"The Autobots, The Decepticons & The Fans"."The Headmasters: Voicing the Robots In Disguise"."The Combiner: Forming The Transformers animated series.A Script for the Episode "Transport to Oblivion".Triple Change: From Toy to Comic to Screen Multi-Part Featurette.Special Features straight from Teletran 1 include: To be fair, Prime did ask Rodimus nicely to stop eff-ing around. Bonus points for including Autobot and Decepticon magnets. Score: 7 out of 10 Extras and Packaging "The Matrix of Leadership" packaging contains four slim-cases with four discs a piece, as well as a very handy plot summary for each and every episode. If you heard the Rhino mixes, then you will understand why even on a smaller scale, this is the preferred audio track. Laser blasts and that signature transforming sound are loud and clear, with dialogue coming in crystal. Transformers had a mono soundtrack when it aired, and that soundtrack has been modified to accommodate a stereo field. But thankfully, Shout kept Rhino's busy, sound-effects happy 5.1 mix off the new set and stuck with the original broadcast version. If this release originated in 2009 and came with a 2.0 track, we might find better phonics on YouTube. Score: 7 out of 10 Languages and Audio Again, the set doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. For a show based around plastic toys that's 25 years old, this set delivers better than most animated fare of the time. Prime and Megatron's over-the-dam fight, with energo weapons blazing, is the best it's ever looked. Color levels are solid and brighter than the Rhino edition, especially if you watch the episodes on an HDTV. So on one hand we are spoiled by cleaner and recent SD transfers, but on the other hand we have to acknowledge that, given the materials Shout had to work with, this set could have ended up looking way worse. And the cheap production values going into making a series of that time owe a lot to that. Video and Presentation This is a tricky one the video is lifted from the original broadcast versions, with the inherent grain and print damage carrying over and featured prominently. Scorponok action to make you call in sick from work, family, real life, etc. The final episodes under "The Rebirth" story arc lead to a new golden age on Cybertron, with plenty of Prime vs. It's a great episode to herald the return of Prime, and put Rodimus back in the runner-up position. The real gem from these latter episodes is the two-parter "The Return of Optimus Prime." Nevermind that the last time we saw Prime in the animated movie he looked like really burnt toast, he's back and ready to save the Autobots - and Earth - from a rage virus that makes everyone glow red, naturally. The post-animated movie seasons, three and four, are where the quality in both story and animation start to go thin. It's shame-tastic.) And "War of the Dinobots" and "A Plague of Insecticons" are pure Saturday-morning cartoon fun, and we mean that in a good way. (Pay attention to the awkward CPR Hound performs on Spike, while Spike lays stomach-down on a rock. Aside from the non-plots of some episodes, the three-part pilot is a fun introduction to these toys, er, characters. They have delivered the best Transformers presentation yet. If the goal is to make you feel like you're a kid again, then Shout! has succeeded. They even include the animated bumpers in between commercials, episode recaps and previews for next week's installment. With previous releases having used the original film negatives, which were incomplete and full of enough temp animation to make fans go Grimlock on retailers, and an over-produced 5.1 soundtrack, Shout! remedies all of that by sticking to broadcast versions. 98 episodes featuring the Autobots' campaign to stop the evil forces of the Decepticons are included, restored to the original broadcast versions and complete with a new stereo soundtrack generated from the original show's audio.
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