This theme was more orchestral-sounding, and retained only the 'robots in disguise' opening of the original theme.Īs the first new Transformers cartoons since Generation 1, Beast Wars and Beast Machines featured new theme tunes that owed nothing to the original in years to come, this would make them the distinct exceptions amongst their animated brethren.

Generation 2 had a new theme arranged by Kinder & Company. An instrumental version of the Season 3 theme was used as the closing theme of that season and Season 4. The closing theme of the first two seasons had a different orchestration, dominated by guitar and horn. The show's commercial bumpers used the theme song as well. Various iterations of the theme were incorporated into many pieces of the show's stock background music, which was composed by Robert J. (Season 4, having only three episodes, used the previous season's theme.) The original studio recording of the season 1 version of the theme, without the post-production processing and effects that were used for the broadcast version, can be found on the 2018 LP release Hasbro Studios Presents 80s TV Classics: Music From The Transformers.įor The Transformers: The Movie, composer Vince DiCola created several new versions of the tune (featuring instrumental pieces included in other parts of the movie's score), sung by Ed Frugé, Gary Falcone and Stan Bush, although ultimately, the finished movie used a power metal arrangement by Lion with additional verses in between the familiar chorus. Season 3's version is especially distinguished by the unusual 'Ah-aah!' chant which is a chorus tune that runs throughout it, and being offbeat compared to those of earlier seasons, which suits Season 3's grim and sci fi orientated nature.

Season 2's version was mostly different but the tune and lyrics remain unchanged. Seasons 1, 2 and 3 of the series feature their own distinct renditions of the theme tune. You say to someone, 'Transformers?' and it's not unlikely that you'll have them jingle back 'Ro-bots in dis-guise!' Accompanying the title sequence and being used as both the opening theme of the animated series and in the multitude of toy commercials over the years, it's pretty much burned into the mind of every thirty-to-forty something year old in the English-speaking western world, and maybe their parents as well. The original, classic Generation 1 theme tune by Ford Kinder and Anne Bryant, with its simple, iconic repetition of the brand's rhyming slogans, 'More than meets the eye,' and 'robots in disguise,' has formed the basis of most Western Transformers theme tunes.

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