Transformers: The Movie (1986 animated version) (a WIP) — Page 3

Great news on the Intrada release, whenever it gets released.  Hopefully it will have the complete Autobot/Decepticon Battle theme without the extra fade out at the end.  I doubt they will include the original soundtrack since that would create additional licensing and cost issues, but a definitive version of DiCola's score would be great in it's own right.

Really, outside of that one track, the entire score has been released via BotCon CDs but the music in the film was heavily edited from what appears on the CDs.  If Intrada plans to do this right, I suspect that they will basically be including all the tracks that were released previously along with alternate versions edited to match how they were presented in the movie.  We'll know in January, I guess.

When Intrada released Vince's score for Rocky 4, the rest of the soundtrack was not included. In fact, his portion of "Hearts on Fire" was by itself. So if you want a "true movie version" of the song, you've gotta do a little editing yourself.

Don't get me wrong, when Intrada releases the soundtrack, I'll be buying it either way.  I know that on several of their soundtracks they included multiple edits of many of the tracks including tracks that were significantly different between the complete score version and the film edit.  It would be nice to see this with a few of the tracks on the TFTM score since the actual in-film versions are quite different from what was on the original score album due to editing.  The Botcon "Til All Are One" CD has all the score music that was in the movie and then some, it just required a lot of editing and looping some segments to create the isolated score.

Intrada just released the score CD through their site this evening.  I will have to compare it to the Botcon release to see if I need to redo the isolated score using the newer master.

Space Kaijuu said:

Intrada just released the score CD through their site this evening.  I will have to compare it to the Botcon release to see if I need to redo the isolated score using the newer master.

I hope remastered doesn't mean dynamically compressed .... it will so suck if it does.

I think Sony has the distribution rights for the movie in the US but Metrodome has the original transfers and source material.  The Sony DVD transfer is different from the HD transfer used on the UK and Australian Blu-rays.  Maybe Sony has been unable to reach an agreement necessary to acquire the HD transfer or maybe they are just waiting a couple more years so they can release it as a "30th anniversary edition".

Sunbow is now owned by TV Loonland, so Sony would probably have to license the title from them.

Space Kaijuu said:

Sunbow is now owned by TV Loonland, so Sony would probably have to license the title from them.

Actually, no. TV Loonland no longer owns the Sunbow catalog - it's now in the hands of Hasbro themselves.

I'm surprised that Sony still controls the film in the States - they have no rights to anything else in the Sunbow catalog anymore.

Well, maybe that's why the movie hasn't been released, then.  The rights keep swapping hands and Hasbro hasn't decided how to deal with releasing the film for a US blu-ray release.

skyjedi2005 said:

Is there any chance their will ever be a region A release by Sony of the blu ray?  The Sony video line went  bye bye even before they released their versions of the G1 cartoons.

Apparently Shout Factory cannot release a DVD or Blu ray because Sony won't lease it to them.

Either that or Paramount who makes the films won't let them.

 That's the rumor I heard.  Apparently Paramount and/or Michael Bay doesn't want it interfering with the marketing of their shitty live action movies (that I actually enjoy on some level, but not at the expense of the original stuff).  Just like JJ with Star Trek.

I guess that would explain why the movie isn't even available in HD on sites like VUDU, Amazon Streaming Video, Netflix Streaming Video, or iTunes.

My guess is that Paramount and/or Michael Bay don't want people to see "The Transformers: The Movie" and confuse it with "Transformers".

Maybe I shouldn't have said "just" like JJ with Star Trek, but he did apparently want to prevent original stuff from getting marketed since it was getting confused with his reboot crap.

http://www.blastr.com/2013-5-16/apparently-jj-abrams-tried-shut-down-all-star-trek-tos-merch

I got the Intrada CD in the mail today.  It's really nice and definitely a worthwhile purchase for any fans of the movie that don't have the original Botcon releases of the score.  That being said, it's missing two short tracks (Destruction Of Moon Base 2 - parts 1 & 2) and the remaster doesn't really sound any better or worse than the "Lighting Their Darkest Hour" release, so at least I won't have to re-do the isolated music and score track.

Actually, Hot Rod was supposed to be light magenta based on the original cels used for the animation.  They changed him to red in the cartoon series to reduce the color palette needed for painting the cels.

That being said, the DVD and blu-ray releases all seem to be over-saturated, which leads a lot of colors to come out way too bright, including Hot Rod's magenta.

Also, the Australian Blu-Ray is region free.  The only issue is that all the extras are in PAL and most of them suffer from field blending.

The original toy prototype (as shown in catalog images http://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:G1catalog86-PinkHotRod.jpg ) was also magenta, so that's likely what was intended before the change, but the movie was probably already in the can by then.

The Masterpiece Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime figure released in Japan a few years ago was also magenta-ish, but the Hard Hero bust was a closer match to the colors: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:HardHero_HotRod_bust.JPG

I could use some feedback on one of the features.  I plan to put together character galleries with information on the main characters in the film.  Currently, I only have the new characters introduced in the movie along with Optimus Prime and Megatron.  Should I include bios and info on the pre-movie characters as well?  I would probably have to split up the characters among multiple slideshows if I did include them.

Not to be a jerk, but isn't anyone "in-the-know" enough to download these already going to know the characters quite well?

I wanted to include a lot of extras in the character galleries including model sheets, character art, early designs, and pictures of the toys.  I'm still trying to find good photos of some of the toys in their original boxes.

drngr said:

Not to be a jerk, but isn't anyone "in-the-know" enough to download these already going to know the characters quite well?

They will make great gifts for those not yet acquainted with the material, no?  Kids, friends, etc...