Comments on: Transformers the Movie (1986) http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/ movie review and news blog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:50:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: joe blogs http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-105161 joe blogs Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:01:28 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-105161 I don't think you can really consider this movie a 87 minute toy commercial. Anyone who's seen the toys of the new characters that appeared in the movie will notice that they were designed after the movie was made (with the exception of Ultra Magnus, whose design predates the transformers' line anyway). If you don't believe me then just just think back; Kup, Blurr, Wheelie, Galvatron. These guys transformation that would make a happymeal toy laugh. Arcee and Unicron had to wait 20 years before they got toy incarnations. Hotrod came out as a pretty cool toy but his transformation is different each time he transformers in the movie, making it obvious it wasn't clearly set for the animators at the time, who didn't have the toy for reference. The Rodimus toy came off the Hotrod design and was so lame that half of him didn't even tranform (his hips/legs don't move at all). Wipe the slate clean for new toys to come? Yeah, maybe that's what the movie was trying to do. The were doing the same for the G.I Joe movie (which incidently only got TV?Video release because of T:TM poor sales) Killing off Prime was a mistake that eventually caused them to bring him back into the series. They had to rewrite their G.I.Joe movie to avoid the same effect. T:TM obviously promoted the Transformers line, but wasn't a commercial for any specific toys; when they made the movie the exist characters who had toys got killed off, and the new characters didn't have toys. If you want to see a 88 minute toy commercial, watch the Headmasters series (4 x 22 minute episodes) I don’t think you can really consider this movie a 87 minute toy commercial. Anyone who’s seen the toys of the new characters that appeared in the movie will notice that they were designed after the movie was made (with the exception of Ultra Magnus, whose design predates the transformers’ line anyway). If you don’t believe me then just just think back; Kup, Blurr, Wheelie, Galvatron. These guys transformation that would make a happymeal toy laugh. Arcee and Unicron had to wait 20 years before they got toy incarnations. Hotrod came out as a pretty cool toy but his transformation is different each time he transformers in the movie, making it obvious it wasn’t clearly set for the animators at the time, who didn’t have the toy for reference. The Rodimus toy came off the Hotrod design and was so lame that half of him didn’t even tranform (his hips/legs don’t move at all).

Wipe the slate clean for new toys to come? Yeah, maybe that’s what the movie was trying to do. The were doing the same for the G.I Joe movie (which incidently only got TV?Video release because of T:TM poor sales) Killing off Prime was a mistake that eventually caused them to bring him back into the series. They had to rewrite their G.I.Joe movie to avoid the same effect.

T:TM obviously promoted the Transformers line, but wasn’t a commercial for any specific toys; when they made the movie the exist characters who had toys got killed off, and the new characters didn’t have toys. If you want to see a 88 minute toy commercial, watch the Headmasters series (4 x 22 minute episodes)

]]> By: Transformers (2007) - Review - Movie Reviews Blog http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-37589 Transformers (2007) - Review - Movie Reviews Blog Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:47:24 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-37589 [...] going to level with you people. I am a hardcore Transformers nerd. I post on multiple Transformers messageboards, I collect the toys, I’ve seen all the [...] [...] going to level with you people. I am a hardcore Transformers nerd. I post on multiple Transformers messageboards, I collect the toys, I’ve seen all the [...]

]]> By: Gundam: G-Saviour - Review - Movie Reviews Blog http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-33470 Gundam: G-Saviour - Review - Movie Reviews Blog Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:22:17 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-33470 [...] never been much of a Gundam fan. I’m more of a Transformers-guy, personally. Still, when I found this live action film in a DVD bargain bin at a local used record [...] [...] never been much of a Gundam fan. I’m more of a Transformers-guy, personally. Still, when I found this live action film in a DVD bargain bin at a local used record [...]

]]> By: » Original voices of Transformers hired for latest game http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-27113 » Original voices of Transformers hired for latest game Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:37:23 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-27113 [...] ability his system while he travels the cosmos in search for… planets to eat. 1986, anyone? Transformers: The Movie… seriously? Ultra Magnus said the D-word? Come on, it hailed in the second generation of Transformers since [...] [...] ability his system while he travels the cosmos in search for… planets to eat. 1986, anyone? Transformers: The Movie… seriously? Ultra Magnus said the D-word? Come on, it hailed in the second generation of Transformers since [...]

]]> By: Original voices of Transformers hired for latest game | LifeParticles http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-26953 Original voices of Transformers hired for latest game | LifeParticles Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:05:01 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-26953 [...] to power his system while he travels the cosmos in search for… planets to eat. 1986, anyone? Transformers: The Movie… seriously? Ultra Magnus said the D-word? Come on, it hailed in the second generation of Transformers since [...] [...] to power his system while he travels the cosmos in search for… planets to eat. 1986, anyone? Transformers: The Movie… seriously? Ultra Magnus said the D-word? Come on, it hailed in the second generation of Transformers since [...]

]]> By: Dragonball Z movie 6: “The Return of Cooler” - Movie Reviews Blog http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-1122 Dragonball Z movie 6: “The Return of Cooler” - Movie Reviews Blog Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:24:26 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-1122 [...] New Namek (homeworld of Piccolo’s people) is suddenly attacked by a planet-eating war world called the Big Gete Star (think Unicron from Transformers the Movie only squishier). Dende, the new Guardian of Earth, senses the disturbance and enlists Goku and friends to save the troubled Namekians. Goku, Gohan, Krillen and the rest arrive on New Namek and face-off against a legion of powerful Cyclopean Drones. The battle is tough, but things only get more complicated when the mastermind behind the planet-chomping operation rears his ugly head: Meta Cooler! [...] [...] New Namek (homeworld of Piccolo’s people) is suddenly attacked by a planet-eating war world called the Big Gete Star (think Unicron from Transformers the Movie only squishier). Dende, the new Guardian of Earth, senses the disturbance and enlists Goku and friends to save the troubled Namekians. Goku, Gohan, Krillen and the rest arrive on New Namek and face-off against a legion of powerful Cyclopean Drones. The battle is tough, but things only get more complicated when the mastermind behind the planet-chomping operation rears his ugly head: Meta Cooler! [...]

]]> By: GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Movie Reviews Blog http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-1097 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Movie Reviews Blog Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:21:23 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-1097 [...] The GoBots were always the Transformers’ ugly kid brother, so needless to say, the GoBots feature film was “just like Transformers the Movie, only not as good”. Not nearly as good, in fact. Actually, it wasn’t “good” at all. While the writing may have been only a few notches below that of the early Transformers stuff, it is still noticeably bad. Now, the Transformers’ character designs only bore a slim likeness to their toy counterparts, but the GoBots? They were precise animated realizations of their toys. As a result, it looks like a bunch of, well, TOYS fighting on screen, not actual characters. The barren desert landscape of the alien world, Cordax, also bears an unfortunate likeness to a kid’s sandbox. So yeah, basically you’re watching some kid play with his toys in his backyard. Thrilling. [...] [...] The GoBots were always the Transformers’ ugly kid brother, so needless to say, the GoBots feature film was “just like Transformers the Movie, only not as good”. Not nearly as good, in fact. Actually, it wasn’t “good” at all. While the writing may have been only a few notches below that of the early Transformers stuff, it is still noticeably bad. Now, the Transformers’ character designs only bore a slim likeness to their toy counterparts, but the GoBots? They were precise animated realizations of their toys. As a result, it looks like a bunch of, well, TOYS fighting on screen, not actual characters. The barren desert landscape of the alien world, Cordax, also bears an unfortunate likeness to a kid’s sandbox. So yeah, basically you’re watching some kid play with his toys in his backyard. Thrilling. [...]

]]> By: DrSpengler http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-218 DrSpengler Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:59:05 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-218 The Japanese thing was pretty done as a joke, honestly. The other guy, OnePumpedNinja, was supposed to write a review for the American dub and post it with mine...but that never happened. The Japanese thing was pretty done as a joke, honestly. The other guy, OnePumpedNinja, was supposed to write a review for the American dub and post it with mine…but that never happened.

]]> By: Dr. R.K.Z http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-217 Dr. R.K.Z Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:35:30 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/transformers-the-movie-1986/#comment-217 This movie IS more than a toy commercial, and it's not just die-hard TF fans that can proudly say that. Since this is an ongoing mythology, the plot holes are all addressed in the following season, so it's not as much of a toy commerical as it is a THIRD SEASON G1 PROMO (And I hate this Japanease series catergorisation BS, it's G1 season three, not TF 2010 or whatever crap they want to call it, especially since they compeltly screwed up TF after Victory) Oh, and Peter Cullen and Frank Welker can and will forever RAPE Genda and Kato respectivly. This movie IS more than a toy commercial, and it’s not just die-hard TF fans that can proudly say that. Since this is an ongoing mythology, the plot holes are all addressed in the following season, so it’s not as much of a toy commerical as it is a THIRD SEASON G1 PROMO

(And I hate this Japanease series catergorisation BS, it’s G1 season three, not TF 2010 or whatever crap they want to call it, especially since they compeltly screwed up TF after Victory)

Oh, and Peter Cullen and Frank Welker can and will forever RAPE Genda and Kato respectivly.

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