*FIRST TIME WATCHING* The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Reaction! 

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This film bridges the gap between seasons 2 and 3 of the G1 series. Transformers was my number 1 show/toy as a kid. It was pretty rough watching this film back in the day and seeing so many of my favorite characters killed off. For many of us gen-xers, THIS is our Transformers movie.

Many scenes have been cold hearted awesome. Especially where Optimus voices over christens "Arise, Rodimus Prime"

Hot Rod becomes Rodimus Prime in this; a super underrated Autobot leader, with a really interesting character arc in the third season.

Sooo hyped for this reaction sir! Side note about Peter Cullen: he also is the one who came up with the clicking sound for the Predator 🤯

I betcha Autobot City has the best schools for technology and Decepticon City has the best casinos.

To Generation (Gen X), the death of Optimus left a scar on all of us that we'll carry to our graves.

The reason the matrix was able to be open is because hot rod was the first autobot to touch it when prime died.

Ultra Magnus looks like Optimus Prime because his toy was designed as pure white Optimus Prime with a red-blue exoskeleton made from a car-carrier trailer.

Season 3 of the G1 animated series leaves off where the Movie ended.

This follows on from Season 2 of the G1 series... you need to watch the G1 stuff! The Movie was amazing but heartbreaking for those of us who grew up watching G1 and saw so many of our favourite Transformers get brutally killed off!!! In recent years too help heal the old wound, i have edited my own What If videos of Transformers the movie where Prime returns.

Love it I still watched it to this day vince dicola score is stunning still my favourite movie with bumblebee second.

Why not review beast wars? It was a sequel/prequel to G1

Galvatron was voiced by Leonard Nimoy, a.k.a. Spock from Star Trek. Add in the final performance of Orson Welles, and the BEST soundtrack ever, this film SLAPS!

You asked about Ratchet, he was on the shuttle the the beginning with Ironhide and got iced with the others. This movie was a mechanical bloodbath. I saw it in the theaters as a kid and loved it but absolutely shocked everyone, lots of parents were pissed because prior to this, animated movies were almost always G rated and didn't get anywhere near the level this movie was on.

This was legendary actor Orson Welles last film. He died in 1985, a year before the movie's release. He voiced Unicron, and had spent most of the voice recording in a wheelchair as he was morbidly obese and barely walked.

Fun fact: starscream isnt actually dead, hes physically been destroyed but his spark is indestructible

As a young Transformers fanatic, this movie was such an emotional labor. Even though we only had 2 years with the G1 characters, for a 7 year old kid who played with the toys almost every day, it was an era. I LOVED those characters. To watch my favorites get killed was shocking and heartbreaking. First Braun in the shuttle, then you can see Wheeljack's grey corpse being dragged inside during the battle at Autobot city, then Prime. It was a lot. Still loved and continue to love the movie though. Hot Rod was not a "Prime" before he opened the matrix, it turned him into one. The old cartoons go into some early lore stuff too. It's great stuff.

This is still way better than anything Bay did, by far. I was already a fan of the franchise well before this movie came out, but the death of Optimus Prime still traumatises me to this day.

My OG as I'm 46 and still my favorite. In theaters back then, kids were crying all night. I'll never forget it.

I've only seen the 1980s Transformers movie once. I still love it. And yeah, Unicron's voice actor nailed the kind of personality a being such as Unicron should have. Unicron sounds aloof, emotionless, and unsympathetic. Fitting given he's the literal Galactus of the Transformers series.

Unicron was the last role of famous Actor/Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane). Infact, he was very ill while recording his lines and would die only five days later. Plus, judged from an interview he made, he seemed quite bemused about having played a "Toy" and didn't really care all that much. And, strangely, both things work for the Character of Unicron: His illness and his attitude made him sound bored, aloof and apathetic... which is just the state of mind an all-powerful and ancient Entity such as Unicron should have, in my opinion. Many consider Welles to be the best Voice the Character ever had. Speaking of Voice Actors, Galvatron was played by Leonard Nimoy (Spock himself), who would go on to play Sentinel Prime in "Dark of the Moon" much later. RIP to both of them

Ratchet was the white Autobot that got taken out with Ironhide (their toys were basically variations on the same van mold so Ratchet was an ambulance). Yup, the movie that scarred quite a few kids. I remember being so hyped to see this in theaters as a kid. It wasn't until much later that I found out that the reason so many Transformers were killed off was just because they wanted to clear the way for the new line of toys coming out. So the creators only thought about the cartoon as a way to sell the newest action figures but didn't realize that kids had actually grown personally attached to the characters. It wasn't just a transforming truck, that was Optimus Prime! They got a lot of flack for it to the point where when they were going to do the same thing in the G.I. Joe movie which was already in production, they had to make a last minute change in voice over so a character was "unconscious" instead of dead.

The first 2 films that blew me away as a kid: "The Empire Strikes Back" & "Transformers (The Movie) 1986. Lighting in a bottle!

I love the story that they had NO clue how the death of Optimus was going to affect audiences. They were just like "okay here's the next wave of toys kids!" Then they traumatized a whole generation and were like "oh, we fucked up".

You can’t go more 80s than this movie! And the Intro, with Unicron devouring Lithone, is the stuff of child-traumatizing nightmares, if you think about it. He stopped for a snack and casually committed genocide in the process.

BTW - Unicron is voiced by Orson Wells. This was his last bow, he died shortly after this. Wells is well known for acting and voicing and is the man who's radio show gave the War of the Wolds radio scare

i'm 40. seeing prime die was so traumatic for me as a kid that i wouldn't watch this movie against until i was in my 20s. prime was more than just a cartoon character. he was a hero, a iconic to kids like me. he was a role model. hasbro didn't understand it. this whole movie was about getting rid of the older toys to make room for the newer ones. prime's death caused such a backlash from parents and kids, that hasbro had to change up "gi joe: the movie" which came out later. in it, duke was suppose to die but they changed it so that he lived. as for prime, he would return at the end of season 3. mainly because rodimus wasn't as well loved as optimus. he wasn't even that good of a leader: he would either make a terrible choice, expressed his desire to be a leader or complained about how he couldn't live up to the greatness of optimus prime.

It's 1986 and i'm 13. I've just walked out of the cinema and both feeling a little welled up and shocked after seeing this movie. For those of us who had been watching since the TV show first aired, this movie was like a glorious emotional bookend. Suddenly one of my old Fav TV shows was legit, more than just a toy thing. But equally the death of characters i had known and loved was kind of a childhood's end. After watching a couple of the new season with these new characters, it just wasn't the same after the high point of this movie. This movie IMO is why they made the live action versions.

The soundtrack to this movie is an absolute banger. It's just pure 80s cheesy goodness

I highly recommend ItsAPrimate watch the show Tranformers Prime. It is easily the best transformers show and one of the best shows of the Cartoon Network era! It’s not linked to the this movie, or the bay films for that matter, but it has really good worldbuilding, characters and fights. The animation is a little janky at first but gets better throughout the 3 seasons, and concludes with an epic movie of its on. Definitely worth a watch and enjoyed the video!

Oh if there's a Tranformers show you should check out its fs TF Prime imo. Great storytelling plus it's also kinda inspired by the Bayverse.

There is another voice for Optimus Prime, actually. His name is Gary Chalk. He started as Optimus Primal in the Beast Wars series, but when subsequent Transformers series brought back Optimus Prime, Gary voiced him too. As someone who arrive in this world too late for G1, Gary is my childhood's voice for Optimus. He's practically as iconic as Peter now, and RotB did him a great disservice by going with Ron Pearlman.

After this movie, watch Bumblebee again. there is a scene that hits different. It's the one on the cliff where she is challenged in diving. These last 2 movies have really gave me the feels alot more than any other previous version.

"Prime!" "One shall stand, one shall fall." "Why throw away your life so recklessly?" "That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron." Fun Fact: The Blu-Ray special edition of this movie features an audio commentary by Nelson Shin (director), Flint Dille (story consultant), and Susan Blu (voice of Arcee). Final Bow Fact: This was Orson Welles' final film before his death on October 10, 1985 at the age of 70. He recorded his lines five days prior, on October 5. This was Scatman Crothers' final film before his death on November 22, 1986 at age 76. Final Countdown Fact: At the movie's beginning, when the Autobots are taking off on their ship, Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) orders Cliffjumper for a countdown. Cliffjumper was voiced by Casey Kasem, who was the host of America's Top 40 Countdown for many years. This was obviously a little joke added by the writers, considering we didn't need to hear a shuttle countdown, and any character could have done this. Arcee's Journey Facts: One of the original demands of the Transformers toyline and cartoon series was that no female Transformers could appear, as the toys were marketed strictly towards boys. However, writer Ron Friedman fought hard to include female robots in the Transformers lore, as his daughter was a huge fan of the franchise. This led to the creation of Arcee (Susan Blu), a female Autobot debuting in this movie, as well as a number of other female characters introduced during season 2 of The Transformers (1984). Ironically, despite being one of the movie's feature characters, no toy of Arcee was produced during the entirety of the original Transformers line, though at least one rejected prototype was designed. Arcee became the most famous female character in the Transformers brand and numerous incarnations of her appeared in various other cartoons, comics, movies and toy series, but it was only in 2014, 28 years after her introduction, that Hasbro finally released a toy based on this movie's design.

One of the greatest music videos of the 80s right here :D

This movie started out so great, it was just like the show that we all loved. Then they killed off all our favorite characters! Hasbro wanted to introduce a new line of Transformers and they used the movie to do that but it was a huge mistake to kill all of the already popular characters.

Ratchet was the white Autobot that died next to Ironhie at the movie's beginning.

Oh man! This movie was my childhood. I have the new 4K release on my shelf right now. Great action! Great dialog! Great music! Great movie! (Also Orson Welles haha)

For a series to react to on the channel, Transformers Prime is definitely the best one to watch. It's got good animation, voice acting, writing, and it's a solid re-interpretation of concepts and ideas in the franchise. It's a good gateway into more Transformers content. Certain shows like Beast Wars, Armada, and Animated will be some other people's cups of tea, but for the channel, I'd definitely say go for either G1 or Prime.

Transformers Prime is the best continuity outside of the original series imo. Peter Cullen & Frank Walker both return as Prime & Megatron like they did in the live action movies as well. In fact it’s the only animated series with their original voice actors returning outside of the original

Tomorrow is the end of one of the best series ever 😢

maybe react to the transformers prime series? it's pretty good from what i remember.

This was strangely wholesome seeing someone reacting to this movie for the first time, me having watched int 5000 times 🤣. But oh boy did I feel it when you were like "I can't handle Ironhide dying twice." Anyway, hope no one gives you too much crap for enjoying the Bay movies. Everyone has to start somewhere, and it's unrealistic to believe you can only be a fan if you watched it almost 40 years ago at this point. I hope you explore more iterations and enjoy yourself!

16:35 best line in the movie

I own this movie on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. I know every line of dialogue back to front and I'm pretty sure (thanks to my copy of the soundtrack on CD) that I know all of the words to every song.

After the immense blowback from his death in the film, the fools at Hasbro had the genius idea of bringing back Prime, which they did in Season 3, first with "Dark Awakening", but for good with the two-part episode, The Return of Optimus Prime. If you're interested, you check out the episodes here on YT. Cool reaction!

Ok so imma try and explain the TF timelines as briefly as possible So we start in 1984 with G1. This is the original series that had 2 initial seasons, followed by this movie as a bridging point in 1986, and then 2 more seasons after that. There were a few Japanese spin-off series after that, but they sort of take place in their own separate timeline that ignores the events of G1 season 4. Then there’s Beast Wars, the CGI series that came out in the mid 90’s and takes place in the far future of the G1 universe. It ran for 3 seasons, had a sequel series called Beast Machines, and some Japanese spin-offs, although none of them are really all that noteworthy. In 2001, Transformers finally had its first ever hard reboot with “Robots In Disguise,” an anime series imported over to the west. Following that show in the early 2000’s came the 3 separate anime series that would go on to be collectively named “The Unicron Trilogy.” This includes Transformers Armada, Energon, and Cybertron. This trilogy was yet another complete reboot that ignored anything else prior. After that comes the live action movies by Michael Bay. No need to go in depth here as you’re already well versed with them, but it is worth noting that it was another total reboot, with no connections to prior series. Bumblebee and Rise of The Beasts are connected as well, but we still don’t really know if those two are prequels to the Bay films or a reboot. Hasbro hasn’t given a definitive answer yet, but as far as we can tell, they’re separate. In 2007, tying in with the release of the first film, there was Transformers: Animated. This was another reboot with no connections to anything else. It ran for 3 seasons before being cancelled before it was set to properly conclude. In 2010 we got Transformers Prime, which was once again a complete reboot. It, again, ran for 3 seasons, and received a TV movie to wrap up its story (Note: this series feels the most like the movies tonally and visually, so I recommend it as a good jumping on point, in addition to it just being a great show). Prime was part of what is called the Aligned Continuity, which also includes two video games, some novels, and a sequel series to Prime called Robots in Disguise (no relation to the 2001 show). Most people tend to ignore this sequel series as it’s not widely considered to be a very good followup. After that, we get a few more rebooted series, most of which are somewhat less noteworthy. There’s the Prime Wars Trilogy by Machinima (Combiner Wars, Titans Return, and Power of The Primes), then Cyberverse, the War For Cybertron Trilogy (Siege, Earthrise, and Kingdom), and finally, EarthSpark, the show currently running. I HOPE THIS HELPS IT TOOK FOREVER AHHH-

This movie is amazing. You’ll definitely will love the Transformers Prime series.

G1 + the 1986 movie and Prime are different continuities, and Prime is the perfect blend between G1 and the bayverse trillogy, so you'll definitely find that easy to follow! If you do end up watching Prime I'll greatly look forward to seeing that.

One of the GREATEST soundtracks of all time!

12:29 Ratchet was killed when the decepticons attacked the shuttle.. he died right after prowl and had the dual pistols, it was Perceptor examining Prime

If you like Rodimus, as a character, the comics from IDW (2010s) have an entire series Hotrod is the star of (More Than Meets the Eye and it gets renamed "Lost Light."). Its like the film, but its a longer space journey with him and like 40 other bots searching the galaxy for a group of lost transformers from the earliest days of Cybertron following a map the Matrix made for him.

This movie was my introduction to the Transformers franchise as a kid and kickstarted my love for it. I didn’t have the attachment to the characters so I didn’t get the trauma of seeing everyone die like the kids who watched it when it aired. It’s also probably why I didn’t mind seeing the quick deaths many bots got in the Bay movies. Everybody was dying here lol

These are the originals. Michael Bay's version are the copy.

I really don't like seeing Optimus die in any incarnation. He's my #1 favorite Autobot/Transformer, but damn if he didn't have a really great final fight against Megatron. Also....The universal greeting is understood by most creatures in the galaxy. It can be roughly translated to "Hello, we mean you no harm," or "We come in peace," or "Do you hate dirtwad Decepticons as much as we do?"

In every alternate universe Peter Cullen voices Optimus Prime.

Your actually right about making deal with the devil because Unicorn is considered the devil of the transformers. Rodimus was least popular amongst fans. You'll see Unicorn again in full action in Transformers Armada Energon amd Prime series. In g1 post film and beast wars he makes a cameo.

this movie follows the end of the 3rd season of the G1 series

The G1 Transformers Rabbit Hole is something for certain. Definitley would be down to see reactions to the original G1 series, which this takes place part way through. Also just a side note, there is also kinda two G1 continuities, for simplicty stick to the Western/American continuity at first, but if you want there is also the Japanese Continuity, which splits off part way through the Western/American continuity.

I'm starting to get sick & tired of non-G1-Transformers fans watching this movie. If you don't have any f-ing clue what's going on, FIND OUT BEFORE YOU MAKE A VIDEO. Here's a hint: THE TRANSFORMERS AREN'T THE ONLY ROBOTIC LIFEFORM IN THE TRANSFORMERS UNIVERSE. Never have been. That first planet? No transformers. Just sentient, NON-transforming robots. Which gets referenced later on in the movie. This is like trying to watch a White guy make "authentic Asian cuisine" or a young Black man from New York pretend to know how to really make ACTUAL Mexican food - not the Tex/Mex you get from Taco Bell. If you don't know the history, leave it the Hell alone.

05:45 Sorry about Ironhide dying again. It hit us hard too to see them mowed down like that when we saw it in theaters. 08:40 (laughs) Yeh, Grimlock is a long time fav of mine too. 12:09. Death of Prime hit us hard, even going into the theater knowing Optimus was gonna die. 19:50 somewhere in between is a great assessment. They are built from the remains of various transformers that found their way to the planet of Junk. 20:54 I think you'll like the G1 animated series that came out before and after this. 21:45 Springer (the green one) was a triple changer who had helicopter, car, and robot modes 26:00. I think that has been the reaction of Unicron transforming from the reviewers I've watched. I take it he did not transform in the fifth movie? If not, a pity. 28:00. Kup talking shit all movie... hahah.. right?! 28:30. Excellent point. If you pick up the marvel comics line of Transformers that takes place after this movie, Rodimus Prime actually gets anxiety because he don't know where Galvatron got off to. 29:40 They built up Hot Rod throughout the movie quite well, but someone else as leader would have been interesting, like Daniel.. LOL.. Honest Trailers take on this was that Springer who could triple change and had a SWORD I mean hello, good leader there too. But honestly loved Rodimus' time as a Prime. He actually accomplished a lot in a short time. 30:00. Connects to G1, and this movie is in between Season 2 and 3. 33:10 enjoyed this review!

"So it WASN'T Cybertron that just got ate." What do you think this was, Titan A.E.? They're not going to have a movie where Cybertron dies at the START!

React to generation 1. The live action movies are garbage!

React to generation 1. The live action movies are garbage!

This movie connects Seasons 2 and seasons 3 of the original G1 series. The death of Optimus was a HUGE thing that left many of us kids crying in the theaters and mothers got super upset with the studio for upsetting their children by killing off their hero. This was such a big event that the GI Joe movie (cartoon) that was in production was changed to put Duke in a coma instead of kill him off as written in the original script. It was shortly after announced that Optimus would return in the future and they put a disclaimer / video at the front of the movie in foreign markets to help clam the children. We spent 2 seasons (nearly 100 episodes) with Optimus as the new transformers were introduced. The removal of Optimus and Megatron and a list of these 'new' characters introduced in this movie was just a marketing deal to sell new toys.. the toy company didn't realize how impactful this would be or how much we, the children, loved the personality of these toys from the cartoon. You can't give us nearly 100 episodes getting to know all these characters and their personalities just to wipe the slate clean with new characters and kill off Ironhide, Prime, Megatron, ect, ect, ect. it was ... wild.

To put it into a nutshell as best as possible: Transformers has MULTIPLE universes and continuities, basically, every new toyline is its own world, G1 was the first, then Beast Wars, the Robots in Disguise (2001), then the Unicron Trilogy (Armada, Energon and Cybertron), then the Bay universe, then Transformers Animated, then Transformers Prime, then the rebooted movie universe (Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts), then Cyberverse and then Earthspark...and that's just the main continuities that were released worldwide.

Re: The Matrix and Rodimus Prime. You are correct, only a handful of transformers can open the Matrix or are effected by it. Only a very small percentage of transformers, Autobots AND even Decepticons have what is called Matrix Affinity, that is they are able to open the Matrix and may be reformatted into a Prime by it. It is a tiny percentage like in the Star Wars universe where only a handful of people are Force sensitive. Hot Rod has Matrix Affinity. The only known Decepticon to have Matrix Affinity is Thunderwing, the most powerful of the Pretenders. In the G1 Marvel Transformers comic book, Thunderwing gained control of the Matrix and corrupted it, and was able to defeat Powermaster Optimus Prime (the rebuilt version of Prime after his comic book death in-line with the film). However, Optimus is able to purify the Matrix and destroy Unicron.

It´s not that only a Prime can open the Matrix of Leadership (severely mis-used in Revenge of the Fallen). It´s that if the previous Prime is dead, the autobot that meets the conditions of honor, courage, justice, etc; can open the Matrix to become the next Prime. After all, Prime is the one that lights our darkest hour. After Rodimus Prime, Star Saber became the next Prime, then Dai Atlas, then Optimus Primal, and then Lio Convoy, I think. And this movie kicks all Bayverse movies, including Rise of the Beasts, in their skidplates.

The thing is this movie is in between the G1 tv series. This is Peter Cullen’s first time voicing Optimus Prime. When he auditioned he remembered his brother who was a veteran and a strong leader so he mimicked his brothers voice.

Yes Bayformers and Transformers are quite a bit different. They might as well name them Bayformers and throw in a title card at the beginning "Loosely Inspired by Transformers"... The Transformers the Movie (1986) is all based on the G1 toyline and the cartoon series it inspired. There's a Marvel comic series also inspired by the G1 toyline that is pretty good... it borrows a lot from the G1 cartoon, too, but you could say that it's kind of like a parallel universe because there are quite a few differences. But Bayformers has major differences. Can't really speak to most of the many different series that came after G1 as I've only seen a bit of each.. Beast Wars.. Armada.. Prime.. I know there's a ton of them. I've seen more of the old Japanese series than I've seen of most of these new ones.

This is actually the ONLY Transformers film. The Bay series is a joke. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but anyone who likes the Bayverse is _objectively wrong_ .

transformers the movie 1986 box office bombs is And traumatized all the kids at theaters

The man doing the voice of Unicron was Orson Wells and this was his last film role because he died not long after recording his lines. Galvertron was voiced by the late great Leonard Nimoy. I can't remember the name of the man who did blurr but he could apparently speak over 1000 words per minuet.

Unicron is the Chaos bringer and god of death and darkness and the enemy of all transformers Autobots and Decepticons Unicron is the Brother of Primus who is the God of Light and life and order Primus became the planet cybertron and he created the first transformers the original 13 primes qnd the matrix of leadership.

Also rewatching this its easy to forget how iconic the villains in particular are. Starscream is so oddly likable despite being so disloyal and petty. Megatron/Galvatron faces Unicron sees his power and still fights to preserve his autonomy. Very ballsy.

If you think Ultra Magnus looks a lot like Optimus Prime, that makes sense, since they're twin "brothers". Optimus started out in his early days as a smaller robot named Orion Pax. Pax was variously a dock worker, a data clerk, or a police officer, depending on the version of G1. Pax actually originally looked up to and admired Megatron as a revolutionary leader. Megatron was originally a mining slave and gladiator, and he fought his way out and took over the Decepticon faction. Orion Pax, his girlfriend Ariel, and their friend Dion all got blown up by Megatron. A member of the Autobot High Council, Magnum, ALSO got blown up by Megatron. Alpha Trion (who is secretly one of the 13 original Primes) recovered their bodies and he rebuilt them a warrior leader super robots.....except Dion, who had to donate his parts to save Magnum. Alpha Trion didn't have enough parts left to save Magnus AND Dion. It was one or the other. Orion Pax was rebuilt into Optimus Prime. Magnum was rebuilt into Ultra Magnus. Ariel was rebuilt into Elita-1. All three became super powerful super badass Autobot super robot leaders. (And lowkey I suspect that Alpha Trion used the leftover scraps to rebuild Dion into Huffer, but there's no proof of that.) Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus were actually rebuilt with IDENTICAL bodies, except that Prime is Red, blue, and silver, while Magnus' body is all white with blue accents. So, while Optimus, Magnus, and Ariel weren't related to begin with, now Alpha Trion is effectively their "father" and mentor, and the three of them are sort of "siblings". Especially the twins, Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus. A LITTLE bit odd, because Optimus and Elita are still lovers, but they're only SORT OF brother and sister because they've been reborn together, so it's fine. lol - Alpha Trion then gave Optimus Prime the Autobot Matrix Of Leadership - the most powerful of all artifacts, marking him as a Prime and the ultimate leader of the Autobots. - Instead of a the Autobot Matrix Of Leadership, Alpha Trion gave Ultra Magnus the Magnus armor - a huge set of red and blue armor that combined with him to make him much bigger and more powerful than Optimus Prime, and also makes him look like his original Magnum form. Ultra Magnus seems himself as just a loyal soldier, not an inspiring leader. He IS an inspiring leader but doesn't realize it, and that's why he struggled to access the Matrix when Prime passed it to him. - Elita-1.....uh.....I think she kinda got screwed. Alpha Trion didn't give her anything. She's still Optimus Prime's girlfriend. But since Prime and Magnus are away battling on Earth most of the time, Elita-1 stays on Cybertron and there SHE is the primary leader of the Autobots, still leading the resistance in the war against the Decepticons. Sentinel Prime in the third Bayformers movie is loosely based on Alpha Trion. It needs to be explained, I suppose, that The Cube/The Allspark doesn't exist in G1. The Allspark is essentially a stand-in for both the Matrix Of Leadership AND Vector Sigma. (Vector Sigma is an omniscient super computer that is essentially god's brain.....or a direct phoneline to god's brain?) In Revenge Of The Fallen you DO see The Matrix. It's the pointy thingy that the dead Primes give to Sam before it crumbles into dust. Sam uses the dust from The Matrix to resurrect Optimus Prime. In Dark Of The Moon we see Optimus take the reformed Matrix out of his chest and use it to resurrect Sentinel Prime, and later offer it to him so he can be the leader.

If you go back and watch, the matrix fell into Hot Rods hands when Optimus died. That's why it recognized his touch.

"They better not kill Ironhide, I can't take him dying twice." Well... It's going to be a hell of a day... 😅

I remember crying when i was a kid when prime died. They had to do a special later on to bring him back because of the uproar. Still remains one of my all time favourite films

The was the best decade for catchy inspirational rock anthems, huh? Rocky 4 training soundtrack, You're The Best(THE KARATE KID), EYE OF THE TIGER Rocky 3 etc.

This G1 movie is the only Transformers movie there is the so called movies are horrible

Those are not Transformers. Transformers are identified as either Autobot or Decepticon by their insignias.

been watching you for a couple of years now. first time commenting lol. But yes, my vote is for G1 over Prime. This movie is a. direct follow up to season 2 of G1 and then seasons 3 & 4 follow up after the movie. don't want to spoil, but if you do a full series watch you will have a full understanding of the lore as opposed to what was changed in the Bayverse

You should react to both Transformers Prime and Transformers Animated! Both of those are really fun and unique versions of the lore, I bet you'd really enjoy them both and they're only 3 seasons each

I went to see this the day it came out. I was 7 or 8. Seeing Optimus Prime die traumatized me for life.

This connects to the G1 series. You would watch season 1 and 2, then Transformers: The Movie takes place. Then season 3 and finally the Headmasters mini-series. (For US releases - it kept going in Japan for 2 more series)

You know if you do decide to watch the old cartoon you'd probably be one of the only people on RU-vid who have reacted to it and all am saying is you'd be cornering the market abit and I sure as hell would watch!! that shit is nostalgic and interesting to see how some character start in that show compared to the movies.

You’d better watch transformers generation 1 (the 80s show) The Michael bay movies are abominations

I was destroyed as a 6 year old when Iron hide was killed in the theater. he was my favorite as a kid.

I Remember Seeing This On DVD

And yep, this movie comes in between Seasons 2 and 3 of the G1 cartoon

This was a big movie for me, watching the series Saturday mornings, following these characters from the get go. Then going to the theater and being blown away by this film. Still watch it all the time. Destroyed by Prime’s death, hyped by Rodimus’ rise. Still listen to the soundtrack even today. Love it.

This movie strait traumatized a generation! Autobots started gettin Wasted and I'm looking around the theater like 'Wha..😮.?!?!' I even liked Starscream in the old TV show. Hasbro giveth and taketh away 😂 That was a fun watch. I used to be obsessed with this movie

Damn dude you talk way too much during the actual movie

This movie takes place between seasons 2 & 3 of gen 1.

If you want to talk about the 80s design choices, then we need to talk about the origins of Transformers. Transformers started, believe it or not, with Barbie. When Mattel launched Barbie, with her collection of different outfits, it was a smashing success and Hasbro took note of it. Rather than merely launching a direct competitor, Hasbro decided to tap into a different maket to girls - young boys. They launched the original G.I. JOE line and it was such a smashing success that it was licensed to multiple countries. One of those countries was Japan, where it was released under the name of Combat Joe. After a while Takara decided to tweak the concept with their own spinoff line, called Cyborg Henshin ("Transforming Cyborg"), which were 12" figures with interchangeable parts. However one issue which soon came up was that with Japanese households tending to be a bit smaller than US households, 12" figures weren't as practical. And so in 1974 Microman was born (and if you're wondering, it was released in the USA in the 1980s as the Micronauts). These o-ring design figures would ultimately also heavily inspire the base design for not only G.I. JOE ARAH figures, but most 3.75" figures in the 1980s. However when 1980 was about to roll around, there was a concern that the line was becoming stale and was in trouble. There was too much lore for newer fans to easily jump onto the franchise with and older fans wanted something new. And so the decision was made to reboot Microman. The figures would now be 1:1 scale, the battleground would be a child's bedroom, where they disguised themselves as his toys, and their enemies would be the malevolent aliens, the Acroyears. At the same time, Takara launched a sibling toy line: Diaclone. Diaclone was a 1:60 scale toyline featuring piloted mecha, where Earth valiantly fought off the evil Waruderer aliens. It was around this time that one of the designers of the Diaclone toys claimed he could make a jet toy that converted to a toy robot, without the use of removeable parts. When no one believed him, he proved them wrong, by making his design using pieces of folded cardboard. That designer was Shoji Kawamori and that design was what we now know as the VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross, otherwise known as the original Veritech fighter from Robotech. Within a year, history would be made when this line created what would later become the first Transformers figures ever made - the Powerdashers (those mailaway figures in the 1984/1985 catalog). Within months however this would result in something even more profound - with the creation and launch of the Car Robots sub-line of Diaclone, in 1982. If you're thinking that these wound up being the Autobot Cars when later on in Transformers, you'd be absolutely correct. The line would continue to expand and from 1983 onwards, the more scifi and futuristic mecha toys had been largely abandoned, in favour of the notion of Diaclone toys being piloted robots that disguised themselves as jets, cars or other vehicles for the most part - with 2 notable exceptions being giant robotic insects and robotic dinosaurs. An interesting thing to note as well is that the Car Robot who turned into a Freightliner, had its trailer treated like mission specific equipment - one configuration had it equipped with a box trailer that converted into a mobile outpost, while the other had it equipped with a car carrier trailer that turned into additonal power armour which it could combine with. If you think Optimus Prime (aka Convoy in Japan or Battle Convoy in Diaclone) and Ultra Magnus (aka Powered Convoy in Diaclone), look incredibly similar, that's why. At the same time, in 1983, the Microman reboot had proven successful enough that they expanded the franchise with the Microchange subline. This featured regular houshold items, such as cameras, binoculars, padlocks, tape players, cassettes and even guns (such as a certain Walther P-38), which turnedi nto auxiliary robot partners to help fight alongside the Micromen. Additionally, the accessories for the P-38 turned into a cannon emplacement which could be manned by a Microman, while the microscope tunred into a tank which could be piloted by a Microman. Most interesting of all is that the microcassette boombox was not only a working radio, by way of a tuner block disguised as a microcassette, but that its rifle was designed to combine with the 2.5mm plug crystal radio earpiece it came with. 1983 would also be when the fateful 1983 Tokyo Toy Show took plce. Hasbro had gone there to look at a particular remote control car which Takara was selling and they were looking to license. However when Hasbro got there, they got toy robot fever, given that the converting toy robot craze was sweeping the nation at that time. Instead of the remote control car, what they came back with was a plan to rebrand and license Diaclone and Microchange figures into a new property. By that time, Kawamori had moved onto Takatoku toys, who in addition to being the original manufacturers of Macross toys, produced 2 other pertinent toy lines - Dorvack and Beetras. When Hasbro went to pad out the line, they also acquired the rights to release these toys as part of the Transformers toyline. These would be joined by Gunborg - a futuristic black gun (which was produced by Toyco and who would be recoloured purple as a Transformer) and Mechabot-1, which was a mosotised tank and rocket launch station, produced by Toybox. At the same time, Takara licensed Diaclone and Microman to multiple different countries, where the line was sold under different names - the most interesting of these being Trasformer, by an Italian toy company called GiG. When Tonka caught wind of this, they tried beating Hasbro to the punch and acquired the rights to release Bandai's Machine Robo toyline in the USA, rebranding the line into Gobots/Machine Men. At the same time, Takatoku was forced to file for bankruptcy. While Hasbro retained the rights to release Takatoku's toy designs, they were unable to use those likenesses in the animated series. That's why Jetfire, who was renamed Skyfire in the Animated series, looks nothing like a Valkyrie. It's also most likely why the Delue Insecticons and Deluxe Autobots never appeared in the cartoon. There were some other interesting decisions at play, which meant that some interesting designs simply weren't released as Transformers. Hasbro decided early on that the Autobots would turn into cars, while the Decepticons would turn into devices and millitary hardware. Oh and the reason why Megatron and Optimus were chosen as the leaders, is because their toys happened to be the exact same height. To skirt around regulations, the comic was based on the toyline, while the animated series was based on the comic. When the animated series was created, designer Floro Dery took several creative licenses, with these designs - hence why some figures look nothing like the toys. Hopefully this gives you an idea for why the cartoon looks how it does and a springboard to explore further. In fact there are plenty of srtop motion animation toy commercials for Diaclone and Microman toys on RU-vid which are pretty easy to find.

I saw this when it came out in theaters.....i loved it.

this the NeilJames1982 version?

One thing about the Megatron the toy back in 1984 . I remember one of my classmates brought him to school he was so convincing in his gun mode he got suspended because the teacher thought Megatron was a real gun. Yes Megatron looked that real in gun mode 😮