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Thought the members might like to see this. If anyone has any production material, or any leads to find same and is willing to scan and contribute. Please get in touch

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/

The Beginning
Marvel Comics original treatment (modern reproduction)
Marvel Comics issue 1 commercial, full storyboard
Hasbro Briefing Binders - 1984 product
Hasbro Toyfair Catalogue 1984

The Pilot
4023-4024-4025 More Than Meets The Eye full script (revised 13.03.84)
4024 Act I storyboards x 2

The Interim
The Transformers (CBS) development pitch: 2 x show bible, notes file, A Robot's Best Friend Is His Dog outlines and pilot script
Hasbro Briefing Binbers (Shockwave, Jetfire, Dinobots, Insecticons, Constructicons)
Brian Ray storyboard test (uses MTMTE part 1 for story)
MP Internal Correspondence on series development (30.04.84, transcript)
Writer's Bible (Season 1 cast only)

Season 1
01 Transport To Oblivion full script X 2, Act II storyboards
02 Roll For It full script X 2, Act III storyboards
03 Divide and Conquer full script (final)
04 Fire In The Sky full script X 2
05 S.O.S Dinobots full script, full storyboards
06 Fire On The Mountain full script X 2
07 War Of The Dinobots full script X 2
08 The Ultimate Doom, part 1 full script (final)
09 The Ultimate Doom, part 2 full script (final)
10 The Ultimate Doom, part 3 full script, full storyboards
11 Countdown To Extinction full script, full storyboards
12 A Plague Of Insecticons full script (final)
13 Heavy Metal War full script (final), full storyboards

Season 2
Hasbro Toyfair catalogue 1985
16 Autobot Spike Act II storyboards
18 City Of Steel full storyboard
19 Attack of the Autobots full storyboard
21 The Immobilizer full storyboard
23 Atlantis, Arise! full storyboard
24 Day Of The Machines full script X 2
25 Enter The Nightbird partial script X 2
26 A Prime Problem partial script
27 The Core partial script
28 The Insecticon Syndrome full script
29 Dinobot Island, part 1 full script
30 Dinobot Island, part 2 full script
31 The Master Builders full script X 2
32 Auto-Berserk full script X 2
Series Update circular from Flint Dille (07.02.85)
33 Microbots full script
34 Megatron's Master Plan, part 1 full script X 2
35 Megatron's Master Plan, part 2 - Additional Material section storyboard
36 Desertion Of The Dinobots, Part 1 full script
37 Desertion Of The Dinobots, Part 2 full script
38 Blaster Blues full script X 2, full storyboard
Elaine Hultgren storyboard test - 4 page storyboard, uses Blaster Blues for story
39 A Decepticon Raider In King Arthur's Court full script X 2 (
40 The Golden Lagoon full script
41 The God Gambit full script X 2
42 Make Tracks full script X 2
43 Child's Play full script
44 Quest For Survival full script
45 The Secret Of Omega Supreme full script, full storyboard
46 The Gambler full script
47 Kremzeek! full script
48 Sea Change first draft script, revised script, full storyboard
49 Triple Takeover full script
50 Prime Target full script
51 Auto-Bop full script
52 The Search For Alpha Trion full script
53 The Girl Who Loved Powerglide full script
54 Hoist Goes Hollywood full script
57 Aerial Assault full storyboard
60 Cosmic Rust AKA Rust In Peace full script, full storyboard, 1st page of outline
61 30 Seconds Over Megatron AKA Starscream's Brigade full script (unedited)
62 The Revenge Of Bruticus X 2
Dialogue scripts from all 65 episodes (call sheet available for Hoist Goes Hollywood)

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... -1985.html

The Movie
First Ron Friedman script
Second outline (28.03.85)
Second Ron Friedman draft script (27.04.85)
Second Ron Friedman draft script revised (02.05.85)
Sunbow revision script (06.08.85)
Dialogue script (Walker Edmiston's copy)
Peter Chung early storyboards (sequences 1-8, 25)
Full storyboards (sequences 1-31)

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... unbow.html

Season 3
Hasbro Pre-Toyfair Catalogue 1986
Hasbro Toyfair Catalogue 1986
1986 Character Binder
86 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 1 full script, model sheets
87 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 2 full script
88 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 3 outline, full script
89 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 4 outline, full script
90 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 5 outline, full script, call sheet
91 The Killing Jar full script X 2
The Eye Of The Beholder (unused premise, transcript)
92 Chaos partial outline, full script X 2, full storyboard
106 Fight Or Flee full script (final)
115 Return Of Optimus Prime, part 1 full script
116 Return Of Optimus Prime, part 2 full script
Cast list file (01-116)
Synopsis file (01-116)
Dialogue scripts from all 30 episodes (call sheets available on Chaos and Dark Awakening).

Hasbro/Marvel Comics briefing book (1987 toyline)
Griffin-Bacal commercial storyboards
Flint Dille character binder (1987 lineup)
Bob Budiansky Headmasters miniseries treatment

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... -1987.html

General resources:
Production timeline: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TFC7O ... Zrp7gp4O4W
Page count/episode runtime: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Djzhd ... gV7lgO6OgJ


And it doesn't stop there. Follow the Productions links on the right-hand side for material from Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, The Incredible Hulk, Dungeons & Dragons, Gi Joe, Defenders Of The Earth, Jem, Inhumanoids, Visionaries, Bucky O'Hare and more.

Just to let people know, the archive is still going, still looking for material and now uploading full episodes of shows, where made available by either official Hasbro or King Features YouTube channels.

Also, the TFRaw site has just posted 16 pages of storyboards from Webworld: https://www.tfraw.com/2020/03/transform ... board.html

The archive has now been updated to include the handwritten "Beats" chart and first page of the premise/outline for Grimlock's New Brain (titled Creation Of The Technobots). The uncut dialogue for Act I of Chaos has been amalgamated into the existing dialogue script as well as more from the episode's outline:

Done a digital restoration of Roll For It and received a contribution of another first draft:

Been a while since I posted here, so here's what the archive has been up to:

I received a contribution of storyboard scans for Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2. Drawn by Keith Tucker, this Additional Material section had to be added to Act III as Don Glut's script ran under by 3 or 4 minutes.



https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/mp-700-transformers-part-1-1984-1985.html

Additionally, I have assembled an extensive collection of Toyfair catalogue sections relevant to the various shows. Including a full set of G1 from 1984-1990. The full list is a follows:

1982
GI Joe

1983
GI Joe

1984
GI Joe
Transformers

1985
GI Joe
Transformers

1986
GI Joe (Pre-Toyfair and main catalogue)
Transformers (Pre-Toyfair and main catalogue)
Jem
Inhumanoids
Robotix (Milton Bradley catalogue)

1987
GI Joe
Transformers
Jem
Air Raiders
Battle Beasts
Ninja Warriors
Visionaries

1988
Jem (Pre-Toyfair catalogue only)

GI Joe
Transformers
Visionaries (toyline cancelled, too late to remove from catalogue

1989
Transformers

1990
Transformers



The master list and links are available at the April Update: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/2021/03/april-2021-update.html

In terms of TF-related activity over the summer. I typed up Ron Friedman's 179 page script for TFTM into a 20 page outline. Now this is not the actual outline that existed before the script. This is a writeup of what we actually got, which is somewhat different.



https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... dmans.html


Also, I have linked the official Hasbro Pulse YouTube uploads of the series to the site. The blog posts containing production material have been replaced with proper show pages. Please update your bookmarks.

For pre-cartoon, plus season 1 and 2: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... -1985.html

For the movie: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... unbow.html

For season 3, Rebirth and post-cartoon: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... -1987.html

Finally able to update the main post with the updated links and current list of material. May soon have an item to add in the form of the first supplement to the show bible. Detailing the second round of 1985 cast that came in from Dinobot Island onwards.

What a fantastic resource!

Latest item to view at the Archive: The Transformers New Products Addendum. The first supplement to the show bible, containing profiles and lineart of all the new arrivals for season 2. Available at the "Part 1" link.

Pleased to report that script no.6 is now up at the Archive. Doug Booth's first draft of Sea Change. Runs 57 pages, which is roughly 28 minutes. So plenty of deleted scenes to be had.

Remember when Seibertron.com reported on Nelson Shin's copy of the City Of Steel storyboards being up for auction?

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ion/40200/


Well, thanks to it's owner Marco Van Leeuwen, those storyboards are now hosted at the Archive: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... -1985.html

Hot on the heels of the City Of Steel set, the Archive now has two more storyboards set online: S.O.S Dinobots and Sea Change.

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/2022/06/two-transformers-storyboard-sets-sos.html

In 2008, the Hartman Bros. sold off 7 script binders previously belonging to Bryce Malek. Containing first draft copies of all 62 scripts he worked on as story editor of the G1 cartoon during seasons 1 and 2.

The owner of Volumes 5 and 6 has kindly agreed to provide scans of the scripts within to the Sunbow Marvel Archive. As these binders contain 19 scripts - 14 of which have had no version online previously - completing the process will take time. Once a script is available at the Archive, it will be marked in bold below.

Come view what is available at:
https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/mp-700-transformers-part-1-1984-1985.html

Volume 5

MP#700-36 Desertion of the Dinobots – Part One
MP#700-37 Desertion of the Dinobots – Part Two
MP#700-38 Blaster Blues
MP#700-39 A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur’s Court
MP#700-40 The Golden Lagoon
MP#700-41 The God Gambit (Previously available at the Archive via other sources, included for completeness)
MP#700-42 Make Tracks
MP#700-43 Child’s Play
MP#700-44 Quest for Survival
MP#700-45 The Secret of Omega Supreme

Volume 6

MP#700-46 The Gambler
MP#700-47 Kremzeek!
MP#700-48 Sea Change
MP#700-49 Triple Takeover
MP#700-50 Prime Target (formerly: Welcome to My Parlor)
MP#700-51 Auto-Bop
MP#700-52 The Search for Alpha Trion
MP#700-53 The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
MP#700-54 Hoist Goes Hollywood

All 10 scripts of Volume 5 now available at the Archive.

Things are moving fast, 6 out of the 9 remaining scripts are now up. Along with a surprise twist in toy development, courtesy of Auto-Bop.

And so the journey ends. The last 3 of 19 scripts are now up.

Creating viewing galleries for all the storyboard sets that have come to the Sunbow Marvel Archive lately. Have finished galleries for all 7 TF TV sets and at time of writing, nearly done uploading The Transformers The Movie
Here is the index page: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... llery.html

S.O.S Dinobots https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... obots.html
Heavy Metal War: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... metal.html
City Of Steel https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... ty-of.html
Atlantis, Arise! https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... antis.html
Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2 (Additional Material) https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... trons.html
Sea Change: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... hange.html
Cosmic Rust: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... -rust.html

Transformers The Movie
Sequences 1-6: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... board.html
Sequences 7-8: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... rd_22.html
Sequences 9-15: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... rd_23.html
Sequences 16-21: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... rd_62.html
Sequences 22-26: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... rd_24.html
Sequences 27-31: to be done

In addition to the storyboards, I've also put together galleries for the various reference/briefing binders that come my way. Including the show bible and Ron Friedman's briefing binder containing Bob Budiansky's earliest typed profiles (as opposed to the earliest handwritten ones before that): https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... eries.html

Also put together a gallery page for the Hasbro Toyfair catalogues covering the G1 years: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... ogues.html

With her return to TV in Transformers: Earthspark less than a week away, a look back at Elita One's debut with the script for The Search For Alpha Trion. Available to read in full at: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.co ... -1985.html

Added to the Sunbow Marvel Archive this month is a plethora of G1 cartoon material, with storyboards from the following:

Unproduced pilot miniseries/Season 1 intro sequence
More Than Meets The Eye, Part 2
More Than Meets The Eye, Part 3
Transport To Oblivion
Roll For It
The Ultimate Doom, Part 3
Countdown To Extinction
Unproduced Season 2 intro sequence
Unproduced commercial bumper
Autobot Spike
The Immobilizer

Additionally, a quartet of story premises, written by storyboard artist Wendell Washer during early Season 2, have also become available. Along with the early version of the 1985 New Product briefing he was given for reference. Three of the unused stories focus on Omega Supreme (then under the working name of Fortress Maximus), and a fourth focusing on Seaspray.

All of these can be viewed at https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/mp-700-transformers-part-1-1984-1985.html

Below is an animatic, edited by me, of the unproduced season 2 intro sequence:

That intro would have been awesome!

Thanks to storyboard artist/producer/director Larry Houston for saving them from likely destruction back in the 1980s and thanks to Rich Helscher for making them available, the Sunbow Marvel Archive now hosts the tenth full Transformers storyboard set: The Secret of Omega Supreme.

View galleries for all ten sets, as well as partial storyboards for ten more episodes at: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/storyboard-viewing-gallery.html

Bit of a round up of storyboards that have been put up at the Archive the last few months, with part of Transport To Oblivion, as well as full sets for The Ultimate Doom, Part 3, Countdown To Extinction, The Immobilizer and Chaos (along with outlines and scripts) now available to view.

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/storyboard-viewing-gallery.html

There is a tv doco show named Icons Unearthed. This season covers Transformers. The first 2 episodes dives into the fragmented & sonetimes hostility between Marvel & Sunbow back in 80's. Worth a watch if you have access.