvel Comics celebrates its 25th Anniversary. In celebration of this event, Issue #22 of the US Transformers comic (first available in June) features a special cover; a portrait shot of Menasor bordered by many of the company's classic superhero characters.
• The Japanese video game developer NOW Production is founded.

The Transformers production

Season 3

• March 4 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1 first draft script submitted
• March 20 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2 script finalised.
• March 27 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3 script finalised.
• March 31 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2 main dialogue recording session.
• April 7 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3 main dialogue recording session.
• April 9 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3 pickup dialogue sessions for S. Marc Jordan, John Stephenson and John Moschitta.
• April 12 - Chaos (episode) first draft script submitted.
• April 22 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 revised script submitted
• April 22 - The Killing Jar (episode) first draft script submitted.
• April 24 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 script finalised.
• April 28 - Chaos (episode) revised script submitted.
• April 29 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 main dialogue recording session.
• April 29 - Chaos (episode) script finalised.
• April 30 - Already recorded Rodimus Prime dialogue performed by Ted Schwartz replaced by Dick Gautier ADR.
• April 30 - The Killing Jar (episode) second draft script submitted.
• May 6 - The Killing Jar (episode) third draft script submitted.
• May 7 - The Killing Jar (episode) main dialogue recording session.
• May 16 - Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5 main dialogue recording session.
• May 19 - Chaos (episode) main dialogue recording session.
• May 29 - Dark Awakening (episode) main dialogue recording session.
• May 30 - Thief in the Night revised script submitted.
• June 4 - Chaos (episode) first draft storyboards completed.
• July 9 - The Big Broadcast of 2006 (episode) script finalised.
• July 11 - Fight or Flee (episode) script submitted and finalised.
• July 28 - Grimlock's New Brain premise/outline submitted.
• July 31 - Fight or Flee (episode) main dialogue recording session.
• September 16 - Grimlock's New Brain first draft script submitted.
• November 10 - The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1 first draft script submitted.
• November 24 - The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2 script finalised.

Births

January

• January 7 — Héctor Mena
• January 8 — Pierce Cravens
• January 24 — Edward Bosco

February

• February ???? — Diego Valenzuela
• February 15 — Ami Koshimizu
• February 25 — Kaiser Johnson

March

• March 3 — Renan Freitas

April

• April 4 — David Hernán
• April 16 — Betzabé Jara
• April 25 — Helena Coppejans
• April 29 — Gábor Joó

May

• May 8 — Abby Trott
• May 10 — Erika Fong
• May 16 — Megan Fox
• May 19 — Óscar Garibay
• May 25 — Markiss McFadden
• May 26 — Adeline Chetail
• May 31 — Hiroko Ushida

June

• June 1 — Alessio Puccio
• June 3 — Ludivine Deworst
• June 11 — Shia LaBeouf
• June 13 — Saidé García

July

• July 8 — Karina Fonseca
• July 19 — Jimmy Redler
• July 26 — Leo Hallerstam

August

• August 8 — Alessandro Germano
• August 18 — Zina Khakhoulia
• August 25 — Chris Ho

September

• September 12 — Alfie Allen
• September 24 — Sahil Vaid
• September 26 — Sayuri Yahagi

October

• October 17 — Mark Whitten
• October 24 — Nobuhiko Okamoto, Shinnosuke Ogami
• October 27 — Danilo Diniz

November

• November 7 — Luisa Wietzorek
• November 15 — Matthew Patrick
• November 19 — Duio Botta
• November 24 — Rodrigo Antas

December

• December 10 — Felipe Drummond

Deaths

• August 15 — Pierre Garin
• November 11 — Roger C. Carmel
• November 22 — Scatman Crothers

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

• July 1 — Shrapnel, Bombshell, and Kickback arrive on Earth over the space bridge. Sometime over the next three days Megatron has their bodies adapted into Earth insects for disguise. Aerialbots over America!
• July 4 — Thrust, Dirge, and Ramjet arrive on Earth over the space bridge. The Decepticons attempt to drill through Hoover Dam in order to divert the water over the space bridge where it would turn turbines on Cybertron. The plot was foiled by Ricky Vasquez and the Aerialbots. Aerialbots over America!
• Upon materialization in the distant past of 1986, Cyclonus and Scourge decide to destroy a Wyoming service station and passing locomotive in a random act of anti-social behavior. Target: 2006

Deaths

• December — Barbara Larkin ...All Fall Down!

Story of Binaltech

At some point in time after 1985, but before 2005, Ravage is captured by the EDC and kept as a prisoner. He is then kept stasis locked in cassette mode inserted in his future/past self's tape deck, in order to provide his body with a "Life Essence Nucleus", as part of the III's "X-9 Revival Plan". The Ravage of the present remains unaware of his time-tossed doppelganger. Ghosts of the Past

Knights of Unicron

Smooth Jazz's vocal cords are damaged, ending his singing career, after taking part in an impromptu battle of the bands with Megatron. Behind the Music pack-in booklet

Media

Television

• The Transformers Season 2: episodes 46–49
• The Transformers Season 3: episodes 1–28
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010: episodes 1–32

Movies (Theatrical)

• The Transformers: The Movie

Direct-to-Video

• Scramble City: Mobilization
• Scramble City

Music

Albums

• The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Singles

• "The Touch" (7" Single)
• "The Touch" (12" Picture disc) (Europe only)
• "TRANSFORMER 2010"/"WHAT'S YOU"

Print

Comics

Comic Bom Bom

• Full Throttle Scramble Power!
• Famicom How-to Manga: Transformers: Mystery of Convoy

Marvel Comics

• The Transformers (issues 16–27, ongoing)
• Transformers: The Movie (issues 1–3, 3 issues)
• G.I. Joe and the Transformers (issues 1–4, 4 issues)

Marvel UK

• The Transformers (issues 43–94, ongoing)
• Transformers: The Movie (issues 1–3, 3 issues)
• Transformers Annual 1986

TV Magazine

Manga

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (issues 1–8, 8 issues)
• The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers (issue 1, 5 issues)

Story Pages

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
• Transformers 2010 (part 1, 7 parts)

Books

Ballantine Books Find Your Fate Junior

• 4) Earthquake
• 5) Desert Flight
• 6) Decepticon Poison
• 7) Autobot Alert!
• 8) Project Brain Drain
• 9) The Invisibility Factor

Corgi Books The Transformers Adventure Game Books (U.K.)

• 3) Island of Fear
• 4) Highway Clash

Figurine Panini

• The Transformers Sticker Book

Kid Stuff Listen 'n' Look

• Slaves of the Insecticons

Kid Stuff audio cassette

• Attack of the Decepticons

Ladybird Books (UK)

• Decepticon Hideout
• Galvatron's Air Attack
• Transformers: The Movie

Macdonald Purnell activity books (UK)

• Colouring Book (Beachcomber)
• Colouring Book (Optimus Prime)
• Sticker Fun Book
• Activity Book

Marvel Books Big Looker Storybooks

• Car Show Blow Up
• The Story of Wheelie, the Wild Boy of Quintesson

Marvel Books Coloring Books

• Battle at Oil Valley
• Hot Rod's Escape
• The Invasion of the Decepticon Camp
• The Lost Treasure of Cybertron

Marvel Books Sticker Adventures

• Battle on the Junk Planet
• Galvatron Attacks

Games

Console

• Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth (Commodore 64)
• Transformers: Mystery of Convoy (Famicom)

Collections

Home Video

Channel 5 (UK)

VHS

• Transformers — Desertion of the Dinobots (1986)

Family Home Entertainment

VHS

• The Transformers — Volume 10: "Heavy Metal War"
• The Transformers — Volume 11: "Countdown to Extinction"
• The Transformers — Volume 12: "The Secret of Omega Supreme", "War Dawn", "A Plague of Insecticons"

St. Michael Video Library (UK)

VHS

• The Transformers — Dinobot Island, also includes The Revenge of Bruticus

Video Gems

VHS

• The Transformers — Arrival from Cybertron
• The Transformers — Megatron's Master Plan
• The Transformers — Desertion of the Dinobots
• The Transformers — The Key to Vector Sigma & War Dawn

Comics

Marvel UK Collected Comics

• Plague of the Insecticons!
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Winter Special

Merchandise

• TBD

Toys

U.S.

Autobots

Decepticons

Others

• First Transformers

Mail-aways and promos

• "The Autobots Have a Special Mission for:"

Reflector (Spectro, Spyglass, Viewfinder)

• "You Have Been Chosen."
• "Decipher the Decepticon" contest
• "Prizes in Disguise" contest

• "Movie Edition" Megatron
• "Movie Edition" Optimus Prime

Japan

Cybertrons

Notes

1. ↑ Wheelie was listed among the other Minibots in a 1986 Takara toy catalog, but his toy was released later than the rest of them, between C-79 Blurr and C-81 Wreck-Gar.

Destrons

Robot Point mail order items

• Adams
• Dirge
• Camshaft
• Downshift
• Overdrive
• Ratchet

Notes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Cyclonus and Scourge were listed as "Jetrons" alongside Ramjet and Thrust in a 1986 Takara toy catalog, but their toys were released later than the other two, between D-69 Bruticus and D-72 Octone.

Europe

Autobots

Decepticons