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Summary: Awesome! Just Awesome!!!
Review: Superior boxed DVD set remastered with the Transformer fan in mind. Cant wait to get the rest of the episodes!
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Summary: Way to go Rhino !!!!
Review: Rhino has did it! this is what all of us transformers fans have been waiting for! the complete first season on dvd and remasterd with dolby 5.1 surround. The picture and the sound is great , the LFE channel hits hard with the explosions and other effects.The picture is top notch,they spared no expence here,way to go rhino!!!
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Summary: Mixed feelings about Rhino's Transformers Season 1 DVD Set
Review: I have mixed feelings about Rhino's DVD Set of Transformers Season 1. The colors are vivid, and the audio is enhanced in many areas, to include most of the "Transformer Bumpers" throughout the set. Rhino turned mono into stereo. The 4th CD has a lot of goodies, including extensive information on how the episodes were restored from 35 MM film from the 1980's. Rhino did a wonderful job enhancing and cleaning up the images. However, the only downside is that Rhino made noticeable coloring errors in the restorations. I have the "Family Home Entertainment" (f.h.e) episodes of the Transformers from the 1980's so I was able to make some comparisons. On the DVD set, you'll notice that Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp sometimes interchange their colors, even during the same scene. At one point, for a few seconds, Cliffjumper had Bumblebee's colors. Bumblejumper? These coloring errors are not present in the VHS episodes, so it's my guess that Rhino re-colored the Transformer episodes as part of the restoration, making a few errors. In conclusion, the DVD set is a nice addition, but it won't make you overly happy if you are a video purist.
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Summary: Rhino disappoints yet again!
Review: Rhino's careless and unworthy handling of the immensly popular "Transformers" license is never more apparent than in the Season One box set. I gave it two stars because they only did two things right. One was the packaging, which they smartly decided not to do artwork for the covers and went with the plain brushed metal look. They must have learned something from the horrible packaging from the previous DVDs and videos they produced. Second they retained the original commercial bumpers. My main problems with the DVDs is their supposed remastering. The sound effects they added are distracting, sometimes drowning out what characters are saying. Plus, anyone who knows the cartoons knows that those sound effects aren't authentically original. They don't add anything to the presentation and only give Rhino a blurb to put on the packaging. The biggest mistake Rhino made with this set is the recoloring.
Everyone knows that the first season was already riddled with animation, voice, and color errors, but did Rhino fix any of these things? No, they added to them! In one shot they color Trailbreaker (a black pickup) completely red. In another scene Skyfire(a white jet) is colored with Skywarp's color scheme(a black and purple jet). It's funny cause in the side by side comparison extra you can see that colors and effects were correct in the original. Rhino shows that they can change the colors at will, but neglected to fix any of the original errors, i.e. Optimus Prime being blue in a scene from S.O.S. Dinobots. There are too many mistakes Rhino has engraved into the Transformers video library to name here. I just emplore Rhino to not take this valuable license for granted and be a little careful and mindful of the material and fans when releasing future seasons.
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Summary: some other minor points
Review: When this was announced, they said we were getting 5 of these animation cel things. I only got 3, 2 of which are the same. Just read over some of the other reviews, and it's good to see I wasn't the only one disappointed with it overall. Looks like it's back to VHS for me, and praying Rhino improves 600% if they decide to release the much better season 2 on DVD
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Summary: When 3rd part editing goes too far.
Review: I must say that, after anticipating this box set since I first heard about it six months ago, I am incredibly disappointed. Revieiwing the material first hand, I seriously have to wodner why it was delayed twice over this. Let's start with our customary description: It's the complete first season fo the 1984 Marvel/Sunbow production of "The TransFormers" on DVD. With that out of the way, I can further explain why I feel so let down by this release. 1. When you claim to have remastered a film or TV show, please actually do it the whole way. I cannot stress this enough. For all the hullabaloo they went through to show the changes (see disc 4), I have to wonder why, in particular, they only fixed that space bridge scene (with the beams showing through) in only some of the episodes, especially as it was STOCK FOOTAGE. Even the mylar cuts they said were present in the broadcasts and claimed to have edited were inconsequential at best, and not even in the VHS releases at worst. Overall I did like the slightly less faded look they gave the series, but that was more than expected given the format used (DVD). 2. Never ever make the final product worse than the source material. I canot stress this enough either. There are plenty of backwards transformations, "sliding" scenes that didn't "slide" before. In particular the construction of the 2 new Dinobots, there are 2 scenes that just aren't right. I think I even saw colors that were colored right change to the wrong color in this version. That seems to throw out the theory that was working against my arguement of "why weren't any color errors fixed?" which is a shame. 3. Changed sounds really get on my nerves. The intro has extra sounds that make no sense inserted when the 3 jets transform and land. When Starscream opens fire on Ironhide near the end of "Divide and Conquer" the sound was changed from his standard laser to a cheesy toy gun like pulsing sound. These little "edits" are all over the 3 discs in varying degrees of unexplainedness. 4. The 4th disc is of varying consistency at best. Some things they say they changed in the remastered versions on the previous 3 discs DO NOT ACTUALLY APPEAR. Other than that, I really did enjoy the 4th disc with all the extras. Makes me wish they would ahev put half that time into the TF:TM bonus section. In conclusion, if you are a casual fan, you'll probably not find much to object to. I mean, it is The TransFormers isn't it? And on DVD no less! But to more discriminating fans, who know the series inside and out and how it should have been done, you'll be disappointed, possibly angry, in varying degrees. If this was an early release problem, then my limited apologies to Rhino. It really should have been right the first time, honestly, but it would be nice to hear that these issues are being legitimately investigated and corrected. Just a final plea to the producers: DO SEASON 2 RIGHT PLEASE!!
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Summary: TFG1 has all you've been wanting
Review: I personally have waited for years for the complete first season to be released, remebering how much I loved these shows as a kid.
If you're anything like me, once you see the opening of the first show, you'll instantly be transported back to that 1984 Saturday morning state of mind. Having not seen these shows for years, I was surprised that much of the artwork was as good as I remembered it. The only drawback is the many errors (coloring, voice overs, etc.) present within each episode. Whether the majority were present in the original cells or a result of Rhino's tampering is difficult to tell. Still, it is kind of funny to hear Megatron's voice comming out of Prime's mouth! All and all this collection totally delivers, and is an absolute must have for all past and present TransFans!
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Summary: its good
Review: most of the teenagers like the transfomers. i watch it at my mates on mondays and fridays, my mates has an upstairs and a downstairs, the toilete is on your right, i need money to travel to my mates, i watched the movie once and it had a big planet eating robot in the middle, it was really funny to watch
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Summary: Transformers RULES!!!
Review: It's been a long time coming!! I hope seasons 2-3-4 will follow shortly!
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Summary: Autobots! Prepare for battle! Attack! Attack!!!
Review: "Autobots! Transform and rollout!" Chi-quah-quah-quah!!!! Oh the memories! I haven't seen these episodes in, what? 18 years?! Watching the Transformers cartoons and collecting the toys during the 80's were the happiest times of my life! I'm so glad Rhino decided to re-release them. If you remember watching each episode after school, in the afternoon, every weekday, the sound and picture quality is as good as it was when they first showed it on television. Way to go Rhino! Now all we need is a complete dvd collection of the 2nd season!!!
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