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Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby Sigma Magnus » Mon Aug 08, 2016 2:38 pm

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I wasn't a G1 kid (my first exposure to TF fiction was Cybertron, but I had some Energon toys), but this movie still has a place in my heart. I got the 20th anniversary rerelease of the movie (tried to get the Masterpiece Prime too, but to no avail), along with the IDW comic adaption (the bonus Spotlight: Hod Rod confused me for years :lol: ). It was with this movie that I was introduced to G1, and it set me on the path to being the fan I am now.
I hope I still will be for the next thirty. ;)^
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby Tigertrack » Mon Aug 08, 2016 4:46 pm

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Excellent rememberance Scotty et al contributors.

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.

And what the hell, how could you (movie writers/illustrators) forget the 5th dinobot ( who happened to be my favorite dinobot), in almost every scene? #-o

It was a cool movie, but I was more into Star Wars and GI JOE... Yes, I had Transformers and dutifully watched it on Saturday mornings, and after school, and even tried to record episodes without commercials using our VCR WITH CORDED REMOTE! ;) but I also loved my Joes, D and D, and other random toys and comics (x-men).

I forgot about it for awhile. But in college at U of M my freshman year, a popular guy on my dorm floor had a movie viewing night of Transformers the movie. There were dozens of us packed into this tiny dorm room to watch this wonder from our pasts, and nobody was ridiculing anyone else. This is when I started to be made to realize that things like this movie, and the comic, cartoon, and toy culture that I had been secretly a part of for awhile-- cause high school and wanting to be popular/accepted-- was something that many enjoyed, secretly or outright. Since then, I started to embrace that side of myself more, for better or worse, and it has continued on to this day! Having places like this would have been very helpful, when I was a 16-19 year old.

Anyway, I do appreciate it now a days. Haven't yet shown it to my boys. They're 7 and 4 1/2 and I'm not ready for them to see a cartoon Prime die. They have interest in rescue bots, and some of my old G1 toys, and they sometimes watch a classic G1 episode with me now and again, but not enough for me to turn them off by something as possibly traumatizing as that

Nowadays, I really appreciate finding out about all the cut scenes, and why some characters were not included but should have been. Cause that's what it was about for me. I hated the deaths, but also hated seeing the lack of representation of some of the characters that I had really started to identify with.

A very impressive appreciation for this childhood treasure. I don't know how many versions I own of this, but no doubt, I'll own yet another.
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby chuckdawg1999 » Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:54 pm

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gothsaurus wrote:Has anyone heard if there is a difference in the content of the Steel Book version and normal 30th version blu ray? :-?


No difference at all. I just like steelbooks because if somebody talks during the movie, you can shut them up good. :-D
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby AutobotAlvaron » Mon Aug 08, 2016 7:38 pm

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Watching TransFormers The Movie stands as an indelible milestone of my childhood. To be more accurate, the insatiable wanting I had to see the film in a theater back then in 1986 is a deep-seated bittersweet memory for me.

After watching the first two seasons of the absolutely awesome cartoon series, and being enamored with everything TransFormers related (the show, the toys, the merchandise, etc.), the TF Movie brought a new fervor of excitement to my 8yr-old self. The TV commercials shown during after-school afternoons blew my mind. The music, animation, new characters, and the "Death of Optimus Prime" drew my attention and grabbed my imagination like nothing before. Optimus Prime was my first fictional super-hero, and his death effected me even though I had not yet even witnessed it on the big-screen at that point. And though it promised to be a very sad thing to have happen, I really wanted to know what would transpire in the film. I wanted to see the TransFormers Movie soo badly, more than anything else that Summer. It was sadly, not to be when I was about to lose my own real Optimus Prime...



...In my Life, I've been Blessed with two Great Men in my Family to Love, Protect, & Teach me how to be a GOOD MAN; my Dad, Joe Sr., and my Grandpa Basilio. My Dad was a loving, generous, self-sacrificing, hard-working, humble, faithful person who could be fun & silly, social & talkative, music-loving & loud, and was so very GOOD. Dad was my Father in the best sense of the word, and he was my BEST FRIEND.

My Grandpa Basilio, was a different type of person. He was kind-hearted, honest, hard-working, quiet & serious, yet gifted with a fine dry wit, and so very wise. He was my Optimus Prime, he was my HERO. In my family, I've been told I resemble my Grandpa (even Dad said so) and that I have his mannerisms, and that I also have elements of my Dad's personality (I'm nerdy, a bit goofy, but more reserved than he). They were my living Primes, and are still my guides on how to conduct myself, and how to treat others, and if I'm even half as good as either of those two, I might even make it to the Pearly Gates someday. Anyway, I hope so.

The Summer of 1986 is of monumental importance to me because of a much more real and important reason than wanting to watch an awesome movie about battling robots from space. It was my last Summer with my dearly beloved Grandpa. He was 82 and had had a major heart-attack and was gradually declining in health. We used to see him every weekend, but that June, July, and August, we visited him every day. I loved that sweet old man and spent days and weekends "taking care" of him. We would watch "Las Luchas" (Mexican Wrestling) and "El Chapolin Colorado" together, water his roses & plants, march through the driveway, and play with the wooden bridges & highways he built for my HotWheels. They had Cable TV at Grandpa's House and so I could watch TransFormers more often and more clearly than at home on the old "rabbit ears" antennae TV. It was AWESOME!

He spent his last weeks with me before he died on August 16, 1986. That's the day my own personal Optimus Prime died. I'll always love him, I'll always miss him, I always remember him. In my culture, out of respect for the loved one lost, there's no going to parties, or playing loud music, or going to movies, so that I never got to see the movie I had been longing for all those weeks back then. At the time, I resented it and didn't understand why I wasn't allowed to do something that I thought might cheer me up. Seeing my fictional hero dying would probably not have helped me at all just then.

Since that time, thanks to VHS then DVD, and finally at Alamo Drafthouse Theater in Austin Texas, I've seen one of my all-time favorite films over and over. There actually are several important life-lessons to be gleaned from TransFormers the Movie. There are things to learn about good fighting evil, self-sacrifice & death, & hope & victory, and life moving on, growing by taking on new responsibilities, and working for peace. It may be silly to some, but Optimus Prime's death helped prepare me for the tremendous loss I was about to endure. It gave me a frame of reference and taught me that there was a way to say good-bye to a real-lifeHERO.

Happy Anniversary TransFormers the Movie!! :APPLAUSE: :BOT: :CON: :APPLAUSE:
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby SlyTF1 » Mon Aug 08, 2016 8:22 pm

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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby Ironhidensh » Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:16 pm

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I was a wee lad of 6 when this movie came out. I can't swear to it being the first movie I ever went to, but it is definately the first one I remeber, and I remember it well. If it wasn't for this movie, I wouldn't be a fan today. Sure, I liked Transformers, but it wasn't my favorite thing. This movie also introduced me to my life long love of Rock 'n Roll.

In fact, lets talk about the soundtrack first. How awesome was it? It is still, to this day, my favorite album. Those beats just get me pumped. Sure, todays kids might call it old, but they are idiots. ;) Before this movie, my music exposure had been pretty much limited to disney children's songs, and church music. I didn't care for it. But this magical sound coming from the speakers? It moved me, it spoke to me, it made me enjoy music of all kinds, but I'll always come back to rock. Hell, I'm listening to "Nothings gonna stand in our way" right now. Rock has become something that helps me in any mood. Happy, sad, angry, scared, incouraged, it speaks to me at any time. Sure, something probally would have introduced me to the sweet sounds later in life, but this movie was my first taste, and I've never tasted anything sweeter.

Then there was the movie itself. Don't get me wrong, I'm an adult, and I can watch the movie today and see its many flaws, but I ignore them out of love. They don't override the warm feelings of nostalgia I get. Sure, the second half of the movie feels rushed, but the first half is beyond amazing. After two seasons of the Autobots and Decepticons battling it out, over and over, without much ever changing, Prime and Megatron finally get down to it, and it was more than we could have asked for.

This movie was my fist introduction to death. I hadn't come across it yet in life. No family had passed that I was old enough to understand. Hell, I hadnt even lost a pet. Now, I said Transformers wasn't a huge thing for me yet, but Optimus Prime was. He was the ultimate good guy. The leader you wanted to follow. He was the man.

And he **** died!

This disturbed me. I cried in the theatre, but my mommy was able to calm me down. I finished the movie, but afterward, I had questions. I didn't really understand that sometimes, things happen, and somebody is gone. They don't come back. I won't lie and tell you that I came away form this film understanding death and all it entails, but it was finally on my radar, one of those early unpleasant learning steps we all must take in the walk of life. Prime wasn't the only death, as my second favorite (at the time) transformer bit it as well. Ironhides loss was greatly felt during season 3.

Yes, we lost a lot of characters, but we gained some great new ones. Hot Rod was kinda like the older brother we all wished we had. Cool, brash, didn't take **** from anybody, and always ready to take you with him. Ultra Magnus, the only autobot that could make you second guess Prime. Kup, your favorite grandpa with the war stories. Arcee, the........ yeah, sorry, but I never really cared for Arcee. Springer, your uncle with the cool gifts. Galvatron didn't do much for me, nor did his new lackies. Those new Autobots though, they were awesome.

This movie is just plain fun. My mom bought me a copy when it was first available on VHS (remember those?) and I'm proud to say I watched it so much it died in the rewinder one day. I bought my own copy shortly after. The day I found it on dvd was a red letter day, and now, I enjoy watching it with my own two little boys. My oldest will jump up and air guitar with me when the songs come on. This film has passed the test of time, and now the next generation is enjoying it, though they have yet to watch Prime die.

This film jumpstarted my love for Transformers. Now days, it is my favorite non family/real life thing. I couldn't tell you why I still stick with it, investing time and money on a hobby that i really shoudl have left behind over 20 years ago, but I do. Those of you who are my age can relate. I think it just comes down to the fact that Transformers make us happy, and remind us of those care free days of our lives, before reality, and the need to adult all the time set in. There are far worse things to have as a hobby, that is for sure.
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby Delicon » Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:58 pm

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I started watching Transformers on the day the mini-series first aired so I am about as G1 as you can get. My reaction to the movie was much different than most kids my age, though.

My parents weren't able to take me right away. By the time that they did, I had already seen the Five Faces of Darkness mini-series. I was one really confused kid because there were all these new characters and I had no idea where they all came from.

Believe it or not, the death of Optimus wasn't the most shocking death in the film for me. I had already seen the Autobots with a new leader in the cartoon so it actually made sense now. What did hit me was at the end of the film when I realized that Ironhide and the other dead Autobots weren't coming back. I think I did cry a little, but like I said at a completely different part of the movie than most.
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby chuckdawg1999 » Tue Aug 09, 2016 12:03 am

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SlyTF1 wrote:There's a trailer:


LOL they say it's out now, It's NOT out now, I wish it was!
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby ausbot » Tue Aug 09, 2016 5:50 am

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I've seen the movie a hundred time, but that trailer got me excited to watch it again, still the greatest movie of all time. :BOWDOWN:
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby o.supreme » Tue Aug 09, 2016 8:34 am

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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.


Believe me...there are more people out there like you, than there are like us that remember vividly. Nothing wrong with that, as you say, some people just had different interests and remember different things.

I don't often use Pixar films as a reference, but my experience seeing this film in the theater, related earlier in this thread, along with several others I'm sure would equate to a Core Memory, if our brains really worked as depicted in Inside Out.

I wondered also for years why many season two characters didn't make it in the film, but it was explained several years ago, that Marvel/Sunbow & Toei started working on the animated film at the same time as season one of the TV series(which makes sense as I remember the original trailers saying "3 years in the making"). So most of the late season two characters would not have made it in. I'm actually surprised they got Blaster, Percepter and the con' triple changers in there.

But IDW's comic adaptation is pretty cool. It adds a page depicting Omega Supreme and the other combiners battling at the site of the Autobot HQ. If Skyfire had been in that scene too it would have been pretty much what I always imagined was going on off screen 8-)
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby gothsaurus » Tue Aug 09, 2016 8:35 am

Yeah, I liked the small IDW additions to the story. Thanks for reminding me.
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby cruizerdave » Tue Aug 09, 2016 2:41 pm

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.
Does it lift heavily from Star Wars? Sure. Was it designed to sell toys? You bet, but in killing off beloved characters, the people who made this movie gave an emotional weight to the entire franchise. All of the sudden characters could die, roles could change and Saturday morning cartoon rules no longer applied.
My only wish is that they had continued the better animation through Season 3, which to my way of thinking, is the best season of G1. Hot Rod as a self doubting leader who grows into the role. Galvatron unhinged to the point that his own soldiers know they should abandon him, but are too afraid to. Disturbing episodes like Dark Awakening or Dweller in the Depths are still enjoyable to this day.
I know it's not cool to just say you like something without pointing out the faults and saying, "of course there are these weak spots," but you know what? This is a site dedicated to stupid toy brand, so I don't care. I love TFTM. I won't apologize for saying so. :RUBSIGN:
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby o.supreme » Tue Aug 09, 2016 2:54 pm

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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).
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby gothsaurus » Tue Aug 09, 2016 3:02 pm

Your mention of 3rd season animation reminded me....there have been "new" scans from the negatives for much of the G1 series. They've filtered into some of the download services as high-def episodes... though seems like they were in Australia. I heard about 2/3 were from film, and the others were decent quality upscales. (Still looked better than DVD.) Maybe they will turn up in USA in iTunes, etc.?

Bummer is, I point blank asked Shout Factory about them, and they said they had no current plans to issue G1 on Blu-Ray. Maybe if we all keep hitting them up and they know there is a market... I'd also love a nice issue of the odd episodes like Scramble City. It makes a great prelude to the movie. I try to show it as a double-header whenever I screen the movie.

I'm certainly looking forward to the remaster / 5:1 mix of the G1 music that was promised. Maybe that will be worked into an eventual blu ray release.

But yeah, totally agreed. 3rd season was a significant drop in quality... save Call of the Primatives, which was jaw dropping stellar.

And while TFTM certainly stuck in the 80s, for those of us who grew up then and have any nostalgia at all, it's an emotional experience. The music, animation, voice acting... all top notch. Down sides, I wish the plot and flow locked together a bit better. Of course, I wish Ironhide and Prowl and company could have surfaced in season 3 under the pretense that Brawn (who clearly just had a surface wound) pulled that ship out of it's dive and managed to save the crew. ;)
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby o.supreme » Tue Aug 09, 2016 3:08 pm

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gothsaurus wrote:I'd also love a nice issue of the odd episodes like Scramble City.


I know its a long shot...but has there been any confirmation from S!F that Scramble City will NOT be included as an extra?
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby gothsaurus » Tue Aug 09, 2016 3:09 pm

It's on the UK version, but I don't see it listed in the extras show on Shout's site. :-(
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby ZeroWolf » Tue Aug 09, 2016 3:41 pm

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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).

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. :-)
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby WillT1980 » Wed Aug 10, 2016 4:40 am

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"

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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby chuckdawg1999 » Wed Aug 10, 2016 7:40 pm

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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"

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Wha? This is the first I've heard of store exclusives besides packaging. Is Target getting anything special?
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby BattleConvoy » Thu Aug 11, 2016 1:08 pm

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Maybe Metrodome will release a 30th anniversary set, but I bet they won't. :BANG_HEAD:
I don't have multi region so I can't import it.
Why does America get all the good DVDs and the UK gets almost nothing?
Metrodome still haven't released the Shout factory versions of teh cartoon on DVD even when it can be done
by simply releasing the same DVD with all the shout logos removed and the discs being coded for region 2.

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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby o.supreme » Thu Aug 11, 2016 1:34 pm

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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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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby o.supreme » Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:21 am

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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. :-)


Never a pain to bring out the truth. I apologize for the error, and appreciate your correction. I got my information mixed up. Still I guess there was a connection...albeit a subtle one:
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.
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby chuckdawg1999 » Fri Aug 12, 2016 5:43 pm

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It has been confirmed by multiple sources, including men who were in the recording booth with him, that Orson Wells finished all of his lines and Leonard Nimoy recorded nothing of Unicron. Any sound discrepancies, which if I'm honest I've never heard, is due to speeding up the tape, then dropping it an octave, because Wells read his lines too slow.
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby BattleConvoy » Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:01 am

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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... ;)


Scramble City is only on the Ultimate edition version on the movie, I only have the Special edition which only has the film with 5.1 option and no bonus features.

The meddling with the names is not a big issue, because some people may not know who the heck "Convoy" is and they may be confused.
(Again I don't even own the takara set because it is like £200 on amazon and I can't find a good copy on eBay.)

Metrodome's 2014 G1 boxset (The one I own) had like all the discs stacked in piles (Like 4 discs in one pile) so it is kinda rubbish and it has the Rhino versions on the discs.
To solve the stacking problem I had to put EVERY disc in a separate case and it takes up more space on my shelf.
The G1 DVDs are better in the states and most people import them, but since multi region DVD players are hard to find and expensive, then you have to stick with the bad Metrodome sets.

Anyways I'll stop complaining and look forward to buying Titans Return figures xD
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Re: Dare To Be Great: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie

Postby ZeroWolf » Sun Aug 14, 2016 4:28 am

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I was luckily enough to catch the takara boxset when it first came out for £60, I didn't realise it's resell had increased by that much mind. In the long run though we may still get this and I would be surprised if we didn't.

Edit: thanks o.Supreme :-) I'm now going to be watching the tf movie just to see if I can spot the mobile suit parts :-P Zeta is one of my favourite gundam series
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