G1 The Complete 1st Season: 25th Anniversary Edition DVDs
牛魔王
it. Won't pre-order it this time, that's for sure.
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Transformers - Release Date, Details & Possible Cover Art Found for
The Complete 1st Season: 25th Anniversary Edition DVDs
Apparently coming out just 8 days before the launch of the new live-
action movie!
Last May we brought you an exclusive story with Hasbro answering
questions about their deal to reacquire the various "Sunbow"
properties, including the original cartoon series for both
Transformers and G.I. Joe. Both properties are getting new live-action
films this summer, with the theatrical debut of Transformers: Revenge
of the Fallen hitting June 24th (G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA follows
on Aug. 7th). Since December, rumors have run all over the internet to
expect new DVD releases of the classic animated shows, to tie in with
the summer releases of the films. Frankly, that's a no-brainer...and
for that reason, along with lack of solid info about the particulars,
we've held off saying anything here.
In the past couple of weeks, information started coming into focus
about a Transformers-related release, however, and this morning we've
had some fan e-mails telling us EXACTLY where to look! A pre-order
listing at Walmart.com for The Transformers - The Complete 1st Season:
25th Anniversary Edition on DVD is now showing, with a June 16th
release date and a list price of $29.99 SRP. The studio description
indicates that this first release will contain the 3-part "More Than
Meets The Eye" introductory story, plus the 13 regular episodes that
all made up the first season of the "generation one" ("G1") version of
the legendary program:
During the 1980s, one cartoon series ruled the airwaves..."The
Transformers". This is the complete first season that launched "The
Transformers" entertainment franchise. It ran beginning in 1984 and
introduced audiences to "The Transformers", sentient robotic beings
from Cybertron who crash land on Earth in search of Energon and must
fight between two factions, Autobots and Decepticons. Includes 16
episodes from Season One on 3 Discs.
The running time listed there is 370 minutes, with video in full frame
and audio in English (no details about the sound format are provided).
Who's putting this out? The studio listing shown at Walmart.com is
"UMVD", which is short for Universal Music Video Distribution and is
basically another way of saying "Vivendi". Vivendi Entertainment
distributes for several independent studios, most notably Shout!
Factory. We've been hearing whispers for a little while that Shout!
was eagerly pursuing this property, but there's been no announcement
from the studio that they had gotten it. This may be an indicator,
however, that they did.
Since the studio hasn't been talking about it yet, and neither has
property-owner Hasbro, we asked our own sources in the home video biz
what they've heard. Well, we've had word from industry sources that
the information posted there at Walmart.com may not actually be 100%
finalized info, so don't be surprised if we update our readers later
on to say that any (or all) of the provided info has changed. Still,
the info's VERY public over there, and we thank our readers who wrote
in (notably Jeremy VanDervoort, who was first). So we're passing it
along to our readers right away...including the front box art shown
below, taken from Walmart's listing. That just some temp art, though;
we're certain it's not finalized (note the watermark). Stay tuned for
updates, just as soon as we can provide them!
opt...@yahoo.com
> Hopefully they don't botch it like Rhino did; but I wouldn't count on
> it. Won't pre-order it this time, that's for sure.
>
If they put subtitles in them for hard of hearing persons like me, I
would definitely order them. It would also be nice if they include the
original mono audio, the original broadcast versions, and commercials
thrown in.
I have a little nitpick about the box art. It depicts Megatron with
the the sides of the legs coloured red like the toy. But he didn't
have that in the cartoon. If they must include the red for the legs,
then be consistent and colour the sides of the arms red too.
TigerMegatron
hopefully they release armada the complete series cheap like cybertron
& energon.
Zobovor
> If they put subtitles in them for hard of hearing persons like me, I
> would definitely order them. It would also be nice if they include the
> original mono audio, the original broadcast versions, and commercials
> thrown in.
I think a lot of that depends on whether or not Hasbro is just going
to pick up the copies of the episodes that Rhino already remastered.
They might ask themselves, "Well, we already got somebody to clean up
the show and make it presentable, so why undo it?" not realizing that
the first-season episodes Rhino was working with were filled with
rejected animation that was unsuitable for broadcast. (I really don't
want to buy yet another copy of "Fire in the Sky" where the snow falls
upwards and Cliffjumper stomps all over Skyfire's grave.)
It's worth mentioning that the version of "More Than Meets the Eye"
that came with the 25th Anniversary Optimus Prime toy is the Rhino
version of the pilot episode (including all the new sound effects and
the scene near the end where the background is completely missing
behind Starscream). So, obviously Hasbro's got the distribution
rights to Rhino's work.
> I have a little nitpick about the box art. It depicts Megatron with
> the the sides of the legs coloured red like the toy. But he didn't
> have that in the cartoon. If they must include the red for the legs,
> then be consistent and colour the sides of the arms red too.
Heh. And here was me, thinking that I was the only person who was
picky about stuff like that. (I really hope this is just generic
placeholder artwork, and that we'll actually get something, uh,
interesting.)
Zob
Thunder Strikes Twice!
> I think a lot of that depends on whether or not Hasbro is just going
> to pick up the copies of the episodes that Rhino already remastered.
> They might ask themselves, "Well, we already got somebody to clean up
> the show and make it presentable, so why undo it?" not realizing that
> the first-season episodes Rhino was working with were filled with
> rejected animation that was unsuitable for broadcast.
I think this is likely too... from a corporate cost cutting/not
realizing anything is wrong viewpoint.
t.k.