Autobot City battle with UNUSED STORYBOARDS! - JepBK 

Amazed on how much was cut. After all these years I used to wonder about certain scenes that didn’t make sense and now watching these story boards fill the gap. Thanks for posting.

I wish there was a way to replicate this animation using computers so fans could make the full un-cut battle.

Looking at the deleted storyboards, I can see how Takara Tomy thought Wheeljack had survived. I'm guessing that Takara Tomy only had the storyboards, when planning Masterforce, where they believed it was okay to use Wheeljack.

The story boards give the context that the autobots we're pushing back pretty strongly on the ground level. That should have been kept in, because it connects so well with the placement of everyone.

@14:29 GOD I want to see that scene animated so bad.

Shame we never got a "director's cut" of the movie with all the storyboards included and colored.

I remember in the original trailer there was a shot of all of Transformed Autobot Citys guns firing off all at once. Was there not a storyboard for that?

Count all the cutsceens EXCEPT the one with Wheeljack alive since he should be dead. Now I love The Transformers show/movie EVEN MORE! The Autobots got SLAUGHTERED, but that was a HELL OF A BATTLE👍 This was the only time Ultra Magnus carried cars in the story. Kup's old ass put a hurting on the Constructicons. There are some TF stories that are good (Beast Wars/Machines, Cybertron Games, Prime,) but THE TRANSFORMERS IS STILL THE BEST OUT OF THEM ALL! LONG LIVE G1!✊

This is superb!!! what an extraordinary job you've done here!! thanks!!! Wish HASBRO does this movie again and includes these missing sceneces and gave us all those missing in action autobots either deaths or survival status

Awesome. Great work. I’m 42 and this still moves me. Absurd I know lol. I never liked how the eye balls pop up when Devastator hits the dinobot, even as a kid I thought that was stupid. We watched cartoons like this with complex vocabulary and articulate characters vs the vomit today. I learned the word ominous, dubious and so many more at the age of 6 just by the dialogue from Unicron. Had they fully brought to life that storyboard, the battle at autobot city would have been mind blowing.

Wow, the insecticons surely took a lot of abuse, specially Bombshell. No wonder they were all mangled up at the end of the battle.

Should've added the word transformers to your description for more views.

Wish they kept the stuff seen in the original trailers, those were nice, especially where we see Diaclone color Magnus and the others in the city, the city looked MUCH more impressive there. And I prefer seeing organic 'guts' inside Unicron.

Now on its 36th year (August 2022 already passed), this film never ceases to amaze with its bit of details (i.e. Easter eggs). Just feel bad deleted storyboards weren't added. Again, we can't have it all in this life, in hopes we chose the right and significant ones.

They certainly should have kept the scene where Prime slams Dirge to the ground before finishing his line to Megatron. The way it was cut, while awesome, makes no sense with the movement

Maybe for the 40th anniversary, Hasbro could commission the unanimated storyboards and make the movie complete. Including the scenes that were scripted, but not even storyboarded. In all seriousness, the stuff they omitted is far more relevant and pertinent to the movie, and adds so much depth to the city battle in particular. That crap with the Junkions and Sharkticons could easily have been avoided, let’s be honest.

Now that makes sense why Optimus Prime picks up his gun while fighting Megatron it got knocked out when Prime got bum rushed by Blitzwing.

i still cant believe they killed Ironhide Wheeljack Optimus Prime Megatron, StarScream Ratchet Prowl Skywarp Bombshell Kickback Shrapnel Brawn All in one movie.........its no wonder the show died after this movie, there was no one left. Everyone who saw it lost their favorite bot, and the ones who didnt see the movie were completely lost.

Opens up even more questions when you take in to account the story boards - more Autobots decimated, couple of Decepticons as well but not many. We see Wheeljack survive, nothing about Huffer dying then Trailbreaker, Red Alert in the deleted storyboards .. Soundwave must be invincible as well because he takes a few shots from Optimus yet survives, same with Dirge before having his head caved in yet Decepticons survive Autobot gunshots etc like Insecticons and Constructicons ... Ahh well .. will never change my opinion of the movie and the aftermath. Damn you hasbro and your "new toyline" direction!!!

Do you guys think Hound Sunstreaker Bluestreak Hoist Grapple Inferno Sideswipe Tracks Smokescreen Survived Cause I’m pretty sure they did

I was so bummed out in the theatre when I realized Autobot City wasn't Metroplex.

Obviously there's a big continuity issue with how the Decepticons were able to devastatingly destroy the Autobots in the movie while episodes after it doesn't seem like they can do it anymore. To resolve this inconsistency, it's likely Shockwave developed a more potent version of plasma/Energon similar to Nucleon that supercharges their weapons that has a much more armor penetration force on impact. I can see the Decepticons like Megatron&his team drinking that supercharged Energon&putting some into their weapons as well before attacking the IronHide's shuttle. As they approached Earth, they take it again and seems like a drug that they're addicted to it but has a few day's worth time limit for its effectiveness. Also continued use damages their internal systems like Nucleon making it difficult for them to transform later on. It's a very limited supply and during the battle of Unicron on Cybertron, the site that creates the supercharged Energon as well as Shockwave got destroyed by Unicron. With Shockwave gone, the Decepticons can't recreate more of that supercharged Energon to make their weapons very lethal anymore plus there's another Energon supply crisis again. As for the Autobots, they probably spray coated their bodies with something refractive&ablative paint to minimize the damage when they get hit. Maybe it's developed from the island that had a lot of reflective gold(Electrum) on it . It's a very limited supply as it takes a lot of time&energy to make that Electrum armor coating after the Golden Lagoon episode but the Autobots were able to collect enough to make a decent Electrum coating for most of the Autobots. Unfortunately it's not very effective against being hit by point blank range supercharged weapons so like the shuttle crew they still got wiped out. That same Electrum armor coating also got destroyed on Autobot City as it's a strategic target for the Decepticons to ensure they win against the Autobots. As for Prime surviving being hit multiple times by Decepticons weapons after his shuttle had landed, maybe he has an extra Electrum coating or he might had energized himself and it reinforced the coating to have a surface shielding effect against those hits. The Electrum coating's effectiveness is reduced by physical damages so it looks like the armor becomes brittle or cracked just like in the movie. So having a physical fight actually damages that Electrum coating and Prime&Megatron's battle was very effective against each other's armor coating making them very weak&fatally de-energized after the battle.

Hot Rod invented Drifting. Huh

@2:36 illustration of the crashing shuttle, I thought for sure I saw that animated in the movie back in the day?

Only line said by Devastator in the whole movie and it was F**KING AMAZING and sounded so OMINOUS. PREPARE FOR EXTERMINATION!!!!!

If you look where Perceptor and Grapple are firing, Swoop runs in front of them for a split second...only to show up on the shuttle moments later.

so bluestreak and wheeljack died for devastator, what abour sideswipe and tracks?

RIP Autobots -Brawn -Prowl -Ratchet -Ironhide -Huffer -Sunstreaker -Hound -Mirage -Smokescreen -Windcharger -Wheeljack -Beachcomber -Red Alert -Trailbreaker -Gears and our Autobot Leader himself -Optimus Prime RIP Decepticons -Bombshell -Shrapnel -Kickback -Thundercracker -Skywarp -Starscream -Cyclonus' Armada -Reflector and the leader of all Decepticons -Megatron

The storyboard had to be trimmed to match the song, which IMO made more sense without them. Although a fan made version would be nice

thanks so much for showing this. Sad those scenes got cut.

Imagine a remastered but also a directors cut of this movie :P

It was an excellent plan, and the Decepticons succeeded in destroying Autobot city, its Autobot inhabitants, and their courageous leader Optimus Prime.

I’m realizing Swoop appears too early.

I cant wait for the year 2005

well done!

One storyboard showed Prime getting jumped by Starscream and 3 others just after Blitzwing rushed. Would loved to have seen Prime smashing them up

Here's what believe in terms of death. I don't really believe that MOST characters die but I can argue with some. Wheeljack did NOT die, because he was in a deleted scene and removed storyboard. The deleted scene had Ultra Magnus order Wheeljack to bring out the Ani bots (who became the predacons in season 3) to fight devastator. This scene was before the dinobots came. Gears was scripted to die by devastator. Smokescreen was seen dead next to windcharger when arcee pulls him in. As seen in dark awakening, huffer in in the autobot (graveyard?). At the end of the battle when the decepitcons board astrotrain, Trailbreakers legs were meant to be seen. Red alert was meant to be seen getting killed by the constructicons, and his corspe during megatron and primes battle. Inferno had survived the assault and was meant to tell wish U.M. good luck. If I left out anyone please let me know.

Damn, the Insecticons were really punished during the battle, getting shot, blown up over and over, no wonder they were all beaten up by the time the Decepticons fled. However, it would've made more sense if the Insecticons had just summoned their clone army to raid Autobot City, which would've easily explain how the Insecticons kept on getting shot at

After all these years, I'm now starting to notice how chubby Hot Rod's lower legs are. 😮

Cool stuff man. So many scenes unused or scrapped in this one. If only they allowed extended versions back then.

Thank you for sharing the missing pieces of this greatest epic movie of transformers. A job well done.

Countless re-releases of this movie no one has ever thought of including the deleted scenes in animated form. I guess they won't take the risk but think how spectacular it would be.

boy all these storyboards fill in alot of gaps in the scenes while also showing more Autobots not shown in the film especially more season 2 autobot characters. through season 3 after the events of the movie very little season 2 characters made appearances in the cartoon say Blaster, Perceptor and some of the throttlebots. I know they wanted a clean slate with season 1 mainstays gone from show that were killed off in the movie.

one thing i never got - Spike could have basiclly used ANY Autobot he wanted to (they were all his friends) YET what did he pick a Lamborghini - nope not Sideswipe or (for some reason) Red Alert (never understood that one) a Porshe - nope not Jazz a Fairlady Z - nope not Blue Streak or Prowl Heck he could have even had a SPACE SHIP - but nope not Cosmos a freaking VW BUG was his choice of cars - lol Daniel for all the flack he sometimes gets had better taste in cars - HOT ROD, SPRINGER and even ARCEE

I never notice hotrods flame when he Transformed at 1:17. I think the fight scenes should have been left it would have been better.

Whatever happened to Reflector?

Man. Wish they kept went and animated that sub fight with devestator and the other autobots and all the other little added bits in the Prime and Megatrom fight.

This was awesome! Thanks for making this. 🙂

3:33 the editing in this sequence always bugged me. As it is in the movie blitzing gets hot Rod locked on target. Hot Rod is just standing still for no apparent reason AND then it cuts to Kup who sees the situation, transforms, drives to blitzing and then has enough time to transform again, leap at him and then raise his turret before it can fire on hot rod. I think it would have worked better if it showed Kup approaching approaching blitzing well before he had hot Rod locked on target because what we have in the movie is several seconds when blitzwing can totally shoot his enemy but doesn’t purely so kup can get to him, which is a contrivance that could have been resolved with a bit of editing to change the sequence a little

@7:26 Who are the two autobots front right, running? I literally cannot read the handwriting of the person who wrote their names. lol

One Shall stand & One shall fall !!!!

Funny the little details or plot holes you find later. For all the technology, transforming a city into a armed fortress(which BTW, why wouldn't it always be in armed fortress mode), space travel etc. They needed Perceptor to RUN to the communication tower get Blaster to radio Moon base 1.

Damn so did Mirage die there

I know I say this a lot of times seeing videos on deleted scenes of Transformers the Movie but I hope before I die I could see a re-release of the movie with additional animation from the deleted scenes. Unfortunately Hasbro is probably lazy or doesn't want to invest such an idea.

I really wonder what the storyboards were for the Autobot City battle that was shown in the Promotional Trailer. Holy SHIT did that look better than what we ended up getting.

4:35 ultra magnus was originally supposed to be carrying springer arcee and blurr in his truck carrier mode

High chance the edits and cuts were made around the songs and score.

The editors really, truly butchered one of best animated battles in living memory. Have to wonder how much of this got animated and cut vs how much of it got cut at the the storyboard stage. There almost has to be a few great scenes complete with voice music and sound that fans have never beheld.

some of that I can see why it was cut, as it would have interrupted the pacing and slowed the movie down

You know it was never explained when and how did Ultra Magnus get his earth mode. Some where between the end of season 2 and the movie Magnus came to Earth. What did his alt-mode look like on Cybertron?

way to go totally breaking the pace of the video, not even bothering to proper conect this all together with additional or extended music, sound effects and much more.

I think there was a scene where Omega Supreme falls trying to defend the Ark a.k.a Autobot HQ. His only line is "Situation dire".

The inserted unused storyboards here don't do a good job in conveying what's taking place. I've seen a more coherent version of what really happened in the Autobot City/Megatron-Prime Battle elsewhere. The "final version" of the film made no sense (particularly in that section).

Nice of the Autobots just stood and waited for the Constructicons start shooting at them, after Devastator disassembled. Then ran away from the Constructicons and get shot in the back. Yet, the area Devastator tore open the Dinobots were not around and also allowed the Constructicons to escape. Talk about holes in the story.

Holy shit!!! All this time I never realized Megatron had bear 🐻 🐻‍❄ hands!!!!