Here Today... Gone To Hell!

I saw it last night after 19 years. I finally got my hands on a copy.. Man that is one of my all time favorite animated series and movies.. The original matrix owned by optimus prime... Cool songs and great action..

Anyone else see it or fans of the series back in the day>?

I own the dvd (speaks as if its something to be proud of)

I also own the soundtrack (realises street cred is now all gone)

Its a kick ass film and a great 80's hair metal soundtrack - has one of the highest body counts of any children's film ever - a great way to bring in a new toyline - exterminate the old lot!

I hated how optimus prime was offed so easily.. it's like I would watch the show weekly and guys would get shot up and then nothing of damage really happened but in the movie they dropped like flies..... The song when rodimus opens the matrix was cool, fit well... The weird al song for the planet of junk :hihi: I loved how star scream got blasted once and became fucking dust.. It was never the same for me though, the newer ones never did it for. galvatron and company...

Question remember that rocket ship trasnformer omega supreme.. What happened to him for the movie...??

I remember later on during the tv show I saw like the return of Prime... He was out ion space or something n wasn't dead..

Awesome movie, I'll probably watch it again today, it took me all these years to finaly see it again.. i remember going to the video store to rent it back then
some cool voices to, soke famous as well,  spok from trek, judd nelson of brat pack fame, scatman the cool black dude.. Loved him in zapped, that micro machines speed talker

"We have to shut down the BET!"

It's practically a comedy now!  I haven't seen this movie in a few years, I remember really liking it though.

If I recall Bublebee says "Shit" on the Canadian Version

he did or it was the human he was with.. Someone said it though

The human said that - quite why they put that in, seems weird even 20 years later......

Classic, classic movie.  I watched it a year or two ago.

the Transformers rule .

The movie in 1986 was classic it did everything that the show did just cranked up to the next level.

But I worried about the live action movie that Dreamworks is doing .

I can't imagine another movie.. I tried to watch the new armada(SP) and I couldn't..

Movie was perfect and rocked for it's time.. never got into the next generation after so many favs died..

*roll out*

Remember watching this when i was younger and enjoying it but the memory was distant....

Then the other week i was over at my mates, he had the DVD, so i watched it and loved it, it all came flooding back i think it was like 1991 or 1992 the first time i ever watched this.

The soundtrack is fantastic as well.? The Stan Bush songs The Touch & Dare are some of the best 80s Hair Metal tunes ever!? It's since influenced me to get my hands on some Stan Bush albums, and there pretty damn good, up until a few weeks ago i did not even know who this dude was....

:headbanger:

''The touch'' is a kick ass anthem and surprisingly inspiring :)

At uni we managed to watch just about every 80's cartoon going - the amount of shredding and guitar solos - a whole generation was indoctrinated, no wonder i can't listen to rap! Check out the outro guitar work on Thundercats and King Arthur and he Knights of Justice, awesome stuff

What a time to be alive....

Unfortunately by `86 I was outgrowing the Transformers. Loved the after school cartoons the year or two before though  ;D

It was funny as shit when I saw the toys for sale in the sunday paper, the pictures in the  sale ads never had them transformed right! 


And how strange of a look did you get when you asked your parents for transformers for X-Mas? They thought I wanted something along the lines of an electrical transformer, got funny looks for that.

 I loved the movie, and the series. I remember getting Megatron for Christmas when I was about 9 years old, and thought it was the coolest present ever. When I first opened the package, it was so complex I couldnt even transform it. My dad spent the whole day transforming it back and forth for me. :rofl: I remember going back to school after Christmas break, and alot of kids had Transformers. A few had Optimus Prime, and a few had others, but I was the only kid with Megatron.  8) : ok:

Good ol' Megatron - transforming into a gun smaller than he was....somewhere the laws of physics got lost in the animation

And how wonderfully bizarre to have the terrifying leader used as a weapon by the minions he usually sent to die - a satirical attack on our desk bound war making leaders perhaps? :hihi:

I like that movie so much that I bought the VHS but it was damage by my little niece  :'(
Anyway I'm waiting for the DVD to arrive in here but I doubt it will be coming soon enough, I'm not thrilled about the live action movie but I hope it rocks.
The music on the 86 is real class!  :peace:

I just love it have. Have The Movie and all 98 episodes of Generation 1 on DVD. Am I the only one who really likes Galvatron? I always hated Megatron, but maybe that's because I started watching it as a kid beginning with season three, so Meg never played a role for me.

Also like the toys.  Cybertron and Alternators kinda rock, but it will never be as good as in the old days. My fav character is Soundwave, by the way.


/lastroots

I used to watch Transformers all the time when I was a kid.  Last year I rewatched the 1986 movie, and I have to say, it was incredibly stupid.  I mean, if you just take the dialogue alone, it's the dumbest kid movie jargon this side of Pokemon.  I've still got that nostalgiac attachment to it though.

But you guys are totally right with the soundtrack - that shit rocks!  I love the Stan Bush songs, especially "Touch".  Same goes for the Kick Axe track, "Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way".  Great hair metal songs, and good to work out to!

i watched it two years ago i was a big fan when i was a kid and what suprised me was how the fuck i understood what was going on when i was 7 on a re watch i realised how good it wasnt just like when you watch the A team Knightrider Dukes of Hazzard streethawk etc i know ill get slated for writing this but it is true sorry

You believe these 2 shows not to be good?  There a perfect slice of 80s cheese, re-runs of these bad boys are sooooo much better than the shit today, 'I Pity the fool.....you know the rest  ;)'

yeah yeah " i aint gettin on no plane fool" one plane flight with Ba Knocked out later " what how'd we get here fool" funny but not as good now as when you was an impressionable 7 year old 

It is for children - if u could watch a child's cartoon about transforming robots and say it was clever and thought provoking i would wonder! :hihi:

Its daft and its fun.

those shows ruled

so many shows were cheesy like married with children but I loved it... They fit the time and were entertaining..

Yeah you get a great old school feel when you watch them, it wasn't until the early 90s i saw them but still that's a long time ago for me and you get the 80s vibe anyway.? Thing is your right though they fit the time.? Obviously as good as re-runs are things need to move with the times, the problem is, so many 80s and even 90s shows ruled and fitted the time whereas now shows may fit the time but in general they suck.? Comedy has really started drying up, great ones like Fraiser ending and shit ones coming along.? Seems people who write these things now have really BAD sense's of humour and shows in general are just medicore.? I find myself watching re-runs more than i do new programmes.? Being only 20 to i keep discovering new stuff all the time.? Only 'New' programme to of really gripped me and interested me in the last few years is Lost and even that pissess me off sometimes they way they stretch it out way TOO much.