2002 was a busy & productive year for Transformers and their fans! You'll find this page divided into 3 subsections: Robots in Disguise: the primary line of 2001, came to a conclusion in in the early months of 2002, the continuation of the  Miscellaneous Transformers section where you'll find "My First TFs," "Playschool, BIG Adventure TF's and the BotCon 2002 Exclusives (eventually!)  The third section shown immediately below includes the most highly anticipated event of the year, the all new series: Transformers Armada.  

Featuring awesome new comics and toys (and shows which does have its bright moments, but IMHO  the dialog writing leaves much to be desired).  As near as we can tell, the Armada storyline takes place a little after the end of the G1 plotline and well before the Maximal/ Predacon upgrade that leads to the Beast Wars.  In Armada we learn of another awesome subsection of robotic beings from Cybertron; not necessarily allies of Autobots or Decepticons, the Mini-cons.  Their background seen on packaging is paraphrased below...