Frequently Asked Questions

Why are there no images in the database?

We had been working on the database for 2 months straight when we decided we had enough content that we should launch the database for public viewing. Images could NOT be added until all of the data had been entered. Images will be added as updates to the Vector Sigma Database as we move forward with this extremely massive project. Currently, we are working on adding covers to all of the US comic books. This phase of the project should be completed around September 6th, 2003. The next phase after the comic book covers will be various images of all of the Transformers characters - a HUGE project that will most likely take 2 - 3 weeks. After that, we will begin work on adding the screen captures to the Vector Sigma Database throughout October.

Why are there Action Masters under the Japanese series Transformers: Zone?

We decided the best way to uniformally organize all of the Transformers information from the past 20 years was to use one primary series title for each year. Since there were no individual series titles in English speaking countries for the first 7 years of the Transformers phenomenon, we decided it was best to use the Japanese series titles as the GLOBAL title for each year of the Transformers. The only exceptions to this rule are Machine Wars and Beast Machines where there was not a Japanese series. All of the other series have a corresponding Japanese series that could work as the GLOBAL Transformers series title for each respective year.

Why have you called all of the Transformer series by the Japanese titles?

This is Transformers - there is no perfect way to do this unless I completely ignore the Japanese Transformers series titles - which I don't want to do. The content on my site is an amalgamation of both the Japanese content and the American content.

Look at the domain name of this website. It's the Japanese "spelling": SEIBERTRON.com not Cybertron.com. I have been fascinated with how the Japanese did the Transformers ever since I found out about exclusive Japanese stuff back in '95. This site, while it most certainly has a prominent flair of American Transformers, will always try its best to focus on the Japanese aspect of things when there is a discrepancy.

If you look at how I have this entire website set up over the past 3 years and how VSD is set up, everything revolves around the name of the Japanese series with the exception of Machine Wars and Beast Machines (American exclusive lines). Everything else fits within the name of the Japanese titles so I am using those titles for the year those figures were introduced/available globally.

Look at it from the other perspective: you have no official title for the first 7 years of the Transformers in America other than "Generation One". So then what do I do with Victory, Zone Battlestars, and Operation: Combination? Do I list Generation One separately and then list those 4 series after G1 even though they are part of G1? Since there is no official way to sort this information out ... I have always opted to make everything fall within the Japanese series names plus the 2 exclusive American lines. It works much easier to do it this way. Otherwise I'd have to have checks everywhere to see if the character appeared in the US or Japan and it just gets to be a big convoluted mess. Plus people get an education this way and learn about the Japanese series - hence the domain name "SEIBERTRON.com", not "Cybertron.com".

Data about a certain character, comic, or cartoon is wrong. What should I do?