Bayformers

English

Etymology

Blend of Bay +‎ transformers, after American director Michael Bay.

Noun

Bayformers (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) The live-action Transformers film franchise, launched in 2007 with an eponymous film, and directed exclusively by Michael Bay until 2018.
   • 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.

   • 2013, Vincent Chiang, "The Most Colossal Movie of the Year", Woroni (Australian National University), 23 July 2003, page 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bayformers.