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5.0 out of 5 stars
Feels like it was just yesterday..., October 24, 2002
This review is from: Transformers: Season One (Collector's Edition) (DVD)
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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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
it is the year 2002....., April 4, 2002
This review is from: Transformers: Season One (Collector's Edition) (DVD)
....The year of The Transformers!!! It's about time! I'm 25 years old and i'm sure that others from my generation used to spend their afternoons with their friends transforming their autobots and decepticons and talking smack on which ones we bought. I can't wait for this DVD collection to come out. Hopefully it doesn't stop with the first season and also give us a chance to see again He-man, Voltron, M.A.S.K, Gem (jk!!!). Anyway keep up the good work RHINO!!!!!
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28 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
When 3rd part editing goes too far., May 2, 2002
This review is from: Transformers: Season One (Collector's Edition) (DVD)
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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