Long before Michael Bay‘s wildly successful film series came stomping into theaters and changed the way audiences view movies about toys, Transformers were just action figures that ‘80s kids ...

When searches for the toy proved unsuccessful ... while Hasbro shipped $80 million in Transformers. Eventually, Transformers won over American kids so thoroughly that Tonka canceled its Gobots ...

As a kid, playing with Transformers is like pure magic. The toys can be turned from a vehicle into a robot, provided you know the steps to take to move each part. Sometimes you might forget ...