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Rating:  - A dream come true!!!!!!!!!
I've been waiting so long for this day to happen. The Transformers complete first season on DVD. This was the most amazing cartoon I had ever seen while growing up. I was nine years old when the Transformers debuted in 1984 on Saturday mornings. I had my mom set the alarm clock ten minutes before six o'clock to make sure I didn't miss the begining of it. I only wished I still had all my original toys. The entire story line is brilliantly written. The heroic Autobots, lead by there leader, Optimus Prime versus the evil Decepticons, lead by there leader, Megatron. It shows the true meaning of the phrase "It's good vs. evil". I'm hoping that they continue to release all the Transformers seasons on DVD until the very last episode. Just like the recently released Robotech series. The Transformers were, and still is, my favorite cartoon and toy ever!! I have never stop thinking about Transformers even to this day. It is a must have for everyone!! Buy this DVD!! It is MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!!!!!!!!!!
Rating:  - Mixed feelings about Rhino's Transformers Season 1 DVD Set
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.
Rating: - Feels like it was just yesterday...
I thought about ordering this DVD set for some time but had held off. I thought it was rather pricey. Along came by birthday, though, and I decided to buy myself a little something....I forgot how good this show really was. It was incredibly loyal to the each of the characters and everything at this point. The voice actors are an all star cast as well. The remastering job was very good when you consider what they had to work with to start. They cleaned up a lot of noise and dirt off of the film and made the colors a lot more vivid and clear. There are some occasional sound effects added, but they are not intrustive and not that frequent, really. A couple of scenes in "Heavy Metal War", the last episode on the disc, turned out pretty poor, but otherwise they did an awesome job restoring this first season run, even including the original opening of the show and the commercial bumpers. I am still annoyed by the constant coloring mistakes made by the original animators of the show. I guess it's part of the charm, and it's probably best that Rhino left them like they were. I remember these coloring mistakes in the original series just as well, and it even bothered me back then in 1984-85 that Sunbow couldn't seem to tell the difference between Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp most of the time (though as the series goes on past the first 5 or 6, they DO get better about it...save for the part in Heavy Metal War where there are two Starscreams side by side, one of which was supposed to be Skywarp). I wish Rhino would take out the stupid cartoon openings on their videos and DVDs, though. While I know they are mostly a children's video company, with things like Transformers and GI Joe, they are mostly catering to adults...adults who don't want to sit through a cartoon rhino dressed like Elvis at the start of each disc while we wait for the menu to appear. Overall, if you grew up with this original series of Transformers, as I did, you will very much enjoy this set. I enjoyed every minute of it, and can hardly wait until late November now, where Rhino releases the first half of Season 2 in a box set. The second half of Season 2 follows in the Spring. So if you are waiting like I did, stop waiting now. After watching this, I felt like a kid again, and you will too.
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