Quote Originally Posted by Goktimus Prime
This is not true. Transformers has continually and constantly been in production ever since its debut.
Gok, there was a distinct gap in 1995-1996.

I was online in the online Transfan community in 1995 when G2 was axed. There was a period of several months when we had no idea if the line would be revived or not - Hasbro themselves weren't willing to continue the line - eventually their subsiduary Kenner (which operated separately at the time) decided to revive Transformers through Beast Wars, which debuted in late 1996.

The angst etc that has been alluded to in this thread did in fact take place, although the online fandom, which only numbered maybe 100, had pretty much no market clout, so we were at the mercy of Hasbro. Most US fans (which were the bulk of the online fans at the time - there might have been 8 outside the USA) had already been through their G1 death* so they were relatively accepting of G2's death - it didn't come as that much of a surprise.

* - there was a distinct gap between 1990 and late 1993 in the USA when the line did stop. They didn't get the "G1.5"/"European G1" toys from 1991-1993.