The Transformers Movie’s 30th anniversary may be drawing to a close, but we still have news pertaining to the movie for you! Not long ago, it was announced that the movie we all know and love will be getting a Blu-Ray release. Today, on the movie’s “birthday”, the trailer for said release was unveiled. In addition to announcing the movie’s Blu-Ray release, the trailer also gives us a sneak-peek at the bonus features that await viewers.
Check out the trailer below and share your thoughts in the discussion thread!
Booster Gold
Lol.
Seriously though the ending is the same they just decided the death of Prime was too upsetting so added a voice over at the end promising he would return.
Liokaiser1989
interesting, I wasn't aware there is a different ending for UK. How did it end?
StrangePlanet
Took me a long time to warm up to this.
All I knew is one day I'm watching the Transformers, and the next day the show is something I do not recognize at all. Different setting, characters, everything. I stopped watching.
Then I finally saw the movie years later and at least it made sense, but I could not get past the terrible hair metal music in it. Ruined the whole movie for me. I longed for someone to make an edit with an actual soundtrack, perhaps in the symphonic range.
Then I came to love it for what it is. Among other things, the stakes were high. Season 3 episode 1 it was back to no consequences, as Galvatron was awoken from his slumber by Cyclonus, who is immediately shot in the face for his concern. Not to worry, he's fine. But for a brief time there in the movie, if you got shot, you were dead.
Now I watch it all the time.
Boulder
Ahh, the 3D comment makes sense now. Yeah, Beast Wars really doesn't work outside of the correct sequence.
Booster Gold
Well I was talking about Beast Wars in that statement. We did get all the G1 seasons on DVD here in the UK a few times over, in an order. I'm not sure which one, but to be honest I never found continuity to be G1's strong point so the order I have them on the DVD boxsets I own works fine for me.
Boulder
And like anything else concerning G1, "Correct order" is its own debate. The episodes aired in the US outside of production order which is separate again from continuity order.
Switch625
One of the things that bugs me about the whole Prime dying thing – the tv spots for the movie all tease it – "Does Prime die???" Imagine being a kid – as most of us were back then – and thinking "oh my God, what happens? I have to see this movie!" And then Prime dies. It's like they were baiting kids with Prime's death and then they killed him. Anyway…
A lot of times I'll have this on in the background while I'm doing other stuff and the one part of the movie I always stop what I'm doing and watch is when Prime arrives at Autobot City. He decimates the Decepticon forces rather handily – a testament to how powerful Optimus really is, and then barely gets by Megatron – a testament to how powerful Megatron really is. No Optimus Prime vs. Megatron rivalry has ever – or will ever – be bigger or better than with these two.
Roadbuster25
Hasbro – Let's see a new G1 animated movie with another legendary battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron. We'll be talking about for years. And it's okay if one of them dies in the battle. I can handle it now….(sort of….)
Booster Gold
Heh yeah, I could do without the 3D but what I could do with a UK release of…well any of it in the correct order. I don't think we ever officially got more than a couple of volumes of random episodes on DVD.
But this thread isn't about that. I watched the '86 Movie earlier today, and I sill love it warts and all. I'm looking forward to getting a Blu-Ray version now.
flamepanther
I keep hoping for a 3D Blu-Ray release of the TV series…
Nyarlahotep
There was one copy of the movie on VHS at my local video rental store…My parents rented it for me so often the copy eventually degraded and became unwatchable. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I found the Canadian VHS re-release and finally heard, "the word" haha
Robogeek28
Thanks to a friend that had already seen it once, I knew before going into the theatre that Prime and many others were going to die that day. But hey, I was almost 13, so it didn't bother me……much.
Before going to the theatre we hit TRU and I bought the Superion box set, and then wondered why Devy was the only combiner in the movie.
Booster Gold
Not asking much are we? Take a look over the Beast Wars side of the fence, its the 20th Anniversary this year and what are Hasbro doing to commemorate it….zero. 5 sets, Unicron AND a Blu-Ray release? Not to mention the Titans Returns is jam packed full of '86 move characters. I'd say that's pretty good going.
Turakonin Prime
Lol I felt sad watching Optimus die when I was 6 but I wouldn't go as far as tears lol. Oh man I remember watching this and shortly after my dad getting me Hot Rod and a kinder egg. Good times
Autovolt 127
Watched it again yesterday for the first time in a while, still a fun movie.
It really did change the franchise forever.
Boulder
Somewhere out there on the magical interwebs there exists audio from the recording session in which Orson Welles expresses his extreme displeasure over the wording of that line. It's a solid three minute rant on how the line should read as "dubious" and not "highly dubious."
Films aren't animated in sequence. If anything, it was a better group of animators that worked on that portion of the film. Personally, I don't see a jarring change in animation quality in the film but rather pacing issues.
Let me sparse your finely worded viewpoint into two portions. I agree that it was difficult to adjust to the almost total departure in characters, like it was a separate story in the Transformers universe (a la Rogue One). It would have been nice if they could have at least shoehorned in an episode at the end of S2 where we see a couple of the new characters (maybe Kup and HotRod), but it's not like new characters showing up out of the blue and getting their own episodes was some bizarre departure for the show.
But if you're talking about the toys, then yeah, they were mostly crap.
createtime
Some platinum sets . Why couldn't they have done a redeco of a bigger toy? Like Masterpiece Optimus Prime or Masterpiece Rodimus Prime?
Spether
Thanks to everyone who posted about the video quality. I'm going to check it out.
chucksbikeorama
For me, the 'duck's eye' (David Lynch phrase) of the film is the 10-15 seconds of the Autobot City attack where Blaster spins round in his seat – the music at this point paired with the sequence is unparalleled!