Thanks to our friends of Transformers @ The Moon for sharing more of their deleted audio tapes from the Transformers G1 cartoon. These never-before-heard audios are from the episodes The Ultimate Doom Part 3 & Countdown To Extinction.
Here’s what TF@TM tells us about these clips:
“First up is a very short video of The Ultimate Doom Part 3. Very little was cut from the slugged tape that my brother and I own, but what there was you can now hear”.
“Then there are over 5 minutes covering Countdown to Extinction. Always one of my favorite episodes. 12 characters have additional lines in this audio which is also from a slugged tape meaning that it has been timed to the storyboard. You’ll get to hear Optimus Prime like you never have before”.
We have included both clips for your listening pleasure below, and then you can sound off what you think of this great piece of Transformers history at the 2005 Boards!
Autovolt 127
Man hearing Chris Latta doing Optimus Prime is surreal.
Auvelier
Yup. Happens all the time in the voice business: sometimes recording schedules are tight and the actors have one or more call backs that day.
If the original actor is not there, they record the part with another actor; it's important that the replacement actor gives a true performance, not just read the part, so the animators have something to work with. If they had used these scenes at all in the final episode, at a later date, they would have called Mr. Cullen to replace the dialogue in what is called a Pick-up session.
Avon
Love this stuff!
cj37a
ditto! I think I have a new ring tone.
Spether
I love hearing Scatman: "Beat those suckers down!"
Late Ironhide
It almost sounded like Optimus was voice by Wheeljack in Countdown to Extinction?
jamarmiller
Yes , thank you so much , these are great
Xaxis
Thanks for sharing all of these, it’s been fun and interesting listening to them. Looking forward to the last four episodes!
TF@TM
It's Sunday night and has been seven months since we put up the last one so here are two new deleted/extended scene videos from the Generation One cartoon.
First up is a very short video of The Ultimate Doom Part 3. Very little was cut from the slugged tape that my brother and I own, but what there was you can now hear. The transcript and link to the full scripts can be found within the description on YouTube.
Then there are over 5 minutes covering Countdown to Extinction.
Always one of my favourite episodes. 12 characters have additional lines in this audio which is also from a slugged tape meaning that it has been timed to the storyboard. You'll get to hear Optimus Prime like you never have before …
Sadly we only have four more episodes to cover before we run out of Transformers tapes