Transformers: The Ultimate Guide

Transformers: The Ultimate Guide is an offically licensed guide from DK Publishing published in 2005. written by Simon Furman in 2004. In 2007, a second edition was published, increasing the page count from 144 to 152 (visibly different by having a grey background on the cover instead of white).

=Contents=
 * Introduction

Generation 1

 * When not explicitly stated otherwise, all information is assumed to apply to the Dreamwave comics continuity.
 * Cybertron
 * The City of Iacon
 * Civil War
 * Optimus Prime
 * Megatron
 * Autobot Officers
 * The Decepticons
 * Soundwave and Co.
 * The Dinobots
 * Combiners
 * TV Season 1
 * TV Season 2
 * The Movie
 * US Comics 1
 * US Comics 2
 * UK Comics 1
 * UK Comics 2
 * TV Season 3 & 4
 * Unicron
 * Quintessons
 * Primus
 * Special teams
 * Headmasters and Targetmasters
 * Powermaster Optimus Prime
 * Pretenders
 * Japanese G1 Toys
 * This section deals largely with toys that were later recycled into Transformers.
 * Generation 1 Toys
 * Other G1 Toys

Generation 2

 * Transformers Versus G.I. Joe
 * G2 Comics
 * Beyond G2
 * Generation 2 Toys
 * Megatron, Pyro, and Clench are all photographed holding guns that none of them come with.

Beast Wars

 * Aside from the introduction page, all artwork in the Beast Wars and Beast Machines sections was provided by Mainframe Entertainment
 * The Arrival
 * Optimus Primal
 * Megatron
 * The Maximals
 * Predacons
 * TV Season 1
 * Fuzors and Transmetal
 * In one caption in this section, Rattrap is mislabeled as Cheetor
 * TV Season 2 & 3
 * Beast Wars Toys

Beast Machines

 * The Reformatting
 * Maximals
 * Vehicons
 * TV Seasons 1 & 2
 * Beast Machines Toys

Transformers: Robots In Disguise

 * A New Wave
 * Autobots and Decepticons
 * The Robots in Disguise show dub was inadvertently bought by Disney in 2002, creating legal problems with images from the series. As a result, RiD's section in The Ultimate Guide was perfunctory, covering only the toys.

Transformers Armada & Energon

 * Cybertron Revisited
 * Autobots
 * Decepticons
 * Mini-Cons
 * The TV Series
 * TRANSFORMERS Armada Toys
 * The image of Super Mode Optimus Prime has several different paint applications than his general release.
 * TRANSFORMERS Energon
 * Autobots
 * Decepticons
 * TRANSFORMERS Energon Toys
 * The Energon cartoon did not have a section in the original printing because at the time, it hadn't finished airing.

Dreamwave Comics

 * Generation 1
 * The War Within
 * TRANSFORMERS Armada & Energon


 * Index
 * Acknowledgements