gothsaurus wrote:Has anyone heard if there is a difference in the content of the Steel Book version and normal 30th version blu ray?
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
SlyTF1 wrote:There's a trailer:
Tigertrack wrote:Sadly, I'm older and my memory of this is a little hazy. If 86 was the year' I was 12 and my brothers were 8 and 16. I can't remember which adult took us to see it. I know my older brother and I enjoyed it, but younger brother I don't think did. The thing that I remember most besides the animation, deaths, and Blaster and Soundwave's battle-- sort of-- was the lack of combiners besides Devastator, metroplex not transforming, and the other missing characters from season 2. My brother and I really felt that the combiners were a missing piece of the counterattack on Unicron.
cruizerdave wrote:It's funny, all these years later, I still love this movie. Not in a nostalgic way, or in an ironic way, but I honestly still love it.
The beautiful animation, the fact that gun blasts blew characters up, the deaths, the 80s hair metal, the new central protagonist in Hot Rod ... I love it all.
I know that it was savaged by critics at the time, and not very successful, but it's become a cult hit.
gothsaurus wrote:I'd also love a nice issue of the odd episodes like Scramble City.
o.supreme wrote:cruizerdave wrote:It's funny, all these years later, I still love this movie. Not in a nostalgic way, or in an ironic way, but I honestly still love it.
The beautiful animation, the fact that gun blasts blew characters up, the deaths, the 80s hair metal, the new central protagonist in Hot Rod ... I love it all.
I know that it was savaged by critics at the time, and not very successful, but it's become a cult hit.
No apologies necessary. I too genuinely like this film. There has to be a balance. Sure there may be some fans that accuse us of "having on nostalgia glasses", and that's fine, let them think that. In 2001 I actually took part in a "general state of animation" panel at SDCC. I proudly stated that TF:TM was one of the best animated films I had ever seen. I got some sideways looks...but it was worth it as I did get some applause as well. Also oddly enough when I looked at animated series like Zeta Gundam etc... and always wondered why I liked them so much. well...it all stems from the same studio (Toei) in the same time (mid 80's).
WillT1980 wrote:I'm pretty sure Best Buy is getting the bonus disc. My brother works in their "deluxe media" department. I'm going by what he said.
All He said he know of 3rd disc is the following
9 minute Promo Reel in HD
"To Those Who Have Passed" I guess this is a memorial to the voices no longer with us.
To be fair, take this w/a grain of salt til an "official announcement"
Cheers
Will T
ZeroWolf wrote:Hate to be a pain but it was actually sunrise who animated and produced zeta Gundam, sunrise have worked with Toei but not on any Gundam productions.
The animated classic Transformers: The Movie is finally getting a BluRay release this September to commemorate its 30th anniversary.
For those that didn’t grow up in the 80s, Transformers: The Movie was a huge deal. The movie followed on from the events in the TV show and was meant as the bridge to an all-new series, with updated protagonists and antagonists. So, the movie was meant as a passing of the torch from the old generation to the new.
Not to mention it was also one of the last movies Orson Welles worked on, as he initially voiced the planet destroying Unicron though he sadly died during production and Leonard Nimoy had to take over.
It also had luscious animation and that is no surprise when you consider that much of the movie’s animation was handled in Japan. This Japanese angle resurfaced a few times, not only in the movie itself but also in its eventual promotion.
As Transformers already came from two Japanese properties, specifically Diaclone and Microman, the cultural linkage had always been there. However, the multi-toned cel shading and animation in the movie was a real step above most of its competition (as shown below).
This was no accident though, as around the time the movie was in production Zeta Gundam was also underway. That too had some amazing animation and it seems that some of the production worked on both projects, as parts of Zeta Gundam mobile suits ended up in Transformers: The Movie.
The other major part in this is that Yoshiyuki Takani was called in to do the key art, that was later used on posters for promotion. Takani was one of the main toy and model kit box artists at the time, with the other being the equally talented Yuji Kaida.
Takani’s intricate paintings brought anime like Aura Battler Dunbine and Char’s Counterattack to life and his work is still greatly respected event today. In that regard, his work on Transformers: The Movie is something that most fans both in Japan and abroad still think of fondly.
Now, to be fair this is not technically the first time we’ve had a BluRay release of Transformers: The Movie in the West, as back in 2007 we had a European version. However, that release had coloring issues but this edition looks to have been entirely remastered.
Transformers: The Movie is released on September 13th on BluRay and DVD.
o.supreme wrote:he you guys got Scramble City, and the English Dub (as awful as it is), and subtitles without Hasbro's meddling with character names. I guess its true the grass is always greener...
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