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Bayformers
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Etymology
en Bay w:Transformers, after American director Michael Bay.
Proper noun
Transformers (film series)
en fandom slang The live-action Transformers (film series) Transformers film franchise, launched in 2007 with an Transformers (film) eponymous film, and directed exclusively by Michael Bay until 2018.
en 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.
en 23 July 2013 Vincent Chiang The Most Colossal Movie of the Year Woroni Australian National University https://issuu.com/woroni/docs/edition_8.2_23-7 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.
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