[Tarquinius]

Ok guys....so many of you who have known me have known that I primarily dabble in Marvel Universe, I'm like 100% complete in the line and 80% complete in all of the companion lines. But recently I've been bored waiting for stuff to come out and I've been walking up and down the toy aisle dabbling in some other lines: 2010 GI Joe, DCIH (lil late for that..) and now I've gotten to Transformers....

So I come here, probably the greatest resource for Transformers and I have questions questions questions. First off the bat, let me say that I do not intend to collect every figure of this line and I know virtually nothing about the Transformer mythos, so I'm just picking up stuff that looks cool.

SOOOOOOOO Somebody!! Help me develop a schema for the Transformers line. I know that this line is huge and it stems all the way back to the 80's. What I'm primarily interested in is understanding the dynamics of the toyline since the second movie

It seems like that Revenge of the Fallen toys were very big and in some facet they still continue.

So am I right in guessing this?

There are three current toylines (I'm excluding the fast combiners and weird gimicky shit like that)

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen (red packaging)

Transformers Pursuit of the Deceptacons (gold packaging)

Transformers Generations (red packaging)

In each line they divide it between deluxe figures (which seem to be basic), power core combiners, combiners, leaders etc.

Can someone pleeease elaborate on this for me? I've only been picking up Generations toys (both deluxe and power core) which I LOVE. But its obvious the other lines supplement each other, so can someone please give me detailed examples of the lines with figures that have appeared exclusively in the line?

Teach me your ways!