Product Details

• Actors: Frank Welker, Peter Cullen, Chris Latta, Jack Angel, Corey Burton
• Directors: Peter Wallach
• Writers: Roger Slifer
• Producers: Atsushi Shimizu, Edward Lee Rapp, Kenichi Morohashi, Tim Spiedel
• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Rhino Entertainment Company
• VHS Release Date: September 21, 1999
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305538573
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,397 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

The Search For Alpha Trion. A race of female Autobots attack Decepticon headquarters on Cybertron only to be captured. Megatron uses their leader, Elita One, as bait to lure Optimus back to Cybertron, where he has set a trap. Megatron rescues Elita One, but not before she is severely injured. His only hope of saving her is to find a wise old Autobot named Alpha Trion. Prime finds the old one and learns one of Cybertron's most important secrets--who their true creator is. Meanwhile, his Autobot buddies are fighting Decepticons, thinking their fearless leader has been turned into a pile of molten steel. Dark Awakening. Optimus Prime returns from the grave to lead his Autobots once more. Their current boss, Rodimus Prime, couldn't be happier. Now he can relax and become carefree Hot Rod once again. Things turn ugly when it becomes clear that this not the same Prime they once knew. He has been secretly reprogrammed and is leading them into an ambush. Hot Rod now faces his greatest challenge ever--a duel to the death with his mentor and friend in order to save his fellow Autobots and Cybertron.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A TransFans' dream come true... but less so than vol. 1, February 26, 2000

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Chris Gooley (Anchorage, AK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transformers Vol. 2 - Revenge of the Decepticons [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Original TF-G1 episodes have been hard to come by until recently. They've been available on-line now for about a year and a half from Sunbow Productions in Canada. But now Sunbow and Kid Rhino are releasing this classic in the United States. And they're available here at Amazon.com! <--- web site plug :-) Volume two of the series in this set features two classic - however incompatible - episodes. A couple of brief nitpicky issues... 1) This volume combines a season two pre-film episode with a season three post-film episode... it's a tad unsettling to myself as a pre-film G1 fanatic to see two COMPLETELY different casts on back-to-back episodes, as a harsh reminder to the fact that with the exception of Starscream, EVERY ONE of my favorite characters were killed in the movie. But at least Kup is there, and you gotta love Kup. 2) "Dark Awakening" may be a prequel to the excellent "Return of Optimus Prime" 2-parter, but this episode is about the worst-written and most poorly-executed episode in the series. More on that in the synopsis..."The Search for Alpha Trion" gives a rare peek at the more human element of the Transformers. We learn that even Optimus Prime's, Inferno's and Ironhide's hearts are not impervious to the heartwarming nature of female autobots, and we also learn a key element in the story of Prime's Origin. It seems that male and female autobots are programmed to co-exist, and even "desire" each other! Talk about your character twist, but it was pulled off well. And Alpha Trion, with his long life, experience and wisdom well-worn by his uniform and robot beard, is quite possibly the coolest-looking Autobot we've ever seen."Dark Awakening" takes place after the TF Movie. While escaping from the chase of the increasingly-insane Galvatron, the crew of an autobot shuttle (Rodimus, Kup, Arcee, Daniel and others) stumble upon the memorial ship built to house the honored bodies of those Autobots who died in the great war, and they discover the Oprimus Prime, somehow or another, has been resurrected to life. Naturally, since this takes place after the movie, the characters are almost completely different. But as a sweet bit of continuity, we are honorably reminded of some of our old autobot heroes as young Daniel Witwicky reads off their names from holding chambers in the spacecruiser. Prime's dead-bot-walking chassis is definitely spooky, and when Daniel turned to see Prime's mangled body standing amidst a bolt of lightning, this fan's heart skipped a beat! My only two complaints are 1) as a Prime-fan, Prime's screams of pain and inner torment seemed unfitting for such a legendary transformer. One could argue that this was the nature of Prime's brainwashing by the Quintessons. Nevertheless it was painful to this Prime-fan to see my childhood hero's dignity bruised so greatly.Grimlock also seems dumber in this episode than ever before (even before the much-needed memory upgrades!) QUINTESSONS! ME GRIMLOCK THUMP QUINTESSONS! ARGH! .... Oh the humanity, what HAVE they done to Grimlock's dialogue? :-)Considering the fact that this is Transformers we're talking about, it's hard to give it any less than a five-star rating, however I guess I'll take fan's license and dock the video one star for some nitpicky points. Nevertheless, I recommend this video highly for your TF collection. These are two pivotal episodes in the life of our favorite robots!If this review was helpful to you, check out my reviews for the other TF videos available here at Amazon.com!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two "rare" classics on one tape!, October 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Transformers Vol. 2 - Revenge of the Decepticons [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This was just a fantastic video. It has The Search for Alpha Trion and Dark Awakening. Search for A3 is the legendary female Autobot episode and is complete and uncut! Yes, the Optimus and Elita One scene is in it! Dark Awakening is the "prequel" to the Return of Optimus Prime 2-parter. This tape is very highly recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Transformers are back! I love the first episode !, March 30, 2000

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Aaron Amos - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transformers Vol. 2 - Revenge of the Decepticons [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Transformers are back! There are two episodes on this tape! I love the first episode the most because we get to back to Cybertron.While on Cybertron, the Transformers meet the female Transformers.The Autobot leader takes the female to a person who can repair her!The Autobots win and the Deceptions retreat! also in this episode we get to see Astrotrain and Shockwave(did he ever get to leave Cybertron? ).The second episode is great too, the what that one is about is already listed here! The picture and sound is great for the video! fans of the series rejoice ! The Transformers are back! Now can they bring back the ones when they left Cybertron etc? I think the are called"More Than Meets The Eye" and "The Ultiminate Doom"! Sunbow and Rhino if you see can please bring these classic stories to video in the near future!