April 30
From Transformers Wiki
- 1952 — The first ever commercial for Mr. Potato Head is broadcast on US television effectively becoming the first ever toy commercial.
- 1960 — Dick Eriksson (Swedish voice of Generation 2 Spike, Starscream, Skywarp, Swoop and Sideswipe) is born.
- 1963 — Alessandra Karpoff (Italian voice of Slo-Mo) is born.
- 1965 — Adrian Pasdar (voice of Micronus) is born.
- 1968 — Laura Lenghi (Italian voice of Kelly) is born.
- 1969 — The first Kmart Australia store opens up in Melbourne, Victoria.
- 1973 — Katja Schmitz (German voice of Hayley) is born.
- 1981 — Grzegorz Woś (Polish voice of Graham Burns) is born.
- 1982 — Pascaline Crevecoeur (Second French voice of Windblade and voice of Nightra in Robots in Disguise) is born.
- 1984 — Yuri Tupper (Brazilian voice of Sideswipe in Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy) is born.
- 1987 — The Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 episode "The Big Broadcast of 2010" airs in Japan.
- 1988 — Kamil Dominiak (Polish voice of Kade Burns) is born.
- 1994 — The Generation 2 episode "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1" premieres in Germany.
- 1996 — Sound editor Michael Tomack dies at the age of 53.
- 1998 — Takara releases wave 3 of the Beast Wars II toyline, the Autorollers D-17 Autostinger, D-18 Autocrusher, D-19 Autojetter, and D-20 Autolauncher.
- 2003 — More than Meets the Eye Issue #1 is published in the US by Dreamwave Productions.
- 2004 — The Superlink episode "A Rain of Dinobots!" airs in Japan.
- 2005 — The Galaxy Force episode "Link Up! Liger Convoy" airs in Japan.
- 2007 — The Transformers—The Classic Episodes is released on DVD in the UK by Mini Metro.
- 2009 — Final day of the ordering period for the "Gentei! Gentei!" Strafe toy through Transformers Basecamp, exclusive to holders of the Transformers-themed Visa credit cards in Japan.
- 2011 — The Transformers: Prime episode "Sick Mind" premieres on The Hub.
- 2011 — The Cool Special Edition is released in Japan by Kadokawa.
- 2012 — The Transformers: Prime episode "One Shall Rise, Part 3" premieres in Brazil.
- 2014 — More than Meets the Eye #28 is released by IDW Publishing.
- 2015 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Rumble in the Jungle" premieres in Germany.
- 2016 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Graduation Exercises" premieres on Cartoon Network in the US.
- 2016 — The Rescue Bots episode "Arrivals" premieres on Discovery Family.
- 2016 — TakaraTomy releases Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron.
- 2022 — TakaraTomy releases Studio Series SS-75 Perceptor, SS-76 New Destruction Emperor Starscream and SS-77 Sideswipe.
- 2023 — The Beast Wars Again episode "Cheetus's Crisis (Part 1)" airs on TV Tokyo.
- 2023 — Final day of the Rise of the Beasts Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal World Tour in Berlin, Germany.
- 2024 — On this Transformers Tuesday, preorders for a reissue of the MPM-12 Optimus Prime goes up.
- 2024 — TakaraTomy officially reveals the ESD-10 DX Prowl and ESD-11 DX Thrash Malto and preorders for them go up.
