User blog comment:Godkombat21/Battle Dibs/@comment-5338740-20120127035938/@comment-143604-20120128034904

False. Transformers is a Hasbro property- concept and excecution from America, but with close work with Hasbro's japanesse partners in Japan, Takara. About half the original toys were imported from a different Takara toyline, but all the original material, characters and stories were American-made. The exception was the Unicron Trilogy, which was the break between the tanking of Beast Machines while building steam for a while, which lead to the movies and new Alligned continuity tree.