Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 4.0
Transformers - Discontinued
Like many others of my generation, I have many fond memories of the early to mid 80's cartoons. Rushing home to catch Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats, GI Joe, Ultraman. Saturdays had morning cartoons, Spider-man and his Amazing Friends, Superfriends and Kung-Fu theater...hell, sunday was the only day without cartoons back then until the Simpsons came out. Something happened in the late 90's to 00's, it seemed cartoons weren't on tv as much anymore unless you had cable and Cartoon Network, or then only like an hour or so. Most of these 80's cartoons are all out on dvd now, and it was finally time that Transformers had a proper and available release.Ok, so, you were either the right age when Transformers hit the screens (both big and small), or you just aren't really gonna be into it. A decade or so later the new generation of Transformers came out, Beast Wars, Armada, Cybertron, Energon. And you either were a total Transformers geek and loved them all, or they just weren't the same as the old school g1 series. In any case, these get released on DVD, manufacturer's seem to do one print run, and that's it!So, Shout Factory has released the old g1 series, and an awesome looking box set as well. Ok, so, where's the movie?? Well, fork over some big bucks for a new one, and you're lucky if it arrives (according to some of these reviews). If you weren't hip enough to get it when it came out, you're s.o.l. right now. And the movie is a bridge between the 2nd and 3rd season's. Practically no main characters from season 1 & 2 return outside of Decepiticons. It's an all new cast, story's, and even setting/time, as the movie is roughly 10 years later, and the 3rd season jumps in right after that.So, many may be wondering why it wasn't included in the box, and if there are plans for a Shout Factory re-release, which is what I was truly hoping for. Well, tough luck peoples. Sony still owns the rights, and while it seems pretty much every company seems to want to capitilize with double, triple, quadruple dippings, especially when a movie version, sequel or series re-vamp comes out, they got me wondering when they are gonna put this back out!!!!Well, I'll have to rely on memories for now, or do some hunting to find it out in a store somewhere. Come on Sony, this is one double dip I would not mind. (Also, what happened to season 1 & 2 of Transfromers Animated Series and Beast Wars? Why's everything get discontinued after 1 print run?? Fans want it, they'll buy it, $$$)