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Transformers Season Two Box Set, Part 1
Region:
One
Episodes
Disc One: “Autobot Spike”, “Changing Gears”, “Attack Of The Autobots”,
“Traitor”, “The Immobilizer”, “The Autobot Run”
Episodes
Disc Two: “Atlantis, Arise!”, “Day Of The Machines”, “Enter The
Nightbird”, “A Prime Problem”, “The Core”, “The Insecticon
Syndrome”, “Dinobot Island Part 1”
Episodes
Disc Three: “Dinobot Island Part 2”, “The Master Builder”, “Auto
Berserk”, “Microbots”, “Megatron’s Master Plan Part 1”,
“Megatron’s Master Plan Part 2”
Episodes
Disc Four: “Desertion Of The Dinobots Part 1”, “Desertion Of The Dinobots
Part 2”, “Blaster Blues”, “A Decepticon Raider In King Arthur’s
Court”
Feature
length: 715 minutes
Extra
Features: Two Classic Collectible Cels, Collectible Card, A Taste Of Botcon 2002
– A Documentary Highlighting The Transformers Convention, Interviews With
Voice Actors Neil Kaplan, Michael McConnohie, and Scriptwriter Earl Kress
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 5.1Surround Sound and English Stereo Sound
Subtitles:
N/A
Packaging:
Four-Disc Digipack Gatefold Within Deluxe Packaging
Chapter
Stops: 6 Per Episode/ 9 For The Documentary/ 153 Total
Sound:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and Stereo Sound
Year
of Television Broadcast: 1986/DVD Release: 2002
Home
Video Distributor: Rhino Home Video
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
Rhino
Home Video has released the first part of the second season of “The Original
Transformers” animated series to DVD-Video in a deluxe box set with all 24
episodes and a bonus DVD featuring A
Taste Of Botcon 2002 – A Documentary Highlighting The Transformers Convention,
and Interviews With Voice Actors Neil Kaplan, Michael McConnohie, and
Scriptwriter Earl Kress.
The
four DVD-Videos contain new digital transfers from the original 35mm film with
the first half of season two containing episodes 16 to 39 in their original
chronological order. The series ran for seven years and still has a strong cult
following. Each episode is presented in the original television broadcast aspect
ratio of (1.33:1) with English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and English
Stereo Sound options. There are no captions or subtitles encoded on to the
discs. The 5.1 Dolby Digital
Surround Mix is a definite improvement over the English Stereo Soundtrack and
the picture quality looks better than the previous set episodes that I have seen
though there are still a few anomalies from the source materials used after the
restoration.
A
nice ten-page episode guide complete with a synopsis for each adventure in the
set is included as well as a collectable card with information of “The First
Official Transformers Art Book” on the back, an insert with images of the
“Heroes Of Cybertron: Generation One Collection” and “The Transformers
Commemorative Series II: Powermaster Optimus Prime With Apex Armor”
collectibles, and two beautiful and collectible animation cels within a pouch
inside the four-disc Digipack gatefold that folds into a silver book style case
with a montage of some of the characters inside on the opposite side of the
Digipack gatefold disc holders. The menus feature a beautifully rendered CGI
“Optimus Prime” with animated transitions to subsequent menus and full
motion scene selections. The interactive menus are all well rendered and easy to
navigate too.
The
individual episodes tend to run about 22-minutes each with discs one and two
containing 7 episodes each, disc three containing 6 episodes, and disc four
containing 4 episodes and the DVD-Video extra features. The episodes of Season
2: Part 1 begins with episode 16 intentionally since each season is a part of a
larger ongoing story. The extra features include the documentary “A Taste Of
Botcon 2002” (47:35), which features interviews with some of the creative
forces behind “The Original Transformers” that include Simon Furman, Aaron
Archer, and Pat Lee. The documentary is broken up into 9 chapter stops too.
Additional videotaped interviews with Voice Actors Neil Kaplan (19:35) and
Michael McConnohie (22:22) as well as Scriptwriter Earl Kress (13:26) are
included and like the interviews on the documentary, they are all candid and
seem rather genuine. A narrated “Mistake Reel” (3:53) wraps up the extra
features included within the set
“The
Original Transformers: Season 2: Part 1 DVD Box Set”
is available now from Rhino Home Video.
©
Copyright 2003 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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Transformers Season Two Box Set, Part 1