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Originally Posted by Scaleface

-1987 - Bottom falls out of market for BOTH lines in the US, but Hasbro has banked more money from the sales. GoBots quickly ends it's magazine and comic, but Marvel keep Transformers alive. In Japan Takara start making it's own series Headmasters, and Bandai makes Battle Hackers for Machine Robo.

The bottom didn't really fall out for Transformers here, they still had two pretty good years in '87 and '88. More like late '89 and '90 when sales took the biggest hit, when a lot of the old toylines got pushed aside for new hotness like TMNT.