I'm not sure if "trusted" is the right word, truth be told, I don't think any of the other decepticons even like Starscream, considering the the fact that he gets laughed at by some of the other decepticons. At most they probably just tolerate him. Plus, they proably trust that if Starscream tries anything Megatron will have him eliminated.
theres a line in war for cybertron where megatron basically says he keeps starscream around not because he trusts him but because he can be useful and also he finds his antics amusing
@@mrmc101 I hope you are not using that line from war for cybertron because it explains why in the cartoon series, because it would add to the bizarre misconception that the cybertron games are cannon to the original animated series. I don’t even get how anyone thought they were cannon to the animated series, all it takes is a little bit of research on tfwiki to see if they’re not connected. I mean watch this episode and you’ll see how.
@@jakeproven256 I don't see many people confusing the Cybertron games for G1. At most, I think they get confused with the Bayformers universe than anything else.
@@jakeproven256all.the cons dissed him really thundercracker called him geeky, skywarp dissed.him, rumble dissed him, the coneheads dissed him, the triple changes dissed him everybody dissed him Meg's kept him around as a punching bag why kill him when he can humiliate him
Wheeljack will always have a special place in my heart. He has the honor of being the first transformer to properly appear on screen in the show, the first one to speak, and the first one to transform.
@@albrectgarcia2715 I do appreciate how much he appreciated earth. But to be fair you’d probably get a shorter list if you asked me who I’m not a fan of in the original cast.
"Fear not, Megatron! Cybertron will remain as you leave it." [four million years pass and it's completely identical] Gotta hand it to Shockwave -- he keeps his word.
20:12 Seeing Megatron turn into a gun was already funny to me but for him to turn into a gun and Starscream to miss every single shot just absolutely killed me 😂
As a kid, walking home from school, passing by the local toy store, they would have Voltron, and most of the Transformers, proudly displayed in the window, in all their glorious poses... Every day, EVERY DAY, i would stop and fantasize of owning one of them, specifically Optimus... to the point that my parents were once stopped by the owners of the store and said to them "Please buy your son something, our heart breaks every time we see him standing there for 10-20 minutes looking at the window display".. :) lol, my parents bought me Optimus prime for my birthday, after months and months of me drooling for one, and make no mistake, I hinted nothing, it was the owners of the store who made this happen! :)
Just FYI: Back then, 1984, it was about $59 (about $150 today), was a tall ask for parents to buy their kids for just one toy, and we were a poor family... i think my father was earning about $200 a week... before all expenses (rent, food, medical bills, etc)
I love this. I was right there with you. We grew up with nothing so I love through your story. Thanks for taking the time to share. ❤transformers forever
@@Valitzu777 also remember, back in them days, most families only had 1 wage earner not 2 - if you look nowadays at people struggling to pay the bills in families with 2 wage earners, imagine what it was like back then when basically you had half the income in real terms you have nowadays.....
10:48 Prime is so immensely kind he thanks the repair drone immediately after regaining conciseness. He doesn’t stop to say “I’m alive? What happened?” He’s grateful, this proves Optimus is such an amazing character
Peter Cullen truly gives Prime his soul. For a kid’s cartoon, he really did put a lot of effort into the voice. Had it been anyone else, I don’t think that his death in the movie (very crappy by the way) would’ve made such a huge impact. No one wanted him to die. By this point, he’d become more than a toy, he truly did become someone for people to look up to because he truly is the definition of a gentle giant
@@zerimar26 always was my favorite in a love-hate way haha...as a kid I would be screaming at the autobots to focus on Soundwave bc he was the silent MVP but they never listened haha.
This show is one of the few American ones with such detailed characters. Almost every other US series from Batman/X-men TAS usually streamlined designs tomake it better to animate or save money. TF had a lot of animation mistakes, but I'd say most of the Toei animated episodes still look decent after 38 years. Very few Japanese studios work on American cartoons these days. We were lucky TF and GIJOE had Toei in the 1980s.
@@TheMegamanVX what is the toys originally Japanese anyway like the Hasbro got the contract to make the American version of the transformers toys and like the name transformers is like the American version of it?
Kudos to Hasbro for putting these online for more generations to discover. I was 10 when the toys hit America. They were literally the coolest things any of us had ever seen. Great era to be a kid!
Based on events of 86 movie Starscream was better leader, as during his leadership decepticons haven't lost to autobots not even one time, it was when Galvatron arrived they had lost, so...
You are so blessed and lucky to have found these gems (cartoons). Watch all the 80’s cartoons, thundercats, Hulk, Spider-Man, Transformers, He-Man, GI JOE, smurfs, muppet babies, Dark wing duck, VOLTRON. You will grow up like we did. The last generation where men were raised to be men.
10:51 “Thanks” I know these were the early days of the franchise but it’s strange yet funny hearing Optimus say that rather than something like “You have my eternal gratitude.” The way he says thanks is like “Hey thanks I’ll buy you a beer later.”
i miss this version. there is an episode later where optimus makes fun of omega's supreme stunted speech pattern before telling a story by saying "can you talk like a normal autobot?" I can't help but think G1 optimus would say the same to modern optimus. This one is more relatable to me.
He was a lot more casual in the first two seasons, though he had his moments. Wait until season 2, in one episode he's shooting hoops out back with some Autobots.
Man, you listen Frank's voice here, and then when you hear his voice in Transformers: Prime, *you can definitely tell that the guy had been refining his voice acting skills to God Level Status.*
@Nathan Ronco Chris Latta actually had a pretty good run on the show. I should point out he also voiced Wheeljack and Sparkplug as well as Starscream. Starscream being a fan favorite, saw a number of episodes in which he figured prominently in the storylines. Countdown to Oblivion, Starscream's Brigade, as well as a Bruticus' Revenge were just a few of the Starscream-centric episodes.
@@brianblackberry6315 yeah were he not such a sadistic monster he would have made a great Autobot, that’s why the comic continuity where he becomes one is so cool
For a Decepticon, Shockwave had tremendous job loyalty. After 4 million years, you'd thing there would be at least some progress in the battle on Cybertron. 🤪
@@DreamcastFan-101 44 year old and I can still remember seeing this for the first time with my two little brothers, one of them isn't around anymore, he had an autobot mural with his name commemorating him in our old neigbourhood
The 80s were an amazing time to be a small kid. Cartoon animation and stories were at a peak . And NO internet to distract us from the tv. We all (kids) watched cartoons and truly cherished them. Now as adults we look back and realize how good we had it. Simpler times were the Best times!
Yeah the 80s were the best time to be alive as a kid. The toys and cartoons were the best. Time's were simple, peaceful and magical. I was 9 years old in 1984 and I remember watching the first episodes of the transformers on Saturday mornings. Wow l die to go back to those times.
I ran to home after school creating a bowl full of potato chips and loads of ketchup to watch my favourite starscream and sound wave with my mouth full of patato chips not be able to answer if the TV could get lower...hehehe those where the days ketchup and mayonnaise made sense....
@@PhoticsTV it’s possible that over time as he did more narration for the transformers that they did lose that gruffness, it certainly doesn’t sound like they have it in there later voiceovers
Y'know, despite being a born 80s kid (born in 1983), I've never actually seen this first episode before- they just never aired a rerun of it when I was watching. And frankly I'm AMAZED at how well it holds up, both the animation and the voice acting, even if a lot of the concepts are hokey and absurd (three slightly smaller decepticons combine to transform into... a tiny handheld camera?). This show was a genuine classic of kids TV that managed to massively surpass its intended role as a giant toy commercial.
"Intelligent robots who could think and feel." The most important thing about this entire franchise, if you think about how much AI and robotics have advanced since TF first aired.
You have some fond memories from then, though...and no one can take them away from you. We all have to face our own aging at some point. Time goes on; what have we done with our time? This cartoon is an old friend for many of us.
It's about damn time that this content made its way to TH-cam in an official, quality format. Now it's time to bring the Japanese continuity over officially.
@@TimeLord675 That is true. I think for the G1 Japan-only stuff to be posted, it would have to be between Hasbro, Shout Factory, and whoever made the cartoon.
So good of Hasbro to release this. For free of all things!!! These cartoons are timeless. I hope new generation kids can enjoy and appreciated these original cartoons.
My childhood well I was born in 1996 but I watched reruns of the show back when in the early 2000s on VHS and DVD at the library well my first introduction was Armada I can't deny, this is the best cartoon ever made way better then the Michael Bay films. I will always be a Transformers fan until the day I die.
Same. My father introduced this show to me around when the bay movies first started coming out. I remember him showing me his old toys from that time as well. This show left such a mark on me growing up and inspired most of my interests and long term goals
The ultimate irony... It was Teletraan One responsible for reviving the Decepticons first while Starscream gave a helping hand for restoring the Autobots.
In the Marvel comics, it was explained that the crash damaged Teletraan One's memory of the war, so friend and foe were treated alike by the computer, which definitely sounds plausible for the cartoon as well.
@@2talljones34 Or it could be that virus Blackarachnia planned on Teletraan I to prevent self-destruction. I know it may not be true. But, hey. It might be.
@@asdfoifhvjbkaos hey throwing we're in a b******* is how we took over this planet and it's how we'll defeat the aliens and eventually we have machines to throw random b******* for us they're called guns
That was very stupid to try squaring up against an metal being twice is size and obviously 100 times as tough as his bones but the kid's got heart I'll give him that.
The G1 Season 1-2 ending credits are still probably my favorite outro music from any show. It's just...energetic, upbeat. This isn't just nostalgia talking, for as silly as the rest of the show's elements could be I think the music *still* holds up and is still awesome.
Peter Cullen, Scatman Crothers, and Casey Kasem. Man oh man, talk about distinctive voices. As a kid, you didn't even care, but now you just have an appreciation for such talent.
I wasn't born in the 80's, but I still consider this show apart of my childhood, since I was introduced to it at the age of 9 by a frenemy. I also loved it and rewatched the entire series a million times over.
🎯🎯🎯🎯 I just made a Stop Motion with my REFRAKTOR 🎬📸🎞️ a few days ago‼️ I’ve been a Transformer fan since Day 1 & I love animating my G1 & Movie collection. What 3 Transformers would you link to see animated?
Man, this pilot episode is near flawless. Later they had a lot of continuity errors. I guess the animation got rushed when they knew they had a hit and were pressured to pump out episodes. But this is immaculate!
Hasbro, thank you so much for posting the first season!!! If you can, I think a load of people would love it if you could post season 2, 3 and 4!!! Just an idea.
And I would love if they would start to stream 8 hrs of Tranformers continuously, they way they do GI Joe. It really makes it feel "alive" again, knowing it's "airing" this very moment, haha.
It's amazing how much they just got right in this series. The alien vehicles were cool and the fact they thought to do that at all was great. And the idea of searching for a resource rather then something more specific was a great way to keep the story open-ended to do so much. And to me energon will always be just a way of optimizing and storing energy, not an element.
3:05 I just noticed that Bumblebee's cybertron mode actually has wheels and when he lost one after being blasted by seekers his right "wing" was scraping on the ground.
Still one of the best cartoons ever made! And the first season is absolutely incredible so far! Great to relive the memories. Thanks Hasbro Pulse for putting these up!
I am so in love with this channel. Now I can understand why the older transformers fans loved this show so much ! It's so action packed and intense ! Plus the battle strategies make sense too. I can only imagine how it must have been when this pilot episode premiered in the 80s. Its so grandscale !
I'm 15 and just watched this. I've seen every film adaptation (except for the 1986 one) and have seen parts of some shows that are transformers. I just wanted to say that this was awesome, kind of surprising but awesome, and I'm more than lucky to be able to watch these on my PC from TH-cam. Thank you, Hasbro ❤🔥
_So_ glad that people can actually comment on these episodes. The main audience for the G1 'toons is made up of the people that actually watched them as kids of the 1980's, after all. The bullshit with the supposedly-COPPA-enforcing algorithms _must_ end.
Sigh, man, I was railing against that bureaucratic government BS since before they started enforcing. There are some real insidious groups behind that, who post about the "evils" of Tony the Tiger on cereal and stuff like that. They're like a sick cult, totally out of touch with reality and the common people. And yet they wrote these regulations and got them forced on the whole country.
@@Deined You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. I carefully researched the COPPA issue when it came up and am telling you the facts about where it came from. To knee-jerk pull a "QANON" insult out of your back pocket instead of researching the facts shows you're a total ignoramus. Everything I said is from my own personal research, from major publications and the group's own web site and social media. They conspired to take away our free speech rights because of some far-out, fringe beliefs. I'm obviously on your side against COPPA, and I tell you a few simple, provable, verifiable facts, and you insult me. You're a total douchebag.
My childhood right here. Great memories of watching this with my mum and dad. Sadly they are no longer with us anymore but watching this brings them back for me.
My dad was 7 when this released and he raised me on this I have no regrets as I am now the Transformer nerd of the house and have spent hours watching every movie and series idc that I lived my dads childhood it was amazing and to this day G1 is my favorite series
There are like 4 points that would make good What If… episodes: •What if the volcano never erupted •What if the Autobots were woken up first •What if Starscream didn’t shoot the mountain • And lastly What if Cliffjumper didn’t miss
I remember watching this back in my old house before going to elementary school. I would watch it every single day on our red couch, right before asking my mom to tie my shoes. Those were way simpler times. I almost forgot about all of it until one day it hit me. Just by listening to the intro for the first time in years made me think, wow.
@@Roninisimmortalexaclty!! I forgot about gi Joe as well. I just finished watching the new transformers movie and the fact they’re gonna do a collab makes me so excited. It brought me back to old times..
MVP characters in this episode Optimus prime: was the first one to be reactivated and revives the other autobots Skywarp: first one to be reactivated and revives the other desepticons
Skywarp is unquestionably loyal to Megatron, he would do anything for him as he commands. have you ever noticed how organized Megatron has his troops? bad guys can cooperate too. this makes sense as to why he is a gun.
As I sit here watching this show and reading the comments of the older fans who remember watching this on TV in the 80s, it surprises me that there is a huge amount of respect for both the show and the younger fans who are just discovering this older version for the first time. Thank you. 😊 Also Peter Cullen is the best Optimus Prime & Frank Welker is the best Megatron!!!! So glad both have returned to their roles, from the videogames to the last couple of Michael Bay films!!!!!!
Well said‼️ I just made a Stop Motion with my Megatron 🎬📸🎞️ a few days ago‼️ I’ve been a Transformer fan since Day 1 & I love animating my G1 & Movie collection. What 3 Transformers would you link to see animated?
I wasn't born until the next year and didn't see Transformers until the early 90's, during a time when me and my older brother would go around car boot sales finding the VHS tapes and any toys of Transformers I could find, finding the Ladybird books, Annuals, pretty much anything I could find and I still have it all today ^_^
This is extremely watchable as an adult. Very well put together and serious, seemed realistic and not goofy. Which is what I liked even as a kid. I hated goofy cartoons. I remember even playing with my toys and using the correct physics and speed. I remember this episode so well from when I was a kid in the 80's. I didn't realize there was really only 3 seasons and a few episodes of a 4th season. I thought it went on for much longer. I used to watch Transformers constantly after school. And had tons of the toys. I remember going to the toy store with my Dad and buying my first Transformer. The blue jet, Thundercracker, and my brother got Star Scream. It felt like it must have been 5 years or more. But really it was only two years I was seriously into it. By the time the movie came out I was in the 6th grade and didn't even see the movie or watch the TV show anymore. I think I saw a few episodes of the 3rd season with the new characters though. I didn't sell all my transformers until later in my high school years when it was time to get rid of the big box. I remember that matrix episode around the time the movie came out, I ran out of VCR tape and kept hitting record to try and get the last bit of the end. It would write over the last few seconds over and over.
There's a tear in my eye as I watch this. I had these first few episodes on VHS back in my early childhood. What's incredible is that I can still recall all the dialogue despite being 41 now. Still cracking entertainment.
And this, alongside the release of the first Transformers toy and the first issue of Transformers Marvel Comics, is where it all started. And now, I can safely say that the Transformers franchise is (and will most likely remain) my favourite franchise in fiction. A franchise that is...more than meets the eye.
I like how Optimus just casually says “Thanks” to the little repair bot at 10:49
Technically it's repair drone
Lol
He's saying thank you to tell a teletran 1 their super computer
That's how polite manner works
He’s so darn nice!
I love how starscream literally states to everyone about taking over, and yet he still is trusted to be on the team
I'm not sure if "trusted" is the right word, truth be told, I don't think any of the other decepticons even like Starscream, considering the the fact that he gets laughed at by some of the other decepticons. At most they probably just tolerate him. Plus, they proably trust that if Starscream tries anything Megatron will have him eliminated.
theres a line in war for cybertron where megatron basically says he keeps starscream around not because he trusts him but because he can be useful and also he finds his antics amusing
@@mrmc101 I hope you are not using that line from war for cybertron because it explains why in the cartoon series, because it would add to the bizarre misconception that the cybertron games are cannon to the original animated series. I don’t even get how anyone thought they were cannon to the animated series, all it takes is a little bit of research on tfwiki to see if they’re not connected. I mean watch this episode and you’ll see how.
@@jakeproven256 I don't see many people confusing the Cybertron games for G1. At most, I think they get confused with the Bayformers universe than anything else.
@@jakeproven256all.the cons dissed him really thundercracker called him geeky, skywarp dissed.him, rumble dissed him, the coneheads dissed him, the triple changes dissed him everybody dissed him
Meg's kept him around as a punching bag why kill him when he can humiliate him
Wheeljack will always have a special place in my heart. He has the honor of being the first transformer to properly appear on screen in the show, the first one to speak, and the first one to transform.
plus he's just cool haha
It sucks that they killed him off in the movie. IN OFF-SCREEN!
Ah yes, another Wheeljack fan. Tell me, are you a Hound fan as well?
@@albrectgarcia2715 I do appreciate how much he appreciated earth. But to be fair you’d probably get a shorter list if you asked me who I’m not a fan of in the original cast.
@@jeremytung1632 thats fair indeed lol
"Fear not, Megatron! Cybertron will remain as you leave it."
[four million years pass and it's completely identical]
Gotta hand it to Shockwave -- he keeps his word.
he is a loyal decepticon
he makes a great housekeeper
Four million years, nothing much happens in that time
He's just standing in the same spot
Some say it’s just guard duty. But it’s not guard duty! He’s a guardian! Of an entire planet!
And he’s significantly understaffed!
Starscream is literally the reason the autobots survived
Whattaya talkin' about? The Autobots would have lost eons ago if Starscream had been calling the shots.
@@zagnorch1336 his shooting at the ship knocks Prime into the repair beam
@@m-noble-4-731 All the more reason why Starscream should be CALLING the shots, and not making them himself.
@@zagnorch1336 lol
@Mercenary Whatever it takes to keep the show going.
20:12 Seeing Megatron turn into a gun was already funny to me but for him to turn into a gun and Starscream to miss every single shot just absolutely killed me 😂
Ah yes, Soundwave's original Cybertronian alt-mode .. a street light.
And even with Earth mode, he still cannot move on his own in alt mode
He is a spy, so possible he could mimic the surroundings.
@@kociarzultimate384 Yeah about that, there’s actually a scene where Soundwave freaking *flies* in tape deck mode.
T-pose Soundwave
🤣 🤣
As a kid, walking home from school, passing by the local toy store, they would have Voltron, and most of the Transformers, proudly displayed in the window, in all their glorious poses... Every day, EVERY DAY, i would stop and fantasize of owning one of them, specifically Optimus... to the point that my parents were once stopped by the owners of the store and said to them "Please buy your son something, our heart breaks every time we see him standing there for 10-20 minutes looking at the window display".. :) lol, my parents bought me Optimus prime for my birthday, after months and months of me drooling for one, and make no mistake, I hinted nothing, it was the owners of the store who made this happen! :)
Just FYI: Back then, 1984, it was about $59 (about $150 today), was a tall ask for parents to buy their kids for just one toy, and we were a poor family... i think my father was earning about $200 a week... before all expenses (rent, food, medical bills, etc)
What a great story! Thank you for sharing it :)
I love this. I was right there with you. We grew up with nothing so I love through your story. Thanks for taking the time to share. ❤transformers forever
@@Valitzu777 also remember, back in them days, most families only had 1 wage earner not 2 - if you look nowadays at people struggling to pay the bills in families with 2 wage earners, imagine what it was like back then when basically you had half the income in real terms you have nowadays.....
@@Debbiebabe69 Half the income yes but also every thing now costs just so much more
Starscream's first line is literally him bemoaning not being in charge. Glad to see nothing has changed in 40+ years ❤
Almost 40 years and the Transformers cartoons never gets old. Thank You :)
Forever timeless
Yup, saw this when I was 8 or 9. I'm 48 now.
Yes, they do
Running from the school bus to make it in time
I forgot about Soundwaves transformation form before he crashed landed on earth. What was Megatron transformation before he crashed on Earth?
10:48 Prime is so immensely kind he thanks the repair drone immediately after regaining conciseness. He doesn’t stop to say “I’m alive? What happened?” He’s grateful, this proves Optimus is such an amazing character
amen for that
He could've at least asked teletraan where his trailer went when he transformed.
Peter Cullen truly gives Prime his soul. For a kid’s cartoon, he really did put a lot of effort into the voice. Had it been anyone else, I don’t think that his death in the movie (very crappy by the way) would’ve made such a huge impact. No one wanted him to die. By this point, he’d become more than a toy, he truly did become someone for people to look up to because he truly is the definition of a gentle giant
@@Ironmew05 yeah
@@chloecover1276 we have Peter Cullen's brother Larry to thank for that. Larry told Peter to be a real hero, and have heart or something like that.
Congrats to Peter Cullen for expecting the lifetime achievement award for best voice over!
Award winning role for Prime
Also Frank Welker, who voiced 60% of the Deceptions at this point.
Can we stop a second to say how cool SoundWave's voice is?
I was thinking the same thing. He's becoming my favorite character after Megatron.
agreed
FAVORITE
@@zerimar26 always was my favorite in a love-hate way haha...as a kid I would be screaming at the autobots to focus on Soundwave bc he was the silent MVP but they never listened haha.
13:31 That speech where he keeps dropping it lower and lower with each breath is my jam. Mega nostalgia feels, right there.
For such an old series, the animation is surprisingly detailed
This show is one of the few American ones with such detailed characters. Almost every other US series from Batman/X-men TAS usually streamlined designs tomake it better to animate or save money. TF had a lot of animation mistakes, but I'd say most of the Toei animated episodes still look decent after 38 years. Very few Japanese studios work on American cartoons these days. We were lucky TF and GIJOE had Toei in the 1980s.
@@jignat Maybe even as adults we can go back to that.
As a Black African I am very proud to see this Cartoon series for the reason outlined out there,
Shhh don’t tell him about season 2 animation…
This animation was made by Toei Animation, yes, Toei Animation! So it's not far fetched to call Transformers an Anime.
@@TheMegamanVX what is the toys originally Japanese anyway like the Hasbro got the contract to make the American version of the transformers toys and like the name transformers is like the American version of it?
Kudos to Hasbro for putting these online for more generations to discover. I was 10 when the toys hit America. They were literally the coolest things any of us had ever seen. Great era to be a kid!
Yes
7:52
Optimus was so pumped, he turned into Megatron.
I think that was an error.
It was an error
And it made me laugh
☠️☠️☠️
They mixed up the voices of Skywarp and Thundercracker sometime in the first few episodes as well as I recall.
They mixed up the voices of Skywarp and Thundercracker sometime in the first few episodes as well as I recall.
Megatron was lucky it was Skywarp that was revived first and not Starscream lol
Based on events of 86 movie Starscream was better leader, as during his leadership decepticons haven't lost to autobots not even one time, it was when Galvatron arrived they had lost, so...
@@kociarzultimate384 true, they were the best 23 seconds in Deception history.
Skywarp was strangely blue-ish instead of more purple in that scene
Daaamn I never thought about it like that! There wouldnt be a show then lol
@@Robyn_iz_Here I bet it had to do with the color correction in remastering I remember the purple in OTA/VHS as well
13:50 I love how Cliffjumper just shows up with this massive shoulder mounted rocket launcher, like he had it in it's back pocket the whole time. :P
blame Subspace.
As a young transformers fan (I’m 15) I can greatly appreciate the original series thank you for letting me watch this masterpiece of a cartoon :)
Hell yeah! The original series are nostalgic for me (and much more appreciative) than the newer Transformer series.
You are so blessed and lucky to have found these gems (cartoons). Watch all the 80’s cartoons, thundercats, Hulk, Spider-Man, Transformers, He-Man, GI JOE, smurfs, muppet babies, Dark wing duck, VOLTRON. You will grow up like we did. The last generation where men were raised to be men.
Piss off kid. ;)
I’m fifteen too and the only reason I’ve watched the show is thanks to my dad introducing it to me at a young age
@@driftking4AGE Did your account is still active, mank?
10:51 “Thanks”
I know these were the early days of the franchise but it’s strange yet funny hearing Optimus say that rather than something like “You have my eternal gratitude.” The way he says thanks is like “Hey thanks I’ll buy you a beer later.”
That's actually what Cullen was going for in his initial portrayal of Prime.
i miss this version. there is an episode later where optimus makes fun of omega's supreme stunted speech pattern before telling a story by saying "can you talk like a normal autobot?"
I can't help but think G1 optimus would say the same to modern optimus. This one is more relatable to me.
It's even more hilarious to realize that he's thanking Starscream
That is why everyone loves g1 prime.
He was a lot more casual in the first two seasons, though he had his moments. Wait until season 2, in one episode he's shooting hoops out back with some Autobots.
It’s amazing how the entire Beast wars series took place from 8:30 to 8:42
I’m a little dumb could you elaborate
@@godzillaslayer5817 Beast Wars happened in the four-million years between the time stamps
@@ApexwithDavin oh
@@ApexwithDavin damn
@@Din.Djarin time travel hurts my brain too, don’t worry
Man, you listen Frank's voice here, and then when you hear his voice in Transformers: Prime, *you can definitely tell that the guy had been refining his voice acting skills to God Level Status.*
If I didn't know, I probably wouldn't even recognize that it's the same voice
@@skillnorppaxx3760 I know right? His voice is like barely recognizable.
Frank Welker was all over the place. He did Megatron, Soundwave, Skywarp, Trailbreaker, and ALL of the Soundwave cassette characters.
@Nathan Ronco Chris Latta actually had a pretty good run on the show. I should point out he also voiced Wheeljack and Sparkplug as well as Starscream. Starscream being a fan favorite, saw a number of episodes in which he figured prominently in the storylines. Countdown to Oblivion, Starscream's Brigade, as well as a Bruticus' Revenge were just a few of the Starscream-centric episodes.
Tbh Welker's Megatron hasn't changed much voice-wise from the Sunbow cartoon to TFP
"How do you know Cybertron still exists?"
"It must exist"
Megatron's conviction was impressive.
@@XTRABIG That was on theme I remember form this original series, as much of a bastard Megatron was, he sincerely cared about Cybertron.
@@brianblackberry6315 yeah were he not such a sadistic monster he would have made a great Autobot, that’s why the comic continuity where he becomes one is so cool
It would be better for Cybertron to exist!!
For a Decepticon, Shockwave had tremendous job loyalty. After 4 million years, you'd thing there would be at least some progress in the battle on Cybertron. 🤪
13:50
Cliffjumper-"I've got Megatron dead center in my view-finder"
Also Cliffjumper-*misses by a mile*
I like the fact that they left the "after these messages" 8:20 segments in! They bring back memories.
and that jazz transformation is so smooth too
I like the autobot to decepticon logo change theme at 11:32 . Short but nostalgic.
11:26 erm that’s actually frenzy
After wondering for years where to get to watch the whole of g1....this is a dream come true for a relatively new fan...thank you Hasbro
I got into g1 about a year ago. The entire show is on tubi for free.
@@skullcrusher515 Oo thanks for letting me know!
I watched it on stars last year. they have all 4 seasons.
@@urbz6712 Thanks a lot
@@PushanHalder Just a heads-up, Season 4 is only three episodes long.
WHO IS HERE AFTER WATCHING TRANSFORMERS ONE MOVIE? 💪🏾
Hell yeah brother!
Most of us, probably. Going back to the roots.
Me 😅😅😅
Have to🙏🙏
I’m always here watching these great memorable episodes.
This always brings tears to my eye because they were my childhood.
Yes especially when you watch the movies how they destroyed the essence of the show
Same here. Loved watching this a an 80's kid.
You and me both friend you and me both four part episode Transformers more than meets the eye pilot episode
Ffrrrrrrrrrrr
I grew up with this show as well. Today I still imagine new adventures with these characters when I daydream.
As a long time fan who has actually never seen G1, this is a momentous occasion. Thank you, Hasbro, for finally giving me this chance.
As a 42 year old who watched this when it was new, your comment makes me feel ancient. 😂
@@DreamcastFan-101 44 year old and I can still remember seeing this for the first time with my two little brothers, one of them isn't around anymore, he had an autobot mural with his name commemorating him in our old neigbourhood
@@universalflamethrower6342 That's tough to hear, man. We can at least be happy he got to live in an epic era for cartoons.
@@jedijones Yes we do, Untill all are one!
@@universalflamethrower6342 with the allspark.
The 80s were an amazing time to be a small kid. Cartoon animation and stories were at a peak . And NO internet to distract us from the tv. We all (kids) watched cartoons and truly cherished them. Now as adults we look back and realize how good we had it. Simpler times were the Best times!
The 80s were an amazing time to be a kid in America, that's for sure.
Yeah the 80s were the best time to be alive as a kid. The toys and cartoons were the best. Time's were simple, peaceful and magical. I was 9 years old in 1984 and I remember watching the first episodes of the transformers on Saturday mornings. Wow l die to go back to those times.
I ran to home after school creating a bowl full of potato chips and loads of ketchup to watch my favourite starscream and sound wave with my mouth full of patato chips not be able to answer if the TV could get lower...hehehe those where the days ketchup and mayonnaise made sense....
Victor Caroli's narration is awesome. We need that back for the live action movies.
I was a bit surprised when hearing that voice again. I didn't remember it sounding so gruff - very good voiceover work!
@@PhoticsTV it’s possible that over time as he did more narration for the transformers that they did lose that gruffness, it certainly doesn’t sound like they have it in there later voiceovers
Now We have Xenobots that reproduce in a lab. 36 years later.... 🤖
Who needs him when you’ve got Morgan Freedman
@@KeruToL They are both great. But Victor was the OG.
Y'know, despite being a born 80s kid (born in 1983), I've never actually seen this first episode before- they just never aired a rerun of it when I was watching. And frankly I'm AMAZED at how well it holds up, both the animation and the voice acting, even if a lot of the concepts are hokey and absurd (three slightly smaller decepticons combine to transform into... a tiny handheld camera?). This show was a genuine classic of kids TV that managed to massively surpass its intended role as a giant toy commercial.
the humor and jokes are on point too, an underrated aspect of the show
Today, this episode turns 40 years old. Here's for 40 more of our favorite Robots In Disguise!
Walking talking robots. Transformers.
"Intelligent robots who could think and feel." The most important thing about this entire franchise, if you think about how much AI and robotics have advanced since TF first aired.
Yeah I know kinda scary right in 2045 computer intelligence is supposed to surpass us humans so I guess we will wait and see what happens
Hi Megatron! Turn on the light pls!
...robots still can't think or feel
@@carlrs15 not until 2045 when they surpass us in intelligence
@@nexusprime2006
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I turned 52 yrs old, 3 days ago...
I watch this with a tear in my eye.
The Good Old Days are
are very long gone.
Man do i miss them.
You have some fond memories from then, though...and no one can take them away from you.
We all have to face our own aging at some point. Time goes on; what have we done with our time?
This cartoon is an old friend for many of us.
Yep I'm with you man. Pine for this time. Range of emotions watching this and thinking of the past.
I hear you. The world today is nothing like those times...but let them be jealous of us my friend
I am 44,when i see this cartoon after 36years again i also with tears ,It is a dream for a boy .
This show from the 1980s made my childhood.
I am now an adult at 40 and still enjoying the show.
Same here
Same bro, 40
@@lodersracing Married with Children,
It's about damn time that this content made its way to TH-cam in an official, quality format.
Now it's time to bring the Japanese continuity over officially.
Shout Factory had the Japanese shows on DVD a couple years ago.
@@TimeLord675 That is true. I think for the G1 Japan-only stuff to be posted, it would have to be between Hasbro, Shout Factory, and whoever made the cartoon.
@@jeremyriley1238
Takara.
No. No. No. And.....
NO.
I would love to see Armada get a Blu Ray set.
So good of Hasbro to release this. For free of all things!!! These cartoons are timeless. I hope new generation kids can enjoy and appreciated these original cartoons.
yes they can or its just me
Yeah I really enjoyed this its seriously better then the modern transformers
I'm enjoying them, I love these better than the movies tbh!
@@kareemaboumughdeb966 Same
My childhood well I was born in 1996 but I watched reruns of the show back when in the early 2000s on VHS and DVD at the library well my first introduction was Armada I can't deny, this is the best cartoon ever made way better then the Michael Bay films. I will always be a Transformers fan until the day I die.
I just love how Cliff just pulls a giant bazooka out of nowhere
That's why he's my favourite! Bro was so eager.
Hound was more like: Cliffjumper, where did you pull that from?
Crashout Cliffjumper💀
All men can do it too. 😂😂😂
13:49
How big do you want your blaster?
Cliffjumper: YES
And he still missed the shot 💀
@@Silencersix lol
18:01 That transformation is spectacular, it has a lot of style. Jazz's vehicle mode fits him perfectly, the Porsche 935 Turbo is amazing...
11:20
Remember kids
Rumble is blue
Frenzy is red
The amount of animation errors make me question that, but that's fine.
This pilot episode and first season are as perfect as you can get.
Don't forget the movie!👍
@@great159 the movie is a masterpiece that leads into a not so great 3rd season
@@04killer07 I agree with you on the first half of that sentence, at least. 😄
Season 1 is awsome
Season 2 is a masterpiece
G1 movie timeless classic
Season 3 meh
The rebirth part 1 and 2 Suck Balls.
@@04killer07 first half of the movie was great! Then Optimus got a darker paint job
My father introduced this to me when I was little back in 2007 or so and I loved it. I'm so glad I can rewatch it. Thank you.
That's awesome u can appreciate just how special this cartoon was & still is!! Ur Dad is a very smart man!!
Same. My father introduced this show to me around when the bay movies first started coming out. I remember him showing me his old toys from that time as well. This show left such a mark on me growing up and inspired most of my interests and long term goals
I got the entire box set of g1 for one Christmas around that time ,best present ever
❤❤❤
Starscream was the best thing that happened to the Autobots. LOL
The ultimate irony... It was Teletraan One responsible for reviving the Decepticons first while Starscream gave a helping hand for restoring the Autobots.
This is most likely the reason Optimus says thanks instead of you have my eternal gratitude.
In the Marvel comics, it was explained that the crash damaged Teletraan One's memory of the war, so friend and foe were treated alike by the computer, which definitely sounds plausible for the cartoon as well.
@@BlazeMaster That’s what I said as well.
That was the first question I had rewatching this episode…still an instant classic though!
@@2talljones34 Or it could be that virus Blackarachnia planned on Teletraan I to prevent self-destruction. I know it may not be true. But, hey. It might be.
Nearly 40 years. These adventures still feel like I just watched and enjoyed them for the first time.
I know! Every few years I rediscover this show and fall in love all over again.
“We can concentrate the energy into Energon cubes & store them in the new space cruiser.”
The way Soundwave says this at 13:31 is so calming.
Soundwave: cybertronian ASMR artist 🤣
And then megatrons maniacal laugh after
19:12 - Spike punching Rumble was the most hilarious moment of this episode 😃
😂😂😂😂👌🏿
gotta love how all the humans' first reactions to seeing a giant alien robot for the first time is to throw stuff at it instead of running away
@@asdfoifhvjbkaos trowing random bullshit is more realistic then just running
At least in my opinion
@@asdfoifhvjbkaos hey throwing we're in a b******* is how we took over this planet and it's how we'll defeat the aliens and eventually we have machines to throw random b******* for us they're called guns
That was very stupid to try squaring up against an metal being twice is size and obviously 100 times as tough as his bones but the kid's got heart I'll give him that.
The G1 Season 1-2 ending credits are still probably my favorite outro music from any show. It's just...energetic, upbeat. This isn't just nostalgia talking, for as silly as the rest of the show's elements could be I think the music *still* holds up and is still awesome.
I like season 1-3
This series is 40 years old soon, that’s crazy
Everyone can agree on this statement..."Our childhood started the day this show became the greatest thing ever that happened to the world."
STRONGLY agree. They were my childhood. I didn't care for anything else back in the 80's. I was strictly transformers
10:31 Starscream's greatest treachery: the entire series could've not happened if he hadn't tried to bury the Ark.
This was the most incredible thing i had ever watched when i was a kid.... and it still is.
Great to watch these how they originally aired, with no silly added sound effects.
ikr? the difference in sound quality was so jarring too
Unfortunately, we still have to deal with all the errors from the Rhino releases
@@johncaulfield8935 👍
I have the Shout release, and I don't hear anything that the Rhino releases' issues were criticized for.
@@commscan314 You’ll have to buy and watch a Rhino dvd to understand
Peter Cullen, Scatman Crothers, and Casey Kasem. Man oh man, talk about distinctive voices. As a kid, you didn't even care, but now you just have an appreciation for such talent.
Frank Welker as well, and Chris Latta.
5:39 This cracked me up. My man said "NEVEERRRRRRRRR!!!" It'll be a cold day in hell before he relinquishes command.
I love how star scream talked about betraying Megatron in front of him
All he said was that he’d be a better leader and that one day he’ll rule after Megatron.
@@victoracosta4796 I know what you mean, but it just sorta feels like a threat to me.
@@seanbrassell Yeah, but that’s the LEAST threatening thing he says in this pilot.
I’ll be completely honest with you, I didn’t watch the entire thing, so you definitely know better
I wasn't born in the 80's, but I still consider this show apart of my childhood, since I was introduced to it at the age of 9 by a frenemy. I also loved it and rewatched the entire series a million times over.
Ah the memories of a happy 80's childhood. These episodes bring a tear of nostalgia. Thanks for maintaining them on TH-cam!
🎯🎯🎯🎯 I just made a Stop Motion with my REFRAKTOR 🎬📸🎞️ a few days ago‼️ I’ve been a Transformer fan since Day 1 & I love animating my G1 & Movie collection. What 3 Transformers would you link to see animated?
To be 8 years old again, a golden age in the early 80s.
This is when Transformers G1 was at it's best and Grimlock was an actual badass.
My love for this Franchise will never fade it's amazing how well this hold up for it's time.
Man, this pilot episode is near flawless. Later they had a lot of continuity errors. I guess the animation got rushed when they knew they had a hit and were pressured to pump out episodes. But this is immaculate!
Yeah. They started the full series before the three part mini series aired. They also made like, 40 some episodes for the second season.
“Autobots! Transform and roll out!” I love TRANSFORMERS.
Happy 40th Anniversary, Transformers!
I remember being a 5 year old kid watching this with my younger siblings 40 years ago.
Times gone by.
I was 3 months shy of being 3 when TF first aired. Fond memories of this and other 80s toons
Hasbro, thank you so much for posting the first season!!!
If you can, I think a load of people would love it if you could post season 2, 3 and 4!!!
Just an idea.
They are! Every season is to be released weekly!
They will release it in weekly instances
@@ianrushworth6239 really? Wow!!! When did they say that, I think I missed it
And I would love if they would start to stream 8 hrs of Tranformers continuously, they way they do GI Joe. It really makes it feel "alive" again, knowing it's "airing" this very moment, haha.
Please release proper version with no mistakes and without the added sound effects
Hasbro are legends for putting these on TH-cam.
Happy 40th Anniversary to The Transformers.
1984-2024
It's amazing how much they just got right in this series. The alien vehicles were cool and the fact they thought to do that at all was great. And the idea of searching for a resource rather then something more specific was a great way to keep the story open-ended to do so much. And to me energon will always be just a way of optimizing and storing energy, not an element.
3:05 I just noticed that Bumblebee's cybertron mode actually has wheels and when he lost one after being blasted by seekers his right "wing" was scraping on the ground.
I guess they were more like hover projectors.
@@wingedbluj1674 He did say his rear axle was damaged...
Good catch.
3:07 you can clearly see the wheel
I bet the axle is gives fuel to the booster or something like that
Still one of the best cartoons ever made! And the first season is absolutely incredible so far! Great to relive the memories. Thanks Hasbro Pulse for putting these up!
I have always thought Energon Cubes look delicious
I bet it tastes like strawberry.
@@TimeLord675 nah it's grape
keep watching. you'll see how delicious they'll be when megatron and decepticons splurge on them in a later episode
I always thought they taste like strawberry quick.
Like grape popsicles
I am so in love with this channel.
Now I can understand why the older transformers fans loved this show so much ! It's so action packed and intense ! Plus the battle strategies make sense too.
I can only imagine how it must have been when this pilot episode premiered in the 80s.
Its so grandscale !
I'm 15 and just watched this. I've seen every film adaptation (except for the 1986 one) and have seen parts of some shows that are transformers. I just wanted to say that this was awesome, kind of surprising but awesome, and I'm more than lucky to be able to watch these on my PC from TH-cam. Thank you, Hasbro ❤🔥
Someone also uploaded the full length 1986 movie to TH-cam, so you’re covered there too
_So_ glad that people can actually comment on these episodes. The main audience for the G1 'toons is made up of the people that actually watched them as kids of the 1980's, after all.
The bullshit with the supposedly-COPPA-enforcing algorithms _must_ end.
I agree this Coppa crap is getting ridiculous.I'm sure the kids are being tracked in some way even with the comments disabled.
I fricking hope they don't turn it off in the future.
Sigh, man, I was railing against that bureaucratic government BS since before they started enforcing. There are some real insidious groups behind that, who post about the "evils" of Tony the Tiger on cereal and stuff like that. They're like a sick cult, totally out of touch with reality and the common people. And yet they wrote these regulations and got them forced on the whole country.
@@jedijones Please don't bring QAnon crap to my thread.
@@Deined You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. I carefully researched the COPPA issue when it came up and am telling you the facts about where it came from. To knee-jerk pull a "QANON" insult out of your back pocket instead of researching the facts shows you're a total ignoramus. Everything I said is from my own personal research, from major publications and the group's own web site and social media. They conspired to take away our free speech rights because of some far-out, fringe beliefs. I'm obviously on your side against COPPA, and I tell you a few simple, provable, verifiable facts, and you insult me. You're a total douchebag.
I don’t think I could be any more grateful, coming from an OG ‘84 Transformers fan! Can’t wait for the additional seasons!
I just found out this series is actually available on TH-cam. I was like, “Seriously? I need to see this.”
After only having seen the live actions movies until now I recently binged the whole first season of G1. I love it.
Season 2 is better (I’ve watched the entire series maybe 350 times since I was 4)
@@-stormy_gacha-2518
My goodness
My childhood right here. Great memories of watching this with my mum and dad. Sadly they are no longer with us anymore but watching this brings them back for me.
My dad was 7 when this released and he raised me on this I have no regrets as I am now the Transformer nerd of the house and have spent hours watching every movie and series idc that I lived my dads childhood it was amazing and to this day G1 is my favorite series
7:57 and in comes Ironhide with an absolutely perfect dropkick to Soundwave!
There are like 4 points that would make good What If… episodes:
•What if the volcano never erupted
•What if the Autobots were woken up first
•What if Starscream didn’t shoot the mountain
• And lastly What if Cliffjumper didn’t miss
I wonder what Megatron would do if he ever found out that Starscream was the reason that the Autobots awakened in the first place.
It's incredible that technically the first transformer we ever saw was Wheeljack.
Yes Chris latta was given the first spoken dialouge
We he ever in a any of the live action movies?
@@JBM1428 Sort of. There was the character of Q in Dark of the Moon who was either supposed to be him or was inspired by him. I don't really know.
@@JBM1428in the Rise of the Beast
Ehat the fuck were the character designers thinking?
I remember watching this back in my old house before going to elementary school. I would watch it every single day on our red couch, right before asking my mom to tie my shoes. Those were way simpler times. I almost forgot about all of it until one day it hit me. Just by listening to the intro for the first time in years made me think, wow.
Bro we have the same exact story except i’d wake up super early just to watch both g.i joe and transformers before it was even time for me to wake up
@@Roninisimmortalexaclty!! I forgot about gi Joe as well. I just finished watching the new transformers movie and the fact they’re gonna do a collab makes me so excited. It brought me back to old times..
MVP characters in this episode
Optimus prime: was the first one to be reactivated and revives the other autobots
Skywarp: first one to be reactivated and revives the other desepticons
And Starscream who accidentally woke the Autobots
0:40 "It is the year 2005..."
Who else is going to watch Transformers the Movie later this month in theaters for the 35th anniversary?
I'll never get tired of watching the transformers. Absolutely love them
Jazz and Soundwave were the two that always resonated with me the most
This show was amazing back in the day. Still fun to watch after all these years.
Absolutely I grew up watching this series and now my daughter can enjoy it
First thing the jet did was revive Megatron. First one Megatron revived was Soundwave. I always liked Megatron. He has a great sense of priorities.
Skywarp is unquestionably loyal to Megatron, he would do anything for him as he commands. have you ever noticed how organized Megatron has his troops? bad guys can cooperate too. this makes sense as to why he is a gun.
As I sit here watching this show and reading the comments of the older fans who remember watching this on TV in the 80s, it surprises me that there is a huge amount of respect for both the show and the younger fans who are just discovering this older version for the first time.
Thank you. 😊
Also Peter Cullen is the best Optimus Prime & Frank Welker is the best Megatron!!!! So glad both have returned to their roles, from the videogames to the last couple of Michael Bay films!!!!!!
Well said‼️ I just made a Stop Motion with my Megatron 🎬📸🎞️ a few days ago‼️ I’ve been a Transformer fan since Day 1 & I love animating my G1 & Movie collection. What 3 Transformers would you link to see animated?
Still remember watching this , I was 9 back in 85 in the UK.... fell in love with transformers right here
I was 10.
I wasn't born until the next year and didn't see Transformers until the early 90's, during a time when me and my older brother would go around car boot sales finding the VHS tapes and any toys of Transformers I could find, finding the Ladybird books, Annuals, pretty much anything I could find and I still have it all today ^_^
@@GinraiPrime666 haha yes I know how you feel.... I have so much stuff it's getting quite chaotic in my loft lol
This is extremely watchable as an adult. Very well put together and serious, seemed realistic and not goofy. Which is what I liked even as a kid. I hated goofy cartoons. I remember even playing with my toys and using the correct physics and speed. I remember this episode so well from when I was a kid in the 80's. I didn't realize there was really only 3 seasons and a few episodes of a 4th season. I thought it went on for much longer. I used to watch Transformers constantly after school. And had tons of the toys. I remember going to the toy store with my Dad and buying my first Transformer. The blue jet, Thundercracker, and my brother got Star Scream. It felt like it must have been 5 years or more. But really it was only two years I was seriously into it. By the time the movie came out I was in the 6th grade and didn't even see the movie or watch the TV show anymore. I think I saw a few episodes of the 3rd season with the new characters though. I didn't sell all my transformers until later in my high school years when it was time to get rid of the big box.
I remember that matrix episode around the time the movie came out, I ran out of VCR tape and kept hitting record to try and get the last bit of the end. It would write over the last few seconds over and over.
There's a tear in my eye as I watch this. I had these first few episodes on VHS back in my early childhood. What's incredible is that I can still recall all the dialogue despite being 41 now. Still cracking entertainment.
I was 8 in 1984, I grew up in the best time. The golden age of cartoons and toy figures.
I laughed my ass off when the one took a Poloroid. Hasbro should have more of these classic cartoons on TH-cam. I want to see The Pirates of Darkwater
Seekers scenes
2:11 2:45 2:49
Soundwave scenes
3:46 3:50 4:03 4:11 4:24 4:41
Decepticon base scenes
4:52 4:57 5:04 5:14 5:41
Space chase scenes
6:07 6:14 6:38 6:57 7:08 7:12
Repair scenes
9:00 9:12 9:21 9:33
Megatron's command scenes
10:54 11:00 11:05 11:11
Soundwave's help scenes
11:17 11:21 12:14
Decepticons base of operations scenes
13:31 14:08 14:11 18:22
Energy robbery scenes
19:21 19:32 19:47
And this, alongside the release of the first Transformers toy and the first issue of Transformers Marvel Comics, is where it all started. And now, I can safely say that the Transformers franchise is (and will most likely remain) my favourite franchise in fiction. A franchise that is...more than meets the eye.
I see what you did there