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freakzero1981 wrote:i like this movie i really do i jus hate all that cheesy ass music,i mean come on.cheesy 80's music.

Odd statement coming from a guy with a name like "freakzero1981"........odd indeed.

I remember going to the theatre with my older sister and she bawled when OP died. As a kid I was pretty shocked to see all the deaths and carnage right from the get go.

Nevertheless....it's the best TF movie to date by far and i haven't watched in a good year of two. So now knowing it's the anniversary i'm watching it as i type.

stoked

I got to see this in the theater when I was 9 and I loved it. Then when it was released on VHS a year later, one of my 5th grade classes was going to watch it until Spike dropped the famous "s-bomb". The teacher shut it off and we were so bummed.....

I finally got a dubbed VHS copy from a cousin who worked at a video store in Detroit. I literally wore the tape out, I watched it so much.

Menasorwheels wrote:I got to see this in the theater when I was 9 and I loved it. Then when it was released on VHS a year later, one of my 5th grade classes was going to watch it until Spike dropped the famous "s-bomb". The teacher shut it off and we were so bummed.....

Another reason why this movie rules, by breaking more of em

I was 10 years old when this epic movie came out. Even though I only owned Smokescreen at the tome, Transformers was my life. Unfortunately I had to wait til the movie was broken up into parts during season 5 to see it. My household couldn't really afford frequent trips to the movie at the time. Once I saw it and was able to put pictures to all the unbelievable things I had heard from my schoolmates, I still could not believe my eyes. Most of the 1st series characters killed off, Prime dead, the Quitessons? I could go on and on. It was probably the most life altering movie I had ever seen til that age. When a child has that much of an emotional investment into a toy franchise even in just to years (and that is about 5 years in child years) you become attached to those characters. They are real to you. I still hold that emotional attachment til this day as many of us Trans Fans do. It is a part of my childhood that I get to revisit and reminisce on fondly. Happy 25th anniversary Transformers: The Movie. Thanks for the fond memories.

I was also 10 years old and the neat part to add to this story for me is that it was released on my birthday, yeah, my birthday is 8-8! I can't recall if I saw it that weekend but probably not as I may have been visiting relatives in NY because that's what we normally did at the time for my birthday. Anyway, its the one movie that certainly will always be on the top of my list of life altering movies. I would be among many that when Prime died, it was an obvious sad moment. I'll never understand why they went in that direction with that movie to kill off the characters that they did and for many to disappear by the time season 3 came along. We would assume they all got killed. That's why I feel we need a season 4 to maybe tie it all up together and end it on a much better note than Rebirth.

I saw this movie when i was 12 and still the best movie ever and G1 cartoons are just awesome!

My favorite quotes are: Starscream to Megatron as he tosses him out of Astrotrain: Oh how it pains me to do this!

And

Starscream's Coronation: Who disrupts my Coronation, Galvatron: Coronation Starscream, this is bad comedy--Boom! Starscream is no more and now a ghost.

LOST Cybertronian wrote:Some old favorites met their demise.

[*]Brawn
[*]Windcharger
[*]Wheeljack

These deaths were never confirmed within the narrative of the series.

The death of Unicron

Unicron did not die.

Mike Angel wrote:That's why I feel we need a season 4 to maybe tie it all up together and end it on a much better note than Rebirth.

You should be interested in the Takara Collection DVD set coming out next year then: it lops off The Rebirth and replaces it three whole seasons of G1. Well, Headmasters really ties up the loose ends from the Sunbow toon, and then Masterforce lets a few too many Sentai elements creep in for my taste, but it's worth sitting through that to get to Victory, which has few familiar faces, but gives Japanese G1 a high note for a final season. Of course, the Zone OVA and a few manga series continue after that, and I'm not sure how good they are but many here have read them.

Oh, and a lot of classic characters' names are different in J-continuity...or maybe you know all of this already and just mean you'd have preferred a proper American season 4. Did all of Sunbow's shows grind to a halt in '87 due to their financial mismanagement or something? I remember how mad some U.S. fans were back in 1990 when GIJoe came back with new eps but not TF, though those 2 seasons produced by DIC aren't very highly regarded by Joe fans.

Back to TFTM...oh yeah, I remember how much it meant to me when I finally found the original soundtrack in '96: the second CD I ever owned. My parents then bought a VHS copy from the town's video store as an Easter present when I finished my first year of college 2 years later, along with the big-box tapes of More Than Meets the Eye and The Ultimate Doom. Man, the '90s just seemed like such a wasteland in which it was so hard to find any relics of what I loved from the '80s that stuff like that really meant something, you know? I never take my DVD box sets for granted because I remember how ecstatic I'd have been to find the tape of 5 Faces of Darkness at the same store.

Bumblevivisector wrote:

Mike Angel wrote:That's why I feel we need a season 4 to maybe tie it all up together and end it on a much better note than Rebirth.

You should be interested in the Takara Collection DVD set coming out next year then: it lops off The Rebirth and replaces it three whole seasons of G1. Well, Headmasters really ties up the loose ends from the Sunbow toon, and then Masterforce lets a few too many Sentai elements creep in for my taste, but it's worth sitting through that to get to Victory, which has few familiar faces, but gives Japanese G1 a high note for a final season. Of course, the Zone OVA and a few manga series continue after that, and I'm not sure how good they are but many here have read them.

Oh, and a lot of classic characters' names are different in J-continuity...or maybe you know all of this already and just mean you'd have preferred a proper American season 4. Did all of Sunbow's shows grind to a halt in '87 due to their financial mismanagement or something? I remember how mad some U.S. fans were back in 1990 when GIJoe came back with new eps but not TF, though those 2 seasons produced by DIC aren't very highly regarded by Joe fans.

Back to TFTM...oh yeah, I remember how much it meant to me when I finally found the original soundtrack in '96: the second CD I ever owned. My parents then bought a VHS copy from the town's video store as an Easter present when I finished my first year of college 2 years later, along with the big-box tapes of More Than Meets the Eye and The Ultimate Doom. Man, the '90s just seemed like such a wasteland in which it was so hard to find any relics of what I loved from the '80s that stuff like that really meant something, you know? I never take my DVD box sets for granted because I remember how ecstatic I'd have been to find the tape of 5 Faces of Darkness at the same store.

Up until the late 90's a lot of 80's cartoons were still in syndication; somewhere.

As we're sure most of you are aware August 8th marked the 25th anniversary of Transformers: The Movie. To coincide with the silver anniversary Shawn Jones has been kind enough to share some images of a unique piece of Transformers: The Movie memorabilia. Below you'll find images for a rare promotional standee for the f.h.e. VHS release of the film from his personal collection. As you can see the piece is in pristine condition and he even has the original packaging and instructions.

That's a pretty awesome display piece. Thanks for sharing!

Very nice.

Mindmaster wrote:There really should be a 25th Anniversary Edition of the Movie, with remastered graphics. Basically, like Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary but with Transformers.

im up for that

SPRINGER112 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:There really should be a 25th Anniversary Edition of the Movie, with remastered graphics. Basically, like Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary but with Transformers.

im up for that

NO WAY! Oldschool animation all the way!
Actually, you know what I'd love to see, a full movie version of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sad0wmAcRzQ

MINDVVIPE wrote:

SPRINGER112 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:There really should be a 25th Anniversary Edition of the Movie, with remastered graphics. Basically, like Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary but with Transformers.

im up for that

NO WAY! Oldschool animation all the way!
Actually, you know what I'd love to see, a full movie version of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sad0wmAcRzQ

Dude, that was badass.

ha, i remember that little video. it would be cool to see a new movie made that way.

as for the standee, i so miss the original orange version of the title. its so pretty and seperated it from the show kinda like "THIS IS A MOVIE!". lol

i have the movie poster of the same image but it has the typical red and blue for the title instead. its one of the reasons i waited for the rhino release of the first dvd to buy the movie cuz i wanted that original font.

I saw it in the theater in 1986. When it came out later on home video, I rented it relentlessly from the video store after we got a VCR. VHS was king and video stores were EVERYWHERE. My how things have changed.

To me, Transformers: The Movie represents the ONLY film worthy of representing this fantastic universe. It is bold, emotional, funny, and hopeful. The good guys don't always win, and some of them DIE? Mind-blowing.

User897 wrote:To me, Transformers: The Movie represents the ONLY film worthy of representing this fantastic universe. It is bold, emotional, funny, and hopeful. The good guys don't always win, and some of them DIE? Mind-blowing.

Truer words have never been said.

Man, I would love to own that standee!

Thanks everyone. I had never seen this thing anywhere else, so I figured you'd all get a kick out of it. I saw the flick in the theaters when it first came out. They did a food drive for the screening, so my admission was a box of mac & cheese.
-sj

G1callback wrote:Thanks everyone. I had never seen this thing anywhere else, so I figured you'd all get a kick out of it. I saw the flick in the theaters when it first came out. They did a food drive for the screening, so my admission was a box of mac & cheese.
-sj

How did you come across it?

all_the_primes wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:

SPRINGER112 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:There really should be a 25th Anniversary Edition of the Movie, with remastered graphics. Basically, like Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary but with Transformers.

im up for that

NO WAY! Oldschool animation all the way!
Actually, you know what I'd love to see, a full movie version of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sad0wmAcRzQ

Dude, that was badass.

I was wondering why they didn't do a 25th anniversary edition at first then I remembered several companies put out a 2 disc version for the 20th anniversary. Heck, I own two of them. The only way I'd buy a fourth copy of the movie is if the animate the deleted storyboards and edit them in.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I was wondering why they didn't do a 25th anniversary edition at first then I remembered several companies put out a 2 disc version for the 20th anniversary. Heck, I own two of them. The only way I'd buy a fourth copy of the movie is if the animate the deleted storyboards and edit them in.

I remember seeing extra footage, for example, in the scene where Perceptor sees the Decepticons as they fall/fly to the autobot base. I don't know why it wasn't kept in the final cut somehow, since it showed more of the autobase in all its glory.

MINDVVIPE wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I was wondering why they didn't do a 25th anniversary edition at first then I remembered several companies put out a 2 disc version for the 20th anniversary. Heck, I own two of them. The only way I'd buy a fourth copy of the movie is if the animate the deleted storyboards and edit them in.

I remember seeing extra footage, for example, in the scene where Perceptor sees the Decepticons as they fall/fly to the autobot base. I don't know why it wasn't kept in the final cut somehow, since it showed more of the autobase in all its glory.

Thats the test footage.

It was also used for the first trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh3wgldJxRM

sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I was wondering why they didn't do a 25th anniversary edition at first then I remembered several companies put out a 2 disc version for the 20th anniversary. Heck, I own two of them. The only way I'd buy a fourth copy of the movie is if the animate the deleted storyboards and edit them in.

I remember seeing extra footage, for example, in the scene where Perceptor sees the Decepticons as they fall/fly to the autobot base. I don't know why it wasn't kept in the final cut somehow, since it showed more of the autobase in all its glory.

Thats the test footage.

It was also used for the first trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh3wgldJxRM

I mean the storyboards where Megatron kills Mirage, Tracks, somebody else and the other one that shows the decepticons killing the other season one guys.