We rented Transformers: The Movie for my 10th birthday. The party ended immediately after Optimus Prime died because every kid in the room was bawling their eyes out. All in all it was still one of my better birthday parties lol
i remember seeing *Transformers: the Movie* in the theater and scene where my favorite character Prowl is featured... ME: COOL! IT'S PROWL..! *Prowl gets taken down like a bitch* ME: ... wat...?
Since everyone keeps asking: No. I didn't see the Netflix thing. People seem to think that I copied it because I knew all the same facts? Sorry, I just know a lot about Transformers.
@@Problematist you know it seems inherently more interesting to look into the toys than a soulless media corporation advertising their 'documentary' as if they still care about toys beyond the brand when we all know licensed lego is slowly killing original lego brands because no one cares about original franchises anymore unless its a reboot of something.
Im so glad that someone else understands the both in universe and out of universe tragity that is Skyfire and Starscream's relationship. It would be such a good way to expand Starscream's character, and also Skyfire is the best transformer.
The 1980s movie had me crying in the theater because Hasbro was done selling some toys. My dad actually wrote a letter about Optimus's death--Hasbro responded with more toy ads, which actually makes sense.
I think that the gruesome deaths of the movie are due to the Japanese involvement with it, their science fiction anime of the era tended to be quite tragic: it wasn't uncommon for one or more main characters to die before the end of the show.
"Beast Wars happens here." Thrown in with no Fanfare and and abandoned without elaboration. Those kind of interjections are probably my favorite Quinton Reviews signatures.
Hi huge transformers fan and quinton enthusiast. Have to say this was fascinating. The story behind why the Transformers shrink is absolutely hilarious.
I grew extremely attached to the Transformers lore when I was 6. it got to a point in which I would consistently buy the generation 1 and movie action figures and review them regularly on RU-vid around 2010-2011. I received an audience of 160 subscribers before deleting the channel due to a lack of interest. the original television series was campy as high hell, but I feel that as the franchise progressed into the modern day, many of those issues were fleshed out (if you exclude the movies, which were BAD, as we are all aware) in the video games, like War For Cybertron, and Fall of Cybertron, as well as Transformers: Prime which was a great animated program...
@@jgfjgfify If you're NOT from the USA, Transformers is just one between many toylines derived from SuperRobot cartoons, Bandai did this way before Hasbro (albeit, no doubt they too were inspired by Star Wars). With the main difference being that some of these cartoons were actually good (case in point: Gundam).
On the topic of the '86 movie, I wanted to also note that this was the last film that Orson Welles would ever be a part of, and the second-to-last for Scatman Crothers. Scatman had been voicing the beloved Jazz for some time, and saw firsthand how attached kids were to the Transformers. I hope he knew how much his work was loved. Though it saddens me that he never would get to see the movie go from controversial, to beloved and iconic. As for Orson, he was known for being critical of the flick, and struggled to get his lines out, forcing audio enhancement on some of his later lines, since he was so weak when recording them. So weak in fact, that he died a mere five days after completing his lines for the film. He at least did get his wish to be in an animated film. So I hope that was a comfort to him in his twilight hours. However, I would also like to think, that he would be quite pleased, knowing that his work for the film would serve to likely introduce him to millions more than before, and become one of his most beloved roles. He still is given reverence by Transformers Fans as being the greatest voice of Unicron, truly selling the terrible power the villain wielded. A truly beautiful swan song.
Man...i needed this video Growing up, i loved the transformers. Loved all the unique designs and the nature of it alll. Its what drove me to have an interest in robotics and art.... and hell, im only 17. So i grew up with some of the best and worst of the series (best in my opinion being war for cybertron and fall of cybertron) And yknow.... having a shitton those toys growing up let my creativity really flow. Id make up stories and battles, combine legos to make battlescenes, tried my hadn at stopmotion even. Hell, at one point i remember using clay as a sort of "alien virus" and sticking it on to a bunch of them haha Thank you for this. It reminded me why this franchise has been my favourite since i was a small child. Thank you
heebs boy he is a starman and you are wrong. In his speedy wagon he transcends the bizarre boundaries of platine stars and explores the vast universe standing as our template for the world made out of infinite echoes of reality.
10:58 I like how Megatron carefully puts Abe on the ground instead of doing what you'd think he'd do. That being throw it somewhere out of the way, most likely at Starscream, for shits & giggles.
IT'S RIDICULOUS AND I LOVE IT I can only hope that "Bumblebee 2: Finally We Have Nice Things" has MASS SHIFTING. They were shameless in G1, let them be shameless now.
Apparently the generally negative reaction to Optimus’s death in the movie influenced the decision to have Duke fall into a coma instead of dying when the GI Joe movie was released the following year.
Only in America can a gun be described as a 'normal household item' and no one bats an eye. Really fun and informational video, especially for someone that didn't really grow up with Transformers and never got the appeal!
I remember a toy I had, it was Megatron toy and it could transform from a car to Megatron to a jet, but I remember that it was extremely hard to transform it to anything that I gave up and it was just a tangled mess... I loved that toy lol
Oh boy do I recommend playing Transformers: "War for Cybertron" and "Fall of Cyberton". These games are made with such love and respect to the source material while being great titles on their own (especially the second one) that they made me fall back in love with the franchise.
If you ever feel like doing more Transformers videos, please do not hesitate. I love this stuff. Also, War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron are the best interpretations of the franchise, don't @ me.
i had the transformers movie as a kid. It is one of my most prominent memories. When watching it I would suddenly get inspired then run up to my room, grab some transformers, which i would then play with while watching the movie 😂
"Popular in the punk scene" this fact made me die laughing. The thought of someone like Henry Rollins buying a movie ticket and sitting in a theatre getting stoked about Transformers is absolutely hilarious
10:27 With the cult classic status of Transformers: The Movie, I’m sure at this point EVERYBODY knows already the awesome 80s metal soundtrack that goes into the movie.
That 1986 transformer movie... it blew my mind back then, like nothing i'd ever seen. I remember watching the transformers show on TV every week, hoping it would ever get as good again... and it never did. It really is one of the movies that left the biggest impressions of me during my childhood.
The ending bit describes my relationship with Ninjago. Yeah, they're toys but it's so much more than that. If the Ninjago movie came out 20 years later like Transformers did, there would definitely be backlash from fans.
Sure, the original Transformers may have been one big commercial and I'm old enough to realize that... But I still want an MP-10 Optimus Prime toy, dammit.
Never got in to transformers as a kid. Same thing with turtles. I had video games when I was growing up. I would later get really interested in Robotech and have to try really hard to track down those toys. Really enjoyed this, I learned a lot.
This whole history lesson was great, But the end quote was just perfect, and made whole experience several times more worth watching. Also to quote Dire Straights: That ain't working, That's the way you do it, (get your) Money for Nothing and your checks for free!
I saw a scan of the show bible for G1 Transformers once and it said something like: "Devastator's origins are shrouded in mystery." Presumably this is what inspired a bunch of writers to individually decide, "Sweet, I have free rein to write an origin for this cool giant robot", lol.
That was my favorite movie as a child. Only later as a young adult did i learn that others who saw the TV show before the movie(I saw the show later after the movie like as a teen, i saw the movie way before that) were traumatized by it.
As a HUUUUGEEE (and i mean really big. I remember i was introduced to transformers when i was like 3 and i LOVED IT i'm still a big fan to this day) transformers fan i LOVED this video. It's so well made!
great job as usual informative interesting and fun keep it up quincy! btw did you know the transformers are called the transformers because they transform? I believe he forgot to mention that.
I'm sad you didn't bring up Beach Comber's big episode, in which both sides hunt for energy and power destroys an untouched lagoon rife of beauty and life.
My favourite corporate nonsense with the Transformers is how the toys supposedly can't say that they "transform" because if so "Transformers" stops being a name and becomes a descriptive of toy function, and therefore they can't keep the trademark
that's in the show though- I mean in the toy packaging. IIRC it still slips through sometimes, but by and large, they refer to the "transforming" as "change"
The seekers were just generic copies of Starscream painted different to save money (instead of making a new mol, they just repainted one and give them names to save money lol).
