*THE 1986 TRANSFORMERS MOVIE* Is More Than Meets the Eye 

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RIP, Orson Welles, Unicron RIP Leonard Nimoy, Galvatron RIP, Lionel Stander, Kupp RIP, Robert Stack, Ultra Magnus RIP, Casey Kasem, Cliffjumper RIP, Scatman Crothers, Jazz RIP, Chris Latta, Starscream. Till All Are One.

This movie takes place 20 years after the second season of the original cartoon. So there's a LOT of lore. However, if you watch the first 5 episodes of the show, you'll get a great understanding of how things worked for the setup. How the Transformers came to Earth. How they met humans. All that.

Imagine being a kid who watched the tv show every day to seeing all those characters die. You don't forget it well into your 40's.

All of us who are now in there 40's was either crying or saying WTF! when Prime died when we was kids.

"It's Optimus Prime, he'll be fine...right?" tears

This movie had a whole generation of kids in tears; especially, when Optimus Prime passed away. John Moschitta, Jr, the voice actor of Blurr, was listed in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the fastest talker. He did many toy commercials in the 80's and early 90's for Micro Machines.

It’s not about CGI it’s about story, character and being true to the original everyone fell in love with. This is the one

Did you notice Optimus Prime is voiced by the SAME EXACT actor as the current movies?! isn't that rad?!

The thing is, in the animated series, no one EVER died. They get shot, and they shake it off. Then the movie came along, and it was a slaughter. Yes it was very shocking in 1986.

Back then this movie legit traumatized a generation including my dad with the fact that all the Autobots and Decepticons from the original tv show were all mostly killed off. And all of this was just because Hasbro wanted to sell new toys by killing all the characters.

Ironhide, Ratchet, prowl, and Brawn , the four autobots taken out on the shuttle towards the beginning, were all major characters in the first two seasons of the show- in an animated series for kids where no one died. Seeing the four of them killed so quickly and in such violent fashion is something so shocking that people who didn’t grow up with the 80s show will never fully appreciate.

Fun fact: Arcee, the female autobot, wasn't actually supposed to be in the movie. The networks (I think) didn't want a female character because she wouldn't be interesting to the young boys in the audience and they didn't think girls would watch it. However one if the filmmakers fought back to keep her included, because his daughter was in love with the original cartoon series, and knew how important it was for her and all the other girls watching to be represented.

RIP Orson Welles and Leonard Nimoy

Fun fact, Blitzwing (the Decepticon at 4:20) is one of the first triple changers ever in Transformers.

"You got the touch You got the power Yeah!"

I find it so wholesome that Susan Blu, the voice of Arcee, has stuck around to be the voice director on every Transformers series to date.

Its always interesting to see how people react to Primes death, because the new movies absolutely understand just how important Prime is to the franchise and so he cant die essentially. Primes death caused a huge uproar from parents and caused Hasbro to change the ending of the GI Joe movie.

Hasbro wanted to sell more toys, so they took this opportunity to have the discontinued toys killed off in this movie in order to make room for them. Some of the more popular toys had their characters survive, so they could keep selling them. Fun fact: they kept the details of the movie secret but still had pre-production of the toys where it was hard to keep secrets. In the UK and Japanese markets, they went ahead and advertised Galvatron as one of Megatron's minions, a loyal second in command to be the counterpart to Ultra Magnus. And the toy that ended up as Ultra Magnus was originally an alternate power armor form and the same character as the toy that became Optimus Prime.

Long-time Transformers nerd here with further information: 1:30 - It depends. Some Transformers are programmed by Vector Sigma, the ancient computer at the heart of their home planet Cybertron. Others are simply built. (It's been implied from time to time that they _can..._ "get physical", let's say... presumably just for pleasure, but for obvious reasons this has never been elaborated on.) 2:43 - More specifically, according to the DVD commentary, Autobot City is near Chatanooga, Tennessee. This is plausible, particularly since there _is_ a real Lookout Mountain in that region, though a later episode of the TV show seems to imply it's near New York City instead. Either way, part of the city transforms into a gigantic Autobot, Metroplex. 2:52 - Yep. That's Spike Witwicky. He's the inspiration for Sam, Shia LaBeouf's character from the live-action movies. His wife (and little Daniel's mother) is a character named Carly, who you'll meet if you keep watching the live-action movies. 4:00 - There are some humans who are enemies of the Autobots, such as mad scientist Dr. Arkeville, corrupt politician Shawn Berger and crime lord Victor Drath. For the most part, however, the two races get along just fine. There are even humans who live and work in Autobot City. 4:16 - Hot Rod can only turn into a car, but some Transformers _do_ have multiple alternate modes (we see two such characters in this movie). 4:27 - Again, it depends. Some Transformers are built from existing vehicles, while others choose their alternate mode (by scanning something and copying its appearance). 4:49 - When the franchise was in development, writer Bob Budiansky wanted Ratchet (the Autobot medic who transforms into an ambulance) to be female, but Hasbro said no, since they wanted to market Transformers towards boys alone. But when Ron Friedman wrote this movie, he insisted on introducing a girl robot, since his young daughter loved Transformers. Consequently, one episode of the show that aired before the movie would establish that female Autobots existed (including Elita-One, Optimus Prime's girlfriend). 5:55 - There's a later episode of the show where Blurr is injured and actually talks normally for a bit. It was kind of unsettling. 6:51 - The characters who die in this movie are mainly those whose toys had just been discontinued. Almost every other character was available as a toy at the time, except Arcee and Unicron. (Toys of them were planned, however, and would eventually be made decades later.) 7:12 - Transformers who were built together are considered siblings, but in the live-action movies, Optimus and Megatron were brothers in the metaphorical sense (i.e. very close buddies). It should be noted, however, that _this_ Optimus and Megatron don't share the same backstory (though young Orion Pax _did_ admire Megatron until he realized how evil he was). 7:58 - Note that he kicks Megatron with the foot he was injured in earlier. 8:47 - They didn't call them sparks back then, but basically, yeah. 9:09 - There was a lot of backlash against Optimus' death at the time, since many of the kids in the audience saw him as a father figure. He does come back to life near the end of the show, however. 11:04 - Not quite. In the following season of the show, Starscream comes back as a ghost that can possess other Transformers. We later learn that he has a mutated, indestructible spark. 11:48 - In this movie, yes, but the Autobots have several other human allies. For example, there's Chip Chase, wheelchair-bound computer genius. And there's Colonel Marissa Faireborn, their military liaison, who is actually the daughter of two characters from G.I. Joe (which sometimes crosses over with Transformers). 14:12 - It's revealed in the following season of the show that the Quintessons originally created the Transformers. Cybertron was their colony, until the ancestors of the Autobots and Decepticons rose up against their masters. 14:32 - It should. One of the taglines for this movie was "conceived in the epic tradition of Star Wars". In addition to the similarities you noted, there's Arcee's Princess Leia hair. 15:03 - Yes, Wheelie is an Autobot child. He was orphaned when his family's ship was wrecked on Quintessa, and he spent the following years hiding out and fending for himself. 17:15 - The Junkions are descended from Autobots who left Cybertron during the war. Presumably they recognize the Universal Greeting because of their shared heritage. 18:40 - Grimlock has always been one of my favorite Transformers characters. I'm glad you also like him. 22:25 - The show and this movie were written and produced in America, and only animated in Japan, so they don't count as anime (at least in my view). There have been several Transformers anime made since then, however. 25:09 - This movie was a theatrical release, one of two based on Hasbro toys in 1986 (the other was My Little Pony). I'm sorry this was so long, but you seemed very curious. Also, I hope you don't mind me saying so, but you're really pretty.

"Could you buy all of these as toys?!" Wellll.... not *all* of them, after 1986....

At 4:36 when she said: "What is that? A telescope?", I audibly gasped and face-palmed at the same time. lol

"I didn't even realize there was an animated show." Ouch. Just..... OUCH! It's where it all began (and technically there are decades of animated Transformers, but the original was the only one that got a theatrical movie).

I love that Weird Al had a song in the sound track; and my favorite Weird Al song, I might add.

I remember watching this in the theatres as a kid and the whole theatre was full of crying kids when Ironhide and Prowl died in the beginning.

i watched this movie when i was a kid in the 80s. prime's death was so damn traumatizing that i didn't watch the movie again until i was in my 20s. prime wasn't just a cartoon character or a toy. he was my idol. he was my hero.

"No he's fine... he's optimus prime"

The red transformer that you said had a fun personality, that was Ironhide in this continuity.

"Wait, why is my boyfriend/husband sitting there crying?" Because the greatest hero of our childhoods just died!

My number 1 favorite transformers movie

The assumption is that human technology would have advanced faster because of the autobots sharing their technology. If that had happened it would have been huge in the span of about 20 years. The voice of Optimus Prime was the same as in the movie. And I was sad that they killed off so many of the original characters in the movie. This was done because the company that purchased the rights to the transformers and didn’t get the rights to any of the old characters.

Imagine me a 5 year old watching this in the cinema crying my eyes out so much I missed most of the movie, I asked my mum can we watch the next viewing and she took me back in to watch it again. I'm 44 now still hits hard.

Essentially, the first act of this movie is the final episode of the Transformers as people knew it at the time. The big ultimate battle where the autobots and decepticons both lose their leaders... and then it somehow keeps going. The characters have to carry on, the world building spirals, the next generation takes over, it's great. Be ready to hear a LOT of these names pop up again in the live action sequels if you get that far.

So the timeline was seasons 1 & 2, the movie, then seasons 3 & 4. And lemme tell you, Optimus dying was a pretty big thing at the time. He was like my Saturday morning dad since mine wasnt around. In the words of Peter Cullen's (the voice of OP) brother, he was "strong enough to be gentle". Im in my 40's and i still get teary eyed thinking about OP's death. There was also a massive backlash at the time of the movie. Theatres of kids crying and parents taking their kids out of the movie. It even sparked a write in campaign (yes, with physical letters) from angry parents. The suits at Hasbro were basically telling the animated team to kill off all of the existing characters so they could sell the new toys coming out, they didnt see the cartoon as anything other than an ad to get kids parents to buy them toys. But the writers did the best with what they had and made really thought out characters who resonated with kids, at least with the amount of time and resources they had available to them.

I named my new puppy Arcee after the Autobot Arcee ❤️🐕

I am sittin here at work waiting for my shift to start as a 44 year old man, remembering every tear I shed when Optimus died. I also have a transformer on the desk of my machine every day lol, 44 years old indeed

Today is the Transformers 40th anniversary. Marvel Comics published the first issue of the US Transformers comic book on the 8th of May 1984. A Marvel UK version followed 5 months later in September.

17:17 These motor cycle Transformers are called "Junkions", who seem to have left Cybertron LOOOOONG ago, and settled on this planet as a sorta lost colony, and learned to speak by watching television or listen to radio signals from across space. Orson Wells, who voiced Unicron, that booming voice you hear, was actually done with a LOT of electronic enhancing, because Nelson Shin, the producer said, Orson could barely speak at this point (for he was morbidly obese, and needed an oxygen tank with a tube up his nose to breathe) and was wheezing. It was good timing, because Orson died a few weeks later, due to his obesity. 17:45 "Call of the Primitives", a season 3 episode from the original series, goes over his origins....and had some of the BEST animation in the original series. Most modern Transformers series use the original comic book Unicron origins. He is not so much a cannibal, since he is not of the same race as the Transformers as....it's kinda tricky to explain. 18:19 Antibodies. If you look at the original trailer for this movie, which you can find on RU-vid, you will see Unicron, though machine....had organic innards, like veins and organs. The trailer also had some unused animation, some of which was EPIC. In the 2002 Armada/Micron Legend series, Unicron did have organic internals. 20:12 Yep, that is why you see Unicron actually ripping parts of himself off, he was trying to get the Matrix out of his body before it was too late. 20:43 more like until season 3 came along, which takes place shortly after this (In Japan, it was 5 years later). 20:55 I had a hard time telling who was who in the Bay movies, and really did not like most of the designs. Some 'toy cartoons', that did not FEEL like toy cartoons (good stories, writing, etc) I recommend are: Jayce and the Wheel Warriors Starcom Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers The Real Ghostbusters Zillion Visonaries Dragon Quest: The Legend of Able Inhumanoids The first 5 part pilot to the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Robotix Machine Robo Mighty Orbots Duck Tales (1987) Transformers Beast Wars 22:16 There IS Transformers anime, which adds MORE to the original series.

This movie is re-releasing in theaters for it's 40th anniversary. It sucks because it NEVER makes to any theaters within 8 hours of my area. I'm still pissed that I couldn't see it in the theaters in the 80's.

One interesting thing to me is that the guy who voiced Megatron, voiced Scooby Doo, Fred, Dynomutt… so many others. Frank Welker is his name.. he’s a voice acting legend 😊

"Were there dinobot toys?" lol - you have to understand that the TV show was basically a toy commercial. If a new 'transformer' was revealed on the show - it would be on the shelves before long so we could tell our parents what they had to get us for christmas. The movie was really better than it had any right to be with a kick-ass soundtrack and an impressive cast of voice actors. It's held up surprisingly well.

19:00 "He doesn't have like stomach acid because he's a machine" *literally 1 second later* Careful what you wish for lol. That scene horrified me as a kid.

"He turned gray?!" Man, in the 80s they did not give a F about kids feelings lol. In case you were too young to understand the light in his eyes going out means death, they turned his ass gray to drive home the point lmao

It’s funny as all the character deaths in the movie was a mandate from Hasbro who makes the Transformers toys as a way to remove old characters (toys) and replace them ones. This actually went badly for Hasbro as they received letters spin letters from sad kids. Hasbro had not realized kids didn’t see Optimus Prime as just a toy, but a hero. And in the 3rd season of the show revived Prime (with a new toy to follow of course).

So glad to see you watch this. So much better than the live movies

Great reaction video! Seeing tbis movie in the theatre led to my then 11 year old self making many trips to the toy store lol. The characters, animation and the soundtrack blew me away. Still my favorite Transformers movie!

The main thing you might be missing from the series seasons 1+2 before the movie is that it took place in 1984-1985, so there was a 20 year time jump in the intro of the movie (hence the narration, It is the year 2005). Spike Witwicky (Daniel's father) was the main human character and was around 15 years old. His dad Sparkplug was also featured a lot. The second thing missed from the series is the many many characters not seen in the movie. And their long histories together... like Megatron and Starscream have a lot of past issues. So when he gets blasted by Galvatron there's a lot of pay-off in stuff like that.

"I wasn't prepared for Optimus Prime dying!" Trying being a 12 year old kid seeing this for the first time in the theater when the cartoon standard at the time was stuff like everyone in GI Joe who was shot down magically having a parachute to save them. :)

Choosing to watch the live action movie instead of the original series before watching this movie will always cause you to have more questions and confusion about the movie and characters than people who watched the original series from the beginning of the first season because this movie was an extension to the original series with a change in the characters based on the toy being released at the time.

I didnt grow up in the 80s, and i didnt join the fandom til i was an adult (i only started watching the cartoons a little over a year ago), but even as late to the party as i am i can say with full confidence that toys are a pretty big chunk of the experience. I in no way shape or form take myself seriously as a collecter, but i still have a shelf full of the bots. Its kind of just nice having the funny little guys youre attached to kicking around. It also helps that the toys tend to be pretty high quality, and really media-accurate if they came out after 2007 (which i thank the Animated toy designers for every day) You will find a toy for nearly every character in any given tf show. You will find recolors of those same characters. You will find characters that arent even IN the show. You will find toys that look nothing like the character and toys that recreate the character perfectly down to the last minute detail. There are a fuck of a lot of these guys. Its kinda like pokemon in that everyone is SOMEONE'S favorite.

Fun fact: hot rod’s sequence constantly changed through the film and no two sequences are the same

As you realized, yes all the transformers in the movie were toys sold back then. So the reason why they killed off a lot of them in this movie (including Prime) was because the toys were getting discontinued.

Blurr's voiced by the Micromachines guy. He set the record for the fastest talker.

Also, check out the band "Cybertronic Spree" they basically are cosplayers that dress up as characters from this movie and play the soundtrack and other theme songs. The lead singer dresses up as Arcee

Good morning. I apologize for only now watching this video two weeks after it was posted, but it appeared on my recommended feed. I am glad it did because I really enjoyed watching it and I wanted to give my thanks to you for taking the time to give us your thoughts and reaction to a movie I grew up watching over and over again! Thank you! 😄

The parental backlash to Optimus Prime's death was hilarious. It was enough that they had to re-dub a scene in the GI Joe animated movie so one of the main Joes was in a coma instead of dead. Also I still love the DRSmoov redubs of the 80's Transformer cartoon. "Don't worry, Shockwave can't shoot for shit."

There were toys of everyone, but Arcee and Unicron, they came out way later. The idea around all the deaths was the 1984 toyline Optimus, Megatron, Starscream, would be replaced by the 1986 toys like Hot Rod and Galvatron. The producers of the movie just saw this as a toy commercial and didn't realize kids actually loved the transformers as characters until after the movie was released.

A little bit of a META fact. In the cartoon Wheeljack and Ratchet repaired the autobots when they were damaged. They were both killed in the battle.

Star Wars, G.I. Joe, and Transformers were The Toys of my childhood. This is a lovely blast from the past.❤ 2:05 There's not just a theme song, there are 80's Power-Chords. This whole soundtrack is steeped in pure, well-aged 80's cheese...and it's glorious.🤘🤘🤘 6:39 Yup, Dino-Bots were a thing. I seem to remember a couple of them being quite difficult to Transform. And the Constructicons set I had (Devastator) did indeed combine like Voltron.

Clarifying the anime vs western cartoon stuff. Transformers began as two Japanese toy lines that had no real story (Microman and Diaclone). Hasbro, in America, bought the rights to both of these series and grouped them together. Hasbro paid Marvel Comics to come up with a story and characters. That was turned into a cartoon show. The cartoon show is a weird mix of American and Japanese. Americans wrote the scripts, but Sunbow and Toei were making the show (and the toys began in Japan). The show itself had 3.25 seasons in America and 6 full seasons in Japan. So the last 3 seasons or so are 100% Japanese anime (as they were written, animated, and aired only in Japan).

I must admit, I love your energy doing this review; just adds to the nostalgia of seeing the G1 characters...

Reviewer: “Oh is that a girl Transformer?! I wanna learn all about her!” The rest of us: “You just did.”

Hello from the UK love the videos. I was about 5 when this was released. I remember watching this and I had a black and purple transformer that turned into a train and also remember Some of them were pretty hard to work out how to transform for a kid 😂

I’m so glad you watched this. This has been my favourite movie since it came out and next week they are doing a theatrical release of it to celebrate 40 years of Transformers.

As a kid, my Dad bought me Scorponok (12" scorpion transformer).

I absolutely love when people discover this movie. One of the standouts from my childhood. And dude was right. Anyone in their 40s were devastated when Prime died.

Speaking as one of the kids this was made for back in the 80s, I didn't cry when Optimus Prime died. If I had the words back then, I was 5, but I would've said, "You can't just kill Optimus Prime and Ironhide like that, that's BULLSHIT!!" But I will tell you that I just about cried (from joy) hearing Peter Cullen voice Optimus Prime again in 2007. I mean, we have and have had other actors play Optimus Prime, some imitating the original, some not. One time, Optimus Prime was voiced by David Kaye, an actor known for voicing Megatrons. But nobody captures the soul of Optimus like Peter Cullen. A voice that is noble and gentle, yet powerful. And at the time, I never thought i would hear him again.

Kacee, when it comes to reacting to movies, you've got The Touch.

Depending on the continuity, most Transformers can only have one alternate mode at a time, so Optimus Prime can only transform into a truck, Megatron a gun, Starscream an F-15, etc. There are exceptions, the Triple Changers can have two alternate modes (Blitzwing and Astrotrain are two examples, they have plane/tank and space shuttle/train alt modes), the Titan Transformers have a city and a battlestation/beast modes along with their robot forms, and the character Sixshot has six different alternate modes. Starting with the Bayverse universe Transformers could change their alternate modes whenever they wanted by scanning another source (though the characters with only one alt mode still only changed into the one they had at the moment). Certain mystical sources of power could also reformat a Transformer so they could use multiple forms. Transformation itself came from Amalgamous Prime, one of the original Thirteen Primes created by their god, Primus, who was the only one of the Thirteen who could transform and had no limit on forms, able to change into anything he wanted and could imagine. When the Primes created the Well of All Sparks, Amalgamous infused his ability into it, granting the Transformers his shape-changing power, though for most it was a very limited version. There are some, called Shifters, who did inherit Amalgamous' full transformation power and could be anyone and anything they wanted, two examples being Makeshift from Transformers Prime and Pseudo from Robots in Disguise (2015).

I wish you could've been in the movie theaters with the rest of us 80s babies when Dare came on for the first time.

"What a fun little world!" Ten seconds later: 😧

The UK version of the film was a bit different. We had a Star Wars type opening crawl instead of the cast and at the end a narration teasing the return of Optimus Prime. They also took out Spike's 'oh shit'.

The movie was from what I understand one of the very few pieces of the 80’s cartoon widely available on VHS, so that also explains why it left such an impact on children since that was more or less their definitive Transformers experience.

I saw this in the theater in 1986, and I want to say I really enjoyed this reaction, it was a lot of fun! This put a smile on my face, all throughout, it's not easy for me these days. I also really like your comment about the rich world-building, it's very true. Thank you!

Really enjoyed watching that with you, thanks!

Love seeing someone enjoy these movies for a change, I feel like (as is usually the case) a lot of people tend to hate on them almost just because that's the popular thing to do

Your reactions are so authentic so awesome

Kacee, your commentary throughout this movie was really funny!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Could you imagine how messed up "My Little Pony: The Movie" would have been if Hasbro applied "Transformers: The (Animated) Movie" 'kill off old characters' mandate to it?!? The Smooze would have been racking up body counts higher than "RoboCop" !!

The Toy Galaxy history video, "If you are really a huge fan of Transformers, thank a Barbie". Lol

I’ve been engaging with Transformers all my life, I didn’t grow up with the original show, the multiple reboots and the movies were my intro to the franchise, after watching this movie for the first time is really refreshing, it’s fun movie to me

These were all massive toy commercials.... and we loved them. I was 6 years old when this came out. Absolute childhood classic.

Yes, almost all of these were Transformers toys back in the 80’s. I remember watching this in the theater with my brothers. Great times!

I love her reaction to all the brutality in this 86 version. Most people are like "oh, it's just a cartoon" then everyone dies lol

I've been seeing more RU-vidrs react to this. It's kind of gratifying.

Dare is the type of song you blast with the windows down. When I was a kid I used to watch this movie once a week.

The kids were crying in the theaters. One kid didn't come out of his room in a month.

As a kid from the era - the death of Optimus Prime was HUGE at the time. The outcry was so big that they changed the GI Joe movie which came out shortly after. Originally Duke - one of the main characters and original Joes - was supposed to die. After the Transformers movie caused such a huge backlash, they changed it to him "falling into a coma" and being miraculously healed off-screen so they didn't have to change the animation. And yes, almost all of the Decepticons and Autobots in this movie were toys you could buy. The entire purpose of the movie was essentially a commercial - killing off old characters to introduce new ones, so kids would need to buy new toys.

This movie was the debut of several new toys on the toy line. Blaster’s cassette tape robots made their debut here for example. This was mostly just to set up the new year toys, and they weren’t expecting the death of Optimus to hit as hard as it did.

One of the most well-written versions of Optimus Prime is in the CGI animated series "Transformers: Prime"

Im from the UK because our U.S brethren were so traumatised they had to have a voiceover at the end to let us know Prime would return😅

4:44 - Arcee was one of the first depiction of a female transformer. (A few others appeared in the series in the year prior to this movie's release) In the original toy line, some characters were conceptualized to be female (Ratchet for example) but the idea was nixed because 'boys wouldn't want to play with girl toys'

This is my favorite movie ever! I saw in the theater as a child and was the only child not devastated by Prime's death(I knew he'd be back.) When I saw Blackout transform at the beginning of the 2007 film, I was so moved I teared up.

This was before the days of the internet but when the Dino-bots came out kids would pillage every store that carried them. I had to take a couple of them and hide them in different aisles of a supermarket so nobody else could buy them up before I could come back with my parents to get them. During Christmas parents would get into fights over them for their kids. It was cut throat.

Thank you for showing this ❤

In the original Transformers TV series, they had an episode featuring the female Autobots.

We asked and you guys delivered! Thank You!

When Prime dies, it traumatized millions of kids across the country. Watching this show for three years, Optimus was respected almost like a father figure. Kids were not expecting to see him die. Many kids busted out crying right in the theaters.

Wrap your brain around this one lol the voice actor who did wheelie is the same guy who voiced Megatron who is the same guy who voiced Fred from Scooby Doo. Also great reaction video. Its always fun watching people enjoy the series I've been a fan of for the last 40 years (omg I'm so old lol) .

Pretty much everything in the movie was a toy you could buy, with the most notable exceptions being Unicron (a prototype was made, but it was never produced) and Arcee (rough designs exist, but likely she was axed because back then toy companies assumed that girl characters didn't sell in "boys toys" lines). As a kid experiencing this movie on VHS in the early 90s, around the time the original TF run was over, I was obsessed with tracking down the toys of these characters that I had missed out on. It's one of the reason it became a lifelong hobby for me!