December 18
From Transformers Wiki
- 1946 — Live-action film producer Steven Spielberg is born, followed by long slow shots of people looking.
- 1956 — T.K. Carter (voice of Rocksteady) is born.
- 1959 — Actor Jean-Philippe Puymartin (voice director of the European French dubs of The Last Knight and Bumblebee) is born.
- 1970 — Rapper DMX is born.
- 1973 — Shinobu Matsumoto (Japanese voice of Sawtooth and JPL Engineer) is born.
- 1978 — Actor Ravi Patel (Telephone operator in Transformers) is born.
- 1983 — Arnaud Laurent (French voice of Fomo) is born.
- 1985 — Krizia Bajos (voice of Agent Bala) is born.
- 1987 — The Headmasters episodes "Battle for Defense of the False Planet", "Find MegaZarak's Weak Spot!!" and "Head Formation of Friendship" premiere in Japan.
- 1989 — Jim Gosa (voice of Abominus) dies at the age of 58.
- 1999 — The Beast Machines episode "End of the Line" premieres in the US.
- 1999 — The Beast Wars - BEAST WARS TRANSFORMER SONGS BEST soundtrack album is released in Japan by Columbia Music Entertainment.
- 2000 — The Beast Machines episode "In Darkest Knight" premieres in Germany.
- 2002 — Transformers Armada #5 is released by Dreamwave Productions.
- 2002 — Transformers: Armada makes its Canadian television premiere on YTV airing the first 3 episodes First Encounter, Metamorphosis and Base.
- 2003 — DreamMix TV World Fighters is released for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube.
- 2003 — The Armada episode "Drift" premieres in Germany.
- 2004 — The Beast Wars Returns episode "The Moment of Truth" premieres in Japan.
- 2004 — Gernot Duda (German voice of Generation 1 Megatron and Grimlock plus some others he did for one or two episodes) dies.
- 2009 — Revenge of the Fallen is released on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan, with several stores featuring exclusive toy pack-ins.
- 2009 — The TakaraTomy Transformers Animated website goes live. Coincidentally, Sebastian Evans II, music composer for the Animated cartoon, posts the score for all three seasons on his website, lastbastianmusic.com.
- 2010 — The Animated episode "Take Off! Optimus Prime" premieres in Japan.
- 2010 — The Japanese Autobot Alliance versions of Hailstorm, Highbrow, Tomahawk and Terradive are released.
- 2011 — The Transformers: Prime episode "One Shall Rise, Part 2" premieres in Italy.
- 2013 — Transformers: The Art of Prime, Regeneration One #97 and Robots in Disguise #24 (Dark Cybertron Chapter 5) are released by IDW Publishing.
- 2016 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Worthy" premieres in Japan, concluding the shows Japanese dub run.
- 2018 — The Cyberverse episode "Sabotage" premieres in Brazil.
- 2023 — Hasbro Pulse opens the HasLab Stock Vault for Premium Members for 24 hours, the remaining Transformers HasLabs sell out in just a few minutes.
