That must have been some show.Īs for the picture, I guess it's OK for a kids' product. I'd really like to have been a fly on the wall when they brought Orson Welles in to pitch the idea. Even Scatman Crothers! Holy cow, I wonder what these guys were thinking when they signed on for the gig. What really floored me about the picture was some of the big name talent that signed on to voice the characters here - Orson Welles, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack. It took half a century for Superman to die and then he was brought back again! Another reviewer here makes sense of all this by stating that the merchandising for successive toy lines required new characters, so that kind of makes sense, but gee, what would have happened to Superman and Spider-Man if the comic book folks dispatched them that quickly. Following the story line well enough, I was baffled by how the Autobot heroes were so easily and arbitrarily disposed of, like Optimus Prime (there's one I remember in my kids' collection), and Ultra Magnus, with the character Hot Rod finishing out the picture as Rodimus Prime. I come by way of this picture only because it was an IMDb Top 250 selection in 1996, otherwise I wouldn't have any interest in it. They were ubiquitous on store shelves and every birthday and Christmas for a couple of years had to include at least some configuration of Transformer toys for presents.
As an adult, I was an outsider looking in at the time, but my boys, aged five and seven, became total Transformers toy fans. The Transformers franchise began in 1984 with a toy line and expanded exponentially to include animation, comic books, video games and films. Reviewed by classicsoncall 7 / 10 "Of all the circuit-glitched, diode-blowing, dim-wittery - you left a piece out!" Until all are one, the future of the Autobots and the Decepticons is uncertain. With Hot Rod facing responsibility for Prime's death, he feels he may be able to use the power of the Matrix to turn the tide of the Cybertronian Wars and stop Unicron. However, Optimus Prime has decreed that an Autobot will rise from his rank and use the power of the Matrix to light the darkest hour of the Autobots. Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus must destroy the Autobot Matrix of Leadership for Unicron's glory or suffer the horrific destruction of Cybertron. Megatron and a group of forsaken Decepticons have been reformed by the ultimate transformer, a planet consuming demon known as Unicron into even deadlier warriors. Without Optimus Prime after a conflict on Earth takes his life, the Autobots must face a destiny which they know nothing about. The battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons has escalated through their homeworld Cybertron, which the Decepticons have conquered.
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