The 1986 Transformers Movie is Gloriously Brutal 

25:10 - Eric Idle was Wreck-Gar, not Springer. Neil Ross voiced Springer, in addition to Bonecrusher and Hook

I’m 47 now and watched this movie opening weekend as a kid in the theater. So many kids were crying and weeping when Optimus Prime died. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing at the time. It’s a classic of a movie because it pushed all boundaries ever imagined, but it sucked at the same time to see our heroes die.

It only sunk in that they were all dead for real somewhere near the end of the movie. It was a slow, sinking realisation, like ‘Oh. They’re not bringing them back, are they?’ I literally couldn’t watch season three for MONTHS after the fact I was so distraught - it just felt wrong, that the show would continue when all the bots we knew and loved were dead. Loved it though! Such a good movie, and I really liked the new characters it introduced (blurr and hot rod especially)!

all i can say is bah weep gra na weep nini bong

9:05 "After 2 seasons the Decepticons finaly found the kill switches on their guns?" I always saw it as the Decepticons being at full power from a steady supply of Energon since they had gained complete control of Cybertron in the movie and the Autobots were on the ropes short on supplies and only controlling 3 small bases on Earth and the 2 moons of Cyberton.

Starscream: huh! Megatron: What is it starscream? Starscream: Megatron, I just realized our weapons aren't set to kill. Megatron: Wait what, no wonder we've been losing, let's set them to kill now. Starscream: First good idea you ever had. ....... Megatron will remember that

I’m 45 and I feel the same joy even THINKING about watching this movie. I love knowing I’m not the only one… ❤❤❤❤❤❤

As someone who was a child and was there when this came out in theaters, is really fascinating that you appreciate it about the same way that I do. I still haven’t seen Transformers Animated.

Saw it the night it came out at 3 years old. Hot Rod and Springer were my new favorites. The Decepticons were brutal on a new level. Optimus Prime made everyone cheer when he showed up to face Megatron and he also made every kid cry like they lost their dad. It was unreal. Hot Rod was the Autobot's last hope in their darkest hour.

The 1986 movie works as a splendid standalone anime movie of the era, and still has more heart crammed into it's 87 minutes than the 12 hours or so of the live action films combined. Also Vince DiCola's music score was excellent.

Killing your childhood favourites and traumatising you since 1986.

This movie is absolutely gorgeous, in every way possible.

About the easy kills. I suppose the line Optimus delivers about being "low on energon" explains their weakness. Absolutley destroyed.

I got into Transformers right after the original wave died down (via my older brother's hand-downs) and first saw the movie when I was 5 or 6. It was like the best thing I'd ever seen. I wasn't that upset about Optimus because I had already seen some of season 3 which had all different characters - so the movie just answered my questions. I was more upset about Prowl!

I'm old, so original transformers are my transformers. I still cry when I see the scene of Optimus Prime dies. I only saw the first michael Transformers movie. I thought those military people were going to turn in Gi joes. Missed opportunity.

I was old enough back in 1986 to understand that there was a form of character development for Hot Rod over the course of the movie and so i never hated Rodimus Prime. Also, I'd read the Marvel comics adaptation of the film first so i had a heads up regarding Optimus. That said, i was NOT prepared to see my beloved Wheeljack laid out dead on the big screen.

Jesus I had never known the weight of depression until the credits started to roll over Unicron's orbiting head until that day. I was clinging to the hope and was almost sure all would be amended by the end. I don't think I would have minded even all of that out of nowhere death and brutality if we still all knew they and especially Optimus were planned to come back somehow, at that point. And I know he did, but only by a forcible devastated outcry, and thank Primus for that!

Saw this movie as a 6 yr old on opening night. I'm 43 yrs old now and still haven't recovered from that night lol. Still loved it though in the end. As an adult I can look back and appreciate the risk they took to murder beloved characters in such a brutal way. It was all to sell more merchandise obviously but it was still a bold move and it worked out in the end. I'll never grow too old for transformers. I'll love them til my dying breath.

This movie is the symbol and embodiment of what it meant to be Gen X. We were built different and what didn't kill us made stranger

I must have watched this movie at least 100 times as a little kid in the early 90's. I still vaguely remember waiting for it to start on TV so my older brother could press record on the VCR. This was in Perth Australia, but it was before channel 10 (Channel 10 was only a few years old at the time, and didn't have reception where I lived) had the rights to the show. I'm fairly sure I have that recording on tape in the garage. I can still remember some of the adverts that played, even though it has been decades since I watched the tape after getting the DVD. Anyway, enough rambling. I just found your channel, good work. Also the Transformers movie sound track is on Spotify, and it kicks all kind of arse

This Transformers movie is LIGHTYEARS better than ANY Transformers movie by Michael Bay.

I always found it funny how in the cartoon, these global level threats would actually be killing MILLIONS yet the Decepticons are allowed to run away and try again next time. Also 80s had mandates where characters couldn't die onscreen, even when characters on both sides should've died. Movie went balls to the walls. Movie was a fun ride, even if it's an extravagant toy commercial.

I too adore this film. Its my all time favourite movie. Whilst the death of optimus prime maybe controversial but for me it cemented his legendary status.

So I'm 4 minutes in and there are a couple of things I need to correct. Firstly, Transformers wasn't simply rebranded Diaclone. Yes everything with a cockpit, as well as Blitzwing and the Constructicons, was a Diaclone figure, however there was more than just Diaclone which comprised the original Transformers toyline. In addition to the Microchange toy line, which was not only every single device, but the Autobot Minicars, which actually transform into Pennyracers, you have Gunborg, which was licensed from a company called ToyCo, which was recoloured into Shockwave, as well as Mechabot-1 (which would be recoloured into Omega Supreme) into and the figure which would become Sky Lynx, which were licensed from ToyBox, who in turn commissoned TOMY to make them for them (hence why the Encore line was the first time Sky Lynx was released in Japan, after the TakaraTOMY merger). Additionally you had the Macross Valkyrie being recoloured into Jetfire, Oveleon Gazette and Mugen Callibur from Dorvack being recoloured into the Deluxe Autobots and the Betras toyline which were recoloured into the Deluxe Insections - all of which were licensed from Takatoku Toys. Where it got interesting for Takara and Japan was when Takatoku went bankrupt and was acquired by Bandai in 1984. It's also worth noting that by 1986, we start to see unused Diaclone designs being incoproated into Transformers. Metroplex and the 1986 combiner teams are an interesting example of this, as the scrapped Diaclone toyline called "Jizai Gattai (freely combine mkx.dk/Ep01.html). In fact, given that there was a prototype Arcee figure which was a retool of Hotrod, there's evidence to suggest that some of the 86 cast were designed as toys first and then altered for the cartoon later. Oh and fun fact, Shoji Kawamori of Macross fame, not only worked on the early Diaclone toys, but the Valkyrie/Veritech fighter from Macross/Robotech was created because Kawamori was winning a bet over whether it was possible to create a jet transformer without removable parts being needed. To that end, it's worth noting that Car Robot Number 02 Onebox Cherry Vanette (recoloured into Ironhide) and Car Robot Number 04 Onebox Cherry Vanette, Ambulance Type (rebranded into Ratchet), actually make perfect sense. The mold was actually the 5th "Transformers" mold ever produced by Takara, with the first 3 being the Powerdashers and the 4th being Car Robots Number 01 Countach-LP500S/Super Tuning (recoloured into Sunstreaker). At this point, the Diaclone line was very much still framed around the Dianaut figures first and foremost. In the case of the Vanette mecha, even though it only came with one Duanaut, it's actually designed to fit 3 3 of them. The pilot for the auxilliary powered suit, which is similar to the mecha from Avatar, sits in the pilot seat of the van. Meahwile the back half of the van splits off to become a tank, which seats one pilot and one gunner (standing) in the missile launcher turret. You can find an image gallery for it here: diaclone.net/orid/dia037/index.html It's only when they tried to shoehorn them into Transformers by doing foolish things by putting stickers on the driver's seat to somehow make the seats heads, that the designs start to come across as bizarre. Part of the problem is that the branding decision was made that the cars and trucks would be Autobots and the military weapons and devices would all be Decepticons. As a brief aside, Optimus and Megatron were chosen as the leaders because their toys were the same height. I bring this up, because if you look at Ironhide's colour scheme and face in the cartoon, it's clear that both were actually based on MC-18 Magneman (blog.kapowtoys.co.uk/mc17-and-mc18-trasformers-not-transformers/), which interestingly enough is a Microchange figure which was never released as a Transformers figure. Hopefully you found this informative.

The transformers is one of the best cartoons of the 80s. Because of this movie. Next to GI Joe.

Not only did they kill off optimus, but they made it worse by playing with our heart strings. They brought him back in the third season as a zombie that was a shell of who he once was. He eventually regained control of who he once was and sacrificed himself by launching the ship carrying the corpses of all the old autobots Into an astoroid. Sure they brought him back in the 4th season but we didn’t know that was going to happen so it was just rubbing salt into the wound.

The newest comics capture the spirit of this movie so well in my opinion

If Hot Rod wasn't there Prime can just pull the trigger without endangering him.

This movie is perfect. It just is .

Thank you for this. What an excellent testament this has been to all of the confused and hard to process thoughts and emotions of my 11 year old jarred, gutted but awe inspired self.

Awesome Movie The Best Transformer Movie 🎬 🎞 🍿

Great video and wonderfully written; I knew you had potential lad. I have an urge to listen to NRG now.

I was a kid watching the film in theaters and I had no issues. The film was glorious. The kids that cried were *too sheltered* .

Canning the movie and starting season 3 with nearly a complete new cast of characters and no mention of what happened to the previous characters would’ve been a terrible idea and would’ve caused mass confusion among fans.

If you think the movie is brutal you might want to check out the UK comics, they make the movie look like the cartoon in comparison, also is Cosmos, not Cosmo.

I was that boy...but it wasn't my bedroom for two weeks...in was the bathroom for 2 hours because I had the most diabolical diarrhea from the movie theater food.

For a PG rated cartoon it was very dark

I loved the video & rodimus primal channel is awesome

If you grew up reading the marvel comic, this wasn’t anything lol😅. I was so used to my bots dying I came away from this saying “that rocked!”.

I was maybe 7 when I first saw this movie and that was right when the Bay movies came out so actually this movie didn’t really seem that violent in comparison. But now looking back I’m kind of surprised kid me didn’t even raise an eyebrow… probably because catchy 80’s music distracted me

very good video,...really deserves more views,and last 10 minutes really resonate.

Great video it's in my top 25 best movies ever still.

Megatron merked Prime, Iron Hide and 3 or 4 others in the first 20 or 30 minutes! ITS OVER PRIME!

Ya the opening was brutal but. It had a glorious sound track 😊😊

Let’s go newer transformers video

I want the producer of Transformers The Movie arrested for the murder of my favorite Transformer Autobot PROWL

I wonder what happened to hound and sunstreaker who arrived with Optimus and the dinobots on their shuttle.

Why didn't Sunstreaker and Hound follow Optimus Prime to be reinforcements for the attack on Autobot City.

And this is why the psycho warlord is not an acceptable Optimus. It´s the same as making a nazi Captain America or a peaceful Wolverine. That´s just not who he is.

Ultra Magnus wasn't a new toy - he was a diaclone toy that hadn't been released in the west. He was just Prime with a trailer that became super armour.

Cześć 🖖😎 Z racji całej swojej niechęci do tego 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 HotRoda, postaram się powiedzieć, za co szanuję ewentualnie HotRoda.. Szanuję go za to, że ma odwagę godną podziwu i jaja ze stali jak na takiego żółtodzioba.. Przecież rzucił się z gołymi łapami debil na Megatrona.. MEGATRONA !..👀 Jednego z największych i najsilniejszych Twardzieli w kosmosie.. ("Nobody summons Megatron!"😉) Akurat tą akcją finalnie przyczynił się do śmierci Optimusa Prime'a moim zdaniem. To był pojedynek na śmierć i życie.. jeden na jeden.. Ale takich przykładów jest pełno w tym filmie (kocham ten film, oglądałem go ponad 3000 razy😉🤪), chociażby gdy HotRod otworzył ogień do promu kosmicznego Autobotów od razu jak odkrył, że to Deceptikony😉 bez chwili zawachania czy strachu...👍 Ciekawostka: Według skryptu scenariusza, HotRod otwierając ogień do Deceptikonów miał powiedzieć "This is for IRONHIDE. As so's this!"👍 Ps. gdy jako ośmioletni fan Optimusa pierwszy raz oglądałem Transformery na VHS, tak się popłakałem jak Optimus Prime umarł, że z niedowierzaniem obejrzałem go łącznie 4 razy pod rząd cały czas płacząc..🖖😎

Killing Autobot PROWL was a bike FAUL!! And that was the fault of Optimus Prime sending him to Earth on a mission!

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you should do a review on the IDW Transformers comics

Boomers killed Optimus Prime because, for them, the character was simply intellectual property taking up space on store shelves. For Gen Xers, this is yet another example of Boomers being completely flippant and materialistic about their own creations, their own children, and the world in general.

I'm 43 and even watching this review of optimus death causes me to mist up...