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Ryan has taken the time to make some new galleries for the DVD Set Section of the site. This time he has updated it with the addition of Madmans Generation One Complete Collection and The Animated Movie Special Edition. The complete series comes packaged in a G1 style box with a fantastic collectors tin inside, it really is a beuatiful collectors set.

The special features for the G1 Complete set are:

*Animated public service announcements
*Atari Transformers Game promotional materials
*Character model sheets
*Historical trailers
*Interviews
*Opening and closing animations
*Original television bumpers
*Scripts
*Storyboards
*TVCs
*Wildfur promotional materials
*Biographies


The special features for the Special Edition of the Animated Seresies are:

*Remastered theatrical widescreen edition (disc 1) and full-screen edition (disc2)
*”Scramble City” Japanese exclusive bonus episode
*Interview with story consultant Flint Dille
*Q&A with voice of Optimus, Peter Cullen
*80;s toy TVCs, TV spots and theatrical trailer
*The touch film-clip (by Stan Bush)
*Character, voice-actor and musician biographies
*Commentaries feature and extras
*Deleted scenes
*Animated storyboards
*Bonus episode of Transformers: Beast Wars

gee..that sure makes the rhino sets look like ****....course i own them all so even if this came to R1 or i could import em..it be a waste....damn me..lol

nice seibs nice

Kind of makes me want to pick the set up. I just love the display, and so compact comapred to the Rhino DVD's I have.

How did Ryan watch these? Does he have a Region-Free DVD Player or uses codes on a regular one? I'd love to pick up this set.

What region are these DVDs? If they're anything but 1, I'll have to pass, even though this sounds amazing. I still don't have Season 1 yet.......but somehow have seen evbery episode from that season..............eh

It's a great set.

I only wish that Madman had not released it so damn soon after releasing their individual sets. It sure takes up a lot less room than the 6 individual Madman sets.

Decepticlone Soundwave wrote:What region are these DVDs? If they're anything but 1, I'll have to pass, even though this sounds amazing. I still don't have Season 1 yet.......but somehow have seen evbery episode from that season..............eh

Why are you letting the region stop you? You can go right down to Walmart or Target to find a DVD player that you can EASILY hack to be region free. Just have to do a little research online.

Are the episodes the Rhino versions (Unfinished animation) or from the broadcast masters? Is it just some lame and quick NTSC -> PAL transfer?

How is the movie?

Can you post some screen captures from various versions. I want to know if these are worthwhile.

Thanx
-Brutimus

Seibertron wrote:

Decepticlone Soundwave wrote:What region are these DVDs? If they're anything but 1, I'll have to pass, even though this sounds amazing. I still don't have Season 1 yet.......but somehow have seen evbery episode from that season..............eh

Why are you letting the region stop you? You can go right down to Walmart or Target to find a DVD player that you can EASILY hack to be region free. Just have to do a little research online.

I've been trying to tell everyone the same thing.
I was given a fairly fancy Panasonic DVD/VCR combo machine for my 21st last year, it was a $300 machine, I was able to hack that, with a simple entering of buttons on the remote, to play region 1 DVD's.
My sister bought herself a $40 Avanti DVD player about 2 months ago, and again was able to ahck that to play region 1 dvd's in a matter of minutes. All you normally need to do is google the make model and manufacturer and the code will be there.
(all prices in AU$)

Brutimus wrote:How is the movie?

I have only watched the Fullscreen version, but it is the same as the version the USA got last November, only us Aussies did not get the Lenticular cover.

你好,我是一个中国人小学生，我不太擅长英语，谢谢。
hello!my is china girl I not good at English thank you.

i_amtrunks wrote:I have only watched the Fullscreen version, but it is the same as the version the USA got last November, only us Aussies did not get the Lenticular cover.

Same version meaning the sound is all f00ked like my DVD? Bleah. I'd buy ANY G1 DVD set that didn't make a poor attempt at remastering sound and the voices are so quiet compared to "background" music and sound FX as to be inaudible.

Judging from this clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT_nXAWTUs


...the video is correct, but the audio is still the effed-up Rhino version.

Can anyone confirm? Because if the set has the correct video and the correct audio, I must find a way to get it.

Madman's website doesn't have this set listed anymore. Is it sold out or something? Are they going to re-release it? I'm so upset that I finally found a way to hack my DVD player and now I can't even get this set! EzyDVD.com has it listed as being re-released on Oct. 17th, but the Madman website doesn't say anything about it on their upcoming releases page. Anyone know anything about it?

ForensicPrime wrote:Madman's website doesn't have this set listed anymore. Is it sold out or something? Are they going to re-release it? I'm so upset that I finally found a way to hack my DVD player and now I can't even get this set! EzyDVD.com has it listed as being re-released on Oct. 17th, but the Madman website doesn't say anything about it on their upcoming releases page. Anyone know anything about it?

Madman do not have it on their "upcoming Releases" page because it is not an upcoming release. It is simply out of stock, and will hopefully be back in stock some time in October.

If Madman have an item that is currently out of stock, and will not be back in stock for some time they take it off their site.

Stick with EzyDVD, their prices are the same as Madman's, and the shipping is more or less the same.

Great...thanks for the info, trunks, I did end up pre-ordering with EZDVD.

BTW, does anyone know whether this Aussie version has the cartoon remastered, either video or audio or is it the original cartoon as broadcasted? I haven't seen that it is remastered so I'm guessing it's not at all, but you never know. Also, if it isn't I wonder if they'll end up putting out an HD-DVD or BlueRay version and it might be worth waiting until then.
Thoughts?