Amazed on how much was cut. After all these years I used to wonder about certain scenes that didn’t make sense and now watching these story boards fill the gap. Thanks for posting.
The biggest revelation for me was the scene with Magnus & Co vs the Constructicons. Megs wasn’t just chilling in a hole in the wall, he was about to charge in after them but got stopped by Optimus!
I’m sure it was out of fear that the movie’d be too long, but tbh, a “director’s cut” or extended 2 hour version with a completely uncut autobot city battle would be, as orks say, ded’ ‘ard
Looking at the deleted storyboards, I can see how Takara Tomy thought Wheeljack had survived. I'm guessing that Takara Tomy only had the storyboards, when planning Masterforce, where they believed it was okay to use Wheeljack.
@@terryrocks2j if you are referring to Binaltech, wasn't that storyline scrapped? Besides, Binaltech's attempt to fix and retconned G1 was a convoluted mess.
This is superb!!! what an extraordinary job you've done here!! thanks!!! Wish HASBRO does this movie again and includes these missing sceneces and gave us all those missing in action autobots either deaths or survival status
The story boards give the context that the autobots we're pushing back pretty strongly on the ground level. That should have been kept in, because it connects so well with the placement of everyone.
Eh, I feel like a weak point of the story here is that anyone who was into the toys saw there were like three times more Autobots than Decepticons, plus in the movie they transformed the city and opened up a few dozen extra guns. Between the early casualties and Prime showing up and immediately beating the tar out of half a dozen Decepticons you start wondering who's left, and just how many more times Starscream and the Insecticons are going to take it in the nuts, especially after watching Prowl getting jobbed by Scavenger. Focusing on placement just emphasizes how few Autobots were defending this giant base to make like 15 Decepticons such a dire threat.
They certainly should have kept the scene where Prime slams Dirge to the ground before finishing his line to Megatron. The way it was cut, while awesome, makes no sense with the movement
Awesome. Great work. I’m 42 and this still moves me. Absurd I know lol. I never liked how the eye balls pop up when Devastator hits the dinobot, even as a kid I thought that was stupid. We watched cartoons like this with complex vocabulary and articulate characters vs the vomit today. I learned the word ominous, dubious and so many more at the age of 6 just by the dialogue from Unicron. Had they fully brought to life that storyboard, the battle at autobot city would have been mind blowing.
it's funny you say that, because the dialogue and certain words used helped me broaden my vocabulary as did Calvin and Hobbes when i was a wee lad. and it's not absurd this still moves you. i love and hate this movie at the same time. but, this movie had a huge impact on me. i hate it for what they did to my favorite characters, but at the same time what they did to those characters is why it sticks with me. Prowl and Windcharger's deaths still hurts me. my hate for this movie, the animation errors. characters that survive you no longer see. even in the 3 and 4 seasons...and yet, it's one of my all-time favorite animated movies. can't explain it.
Well Sludge is the only Autobot/Dinobot to kill anyone evil besides Hot Rod. Sludge kills a Sweep and a Sharkticon. Arguably Kup killed a Sharkticon too.
Now on its 36th year (August 2022 already passed), this film never ceases to amaze with its bit of details (i.e. Easter eggs). Just feel bad deleted storyboards weren't added. Again, we can't have it all in this life, in hopes we chose the right and significant ones.
Countless re-releases of this movie no one has ever thought of including the deleted scenes in animated form. I guess they won't take the risk but think how spectacular it would be.
I always assumed that since the insecticons could clone themselves, they'd make up the majority of the Decepticon's army, which would've explaind why the Autobots were outmatched and how insecticons like Kickback, who LITERALLY GOT HIS HEAD CRUSHED, somehow still fought late in the battle.
Wish they kept the stuff seen in the original trailers, those were nice, especially where we see Diaclone color Magnus and the others in the city, the city looked MUCH more impressive there. And I prefer seeing organic 'guts' inside Unicron.
I remember in the original trailer there was a shot of all of Transformed Autobot Citys guns firing off all at once. Was there not a storyboard for that?
The storyboards that have been collected have obviously always been a pretty late development; while the "old" more brutal shuttle scenes being shown off reiterates this, it has always been apparent as they're very patchwork with major signs of being a revision(like shrapnel being poorly erased at the coronation or Brawn suddenly being split in half when he hits the floor). The old trailer features generics which also didn't make it to the storyboards in general its pretty hazy to what didn't exist from the script to older storyboards as we don't have the "real complete set" but one that clearly was a guideline to streamline the movie(that clearly wasn't enough)
Opens up even more questions when you take in to account the story boards - more Autobots decimated, couple of Decepticons as well but not many. We see Wheeljack survive, nothing about Huffer dying then Trailbreaker, Red Alert in the deleted storyboards .. Soundwave must be invincible as well because he takes a few shots from Optimus yet survives, same with Dirge before having his head caved in yet Decepticons survive Autobot gunshots etc like Insecticons and Constructicons ... Ahh well .. will never change my opinion of the movie and the aftermath. Damn you hasbro and your "new toyline" direction!!!
It's not the new toyline that caused many Autobots to die. It's because the 1984 and 1985 Autobot figures were discontinued, leading many of them to be killed. Even Optimus Prime's toy was discontinued, making the decision easy to kill him. At the time, Hasbro was never aware how much the characters meant to the fans. They just thought that they are just other stoys to sell.
Count all the cutsceens EXCEPT the one with Wheeljack alive since he should be dead. Now I love The Transformers show/movie EVEN MORE! The Autobots got SLAUGHTERED, but that was a HELL OF A BATTLE👍 This was the only time Ultra Magnus carried cars in the story. Kup's old ass put a hurting on the Constructicons. There are some TF stories that are good (Beast Wars/Machines, Cybertron Games, Prime,) but THE TRANSFORMERS IS STILL THE BEST OUT OF THEM ALL! LONG LIVE G1!✊
it is metroplex when the cannon tank swivels in a close shot that is one of metroplexs minicon ish weapons. in the beginning of season 3 autobot city is revealed to be a sleeping or stasis Metroplex needing a new transformation cog to enter robot mode, the whole mission of the 5part mini series of the autobots is to secretly transport his new Tcog to earth by Blurr and Wheelie,
The kids at school called it Metroplex back then but it certainly looked nothing like Metroplex, and besides he wasn't actually called "autobot city" on the box, but autobot battle station. Nonetheless in the following season on TV they elluded that it was Metroplex by saying his transforming cog damaged in the great battle.
Maybe for the 40th anniversary, Hasbro could commission the unanimated storyboards and make the movie complete. Including the scenes that were scripted, but not even storyboarded. In all seriousness, the stuff they omitted is far more relevant and pertinent to the movie, and adds so much depth to the city battle in particular. That crap with the Junkions and Sharkticons could easily have been avoided, let’s be honest.
Obviously there's a big continuity issue with how the Decepticons were able to devastatingly destroy the Autobots in the movie while episodes after it doesn't seem like they can do it anymore. To resolve this inconsistency, it's likely Shockwave developed a more potent version of plasma/Energon similar to Nucleon that supercharges their weapons that has a much more armor penetration force on impact. I can see the Decepticons like Megatron&his team drinking that supercharged Energon&putting some into their weapons as well before attacking the IronHide's shuttle. As they approached Earth, they take it again and seems like a drug that they're addicted to it but has a few day's worth time limit for its effectiveness. Also continued use damages their internal systems like Nucleon making it difficult for them to transform later on. It's a very limited supply and during the battle of Unicron on Cybertron, the site that creates the supercharged Energon as well as Shockwave got destroyed by Unicron. With Shockwave gone, the Decepticons can't recreate more of that supercharged Energon to make their weapons very lethal anymore plus there's another Energon supply crisis again. As for the Autobots, they probably spray coated their bodies with something refractive&ablative paint to minimize the damage when they get hit. Maybe it's developed from the island that had a lot of reflective gold(Electrum) on it . It's a very limited supply as it takes a lot of time&energy to make that Electrum armor coating after the Golden Lagoon episode but the Autobots were able to collect enough to make a decent Electrum coating for most of the Autobots. Unfortunately it's not very effective against being hit by point blank range supercharged weapons so like the shuttle crew they still got wiped out. That same Electrum armor coating also got destroyed on Autobot City as it's a strategic target for the Decepticons to ensure they win against the Autobots. As for Prime surviving being hit multiple times by Decepticons weapons after his shuttle had landed, maybe he has an extra Electrum coating or he might had energized himself and it reinforced the coating to have a surface shielding effect against those hits. The Electrum coating's effectiveness is reduced by physical damages so it looks like the armor becomes brittle or cracked just like in the movie. So having a physical fight actually damages that Electrum coating and Prime&Megatron's battle was very effective against each other's armor coating making them very weak&fatally de-energized after the battle.
I always thought it was because the Autobots were too powered down to fight back. So essentially their defenses were down. Notice the Decepticons didn't really start getting damaged till they wasted a lot of Energon in the attack. Even in the storyboards it appears to be implied
@@jkranites If you follow season2, they found the Electrum in the golden lagoon episode. The charged Electrum eventually wore off but the golden coating is still there but not charged anymore. Likely that Wheeljack and Ratchet found a way to emulate its effect and activate it but the result is that it's a drain on their energon reserves if it's activated plus it might take time to be fully active. The Decepticon probably found the same activated Electrum armor technology too but developed a counter to it with their weapons by channelling their own energon reserves into their own weapons to have much more penetration force. So the activated Electrum armor's much durable but shows up as cracks if it's weakened. Side effect is that there's a cascade energon overload at the point of impact and you see the bot's mouth&eyes burning as the weapons' excess energy is dumped into the bot's energon power grid. As for Magnus blowing up instead of burning up from the inside, the Sweeps&Cyclonus' hits weren't powerful enough to pierce the activated Electrum armor but repeated hits did overload it resulting in Magnus blowing apart. This also allowed the Junkions to repair him since his body's energon grid didn't burn out just only at his joints.
@@Exaris79Interesting theory, but the story for the movie was actually written before Season 2 aired and didn’t get changed much. That’s the real reason Omega Supreme (who was introduced in Season 2) didn’t show up and wipe out the Decepticons. After the movie, they ret-conned a big battle at the Autobot Ark between Omega, Superion, Menasor, and Bruticus in order to explain their absence (although the Autobots take that one easily with Omega involved). Of course, what really happened is that the Decepticons were able to super-power their weapons with huge generators at the Hasbro toy factory that ran on money made from all the toys from new Autobot characters. The Dinobots could still basically tank a nuke though, and Optimus could too, until he got a random hole in his side and forgot how to turn the other way.
i still cant believe they killed Ironhide Wheeljack Optimus Prime Megatron, StarScream Ratchet Prowl Skywarp Bombshell Kickback Shrapnel Brawn All in one movie.........its no wonder the show died after this movie, there was no one left. Everyone who saw it lost their favorite bot, and the ones who didnt see the movie were completely lost.
Windcharger, Thundercracker, and any of those deleted storyboard ones like Red Alert, Trailbreaker, Mirage, Tracks, Sideswipe, and even phased out bots like Sunstreaker, Hound, and Bluestreak
Damn, the Insecticons were really punished during the battle, getting shot, blown up over and over, no wonder they were all beaten up by the time the Decepticons fled. However, it would've made more sense if the Insecticons had just summoned their clone army to raid Autobot City, which would've easily explain how the Insecticons kept on getting shot at
It was an excellent plan, and the Decepticons succeeded in destroying Autobot city, its Autobot inhabitants, and their courageous leader Optimus Prime.
It makes you wonder why Optimus didn't radio the help of the other autobots like The Protectabots, Aerial Bots, Skyfire, and Omega Supreme. Maybe they were preparing to fight cybertron, I dunno, but could you imagine how grand the battle would've been if they were present? Not to mention, Ultra Magnus should've been shown fighting more during this battle to see his skills as a leader.
@@IamAlexJustice omega just spends all of his energon reserves just to fly to the earth, maybe bringing a team (protectobots would fit better in my opinion) to face devas and keep the dinobots to blow up the rest of the decepticons would be a better strategy-...
Here's what believe in terms of death. I don't really believe that MOST characters die but I can argue with some. Wheeljack did NOT die, because he was in a deleted scene and removed storyboard. The deleted scene had Ultra Magnus order Wheeljack to bring out the Ani bots (who became the predacons in season 3) to fight devastator. This scene was before the dinobots came. Gears was scripted to die by devastator. Smokescreen was seen dead next to windcharger when arcee pulls him in. As seen in dark awakening, huffer in in the autobot (graveyard?). At the end of the battle when the decepitcons board astrotrain, Trailbreakers legs were meant to be seen. Red alert was meant to be seen getting killed by the constructicons, and his corspe during megatron and primes battle. Inferno had survived the assault and was meant to tell wish U.M. good luck. If I left out anyone please let me know.
3:33 the editing in this sequence always bugged me. As it is in the movie blitzing gets hot Rod locked on target. Hot Rod is just standing still for no apparent reason AND then it cuts to Kup who sees the situation, transforms, drives to blitzing and then has enough time to transform again, leap at him and then raise his turret before it can fire on hot rod. I think it would have worked better if it showed Kup approaching approaching blitzing well before he had hot Rod locked on target because what we have in the movie is several seconds when blitzwing can totally shoot his enemy but doesn’t purely so kup can get to him, which is a contrivance that could have been resolved with a bit of editing to change the sequence a little
Man. Wish they kept went and animated that sub fight with devestator and the other autobots and all the other little added bits in the Prime and Megatrom fight.
boy all these storyboards fill in alot of gaps in the scenes while also showing more Autobots not shown in the film especially more season 2 autobot characters. through season 3 after the events of the movie very little season 2 characters made appearances in the cartoon say Blaster, Perceptor and some of the throttlebots. I know they wanted a clean slate with season 1 mainstays gone from show that were killed off in the movie.
Funny the little details or plot holes you find later. For all the technology, transforming a city into a armed fortress(which BTW, why wouldn't it always be in armed fortress mode), space travel etc. They needed Perceptor to RUN to the communication tower get Blaster to radio Moon base 1.
I have no idea. The writing is way too small to read. I personally think that is Springer and Arcee, but I could be wrong on that. Cudos to anyone who can enlarge the writing and magnefy it.
@@jaykukreja1537 , okay Im at 14:21 now. when u say his "left foot" are u referring to HIS actual left foot or the foot thats on the left for us? if its his actual left foot, yes i see...something there. but that is no part that corresponds to any part on Track's body that Im aware of. I looked at his Character Model Sheet online. i cant see any part that looks like that on him, not even his tail lights. i see a squarish shaped object w two red circles in it, is that what u referring to?
@@Rockabillyman26 Sunstreaker and Hound may have survived, but Beachcomber was killed in the IDW comic adaptation of the film. His corpse would be near the corpse of WIndcharger, Wheeljack, and Smokescreen.
@@davidbailey6917 Beachcomber was in Season 3 Five Faces Of Darkness Part 5, he was helping Warpath, Bumblebee, Pipes, Swerve, Powerglide, Hubcap and Outback fight off Trypticon when he attack teletran 1.
@@Rockabillyman26 That's true. But the Transformers Wiki page for Battle of Autobot City does include Beachcomber as a casualty. In the first sentence of the final paragraph of the First Phase. "Though unable to penetrate Autobot City's defenses by conventional means, the Decepticons succeeded in mowing down the Autobot soldiers, such as Wheeljack, Windcharger and Beachcomber." (Transformers Wiki) P.S. Hubcap was there? I know Tailgate is there.
@@davidbailey6917 my bad lol it was Tailgate not hubcap, tailgate was the white car he was a replacement for Windcharger. I never read the IDW comic version of the movie, I say your right Beachcomber was killed, I won't call yeah a lier lol, I sure like to read that comic.
I really wonder what the storyboards were for the Autobot City battle that was shown in the Promotional Trailer. Holy SHIT did that look better than what we ended up getting.
one thing i never got - Spike could have basiclly used ANY Autobot he wanted to (they were all his friends) YET what did he pick a Lamborghini - nope not Sideswipe or (for some reason) Red Alert (never understood that one) a Porshe - nope not Jazz a Fairlady Z - nope not Blue Streak or Prowl Heck he could have even had a SPACE SHIP - but nope not Cosmos a freaking VW BUG was his choice of cars - lol Daniel for all the flack he sometimes gets had better taste in cars - HOT ROD, SPRINGER and even ARCEE
I know I say this a lot of times seeing videos on deleted scenes of Transformers the Movie but I hope before I die I could see a re-release of the movie with additional animation from the deleted scenes. Unfortunately Hasbro is probably lazy or doesn't want to invest such an idea.
You know it was never explained when and how did Ultra Magnus get his earth mode. Some where between the end of season 2 and the movie Magnus came to Earth. What did his alt-mode look like on Cybertron?
way to go totally breaking the pace of the video, not even bothering to proper conect this all together with additional or extended music, sound effects and much more.
The editors really, truly butchered one of best animated battles in living memory. Have to wonder how much of this got animated and cut vs how much of it got cut at the the storyboard stage. There almost has to be a few great scenes complete with voice music and sound that fans have never beheld.
The inserted unused storyboards here don't do a good job in conveying what's taking place. I've seen a more coherent version of what really happened in the Autobot City/Megatron-Prime Battle elsewhere. The "final version" of the film made no sense (particularly in that section).
Nice of the Autobots just stood and waited for the Constructicons start shooting at them, after Devastator disassembled. Then ran away from the Constructicons and get shot in the back. Yet, the area Devastator tore open the Dinobots were not around and also allowed the Constructicons to escape. Talk about holes in the story.
If it wasn't for Hotrod and Daniel this could have gotten a lot worst. The Decepticons could have came in unnoticed and attacked them. Thank God for Hotrod driving pass the security barrier 😊. And what never made sense to me is how Windcharger and co died inside the city. Weren't the decepts trying to get inside right? I think the made animation errors.
Not really, in my opinion. The producers wanted more screen time for their new toy line, and sacrificed much of the necessary scenes involving the original toy line to promote them. Even now, I feel disappointed that the producers did this, and couldn’t give us the true storyboard action that would have given so much closure.
Amazed on how much was cut. After all these years I used to wonder about certain scenes that didn’t make sense and now watching these story boards fill the gap. Thanks for posting.
The biggest revelation for me was the scene with Magnus & Co vs the Constructicons. Megs wasn’t just chilling in a hole in the wall, he was about to charge in after them but got stopped by Optimus!
I wish there was a way to replicate this animation using computers so fans could make the full un-cut battle.
I agree
There is a vid of someone doing it
And with the ai voice they can replicate the original voices
Every movie cuts a lot of content
I’m sure it was out of fear that the movie’d be too long, but tbh, a “director’s cut” or extended 2 hour version with a completely uncut autobot city battle would be, as orks say, ded’ ‘ard
Looking at the deleted storyboards, I can see how Takara Tomy thought Wheeljack had survived. I'm guessing that Takara Tomy only had the storyboards, when planning Masterforce, where they believed it was okay to use Wheeljack.
they didnt have the storyboards. they didnt even have the movie. the 1986 movie wasnt released in Japan
They eventually fixed the Wheeljack issue by saying he was from another dimension with Prowl back in controverse.
That was Victory not Masterforce.
@@terryrocks2j if you are referring to Binaltech, wasn't that storyline scrapped? Besides, Binaltech's attempt to fix and retconned G1 was a convoluted mess.
I’m sure that the original storyboard was meant to have Smokescreen and Windcharger both fragged, not Wheeljack.
This is superb!!! what an extraordinary job you've done here!! thanks!!!
Wish HASBRO does this movie again and includes these missing sceneces and gave us all those missing in action autobots either deaths or survival status
The story boards give the context that the autobots we're pushing back pretty strongly on the ground level. That should have been kept in, because it connects so well with the placement of everyone.
Eh, I feel like a weak point of the story here is that anyone who was into the toys saw there were like three times more Autobots than Decepticons, plus in the movie they transformed the city and opened up a few dozen extra guns. Between the early casualties and Prime showing up and immediately beating the tar out of half a dozen Decepticons you start wondering who's left, and just how many more times Starscream and the Insecticons are going to take it in the nuts, especially after watching Prowl getting jobbed by Scavenger. Focusing on placement just emphasizes how few Autobots were defending this giant base to make like 15 Decepticons such a dire threat.
They certainly should have kept the scene where Prime slams Dirge to the ground before finishing his line to Megatron. The way it was cut, while awesome, makes no sense with the movement
Awesome. Great work. I’m 42 and this still moves me. Absurd I know lol. I never liked how the eye balls pop up when Devastator hits the dinobot, even as a kid I thought that was stupid. We watched cartoons like this with complex vocabulary and articulate characters vs the vomit today. I learned the word ominous, dubious and so many more at the age of 6 just by the dialogue from Unicron. Had they fully brought to life that storyboard, the battle at autobot city would have been mind blowing.
agree. i always thought i was mistaken when i saw that. didn't follow the high standards
it's funny you say that, because the dialogue and certain words used helped me broaden my vocabulary as did Calvin and Hobbes when i was a wee lad. and it's not absurd this still moves you. i love and hate this movie at the same time. but, this movie had a huge impact on me. i hate it for what they did to my favorite characters, but at the same time what they did to those characters is why it sticks with me. Prowl and Windcharger's deaths still hurts me. my hate for this movie, the animation errors. characters that survive you no longer see. even in the 3 and 4 seasons...and yet, it's one of my all-time favorite animated movies. can't explain it.
Well Sludge is the only Autobot/Dinobot to kill anyone evil besides Hot Rod. Sludge kills a Sweep and a Sharkticon. Arguably Kup killed a Sharkticon too.
Grimlock stomped a bunch of Sharkticons into scrap. I'd be hard-pressed to say they survived.
@14:29 GOD I want to see that scene animated so bad.
Yeah
Such a badass scene
Honestly, just reanimate the whole fight scene. I always felt that it was way too short
@@idksomeguy3294 yeah
No wonder Optimus was looking down when saying "That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron." Always felt random but with that it makes sense.
@@jackthegreek6092 yeah
Shame we never got a "director's cut" of the movie with all the storyboards included and colored.
Only line said by Devastator in the whole movie and it was F**KING AMAZING and sounded so OMINOUS. PREPARE FOR EXTERMINATION!!!!!
Now on its 36th year (August 2022 already passed), this film never ceases to amaze with its bit of details (i.e. Easter eggs). Just feel bad deleted storyboards weren't added.
Again, we can't have it all in this life, in hopes we chose the right and significant ones.
If you look where Perceptor and Grapple are firing, Swoop runs in front of them for a split second...only to show up on the shuttle moments later.
Countless re-releases of this movie no one has ever thought of including the deleted scenes in animated form. I guess they won't take the risk but think how spectacular it would be.
Wow, the insecticons surely took a lot of abuse, specially Bombshell. No wonder they were all mangled up at the end of the battle.
I always assumed that since the insecticons could clone themselves, they'd make up the majority of the Decepticon's army, which would've explaind why the Autobots were outmatched and how insecticons like Kickback, who LITERALLY GOT HIS HEAD CRUSHED, somehow still fought late in the battle.
Wish they kept the stuff seen in the original trailers, those were nice, especially where we see Diaclone color Magnus and the others in the city, the city looked MUCH more impressive there.
And I prefer seeing organic 'guts' inside Unicron.
Now that makes sense why Optimus Prime picks up his gun while fighting Megatron it got knocked out when Prime got bum rushed by Blitzwing.
I remember in the original trailer there was a shot of all of Transformed Autobot Citys guns firing off all at once. Was there not a storyboard for that?
That must have been an early version of autobot city.
The storyboards that have been collected have obviously always been a pretty late development; while the "old" more brutal shuttle scenes being shown off reiterates this, it has always been apparent as they're very patchwork with major signs of being a revision(like shrapnel being poorly erased at the coronation or Brawn suddenly being split in half when he hits the floor). The old trailer features generics which also didn't make it to the storyboards in general its pretty hazy to what didn't exist from the script to older storyboards as we don't have the "real complete set" but one that clearly was a guideline to streamline the movie(that clearly wasn't enough)
Opens up even more questions when you take in to account the story boards - more Autobots decimated, couple of Decepticons as well but not many. We see Wheeljack survive, nothing about Huffer dying then Trailbreaker, Red Alert in the deleted storyboards .. Soundwave must be invincible as well because he takes a few shots from Optimus yet survives, same with Dirge before having his head caved in yet Decepticons survive Autobot gunshots etc like Insecticons and Constructicons ...
Ahh well .. will never change my opinion of the movie and the aftermath. Damn you hasbro and your "new toyline" direction!!!
Sound wave superior
It's not the new toyline that caused many Autobots to die. It's because the 1984 and 1985 Autobot figures were discontinued, leading many of them to be killed. Even Optimus Prime's toy was discontinued, making the decision easy to kill him. At the time, Hasbro was never aware how much the characters meant to the fans. They just thought that they are just other stoys to sell.
Hot Rod invented Drifting. Huh
One storyboard showed Prime getting jumped by Starscream and 3 others just after Blitzwing rushed. Would loved to have seen Prime smashing them up
Count all the cutsceens EXCEPT the one with Wheeljack alive since he should be dead. Now I love The Transformers show/movie EVEN MORE! The Autobots got SLAUGHTERED, but that was a HELL OF A BATTLE👍 This was the only time Ultra Magnus carried cars in the story. Kup's old ass put a hurting on the Constructicons. There are some TF stories that are good (Beast Wars/Machines, Cybertron Games, Prime,) but THE TRANSFORMERS IS STILL THE BEST OUT OF THEM ALL! LONG LIVE G1!✊
Thank you for sharing the missing pieces of this greatest epic movie of transformers. A job well done.
I was so bummed out in the theatre when I realized Autobot City wasn't Metroplex.
But it is
it is metroplex when the cannon tank swivels in a close shot that is one of metroplexs minicon ish weapons. in the beginning of season 3 autobot city is revealed to be a sleeping or stasis Metroplex needing a new transformation cog to enter robot mode, the whole mission of the 5part mini series of the autobots is to secretly transport his new Tcog to earth by Blurr and Wheelie,
The kids at school called it Metroplex back then but it certainly looked nothing like Metroplex, and besides he wasn't actually called "autobot city" on the box, but autobot battle station. Nonetheless in the following season on TV they elluded that it was Metroplex by saying his transforming cog damaged in the great battle.
Maybe for the 40th anniversary, Hasbro could commission the unanimated storyboards and make the movie complete. Including the scenes that were scripted, but not even storyboarded. In all seriousness, the stuff they omitted is far more relevant and pertinent to the movie, and adds so much depth to the city battle in particular. That crap with the Junkions and Sharkticons could easily have been avoided, let’s be honest.
Agreed, never really cared for those parts of the movie anyway
@@bluelyon9927 they are still nicely animated and good scifi worldbuilding
thanks so much for showing this. Sad those scenes got cut.
Obviously there's a big continuity issue with how the Decepticons were able to devastatingly destroy the Autobots in the movie while episodes after it doesn't seem like they can do it anymore. To resolve this inconsistency, it's likely Shockwave developed a more potent version of plasma/Energon similar to Nucleon that supercharges their weapons that has a much more armor penetration force on impact. I can see the Decepticons like Megatron&his team drinking that supercharged Energon&putting some into their weapons as well before attacking the IronHide's shuttle. As they approached Earth, they take it again and seems like a drug that they're addicted to it but has a few day's worth time limit for its effectiveness. Also continued use damages their internal systems like Nucleon making it difficult for them to transform later on. It's a very limited supply and during the battle of Unicron on Cybertron, the site that creates the supercharged Energon as well as Shockwave got destroyed by Unicron. With Shockwave gone, the Decepticons can't recreate more of that supercharged Energon to make their weapons very lethal anymore plus there's another Energon supply crisis again. As for the Autobots, they probably spray coated their bodies with something refractive&ablative paint to minimize the damage when they get hit. Maybe it's developed from the island that had a lot of reflective gold(Electrum) on it . It's a very limited supply as it takes a lot of time&energy to make that Electrum armor coating after the Golden Lagoon episode but the Autobots were able to collect enough to make a decent Electrum coating for most of the Autobots. Unfortunately it's not very effective against being hit by point blank range supercharged weapons so like the shuttle crew they still got wiped out. That same Electrum armor coating also got destroyed on Autobot City as it's a strategic target for the Decepticons to ensure they win against the Autobots. As for Prime surviving being hit multiple times by Decepticons weapons after his shuttle had landed, maybe he has an extra Electrum coating or he might had energized himself and it reinforced the coating to have a surface shielding effect against those hits. The Electrum coating's effectiveness is reduced by physical damages so it looks like the armor becomes brittle or cracked just like in the movie. So having a physical fight actually damages that Electrum coating and Prime&Megatron's battle was very effective against each other's armor coating making them very weak&fatally de-energized after the battle.
I always thought it was because the Autobots were too powered down to fight back. So essentially their defenses were down. Notice the Decepticons didn't really start getting damaged till they wasted a lot of Energon in the attack. Even in the storyboards it appears to be implied
@@jkranites If you follow season2, they found the Electrum in the golden lagoon episode. The charged Electrum eventually wore off but the golden coating is still there but not charged anymore. Likely that Wheeljack and Ratchet found a way to emulate its effect and activate it but the result is that it's a drain on their energon reserves if it's activated plus it might take time to be fully active. The Decepticon probably found the same activated Electrum armor technology too but developed a counter to it with their weapons by channelling their own energon reserves into their own weapons to have much more penetration force. So the activated Electrum armor's much durable but shows up as cracks if it's weakened. Side effect is that there's a cascade energon overload at the point of impact and you see the bot's mouth&eyes burning as the weapons' excess energy is dumped into the bot's energon power grid. As for Magnus blowing up instead of burning up from the inside, the Sweeps&Cyclonus' hits weren't powerful enough to pierce the activated Electrum armor but repeated hits did overload it resulting in Magnus blowing apart. This also allowed the Junkions to repair him since his body's energon grid didn't burn out just only at his joints.
@@Exaris79Interesting theory, but the story for the movie was actually written before Season 2 aired and didn’t get changed much. That’s the real reason Omega Supreme (who was introduced in Season 2) didn’t show up and wipe out the Decepticons. After the movie, they ret-conned a big battle at the Autobot Ark between Omega, Superion, Menasor, and Bruticus in order to explain their absence (although the Autobots take that one easily with Omega involved). Of course, what really happened is that the Decepticons were able to super-power their weapons with huge generators at the Hasbro toy factory that ran on money made from all the toys from new Autobot characters. The Dinobots could still basically tank a nuke though, and Optimus could too, until he got a random hole in his side and forgot how to turn the other way.
i still cant believe they killed
Ironhide
Wheeljack
Optimus Prime
Megatron,
StarScream
Ratchet
Prowl
Skywarp
Bombshell
Kickback
Shrapnel
Brawn
All in one movie.........its no wonder the show died after this movie, there was no one left. Everyone who saw it lost their favorite bot, and the ones who didnt see the movie were completely lost.
Hey, all of the Dinobot fans kept their favorites
Also You forgot Thundercraker
Windcharger, Thundercracker, and any of those deleted storyboard ones like Red Alert, Trailbreaker, Mirage, Tracks, Sideswipe, and even phased out bots like Sunstreaker, Hound, and Bluestreak
forgot Huffer too
technically, the Decepticons didn't die, they were transformed (by Unicron)....=)
@@hmrhuang , depends on who u ask...
This was awesome! Thanks for making this. 🙂
Cool stuff man. So many scenes unused or scrapped in this one. If only they allowed extended versions back then.
Damn, the Insecticons were really punished during the battle, getting shot, blown up over and over, no wonder they were all beaten up by the time the Decepticons fled.
However, it would've made more sense if the Insecticons had just summoned their clone army to raid Autobot City, which would've easily explain how the Insecticons kept on getting shot at
@2:36 illustration of the crashing shuttle, I thought for sure I saw that animated in the movie back in the day?
It was an excellent plan, and the Decepticons succeeded in destroying Autobot city, its Autobot inhabitants, and their courageous leader Optimus Prime.
It makes you wonder why Optimus didn't radio the help of the other autobots like The Protectabots, Aerial Bots, Skyfire, and Omega Supreme. Maybe they were preparing to fight cybertron, I dunno, but could you imagine how grand the battle would've been if they were present? Not to mention, Ultra Magnus should've been shown fighting more during this battle to see his skills as a leader.
@@IamAlexJustice omega just spends all of his energon reserves just to fly to the earth, maybe bringing a team (protectobots would fit better in my opinion) to face devas and keep the dinobots to blow up the rest of the decepticons would be a better strategy-...
Here's what believe in terms of death. I don't really believe that MOST characters die but I can argue with some. Wheeljack did NOT die, because he was in a deleted scene and removed storyboard. The deleted scene had Ultra Magnus order Wheeljack to bring out the Ani bots (who became the predacons in season 3) to fight devastator. This scene was before the dinobots came. Gears was scripted to die by devastator. Smokescreen was seen dead next to windcharger when arcee pulls him in. As seen in dark awakening, huffer in in the autobot (graveyard?). At the end of the battle when the decepitcons board astrotrain, Trailbreakers legs were meant to be seen. Red alert was meant to be seen getting killed by the constructicons, and his corspe during megatron and primes battle. Inferno had survived the assault and was meant to tell wish U.M. good luck. If I left out anyone please let me know.
3:33 the editing in this sequence always bugged me. As it is in the movie blitzing gets hot Rod locked on target. Hot Rod is just standing still for no apparent reason AND then it cuts to Kup who sees the situation, transforms, drives to blitzing and then has enough time to transform again, leap at him and then raise his turret before it can fire on hot rod. I think it would have worked better if it showed Kup approaching approaching blitzing well before he had hot Rod locked on target because what we have in the movie is several seconds when blitzwing can totally shoot his enemy but doesn’t purely so kup can get to him, which is a contrivance that could have been resolved with a bit of editing to change the sequence a little
Do you guys think Hound Sunstreaker Bluestreak Hoist Grapple Inferno Sideswipe Tracks Smokescreen Survived Cause I’m pretty sure they did
nope.
Funny that Sunstreaker and Hound died since they were on the shuttle with Optimus. Hey guys we are here to help! "Immediatly shot in the face"
@@WizelBalan , they did?
@@WizelBalan Hound was in the end when they escaped Unicron.
Hound was also in head masters
Should've added the word transformers to your description for more views.
Man. Wish they kept went and animated that sub fight with devestator and the other autobots and all the other little added bits in the Prime and Megatrom fight.
boy all these storyboards fill in alot of gaps in the scenes while also showing more Autobots not shown in the film especially more season 2 autobot characters. through season 3 after the events of the movie very little season 2 characters made appearances in the cartoon say Blaster, Perceptor and some of the throttlebots. I know they wanted a clean slate with season 1 mainstays gone from show that were killed off in the movie.
I never notice hotrods flame when he Transformed at 1:17. I think the fight scenes should have been left it would have been better.
After all these years, I'm now starting to notice how chubby Hot Rod's lower legs are. 😮
4:35 ultra magnus was originally supposed to be carrying springer arcee and blurr in his truck carrier mode
Funny the little details or plot holes you find later. For all the technology, transforming a city into a armed fortress(which BTW, why wouldn't it always be in armed fortress mode), space travel etc. They needed Perceptor to RUN to the communication tower get Blaster to radio Moon base 1.
One Shall stand & One shall fall !!!!
@7:26 Who are the two autobots front right, running? I literally cannot read the handwriting of the person who wrote their names. lol
I have no idea. The writing is way too small to read. I personally think that is Springer and Arcee, but I could be wrong on that. Cudos to anyone who can enlarge the writing and magnefy it.
well done!
so bluestreak and wheeljack died for devastator, what abour sideswipe and tracks?
That was Red Alert that died not Bluestreak. Sideswipe and Tracks most likely survived since we didn't see them die in the storyboard.
I don’t think anyone has ever noted of us or seen it but look at prime at the 14:21 mark and look underneath him you could see the corpse of tracks
@@jaykukreja1537 , i dont see it.
@@dogma9609 Look at primes left foot and to the left of it you could see the tail lights in the rubble
@@jaykukreja1537 , okay Im at 14:21 now.
when u say his "left foot" are u referring to HIS actual left foot or the foot thats on the left for us?
if its his actual left foot, yes i see...something there. but that is no part that corresponds to any part on Track's body that Im aware of. I looked at his Character Model Sheet online. i cant see any part that looks like that on him, not even his tail lights.
i see a squarish shaped object w two red circles in it, is that what u referring to?
The storyboard had to be trimmed to match the song, which IMO made more sense without them. Although a fan made version would be nice
I cant wait for the year 2005
RIP Autobots
-Brawn
-Prowl
-Ratchet
-Ironhide
-Huffer
-Sunstreaker
-Hound
-Mirage
-Smokescreen
-Windcharger
-Wheeljack
-Beachcomber
-Red Alert
-Trailbreaker
-Gears
and our Autobot Leader himself
-Optimus Prime
RIP Decepticons
-Bombshell
-Shrapnel
-Kickback
-Thundercracker
-Skywarp
-Starscream
-Cyclonus' Armada
-Reflector
and the leader of all Decepticons
-Megatron
Sunstreaker, Hound and beachcomber survived.
@@Rockabillyman26 Sunstreaker and Hound may have survived, but Beachcomber was killed in the IDW comic adaptation of the film. His corpse would be near the corpse of WIndcharger, Wheeljack, and Smokescreen.
@@davidbailey6917 Beachcomber was in Season 3 Five Faces Of Darkness Part 5, he was helping Warpath, Bumblebee, Pipes, Swerve, Powerglide, Hubcap and Outback fight off Trypticon when he attack teletran 1.
@@Rockabillyman26 That's true. But the Transformers Wiki page for Battle of Autobot City does include Beachcomber as a casualty. In the first sentence of the final paragraph of the First Phase.
"Though unable to penetrate Autobot City's defenses by conventional means, the Decepticons succeeded in mowing down the Autobot soldiers, such as Wheeljack, Windcharger and Beachcomber." (Transformers Wiki)
P.S. Hubcap was there? I know Tailgate is there.
@@davidbailey6917 my bad lol it was Tailgate not hubcap, tailgate was the white car he was a replacement for Windcharger. I never read the IDW comic version of the movie, I say your right Beachcomber was killed, I won't call yeah a lier lol, I sure like to read that comic.
I really wonder what the storyboards were for the Autobot City battle that was shown in the Promotional Trailer. Holy SHIT did that look better than what we ended up getting.
I’m realizing Swoop appears too early.
Whatever happened to Reflector?
he was seen in 2 scenes in the movie VERY briefly. and never again.
@@dogma9609 such a shame😞, my favourite Decepticon.
He was most likely killed by Unicron when he attacked Cybertron. Since he was last seen on Cybertron during Starscream's coronation.
one thing i never got - Spike could have basiclly used ANY Autobot he wanted to (they were all his friends) YET what did he pick
a Lamborghini - nope not Sideswipe or (for some reason) Red Alert (never understood that one)
a Porshe - nope not Jazz
a Fairlady Z - nope not Blue Streak or Prowl
Heck he could have even had a SPACE SHIP - but nope not Cosmos
a freaking VW BUG was his choice of cars - lol
Daniel for all the flack he sometimes gets had better taste in cars - HOT ROD, SPRINGER and even ARCEE
I know I say this a lot of times seeing videos on deleted scenes of Transformers the Movie but I hope before I die I could see a re-release of the movie with additional animation from the deleted scenes. Unfortunately Hasbro is probably lazy or doesn't want to invest such an idea.
With dreamwave comic style animation 💦💦💦
You know it was never explained when and how did Ultra Magnus get his earth mode. Some where between the end of season 2 and the movie Magnus came to Earth. What did his alt-mode look like on Cybertron?
Damn so did Mirage die there
Most likely, Mirage did die.
High chance the edits and cuts were made around the songs and score.
I think it could have fit, you just switch to instrumental part if you want the words to syc a certain way
way to go totally breaking the pace of the video, not even bothering to proper conect this all together with additional or extended music, sound effects and much more.
Extending music naturally is fairly tricky, but yeah, some sound effects would have been nice.
shut up and do it better yourself
The editors really, truly butchered one of best animated battles in living memory. Have to wonder how much of this got animated and cut vs how much of it got cut at the the storyboard stage. There almost has to be a few great scenes complete with voice music and sound that fans have never beheld.
I think there was a scene where Omega Supreme falls trying to defend the Ark a.k.a Autobot HQ. His only line is "Situation dire".
The inserted unused storyboards here don't do a good job in conveying what's taking place. I've seen a more coherent version of what really happened in the Autobot City/Megatron-Prime Battle elsewhere. The "final version" of the film made no sense (particularly in that section).
Nice of the Autobots just stood and waited for the Constructicons start shooting at them, after Devastator disassembled. Then ran away from the Constructicons and get shot in the back.
Yet, the area Devastator tore open the Dinobots were not around and also allowed the Constructicons to escape.
Talk about holes in the story.
Fun Fact: The Anibots were supposed to join the Dinobots in fighting Devastator and combine to form Dragon Beast!
If it wasn't for Hotrod and Daniel this could have gotten a lot worst. The Decepticons could have came in unnoticed and attacked them. Thank God for Hotrod driving pass the security barrier 😊. And what never made sense to me is how Windcharger and co died inside the city. Weren't the decepts trying to get inside right? I think the made animation errors.
some of that I can see why it was cut, as it would have interrupted the pacing and slowed the movie down
Not really, in my opinion. The producers wanted more screen time for their new toy line, and sacrificed much of the necessary scenes involving the original toy line to promote them.
Even now, I feel disappointed that the producers did this, and couldn’t give us the true storyboard action that would have given so much closure.