Transformers 40th Anniversary Event | An Honest Review 

Hasbro needs to have actual fans involved in their planning and presentation instead of having corporate heads making everything a cash grab.

The pitiful “In Memorial” part at the end really irked me. They didn’t even show their faces. And I’m pretty sure the original narrator has passed away too and he wasn’t mentioned at all.

To be fair, the guy they had for Star Scream’s voice was pretty good. He seemed to actually give a damn about his performance. But I thought we were getting REMASTERED versions of the episodes. Like a sneak peak of a forthcoming bluray release or something.

I can't be the only one who finds this event harming the movie theaters. As an experience, like many videos here are discussing. Plus, for an occasion like this anniversary, wouldn't it have made more sense to show the Transformers movie from 1986, in theaters instead?

I went on Wednesday night. My AMC played it in one of the smaller-sized theater rooms, but it was pretty full. The atmosphere of the room was... very formal. I had originally wanted to get there early so I could hang out and chat with other fans before it started, but IRL stuff kept me from getting there any sooner than about five-to-ten minutes before it started. When I got there, the room was real quiet as the typical pre-trailer ads were playing, with no one talking to each other and everyone keeping to themselves. The guy sitting to my right even moved over one seat during the script-reading of the first episode. The only people in the room who seemed to be having any fun enjoying themselves were a small group sitting toward the middle-right of the room (I was up in the back row), who could be heard chuckling at some of the zanier points in the episodes, and one of them made a "Ha! Superhuman Spike!" joke when Spike punched Rumble in the first ep. But other than them, the room was filled with dead silence from everyone else. And when it was over, we all got up from our seats to leave and nobody said a single word to anybody in the room. Only a few folks said they had fun to some of the ushers standing outside the theater room waiting to come in and clean up, but the total vibe of the room was really introverted and unfriendly, very much the opposite of how TF fans act when at conventions, in my experience. It felt less like a fan event and more like a formal opera experience where nearly everyone was on their best behavior and really stiff. That let me down more than the actual screening event itself. A few things to point about what you said: - Those two Hasbro people at the beginning that welcomed us to the event, they are hosts of several of the livestreams that Hasbro does on RU-vid when doing new toy reveals every few months or weeks, and were using the same set as the livestreams for that welcome message. But, all those toys they pointed to on display in the video were all old stuff that had already been seen and released beforehand, some even being last year's toys. So that was kind of redundant for me, having already seen all that stuff before. I didn't need to be shown or reminded about old toys that especially weren't relevant to the main feature presentation of this event. - Transformers One is, ostensibly, meant to be a prequel to the live-action movies (or at least, just the first live-action movie from 2007) set in the far distant past. Judging from the trailer, it's deriving much of its story from the modern Transformers lore that Hasbro first crafted together in 2010 for what came to be known as the "Aligned continuity". Said modern lore took inspiration from a lot of previous TF fiction, like the IDW comics (particularly the mini-series "Megatron Origin"), the Marvel Comics (Primus creating the Transformers), the G1 cartoon (the Quintessons being aliens who enslaved the Cybertronians, but this time did not create them because Primus is already in this story), and of course the 2007 movie (Optimus and Megatron having originally been friends and allies before the war destroyed their friendship turned them into enemies, and the Autobots launching the AllSpark into space away from Cybertron to keep it out of Megatron's hands). Though, Transformers One also seems to be adding its own spin on this modern backstory rather than just copy-pasting it verbatim. After all, the brand has to keep things fresh to keep itself alive. - Regarding the 90-second clip for season 2 of Transformers: EarthSpark, I find it ironic that people would grumble about a clip for a kids cartoon when they came to watch four episodes of what is also a kids cartoon. After all, don't we nerds have an inner child within all of us? EarthSpark's also a really good show, both in terms of writing and fight choreography. When it wants to get action-packed, it goes all-out, giving us some of the best onscreen fight scenes this brand has had in a long time. But it isn't all just fighting, either, as it has a lot of smartly-written characters with a lot of charm and heart. Not to mention the stellar voice cast that includes actors from Game of Thrones, Keith David as Grimlock, and Weird Al Yankovic coming in season 2 to voice Cosmos. - What makes the sped up credits even more baffling is that the credits in all four episodes are the same credits. Each season of the G1 cartoon had one set of credits played at the end of every episode per season. So they could have just stitched the second, third, and fourth episodes together with just one session of credits at the end of Episode 4. - The reason Bumblebee was made mute in the live-action movies is all because of Steven Spielberg. He wanted to "recapture the magic of E.T." by making the alien companion of the main human character in the first movie be an alien who doesn't speak much. Originally, Spielberg even wanted NONE of the Transformers to talk in the first movie, wanted them ALL to be mute creatures like Bumblebee ended up being. But when they thankfully decided not to do that, Bumblebee being left mute was a compromise, one that has been a frustrating reminder ever since, and wound up bleeding over into other fictions of the brand before the creators of those were like "Okay, he's been mute long enough, let's give him back his voice." It's one of the worst decisions Spielberg ever made in his time as executive producer of all these movies.

Going tomorrow with my son. My favorites are Jazz and Soundwave.

I think it would have been much more of an event if they had voiced all three episodes of the pilot. I actually didn't realize it was just the first episode, such a bummer.

An opportunity for Hasbro, bring G1 back like Disney did with X-men 97’

I was really annoyed that the teletran overlay was there the whole time along with the graphic showing the name of the episode. Really removed any possibility of immersion.

Heath, thank you so much for the heads up! I have been lamenting that I could not make it to this event with my son. I feel a lot better now. I'll just show him the first 3 episodes at home. I brought him with me to the anniversary theatrical showing of The Transformers: The Movie (1986) and he loved it! (He had already seen it because I'm a good dad).

Me and my crew and the people in movie had fun at my theater for this one because we know what was going on before we went .

I went with my daughter on the 15th. We enjoyed it especially the first episode. My daughter did start falling asleep on episode 4, but she went more as to go with me. I did love the intro and the voice actors giving me goosebumps.

They should have showed the old toy adverts if anything

No one left ours. They even applauded at the end. The in memoriam was incorrect. I enjoyed seeing the show on the big screen.

My screening had the top and bottom image cut off? What a joke.

Why not show simply the Movie in theatres again? Or is that maybe another cash opportunity because technically the Movie is '40', two years from now?

When Frank Welker said "Energon tubes" I couldn't help but groan.

I am glad that other people feel like me. It felt like a lot of youtubers were happy with that. I think they were randomly using robot effects for the voices in the first episode. Soundwave sounded terrible, then fine. The Split screen was too distracting as well. My friend wanted to roll out, so thats what we did. They could have had commercial brakes through the episodes. Maybe have the new toys in old commercial parodies... etc.

I was somewhat disappointed, and glad to hear I'm not the only one. The theater I went to had reclining faux-leather seats, and if it weren't so hot that I was sweating all down my back and head I probably would've fallen asleep. I thought I heard snores from the rest of the theater during some of the quiet parts. The voice actors we lost had some big shoes to fill, as well as the youth of the remaining ones hard to recapture. But it was still jarring to hear that they used some original voice lines for characters that they had re-recording voice actors for - I guess they flubbed the lines too many times that they didn't have any salvageable accurate takes? And I caught two flubs left in, both by Frank Welker as Megatron. Once when talking to Starscream, he says "few ever leave" instead of "few ever lead", and another time he calls them "energon tubes" instead of "energon cubes". And the voice they chose to give for Spike sounded much more like a 4-6 year old instead of a working-age teenager. This "event" was much more like a box set disc extra that you watch once and then forget about. Not worth the US$20 per person I shelled out for it, not to mention the concessions.

Sorry you didn't like it. Saw this in a packed theatre in Ontario and thought it was cool. Hasbro Pulse had put up a page last month listing what this was comprised of, so none of it surprised me. I know the animation is full of errors and the remaining voice actors are old, but it was a kick to see the old episodes on the big screen with theatre sound, and cool to see Cullen and Welker revisit the pilot episode and see them in action. Was glad the Earthrise "preview" was a small fight scene at the beginning and not a full unbearable episode. There was a mix of geeks and families with kids in my auduence. About 3 or 4 adults left after the second episode. Most everyone, incuding families, stayed. The kids laughed at some of the mistakes but also reacted to Prime getting caught in the blast in the second episode cliffhanger and the rescue of Spike in the 4th episode. So I guess they enjoyed it? All in all, i enjoyed it for what it was, but you're right, a bit more emphasis on the remarkability of the show and rundown of the shows that ran after g1 that stood on the shoulders of this series would have hammered home a point for this. And more time with the cast's memories and closing thoughts would have been nice. Hopefully there'll be a 40th anniversary theatrical release of The Movie in 2026.

The movie trailers did not bother me at all. I thought the toy comercial section was a bit much. I do understand why they did it but still was kind of obnoxious. I also did not read what the event actually was and thought it was a showing for the movie. But still was fun to see the 1st 4 episodes of the cartoons.

Just came back from this and we had no toy adverts. This was in Australia

Man i wished i had seen these reviews before sinking 2 hours in the theater!

It’s always risky to take something made for television and blow it up on the big screen. It never looks or sounds right.

I loved it.. But I agree about the ending.. it did feel like a funeral lol.

Greetings Heath, I appreciate the honest review. I actually bought tickets in advance for today at 12pm. I am bringing my son who is 18, and 3 other friends all in our late 40's. I have been a fan of all things Transformers the good and the bad, and have kept up with all the incarnations. However the friends I am bringing no nothing outside of the OG series, and the live action films. So yeah, this is going to be a bit rough, but Ill prepare them in advance, have their expectations tampered. I do look forward to the parts with the OG Voice Actors, but the rest sounds like an unfortunate missed opportunity. Ive seen a few other reviews that were mixed to negative. A couple positive ones but I think that was a mix of people who kind of schill for hasbro because they have large channels dedicated to TF, or younger fans who didn't really have any expectations at all, maybe that's a good thing?

Sideswipe was my favourite. And probably Ratchet, for the Autobots. My favourite Decepticon was always Soundwave.

Full disclosure. I saw this with my AMC A-List, so it was basically free and my daughter went with me on a buy on get one free deal. $0 expense, so our expectations were pretty tame. Yes the commerials loaded up front put everyone off. It was aggravating. The voiced over pilot was fun. We both respect the craft of animation and thought it was neat. I would have liked all three parts of the pilot to have been done like that, but I get it was probably a cost issue. The 3 normal episodes that ran were a hard watch. Animation of this quality was never meant to be projected fullacreen for the cinema and it showed. (As opposed to Transformers: The Movie which is breathtaking on the big screen!) We did enjoy the inclusion of the PSA. I forgot that Transformers had them. We always do the "Knowing is half the battle!" Followed by: "G.I. Joe!" This would definately have been a nice DVD extra feature, but not worth a trip and admission price. (We also saw IF on the same trip out, so it was a fun day all in all.)

So many Transformers. Naming a fave is impossible. But top of list would be Soundwave, his tapes and then Starscream. Megatron too. But so many to choose from... 40 years, right?

I watched a UK screening and although we weren't quite as hammered with toy commercials, there was about the same length of time devoted to ads. I found myself going 'yep' many times to every word you said having myself feeling like it was neither one thing or another, but bits of a number of directions they _could_ have taken with the celebration. A full 4 ep table read would have been fine. Commentary would have been fine. The fan chats would have been great. Instead, we got none of the above really and I was very confused at what they were going for. And yeah, such an abrupt ending was like waking up from a weird dream. Surely if you're doing a memoriam they could have found some old footage of the late voice actors and a clip or two of their memorable moments? A little end credit music? Anything, really. I submitted a review to this effect too. What I will say as positives were that the replacement voices did pretty well and that it still provided the perfect opportunity, had I taken any kids along, to show them how we got done out of a good Jazz in later generations, with the most recent Mirage probably having more in common with that one than anything (not just the alt mode)!

I was first turn down of the fact it was not the movie, now listening to your experience I think im going to let this one pass. I rather watch them on my tv from my dvds :)

This sounds awful, I’m glad I didn’t pay for that.

You're absolutely right about the "commercial" aspect of it. It was a little disappointing that they were showing commercials on top of the usual marketing we get when we go to the theater and what's weird is that those commercials were already marketing toys to a demographic that were probably buying them anyway. That just seemed like a mandate from one of the Hasbro higher-ups. You're also right about the voice actors themselves. They are getting older and aren't able to reach the vocal range they once did. Peter Cullen's Optimus Prime voice now is fine but it's just too stiff, in my opinion. But that rendition in the first episode is just great. Even Frank Welker's Megatron is different but just a little off. The other thought I came away with was how decent that footage looked on the big screen, despite the animation errors and such. I'm guessing the original elements still exist so one can hope for a Blu-ray release (why no 4K?!) but probably not. I did notice on one of the later episodes, some scenes had some shifts in picture quality so there may have been some up-rezzing involved. Overall, I had the same issues as you but I thought it was fun.

Did they cut or leave in the commercial bumpers?

I’m in my 20s and love the 80s cartoon of gijoe and transformers, especially the first two seasons, glad you made this video cause I feel I didn’t miss anything, it’s sad how something so beloved and innocent isn’t being treated with reverence, but if you look at ghiblifest every year at theaters, no commercials and straight to the film is the way to go, I really loved grimlock and Optimus Prime from g1, I’m slowly warming up to beast wars but g1 will always be my favorite, tho the beast wars 3 volume comic series was awesome 😎

It’s a bit of a baffling presentation. In the uk we only got the new series preview and a little bit discussing the read through. I personally feel they should have either did table read for all 3 episodes or the first 3 episodes edited together as a single story. The panels down the sides and the episode titles and 40th anniversary logo constantly be there was distracting. Also could have done with some restoration work instead of using the dvd masters

It was everything you mentioned in this video 😢

I went to the fathom event for the Transformers movie anniversary a few years back and recently, RAD. I won't be going back to anymore. My OLED and home theater will do just fine for now on

There is a new Hasbro x X-Men '97 x toyline commercial playing for me on RU-vid occasionally that captures that magic of kids playing with the toys intercut with footage from the cartoon. It's fun to watch when it comes by. I don't want to pay to see it in the theater. Although it should be included on the season DVD that I want.

I don't understand the re-voicing thing for the first episode. I didn't know there was a roku channel that showed Transformers! I'll have to look that up

I could be wrong but didn’t Leonard Nimoy provide the voice in one of the Early cartoon Transformer movies?

What would have been a good idea is the original episodes but update with today’s cartoon/cgi interpretation instead, also have the read through for the first episode but if they updated the original episodes to be more modern day that might of transferred better onto the cinema screen, I took my son and he noticed all animation errors etc from the episodes and it didn’t transfer well to big screen

Thanks for letting me know, I ain't going to the theaters to waste my time or feel like I'm going to a funeral. I'll try on the 50th Anniversary of the Transformers, but Hasbro will probably mess that up too.

My adult collector son and I went to the Saturday afternoon showing. Didn't mind the trailers. Kind of expected it. But to your point, there were no children in our theater. All adult nerds. We're not buying Beyblade or watching Earthspark. Wrong audience, Hasbro. Didn't mind the Beeltejuice trailer(though it was the teaser we've all seen by now). Enjoyed episode one, with the table read. Thought the voice actors, standing in for those no longer with us, did a respectable job. I love your ideas about talking to those members who still are around to talk to about the launch. And give us a few more of the PSA's! That would have been brilliant. In the end, no one left, but they certainly got up to use the restroom. And with each additional episode, it lost a bit of its shine. Didn't hate it, but would certainly think twice, the next time one of these rolls around.

From G1 first seasons Optimus Prime was my favorite character and then Rodimus on the last seasons... 😃💡☕️👍

Where is TF Designer Floro Dery?

I totally agree with this video!! Hasbro could have done a much better job! In foreign countries like Hong Kong (China), the audiences were given goodie bags! I got a small comfort in that Frank Todaro (Star Scream) was actually sitting next to us. We got a chance to take a picture with him after the movie. That was neat! Not that Hasbro told him to go there. I think he took his family there. Very nice guy!

The voice redub for Episode 1 was painful. Glad the other 3 were original. Plus I didn't like the border around the screen. I went because I watched it back in the day. But like the guy said, it looked like little effort was put into this.

My favorite TF is Optimus Prime, I kind of figured this event would be rather lackluster right off the bat a cartoon made 40 years ago and shot for the small screen will never look good blown up for the giant screen and yeah I can relate to the middle age crowd getting antsy I'm sure they all needed to get home and sleep. 😆 My favorite event was way back in 2014 when the Alamo Drafthouse held a special event showing of both Transformers and G.I.Joe animated movies and with a few of the remaining voice actors on stage.

One charater appeared in Transformers, G.I. Joe, JEM, and Inhumaniods...

Sounds like a wonderful, nostalgic ad racket. Thanks a lot, but no thanks!

Hey! That sounds so disappointing!! In the UK, I read the Transformers comic for years. In fact, I read the comic well before the cartoon was released here. The worst thing was that the cartoons were put on a holiday morning kids' show called WAC-a-day (Wide Awake Club was a Saturday morning shown in term time.) They'd cut a single episode into five pieces and show them from Monday to Friday. I bought a few of the VHSes - Arrival from Cybertron, Megatron's Master Plan and Desertion of the Dinobots - with my pocket money. I went to the cinema to see Transformers: The Movie at the beginning of 1986. I'd read the comicbook lead up in the UK, Target: 2006 (the year was wrong so the UK retcon was that the movie starts around December 31, 2005!!) I always liked Soundwave. The best thing for grown up 'me' was seeing the opening of the movie Bumblebee: finally, the Transformers on screen as I knew them and a storyline a little reminiscent of the original run of the comics and the original cartoon. I never understood why the modern movies skipped the 'buried under Mount St Hilary' part of the story. I've got everything on DVD now. Just need to get the movie on 4K whenever I get to the end of season two! A pity the event was such a flop. Clearly the people behind it had no idea about their audience. Given the advances in animation technology, a remake/reanimation of the original three-parter with modern animation, using the original voicework would have been much more exciting. It could have had a cinema run perhaps alongside Transformers: The Movie and a 4K release. I guess they would rather just con people into a (not very) special event!

Why invite Greg Berger and Paul Eiding, who weren't part of the first season and not invite Corey Burton and Victor Caroli? Why not have them so three episodes and then either bloopers, or a roundtable at the end? It was very underwhelming.

That's a bummer to hear but I can see what you mean Heath. A bit of a side note but I went to see The 1986 movie via a Fathom Event and I also felt the lack of love. The showing was late, the whole intro had no sound, they restarted it and the sound was totally uncalibrated. Also, it was a dish feed which was supposedly high def but looked like standard definition. It really soured my desire to attend any future fathom events, especially when one can watch it on 4K at home. I do like the cinema experience though.

TG my local Regal theater just showed the T-One Trailer,some T-Toy ads then the event.

I’ve noticed AMC has way more ads than other theaters

I feel vocie actors like Cullen it works for each time they play the character. OP G1 prime is fun and a good young leader vibe. I think when he did the trilogy of films, the vocie found itself and became that ideal of how kids back then viewed his vocie optimus, and it sounds so nice, and now it does too it's changed a bit since the trilogy of films but its still Optimus Hands down at his Prime (pun not intened) I love his vocie as when he is older that's Just Prime! Wish we knew what Chris chris latta would have sounded like in this age on CGI film or a new cartoon and what he would change, engaging a new audience. - Luke

I agree with everything you stated. I did enjoy it overall. My biggest problem was the ending. It was like...in memory of....10 seconds...black screen. I was like, what the heck.

I'm happy staying home and watching my DVD box set of G1. I don't think the show really started to get great until season 2 anyway. It feels like they were still trying to feel out the direction of the show early on in season 1.

Well, i enjoyed it.

HASBRO is going hard on the fan money extraction front. Releasing all OOS figures they can milk, etc. I was surprised to see Transformers on my AMC app and purchased right away before I could even think. Went in thinking that the first episode was a bonus before the movie, but later decided to check the fine print on this ‘event’ and saw not to expect much more than the first 4 eps. It was an ok, but mostly unnecessary experience for me. That first episode reading plus the movie would have been a better pairing.

I heard they used a release of the episodes with unfinished animation, instead of the original broadcasted animation.

I went to see the event with my kids today and had to leave while episode 2 was playing (yes, I totally agree, the event was just hallow, not enough effort from Hasbro to make this even either memorable or meaningful). Btw one thing I wanted to point out is the G1 series was actually animated by South Korean team led by Nelson Shin (who also animated the light saber in original Starwars movie); Transformers the movie was animated by the same team but supervised by Japanese animators which is why the movie's amination is much less crappy. Thanks for sharing your honest review.

I wanted to walk out after the 8th ad but my friend wanted to stay. The way they presented the episodes were distractingly poor, it look like they just popped in the VHS transfers.

I was expecting a showing of the movie from ‘86. Yes I know I didn’t read the advertisement info well. Anyway my son was very disappointed and we left early. We watched the movie a few days later and he loved it.

I was thrown off in the beginning but it was OG TF in the cinema so I was gud regardless ✌🏾

Where i live as a kid all 3 Episodes played like a movie the first time it aired it there where no opening or closing credits it wasn't tell that Sunday it played the first 2 episodes then next week just tye 3rd episode Transformers didn't move to the weekdays tell season 2 was al almost over then. here on a Saturday they played the movie and the end of the movie they played the season 3 5 part like a movie to then that Monday on the first episode aired

That's a shame. I watched TF and Beast Wars and about 10 years ago re-watched G1, but I've only ever had one toy (as an adult). My mother couldn't afford them when I was a kid, so I had Go Bots, but either way they came under He-Man, GI Joe, comic books, etc. A nice thing about He-Man was that Filmation had a unique deal with Mattel that they had creative control so they couldn't be told (unlike TF and Joe) that they had to push the newest line. Hence all the original characters that have no (vintage) toys in MotU.

Hoping this means a Blu-ray is on the way eventually...

Don't disagree with a lot of the review but I've seen it twice and enjoyed it more the 2nd time round. Frank Todaro was a standout for me. 2nd time round I went with a friend who watches modern cartoons so wasn't sure how she would react but she enjoyed it too.

10:17 !!! YOU should voice some at the end of your videos!

Hmmm... i was going to see the last showing at my cinema with my kids... probably give it a miss now. Thanks for the heads up!!

Are we ever going to get Transformers G1 remastered on Blu-Ray/4k????

They even got some of the names wrong in the memoriam! I thought that was terrible.

Orson Welles' ultimate (and greatest?) performance! FYI: For some reason the "Subscribe" button is showing as if I were not subscribed -- about a third of the channels I've looked at today are like that. I'm trying to work out what's going on.

Thank You for the review. I was considering going Sunday and now glad I didn't. Went to the 35th (?) anniversary of Transformers the Movie, played in RPX no less and they did a horrible job with the audio, so the "event" things for Hasbro/Transformers have been disappointing over the last few years. I also don't have any interest in Transformers :One. Favorite G1 Transformer: Ironhide (also played by Peter Cullen).

holy, I was about to go

I loved the transformers when I was growing up. My favorite one would have to be beachcomber. Ask for this new 40th anniversary crap it’s because Hasbro is running out of money. They are almost bankrupt so they’re trying to get us to come in and take care of them by buying toys for nostalgia purposes.

So what previews and advertisements do you think would be more appropriate prior to a Transformer cinematic event? My Little Pony? They knew they had a Transformers audience, and so they advertised Transformers stuff. Makes sense to me.

Just seen this was epic liked the behind the scenes voices at same time couldve showen the animated movie as well 👍

I'm glad it wasn't showing in my area. This sounds like they just didn't care

I saw it in UK liked it had good time... but I do agree with you. One guy behind me thought it was going to be the movie 😂😂😂

I showed upblate and laughed out loud walking up the aisle when i saw i just paid to see the pilot. It was nice to see The Transformers back up on the big screen but i felt a little ripped off. I agree they should've just played the movie fron '86.

Just come 30 minutes late, you'll have a blast!!!! Come on time? God be with you. Fav Autobot? Bluestreak Favorite Deception SOUNDWAVE!!!!

Well now I won´t complain about 10 minute commercial. I only got a preview of the new season of that new show, showing a new dino bot so okay. I did laugh a lot seeing the cast re-read the first episode and then see them talk afterwards. I would have liked just that for 20-40 minutes see the work to do that. So when the rest played the way they did it was sort of draging. Normally I would enjoy seeing a tv-episode in movie theatre to hear the sound better. Now there were a piece of music that sounded really good and the intro sounded good too in theatre but the SFX are roguht, like the laser sounds peeked so high it was hard to listen, no depth to them I understand being tv-edited how SFX was quickly put in. And yeah I don´t know how much it would cost to correct animation and voice errors. There is this scene where they save a family from the overflowing dame and you hear all men say thank you, one of them was a mother who clearly is suppose to say a line but it´s a man. And it felt wierd to put in the 4th episode. Sure it continues but felt so distant and had worse quallity then the first 3. But I guess you have to make it 1 hour and 30 minutes minimum even thought there are movie under 1 hour playing in theatre. So still glad I saw it, it was neat but could be way better. But these guys have done TONS of this type of stuff at conventions and it was fun to hear thier voices none filtered. What did it cost you? 11$ here.

to me the transformers one - new version transformers the origin a fusion of idw and many transformers lore.

Hopefully the next one will be better kinda of anniversary movie thing 😆 People will cash in to this one so they can make more money for the next one 😠

6:23 Beyblade Transformers crossover? Does that have an anime?

I was disappointed. Naive, I know. I kind of expected them to have upgraded the first three episodes into a movie.

HMMMMMMMMM! I guess I should be glad that I wasn’t able to go to the viewings.

I never watched the Transformers. Those kids who didn't like the old Transformers are no fans of classic cartoons.

G1 Ironhide's Voice : "Aww. That sounds like it sucks!"

I thought it was gonna be the 80s movie, i didn't go see it, if i wanted to watch a cartoon made for tv i wouldn't go to a cinema to see it

Soundwave

This really was a letdown for every reason you stated. The opening trailers and commercials were really bad. You have this cast all there, the ones who are left, and that is all they could do?! I would have preferred them to voice all of the episodes with more bloopers and interviews. Not because they're going to do a better job voicing them now, but because this is possibly the last time they will all be there to do it. Because we want to see them laugh and reminisce, to tell stories from then. What a disservice to them and the fans. Also, apparently some theaters had special 40th anniversary cups and popcorn buckets. Not mine, so that was another letdown. Hasbro sucks.

What? Till all are one? Do you even geek? 🤦I feel you on the event, btw. I remember watching Transformers myself. I think it was shown on WGN. A Chicago station. I used live in East Chicago Indiana and we get the Chicago station like WGN and WFLD. the independent stations. But yes I used to watch The Transformers sometimes. I'm not big fan boy of The Transformers but I like it. It's cool. But if I was a Transformers fan boy, I would have been highly disappointed.

Its sucked. I was super bummed. I thought they would have a at least upscaled the video quality and remastered the audio. The new overdub was lame, it wasnt synced or processed. Zero effort. 40 years of being a fan and it just a massive kick in the teeth. If you are thinking of going. don't. Just watch the first four eps for free at home on youtube.

What a disappointment they made this out to be. I was a 80s kid and grew up with my Transformers, GI Joe and He-Man. As a kid, coolest decade ever. Saturday morning cartoons and the best toys at Christmas. Optimus Prime was my favorite. Remember opening this up one Christmas morning. I think my brother got a Megatron knock off, lol. Looked like him but different. Probably named Metatron or something?

There was no care or love put into this at all. Many aspects I feel they didn't do justice, they actually ruined things, they made things worse, and it was a terrible experience. The original IS better, way better. The vinyl fan theme remix is utter garbage, people could make way better stuff in fruity loops. My mums favorite TFs are Bee and Cliff. Mine are Jazz and Mirage.

Yeah this sounds terrible. I’ll just watch my old Rhino dvd season sets.