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Transformers: Victory Episode 8 Subbed by TV Nihon

Date: Thursday, April 27th 2006 9:49am CDT
Category: Cartoon News
Posted by: Calenatarion | Credit(s): LiegeCentrino

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LiegeCentrino of our Energon Pub told us that TV Nihon have subbed the next Victory episode!

Want to download Transformers: Victory episode 8? Click here!

The Super God Master Force Update from Metrodome (UK)

Date: Tuesday, April 25th 2006 2:37pm CDT
Categories: Cartoon News, Company News, Digital Media News
Posted by: Raymond T. | Credit(s): www.metrodomegroup.com, Jezz Vernon

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An update from Metrodome's Jezz Vernon has arrived at our news room today. After much waiting and speculation, Jezz has taken the time and given us the lowdown on what has been going on with the release for the Master Force DVD box, that was supposed to have been released this week. The following has been taken from Jezz Vernon's E-mail.

We've had all kinds of delays caused by the BBFC - the UK censor, not that they're disputing any aspect, merely that it's been a long time being passed through due to the length of the series. We've all put long hours in on this, it's proved to be an extreme challenge to keep 100% quality control on almost 16 hours of material, the whole purpose of changing the way we did the subtitling was to avoid some of the mistakes in Headmasters.

So hard drives, DVDRS, subtitle tiffs and frantic emails have been flying between myself in London, Chris McFeely in Northern Ireland and Jordan Derber in Tokyo. Chris and Jordan are the two stars of the piece, they've both put in late nights and early mornings to get the subtitles in perfect form for the release. Chris even had to watch the entire series in something like 3 days flat, working around his day job - and we're just about to send check discs over to him to watch the whole series again for a final QC.

So the new release date is set for May 29th, the title should be a PG, it'll be 5 discs and the RRP is £34.99

Chris has provided an excellent commentary on 3 of the episodes and once again written a booklet with episode guide, background and a translation chart for the names.

For anyone that hasn't seen Masterforce I can confirm that it's a very special series indeed, my personal favourite so far.

The only sad news is that due to the costs we were incurring we had to make the decison to leave off the English dub. For those of you that know it, it's a pretty poor affair, fairly laughable in places and really not of the expected quality. Done with ahandful of actors, limited budget and appalling translation - we know it's a curio, but we just weren't in a position to use it.

As far as we know there is no disc set in the world where the english Star TV dub and the Japanese audio exist on the same edition. So when it came down to it we naturally had to choose the Japanese dub, otherwise what would be the point of the whole exercise.

Of course this will put some people off, we're genuinely sorry we couldn't include it - but it just wasn't an option eventually.

News on the 20th Anniversary release of Transformers: the movie -well the main news is that i'm trying to clear the decks and get my arse into gear. It's still on the cards and we may even be a few inches closer to including Scramble City and Zone on the edition - so more news to come!

cheers

Jezz

Lost Storyboards of Transformers: The Movie!

Date: Tuesday, April 25th 2006 10:32am CDT
Category: Cartoon News
Posted by: Jelze Bunnycat | Credit(s): The Wombat King

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Thought you knew everything about the original Transformers Movie from '86? The Wombat King has posted some lost storyboards of the original plot for the movie, which include some name-calling of Kup, more insight on the attacks of Autobot City and a "cheating" of death.

Check them out here.

Cartoonnetwork.com Adds New Cybertron Episodes

Date: Monday, April 24th 2006 4:48pm CDT
Category: Cartoon News
Posted by: Hotrod | Credit(s): Powermaster Jazz

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Our own Powermaster Jazz has reported that Cartoonnetwork.com has updated their Transformers Cybertron page. The added new episodes. Episodes 36-40 are now available on-line. To watch these episodes head over to Cartoonnetwork.com.

Transformers: The Complete Collection Box Set and Victory News

Date: Saturday, April 22nd 2006 3:25pm CDT
Categories: Cartoon News, Digital Media News
Posted by: Hotrod | Credit(s): Thetransformers.net, Chris McFeely, and Play.com

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Metrodome will be releasing all 98 episodes of The Transformers and the Reconstructed Transformers: The Movie in one box set called Transformers: The Complete Collection Box Set. The set is the same as the previously released four box sets and Reconstructed movie. This set is currently listed on Play.com. It has the release date of September 4 at the price of £74.99. As a bonus this set will include a double-sided movie poster featuring the UK and US artwork.

In other news related to Metrodome, Chris McFeely has announced in the Thetransformers.net Forums that Victory has a targeted release of July 3rd, however, this is very likely to change. The set will likely only consist of 4 disks with 32 episodes.

New Episodes Online at Hasbro Action!

Date: Saturday, April 22nd 2006 12:05pm CDT
Category: Cartoon News
Posted by: Calenatarion | Credit(s): Allspark, Hasbro Action

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Yep, that's right! More Transformers Episodes online people! First of, Hasbro Action is now updated with Beast Wars episode 16, titled "A Better Mousetrap".

But there's more. Next new episode is: Transformers: Cybertron episode 37, "Titans".

As you can see, another episode has been skipped. This time it's Cybertron episode 36. No word on if and/or when this will be changed.

TV-Nihon Release Victory #7 Fansub

Date: Thursday, April 20th 2006 3:40pm CDT
Categories: Cartoon News, Digital Media News
Posted by: Calenatarion | Credit(s): Robert, Shadow12

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It's that time again! The fansubbers over at TV Nihon have once again finished subbing a Transformers episode!

They continued working on the Victory series and now have episode 7 online!

Want to download this episode? Then visit their download page!

Transformers: The Movie in Top 25 Most Wanted

Date: Thursday, April 20th 2006 3:25pm CDT
Categories: Cartoon News, Reviews, Digital Media News
Posted by: Raymond T. | Credit(s): www.ign.com

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The multi media site IGN.com has compiled a top 25 list of movie titles they think deserve a DVD update. The 1986 release of Transformers: The Movie ranked 18th on this list.

"Another childhood favorite debuted on DVD several years ago only to enjoy substandard treatment and zero extras. Extras wish list: restored picture and sound, including Spike's controversial use of the word 'sh*t'; commentary by cast and crew, including Leonard Nimoy and Frank Welker (the voice of Megatron); concept art; advertising and commercials, including for the toys; music video for "The Touch;" Easter Egg of Dirk Diggler singing "The Touch".

Galaxy Force Volume 11 DVD

Date: Wednesday, April 19th 2006 2:06pm CDT
Categories: Cartoon News, Digital Media News
Posted by: Hotrod | Credit(s): Tformers.com

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Tformers.com has posted new images of the soon to be released Transformers Galaxy Force Volume 11 DVD. There are photos of the front and back cover of the DVD. Volume 11 contains Galaxy Force episodes 41-44. Galaxy Force Volume 11 is scheduled to be released in Japan this Friday, April 21, 2006.

Brad Case passed away at 93.

Date: Sunday, April 16th 2006 5:35pm CDT
Categories: Cartoon News, People News
Posted by: Raymond T. | Credit(s): www.awn.com

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Sad news has come across our news room. Several sources including Animation World Network, report that Brad Case has passed away, last month.

Brad Case was the Sequence Director for the original series of Transformers in the mid 80's. Next to Transformers he also worked on other Sunbow shows like GI Joe, Jem & The Holograms and Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines.

Born in 1912, he made his early career in animation with the Animation studio of Walt Disney in the mid 40's. By the 60's and 70's he had worked himself up to Animation Director for show including the Pink Panther Show and the Fantastic Four.

His work earned him an Animation Guild Golden Award in 1985. He Retired in 1999.