We previously heard some tidbits on Madman Films releasing Transformers related products. Today, they have made an official confirmation:
“Following the revelation that ‘Transformers 4’ will be titled Transformers: Age of Extinction (and of course, that there will be Dinobots), Madman is proud to announce that a new collection of fan-favourite Transformers releases, consisting of the Transformers Animated series and the Transformers Unicron Trilogy, will begin hitting DVD shelves and digital platforms from November, 2013.”Check out the full Press Release, after the jump.
Following the revelation that ‘Transformers 4’ will be titled Transformers: Age of Extinction (and of course, that there will be Dinobots), Madman is proud to announce that a new collection of fan-favourite Transformers releases, consisting of the Transformers Animated series and the Transformers Unicron Trilogy, will begin hitting DVD shelves and digital platforms from November, 2013.
The first release on November 20 will be the complete first season of Transformers Animated, the 2007 marquee Cartoon Network series which was the basis for Hasbro’s toyline of the same year leading into the release of the first Transformers live action movie.
All Transformers Animated releases will be available in widescreen on DVD, as well as HD across digital platforms. Madman will also be exclusively releasing the third season of Transformers Animated, which has been previously unavailable anywhere else in the world.
Closely following in December, Madman will unleash the first stage of the Unicron Trilogy with the first season collection of Transformers Armada, the 2002 series which featured staples Megatron, Optimus Prime and Starscream alongside fan-favourites such as Hot Shot and introduced the world to the ‘Mini-Cons’.
Consisting of Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon and Transformers: Cybertron – and named after the big bad villain featured across all three series – the Unicron Trilogy was a collaborative reboot of the Transformers universe, conceived out of America and animated and created in Japan by the likes of Studio Gonzo (Full Metal Panic, Hellsing), Actas Inc (Shin Megami Tensei Devil Children) and 3D graphics specialists, Studio A-CAT.
The series which followed Transformers: Beast Wars, the Unicron Trilogy features 3D computer generated robots and vehicles, along with epic anime-style story arcs.
Both Transformers Animated and the three seasons of the Transformers Unicron Trilogy have previously aired on Australian television on Cartoon Network and Channel 10.
Madman will continue to release further Transformers Animated and Transformers Unicron Trilogy season collections on DVD and digital platforms into 2014, with a new release assured for each month leading up to May – ahead of Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, which will hit cinemas in late June, 2014.
This fresh slate of fan-anticipated releases further cements Madman’s long standing reputation as experts on Transformers lore and will perfectly compliment their extensive catalogue, which includes Transformers Generation 1, Transformers Japan Generation 1 (Headmasters, Super God Masterforce and Victory) Transformers: Prime and Transformers: Beast Wars.
BenjaminXavier
IIRC, this company has distro rights for Australia, and Shout Factory! will be bringing them out in the states next year.
LegendAntihero
Are the DVDs out yet? I haven't seen them
SPLIT LIP
Don't apologize. I'm seriously wondering where they get their info.
decepticon win
already have seaon 1 & 2 for animated and the whole unicron set but now i'll have to find season 3
Backpack
Region codes are annoying to us yes… but not stupid. It's buisness. Codes protect the licensors of different regions and help maintain their exlusivity to whatever release.
For those who are more into collecting it's an easy thing to get around… but it keeps the more general public in check. If everyone could easily play imported discs… it would hurt the local license holder.
Say Madman put out a complete TFA boxset… and half of everyone around the world who wanted it, imported it. Then that's half of potential buyers for Shouts release is gone.
BB Shockwave
You make is sound like region settings matter at all… My PC can play anything from US to Japanese DVDs without issues. It's easy to change the settings and re-set them when needed. Though I agree on one thing – region settings are stupid tradition of the past, and should disappear. In the age of Ebay and global shipping, especially.
I've some Animated DVDs already, but I guess I will be selling those, it's better to have the seasons in more compact packaging.
I hope they do include some cool extras…
RageTreb
The toys didn't hit until something like half a year after Animated premiered because retailers wanted more movie merch. If I'm not mistaken it was something like June 2008 before we say any Animated toys.
The movie was released July 7 2007 and Animated premiered December 26 2007. The movie led into Animated, not the other way around. We might have gotten the toys on time were that the case.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Chris McFeely
You're not noticing that that's a piece of Unicron, then.
O.Supreme
How is some space junk and some ship in the background Unicron?? Oh he's "invisible" I get it….
Murasame
I'm watching DVDs on my computer, which is hooked up to the TV.
Digilaut
I just checked. It seems Oceania IS region 4 PAL, while Europe is region 2 PAL. :-/
Will an Australian DVD play on your European system? The internetz says that really depends on a)whether the DVD is coded for region 2+4 or just region 4, b)your DVD player is coded for region 2+4 or just region 2.
Apparently some manufacturers choose to encode both 2+4 on their discs, and the region differentiation is just there so they can ask different prices for different regions (claiming it's a different region + product).
Some specifically lock the disc to be only playable in that region.
On the other hand, the exact same is true for DVD players, some of them will play both versions of PAL, others won't.
I think anno 2013 most DVD players are set to play all regions, or at least all region versions of either PAL or NTSC, and that actual, full region lock is something of older models – but it seems everybody has to try for themselves to see if it would work or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
Murasame
Pal is Region 2.
Chaos Prime
So this might mean….S3 of TFA? I think I'm feeling a bit giddy.
Silver_Prime
Someone wake me up when I can get the original Car Robots here with English subtitles on this side of the world.
Anyways if Animated is released on blu-ray I might get it, besides that only G1 boxset and Masterforce are the only things left to buy as I have the old BW box sets and have Headmasters & Victory.
Why can't we get a more adult themed Transformers series? Something in the lines of Gundam or Macross?
Fairlady_Z
TFA SEASON 3 AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now we just need an exact release date so we can preorder it.
FanTransformers
Every DVD they sell is Region 4 PAL. Not good news for USA. Fans need Region 1 NTSC.
Reask
Yeah yeah, great wonderful. I still want a UK release of all 52 episodes of Beast Wars before anything else. The UK doesn't get a lot of Transformers DVD love, except for G1, outdated translations of the Japanese trilogy, Beast Machines and RID, but thats it. You see all of these releases that Shout Factory is doing? I want those DVDs in the UK, they all look sleak. Or at the very least have each series on iTunes, we've only got season 1 of Prime on iTunes in the UK.
Yes this is all built up anger inside me for ages. I just don't like having to watch each series digitally with no physical copy.
Autovolt 127
Individual Animated season box sets. That's good for those who are just missing Season 3 only.
captain N
I hope all of this is coming out in full run sets & not Season or Volume sets.
Animated only had 42 ep's. That can be one box set. I hope Armada Energon & Cybertron is one big box set.
Chris McFeely
Cybertron, episode 20. You want ketchup, or mustard?