The superfans at Transformers @ The Moon – they who have shared many a display of cool and rare Transformers at UK conventions over the years – have recently hit a veritable mother lode of Transformers history. They have obtained a series of tapes, containing the original recording sessions of the Transformers cartoons. These tapes contain the “unslugged” dialog – that is, they contain never before heard dialog for the original Sunbow Transformers cartoons.
Kicking things off is a two minute long segment from the pilot episode of Generation 1, More than Meets the Eye. In this segment, we hear the dialog for some of the opening scenes set on Cybertron – Wheeljack and Bumblebee’s encounter with the Decepticon Seeker welcoming committee, and the scene that follows where Soundwave spies on the Autobots in Iacon. Except, we have some new dialog in both of these scenes – and a completely cut scene where, following the fight with the Decepticons, Bumblebee is getting checked over by Ratchet.
It is truly amazing that after over 30 years, awesome nuggets like these are still coming to light, shedding light on lost scenes and revealing new dialog from characters many of the older fans among us grew up with.
Check out the audio for yourself via the embedded Youtube video below.
jamarmiller
almost finished with part 2 of episode 1 !
Will post hopefully soon, one scene's music is being difficult to patch together
Okay, so here is the first part with animation added. Will start working on part two soon.
The voices have not been altered, so there is a bit of echo in there and no effects have been added to their voices. I am working on that , but no promises
ALL THE THANKS TO THE TRANSFORMERS AT THE MOON GUYS ! ( I have placed links in the description to their youtube page )
Also, if you haven't already, MAKE SURE TO check out our G1 continuation fan series in the link below (in my signature) ! We have done 6 , ten minute episodes so far !
OptimusTimelord
Cheers! I figure since I'm doing episode one anyway I may as well include these bits, right?!
More great stuff! Fantastic to hear Gears doing a countdown too, it really fleshes out that early sequence on Cybertron.
Sledgehammer
Total agreement with Kicky – this is just jaw-to-the-floor mind-blowing. Much respect to TF@TM – looking forward to more!
jamarmiller
im going to start doing an extended edition of this episode using this dialogue since I have not heard anyone else doing one.
if anyone else is, please tell me so I dont waste time LOL
UltraAlanMagnus
Here\'s Part 2.
TF@TM
– In truth they were a bonus discovery whilst continuing our Visionaries production research.
– Sometimes it's karma in most cases it's basically the results of a process similar to investigative journalism. If you're lucky it can take weeks but normally it can be months, years or decades of perseverance.
Nighthawkblack
so cool
Omegax80
How do these things suddenly just show up? Amazing.
DecepticonSpike
Awesome! It's very cool to be able to hear some of this deleted stuff. I actually think that Ratchet scene should have been kept in.
turbobluestreak
This is amazing. How where these tapes discovered?
tbs
Cha Chi
He said crank shaft and rear axel. I think we are already there.
Great little bits of humour there.
MastaBlasta
This is really cool. Sounds more clear that the origanal episodes. LOL at\"My rear axel\" and \"My tires.\" Hovercars dont have wheels bumbleebee! Thats like a guy saying MY… well lets not go there
Motor_Master
I'm absolutely floored by this. I can't wait to hear the rest.
BTW refresh my memory on the short clip from TF:TM that was found?
I for one would LOVE to see your work with the extended audio.
GotBot
This is awesome and just plain fun to listen to. Still, really wierd knowing the scenes with the other sounds,lol.
Cha Chi
Gee Bumblbee stop going on about your rear axel.
I adored the opening bits on cybertron(who doesn't) as they really setup the tfs and who and where they are from. You can see how the scenes on cybertron really mean't to do that more with added references to Iacon.
Nice nugget indeed.
optimusfan
Really great stuff. Thanks for taking the time to dig this stuff up before it's lost to the ages.
OptimusTimelord
Oh ok, well that could still work then. I have to reconstruct the background art for my vids anyway, so I could always fudge a few things to get them to fit!
TF@TM
I was not really clear with my post, the other "new" dialogue does extend existing scenes, its more than the original storyboard shot may not match other scenes that were used. It all fits in.
OptimusTimelord
What a great find! I only heard about about the missing Ratchet/Bumblebee repair bay scene recently and my first thought was to add a visual version of it to my stop-motion episode one, but now to have the actual audio, well, things have just become a lot more interesting!
I can't do cartoon footage but I can sure as hell do stop-motion!
I'm intrigued… So the other missing scenes don't fit in anywhere at all? Can't wait to hear them nonetheless
Sam
New dialogue from Prime and Bumblebee too!
What a brilliant find from one of the best episodes of the series.