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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Jay Bacal, John Walker (XVIII), John Gibbs (II) |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 17 September, 1984 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Wea Corp |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Animated, Color, Dolby |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 603497603428 |
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Customer Reviews of Transformers Volume 1 Season 1
Get It All "The Transformers" is a great cartoon series from the 1980s. If you're gonna get it, though, get the whole season at once. There's a boxed set available that contains all three discs of episodes and a bonus disc, which you can't get separately. It's a much better value.
Really stands the test of time.
After watching G.I.Joe cartoons from the same era, I was fully expecting to be disappointed watching my favorite cartoon as a child, the Transformers.
Imagine my surprise when I watched this first DVD! I was amazed at the quality of the dialogue and how well the animation holds up. Granted, there are numerous continuity errors, and there are numerous occasions where the animation is rushed. These flaws are obvious but don't really subtract from the whole package, nostalgic as it is.
If you watched this show as a child, you're going to enjoy them again with this DVD. Don't listen to the detractors about the extra sound effects as they're not noticeable in the least.
However, I would recommend that you save a little bit more and buy the Season 1 boxset.
THE classic 80s cartoon series! ...but over-remastered
PICTURE QUALITY (2/5 STARS)
The overall image quality has definetly been improved: brighter colours, sharp images and heavy remastering (scratch removal, ect.) but WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?? They really made some devastating mistakes! Some scenes are played in reverse (i.e. the infamous Ironhide transformation scene from 'Heavy Metal War'), some visual heat-, smoke- and fire-effects are just missing!! And there is this mistake-documentation which should show the people what errors the original film masters had and that they have been corrected... they found the errors, but forgot(?) to correct many of them.
Sharpness and colour of the image deserve 5 STARS, but in fact of the errors 2 STARS is the proper rating!
SOUND QUALITY (2/5 STARS)
Generally the sound is very clear and free of hiss/crackles but WHAT HAVE THEY DONE...AGAIN?? They have remixed the soundtrack to Dolby Digital 5.1, initially that sounds brilliant but to reach this goal Rhino added some really strange&stupid soundeffects. Ok, the explosions have a great *boom* but gunfire sounds like children toy guns.
The Dolby Stereo soundtrack is another mess, some episodes have the new 5.1 remix simply downmixed to stereo, but others have the original soundtrack with no added effects. I believe every fan of the series demands at least an option to hear the original sountrack!
First a disappointment then you (have to) get used to it. Nothing more and nothing less.
EXTRAS (1/5 STARS)
No Extras included. You have to buy the Season 1 Box Set containing a fourth disc with all the extras. To match the Amazon-rating there is a 1-star rating because of the non-existent zero-star rating option.
SPECIAL/UNIQUE ON THIS DVD RELEASE:
- all new transfer from the original 35mm negative
- Dolby Digital 5.1 remix & Dolby Stereo
COMMENT:
I am a great fan of Transformers G1 and I would have loved to see the TFs in its original form, without remastering mistakes and additional soundeffects.
As a Transfan I also bought the UK boxset of season 1 which contains a lot of other worthy extras. The picture quality is not so sharp and brilliant but there are NO MISTAKES and errors. The soundtrack is the 5.1 remix from this US boxset. I highly recommend buying both editions or if you are not sure, just buy the UK Region 2 boxset if your DVD player is PAL-compatible!