I remember seeing this in the theater when it came out. The instant the S-word was dropped, some parents took their kids and left. I was also shocked, but thoroughly entertained. The animation and voice cast were outstanding, and it was refreshing to have a cartoon with real stakes.
Wait, they didn't take their kids out during the Shuttle Bloodbath, but they thought that Spike's "Oh, shit! What are we gonna do now?!" was the perfect time to leave? People are _weird._
I was born 10 years after it came out and it’s still one of my all time favorite movies. I rented the vhs from blockbuster and watched it over a hundred times as a kid easily
I never fully appreciated the voice cast for this movie until I was much older. And knowing this was Orson Welles last performance makes it kinda special. Even if his raw vocal tracks were virtually unusable.
Great video, Ken. I love looking at the panels/deleted scenes of what we could have seen in the movie. It's still my favourite animated movie of all time. Great cast, great animation and great soundtrack 🎉
I did not see this in theaters but I had friends who did. I remember thier reception of this movie and seeing it myself when I was 5 or 6. One of my oldest memories
Hi Ken,Great video about The History of The Transformers:The Movie,1986, Controversy & Optimus Prime's death,keep them coming,Also I love looking at the panels/deleted scenes of what I could have seen in the movie. It's still my favourite animated movie of all time.Great cast, great animation and great soundtrack.🎉, also no matter how you feel about the heroic and honorable death of Prime,it is without a question Heroic! Great video Ken!, Also Great breakdown and video Ken. I do and still remember watching this On VHS and hopefully on DVD a memory that will last forever!✌️Also Excellent but superb video on the TF movie Ken.Love the intro of your video too with the stills.The TF movie has some of the best soundtracks in it and enjoy the animation style too and Judd Nelson as Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime and the late Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron.,also remarkable video I still remember all the ads going into the movie especially the promotion of Optimus Prime dying. It was weird to watch the last OP led episode on a Friday no way to watch the movie then on Monday no OP or Megatron,but new characters that seemed forced on us with all our favorites were gone.Most of people I knew that were fans quit Transformers all together and Hasbro is forced to have OP return for good once they finally realized OP was way to popular. Also is still my favorite Transformers Movie,Also thanks for sharing Ken,keep up the great work stay safe out there in Canada, Have a good night and until next time Till All Are One.🙂🦸🟢🏋️👍🇺🇲🎂🤩🥳
Excellent video on the TF movie Ken. Love the intro of your video too with the stills. The TF movie had some of the best soundtracks in it and enjoy the animation style too and Spock as Galvatron.
I recall being aware Prime was going to die going into seeing the film in the theaters (I was probably 5 or 6 at the time). I don't think I ever took issue with the deaths of memorable characters as surprising as some of them were; I always just accepted that they were killed off. I guess I was one of the few target fans Hasbro was catering to that just was interested in what new toys were coming out lol. But yeah Prime's death was quite epic and the final battle between him and Megatron remains one of my favorite scenes from any movie.
For sure. I think my brother told me he heard Prime was gonna die, but seeing it happen was a whole 'nother experience. Yes, that final battle between Prime and Megatron was epic.
@@ToyKennections I just feel bad for my poor father who took me to see it and had to sit through that whole movie (because my mom wasn't going to have any part of that lol). I'm sure to him the movie was just 90 minutes of noise. But to his credit even he was a little surprised when Prime died.
@@jeffjames7894 yup. That said, the times change and I happily took my boy to see TF Rise of the Beasts last June, lol. Luckily I didn't take a parent to see the '86 film when it debuted. My first experience was on VHS.
Great video…I remember all the ads going into the movie…especially the promotion of Optimus Prime dying. It was weird to watch the last OP led episode on a Friday…no way to watch the movie…then on Monday…no OP or Megatron, but new characters that seemed forced on us with all our favorites were gone. Most of people I knew that were fans quit Transformers all together, and Hasbro is forced to have OP return for good once they realized OP was way to popular.
The Killing of Optimus Prime is a cautionary tale: Take care of your beloved fictional characters. While there are benefits in killing Prime in terms of story telling, the reality is that Hasbro got rid of him just to make way to sell new toys (I feel like Dinobot’s death in Beast Wars was handled a bit better imo). Imagine if Lucasfilm made a Star Wars sequel Trilogy and carelessly got rid of the old cast just to make way for new characters we barely know or care about. Oh wait…
I was born in 1983, and I remember starting to watch Transformers when I was around 3 or 4 years old. When Season 3 aired, I was confused by all the new characters and especially wondered what happened to Optimus Prime. Initially, I thought Ultra Magnus might be Optimus Prime until Rodimus mentioned him. Eventually, my interest waned because I hadn't heard about the movie; back then, there was no internet, so all information and commercials were only available on Dutch TV. My interest reignited when an older brother of a friend told me about the movie, mentioning a giant planet Transformer and many Transformers dying. He also mentioned the Headmasters and Powermasters, so I was probably watching a rerun of the show. Despite being unable to watch the movie at the time due to its rarity, I was thrilled when Optimus Prime returned in the show. From that day, I became a super fan of the series, although the show ended shortly after a few episodes. I still remember that they never aired Season 4 on Dutch TV, so I never saw Headmasters or Powermasters until the internet was introduced.
Great video Ken! I've been working on my own play motion series which deals with a lot of stuff from the viewpoint of the Dinobots, and I'm about to do the year 2000. I see Megatron exploiting Vector Sigma somehow ruining it, stopping the Transformers from the ability to gain any new life. It's always fun to wonder what was going on with many of those season 2 characters while all this was going on. Then again I guess Cybertron's a big place...
I think these were some of the classic lines from the movie: Wreck-Gar and Junkions: "Framed in enamel! Resists fire, rain and corrosion for up to 5 years! Satisfaction guaranteed!" "Or your money back!" Wreck-Gar: "Stop, thief! No welcome wagon, hello stranger, with that good coffee flavor for you!* "Offer expires while you wait! Operators are standing by!"/"Steady as she goes, mob! Snoopy visitors get mud in the eye by and by! Film at 11!" Grimlock: "Me Grimlock kick butt!" (even funnier is that he meant it literally!) Slag: "Excuse me!" *By the way, does anyone happen to know what shows/commercials Wreck-Gar was referring to when he said that first line?
The story of Optimus passing the Matrix to Ultra Magnus constantly reminds me of the Biblical Issac passing the blessing to Esau, but God choose Jacob instead, as the Matrix chose Rodimus
This is great...I think one mistake they made was all new autobots on the poster.i think that hurt sales and in the commercial they ask does prime die if so who will lead the autobots... Mistake
well done, I have a love hate relationship with this movie, I was 15 when this came out and missed seeing it when it did, so I ended up catching it a little later on HBO and saw season 3 first saying wht the F#$! is going on here? then when I saw the movie on cable I understood, was still disapointed though even though it rocked oddly enough.
Hot rod sucks! Lol. The power of this franchise is just crazy. My son is five and was introduced to transformers by his friends. Obviously i watched the bay films with him. The funny thing is how he got attached to the same transformers i liked with no coaxing - Optimus, starscream, megatron. Lol. And he really has no connection to the g1 cartoon accept the intro. Just goes to show that the 80s cartoonist were masters at their craft.
Transformers the Movie may not be perfect- but its far more preferable to G. I. Joe the Movie, where Lt. Falcon, Jinx, and Tunnel were severely misrepresented. And the Transformers were spared the likes of Cobra-La. Thank you for stating that Duke was just the field leader, as First Sergeant, as the animated series took a LOT of liberties from what was established in the Marvel Comic series by Larry Hama. Regarding "Till all are one", given how Hasbro's acquired other toy companies, a running gag over at Dan Larson's Secret Galaxy TH-cam Channel when Hasbro gets a new company is, "Hasbro- Till all are one!" Have you done a video on the animated G. I. Joe series by Marvel/Sunbow and its movie? That should be interesting.
Thx! Have you seen my take on Duke during the Devil"s Due comic run? I think they did well to put him into Black Ops to better establish his skill set and make him more well rounded. I actually just chatted with Dan the other night as we did a recording for Geek Dad Life's audio podcast. Haven't done an 87 Sunbow movie take yet for Joe. I am not as big a fan of that film as I am on the 86 TF one, lol.
@@ToyKennections Same here. The '86 Transformers film was simply better thought of as a film compared to the Joe version. DDP did make Duke a black ops type, but their initial series just can't leave the cartoon elements alone- their second series, America's Elite, with General Joe Colton in command (which I feel was way overdue) was better, but DDP's best Joe title was G. I. Joe Reloaded which finally took a more serious take on Joe. Btw, Duke's opening scenes in DDP's G. I. Joe #5 was a riff on Arnold Schwarzenegger's True Lies, down to looking for the restroom and dowloading info.
@@ToyKennections it may have been 3 now that you mention it , I think you might be right 😂 they aced him QUICK, the first time I watched I was like wait what??? 😂😂
Great movie rundown Ken!!! It was BS that our heroes got killed off and the Decepticons got a second chance at life!!! Even Starscream comes back as a ghost in season 3. In my Transformers universe the Quintessons and Junkions bring all Autobots back to life!!
@@ToyKennections I need a ghost Starscream myself. I also failed to mention season 3 Unicorn brought Starscream back to life!! So all Decepticons got a second chance at life. A bunch of BS.
Killing Prime and the old gang killed the cartoon! I know they brought Prime back but the damage was done! Me and my friends basically worshipped TF then. We gave season 3 a chance but it just sucked! A year later after the movie TF was out of business!
Nothing more than a 90 minute commerical to promote /sell the then new for 1986 toys.....then again thats what all cartoons and movies based on toys are
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I remember seeing this in the theater when it came out. The instant the S-word was dropped, some parents took their kids and left. I was also shocked, but thoroughly entertained. The animation and voice cast were outstanding, and it was refreshing to have a cartoon with real stakes.
Oh wow I didnt know people actually left the theatre over that.
Wow, one cuss word, and a bunch of kids don't get to see how the movie ended...sheesh...
Wait, they didn't take their kids out during the Shuttle Bloodbath, but they thought that Spike's "Oh, shit! What are we gonna do now?!" was the perfect time to leave?
People are _weird._
@@NebLleb Exactly!
@@chimera3hydra12 2 curse words. Don't forget that Ultra Magnus said "Open, damn it!"
I was born 10 years after it came out and it’s still one of my all time favorite movies. I rented the vhs from blockbuster and watched it over a hundred times as a kid easily
Watched it so many times that I had it memorized word for word. Transformers was, quite literally, my childhood for some years.
No matter how you feel about the death of Prime, it is without a question heroic! Great video Ken!
Quintessential TV hero death in my opinion.
I never fully appreciated the voice cast for this movie until I was much older.
And knowing this was Orson Welles last performance makes it kinda special. Even if his raw vocal tracks were virtually unusable.
I'll always appreciate Orson for Citizen Kane. And yeah what a stellar cast.
Great video, Ken. I love looking at the panels/deleted scenes of what we could have seen in the movie. It's still my favourite animated movie of all time. Great cast, great animation and great soundtrack 🎉
In hindsight i wish i included more deleted scenes as I only put in a couple of those panels. The soundtrack is indeed beyond epic!
Great breakdown and video brother. I do remember watching this in theaters and of course on VHS … a memory that will last forever!! 🤙🏽
Did they screen the "oh sh**" on the VHS you saw? They did on mine lol.
I did not see this in theaters but I had friends who did. I remember thier reception of this movie and seeing it myself when I was 5 or 6.
One of my oldest memories
It's a great memory. I remember being scared of Unicron, lol.
Hi Ken,Great video about The History of The Transformers:The Movie,1986, Controversy & Optimus Prime's death,keep them coming,Also I love looking at the panels/deleted scenes of what I could have seen in the movie. It's still my favourite animated movie of all time.Great cast, great animation and great soundtrack.🎉, also no matter how you feel about the heroic and honorable death of Prime,it is without a question Heroic! Great video Ken!, Also Great breakdown and video Ken. I do and still remember watching this On VHS and hopefully on DVD a memory that will last forever!✌️Also Excellent but superb video on the TF movie Ken.Love the intro of your video too with the stills.The TF movie has some of the best soundtracks in it and enjoy the animation style too and Judd Nelson as Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime and the late Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron.,also remarkable video I still remember all the ads going into the movie especially the promotion of Optimus Prime dying. It was weird to watch the last OP led episode on a Friday no way to watch the movie then on Monday no OP or Megatron,but new characters that seemed forced on us with all our favorites were gone.Most of people I knew that were fans quit Transformers all together and Hasbro is forced to have OP return for good once they finally realized OP was way to popular. Also is still my favorite Transformers Movie,Also thanks for sharing Ken,keep up the great work stay safe out there in Canada, Have a good night and until next time Till All Are One.🙂🦸🟢🏋️👍🇺🇲🎂🤩🥳
Thank you for this!!!
Collected the figures, the comics and got to see the movie in the theater. It's the best one. Amazing story
My favorite animated movie! I still watch it all the time and use the soundtrack as my power song.
Lol doing bench press while listening to The Touch!
@@ToyKennections coz I have the touch and I have the power yeah!
@@rairaiken33 (stan bush guitar solo)
@@ToyKennections you never bend you never break you seem to know just what it takes you're a fighter
Great movie, great explanation of the background.
Thx for this!
To some, it was just a "soulless toy commercial" but to kiddos like me, it was our first experience with the death of someone we cared about.
Totally
still my favorite Transformers movie!
Same!
Great to hear your thoughts on the movie!! Nice video as always!!
We will need to do a livestream together sometime man!
@@ToyKennections Sounds fun!
Excellent video on the TF movie Ken. Love the intro of your video too with the stills. The TF movie had some of the best soundtracks in it and enjoy the animation style too and Spock as Galvatron.
I will have to try out those types of intros more. Glad you enjoyed this, Chris!
Solid video as always. Thank you, Ken!
Always love a stroll down memory lane
@@ToyKennections It is. And these strolls are extra enjoyable with you hosting them.
Excellent video, never knew the reason as to why the 1985 line-up was basically left out of the movie. Great stuff.
Thx. Glad to help!
That movie was an assault on my love of the transformers cartoon the first 15 minutes killed all my favorites then coup de grace optimus on a slab!
I think we all felt like this for a time. Then it aged gracefully. Haha
I recall being aware Prime was going to die going into seeing the film in the theaters (I was probably 5 or 6 at the time). I don't think I ever took issue with the deaths of memorable characters as surprising as some of them were; I always just accepted that they were killed off. I guess I was one of the few target fans Hasbro was catering to that just was interested in what new toys were coming out lol.
But yeah Prime's death was quite epic and the final battle between him and Megatron remains one of my favorite scenes from any movie.
For sure. I think my brother told me he heard Prime was gonna die, but seeing it happen was a whole 'nother experience. Yes, that final battle between Prime and Megatron was epic.
@@ToyKennections I just feel bad for my poor father who took me to see it and had to sit through that whole movie (because my mom wasn't going to have any part of that lol). I'm sure to him the movie was just 90 minutes of noise. But to his credit even he was a little surprised when Prime died.
@@jeffjames7894 yup. That said, the times change and I happily took my boy to see TF Rise of the Beasts last June, lol.
Luckily I didn't take a parent to see the '86 film when it debuted. My first experience was on VHS.
Great video me and my brother watched this at the movies when it came out
Hope it was a fun experience!
Don’t forget one of the most important reactions coming out of the theater - the desire to buy more toys
Great video…I remember all the ads going into the movie…especially the promotion of Optimus Prime dying. It was weird to watch the last OP led episode on a Friday…no way to watch the movie…then on Monday…no OP or Megatron, but new characters that seemed forced on us with all our favorites were gone. Most of people I knew that were fans quit Transformers all together, and Hasbro is forced to have OP return for good once they realized OP was way to popular.
It was quite the shocking change. I love it all the same though.
The Killing of Optimus Prime is a cautionary tale: Take care of your beloved fictional characters. While there are benefits in killing Prime in terms of story telling, the reality is that Hasbro got rid of him just to make way to sell new toys (I feel like Dinobot’s death in Beast Wars was handled a bit better imo). Imagine if Lucasfilm made a Star Wars sequel Trilogy and carelessly got rid of the old cast just to make way for new characters we barely know or care about. Oh wait…
I was born in 1983, and I remember starting to watch Transformers when I was around 3 or 4 years old. When Season 3 aired, I was confused by all the new characters and especially wondered what happened to Optimus Prime. Initially, I thought Ultra Magnus might be Optimus Prime until Rodimus mentioned him. Eventually, my interest waned because I hadn't heard about the movie; back then, there was no internet, so all information and commercials were only available on Dutch TV. My interest reignited when an older brother of a friend told me about the movie, mentioning a giant planet Transformer and many Transformers dying. He also mentioned the Headmasters and Powermasters, so I was probably watching a rerun of the show. Despite being unable to watch the movie at the time due to its rarity, I was thrilled when Optimus Prime returned in the show. From that day, I became a super fan of the series, although the show ended shortly after a few episodes. I still remember that they never aired Season 4 on Dutch TV, so I never saw Headmasters or Powermasters until the internet was introduced.
a timeless product of its time. a movie that kept it about the transformers specifically only and brought in extra lore
Great video Ken! I've been working on my own play motion series which deals with a lot of stuff from the viewpoint of the Dinobots, and I'm about to do the year 2000. I see Megatron exploiting Vector Sigma somehow ruining it, stopping the Transformers from the ability to gain any new life. It's always fun to wonder what was going on with many of those season 2 characters while all this was going on. Then again I guess Cybertron's a big place...
Hey Bob! That'll be a good series and hope you share it everywhere.
Fantastic review !
I think these were some of the classic lines from the movie:
Wreck-Gar and Junkions: "Framed in enamel! Resists fire, rain and corrosion for up to 5 years! Satisfaction guaranteed!" "Or your money back!"
Wreck-Gar: "Stop, thief! No welcome wagon, hello stranger, with that good coffee flavor for you!* "Offer expires while you wait! Operators are standing by!"/"Steady as she goes, mob! Snoopy visitors get mud in the eye by and by! Film at 11!"
Grimlock: "Me Grimlock kick butt!" (even funnier is that he meant it literally!)
Slag: "Excuse me!"
*By the way, does anyone happen to know what shows/commercials Wreck-Gar was referring to when he said that first line?
I begged my mother for shockwave xmas of 86. I was shocked she found it but ky nom5 always came through for me
The story of Optimus passing the Matrix to Ultra Magnus constantly reminds me of the Biblical Issac passing the blessing to Esau, but God choose Jacob instead, as the Matrix chose Rodimus
3:44 I used to stare at this picture for hours on end.
Same
Thsnk goodness for the return of optimus prime
Love the movie.
I was always a Decepticon fan. So, it was a great film to me.
I notice there’s 2 Swoops in the movie
Unicron: "I have summoned you here...for a purpose."
Megs: "NOBODY summons Megatron!"
Unicron: "Then it pleases me to be the first!"
Great sequence.
@@ToyKennections Definitely.
Megatron: "State your business."
This is great...I think one mistake they made was all new autobots on the poster.i think that hurt sales and in the commercial they ask does prime die if so who will lead the autobots... Mistake
well done, I have a love hate relationship with this movie, I was 15 when this came out and missed seeing it when it did, so I ended up catching it a little later on HBO and saw season 3 first saying wht the F#$! is going on here? then when I saw the movie on cable I understood, was still disapointed though even though it rocked oddly enough.
I can understand the 3rd season would take time to get used to. The movie aged wonderfully though.
@@ToyKennections I do agree with that
Wasn't Cybertron always under Decepticon control? Until after the movie.
I don't think so. I know Shockwave maintained forces there but for the longest time they didn't have enough energon to keep themselves fully powered.
Scaring your kiddies and killing their favourite characters since 1986! :)
I like The Transformers: The Movie
You forgot shockwave😢
He knows he's loved 😎
One shall surf, one shall play basketball... no more 😮
Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong
Hot rod sucks! Lol. The power of this franchise is just crazy. My son is five and was introduced to transformers by his friends. Obviously i watched the bay films with him. The funny thing is how he got attached to the same transformers i liked with no coaxing - Optimus, starscream, megatron. Lol. And he really has no connection to the g1 cartoon accept the intro. Just goes to show that the 80s cartoonist were masters at their craft.
Transformers the Movie may not be perfect- but its far more preferable to G. I. Joe the Movie, where Lt. Falcon, Jinx, and Tunnel were severely misrepresented. And the Transformers were spared the likes of Cobra-La.
Thank you for stating that Duke was just the field leader, as First Sergeant, as the animated series took a LOT of liberties from what was established in the Marvel Comic series by Larry Hama.
Regarding "Till all are one", given how Hasbro's acquired other toy companies, a running gag over at Dan Larson's Secret Galaxy TH-cam Channel when Hasbro gets a new company is, "Hasbro- Till all are one!"
Have you done a video on the animated G. I. Joe series by Marvel/Sunbow and its movie? That should be interesting.
Thx! Have you seen my take on Duke during the Devil"s Due comic run? I think they did well to put him into Black Ops to better establish his skill set and make him more well rounded.
I actually just chatted with Dan the other night as we did a recording for Geek Dad Life's audio podcast.
Haven't done an 87 Sunbow movie take yet for Joe. I am not as big a fan of that film as I am on the 86 TF one, lol.
@@ToyKennections
Same here. The '86 Transformers film was simply better thought of as a film compared to the Joe version.
DDP did make Duke a black ops type, but their initial series just can't leave the cartoon elements alone- their second series, America's Elite, with General Joe Colton in command (which I feel was way overdue) was better, but DDP's best Joe title was G. I. Joe Reloaded which finally took a more serious take on Joe.
Btw, Duke's opening scenes in DDP's G. I. Joe #5 was a riff on Arnold Schwarzenegger's True Lies, down to looking for the restroom and dowloading info.
Those kids were the first Millennials.
Elaborate
Lol… and then Headmasters In Japan killed OP off again immediately 5 episodes into that series 😂😂😂.. great stuff
Did he even make it 5 eps? I actually thought it was 3 😅🤣
@@ToyKennections it may have been 3 now that you mention it , I think you might be right 😂 they aced him QUICK, the first time I watched I was like wait what??? 😂😂
LMAO the movie started with this monster planet commiting genocide by wiping out a planets whole population 😂 that set the tone
Great movie rundown Ken!!! It was BS that our heroes got killed off and the Decepticons got a second chance at life!!! Even Starscream comes back as a ghost in season 3. In my Transformers universe the Quintessons and Junkions bring all Autobots back to life!!
I've been debating if i need a ghost of starscream figure myself.
@@ToyKennections I need a ghost Starscream myself. I also failed to mention season 3 Unicorn brought Starscream back to life!! So all Decepticons got a second chance at life. A bunch of BS.
@@ToyKennections Unicron
Killing Prime and the old gang killed the cartoon! I know they brought Prime back but the damage was done! Me and my friends basically worshipped TF then. We gave season 3 a chance but it just sucked! A year later after the movie TF was out of business!
Me Slag no care. 😀
Me swoop no see nothing
The Movie destroyed the franchise
The deceptacons were way too over powerd in this movie.
Was a 2 hr long commercial ti sell the new toy line. Soon as thry killed iff lrinr and iron hide and lrowl and changed megatron. I lost interest
Nothing more than a 90 minute commerical to promote /sell the then new for 1986 toys.....then again thats what all cartoons and movies based on toys are
Pretty much
They KILLED Optimus Prime?!?!? Spoiler alert!
😂
First time?