Characters G1

[Sky Shadow]

It's much simpler than any "collection counting method" because it's just a basic list of every Hasbro G1 character toy - doesn't go into complicated things like variants, reissues, Nebulans or what not. So yeah, basically there are 442 characters in Hasbro G1.

Take off about thirty of those:

- Swoop and Bristleback appear twice in the list for some reason.

- Blurr, Hot Rod, Kup, Cyclonus, Scourge, Blaster, Inferno, Prowl, Snarl, Wheeljack, Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, Sideswipe, Tracks, Bombshell and Thundercracker each appear twice despite their two incarnations being the same character.

- Likewise, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Jazz and Starscream each appear three times when their respective toys represent the same character.

- I haven't counted them amongst the 30, but obviously characters like Goldbug, Rodimus Prime etc. could be argued to be the same as their counterparts. Also, Omega Spreem may or may not be the same character as Omega Supreme. Similarly, characters with the same name, like Motorvator Lightspeed could be Technobot Lightspeed, but I haven't counted them either.

So counting only original 80s-90s G1 toy characters there seem to be about 412 (not including toys retconned into G1.)

[kup]

The way I see it, some characters in the G1 universe may share a similar name to other transformers like the Motorvator example. Cybertron is a planet with several cities populated by Transformers so just as most human names aren't unique to any individual some Cybertronians may happen to share the same name but be different characters altogether.

[liegeprime]

The way I see it, some characters in the G1 universe may share a similar name to other transformers like the Motorvator example. Cybertron is a planet with several cities populated by Transformers so just as most human names aren't unique to any individual some Cybertronians may happen to share the same name but be different characters altogether.

OMG there's more than 1 Wheelie!!!!!

[heroic_decepticon]

The way I see it, some characters in the G1 universe may share a similar name to other transformers like the Motorvator example. Cybertron is a planet with several cities populated by Transformers so just as most human names aren't unique to any individual some Cybertronians may happen to share the same name but be different characters altogether.

very good point

OMG there's more than 1 Wheelie!!!!!

hahahahaha

[Paulbot]

Before the Euro and G2 days, the original Gen 1 toyline was pretty good at avoiding name double ups (lets pretend we don't notice the two Autobots called Sky High).

[kup]

OMG there's more than 1 Wheelie!!!!!

Who's the 2nd G1 Wheelie?

[GoktimusPrime]

Sky Shadow: Thanks for point out the double ups with Swoop and Bristleback - those were just plain mistakes. The others are double ups because this list is a count of G1 toys, but yeah, if you just want to count "characters" then one would need to remove different incarnations of the same character. Thundercracker appears twice because there's 1984 Thundercracker and 1991 Action Master "Sexy Colours" Thundercracker But I do appreciate those corrections, because this list was something I personally made to keep track of how complete my own G1 collection is - and obviously needless repeats will throw my numbers off.

*goes and edits previous post*