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Summary: Long awaited
Review: Great collection that was long awaited.
Since it was one of the cartoons of our youth my friends and i have hunted for any way to obtain this series . We even purchased a home copy of the some 216 episodes released in america for about two hundred bucks from ebay which wasn't really worth it {five of us chipped in}.
Its great to see it cleaned up and affordable and to watch how the shop started and then settled into its groove . I hope the rest of the series comes out in this affordable format or it wouldnt be worth purchasing. Its funny to watch the animation go from high quality anime' and suddenly turn into scooby doo quality. An amazing buy if you were a fan of the show but if your just curious dont bother. It would have been nicer to have seen better menus but i will take what i can get.
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Summary: First Season Collector's Edition
Review: After Waiting for soooo long, Finally Transformers the first season is out!! I was so happy that i ordered it ASAP from Amazon. But after receiving it (thanks amazon.com!) i was disappointed with the extra features. Especially the "Rhino Remastering process". They DO NOT show how they remastered it, what you'll get is Flying Star Wars type TEXT and you will have to read it all!! Who would want to read!! Whats the point of DVD if you have to read all those text?
I was very upset cause i paid a lot of money for the dvd considering i paid in US Dollars ! (im in Malaysia)
But for the rest like Animation outtakes and anomalies
it was ok, but quite irritating! They just keep on playing the same thing over and over again.
Also the frame by frame analyst is the same thing if you Press the PAUSE still button on the dvd remote control By the end of the day i was very disappointed with the extra features, the main reason why i bought it is to see the remastering process. if you are buying just to see the remastering process or the extra features, it is not worth it "TILL ALL ARE ONE"
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Summary: Transformers Rocks
Review: You know all those old Transformers memories you have from when you were a kid? They're all on these DVD's, sitting there watching them and seeing all the scenes I remember as a kid was just amazing. I'm 20 years old and still seem to remember every episode of this TV show I saw when I was 5. This collector set is great and highly recommended...
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Summary: The Transformers are awesome, why did Rhino mess with them?
Review: To say that I love the Transformers is an understatement. I have every toy, episodes from their original broadcast all the way back to 1984 when I can remember actually recording them, a complete set of the best quality episodes I could find in SP mode on 22 tapes, statues, busts, and too much more to list. I wanted the episodes on DVD badly. I instantly ordered the set and couldn't wait for it to arrive. When the set finally came I immediately put it in my DVD player and sat down to watch the awesome Transformers and see the work Rhino put into the set. Then my jaw dropped. They added extra and really stupid sounds into the intro scene, more stupid sounds were edited into the very first scene (along with many scenes in every episode) with Wheeljack and Bumblebee returning to Iacon with the energy conductors they found - the jets (these jets are also seemingly clones since they are all the same color in at least one instance) attack them with what seems to be puny toy lasers making a "pew pew" sound more suited to a GI Joe episode (not saying GI Joe is bad, just an animated human rifle sound is the closest I could think of), not Transformer laser rifles. They have backward transformations in the very first episode let alone all the rest (it's just plain weird to see everybody transforming to car mode when all of a sudden Prowl or any other Autobot transforms from car mode to robot especially when you just saw him as a robot 2 seconds ago), miscolorations of characters - I think Ratchet was colored as Ironhide once, I know Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were switched once, they were also both yellow at one point. There were also some miscolorations in the original series broadcast such as Prime being all blue in a few instances, which given the amount of hype of remastering I thought they'd fix. Again I was disappointed. The only thing I found better than the original broadcasts and worthy of being called remastered, was the color. As with their other Transformers DVD's they retouched the color very well and made the scenes look pleasant to look at, that is if you got away from the other problems. Nobody's perfect, but this isn't the first time these episodes have been shown. I'd expect on a second showing a good bit if not all the mistakes to be fixed especially with how long they were supposedly working on the set. The old saying - don't fix it if it isn't broke - would have applied here, I'd rather Rhino have just simply put the episodes on DVD without changing, remastering or doing anything, than all the "oddities" their fixing created. There's a 5th disc all ready to go for this set chock full of oddities and anomalies. Although there are many downsides to this set, I'd still buy it. I love the Transformers and probably always will. I hope it's a first run through and they'll fix and re-release it, or at least do better on subsequent seasons. Until they release the other seasons or re-release the first, I'll just make my way through this one. I may shudder when I watch the "revamped" episodes, but at least I can watch them on DVD and with better/sharper colors.
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Summary: Good, but not quite great.
Review: Not much to say about this one...die-hard fans may be upset by some of the stuff mentioned ... in these reviews, but for the more casual fan (still willing to plunk down almost 60 bucks), this is a great thing to have. Besides the restored video, the decent extras make this a worthwile purchase for any fans from when it was popular in the 80's. Now bring on He-Man for god's sake.
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Summary: I cant wait for season 2
Review: It is so awsome they came out with transformers season 1. I cant wait until they come out with season 2. Transformers is the best cartoon in the world!!
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Summary: Best Retro Collection
Review: I have to admit that when I had found out about Transformers: Season 1 coming to DVD I became a little kid again. This is one of the best animated series ever done and this DVD collection does it justice. Rhino didn't miss anything with this DVD, they even included the animations before and after the ads. This brought me right back to my childhood and I almost forgot where I was when I has finished watching all 16 of the episodes. This DVD is a must for anyone who enjoyed watching Transformers when they were a kid.
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Summary: Buggy special features, but great remastering
Review: The presentation of the episodes is better than I ever could have hoped for, but has anyone else with this set noticed that the Special Features disc is buggy? There is a section on the disc that shows a side-by-side comparison of the original and remastered video, and before it plays there is a screen claiming that the original audio can be heard by pressing the "Audio" button on the DVD remote. This does not work on my computer nor my DVD player. It also seems that some of the clips on the special disc are slightly mislabeled. Overall, the high quality of the remastering makes this a must-buy for any TF fan, but the special disc definitely needed another run through quality control -- especially considering the cost of this set.
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Summary: Great but a fair few errors
Review: This DVD is great the picture is awesome and its good to have the whole of the season on DVD, the sound is good not spectacular or anything. But what I have notice from watching old episodes on tape is that there are alot of mistakes. For example in some scenes the jets have the same colour scheme like Skywarp when he is watching Megatrons duel against Optimus in "Heavey Metal War" he looks like starscream whereas on my ape he is correctly courlored. There are soo many mistakes that should have been fixed before recording. That's just my opinion. Below are some which I have spotted. Episode Heavy Metal War Cliffjumper frezzing Megatron in mid air shown twice Iron Hide Shown transforming into car twice when Autoots return home after optimus loses to Megatron. When ground is broken by Sludge no lava comes up but in old episodes there are. No smoke comes out of Scrapper when Snarl shoots him with his tail. These are only some of the few mistakes which I have written up. There are akot more but I just don't have the time. Apart from all the mistakes a very good buy. It sure beats trying to D/L them on the net.
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Summary: Great, but marred by gratuitious added sound effects
Review: Of course, this is a great set. Some have complained that the colors aren't wholly accurate and that Rhino took the liberty of recoloring everything. This doesn't seem to make sense; who would go through the trouble of recoloring every single cell and background painting for a DVD collection? It may seem that Rhino took the original print and oversaturated it a bit with color, but one could argue that this was the animators' original intent. There are a couple of glitches involving reversed tranformations or post-production effects (Autobots reacting to invisble explosions, or certain energon cubes not "glowing".) But all in all, the video is noticeably improved. Now, the bad part. Rhino decided to add these really irritating sound effects, with little to no consistency, at that. It's almost as though they were really enthusiastic about adding these sound effects at the beginning, but this petered off towards the last couple episodes. They sound as though they were ripped off some cheesy sound effects CD (little surprise, as Rhino also distributes a lot of Cartoon Network/Hanna Barbera stuff), and it all just sounds wholly inapprorpiate. They're also really loud, which makes you especially conscious of them. There doesn't appear to be a way to turn them off, either; I would have been satisfied if the Dolby 2.0 channel just didn't include them (after all, they're just part of a ploy to say that they boasted Dolby 5.1), but nope, such was not the case. The extras are a nice little set - a couple nitpicks about the overlong editing and weird DVD interface, but overall, Rhino did a great job. I'm curious to see how/if they handle the 2nd season, as it contains quite a few more episodes than the first one.
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