Autobot General Grimlock wrote:Okay for fear of sounding like I have been living under a rock for a while I have to ask, is this the first release of Jap series or has there been other that I missed, subbed or dubbed?
For the U.S., yes. For elsewhere, no. Both the UK and Australia have had their share of releases of the Japanese G1 series.
UK company Metrodome released one or two individual DVDs of The Headmasters with the awful Omni Productions Malaysian English dub, and then finally released boxed sets of the Japanese language w/ English subs version (The Headmasters DVD box set also included the awful English dub as a secondary track). Metrodome then released Masterforce and Victory with Japanese audio only (and English subs), and then later compiled all three sets together and added an English subtitled version of the single Zone episode (which never received an English dub, awful or otherwise).
Australian company Madman released very similar DVD boxed sets as those of the UK sets of all three series, and then compiled them together as well. However, while the UK sets only had the bad English Omni dub for all of The Headmasters, the Australian sets had it for all of The Headmasters, four episodes of Masterforce, and all of Victory.
However, both releases of all three series have had their share of flaws (especially both releases of The Headmasters) and so hopefully these Shout! Factory ones will be an improvement.
Also, fansubbing group
TV-Nihon has fansubbed all of The Headmasters, Masterforce, and Victory as well
Plus Super Link, Galaxy Force, RobotMasters, episodes 1-8 of Car Robots, and some miscellaneous things from the Japanese Animated dub (i.e. - openings, endings, promos, etc.).
Rated X wrote:Will it be real G1 voices ??? Or the same crappy voices like the internet versions where the voices have no swag ???
It's doubtful that they'll get all the old voice actor to come back for this (as they're all so expensive), so if there's going to be an English dub track, it'll likely be the old terrible Omni Productions dub.
But let's just hope for some quality English subs, as most anime dubs usually cannot top the original.