TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE (1986) | MOVIE REACTION *FIRST TIME WATCHING* | UNICRON Is Nuts 

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

And yes, this is still the best Transformers movie. Yes, I cried when our boy died.

You're pulling off a small miracle on this one. This movie is NOTORIOUS for getting copy write struck with even the smallest scenes and music. The fact that you have this uploaded to this extent is pretty impressive.

For people my age, the arrival of Optimus Prime on the battlefield, with 'The Touch' blaring in the theater, was the first time we understood the concept (if not the phrase) "Badass".

Imagine watching this when you were 6 or 8yrs old, and all those characters that died had been your favourites for two years. This movie made kids cry and if you ever wonder why Gen Xrs are so disillusioned and unfeeling, it's because we grew up watching our heroes die.

This movie is goated. The music, action, dialogue. Megatron and Optimus have such good lines. That one scene gets me every time Edit: also anyone else love the old GI Joe animated movie ?? So good

Unicron was voiced by Orson Welles. Who was in damn near everything for a while in the 20th Century. But most people know him from 'Citizen Kane'. Galvatron was voiced by Leonard Nimoy. Who was the Vulcan, Spock, on the original 'Star Trek'. His first day of recording, he showed up an hour early to warm up by doing vocal scales in the men's room.

This movie traumatized a generation! We watched the cartoon after school and seeing Prime die broke our little kid hearts.

80s cartoons where the best! GI Joe, Thundercats, Robotech, Galaxy Rangers, He-Man, M.A.S.K., Voltron, and of course, The Transformers...rocked the scene back in the day! Couldn't wait to get home from school to see this awesome animation!

Transformers is one of my top 10 favorite cartoons of all time. And this animated film is pure gold. Great reaction bro! 👍🏿

It's hard to appreciate this if you weren't a fan of the 80's cartoon and toys (as I was), but the death of Optimus Prime particularly, and of so many other original characters, was shocking to me as a 10 year old! I now see it as a vehicle to clear out the old characters so they could introduce new ones and sell more toys (80's cartoons were almost universally commercials for toys), but they at least made a hell of a story out of it! I still love this movie, all these years later - they got legit voice actors for the new roles (this was actually film legend Orson Welles's last role) and put some banger songs in to pump the audience up (Stan Bush's "You Got the Touch" and "Dare", as well as Weird Al's "Dare to Be Stupid" are the highlights for me)!

I felt the same way about the other Transformer Movies making humans too much a part of the story. The humans are support characters at best, it's all about the Transformers themselves.

This movie served as a bridge between seasons 2 and 3 of the show. The first two battles wipe out nearly every transformer from the first 2 seasons and introduced the new characters/toys from season 3. Imagine being a kid watching this in the theater and having all your heroes die. It was pretty devastating.

Best soundtrack ever! I remember seeing this in the theaters when it came out. I was 11. The whole audience cheered throughout the film and it was an awesome experience. I'll never forget it

Spike, the guy with Bumblebee, was the 80's show's equivalent of Sam Witwicky. He is Spike Witwicky, and they do have his dad in the original show too. The film was 20 years after the original show so teenage Spike was fully grown up and we got to see his kid Daniel. I loved this movie as a kid and it (mostly) holds up well today. I don't think any of the live action films have quite captured the feel of this. It had heart, action, a great soundtrack, shock and awe, deaths, etc... Even all the random autobot/decepticon corpses you see throughout the battle at Autobot city were the main characters for the original 2 seasons of the show so as an 80s kid, it was wild to see all the heros and villains die, badly, in the first 20-30 minutes.

"PRIME gote shot 9 times. He is 50 cent now". Killed me! This cartoon is my life. I'm almost 40. Watched it +30 times during whole life. Some scenes giving me same goosebumps as when i was watching it being 6-7 years old!

Cool reaction. To answer your questions, this movie was made as a 20 year time jump from the original cartoon's first 65 episodes which was followed up with a third season taking place after the movie. Spike was renamed Sam in the live action films and the alt modes were changed quite a bit.

I was 11 years old when this came out. I was their EXACT demographic. Saw this in theater the week it came out , and cried when Optimus died. This movie was EVERYTHING!

Your totally right - this was less about the humans & more about the robots - which is the way it should be. That's why a lot of us old school fans still prefer this much more over the live action CGI movies.

As far as I know, with 40 years of experience on my side, Bumblebee could ALWAYS talk. I can't say 100% for certain, but I think it was the Bay movies that started him not talking.

This IS the best Transformers, My brother and I both loved this movie as children. One my top favorites, I still have the original VHS tape too. As a child, I wanted to be Starscream because I loved fighter jets😂

You hit the nail right in the head. A lot if long time fans of transformers don’t like that the Michael Bay live actions are all about the humans. The transformers has a dope story on their own.

This movie crushed us kids because of what they did to prime. They even apologized for killing prime.

This movie was a major part of my childhood. It's so good seeing younger generations discovering it. And it's soooo much better than the live action Transformers stuff.

Nostalgia levels are over 9,000!!! Bringing back so much. Thank you Mr. Video 😅

Every time I hear Peter Cullen voicing Optimus, my brain reverts to the glory and fun of 1980s Transformers and I want to fight over them. It is not something that watching Transformers for the first time nowadays can understand. I teared up fifteen years ago hearing Optimus in theaters. Thirty five years ago, Optimus was pretty much my second dad.

I saw this in the theaters and I cried when Optimus Prime died. Many of us 80’s kids did. Because of that they brought him back to life in season 3 of the cartoon.

I used to rent this movie every single weekend from the Video-Ezy in my town back in the late 80s and my mum almost stopped me watching it every time because that Optimus death-bed scene made me bawl hysterically for the rest of the night LOL I will always love this movie. It is the epitome of my childhood and gave me a lifelong love for the characters! Thank you for reacting to this! It's like seeing my good mate watching one of my beloved classics with me! 🥰

Prime's death caused a backlash to the point where Dukes death from saving Falcon’s life atvthe hands of Seperpentor in the animated G.I. Joe was changed into a coma. He later was mentioned that he "woke up" at the end of the movie of the movie.

“ Unicorn is swallowing the whole planet” killed me 🤣

wow! much respect for watching old content like this. they dont get alot of love nowadays with all this amazing CGI but people forget everything starts somewhere.

For kids of the 80's, like me, this was HUGE! Just about everyone had a Transformer toy. When Optimus Prime Died...all kids cried! We all Cried! Transformers was one of the top Cartoons on tv, along with GI: Joe, He-Man, Thundercats, Real ghostbusters! This was OUR Saturday morning tv programming, and when they announced a Transformers Movie back in 85...we all got Pumped cause we knew it would be SPECIAL!

Orson Wells, Mr Spock, Eric Idle, Weird Al... the cameos are the best part

This movie slaps on EVERY level. I just watched it with my fiancee for her first time seeing it last week and it brought back so many good memories. What a godly movie. Edit: Leo, you ask early on in the video if there is a Witwicky in this movie like Sam in the first Michael Bay, and the answer is yes. It's never spoken in the movie but Daniel and Spike's last name is Witwicky

My goodness. Transformers and He-Man were such a big part of my childhood. Amazing animations. Kudos to you to check this out man. Edit: my favorite was Starscream.

I took my Brother to his first movie and it was this one.... he passed away just over a year ago and he wanted to make sure I got his copy of this movie. Every now and again he would send me music for my workout routines, and they came from this movie and Rocky 4

This movie takes place between seasons of the original cartoon. After this Megatron was refitted into galvatron and Rodimus Prime leads the Autobots. However Optimus does return from the dead and it is scary AF. He was gray with red eyes and attacked his own autobots when he awakened. Sort of like Superman in the Justice League movie.

If you grew up in the 80's like I did, this movie was EVERYTHING! The theaters were packed and when OP died, we all cried....

46 year old man here still teary eyed when we lost Prime. Ain't that a Bitch? Still one of the best soundtracks of the 80's.

My bad man I almost skipped this reaction cuz I thought it was the live-action movie, this is a classic movie that I grew up on ❤❤❤ thank you!! 🍿

WOW! This movie was my childhood. I watched it so many times! Never thought I would come across this movie again, thanks LEO!!

The sound track is one of the best parts of this movie. The deaths hurt so many kids which was a huge risk for the writers. Good comedy just great overall. glad we got you to watch it!

i feel old, i saw this in the theater as a kid, and watched the tv series. i still have the vhs copy on my shelf. my fav as a kid! i saw they are introducing the dinobots in the next live action film, good thing you saw this version! another great reaction! 👍

I was born in 1998 and use to watch the TV show when I was a kid, my dad got me this movie when I was 10 and the scene with Optimus Prime brought me to tears. I also recently recorded the entire soundtrack to my phone, it's in my 80s music playlist and I listen to it all the time when I walk my dog.

The autobots dying was a way for the creator to get rid of them all including optimus to make way for the newer characters. Keep in mind that children had never seen any of the autbots dying before so when they began dying by megatron it completely shocked them as it was the very first time that an actual transformer had been killed on the screen and trust me when optimus died it completely upset children and the parents which caused so much backlash on the film. It also changed the ending for gi joe which instead of killing duke they put him in a coma. Transformers 1986 shocked the generation so much

The matrix is not only for the Autobots. It is the Cybertronian matrix. It only opens when all Cybertronian life works together. Hence the "till all are one" quote. It opens one other time in the series when a plague infected all humans and nearly all Transformers.

oh wow. Never expected to see one of the reactors I watch watching this... this was my favorite movie when I was a kid. Watched the VHS so many damn times the tape broke. Still have the whole movie memorized verbatim and can recite it on command. Way way better than any of the Michael Bay movies, IMO. One of the first animated movies with an all-star cast... Orson Welles, Hollywood legend, did the voice for Unicron for most of the movie but actually passed away during production and Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek's Spock) filled in for him for the remainder of his lines and also did the voice of Galvatron. Lionel Stander (Kup) was another long-time Hollywood star. John Moschita (known as the Micro Machine man and world record holder for fastest talker) voice Blurr. Judd Nelson of the Breakfast Club and Hollywood's "Brat Pack" did Hot Rod. Legendary voice actor Peter Cullen was always the voice of Optimus Prime... he reprises his role in the Bayformers movies. I think Optimus Prime dying in this was the first time I saw my mom cry watching a movie. They killed off damn near all of the old Transformers characters to make room for new toys... pretty brutal for a kids' movie.

This is it! The ultimate transformer movie! I was born in 96 and I had this movie memorize to the bone. We want that, but live action.

Saw this in the theater when I was a kid. It’s still one of my favorites.

I saw this in theaters when it came out. Kids were BAWLING during the slaughter on the ship and then the death of Optimus... lot of therapists had new clients thanks to this movie.

Awesome you are watching this!! This is the Transformers I grew up on and this movie went pretty hard for it's time. Early on you knew it wasn't your average Saturday morning episode but later the dark tone did settle down quite a bit. Had an amazing soundtrack as well.

Thanks for reacting to this 🙏 So many people on youtube are following trends and watching what's "safe". But safe is often the most dangerous plan, and we don't get to see classics like this one. Keep setting the trends

I was 10 when this came out, and that theater was absolutely going NUTS during this entire movie. The beginning song, Optimus's song, the fighting man....and when he died OMG....that movie theater turned into a POOL!!! Unicron was voiced by Orson Welles...and Leanard Nimoy voiced Galvatron...it was an amazing movie. God I loved the Transformers!!

In season 3 of the cartoon, his head was orbiting Cybertron, acting as an artificial moon. The episode Call of the Primitives details Unicron’s origins and as to why he was made and the possible origin of The Matrix of Leadership

The Best Transformer Movie of all time. As a kid, I would wake up at about 05:00 and go downstairs put the VHS in, and put on my headphones. I must have watched this movie close to 100 times.

Dude, you fuckin' GOT IT! That's why most of the old school fans prefer the old cartoon versions. It's mostly about the transformers, not the humans. They all have different personalities and you actually get to see them. And since it was a little sonfusing, Sam is Spike. Daniel's Spike's son. This flick takes place 20 years after the second season of the show.

HELL TO THE FUCK YEAH! Mad respect to reacting to the OG movie. Crazy thing about this film was that when it was a tv show nobody ever died and lived to the next day, its a kids show so of course. Then this comes out and they start killing of characters left and right! Kids who went to the movies were devestated it was messed up man lol.

Watching the cartoons growing up seeing my favorites from the show just dieing was to much to handle as a kid. Fighting under water and deserts and near death battles was amazing over the years. Seeing them die in the movie in theaters you new it was the end of a era.

I wish more transformers movies were like this.

This is the definitive Transformers film to me, from the soundtrack to the animation. For many of us 80s kids, this was our first time seeing not only cartoon characters die for the first time ever, but many of our favorite characters. It was a traumatic experience, lol.

This was my Red Wedding. Saturday morning 1986....I was traumatized seeing all my boys go down.

The Matrix opened up for Hot Rod because the Matrix chose him, not Ultra Magnus. You have to know (and the series only really explains it and not the movie) that the Matrix is filled with the concious memories of ALL previous Autobot leaders going back to the first and it has somewhat of a will of its own.

I have to remember my age and not be shocked that people still have never seen this movie. I was lucky enough to see this opening satin theaters! So yea-this is the BEST TF Movie ever. Timeless 80’s metal rock/Synth classic that was ahead of its time for 86’

Blurr was voiced by John Moschitta Jr, the Guiness world record holder for World's Fastest Talker. You might recognize him if you've ever seen commercials for Micro Machines. In 2007, Mr Moschitta reprised his role in Transformers Animated for that show's depiction of Blurr. He's not sped up artificially, the dude just talks that fast, and it's incredible every time.

This movie was great I remember kids crying in the theater after prime died. Hasbro had to bring him back due to the massive backlash

Now you gotta do Tron (1982). Transformers hit big back in the day, and this was the peak. Best music, best animation, actual big name stars. To answer your question, yes... they are Witwicky... witwi... Sam was originally Spike Witwicky, and his dad Sparkplug. Needless to say those names didn't stand up in the films because they sound odd outside a cartoon.

I have seen this movie literally over 100 times since I was a kid and saw it in theaters. I was a huge original transformers cartoon fan and still am. This movie blew my 8 year old mind when it came out.

The original Transformers cartoon aired each weekday afternoons. It was the bomb. ✌️

I respect the fact that you at least you took the time and watched this beloved masterpiece and gave it a fair opinion. And for that you have a new subscriber my friend.

SWEET! I really wanted you to see this once you started watching the Bay films (I think I mentioned this in one of those) 4:08 - Okay, so here's a brief history lesson. In 1984, Hasbro released the Transformers toy line. As He-Man had done before, they co-launched it with a cartoon to help promote the toys. The series (and toys) became MEGA popular and the series continued. In 1986, Transformers: The Movie was released in theaters. It was created to bridge the gap between the first series of characters (referred to now as 'Gen 1') and the new characters (Gen 2). 4:14 - So Unicron is the devourer of worlds: a transformer who eats planets to fuel it's own continued existence. Although in the original continuity he is a lone evil, in later Transformers continuities he is the Transformers version of the Devil, and his good counterpart is the entity Primus. (Spoilers: Primus is the robot form of Cybertron.) 4:43 - This is the hard rock version of the original transformers theme song. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nLS2N9mHWaw.html 5:50 - Spike and Sparkplug were the son/father team that were the allies of the Autobots in the first generation. They were Witwickys. Sam from the Bay films was an original character created as a reference to Spike, but toy lines of the later films apparently introduced Spike and Sparkplug as Sam's cousin and uncle. 6:08 - Megatron is actually an assault rifle, as I believe we'll see shortly (he was a tank in the toy line). The boombox is Soundwave, who was a communications satellite in Revenge of the Fallen. 6:33 - As I said, this movie was intended to be a bridge between Gen 1 and Gen 2. As such, Hasbro had no qualms about killing off Gen 1 characters. Even major ones... 12:59 - The soundtrack is one of the most memorable things about this movie, and it came about in a pretty interesting way. The movie's composer had an unusual approach to scoring a movie: he would watch the movie without sound and then put in songs that he felt matched the tone of the scene. This lead to many epic and absurd moments in the movie that have resonated through time. 15:50 - Although the early concepts that would eventually evolve into the All Spark were first introduced in Gen 1/2 (The Matrix of Leadership is a big early influence), the concept as it is currently understood originated in the Michael Bay movies. Before that, the concept of 'Sparks' had come into being. In order for Transformers to be something more than just robots, they needed a soul. The concept was first obliquely explored in Gen 2, where we saw that the creation of truly 'living' Transformers required contact with the supercomputer at the core of Cybertron, Vector Sigma. (The Transformers: Animated continuity would combine the All Spark with the 'Key to Vector Sigma' concept from Gen 2, in fact.) The finalized idea of a 'Spark' being a Transformer's soul would first appear in the CG Transformers series Beast Wars (the main influence for the upcoming Rise of the Beasts movie (which incidentally includes a major reference to THIS movie)). 31:53 - So the dude with the mustache is Wreck-Gar, the leader of the Junkions of planet Junk. You might have noticed the song in the background: Weird Al Yankovic's Devo pastiche Dare To Be Stupid. Wreck-Gar appears several times in the aforementioned Transformers: Animated. In that show, as a reference to the original character, Wreck-Gar is voiced by none other than Weird Al himself. 34:35 - Wanna see something really crazy? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X8S3y_xxcqc.html

This movie is iconic, and such an amazing piece of my childhood. I've got this on DVD, and I've got the soundtrack somewhere. Also, the list of voice actors is amazing. When my husband and I went to see Transformers in theaters and the voice-over started, I legit grabbed him by the shoulder and started shaking him. "It's Optimus Prime!" He hadn't watched the cartoon, so wanted to know how I knew. "Because it's HIM!" 😂 Peter Cullen is a legend.

After they killed Optimus in an attempt to market new toys, the toy line died and kids were super sad. So sad that they brought Optimus back to life in the show.

Yes, these are the Witwicky's. This takes place in 2005. The show starts in 1984, with Spike (Sam) Witwicky and his dad. Spike marries Carly, and in 2005 Daniel Witwicky is their son. The EDC (Earth Defense Command) is kind of like NEST, but with Marissa Fairborne

I had the original Megatron toy that transformed into a very realistic looking Walther P38 pistol... got stopped by a cop once walking through my neighborhood with it... they would never allow a toy like that to be made today, that's why they changed Megatron into a tank (and in the Michael Bay Fakeformers movies... he's like a space jet or something, I dunno..)

Love watching these reaction videos to the first time viewings of the 86 Movie! You had me laughing hysterically when you realized his name was actually Unicron!

Man, seeing this movie again just creates a huge soft spot in me for Ultra Magnus. A truly good, humble being with a ginormous burden placed on him, all the while unknowingly not even bearing that burden in the first place. Ultra Magnus was truly a real one and was dealt the foulest of hands by destiny

Casey Kasem voiced Cliffjumper and it's funny he did the countdown when Kasem was famous for his top 40 countdowns. I love the All Star cast this movie had.

This IS Transformers! The movies are alright but these are my favorite versions of them! 🙂. It's too bad that this movie was made to kill off all the old Transformers so they could have new ones and new toys.

The 80s were the best. I was five when this came out. Being a kid in the 80s was pure magic.

I just recently started looking for people reacting to this video, glad you doin' this too!

This movie does a pretty good job as a stand alone, but it is better if you had seen the series up to this point

This movie was actually *really* controversial when it came out. The main reason is because it straight up killed off multiple fan favorite characters and replaced them with new ones. Optimus himself being the most famous example as there was genuine pushback at his death in particular. Add on top of that the fact that not everyone saw this in theatres at the time, so when the show came back and people saw that half the cast was different, there was a lot of confusion.

He said "Optimus pulllin up I feel safer already" LOVE THIS GUY GLAD I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL!!😅

80s were the best! this movie was the best one by far! music..characters..voices the looks the story its amazing! also the toy line and the cartoons and everything that sprang from this..awsome!

I love THIS Transformers movie; the legendary Frank Welker as Megatron (as well as my favourite Decepticon Soundwave, Rumble etc) and of course Peter Cullen as the great Optimus Prime, featuring an all-star cast including Orson Welles as the deadly planet Unicron and the legend Leonard Nimoy (R.I.P.) as Galvatron! Not forgetting the AWESOME soundtrack with songs including 'The Touch' 'Dare', 'Instruments of Destruction', 'Dare to be Stupid' and 'Hunger'

Man I liked it when Jet Fire came flying down and it was bad ass how he said "Let me show you how we brought the pain in my days" I don't know why but that gave me goosebumps

That banter with megatron and prime, in the fight scene, "why should you throw away you life so recklessly," and prime replies, thats a question you should ask yourself megatron!! Totally epic!!!

Yes, Spike is "Sam Witwicky." In the G1 cartoon, he's a teenager. He's an adult in the movie, and Daniel is his son. In the series, it's Spike/Sam and his dad, "Sparkplug," and he's the audience expy, who hangs out with Bumblebee. Orson Welles, who voiced Unicron, performed his lines, and passed away five days, later. His voice was so weak that they had to run it through a lot of synths and stuff to make it sound like that, but after reading the script, he was really down to play it. Fun fact, they threw the "Oh shit" part in there, to get a PG rating, to force parents to watch it with their kids. Which was a bad idea, because there were LOTS of kids crying over Optimus Prime dying, and parents demanding their money back. This caused them to make the GI Joe movie Direct-to-Video, as well as changing Duke's death, to a "coma." It also caused talks of a Jem and the Holograms movie to be canceled. Oh, and I'd be a Decepticon... straight up. I wanted to be Megatron's human pet that helped him with his schemes, when I was little... I had a crush on him, and Soundwave (the Boom Box)... tho Perceptor (the microscope) could possibly talk me into the Autobot side.😅

This movie, as well as the G.I. Joe movie were created to convince the executives and the r&d department to make them into toys. One man said: Let's make cartoons to sell and hold on to these promos. This is why the first half is so different than the other! And now we know! Also...JetFire had a problem with it's model looking too much like a Veritech!

The animated transformer's story lines were so much better than the CGI transformers

Leo, you just "transformed" yourself into the baddest reaction channel on RU-vid. Dude, great choice. You rock!

Favourite scene in the movie, that closeup of megatrons face as he is gloating over Optimus, just broken, chipped, leaking and generally beaten the hell out of.

Best motion picture soundtrack EVER!!! Leo, I saw this movie in theaters back in 1986.... I was 19 at the time. I won't lie, or even exaggerate.... it's better (IMHO) than all of the Bay live action movies combined. With that said, the newer movie "Bumblebee" was really, really good! If you watch the two close enough together, you'll see a lot of references to the original in Bumblebee... especially the song "The Touch". Which, I'd love to see you do a reaction to the official music video to. While technically it WAS a 90+ minute advertisement for mew toys....it still had a really good story, and like I said, an incredibly BANGING soundtrack. I was a fan back then, and remain a fan of the animated series (Generation 1) to this very day. Oh, Leo.... have you ever watched the HBO series called "OZ"? If not, you should do that one. Great series! As is "Orphan Black", which would blow your mind. 4:45 - OH! While I'm thinking of it..... there's a band called "Cybertronic Spree", who originally started out performing the soundtrack for this movie but have also branched out into doing their own original music. They wear Transformers (Generation 1) costumes, and rocking out on stage. I saw them live this past January, and they are fantastic! Do yourself a favor and look them up on RU-vid. You wont regret it. 5:55 - "Whitwhicky" was the last name used in pretty much every version of the story. Comics, Cartoon, and Live Action. In the cartoon, it was "Spark-Plug" (the father), Spike (the son), and Daniel (the grandson). I forget what the first name was in the comic books, but in the Bay movies, it was "Sam". 6:10 - No, that's Soundwave. Megatron is a "Walter P-38 pistol". Funny thing about that, is that I have the "Movie Edition" of Megatron's action figure. However, because it's older than the "orange tip" law, I can't sell it without modifying it to have the orange tip, which would distinguish it from an actual firearm of the same size. 10:00 - That's Blaster. He turned into a "Boom Box", or "Ghetto Blaster" (which is where the name came from). 10:10 - Leo, both Soundwave and Blaster had "cassette" Transformers inside of them. This is why you should have watched the actual cartoon series before watching this movie, to know all of these minor details. Also, to familiarize yourself with some of the characters who were "killed off" early in the movie. 13:00 - As I said above.... this soundtrack is the best one EVER. I've purchased it in at 4 different formats: Album, Cassette tape, Compact Disc, and Digital (iTunes). The last of which had extra tracks not included in previous versions. I've bought the movie itself in the following formats: VHS (twice... both "full screen" and "Wide screen"), DVD (the 20th and 25th anniversary editions), Blu-Ray. and Digital (iTunes). THAT is how much I loved that movie and its soundtrack. 15:00 - Oh, and I remember being 19 years old watching this in theaters..... and I will never forget the kids whose parents brought them to see it..... and their reactions to the scene of Optimus Prime, dying. The kids literally wailed as if they had just lost one of their parents. Don't get me wrong..... I was sad that Prime died, too.... but I didn't lose my shit crying about it. Then again, these ARE children we're talking about here. 15:45 - Also, THIS is the real reason we celebrate "Prime Day" on Amazon..... Optimus gave his life, and this is how we celebrate it. 16:00 - The "All Spark" was created for the Bay movies. But, if you want to know what it's based on, look up "Vector Sigma" from the original series. 16:48 - No, not Barry White..... but Orson Wells, in his final movie role ever. Look it up. 38:10 - Hot Rod was "The Chosen One" (to use a Star Wars vernacular). If you remember, Optimus chose Ultra Magnus to be his successor, but the Matrix knew Hot Rod was the next in line for leadership. That's why it glowed when he caught it. Hot Rod was able to "open" the Matrix, and save them all... because HE was the one "next in line". There is an episode of the Original Series titled "The Key to Vector Cigma" that helps to explain all this. I think it's a 2 part episode, but it might be 3 parts. Look it up, and see if you can find it. 38:20 - Galvatron couldn't open the Matrix, because he is a Decepticon. Ultra Magnus couldn't open the Matrix, because he wasn't the "Next Prime in Line". 39:40 - How appropriate, that Unicron destroyed Cybertron's moons, then his head became the only remaining moon of Cybertron.

I have not seen this.

Glad for the trip down memory lane, loved this shit out of this back in 86! Been waiting for a proper CGI version of Unicron, and even a hint of this films epicness in the bayverse.

For THIS particular series, the Matrix for all intents and purposes WAS the All-Spark because that's where all transformers Sparks joined together. Of course it's also possible that the All-Spark was ON Cybertron, but was given the name Vector-Sygma. Vector-Sygma is what gave life to a few newer Autbots and Decepticons from the show. They were known ans the Stunticons and the Aeriobots.

THIS!!! THIS IS THE GREATEST CARTOON EVER..... !!! THIS IS WHAT TRANSFORMERS IS SUPPOSED TO BE...

"Unicorn's suction power ain't no joke!" 😂

I never would have imagined you'd watch this. Leo, as you did many times before, you've made my night :)

Hey, I saw this in theaters! Everybody was sad about Prime. Such a good movie to see as a kid. 🤩