Watching these commercials now as a 40+ Gen Xer, I now realize how great it was to have some of the original voice actors reprise roles in these. Including Peter Cullen, and Frank Welker.
@@yell0wberry Yes, I totally agree with you John. The late Chris Latta comes to mind as well. I also loved Roger C. Carmel's Cyclonus, Motormaster, and for one season 3 episode, his Unicron voice. The voice actors of G1 were truly a talented all-star cast.
Original toy was basically an upgraded Convey/Prime with a new exoskeleton body. And yes US writers originally created Magnus to be Primes successor and rival to Galvatron...but somehow we got boring Rodimus.
The Logos the Voices and Themes the Movie heart of 86 hard to believe its 37years yikes and its coming into its 40s and realizing getting old really does suck love the concept to be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s
Its cause almost everything was new and exciting in the 80s. In the past 30 years the only new things have been the internet and cell phones. Everything else has been a variation or regurgitation.
1986 was definitely the best year of Transformers commercials. I was a kid in Sweden at the time so it's fun now watching these for the first time as an adult. The music is so cool, especially how they rework the lyrics of the main theme to suit the product, e.g. Dinobots, Stunticons/Aerielbots and Triple Changers. Love it!
When a kid could actually play with his Transformers toys and they didn't require a 20 page instruction manual and 20 minutes to transform...not that the new ones aren't really neat, they just seem to be more of a collectible than an action toy. Oh and only rich kids could afford Omega Supreme lol.
I like the more complex transformations, as a kid I never ever looked at the instructions, that was part of the fun to me. So something like the earthrise/kingdom Optimus Prime is just about the perfect toy. The truck looks great, and the robot mode is so G1 and the transformation is complex but not frustrating and ugly like the movie figures.
here in the Philippines Omega Supreme was the ultimate status symbol when it comes to transformers, even the rich kids during those days cannot make their parents buy them one because of the price. there were knock offs though that you need to assemble from scratch, it was like a kit. :)
Those with complex transformations are masterpiece figures targeting the adults who grew up with G1 transformers as a kid and always wished they had a perfect toy that walked straight out of the TV screen, and are willing to pay hundreds for them. I call it the fulfillment of a childhood dream.
I remember seeing the toys for the movie bots in the store wondering "who the he'll are these guys"? Then when I saw the movie it all made sense. No internet back then and no spoilers. Great times!
Except for one spoiler: "and soon, A NEW LEADER WILL ARRIVE! Introducing Rodimus Prime! No one takes on the Decepticons like Rodimus Prime!".. that told us something was going to happen to O.P., but not what.
@@mrwoods22 that may be the case but nobody knew what was going to happen walking in. We weren't trained to look at small minor details in trailers like we are now.
I always thought it was funny that the Sharkticon commercial has the line "What could be more terrifying than..." immediately followed up by Wheelie's voice given how much the character is loathed by the fandom. It's like Hasbro knew he was despised so it was a wink and nod to fans.
The Transformers were a big part of my 80's youth, and one of my fondest memories of that time was getting the Superion gift pack for Christmas one year. Funny thing is, now that I'm an adult, I have more Transformers now in the 2.5 years I've been collecting than I ever had when I was a kid! The same can be said for all my favorite toys of the past -- Hess trucks, Shogun Warriors, Star Wars, Marvel Comics superheroes, you name it.
I love how they use frank welker's and Peter Cullen's voices in the commercials. Holy crap I woulda had a nerdgasm if I heard their voices on the t.v. :P !
Interesting how Frank Walker’s voice (as Megatron) makes a reference to Galvatron, when in the story, they were the same being, just in two different bodies.
@@Selzor They also say in another trailer that Optimus Prime and Megatron fight to the death. That, and the Rodimus Prime toy, was a blatant telegraph that they were going to kill Optimus.
Sky Lynx was an awesome toy. Never owned the original, but I got the next best thing, Earthrise Sky Lynx. It’d be cool to see Octane get a leader class figure. Also, it must’ve been an experience to see the movie back in 1986. Never saw the original movie till 2009. After buying the first two seasons and watching them, I saw the 1986 movie, and man did I feel the same way as the kids who saw it in the theaters. Speechless and left an everlasting impression on me.
@@KnickKnacksPlasticPlanet hence why they brought Opitmus back. If the writers had made Rodimus a competent leader instead of the 'Give him problems kids can relate to' it would have been a different story.
@@FIDreams Nah, they brought back Optimus because kids were locking themselves in bedrooms and crying their eyes out. LOL. It wasn't an evaluation of Rodimus Prime's leadership. People - especially children hate change. Take off your internet bias, go back and re-watch the original G1 cartoon and the movie. Optimus is actually a pretty big chump who gets duped by Megatron at every pass presumable getting thousands of human non-combatants killed in the first two seasons(see episodes The Ultimate Doom, Heavy Metal War, Megatron's Master Plan), gets the Autobots exiled to the moons of Cybertron, (pre-movie) and gets almost the entire 1984 toy line killed because he's too dumb to not openly discuss important plans out in the open where freaking Laserbeak can spy on them and report his ENTIRE plan back to Megatron and gets Autobot city sacked. (Transformers the Movie) Actually if you think about it Optimus was a pretty shitty leader in the fact he CONSTANTLY allowed his personal honor (arrogance) to endanger his troops or the humans he always swore to protect. Rodimus is the one who like a good general presses the advantage and actually wipes the Decepticons off Cybertron (post movie) sends them to exile and ushers in the end of the war, dispatches the Quientesson threat, (shown throughout season 3, Five Faces of Darkness) liberates an entire planet of lost Autobots, (Fight or Flee) and THEN is instrumental in bringing dumbass Optimus back to life! (Return of Optimus Prime.) Like a good general Rodimus is constantly taking advice from his lieutenants (Kup, Springer, Ultra Magnus) and weighing decisions. Unlike Optimus who is always like "We must leave earth to be raped by Megatron - my honor dictates it." *For the record, I like Optimus Prime too, I'm just citing examples where he was less than great to illustrate how the 'Rodimus Prime was a shitty leader' trope is tiring.
Maaaaan these back memories when I was a kid in west philly rushing home from school. The fast talking and the rushed animation sequences advanced my puberty 😂
It Rocks put the Greatest Spin on how they did it magical fairytale creation animation love to return in spirit and never leave too many words the list is endless another dimension portal World was alive happening and doin vibes feelings another level planet scale class league to say about the 80s 2tv channels video tapes and games toys and of course these cartoons the music entertainment top notch than any other era years decades and history and that the 80s deserve to live on forever eternity that's what i think and want
I got metroplex for christmas in 1988. It was just about the only thing that I asked for. Seeing all of these commercials back to back makes me feel a wee bit manipulated, but overall.. I'm thankful that this entertainment was around for us back then. Very strong positive emotions associated with the transformers.
I remember hearing, "Does Prime die?" in the trailer when I was a kid and thinking, well of course he does! Why else would you ask? Strange how much they spoiled ahead of time.
80s wasn't just the best decade to live in as far as toys.. cereals were great, cartoons, sitcoms, the birth of the NES and Sega Master System, the list goes on. I didn't have many transformers growing up in the 80s but as of the past 7-8 years, I've been collecting G1s only and have a nice starter collection. If you was born in the 90s and later, you missed out on a really great decade.
Agreed. The 80's was a great decade to be a kid despite the absence of the internet. I too have been collecting G1 transformers but I only have Inferno, Brawn, Trailbreaker and Highbrow for the Autobots and for the Decepticons, I have Shockwave, Cyclonus, Astrotrain and Blitzwing. I'd get more but they're expensive and I second guess myself about buying them as I have them only for display purposes, I don't play with them as I'm an adult after all.
T.F commercial drinking game: take a sip every time they make a song about the character/s in the commercial. Remember to watch all commercials during this game, you may or may not die of alcohol poisoning
Every 80s,90s child : Fantastic Transform Robot series after watching each Transformers commercial. For me from 00s : cross thing when I see an child Transform into the Robot.
Man when prime did in the movie sales DROPPED I remember I cried when I seen him die and hot rod became new leader I was like I don't want anymore transformers that's why G.I. Joe changed their story and said duke was in a coma that would have really killed Hasbro that year
Nothing but GREAT memories from these commercials. Hated to see Gen 1 go but Gen 2 brought "evolution" to the world of Transformers that changed things for the better
Exactly, the concept that Transformers could die was suddenly thrust upon us.......totally unexpected.......just to bring in a new wave of sup-par toys.....it was the beginning of the end.
@1CodacNVegas And if you pay careful attention to "G.I. Joe: the Movie", you could tell they wanted to try it with Duke, as well! It was obvious the Prime backlash made them change course, but only after the animation was done.
In this Galvatron toy commercial, Galvatron is voiced by Frank Welker before it was written that he fell in the plasma stuff on the planet thrall by Rodimus Prime and all so Starscream and Thundercracker and Skyworp are all online
@@bengejuknowit3048 yeah? That is basically the same case for me but instead of UK it was where I live: Puerto Rico (sometimes it has always been hard to find that kind stuff here and somehow nowadays it is even worse). I searched a lot of places and never found such fig (but I once heard there was a kid in school who did have it apparently. If that is true then I will say the same thing I said back then in school: "Lucky bastard").
Kinda odd how the memories of these commercials come back after more than 30 years. It's like they were placed in an inaccessible storage somewhere in my brain until after I watched this youtube again. Then its "oh yeah, i remember that!"
Thank you for posting this!!!! Some of these commercials I haven't seen before, specifically some of the ones advertising Transformers: The Movie (one of my favorite films). Again, thank you!!!
Ha! The ad for the movie that starts at the 8:23 mark came from one of our local stations, back when we were living in Ohio. And then it turned up again in the special features of an Australian DVD box set I bought in 2009 when I was back in England. Ah, WUAB Channel 43, what memories!
crazy how cool was those days, wish 4K camera and TV existed back then... good old days! i might watch my 80s transformers DVD collection again - just need to find that DVD player....
After gen 1, they never put any thought or care into the vehicle sizes from one Transformer to the next, but a triple changer that can change from an aircraft carrier to a jet of the same size (5:41) has to be the worst offender in the entire Transformers toy line-up. I wonder if the person who thought of that could even tie his shoes.
What the heck G1 had terrible scale overall. Studio Series and the current WFC and upcoming Legacy lines have great scaling. Not perfect, but far from void of thought and care
@@amitypredator9385 I always figured Galvatron would sound like Megatron in the cartoon if he were sane anyway, since they obviously couldn't afford Leonard Nimoy to voice him after the movie.
@valiant wrestling Federation. I agree. I would have preferred Megatron as voice compared to post movie Galvatron. As an adult, I can now appreciate Frank Welker's take on an insane, and nearly constantly screaming Megatron/Galvatron, but as a kid, I really missed Megatron's raspy voice.
I was trying to do the same with action figures from other cartoons, I was quickly disappointment when I found out a Dr. claw action figure was almost $80
Wow great commercials. I just about had 70% of them toys as a kid. Didn't finish Predaking. Loved the Dinobots. Could not find Grimlock (best transformation ever) to save my life. Checked out two Kay-Bee stores, two Kids R Us, K Mart and Mongomery Wards to no avail. The Predacons were awesome. Grimlock and Sunstreaker were the two I really wanted but could not find. G1 toys were the best.
Optimus Prime: To Help Us In Our Neverending Battle Against Megatron And The Evil Decepticons, We Create The Incredible New Breed Of Robot: The Heroic DINOBOTS!
The more I watch these commercials, the more I'm convinced that there were originally meant to have two renditions of the Transformers theme: the Autobot motif (the exclusive track with female vocals which definitely sounds heroic) and the Decepticon motif (the one we often hear ALL THE TIME in the Seasons 3 and 4 intros, hence its more disconcerting and sinister atmosphere). What do you think?
I still have the arialbots and Combatticons in meant conditions. 2 of my favorite robots along with Blaster/Twin Cast and his cassettes and Soundblaster with all his cassettes as well. Glad the toy company Kreo made Lego like construction toys out of them which led me to build my own version of Transformers using Lego blocks. I made Fortress Maximus and Scorpinok as my 1st 2 big ones. About the size of 4 Lego mini figs on top of each other.😄 wish i had that movie on DVD. Hello from Saga, Japan
The "Robots in Disguise" kid is a legend.
I wonder what he is doing nowadays.
He's a Pretender lol
@@leroy592 legends say that the kid is still transforming and still shouting “robots in disguise”
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I had sky linx, was one of my favourites.. that and ultra magnis
Watching these commercials now as a 40+ Gen Xer, I now realize how great it was to have some of the original voice actors reprise roles in these. Including Peter Cullen, and Frank Welker.
It's funny how they did these ads, but didn't supply the voice recordings for the voice modules included with G2 Optimus Prime and G2 Megatron (tank)
Same here! I was 10 do the math lol
I miss Jack angel
@@yell0wberry Yes, I totally agree with you John. The late Chris Latta comes to mind as well. I also loved Roger C. Carmel's Cyclonus, Motormaster, and for one season 3 episode, his Unicron voice. The voice actors of G1 were truly a talented all-star cast.
And they altered the songs for this!
"Does Prime die?" the last words kids heard that made them watch the movie in theaters and some came out crying.
Megatron got Prime
My heart would jump every time a Transformers commercial would come on
Blaster: "Optimus Prime is on Cybertron, it's up to you, Ultra Magnus!"
UM: "I can't deal with that right now!"
He's called the City Commander for a reason 😂
These commercials hint that Ultra magnus was meant to succeed Optimus as Autobot leader.
Original toy was basically an upgraded Convey/Prime with a new exoskeleton body. And yes US writers originally created Magnus to be Primes successor and rival to Galvatron...but somehow we got boring Rodimus.
The Logos the Voices and Themes the Movie heart of 86 hard to believe its 37years yikes and its coming into its 40s and realizing getting old really does suck love the concept to be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s
Its cause almost everything was new and exciting in the 80s. In the past 30 years the only new things have been the internet and cell phones. Everything else has been a variation or regurgitation.
1986 was definitely the best year of Transformers commercials. I was a kid in Sweden at the time so it's fun now watching these for the first time as an adult. The music is so cool, especially how they rework the lyrics of the main theme to suit the product, e.g. Dinobots, Stunticons/Aerielbots and Triple Changers. Love it!
My childhood was awesome, you don't see commercials and real animation like this anymore.
Notice when Hasbro began making their own designs … they got uglier than the originals.
@@parmmohan4603 So true.
Commercials for toys are too expensive to buy. TV commercials are overtaken by big money pharmaceuticals now.
@Brandon Loves Cinema! Yes and self transforming too. But I am just saying when Hasbro Americanized transformers.
A childhood also was awesome I grew up with these transformers in my sister as well I still have the action figures back from the 1980s
80s and 90s were the best...
Lots of good memories.
There should be exactly zero arguments here.
@@drexlspivey29
Until sex came in 🤭.. then comes to them the awareness about money... and then.... powaaaa ☺️
@@theorangekindle4565 deal....👍👍👍👍
@@firemustang6678 Innocent is the stand... 😊
When a kid could actually play with his Transformers toys and they didn't require a 20 page instruction manual and 20 minutes to transform...not that the new ones aren't really neat, they just seem to be more of a collectible than an action toy. Oh and only rich kids could afford Omega Supreme lol.
True, but old transformers was basically unable to move arms or legs or anything. Not really an action figure
I had him back in ‘86, definitely not rich though. 🤑🤑
I like the more complex transformations, as a kid I never ever looked at the instructions, that was part of the fun to me. So something like the earthrise/kingdom Optimus Prime is just about the perfect toy. The truck looks great, and the robot mode is so G1 and the transformation is complex but not frustrating and ugly like the movie figures.
here in the Philippines Omega Supreme was the ultimate status symbol when it comes to transformers, even the rich kids during those days cannot make their parents buy them one because of the price. there were knock offs though that you need to assemble from scratch, it was like a kit. :)
Those with complex transformations are masterpiece figures targeting the adults who grew up with G1 transformers as a kid and always wished they had a perfect toy that walked straight out of the TV screen, and are willing to pay hundreds for them. I call it the fulfillment of a childhood dream.
I remember seeing the toys for the movie bots in the store wondering "who the he'll are these guys"? Then when I saw the movie it all made sense. No internet back then and no spoilers. Great times!
Except for one spoiler: "and soon, A NEW LEADER WILL ARRIVE! Introducing Rodimus Prime! No one takes on the Decepticons like Rodimus Prime!".. that told us something was going to happen to O.P., but not what.
@@athlonen Right
And what made it worse: that particular commercial dropped 6 weeks before the movie came out.
No spoilers except for "does Prime die?" 😂
@@mrwoods22 that may be the case but nobody knew what was going to happen walking in. We weren't trained to look at small minor details in trailers like we are now.
I always thought it was funny that the Sharkticon commercial has the line "What could be more terrifying than..." immediately followed up by Wheelie's voice given how much the character is loathed by the fandom. It's like Hasbro knew he was despised so it was a wink and nod to fans.
I doubt they'd be aware becuz of how new wheelie was
"Does Prime die?"
Then we found out. Then our summer was crap.
Then at the end of season 3 two weeks into 6th grade, everything was okay.
The Transformers were a big part of my 80's youth, and one of my fondest memories of that time was getting the Superion gift pack for Christmas one year. Funny thing is, now that I'm an adult, I have more Transformers now in the 2.5 years I've been collecting than I ever had when I was a kid! The same can be said for all my favorite toys of the past -- Hess trucks, Shogun Warriors, Star Wars, Marvel Comics superheroes, you name it.
The 80s were the best for Transformers! My childhood! Seeing the movie in the theater…it was also pretty traumatic.🍿🥺👍
"Primmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!'
I love how they use frank welker's and Peter Cullen's voices in the commercials. Holy crap I woulda had a nerdgasm if I heard their voices on the t.v. :P !
Interesting how Frank Walker’s voice (as Megatron) makes a reference to Galvatron, when in the story, they were the same being, just in two different bodies.
notice they made them say their lines quickly, due to limited seconds of time in a commercial.
Galvatron is Ultra Magnus' sworn enemy? At least they didn't spoil anything for those who hadn't seen the movie. : )
That didn't spoil anything.
Rodimus Prine is somewhere in the background kicking and screaming at the producers
Then there was that ad where they straight up say Optimus will die
@@alumlovescake no I think it was bait going “Does Optimus die?”
@@Selzor They also say in another trailer that Optimus Prime and Megatron fight to the death. That, and the Rodimus Prime toy, was a blatant telegraph that they were going to kill Optimus.
I love just watching these in order like this - it's a damn arms race of 80s toy awesomeness.
And we kids were just pawns in their bidding war.
Sky Lynx was an awesome toy. Never owned the original, but I got the next best thing, Earthrise Sky Lynx.
It’d be cool to see Octane get a leader class figure.
Also, it must’ve been an experience to see the movie back in 1986.
Never saw the original movie till 2009. After buying the first two seasons and watching them, I saw the 1986 movie, and man did I feel the same way as the kids who saw it in the theaters. Speechless and left an everlasting impression on me.
"The courageous Ultra Magnus is a born leader"
The writers of the movie and Season 3 would have you believe otherwise...
Ultra Magnus is the Autobot Riker - an epic second in command.
@@KnickKnacksPlasticPlanet Rodimus Prime is certainly no Piccard.
No, he's more of a Kirk. Young, impulsive and effective.
Optimus is more the father figure like Picard.
@@KnickKnacksPlasticPlanet hence why they brought Opitmus back. If the writers had made Rodimus a competent leader instead of the 'Give him problems kids can relate to' it would have been a different story.
@@FIDreams Nah, they brought back Optimus because kids were locking themselves in bedrooms and crying their eyes out. LOL. It wasn't an evaluation of Rodimus Prime's leadership. People - especially children hate change. Take off your internet bias, go back and re-watch the original G1 cartoon and the movie.
Optimus is actually a pretty big chump who gets duped by Megatron at every pass presumable getting thousands of human non-combatants killed in the first two seasons(see episodes The Ultimate Doom, Heavy Metal War, Megatron's Master Plan), gets the Autobots exiled to the moons of Cybertron, (pre-movie) and gets almost the entire 1984 toy line killed because he's too dumb to not openly discuss important plans out in the open where freaking Laserbeak can spy on them and report his ENTIRE plan back to Megatron and gets Autobot city sacked. (Transformers the Movie)
Actually if you think about it Optimus was a pretty shitty leader in the fact he CONSTANTLY allowed his personal honor (arrogance) to endanger his troops or the humans he always swore to protect.
Rodimus is the one who like a good general presses the advantage and actually wipes the Decepticons off Cybertron (post movie) sends them to exile and ushers in the end of the war, dispatches the Quientesson threat, (shown throughout season 3, Five Faces of Darkness) liberates an entire planet of lost Autobots, (Fight or Flee) and THEN is instrumental in bringing dumbass Optimus back to life! (Return of Optimus Prime.)
Like a good general Rodimus is constantly taking advice from his lieutenants (Kup, Springer, Ultra Magnus) and weighing decisions. Unlike Optimus who is always like "We must leave earth to be raped by Megatron - my honor dictates it."
*For the record, I like Optimus Prime too, I'm just citing examples where he was less than great to illustrate how the 'Rodimus Prime was a shitty leader' trope is tiring.
Maaaaan these back memories when I was a kid in west philly rushing home from school. The fast talking and the rushed animation sequences advanced my puberty 😂
that kid turning into a transformer is the best lol
Probably the coolest kid in school after that!
That's crazy about this....
Even it's maybe look creepy
I love how they say sentence 'more than meet the eyes' in mechanical sound.
It Rocks put the Greatest Spin on how they did it magical fairytale creation animation love to return in spirit and never leave too many words the list is endless another dimension portal World was alive happening and doin vibes feelings another level planet scale class league to say about the 80s 2tv channels video tapes and games toys and of course these cartoons the music entertainment top notch than any other era years decades and history and that the 80s deserve to live on forever eternity that's what i think and want
This video made my night.
I was 11, such a great time to be a kid.
Thanks for bringing back some amazing memories.
We were the same age or I was a little older
My childhood was based on commercials and cartoons
All the 80's & 90's probably
So was everyone else's since the advent of TV tbh
I got metroplex for christmas in 1988. It was just about the only thing that I asked for. Seeing all of these commercials back to back makes me feel a wee bit manipulated, but overall.. I'm thankful that this entertainment was around for us back then. Very strong positive emotions associated with the transformers.
I remember hearing, "Does Prime die?" in the trailer when I was a kid and thinking, well of course he does! Why else would you ask?
Strange how much they spoiled ahead of time.
yeah, Prime dying was all because Hot Rod stopped him from finishing Megatron.
Transformers the movie is legendary. I still remember the day I went to go see it. Great memories!
7:30 "what could be more terrifying than being Kup and Hot Rod stranded on a alien planet battling the merciless Sharkticons" indeed
If I saw these commercials as a kid, I totally would've been hyped hahah
I love all the original animation they made for the ads. I wonder what some of these characters would be like if they got time in the show!
Growing up in the 80s was awesome never gets old..
80s wasn't just the best decade to live in as far as toys.. cereals were great, cartoons, sitcoms, the birth of the NES and Sega Master System, the list goes on. I didn't have many transformers growing up in the 80s but as of the past 7-8 years, I've been collecting G1s only and have a nice starter collection. If you was born in the 90s and later, you missed out on a really great decade.
Agreed. The 80's was a great decade to be a kid despite the absence of the internet.
I too have been collecting G1 transformers but I only have Inferno, Brawn, Trailbreaker and Highbrow for the Autobots and for the Decepticons, I have Shockwave, Cyclonus, Astrotrain and Blitzwing.
I'd get more but they're expensive and I second guess myself about buying them as I have them only for display purposes, I don't play with them as I'm an adult after all.
I'm born in 2005 yet I prefer these
I had a Soundwave wrist watch back in the day which could transform. I was so happy with it. :-)
T.F commercial drinking game: take a sip every time they make a song about the character/s in the commercial. Remember to watch all commercials during this game, you may or may not die of alcohol poisoning
Looking at these fantastic original Transformers makes me appreciate my Masterpiece Transformers and how badass Transformers are! Nostalgia++
Every 80s,90s child : Fantastic Transform Robot series after watching each Transformers commercial.
For me from 00s : cross thing when I see an child Transform into the Robot.
Got the original Devastator a couple of years ago. Wasnt disappointed. Best toys ever. Came here to check out some good old school toys. Great video
I have FOUR scrapper... Whom one knock off orange, one complete and one without hood. Also got a Mixmaster and a Hook...
When Ultra Magnus speared through the Combaticons I died laughing
Thank god for channels like this because you sure can't get those days back😩
Man when prime did in the movie sales DROPPED I remember I cried when I seen him die and hot rod became new leader I was like I don't want anymore transformers that's why G.I. Joe changed their story and said duke was in a coma that would have really killed Hasbro that year
I'm 42 years old. I own every figure featured in these commercials.
You’re a collector. Good for you.
You'll make a gallery or a showcase?
I have Optimus msib ha
Sold jetfire msib for a grand a cpl yrs ago
We shall sing songs about you and your collection and imagine the battles they participated in!
You have my envy.
5:58 last appearance of Spike Witwicky in young age with the oil rig outfit and helmet.
Nothing but GREAT memories from these commercials. Hated to see Gen 1 go but Gen 2 brought "evolution" to the world of Transformers that changed things for the better
I love how well animated the animated portions of the commercials are compared to the average animation of the actual show.
The movie was rated PG but it scarred children for years.
Omg yes it did
Exactly, the concept that Transformers could die was suddenly thrust upon us.......totally unexpected.......just to bring in a new wave of sup-par toys.....it was the beginning of the end.
@1CodacNVegas And if you pay careful attention to "G.I. Joe: the Movie", you could tell they wanted to try it with Duke, as well! It was obvious the Prime backlash made them change course, but only after the animation was done.
In this Galvatron toy commercial, Galvatron is voiced by Frank Welker before it was written that he fell in the plasma stuff on the planet thrall by Rodimus Prime and all so Starscream and Thundercracker and Skyworp are all online
0:10 Autobots, this is Omega Supreme. A defense base that comes with a fantastic motorized electric tank with flashy torrent lights.
I have this sudden urge to like, collect 'em all!
That’s all I wanted for my birthday🥳 and Xmas🎄. My mom always came thru even when it wasn’t those days. Thanks mom, wish you were still here 🥺😢🙏🏽
I lived collecting these toys as a young boy. I collected transformer toys from 1984-1987 and my favorite ones were the dinobots and the predacons.
Metroplex was so expensive back in the day, but I was made up at Xmas as a kid when I got it, well cool toy!
You are so damn lucky! I tried looking for Omega everywhere back then, but I never found even a mention of such toy.
@@virtualpellot933 I loved Omega in the cartoon but don't remember a toy for it in the UK at the time!
@@bengejuknowit3048 yeah? That is basically the same case for me but instead of UK it was where I live: Puerto Rico (sometimes it has always been hard to find that kind stuff here and somehow nowadays it is even worse). I searched a lot of places and never found such fig (but I once heard there was a kid in school who did have it apparently. If that is true then I will say the same thing I said back then in school: "Lucky bastard").
The Fortress Maximus toy was even bigger. The box by itself is valued at over $100.
@@Animeaddiction really?! I always thought the toys were basically the same size. Unless it were Fortress Maximus.
After 35 years, I still want the original Omega Supreme figure.
I had Omega Supreme, was more fun to build him than play with him, was cool he walked though he was slow
The “Robots in disguizzzze” transforming animated face gives me the creeps...!
Man, Hasbro took so much of my money in the 80s.
Kinda odd how the memories of these commercials come back after more than 30 years. It's like they were placed in an inaccessible storage somewhere in my brain until after I watched this youtube again. Then its "oh yeah, i remember that!"
I like how they fit different lyrics into the same melody of the song.
I love it when the kid gets the robot voice!
3:03 Transform and mount up!
Thanks TH-cam for reminding me of all the toys I never received from my childhood.
Thank you for posting this!!!! Some of these commercials I haven't seen before, specifically some of the ones advertising Transformers: The Movie (one of my favorite films). Again, thank you!!!
6:52 I like how Optimus said "you've never seen anything like it". I think he was referring to Transformers 4, because that was an understatement.
Ha! The ad for the movie that starts at the 8:23 mark came from one of our local stations, back when we were living in Ohio. And then it turned up again in the special features of an Australian DVD box set I bought in 2009 when I was back in England. Ah, WUAB Channel 43, what memories!
I died laughing on that one... Victor Caroli had to be shoved aside abruptly to make way for the half-assed local voiceover!
Classic is gold
crazy how cool was those days, wish 4K camera and TV existed back then... good old days!
i might watch my 80s transformers DVD collection again - just need to find that DVD player....
DOES PRIME DIE!? Jesus, imma kid!!!
After gen 1, they never put any thought or care into the vehicle sizes from one Transformer to the next, but a triple changer that can change from an aircraft carrier to a jet of the same size (5:41) has to be the worst offender in the entire Transformers toy line-up. I wonder if the person who thought of that could even tie his shoes.
What the heck G1 had terrible scale overall. Studio Series and the current WFC and upcoming Legacy lines have great scaling. Not perfect, but far from void of thought and care
So weird to hear Megatron introducing Galvatron.
Even weirder that Megatron is voicing Galvatron too.
@@amitypredator9385 I always figured Galvatron would sound like Megatron in the cartoon if he were sane anyway, since they obviously couldn't afford Leonard Nimoy to voice him after the movie.
@valiant wrestling Federation. I agree. I would have preferred Megatron as voice compared to post movie Galvatron. As an adult, I can now appreciate Frank Welker's take on an insane, and nearly constantly screaming Megatron/Galvatron, but as a kid, I really missed Megatron's raspy voice.
Weird Don't exsist.... LOL
I like the old transformers🙂
Me too.
Ruth Tolentino same
@@garthdavis4320 Me three
“Autobots, transform and roll out!”
They butchered it in the 2007 movie by abbreviating it to, “Roll out.”
That kids head folding into a robot is trippy AF
These commercials are legend
6:50 heralded the change that affected all of us kids at the time.
ALL OF US !! Truest words ever 🍻😉
The animated scenes used in these commercials should have been what we seen in the cartoon lol.
Ad Kid:"Omega Supreme is invincible!"
Show: Omega Supreme blows up... again!
Omega Supreme: the ultimate symbol of how rotten my mother spoiled me.
Well, maybe it’s a toss-up between him and my G.I.Joe hovercraft.
Very cool I missed those days
I wish my dad would have told me to keep all my toys in their original packaging!
My mum gave all mine away to her friends kids when I was "too old" for toys. I had all the major characters and many many of the minor ones.
@@Bloodrayne800 I had a lot too, I thought we had them stored somewhere but they were given away. All loose though so I don’t feel as bad.
Almost a 5 year old upload and I discover this today... TH-cam has its moments sometimes still
It's 2021. I STILL have Grimlock, Slag, Soundwave, Skywarp, Rodimus Prime, and Shockwave.
Nostalgia overload!!
I wish I could buy the whole collection
Be careful what you wish for ;)
I was trying to do the same with action figures from other cartoons, I was quickly disappointment when I found out a Dr. claw action figure was almost $80
You can, start saving. I have at least 20 transformers now and managed to find a mint condition Voltron last year for a reasonable price
My child hood was so dope. Poor kids nowadays.
The dinobot commercial was awesome. :P !
Wow great commercials. I just about had 70% of them toys as a kid. Didn't finish Predaking. Loved the Dinobots. Could not find Grimlock (best transformation ever) to save my life. Checked out two Kay-Bee stores, two Kids R Us, K Mart and Mongomery Wards to no avail. The Predacons were awesome. Grimlock and Sunstreaker were the two I really wanted but could not find. G1 toys were the best.
Optimus Prime: To Help Us In Our Neverending Battle Against Megatron And The Evil Decepticons, We Create The Incredible New Breed Of Robot: The Heroic DINOBOTS!
Ultra-Magnus: Autobot Commander for slightly less than two hours. It’s definitely going to look bad at his next job interview. :(
Because he can't deal with that now!
@@Coffeejock Hahaha!
I finished watching G1 now I'm watching these classic commercials
The more I watch these commercials, the more I'm convinced that there were originally meant to have two renditions of the Transformers theme: the Autobot motif (the exclusive track with female vocals which definitely sounds heroic) and the Decepticon motif (the one we often hear ALL THE TIME in the Seasons 3 and 4 intros, hence its more disconcerting and sinister atmosphere). What do you think?
Wow... the drawings for these are great!
And they actually used the real voice actors.
Crazy!
Damn they were trying to sell the hell out of Ultra Magnus. he had more commercials than Optimus.
I still have the arialbots and Combatticons in meant conditions. 2 of my favorite robots along with Blaster/Twin Cast and his cassettes and Soundblaster with all his cassettes as well. Glad the toy company Kreo made Lego like construction toys out of them which led me to build my own version of Transformers using Lego blocks. I made Fortress Maximus and Scorpinok as my 1st 2 big ones. About the size of 4 Lego mini figs on top of each other.😄 wish i had that movie on DVD. Hello from Saga, Japan
I feel like with the battle chargers hasbro were like: "lets see how much crap we can market that will actually sell"
09:19 'Does Prime Die!'
Me: YOU SON OF A BITCHES! XD
Better days! Thanks for this!🙏
Robots in da sky... (as my older brother used to say while trying to tell me I was playing with dolls...) 😡
I'm 14 years old again thanks
All this bonus voice over stuff is too good!
Man oh man loved these old commercial of the original g1 transformers series great stuff
Gotta love how so many of them reword the lyrics from the themesong.
Man they really wanted to sell Ultra Magnus