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Transformers: The Movie 30th Anniversary bluray

lowlite said:
I knew it! "Cobra Commanda..."
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speaking of which the main reason why Duke didnt die in GI Joe The Movie was due to the backlash TF's producers got from killing Optimus
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oh i also noticed dude who voiced Rodimus also was the voice of Serpentor.. remember this

:roflmao2:
 
ron2k7 said:
I went to see "Transformers: the movie" back in 1986 in a movie theater in Sunrise Cinema in Valley Stream (Green Acres Mall) then. I was a great movie in an animation way during the 1980's! I was 17 years old was hanging out during my summer vacation before my last year of high school. Man, I missed the good old of summer! I'm not crazy about those new Transformers cartoon now, except "Transformer Prime" was good in 2012.
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Lord T said:
Transformers: Prime was very good.:yes: I would also say that Transformers: Animated was very good too. It had a very G1-esque vibe. I think the art and animation style kinda threw some people off. I think it was a very underrated Transformer series:yes:
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Transformers Prime and Animated were two definitely slept on series. Don't forget Beastwars though which continued the G1 mythos and had some of the best writing. I nearly shit my pants when I saw this *SPOILER ALERT*:





Also




For those that missed this great series, I believe its on Netflix.
 
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ThaBurgerPimp said:
speaking of which the main reason why Duke didnt die in GI Joe The Movie was due to the backlash TF's producers got from killing Optimus
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Yes!

In the 1987 animated 'G.I. Joe: The Movie,' Duke takes a staff to his heart, and dies onscreen. (Or does he?) Fellow Joes Scarlett and Hawk cry, and at the end of the film, Duke's half-brother Falcon looks towards the heavens and says, "Thanks, big brother." But producers panicked and inserted dialogue to explain that Duke was actually just in a coma from which he later made a miraculous recovery. Who's to blame? Kids, who were traumatized by Optimus Prime's death a year earlier in 'Transformers: The Movie.'
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"Amusingly enough, the death of Optimus Prime in The Transformers: The Movie was directly influenced by the planned death of Duke in G.I. Joe: The Movie. Both were done by Sunbow Productions, the animation studio that produced the 1980s Transformersand G.I. Joe TV series), and originally each movie was planned to be released in 1986, along with a My Little Pony movie (also a TV series produced by Sunbow). Some distribution issues, as well as the relative lack of success for the Transformers and My Little Pony films, delayed the release of G.I. Joe until 1987, and even then it was just a direct-to-video release. But the important thing to note is that all three films were in production at the same time.

The writers of G.I. Joe figured that because the film (like The Transformers) was shooting for a PG rating rather than a G, they would include a death (something they had never done in the TV series). Because part of the idea behind the movie was to introduce new G.I. Joe characters for the newest release of Hasbro action figures, the writers theorized they should be able to kill off one of the earlier characters, someone who was no longer going to be part of the toy line. Duke was chosen, and Hasbro not only agreed to the idea, but executives liked it somuch they told the writers of the Transformers movie they wanted them to do the same thing with that project, which was also intended to introduce new characters to coincide with a new release of Transformers toys. The Transformers writers took the idea and ran with it, and in the first scene of the film they had a battle where nearly all the original Transformer toys were killed off: Autobots (the good guy robots, for those of you unfamiliar with Transformers) Brawn, Ironhide, Prowl, Ratchet, Windcharger and Wheeljack. Most notably, though, the leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, died.

As I’m sure anyone who saw the Transformers movie as a kid could tell you, this was a pretty traumatic event. People still talk about the death of Bambi’s mother as being traumatic, but imagine if you watched Bambi’s mother in an ongoing television series every day for a year or so before you then saw her and a bunch of her friends get slaughtered in Bambi? No amount of Eric Idle comedic riffs would keep you from freaking out. So not only did the Transformers film not do particularly well at the box office, but Hasbro was also dealing with a major negative response from parents, which forced the now-delayed G.I. Joe film to make changes. It was already finished, but now producers dubbed in a few lines to state that when Duke dies (after being stabbed in the heart with a spear by Serpentor) he didn’t actually die but instead went into a coma, and then at the end of the film, a character reports that Duke (off-screen, of course, as they didn’t have a separate scene made with him alive because he was, you know, dead) came out of the coma and was okay and the film thus had a death-free happy ending.

And all because of Optimus Prime. What a hero, saving other people’s lives even in his death!

The legend is …

STATUS: True

Thanks to the great G.I. Joe writer Buzz Dixon and the Ultimate G.I. Joe Cartoon Website for the information. Dixon is always a valuable source of fascinating information! It is also worth noting that another factor in Duke’s “resurrection” was that production delays pushed G.I. Joe back from its original release date, which would have been before the Transformersmovie. Had that been he case, obviously Duke would have died for real."
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A few things I always wondered about the movie.

1)Why did the autobots on the shuttle die so easily?
2)Why did we need a female robot?
3)Why were there only 4 dinobots?
4)Why did Hound and Sun Streaker stay at the shuttle when Prime went to fight Megatron?
5)Why did we never see them or Blaster again in the episodes after the movie?
 
simonmarcel said:
A few things I always wondered about the movie.

1)Why did the autobots on the shuttle die so easily?
2)Why did we need a female robot?
3)Why were there only 4 dinobots?
4)Why did Hound and Sun Streaker stay at the shuttle when Prime went to fight Megatron?
5)Why did we never see them or Blaster again in the episodes after the movie?
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1. Hasbro wanted new toys without realizing that we loved the characters.
2. To lure girls to buy toys.
3. Technically 5 but the 5th one shows up when he wants to. I guess if they were always together we would demand that they combine but they would be super powerful. Someone actually made a toy of that.
4. Reason #1
5. Reason #1
 
I love the Transformers, Mon! Did you all know that the character Optimus Prime was inspired by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!?

 
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There is one thing I don't get. Since this shit is SO popular 30 years later, Why don't they make a COMPLETE G1 game for PC, PC4, and Xbox One of this shit where you can select ALL of the G1 Characters in G1 Transformers game set on earth where you can both do hand to hand combat as well as shooting? Even a versus mode where you can fight one on one in gladiator mode on earth, cybertron, and nebulos in free roaming mode ?
 
ThaBurgerPimp said:
speaking of which the main reason why Duke didnt die in GI Joe The Movie was due to the backlash TF's producers got from killing Optimus
dukedeath1.jpg


oh i also noticed dude who voiced Rodimus also was the voice of Serpentor.. remember this

:roflmao2:
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Nemesis enforcer was that dude. The silent assassin...
 
I always wondered why the matrix never worked for Ultra Magnus. It seems he had greater leadership capabilities than Hot Rod/Rodimus.

Lord T said:

I didn't like Rodimus back then, hell he got Optimus killed as Hot Rod so that was already a strike against him. But as I got older and watched some of season 3 again I see he was always second guessing himself and comparing himself to Optimus instead of being his own leader and doing his own thing. He held himself back.

He was more than willing to let Prime keep the Matrix again after "The Return of Optimus Prime" though!:lol:
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The self-doubt of Rodimus added more layers to the storyline. If he was just like Optimus in terms of personality it would have been boring..
 
gw1933 said:
I always wondered why the matrix never worked for Ultra Magnus. It seems he had greater leadership capabilities than Hot Rod/Rodimus.



The self-doubt of Rodimus added more layers to the storyline. If he was just like Optimus in terms of personality it would have been boring..
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Because Hot Rod touched it first.
 
cokely_muhammad said:
There is one thing I don't get. Since this shit is SO popular 30 years later, Why don't they make a COMPLETE G1 game for PC, PC4, and Xbox One of this shit where you can select ALL of the G1 Characters in G1 Transformers game set on earth where you can both do hand to hand combat as well as shooting? Even a versus mode where you can fight one on one in gladiator mode on earth, cybertron, and nebulos in free roaming mode ?
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They tried that (sort of) with Transformers Devastation
 

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