The Complete Transformers Timeline Explained

Micheal Bay’s Transformers series is entering its 7th installment with Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Yes the Maximals and the Predicons have entered the series and confused an already convoluted timeline. How convoluted? Well to figure that out resident cybertron expert Chris Goodmakers has worked his way through the entire franchise and broken down every historical moment mentioned in the 6 main films. Yes Transformers have changed the very course of human history from Arthurian legend right up to World War 2 and even the Moon Landing!

From before time and the birth of the planet earth, all the way up to 2017 and a texan inventor improbably named Cade Yeager. There is a lot going on in the history of the transforming robots and how it intersects with our own. There's even stuff that blatantly contradicts other stuff! Join Chris Goodmakers and Screen Rant as they wade through all the fantastical history and secret robots that have influenced humanity. Don’t forget to like and subscribe and check out screen rant for all the best easter eggs, breakdowns, and explanations of the biggest films and shows.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro
0:18 - The Dawn Of Time
1:53 - The Earth is a secret Robot!
2:35 - The Stone and Bronze Age
3:57 - The Rise Of Optimus Prime
6:03 - King Arthur
6:50 - Archibald Witwiki
7:20- The First Seven
8:05- World War 2
8:28 - To The Moon
9:41 - Secrets and Lies
10:18 - Bumblebee
10:47 - The First Movie (finally)
11:58 - Revenge of the Fallen
13:28 - The Dark of the Moon
14:36 - Marky Mark
15:42 - The Last Bay

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[ScreenRant]

Which Transformers movie do you think should've been the last?

[Zman]

Oh my God, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts are in a separate universe from the Bayverse films!

[JabrieldaGoat]

I don't know why people thinks Rise of the Beast is connected to the bay verse. It's a complete reboot of the franchise

[HoshijiroTS]

I actually recently watched all the transformers back to back, and I was discussing the confusing timelines with my mother. I remember bring up the fact that we're told Megatron had been frozen for thousands of years, yet in DOTM we're told that in 1961 Sentinel was actually on his way to meet up with megs. How long did it take him to travel from Cybertron to our moon? did they not have spacebridges back then? What if Megatron never actually crashed and got frozen in the ice? Would he just sit there for thousands of years? I mean, a lot of things can be easily explained. like The Fallen not liking Earth because of Unicron actually makes sense. And Bumblebee being on Earth during the 1st world war could've happened. We never actually saw him arrive in the first Bay movie, so who knows how long he had been on Earth? Of cause that only works if we ignore the new Bumblebee movie. Which if they are going for the Days if future past route and adding time travel and multiverse in the mix, could end up being connected to the Bay movies. Which gets even more confusing when you think about it. Or it could be cool. we could end up with different versions of the same characters from different Transformers timelines converging into one. G1, Beast wars, Energon, War for Cybertron, Combiner wars to name a few. We could literally have the Transformers equivilant to "I'm Spartacus" with "I am Optimus Prime", "No, I'm Optimus Prime" "No you're not. I'm Optimus Prime". The possibilities are more than meets the eye.

[ToviahEzekielLevitan]

The cube was never moved to a separate continent The location of the cube that was imprinted on the glasses was the location that was given to Megatron when he landed which is the accurate location of the cube in present day and the original movie That's why they say in the movie we built the Hoover dam around the cube

[darkspark_cosplay]

IT'S A REBOOT GOD DAMMIT!!!! WHY IS IT SOOOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND!!!!

[hectorelfather]

“Who knows ?! Not the screen writers” 😂 idk why that was so funny to me

[jnthrash]

I see the Bumblebee movie more as a reboot

[jamaribonnett]

I can't believe people are still confused. BUMBLEBEE AND ROTB, ARE.IN.A.SEPARATE.UNIVERSE. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[sriram]

My favourite part is when Optimus says “Its Primeing time”.

[jerichogarry]

They took the earth being Unicron in a dormant state from the Transformers Prime series which is where the concept originnally came from as that show ended before the Last Knight was made.

[Wavypringles]

Umm, yeah no. The bumblebee movie was a reboot of the franchise. It completely invalidates the origin of the autobots on earth that Michael bay demonstrates, and rise of the beasts is doing it further.

Reminder: Optimus and the rest of the autobots don’t arrive on earth until 2007, and bee has supposedly been there since WW2. Bumblebee, RotB, and the two planned sequels are a different universe than the other 5 Michael Bay films. Not to mention that Michael Bay isn’t even the director of the newer films

[tpclips]

I’m just disappointed that we may never get a sequel to TLK. I know a lot of people hate it but I always liked all 5 movies growing up, and never was exposed to internet opinions

[MwizeraUwizera]

1. Love the "heel turn" reference
2. Who would win in a fight: Optimus or Superman?

[charlestownsend]

Yes bumblebee and beasts might be reboots but they do still use the same looks and styles of the bay movies, so I can understand people not realising that they aren't in the same universe, normally when you reboot something you make it look different from the previous products and also don't make the reboot at the same time you're still making movies in the previous continuity.

[novustalks]

The cube didn't move between continents. It was always at the place the damn was built. Megatron just ended up losing his chase for it

[Orocaiamric]

You forgot Stanley Tucci as Merlin and as a bad guy in the franchise.

[dragonking]

Sam died because of a ambush
You can hear Optimus prime say run Sam run when he got revived
So yeah Sam died
Sad truth

[IP_Films]

Yall forgot that Hasbro confirmed Bumblebee 2018 was the start of a new reboot?

[gemodemplay]

This franchise is cooler than I initially thought.