Transformers After re-watching "Transformers the Movie" Last Night

[ben_reilly_s_s]

In the US, We only had Season 1, 2, The Movie and Season 3. Season 4, Headmasters, Master Force, Victory, And Zone never got released in the US and are only available in Japan.

Actually, we got 3 episodes of season 4.

HeadMasters is season 4.

And I have all the episodes.

Was season four only 3 episodes? I thought it was longer.

you have that backwards - it's 3 season 4 episodes.
lol

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

They brought back Optimus Prime in 3 episodes and he was brought back to life in full form in the last two. However, After that show ended, Another one came out after it called Transformers: Headmasters, It took place after the series and featured Spike and his son Daniel as the only human characters. That series had Optimus Prime on it, However in one episode, He was killed off. Unfortunately, This series was never released in the US and was only available in Japan.

Oh no no no no no. Optimus Prime was never killed of at al in the Headmasters saga, which I own two versions of, a Canadian release in movie form and the original episodes shown on T.V. Maybe you're thinking of the Japanese Headmasters series?

 

[Super78]

I didn't have a problem with killing off some of the original characters to make way for the newbies (at that time).

But they shouldn't have killed off Prime and made Megatron into Galvatron.

That sucked bigtime.

Kill anyone else off, but keep the two leaders the same -- they were the driving force of the Transformers in the first place.

 

[GhostPoet]

I like change. I like it when they kill characters off.

But the way they did it (thanks to upper management, not the writers) in the movie was horrible and just plain LAME. You don't kill off all the main characters in one movie....you need to do it over time and slowly.

They may as well as just had all the main originals in one single ship and just blew it up at the beginning of the movie.

 

[Golgo-13]

I think they should have just upgraded Megatron and Primes bodies a bit. Have Prime look the way he did as a Power Master or Head Master, instead of killing him. Same with Megatron.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

what annoyed me was i just re-watched it, at the very end they say prime will return, did it say that when it was in cinemas, cause that is extremley daft what was the point of killing him if they were just gonna annouce he was coming back. at least make it some what of a surprise

 

[nogster]

if i recall. they did say that in the cinemas.
damn long time ago though but i remember the joy i felt after hearing it.

 

[ixtraker]

It sucks tha prime was killed so as many other autobots, but come on!....weren't you all excited when this movie hit the cinemas back in 1986,uh?...i still can remember that day, as it was yesterday, so i guess that that feeling overcomes on what the movie really was. No matter what i still love transformers the movie, and i own the dvd. At least this one has the spirit of the transformers, something that i´m not sure seeing it on Bay's version. F%&$·%·K Michael bay!!!, i'm just hoping for the best, so far it doesn´t look good to me at all. The newcomers weren´t the same, but i embraced them anyway, i know deep inside ya´ll did. ..admit it

 

[ixtraker]

i think it's on the spanish version of the film bro. Yeah...i heard it too. Maybe to cheer us up a little bit cause they know the reaction that Optimus Prime's death will cause to everybody, maybe

 

[Golgo-13]

Well when the movie came out , i was living in the U.K and it saids something to the effect of:

"The galactic battles of the Transformers will continue.....and Optimus Prime will return".

Also at the beginning of the film, instead of getting the opening credits where you see the voice actors names, like Judd Nelson and co, i saw a Star Wars-like opening crawl, that said something to the effect of:

"An evil planet has entered tthe universe, unicron".Then goes on to say "The Decepticons have chased the Autobots, from Cybertron to Earth, and back again."

I really thought it was cool. Now i live in the U.S and both those aspects are missing from the dvd.

All you U.K Hypster, could you gimme the actual words? It's been so long, i'm just reciting off the top of my head from memory. It would also be cool if they included these in the U.S version scheduled for release this coming November.

 

[nosebleed.]

I saw it in the theaters in 1986 and I don't even remember them saying Prime will return at the end of the movie. Plus there was no Star Wars type intro at the beginning of the movie like on the Rhino DVD. I think a lot of that stuff was added later.

 

[nosebleed.]

Well when the movie came out , i was living in the U.K and it saids something to the effect of:

"The galactic battles of the Transformers will continue.....and Optimus Prime will return".

Also at the beginning of the film, instead of getting the opening credits where you see the voice actors names, like Judd Nelson and co, i saw a Star Wars-like opening crawl, that said something to the effect of:

"An evil planet has entered tthe universe, unicron".Then goes on to say "The Decepticons have chased the Autobots, from Cybertron to Earth, and back again."

I really thought it was cool. Now i live in the U.S and both those aspects are missing from the dvd.

All you U.K Hypster, could you gimme the actual words? It's been so long, i'm just reciting off the top of my head from memory. It would also be cool if they included these in the U.S version scheduled for release this coming November.

What you described is exactly what is on the Rhino dvd. I do not remember any of that stuff when I saw it in the theater in 1986.

 

[Golgo-13]

I have the collectors edition Rhino dvd, and NONE of that stuff is on the one i have. You live in the U.S nosebleed? I always thought that the stuff i described above was on the U.K or international versions because people like Judd Nelson and Eric Idle weren'n very known the people overseas so there was no point in putting their names in the opening credits....

 

[nosebleed.]

I have the collectors edition Rhino dvd, and NONE of that stuff is on the one i have. You live in the U.S nosebleed? I always thought that the stuff i described above was on the U.K or international versions because people like Judd Nelson and Eric Idle weren'n very known the people overseas so there was no point in putting their names in the opening credits....

Well...ok...I don't have the Rhino DVD. But I DO have the Rhino VHS (I don't think they would be different would they?) and it has the Star Wars intro and Optimus hint at the end...both of which I don't remember watching in the theaters and on home vid when I was a kid.

I prefer the movie without the intro and the Optimus hint...because that's how I remember it.

 

[Golgo-13]

I also have the VHS and mine doesn't have that stuff on it. Maybe you bought your VHS a while back, before it was re-released back in 97-98(?)...don't know, sounds a little odd.

I prefer mine with the opening crawl on it because that's how 'i' remember it.

 

[nosebleed.]

I also have the VHS and mine doesn't have that stuff on it. Maybe you bought your VHS a while back, before it was re-released back in 97-98(?)...don't know, sounds a little odd.

I prefer mine with the opening crawl on it because that's how 'i' remember it.

Hmm...weird. My brother did buy it for me a while back. The opening crawl takes away from the "cinema-like" effect for me, and the Optimus hint at the end just makes all the drama go away. Kind of like if you have never read Lord of the Rings and at the end of Fellowship of the Ring it had a voiceover that stated, "And Gandalf SHALL return!".

 

[Hotwire]

I have the VHS from Rhino, copyright is 1999 and I have the Star Wars type intro and the Prime teaser at the end.

 

[Golgo-13]

I have the VHS from Rhino, copyright is 1999 and I have the Star Wars type intro and the Prime teaser at the end.

O.K i just looked at my VHS case and it's dated 1995-which DOES NOT have the scroll. So i guess the newer releases have the opening Star Wars scroll. My collectors edition dvd however is dated 2000, but it also is missing the scroll...don't know what to make of that. Maybe only the newer VHS has the scroll..?

 

[Psionic Force]

Thought I would post this here. I started a thread about it in the Products forum as well....

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[Golgo-13]

what annoyed me was i just re-watched it, at the very end they say prime will return, did it say that when it was in cinemas, cause that is extremley daft what was the point of killing him if they were just gonna annouce he was coming back. at least make it some what of a surprise

I think they went the G.I Joe route. In G.I Joe the Movie they killed off Duke, an Optimus type character. Then later decided the fans might hate them for doing it, so they added some dialogue from the characters at the end saying that he was alive....

 

[CFlash]

I think they went the G.I Joe route. In G.I Joe the Movie they killed off Duke, an Optimus type character. Then later decided the fans might hate them for doing it, so they added some dialogue from the characters at the end saying that he was alive....

I always hated Duke in the cartoon. Hawk was the leader of G.I. Joe. Duke was just the field sarge. *steps off comic book geek podium*

Then again the cartoon was an utterly and completely different universe than the comic (in almost every way). It'll be interesting to see fans debate if that movie ever goes into production.

 

[Golgo-13]

The opening sequence at the Statue of Liberty along with that kick a$$ theme song, is the only reason i watch G.I Joe:The Movie. The movie was cool once i watched it a few times, and it actually got me watching a couple of eps of the series-which were bland compared to it. Before the movie, i had never bothered watching G.I Joe-period.

I heard on the TF dvd coming out that they will be deleted scenes on there. I'm really curious to see those. I hope they're scenes taken from the beginning battle at Autobot City. Maybe we'll actually get to see some major characters actually getting killed? I always wished that battle was longer.

 

[nosebleed.]

I think they went the G.I Joe route. In G.I Joe the Movie they killed off Duke, an Optimus type character. Then later decided the fans might hate them for doing it, so they added some dialogue from the characters at the end saying that he was alive....

It still blows my mind that they had that "Prime will return" in your version that showed in the theater. Just FYI for people here, I saw this in the theater in 1986 in the US and the Star Wars scrolling wasn't there nor was the "Prime will return" hint at the end. Golgo13 has seen this also in the theater back in the day and remembers both of these elements. Any other people who watched this when it first came out in theaters? What do you remember?

 

[Golgo-13]

^Remember i saw mine in the U.K (England) not here in the U.S.A.

 

[nosebleed.]

^Remember i saw mine in the U.K (England) not here in the U.S.A.

Oh yeah, I knew I forgot an important detail. You may publicly thrash me if you ever meet me.