Collection of four films in which the childrens cartoon sci fi series from the 1980s is brought bang up to date in transformers 2007 long ago on the planet of cybertron an alien race divided into two camps the autobots and the evil decepticons in an effort to prevent the decepticons from gaining possession of the allspark a cube with the capacity to grant infinite power the autobots managed to smuggle the object to earth where they secretly hid it now hundreds of years later