Agreed, looking back on it there were a lot of movies that may have had lukewarm or downright bad initial releases, but gained followings in the future
The movie was very "Japanese", from the main characters dying to the quality of animation. Where I'm from we grew up watching Super robot anime, so we were already used to tragic storylines and main characters dying.
Optimus' entrance in the 1986 movie was absolutely perfect, from him running down two deceptions to the rocket assisted transformation. I first saw this movie in the mid 2010s and this movie still blew me away.
Saw it in the cinema 86. Had a spoiled kid who lived a block away and he would take me with him every weekend to the movies for about 2 years. Seen all the good ones, Karate Kid, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, E.T., The Goonies you name it. Good times.
My Dad bought me my first Transformer in 1984, which was Bluestreak. I still have it today as a 47 year old man. Plus the entire Takara re-issue G1 catalog for my daughter to keep.
It's just mouth-breather noise, poised as if it were "intelligent articulation." It's nice to see the sequence of cause and effect but painful to hear the wording~phrasing and trash humour.
I was in my late teens when Transformers came around, but I was NOT "too old" to enjoy them. I'll even own up to watching Jem right behind it on weekdays. I had a part time job, so I had pretty near all of the toys (yes, of BOTH cartoons). I saw The Movie the day it dropped, and I was floored. A theater full of kids and their parents.... the shock of those kids, the horrific look on their parent's faces.... when Optimus Prime died.... You would have needed a mop to get up all of the tears. I tell you what, though.... the soundtrack to this movie ranks #1 on my list of "Best Soundtracks" for a movie, ever. I still listen to it on the regular, 36 years later. Hell, I still watch the movie itself at least 4-6 times per year. Also, I'm really glad this video popped up on my suggestions today.... nearly 40 minutes in, and I'm quite impressed with your presentation!
Man I'm the same way...Its so bad that I know the 1986 movie word for word..lol..im a 70s baby as well...I used to watch Jem and the misfits too..I was even a fan of "Riot"... I still have 1983/84 gijoe, cobra and transformers(mostly deceptions) figures still in great condition..I was 11 years old and remember being in shock when Prime died in 86..i was so much a fan back then that I rented the VHS tape from my local video store and copied it(putting two VCRs together and covering the cassette tab to be able to make a copy)HA HA HA HA ...remember when they used to warn us in the beginning of a movie about making copies??? I was so young and nieve that I thought the FEDS were going to arrest me for making a copy...as if they were going to be alerted as soon as i made a copy..lmao..damn I miss the 80s..life was so simple back then.
80s cartoon vocabulary was so on point back then that I believe this generation of kids would have a problem understanding the vocabulary. society has dumbed down the kids programs nowadays..
@@LOGICAL-JAY I bought the original VHS of the movie, after renting it from the local library. This was when VHS "originals" still cost a small fortune. I paid $95 for it from a "mom and pop" video store. I had a job at the time, so I was able to buy all the stuff I wanted. Sadly, the original tape I mentioned above was destroyed in a flood. And yes, I had two VCRs for that purpose, but also so I could record two different stations at the same time. Made recording the "Monday Night War" interesting, to say the least. When the live action Transformers movie came out, I sold off most of my Transformers toys, but they were all in good condition. I didn't hear about the live action Jem movie until long after it had come out, so I couldn't do the same thing with my Jem doll collection. That's okay, there's still a big following for that, and I'm actually glad I didn't.
Yup! I'm in the exact same boat. This show blew my mind, and I was instantly hooked! I remember going to watch the movie with my dad, and I was trying to keep it together and not cry in front of him when Optimus Prime was killed off. I think a few tears leaked out however!
G1 main consist of the toy era, the term was originated in the toy line when G2 was introduce in the 90's, and not the cartoon. G1 is any toy made and produce between 1984 and 1990 here in America, G1 lasted in Japan from 1985 to 1992.
I wanted to get schooled in G1 Transformers Then you hit me with a nostalgia trip when you went in on BEAST WARS and MACHINES Did not expect that Thanks for this great video
it unlocked a core memory of mine: sitting in my living room in the morning before school, trying not to cry over Dinobot's death speech before the bus came twenty minutes later...
Weird Al’s Dare to Be Stupid song with this movie was perfect and the sequence was gorgeous. Beautiful key animation by Toho. It shifted our attention. Maybe Cybertronic spree should make a TFTM musical with Weird Al. All accordion.
Im G1 all the way transformers helped me through a very dark time when i was 10 both my parents died within 2 months of each other and transformers came out and i could escape my pain and enter a world of wonder, i had no interest in gen 2 or beast wars. Im now 49 but still enjoy the G1 cartoon despite its cheese factor it comforts me and makes me smile
Before time began... there was Diaclone. I know not if it was a spiritual successor to Micronauts in Japan or not. But what I do know is that through Diaclone and its legacy... Great things came forth.
@@Kenneth_H_Olsen Jetfire is a retooled VF-1 from SDF Macross, and due to licensing and rights issues is the reason that he looked quite different in the show, along with being called Skyfire
The idea of "three or five parts combining to become one robot" and "the idea of planes and cars transforming into robots" were born from Japanese anime creators in the 1970s. Japanese toy manufacturers made money by turning them into plastic products. From a Japanese perspective, Diaclone was a fairly latecomer, and didn't sell well in Japan.
This was great. This whole walk down memory lane reminded me of how cheesedick the whole show and some aspects of the movie were but I still love it. And that musical score when Unicron meets Megatron was actually a synthwave masterpiece.
Racing my brother the ¼ mile down the driveway home after getting off the school bus to finish our homework in time to watch TRANSFORMERS will always be with me!
I've always wanted a video like this, I've always been confused about the origin of the transformers being comics or the show or toys? I guess it turns out it was all 3? And then it gets even more confusing from there with all the later adaptations so it's nice to have an overview like this
Toys came first. Then Hasbro contacted Marvel comics to make a sort of backstory for the toys in order for marketing purposes. This later became the original G1 cartoon. From then on came comicbooks, tv shows, movies and now video games. Although people always consider G1 to be the official canon but that's not officially confirmed by Hasbro which is why there are multiple origin stories and adaptations of the transformers franchise.
excellent summary friend.. GREAT VIDEO!!!... CONGRATULATIONS !! ..... in the 90's I was into 3D animation.. and when Beasts Wars came out was awesome!!.... back then it was the best you could do.... all the Beasts Wars episodes are available here on RU-vid in all their SD 4:3 aspect ratio glory.... highly recommend giving them a rewatch.....
This was amazing and very comprehensive. I would like to add that before Beast Machines came out, the fans were getting a lot of rumors about Machine Wars. I remember one rumor was that we would see the G1 characters in the continuation of Beast Machines. Another rumor I heard was that since Starscream's Ghost knew about the Beast Wars and what that technology was like, he eventually did something with that knowledge... Then we were teased with Transtech Transformers.... but that never happened.
Just an addendum to the analysis of the movie - when Daniel found Spike, Jazz, Bumblebee, and Cliffjumper: that quick scene of those unknown being melted in the stomach of Unicron. . . absolutely brutal.
The Nostalgia of G1 hits me hard, when I hear the theme song at the beginning it automatically takes me back to memories of my childhood home. And all the memories start coming back. Awesome Documentary
It took until this video for me to realize that the Transformers main theme song is why I like the 4:3 time signature so much. I'm a huge King Gizzard fan, and they use a lot of weird and odd time signatures, most notably 4:3.
You have quickly made your way into my favorite RU-vidrs. The way you explain things for people who may have never experienced these topics, just amazing
I'm glad you summarized Beast Machines for me. I couldn't really stick with it back in the day, even though I was excited for it at first. Awesome retrospective.
37:00 I still remember watching this moment... it was one of 2 moments in my childhood that I remember making me cry over a TV character (the other being Snoopy when he left home and left Charlie Brown). I've never gone back and watched any of these cartoons as an adult, although I loved the 2007 Transformers Michael Bay-a-thon. I found this channel through your MCU stuff last week, and I'm loving this video also. Awesome job dude!
clicked on this for the beast wars nostalgia - pleasantly surprised to find out my childhood love for the series was not misplaced!! What a throw back to an EPIC 90s show! :D
The toys always cracked me up. Even when I was a kid I didn't understand why a robot that can turn into a car or truck would ride a motorcycle. The old add at about an hour in reminded me. When you said reboot....I had a flashback. Beast Wars came out when I was 11. I was the target audience for sure. Yes the animation looks dated now, but at the time there was nothing else like it. I would wake up at 6am every Saturday to catch the toons. Our children will never understand having to wait until Saturday for your favorite cartoon. Most of the time they don't have to wait 5 minutes.
I'm right there with you, man. Although I grew up during the through the entirety of the G1 era. I was in my 20's during Beast Wars. After a hard night of drinking and pussy slaying, my best buddy and I would be stumbling through the door at about 5:00am on Sunday morning when we discovered the show. That became kind of a routine for a while. Nowadays, my son has no concept of "anticipation". The trend of instant gratification is ruining a generation. Whenever there is any implication of patience being required, it's "to hell with it" and on to something else, like that stupid fucking tictoc or that fag retard andy tate. It's hard to be the most impressionable influence in your child's life when we're so outnumbered by online "influencers" who tell them whatever they want to hear, regardless of right or wrong. The double edged blade of the internet. Sorry I kind of rambled off into left field, there. I been hittin' the pipe.
Now this is the way! Absolutely incredible deep dive mate that follows suit of the amazing series you seem to be making. From the dates and depths of knowledge to the personality that is delivered will keep be watching whatever you drop, all of which right up my alley thus far! Big ups bro
Awesome job on getting all the tips bits of the TF history. Some of these episodes I haven't seen in a long time and brung back great memories. Long live TFs and Thanks to all those involved into making them what they are
An amazingly edited and researched retrospective, You're helping fill in many gaps in my knowledge from the different parts of the franchise I never saw - thanks for all your hard work.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane!! I had many years of awesome shows!! Battle of the Planets, Starblazers, Transformers, and Robotech!! Awe, it was good time to be a kid!! Optimus Prime, Wheeljack, Soundwave, Shockwave, Rumble, and Grimlock were my favorites. My loving mother kept me well supplied with these toys, they were the last I ever played with.
This was excellently well made.👌🏿👍🏿 I was born in the late 80s. Sadly I didn’t get a chance to experience watching Transformers from 1983 till its end, but I did see few episodes reruns in the 90s. But watching this documentary, I’m just amazed at how well the animation was, how detail it was for its time. It is still holds up today. I did however, watching Beast Wars. I really loved that show.
I don’t know anything about this channel but this video is excellent. Really enjoyed this and kept me hooked for nearly two hours. Top stuff all round 👍🏼
I was a thirteen year-old TF fan when TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE came out and wet to see it with two childhood pals. We were RIVETED and loved every moment of it. Saw it two more times before it was no longer in theaters. I still love that movie.
Wow! What a masterful, detailed and entertaining analysis of the first almost 20 years of The Transformers 👏🏾🌟 Thanks so much for compiling this and bringing back some treasured memories. You have really and helpfully added a lot of information which I was not aware of across the G1 and Beast era series, which complements other bits of info that have been revealed over the past few years, such as the copyrighting of names, and why some characters end up with different names, such as 'Slag' being renamed 'Slug', and perhaps the most famous being the 'Jetfire' vs 'Skyfire' saga, where the former name was featured in the comics, while the latter was in the cartoons, even though bith were identical physically (at toy level, it was the 'Jetfire' toy which was available for purchase). You explained the 'Frenzy' vs 'Rumble' issue perfectly (Frenzy did make a season 1 cartoon appearance in 'Countdown to extinction'. One other thing was how the Bay-directed live action films used (maybe unintentionally) some of the ideas which the early G1 cartoons did; for example Skyfire being buried in the ice in 'Fire in the sky' = Megatron being buried in ice in the 2007 first live action film (with more evidence of ice buried transformers, in the fourth live action film 'Age of extinction'; then there's the idea of the Autobots being banished from earth in the season 2 cartoon episode 'Megatron's master plan' = being banished from earth in the third live action film 'Dark of the Moon', which also utilised the idea of Cybertron being brought into Earth's orbit, as it was in the cartoons season 1 trilogy 'The ultimate doom'. With the Beast Wars, it was disappointing that some characters were left out of the cartoons. These would be given more of a spotlight in the Beast Wars comic. If you do a retrospective of the Armada, Energy, Rescuebots, etc. series, I'll definitely be tuning in; not that I liked any of these. The recent series on Netflix, has recaptured some of the G1 magic of The Transformers, even if we only had a small number of characters, which again, was a little disappointing. Thanks very much again for this extremely informative and enjoyable rundown. Please keep up the good work 👏🏾 🌟
I never really got into the animal beast era of Transformers so it was interesting to hear what happened to one of my favourite childhood things after I "grew up."
We all knew this was coming. I'm very eager to watch this one though as my only involvement with transformers was the live action movies and all the toys those spawned
I watch so much Transformers stuff on YT that I can’t believe this never popped up in my feed. I was 8 in 1984, and I feel like that was the perfect age to experience the best that G1 had to offer. I was old enough to get the show concepts and understand the toys…and young enough to hang in there through the last season of the cartoon. It easily became my favorite 80s toy franchise. Everything else became 2nd banana after Transformers dropped. It was phenomenal. The only other toy franchise I can think of that rivals its overall cultural significance and staying power is Star Wars. I still think Transformers has it beat. The toys are more fun!
I've cried twice in a movie theater. First time was watching ET as a kid when ET died. Second time was watching my absolute biggest hero in the world, Optimus Prime, die. If you combine those experiences with when Mr. Hooper died on Sesame Street... It was a fairly traumatic childhood...
Idc what anyone says Beast Machines will always be one of my favorite transformers shows. The theme song and the organic sleeker designs were always cool to me. The dark early 2000s cyberpunk vibe and atmosphere and the haunting reality of possibly being the only beings alive on a home planet overrun with sparkless zombie-like drones always intrigued me.
I grew up with the entire G1 series available to me and as a kid I really enjoyed Season 3 and hated The Return of Optimus Prime because Rodimus was such an insanely well developed character by the show's standards and they do him so dirty. I loved Optimus Prime too but the movie was so definitive for me.
Sad thing is there are some people who are adults now who ONLY saw "Beast-Wars" , when they hear Transformers that's what they are comparing everything against, , , , Gen-1 needs to be re-done this time in CGI but using all of the original episodes music and spoken audio , , , , in 4K video , , ,someone redid the original Thundercats intro fully in CGI it's on RU-vid and it looks freaking amazing , ,it made me think "what if season 1 of the Gen-1 Transformers were made in glorious CGI ?"
I have been a fan of transformers since 2015. And to see a full retrospective of the entire history of the transformers, lights my heart, or should I say my spark. And just as I started watching this, I’ve decided that I would watch every single piece of Transformers media, including playing all the games (except the 2007 game because I hate it, and it’s somewhere in the garage), watch All movies, and every show and this video definitely inspired that. And also my eight year time for the franchise in just two years I’ll be a fan for 10 years which is crazy to me. I love this franchise with everything, and I want to show it as much love as possible. My four-year-old self would be in heaven right now.
This video is mesmerizing! Took my back to childhood and how I was completely wild eyed when Transformers came out and all the memories especially getting Jetfire and Shockwave for Christmas one year LOL! Highlight of my childhood LOL!
As a kid in the 80's I loved the first season of Transformers. I didn't have Television shows much in the later 80's and early 90's. I never saw much of season 2 or anything later, which saved the original Autobots and Deceptions in my fond memories untainted. Only within the past couple years did I watch all the newer stuff on Netflix and I liked that stuff, but not as much as the o.g. material. I enjoyed the live action films fair enough.
This is such a good video, definitely something I can see myself coming back to and watching again at some point, cant wait for a next part, better mention my favourite show RID 01.
Since the transformer crashed landed 4 million years ago that would mean they arrived during the pliocene the time when our ancestors were starting to walk upright and when megalodon was terrorizing the oceans. Also some…trans warp drive shenanigans would occur while the autobots and decepticons where still in offline but you didn’t hear that last bit from me…
To a lot of kids that were kids of divorce, lonely and fatherless, Prime was a sort of surrogate father and a moral stand-in. When Habro believed that Prime was just a commodity they severely underestimated the impact he had on their own customers.
Beast Machines was actually my first transformers series, I enjoyed the whole story and characters, while I love transformers G1 now a lot and all that, beast machines will actually be at my core
Idk if gaming would be youre forte, but I would love to hear deep dives of this par into companies like Nintendo and sega, from the success of Mario to today the ups and downs, itd be cool to hear from your presentation style :) great job though I love these video essay/documentaries
We need a figure based on zombie Prime from dark awakening. Why haven't they made that yet? Lol. And I did like beast machines a lot. I know it gets a lot of flack and sometimes gets a little repetitive but I liked it a lot. More underrated if not perfect.
I missed season 1 of g1 all i had was vhs copies but I still remember watching episodes of season 2 everyday after school when i was 6 years old.I can't really remember all aspects of other 80s cartoons but Transformers always stuck with me.
In my city the cartoon didn't air on local channels but I was fortunate it did air on WGN / The Bozo Show daily but only short clips so you had to watch for a full week just to catch an episode. I was one of those who didn't see the movie and was completely thrown off when the new Season of the Cartoon aired! I remember seeing my first toy at a birthday slumber party and was completely envious. I am forever thankful to my mother who fought Xmas shopping crowds of that era to get me 3 transformers (one being OptimusPrime) and leaving me with the memories I have of those toys and fun times!
Ginrai in Masterforce was not Powemaster Optimus Prime. He was a new character based on that toy, a human who combined with his truck (secretly a Cybertronian Transtector) to form a new Autobot commander.
Interesting video. I thank you for all the research about information, images and videos you get for this investigation, plus your time and attention to the details. Good work, feller!
