After securing the rights, Hasbro had Marvel writer Bob Budiansky create most of thebackstory and history for the resulting Transformers, giving us many of the characters that we know today. After the Transformers proved popular, Hasbro would eventually buy all the rights to the Transformers line, making them sole owner of it.
　　孩之宝在确立了经销权后，请来漫威作家鲍勃·布迪安斯基，为之后的《变形金刚》创作了大部分的背景故事与历史。我们如今知晓的《变形金刚》中的许多人物都出自鲍勃之手。在《变形金刚》大获成功后，孩之宝最终买断了变形金刚玩具系列的所有版权。

　　All those soldiers you see running around in various shots from the film? A lot of those were real soldiers. Those jets involved in many scenes? Real military jets flown by real military pilots. Bay reached an agreement with various branches of the US military to feature real soldiers and real aircraft in the film, making for one of the closest partnerships with the military and a modern film production.
　　你看见了电影枪击场面中的那些个战士了么？他们中许多都是真正的士兵。那么场景中的喷气式飞机呢？它们是真的军用飞机，由军事飞行员操控。贝同美国军队的不同支部达成了一项协议，那就是电影会采用真正的士兵和飞机。这也是现代电影制作同武装部队所建立过的最亲密的一次合作关系了。

　　Despite being the hero and leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime has a tendency to die a whole lot. Across all the different versions of film, comics, and television, Optimus Prime has died approximately 25 times. He’s been blown up, shot, torn to pieces, and a whole lot more.
　　尽管擎天柱是博派阵营的英雄人物和首领，他却死了好几回。纵观各个版本的《变形金刚》电影、漫画和电视剧，擎天柱都差不多挂了25次了。他要么被炸裂、一枪毙命，要么被四分五裂，各种死...番上演。

　　Among the Transformers toys of various generations, there’s a defect that certain figures exhibit where the metallic painted pieces, and the gold ones in particular, have a bad tendency to break and crumble. Among avid collectors of the toys, the defect has become well-known and is often more commonly known as “Gold Plastic Syndrome”.
　　在变形金刚那么多代的玩具中，有个缺点便是，只要玩具上有金属喷漆块，尤其是那些镀金的部分，它们都容易破裂、解体。而这样的缺陷已经在这些玩具的忠实收藏者之间传**，他们还通常将其称为“金塑性综合征”。

　　The Transformers first saw the big screen in 1986, when it was adapted into a feature film aptly titled Transformers: The Movie. Among the multiple battles between the Autobots and Decepticons, they find the planet-destroying sentient cyber-planet Unicron, who would serve as another villain in the movie.
　　《变形金刚》在1986年第一次被搬上荧屏，那时它被被改编成了一部剧情片，名为《变形金刚大电影》。在博派（Autobots）同霸天虎（Decepticons）的多次战役中，他们发现了会毁灭地球、且有感知生命的巨大星体邪神（Unicron），它在电影中也是一名反角。　（沪江英语）