14:57 Ironic you and many other fans don't realize that the "Pat Lee" off model Optimus was the first piece of animation of the one and only Masami Obari's career, and his stylization is a dead ringer. He was only 18 when we worked on Transformers. Right now, he's director of Bang Brave Bang Bravern, so that goofy looking Optimus kicked off the career of a mecha legend. Pat Lee WISHES he was Obari.
09:35 I mean, in Autobot X, when Spike's mind is inside the titular robot (who is basically assembled out of spare parts of Jazz, Bluestreak and a couple others) he uses Jazz's winch to save Sparkplug's life, so they didn't totally forget about the hand swapping feature of the characters.
Another forgotten bit from the original miniseries: We were introduced to Spike working on an offshore oil platform, which certainly _implies_ that he's 18 or older. Yet later in the series, he isn't even old enough to drive.
There is one thing I found very weird in the first four episodes that you did not mention: Laserbeak On Cybertron, millions of years ago, he transformed from a UFO-style bird drone into an ordinary looking Earth-style cassette tape to fit into Soundwave. Yet on Earth, when Teletraan-1 sought out local mechanical devices, machinery and vehicles, his robot mode was made to look more like a mechanical Condor, or some similar bird, yet his alt.mode still resembled the earth cassette. I did not know that there were mechanical birdlife back in 1984. I found that whole thing extremely weird. Also, a few days ago you had a video about bad names for Transformers and you mentioned Kup. His name was not named after the drinking vessel, with a C, but a shortened name for his alt.mode, a Pickup Truck, as it is called in America, as in PicKUP. In the part of the world where I am from, New Zealand and Australia, that sort of vehicle is called a Ute (pronounced YOU-T), short for Utility Vehicle. You never know, he could have had a name along that lines.
@@mecha53107 I love early Rumble! He's like an angry Chihuahua who keeps sassing the taller bot and still kicking butt and he beefs with a teenager a few times. I don't think we've ever really gotten a version like that since. My favorite Decepticon of those early eps.
My wish would be that this 40th anniversary might see a fully cleaned up, de-Rhino'd, color-corrected, layered properly edit of the old episodes. Really make them what was truly intended back in 1984.
He did once call Megatron "a prisoner of [his] own twisted delusions", but I guess that's not really sassy, per se. Either way, whether sassy or stoic or a bit of both, I love Optimus in all his forms.
The G1 cartoon was certainly plagued with animation errors and incorrect voiceovers. Those were the 80's after all. Lots of things needed to be established in the series itself, even after the first few episodes. The Transformers were made to sell toys mainly, they didn't take or had the time to make proper storylines for the cartoon. Lots of stuff were changed like the energon weapons Prime and Megatron used, for some unknown reasons. In fact, I believe that the creators of the Transformers never though for a second that this franchise would last 40 years! But it still brings back childhood memories to me, having grown up with the Transformers back in the day, I got the entire series on DID and it makes me smile. 😊
They say right in the 1st episode the autobots were on the verge of extinction which I always took as meaning there were more decepticons but for toys there were way more autobots so I always looked at it as 3 main seekers and then a bunch of extras to make up the ranks kinda like the sweeps in season 3
One little oddity that always gets me, Wheeljack has a totally different accent in part 3. He shares VA with Sparkplug, Chris Latta, and apparently at some point during production it was decided the two sounded too similar. Latta the swapped Wheeljack’s faux-New York for a more Southern accent, but I guess that overlapped too much with Ironhide and they went back to original accent.
I really wish Optimus' axe and Megatron's mace weren't just forgotten after this. They only used those awesome and now iconic weapons once and never again. Seems like a pretty goody decision. Maybe Optimus never uses Roller again because the one time he did he almost exploded in a mine so Prime just wants to keeo his little buddy safe.
I don't think they expected these weapons to end up being as iconic as they were. Given how much the arm thing is used in these episodes it just seems to have been part of the general theme and these ones stood out to people, probably because of the context of it being a duel between the Leaders.
Who would have thought the one with the cheap toy and the simple, brightly-colored, immediately-recognizable design would become more popular? Hound got dealt a bad hand from the very beginning.
The 3-part premiere was my intro to the franchise thanks to my eldest brother owning the VHS tape. He also has the Megatron's Master Plan and The Key To Vector Sigma/War Dawn tapes.
Prime's energon axe and Megatron's energon mace were likely a reference to the fight scene in 1952's _Ivanhoe,_ in which Ivanhoe and his opponent are respectively armed with a hand axe and a chain mace. Also in the pilot miniseries, it seemed pretty clear that Jazz was Prime's lieutenant, whereas later it seemed to be Prowl (or maybe Ironhide?).
My memory of the original airing was that first three played Mon, Tues, and Wens in prime time. Four aired Sat morning. Then watched the same 10 episodes over and over. (Peanuts save the Statue of Liberty bought a lot of ad time.) Ultimate Doom was on weekdays prime time. Months later the final five aired on weekdays. Then again I was really young and hit my head, a lot.
Mt. St. Hilary from Transformers G1 is a direct nod to Mr. St. Helens that erupted in 1980, meaning in the Transformers universe, a lot of the story is in Oregon. The volcano really does look a lot like Helens. The one in real life doesn't have an alien spaceship at its base. When my family used to go visit Oregon siblings, we would on one or two occasions pass by Helens, and then decree, "The Autobot base is there, can you see it?" Good times.
I never forgot that the Autobots could fly. In fact whenever I hear someone say that my reaction is always but there are a bunch of Autobots who turn into things that can fly. Skyfire, Cosmos, Powerglide, Blades, the entire freaking team of Arialbots, all of the triple changers, ect. Even if they don't have a specific vehicle mode that can fly a lot of the Autobots have door wings and I always thought that's why they could fly in robot mode was cause they have wings. And it's always been a mistake that Autobots can't fly because in that one scene Optimus Prime literally FLIES over to Side Swipe to ask him for his jet pack so that he can FLY... Optimus you were literally just flying 2 seconds ago why do you need a jet pack? He could have gone straight to his target instead of making a pit stop to ask Side Swipe for help doing something he was already doing. I will also note that you literally never see the jet pack before or after except for that one time it's specifically mentioned. Oh and Optimus' trailer is used about 2 or 3 times but never when he's actually himself. One time it's used when he was brought back as a zombie after his death. Once it's used when he's infected with the hate plague. And I think it was used when he was rebuilt as an aligator. Roller was used more often than the trailer itself but there was one time Roller was treated as just an extention of Optimus himself rather than his own entity the way he's treated in the pilot.
No, the trailer was used four times in the entire series, in the episodes More Than Meets the Eye Part 3, Fire in the Sky, Attack of the Autobots and The Search of Alpha Trion.
13:18 Some guys just need to fire something off, no matter how drained they are. One other thing that was weird that I wish you brought up was the appearance of Hauler/Road Hauler. The Autobot we see once in vehicle mode in episode 1 and then never see again in the show (Unless you count Five Faces of Darkness).
Found out fairly recently the reason for that is he was supposed to be in the wave one release of G! toys and was canceled last minute after the episodes had been animated, it is why there was an extra Mirage shipped in the cases.
Roboech or Macross connection also, all the seekers are f14s, the Robotechs are f15 eagle variants, and Jetfire was a Valkyrie f15 variant too. Similar enough. The reason the toy was changed is Harmony Gold didn't want to cartoon toy to look like their Veritech, but for some odd reason, the toy was allowed to look like it. It wasn't until Siege that we got a show accurate Skyfire, Jetfire.
Shockwave is likely a defense turret, hencewhy he was a gun in MTMTE Pt.1. As for in Transport To Oblivion; he might've been shooting at meteors or similar that were getting too close to Cybertron. Either that of an unseen Autobot offensive he only just managed to fend off.
I mean yea, it's weird that they could float when they're all several tons and would likely just sink to the bottom of any body of water, but let's not forget, years later in the movie, Rodimus chucks Galvatron out of Unicron and the dude just continues flying off... into space. It would be one thing had Galvatron decided to book it and started flying on his own or using his cannon to propel himself, but he's legit falling, through SPACE. And it's made all the more bizarre that the guy wound up crashing onto a far off planet instead of winding up on Cybertron, the closest planetary body and the one thing I would maybe have expected to pull him into orbit after being ejected from Unicron. That also reminds me, Hotrod fought with some kind of training robot that seemed more... basic than a Cybertronian, and I don't think we ever saw anything like that again, at least in G1.
For the floating issue; my opinion is that Cybertronian metals are lighter than Earth metals, explaining why Transformers can be nimble like they often are. With this thinking perhaps they're somewhat buoyant, or have internal air bladders to help them float. That second episode, or maybe the third, i forget, shows Rumble and Hound not floating as they were in the Sherman River- so it's possibly a body function they can toggle.
One reason i expect for Bumblebee's popularity, aside from his friendly design, was that he was a Minibot toy, so would've been nicely inexpensive for kids to buy with pocket money.
Minor point of correction, but I distinctly recall that we do see flying Autobots later. In Dawn of the Dinobots, I distinctly recall the titular three characters flying to where the Autobots were having trouble.
@@Troublethecat Sideswipe having a jetpack (and other tools) is because he was supposed to be the Diaclone No 1 Countach LP500S, which is the engine block.
The Dinobots being able to fly in robot mode shows up a few times so the implication at least is they can fly under their own power. Though that raises questions if why Wheeljack can build 'bots who can fly but can't upgrade the main Autobot ranks to do the same.
@@DarkdustDragon The TFwiki mentions there was a deleted scene in SOS Dinobots where Wheeljack gave the Dinobots jetpacks of their own. But I don't know how much that matters since the scene was cut and they never mention that anywhere else.
If I remember correctly at some point in the first three episodes you see either Ratchet or Ironhide’s battle platform. Also, Hauler. It’s kind of odd that they were originally pushing for Hound to be the human contact character only to switch to Bumblebee when the comics already pretty much established Bee as the human contact and the first Autobot to interact with Buster.
@@Undrave Optimus being composed of three components was mentioned once... in episode Attack of the Autobots. The trailer was used pretty much four times in the entire series, most of the time it only appears when Prime transforms into vehicle mode and then it disappears once he transforms back.
The poster has a really weird art direction, putting a smaller vehicle mode Prime in front of the larger robot mode's foot. Before I realized the arrangement, I thought at first glance that they'd forgotten to draw his foot entirely... instead, they hid it! By the way, off-topic, I like the shirt. One story is finished, but the saga of the American Nightmare continues...
I love G1. I was born in 84 and grew up on it. That said, it had continuity issues that Beast Wars and Animated didn’t and that’s why they rise above it imo.
I recall the arm cannon/rifle thing on occasion later on too. Personally, I preferred Hound over Bumblebee. I do like the cannon from Ironhide's toy coming out of his back. Sideswipe converts his hands to piledrivers when they are pursuing the Insecticons. It would make sense if Hoist, Trailbreaker, etc. could replace their gun/tool with a second hand. Attack of the Autobots, Optimus uses all three components. Presumably, Shockwave was firing at Elita-1's unit. What is weird is that for some reason, after FOUR *MILLION* YEARS he decides to try and contact Megatron. Did he make a daily attempt for the entire time, and never gave up? Given most "Movies" are five parters, only showing 4, with that continuity is very odd.
I'll be honest, I've never even liked all the Decepticons flying in robot mode. The Seekers I get, but I've never liked Megatron and Soundwave and the like doing it.
More a point of weird observations. why would Teletran reconfigure Megatron into a small simple handgun and not a tank to begin with? And what's with making Reflector a simple camera, and Soundwave a Walkman from Sony, and Blaster a boom box? And some of the weird combiner bots, a tiny Blast off shuttle, he should be bigger than all of them. The space shuttle is huge! A giant motorcycle, Groove, and other oddities. Not to mention Broadside becomes an aircraft carrier, bigger than a space shuttle, in one mode, and Astrotrain as a train could fit inside a space shuttle, in his other mode. Teletran must have been huffing some of those fumes from the volcano. Sky Lynx is the right size to be a shuttle, but his puma mode is ridiculous. I just assumed that the Autobots captured Megatron's chimera cat sphinx bot from that one g1 episode and rebuilt it as Sky Lynx.
Part of me would like to say that Teletraan gave Megatron a handgun alt mode in an attempt to nerf his power and make it easier for the Autobots to take him on. But then it gave the Seekers F-16 alts, so make of that what you will.
Here’s my head cannon for that. They simply didn’t have enough Energon to deploy those weapons, or they decided to get a bit more creative with their combat.
Shout out to pop n go video where I'd rent fhe transformers vhs tapes in the sweet clamshell cases every week and one week rented more than meets the eye and ultimate doom tapes and when we went to return them pop n go had gone out of business. 🙂
Nothing of that ship would survive for 4 million years. It's a nod to Macross and 4 million battleships. Head canon. Macross would come out as Robotech in 1985.
Just speculating, but the hand weapons and ability of all the bots to fly may have been dropped to distinguish Transformers from Gobots. This would make sense given the first season would have been well along in production when Gobots started to air. So they may have felt the need to change things to make the two properties more distinct.
3 episodes More then Mets there. , Fire in the sky and the deceptions turned the autobots evil Optimus prime the airport Uses roller and trailer platform guns to atack wheel jack and the other auto bots
Its tragedic that one of the best ways to watch MTMTE now is the G2 verison because they arent tainted by the rhino kid edits! 😭 Its now edited in an incrediblely goofy awww way however.
Not that strange. The 4 episode are advertising voor the toy . So kids had a back Story. Same with the comics what you do see iron hide in the original toy model. After that the anime is a hit so it go on . Never made for a anime serie that big
Likely just so it meets the 90 minute running time. Asking people to see more than 2 hours of a jank 80s cartoon in the theater no less might turn many away, and 60 minutes is too short, but 90 minutes is the perfect running time.
@@KazuyaMithra Fair, though I am not expecting the average consumer to casually walk into the theater. The only people to likely go in the first place are people who are already fans on the franchise at large. Due to this I find it more likely they would deal with either 3 or 5 episodes.
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14:57 Ironic you and many other fans don't realize that the "Pat Lee" off model Optimus was the first piece of animation of the one and only Masami Obari's career, and his stylization is a dead ringer. He was only 18 when we worked on Transformers. Right now, he's director of Bang Brave Bang Bravern, so that goofy looking Optimus kicked off the career of a mecha legend. Pat Lee WISHES he was Obari.
Seeing Bravern getting mentioned makes me happy, show was silly yet peak
@@Peridoot3 bravern was truly worthy of the brave name
09:35 I mean, in Autobot X, when Spike's mind is inside the titular robot (who is basically assembled out of spare parts of Jazz, Bluestreak and a couple others) he uses Jazz's winch to save Sparkplug's life, so they didn't totally forget about the hand swapping feature of the characters.
Another forgotten bit from the original miniseries: We were introduced to Spike working on an offshore oil platform, which certainly _implies_ that he's 18 or older. Yet later in the series, he isn't even old enough to drive.
Maybe we can chalk it up to lax child labor laws?
Back then having kids do adult jobs in cartoons wasn't unusual no matter how unrealistic it was. Still it is rather odd now thinking about it.
So THAT'S why I've never seen them use their Energon weapons!
14:38 hes long distance welding and you cant chang my mind because that idea is so stinking funny to me XD
Prowl was like where is that drill going?
Over here in the Uk the first 3 episodes were combined in 1 VHS called Arrival From Cybertron and I must have watched that hundreds of times!
I had a copy of that VHS my dad made nd I watched it aaaalllll the time.
There is one thing I found very weird in the first four episodes that you did not mention: Laserbeak
On Cybertron, millions of years ago, he transformed from a UFO-style bird drone into an ordinary looking Earth-style cassette tape to fit into Soundwave.
Yet on Earth, when Teletraan-1 sought out local mechanical devices, machinery and vehicles, his robot mode was made to look more like a mechanical Condor, or some similar bird, yet his alt.mode still resembled the earth cassette. I did not know that there were mechanical birdlife back in 1984. I found that whole thing extremely weird.
Also, a few days ago you had a video about bad names for Transformers and you mentioned Kup. His name was not named after the drinking vessel, with a C, but a shortened name for his alt.mode, a Pickup Truck, as it is called in America, as in PicKUP. In the part of the world where I am from, New Zealand and Australia, that sort of vehicle is called a Ute (pronounced YOU-T), short for Utility Vehicle. You never know, he could have had a name along that lines.
"I OWE YOU ONE FOR SHERMAN DAM, RUMBLE!"
"YOU COULDN'T SWIM! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU COULD FIGHT!?"
@@mecha53107 I love early Rumble! He's like an angry Chihuahua who keeps sassing the taller bot and still kicking butt and he beefs with a teenager a few times. I don't think we've ever really gotten a version like that since. My favorite Decepticon of those early eps.
My wish would be that this 40th anniversary might see a fully cleaned up, de-Rhino'd, color-corrected, layered properly edit of the old episodes. Really make them what was truly intended back in 1984.
In “Attack of the Autobots” they have to use an Attitude Exchanger on all three of his components. Prime, the combat deck, and Roller.
I miss the sassier Optimus we had here. Can you imagine Prime Optimus calling Megatron junk to his face? No, no you can't.
He did once call Megatron "a prisoner of [his] own twisted delusions", but I guess that's not really sassy, per se.
Either way, whether sassy or stoic or a bit of both, I love Optimus in all his forms.
Meanwhile, bayverse be like "weak, puny, waste of metal, junk yard trash"
_Cybertron_ Optimus was a MASTER of sass.
@@TheatreJosh24601 hello mister phantom
The G1 cartoon was certainly plagued with animation errors and incorrect voiceovers. Those were the 80's after all. Lots of things needed to be established in the series itself, even after the first few episodes. The Transformers were made to sell toys mainly, they didn't take or had the time to make proper storylines for the cartoon. Lots of stuff were changed like the energon weapons Prime and Megatron used, for some unknown reasons. In fact, I believe that the creators of the Transformers never though for a second that this franchise would last 40 years! But it still brings back childhood memories to me, having grown up with the Transformers back in the day, I got the entire series on DID and it makes me smile. 😊
They say right in the 1st episode the autobots were on the verge of extinction which I always took as meaning there were more decepticons but for toys there were way more autobots so I always looked at it as 3 main seekers and then a bunch of extras to make up the ranks kinda like the sweeps in season 3
IM VERY EXCITED TO SEE THE FIRST 4 EPISODES OF THE ORIGINAL 1984 TRANSFORMERS SERIES ON THE BIG SCREEN!!!! A once in a lifetime event!!!!
One little oddity that always gets me, Wheeljack has a totally different accent in part 3. He shares VA with Sparkplug, Chris Latta, and apparently at some point during production it was decided the two sounded too similar. Latta the swapped Wheeljack’s faux-New York for a more Southern accent, but I guess that overlapped too much with Ironhide and they went back to original accent.
I really wish Optimus' axe and Megatron's mace weren't just forgotten after this. They only used those awesome and now iconic weapons once and never again. Seems like a pretty goody decision.
Maybe Optimus never uses Roller again because the one time he did he almost exploded in a mine so Prime just wants to keeo his little buddy safe.
I don't think they expected these weapons to end up being as iconic as they were. Given how much the arm thing is used in these episodes it just seems to have been part of the general theme and these ones stood out to people, probably because of the context of it being a duel between the Leaders.
My buddy bought us tickets before I even knew it was happening. Can't wait to see these on the big screen.
Who would have thought the one with the cheap toy and the simple, brightly-colored, immediately-recognizable design would become more popular? Hound got dealt a bad hand from the very beginning.
Roller also showed up in The Autobot Run & Attack Of The Autobots.
The 3-part premiere was my intro to the franchise thanks to my eldest brother owning the VHS tape.
He also has the Megatron's Master Plan and The Key To Vector Sigma/War Dawn tapes.
I wish that hound was the kid appeal character. Then the bumblebee movie would be even more significant than it already is.
Prime's energon axe and Megatron's energon mace were likely a reference to the fight scene in 1952's _Ivanhoe,_ in which Ivanhoe and his opponent are respectively armed with a hand axe and a chain mace.
Also in the pilot miniseries, it seemed pretty clear that Jazz was Prime's lieutenant, whereas later it seemed to be Prowl (or maybe Ironhide?).
My memory of the original airing was that first three played Mon, Tues, and Wens in prime time. Four aired Sat morning. Then watched the same 10 episodes over and over. (Peanuts save the Statue of Liberty bought a lot of ad time.) Ultimate Doom was on weekdays prime time. Months later the final five aired on weekdays.
Then again I was really young and hit my head, a lot.
The post did mention "other surprises" so maybe Roll For It could show up.
Mt. St. Hilary from Transformers G1 is a direct nod to Mr. St. Helens that erupted in 1980, meaning in the Transformers universe, a lot of the story is in Oregon. The volcano really does look a lot like Helens. The one in real life doesn't have an alien spaceship at its base. When my family used to go visit Oregon siblings, we would on one or two occasions pass by Helens, and then decree, "The Autobot base is there, can you see it?" Good times.
I never forgot that the Autobots could fly. In fact whenever I hear someone say that my reaction is always but there are a bunch of Autobots who turn into things that can fly.
Skyfire, Cosmos, Powerglide, Blades, the entire freaking team of Arialbots, all of the triple changers, ect.
Even if they don't have a specific vehicle mode that can fly a lot of the Autobots have door wings and I always thought that's why they could fly in robot mode was cause they have wings.
And it's always been a mistake that Autobots can't fly because in that one scene Optimus Prime literally FLIES over to Side Swipe to ask him for his jet pack so that he can FLY... Optimus you were literally just flying 2 seconds ago why do you need a jet pack? He could have gone straight to his target instead of making a pit stop to ask Side Swipe for help doing something he was already doing.
I will also note that you literally never see the jet pack before or after except for that one time it's specifically mentioned.
Oh and Optimus' trailer is used about 2 or 3 times but never when he's actually himself. One time it's used when he was brought back as a zombie after his death. Once it's used when he's infected with the hate plague. And I think it was used when he was rebuilt as an aligator. Roller was used more often than the trailer itself but there was one time Roller was treated as just an extention of Optimus himself rather than his own entity the way he's treated in the pilot.
No, the trailer was used four times in the entire series, in the episodes More Than Meets the Eye Part 3, Fire in the Sky, Attack of the Autobots and The Search of Alpha Trion.
The trailer drone was also seen in Attack Of The Autobots as one of Prime's components.
That fight was also a rare appearance of Roller.
13:18 Some guys just need to fire something off, no matter how drained they are.
One other thing that was weird that I wish you brought up was the appearance of Hauler/Road Hauler. The Autobot we see once in vehicle mode in episode 1 and then never see again in the show (Unless you count Five Faces of Darkness).
Found out fairly recently the reason for that is he was supposed to be in the wave one release of G! toys and was canceled last minute after the episodes had been animated, it is why there was an extra Mirage shipped in the cases.
@@saimaidar9417 Some foreign dubs of the cartoon even renamed him Grapple. And then Japan turned that error into an exclusive repaint.
I've seen the More than Meets the Eye trilogy more than any other episodes. That's why Hound was always my favorite character.
Head canon, gonna call the dull blue purple seeker Hotlink and the dark purple one Slipstream.
Roboech or Macross connection also, all the seekers are f14s, the Robotechs are f15 eagle variants, and Jetfire was a Valkyrie f15 variant too. Similar enough. The reason the toy was changed is Harmony Gold didn't want to cartoon toy to look like their Veritech, but for some odd reason, the toy was allowed to look like it. It wasn't until Siege that we got a show accurate Skyfire, Jetfire.
Sherman Dam is actually Hoover Dam in Nevada. They went a long way to go to Nevada from Oregon, but it's not unreasonable they could.
17:55 Good! It's good to see and hear Optimus having some passion and personality.
Why would anyone think the first miniseries was weird? It was the OG. Everything else is the weird stuff deviating from the PERFECT miniseries.
Shockwave is likely a defense turret, hencewhy he was a gun in MTMTE Pt.1.
As for in Transport To Oblivion; he might've been shooting at meteors or similar that were getting too close to Cybertron. Either that of an unseen Autobot offensive he only just managed to fend off.
I mean yea, it's weird that they could float when they're all several tons and would likely just sink to the bottom of any body of water, but let's not forget, years later in the movie, Rodimus chucks Galvatron out of Unicron and the dude just continues flying off... into space. It would be one thing had Galvatron decided to book it and started flying on his own or using his cannon to propel himself, but he's legit falling, through SPACE. And it's made all the more bizarre that the guy wound up crashing onto a far off planet instead of winding up on Cybertron, the closest planetary body and the one thing I would maybe have expected to pull him into orbit after being ejected from Unicron. That also reminds me, Hotrod fought with some kind of training robot that seemed more... basic than a Cybertronian, and I don't think we ever saw anything like that again, at least in G1.
To be fair hand swapping has been a thing throughout g1 with it being in almost every episode.
Yeah I thought I remembered it happening fairly regularly.
For the floating issue; my opinion is that Cybertronian metals are lighter than Earth metals, explaining why Transformers can be nimble like they often are. With this thinking perhaps they're somewhat buoyant, or have internal air bladders to help them float.
That second episode, or maybe the third, i forget, shows Rumble and Hound not floating as they were in the Sherman River- so it's possibly a body function they can toggle.
One reason i expect for Bumblebee's popularity, aside from his friendly design, was that he was a Minibot toy, so would've been nicely inexpensive for kids to buy with pocket money.
Minor point of correction, but I distinctly recall that we do see flying Autobots later.
In Dawn of the Dinobots, I distinctly recall the titular three characters flying to where the Autobots were having trouble.
They also have Sideswipe fly pretty frequently, probably using the fact that he has a jetpack as an excuse, but they almost never draw him wearing it.
@@Troublethecat Sideswipe having a jetpack (and other tools) is because he was supposed to be the Diaclone No 1 Countach LP500S, which is the engine block.
The Dinobots being able to fly in robot mode shows up a few times so the implication at least is they can fly under their own power. Though that raises questions if why Wheeljack can build 'bots who can fly but can't upgrade the main Autobot ranks to do the same.
@@DarkdustDragon The TFwiki mentions there was a deleted scene in SOS Dinobots where Wheeljack gave the Dinobots jetpacks of their own. But I don't know how much that matters since the scene was cut and they never mention that anywhere else.
I’m really excited for this. I got my two tickets secured for the lady and I, and we shall be there on the 18th!
If I remember correctly at some point in the first three episodes you see either Ratchet or Ironhide’s battle platform. Also, Hauler. It’s kind of odd that they were originally pushing for Hound to be the human contact character only to switch to Bumblebee when the comics already pretty much established Bee as the human contact and the first Autobot to interact with Buster.
customizers would have a field day making every one of those 6 random blue seekers
@14:55 Go look up Masami Obari.
THANK YOU
He has WAY more talent to him than Pat Lee. And he's way more honest about his work.
*Looks at Angel Blade with squinted eyes...*
@@angelriverasantana7755 Obari also did the laser disc cover for Transformers.
@@VZMkII one of the coolest pieces of 90s G1 art
Actually Optimus Primes Battle platform shows up again in the episode where all the Autobots turn evil, Season 2 episode 19 "Attack of the Autobots"
12:30 Was roller planned to be like his pet? Or son?
I think at some point the cab, trailer and roller were basically all components of Optimus Prime, like he was three things in vehicle mode.
@@Undrave Optimus being composed of three components was mentioned once... in episode Attack of the Autobots. The trailer was used pretty much four times in the entire series, most of the time it only appears when Prime transforms into vehicle mode and then it disappears once he transforms back.
You did not mention Hauler
I heard somewhere that they hadn't originally planned to make a full series of Transformers so the mini series was all there was gonna be.
These episodes better be made public again on Hasbro Pulse.
The poster has a really weird art direction, putting a smaller vehicle mode Prime in front of the larger robot mode's foot. Before I realized the arrangement, I thought at first glance that they'd forgotten to draw his foot entirely... instead, they hid it!
By the way, off-topic, I like the shirt. One story is finished, but the saga of the American Nightmare continues...
I love G1. I was born in 84 and grew up on it. That said, it had continuity issues that Beast Wars and Animated didn’t and that’s why they rise above it imo.
I recall the arm cannon/rifle thing on occasion later on too.
Personally, I preferred Hound over Bumblebee.
I do like the cannon from Ironhide's toy coming out of his back.
Sideswipe converts his hands to piledrivers when they are pursuing the Insecticons. It would make sense if Hoist, Trailbreaker, etc. could replace their gun/tool with a second hand.
Attack of the Autobots, Optimus uses all three components.
Presumably, Shockwave was firing at Elita-1's unit. What is weird is that for some reason, after FOUR *MILLION* YEARS he decides to try and contact Megatron. Did he make a daily attempt for the entire time, and never gave up?
Given most "Movies" are five parters, only showing 4, with that continuity is very odd.
I'll be honest, I've never even liked all the Decepticons flying in robot mode. The Seekers I get, but I've never liked Megatron and Soundwave and the like doing it.
It compensated for their alt modes limitations.
More a point of weird observations. why would Teletran reconfigure Megatron into a small simple handgun and not a tank to begin with? And what's with making Reflector a simple camera, and Soundwave a Walkman from Sony, and Blaster a boom box? And some of the weird combiner bots, a tiny Blast off shuttle, he should be bigger than all of them.
The space shuttle is huge! A giant motorcycle, Groove, and other oddities. Not to mention Broadside becomes an aircraft carrier, bigger than a space shuttle, in one mode, and Astrotrain as a train could fit inside a space shuttle, in his other mode. Teletran must have been huffing some of those fumes from the volcano.
Sky Lynx is the right size to be a shuttle, but his puma mode is ridiculous. I just assumed that the Autobots captured Megatron's chimera cat sphinx bot from that one g1 episode and rebuilt it as Sky Lynx.
Part of me would like to say that Teletraan gave Megatron a handgun alt mode in an attempt to nerf his power and make it easier for the Autobots to take him on. But then it gave the Seekers F-16 alts, so make of that what you will.
Here’s my head cannon for that. They simply didn’t have enough Energon to deploy those weapons, or they decided to get a bit more creative with their combat.
Shout out to pop n go video where I'd rent fhe transformers vhs tapes in the sweet clamshell cases every week and one week rented more than meets the eye and ultimate doom tapes and when we went to return them pop n go had gone out of business. 🙂
Interesting note - Production order wise I believe Transport to Oblivion was the first episode created for the first season.
Nothing of that ship would survive for 4 million years. It's a nod to Macross and 4 million battleships. Head canon. Macross would come out as Robotech in 1985.
I believe that Megatron use his back cannon in one of the episodes and then never seen it again.
Maybe Shockwave was doing target practice to stay sharp
Ah yes back when optimus sounded suspiciously like john wayne.
Just speculating, but the hand weapons and ability of all the bots to fly may have been dropped to distinguish Transformers from Gobots. This would make sense given the first season would have been well along in production when Gobots started to air. So they may have felt the need to change things to make the two properties more distinct.
I’m definitely gonna go see it, it’s gonna be fun
I want the first four episodes back on Hasbro Pulse's TH-cam channel NOW
Sent entitlement rage
@@philharrison2991 maybe so, but I'm sure many would agree with me. There was no justifiable reason for Hasbro Pulse to remove the first four episodes
Bro compared Obari-San's master work to Pat Lee lmao
I said I'M FINE !
I wonder how much trouble it would be to goose those episodes with enough CGI to correct minor animation errors.
Because nobody does that with 40 year old cartoons? lol
We call it the G1 charm for a reason
3 episodes More then Mets there. , Fire in the sky and the deceptions turned the autobots evil Optimus prime the airport Uses roller and trailer platform guns to atack wheel jack and the other auto bots
Its tragedic that one of the best ways to watch MTMTE now is the G2 verison because they arent tainted by the rhino kid edits! 😭
Its now edited in an incrediblely goofy awww way however.
2:41 Like Zuko and his fire daggers.
Not showing anywhere near me. But I still have the DVDs.
I already have my ticket
Not that strange.
The 4 episode are advertising voor the toy .
So kids had a back Story.
Same with the comics what you do see iron hide in the original toy model.
After that the anime is a hit so it go on .
Never made for a anime serie that big
The first 4 feels so random. The first 3 or first 5 would make some sense, but first 4 feels kind of arbitrary.
Likely just so it meets the 90 minute running time. Asking people to see more than 2 hours of a jank 80s cartoon in the theater no less might turn many away, and 60 minutes is too short, but 90 minutes is the perfect running time.
@@KazuyaMithra Fair, though I am not expecting the average consumer to casually walk into the theater. The only people to likely go in the first place are people who are already fans on the franchise at large. Due to this I find it more likely they would deal with either 3 or 5 episodes.
You missed March 31st with your daily uploads.
That was QNA.
@@samurexatlas7373 It was released on April 1st. How does your reply have more likes than my original comment?
@@Nolans_Stop_Motions_reviews_YT Timezone variance, it hit late EST on the 31st, then his April Fools was *F E E T*
@@Nolans_Stop_Motions_reviews_YT Eastern country? As it released on the 31st for me
@@takanuinuva Is the US an Eastern country?
FIRST🗣️🔥
Hiii I will go to the event with some old friends in Santiago-Chile.
As a G1 fan, I feel very fortunate to have this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Oh, boy, I have a mega choice to make. Do I go to see Gundam Seed Freedom or the first 4 episodes of The Transformers? Wow!! Very tough choice.