Animated Theatre films based on shows!

[gaastra]

Kind of surprised they didn't pick magic ring for limited theatres release. It felt more like classic tom and jerry.

[Ben]

Discs aren’t even dead now!

[gaastra]

[EricJ]

Who on earth was saying that discs were “dead” before 2010?

The ones actually MAKING said DCA and T&J animations to sell. Note the big six-letter W word in the previous post.

And they kept on saying it from '11-'17, determined to make someone actually believe it.
(And, like most orchestrated Warner propaganda campaigns, it partly worked: They convinced themselves.)

[Dacey]

WB is still releasing those kinds of movies on disc, but anyway…

That Transformers poster is a classic.

[gaastra]

Remember seeing that poster as a kid and going "where is optimus prime?" If only I knew the main character of the show had less than 8min of screentime in the whole movie and is dead by the first 30m!

[Ben]

Spoilers!

[gaastra]

Heh. By the way i do like the film. Grew up a fan of the show. I had all the deaths spoiled on the playground before i saw the film of course!

[Ben]

You’ll not be surprised to learn I’ve never seen it! Was just a bit too old to be interested in Transformers as a kid, and actually thought the toys were pretty dumb. Still can’t work out how they actually transform and how any of that makes sense. But "the voices of" Eric Idle, Nimoy and Welles have me intrigued, so might try and check it out if it ever comes around again. Apparently none of them ever saw it either!

[gaastra]

Here are the trailers. Looks like second can only be watched on youtube. Hate that.




Music video on mtv. Can you guess the guy who wrote songs for the rocky films helped make the song? Yes, boogie nights later used the song!



He-man secret of the sword wasn't the only movie to have a music video!

[gaastra]

Here is for fun the opening title spot with the actors list.

[EricJ]

You’ll not be surprised to learn I’ve never seen it! Was just a bit too old to be interested in Transformers as a kid, and actually thought the toys were pretty dumb. Still can’t work out how they actually transform and how any of that makes sense. But "the voices of" Eric Idle, Nimoy and Welles have me intrigued, so might try and check it out if it ever comes around again. Apparently none of them ever saw it either!

And, as one critic joked, "Orson Welles finally plays a planet."

I only saw it after the Transformers episode of Netflix's "The Toys That Made Us":
Which explained the rise of the 80's Toy-Toon, now that FCC and children's-television ruled that only five seconds of animation could be featured in a toy commercial, but a half-hour series could do all the marketing plugs it wanted.

And how, in retrospect, the fate of Optimus makes sense when you realize the Movie was only made as rollout promotion for the next wave of Transformers figures.
(Since Hasbro at the time bragged to toy retailers their pledge that every action figure would appear on TV episodes of Transformers and GI Joe.)

[gaastra]

Transformers not the only transforming robot to get a movie in theatres--



Overseas poster--





Crazy thing. All three films were in theatres the same year! 1986!

[gaastra]

By the way all three bombed in america but robotech was a huge hit overseas and did incredible in the uk even getting a theatre rerelease later!

[Ben]

Good Lord! GoBots and Robotech! I probably haven’t thought of those *since* 1986!