The sentient robots that emerged in the 80s as a Hasbro toy line and cartoon series have now become a $5 billion media empire.

A popular 1986 animated film, seven blockbuster Hollywood features, video games, comic books, action figures, T-shirts, board games, bed sheets, belt buckles and backpacks.

"Transformers One" is released next month, just in time for the fall equinox, which heralds the start of a new season.

The film is an untold origin story set billions of years before the events of the original Transformers mythology and focuses on the strained relationship between Boone companions, the Orion Pax.

Paramount's brilliant prequel production not only conveys this, but also has a great voice cast to bring these magnificent machines to life.

"Transformers One" is scheduled to hit theaters everywhere on September 20, 2024, an unfinished rough cut was shown at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

It begins with best friends Orion Pax and D-16 mining Energon while still having the same dreams and goals, turning into the contentious rivalry we know between Optimus Prime and Megatron.

It's the tragic story of best friends who were once bonded as brothers but started a devastating war that changed the fate of Cybertron forever.