We’ve got a new year’s gift from TF@TM: more cut and altered dialog from the unslugged Generation 1 recording sessions! This latest video posted on Youtube covers the debut episode of the Dinobots, SOS Dinobots. There are a series of scenes with extra dialog or lines which were changed in the final recording, including one of Sideswipe’s greatest lines you’ve never heard, and you can hear Wally Burr directing at several points, giving a bit of an insight into the filming of the series.
As an interesting extra, the recording on Youtube kicks off with a clip from the episode Fire in the Sky, the episode where Skyfire made his debut in the series – except in this recording, he went by the name of his toy – Jetfire! Unfortunately TF@TM does not have the unslugged dialog for this episode, so that one nugget is your lot from Fire in the Sky, teasing at things which might have been done in the recording session that never made it to the final episode.
Check out the audio on Youtube below, and a transcript of the video on Pastebin here.
TF@TM
They aren't unless someone finds the animated versioned it's unlikely. As far as myself and my brother know we have the only surviving tapes but i do expect that there may be others either with collectors who have never come forward, with Wally and his family or possible in an audio archive.
If the cut scenes are on the slugged tapes, and I need to check which are and which are not another time, then it means that the scenes WERE animated as they have been timed (what the slugging process does). So those scenes existed and may well still exist on a VHS tape in someone's attic / storage or in the archives of an animation museum.
Sideswipe is at the start of the episode and Soundwave is after Skywarp get knocked by thhe Dinobots so it's directly after the previous sound bite. You can also read about the scene from the script of the episode Script – SOS Dinobots.pdf
It is indeed Sunstreaker. see the Transcript I put together of the audio, it was too long for the YouTube description (SOS Dinobots – Missing Scenes – Pastebin.com) as well as the original script on the Google Drive link above.
SMOG
Wow… I never realized that Soundwave without the voice distortion is just… Darkseid!
zmog
Maverick Hunter Christian
What character is supposed to be speaking at 5:29? The line didn't make it into the final episode.
Between calling out their 'brother' and being 'up to our relays in Decepticons' I'm guessing its Sunstreaker, but it honestly doesn't sound it to my ears.
Coffee
3:00 onward sounds like me when I'm having sex.
But actually, I'm loving these. I actually prefer the voices when they aren't filtered through the robotic synthesizer.
soundwaverulls
Man, stuff like Sideswipe's "janitor" line and Soundwave's "Not funny, Skywarp" would've been great in the show. I really wanna know what the context for the latter was.
Optimus4EVER
When are these unused/deleted clips going to be on a DVD release? A special edition?
Grimlock_13
Awesome stuff. I love Sideswipe's cut line.
Daggor
I'm in heaven hearing the collection of Dinobot sounds. Also: I hereby trademark "Optimus Primo™!"
Novaburnhilde
Awesome!
Love these.
WinstoBot
Alright, you guys are back!!!!
Love the Sideswipe quote; "I'm the greatest fighting machine in the Universe and they make me the janitor."
MpCollector81
These are great.
Feralstorm
Grimlock, let's just say you're "having a moment", either in the bedroom or the bathroom. I'm not sure.
Slag, do your impression of a five-year-old trying his best to sound scary.
Sludge, go ahead and… wait, what exactly ARE you doing there?
red00wolf
Okay greg, for this scene grimlock will be starring in a porn, annnnd go.
Thundershot
I love these!!!
David Hingtgen
New Sideswipe quote? A great find.
TF@TM
We're back with the next episode in our series looking at missing and altered scenes from the Transformers Generation One cartoon series.
This video primarily covers Episode 8 – S.O.S Dinobots and is taken from an unslugged tape of a recording where both Ken Samson and Casey Kasem were not present. However it starts with a single quote from a slugged tape of Fire in the Sky where you shall hear Starscream, voiced by Chris Latta, refer to Skyfire as Jetfire! Your ears are not deceiving you, the tape that we own is from a session that was recorded before Jetfire was renamed as Skyfire. We do not, at the time of this videos publication, own and unslugged audio from this episode and so we shall not be producing a dedicated video for that episode.
You can view the transcript of the video at SOS Dinobots – Missing Scenes – Pastebin.com as it is too long for YouTubes description section.
You can also download the full episode script from Script – SOS Dinobots.pdf thanks to Jim Sorenson and Chris McFeely