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Bayformers

1. (fandom slang) The live-action Transformers film franchise, launched in 2007 with an eponymous film, and directed exclusively by Michael Bay until 2018.

   Synonym: Bayverse

   • 2011, Gen Con Indy 2011 program book, "Anime Panels & Events", page 138:

     Join us for a complete history of the epic TF franchise: from 80s to Bayformers.

   • 2013 July 23, Vincent Chiang, “The Most Colossal Movie of the Year”, in Woroni, Australian National University, page 21:

     For a generation of mecha Anime fans, brought up on Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion, this film succeeds far beyond the league of Bayformers in presenting brilliant, powerful mecha action.

   • 2019, Thomas Mann, review of Bumblebee, Peacock (Leicester Grammar School, Leicester, UK), February 2019, page 7:

     Unlike the ‘Bayformers’ there is a very small cast of Decepticons (the bad guys) who are extremely well done because they are actually threatening and show they are the bad guys through what they believe in.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bayformers.