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INFO PAGE | REVIEW
Release Date: 29th January 2002
Distributor: Rhino Home Video
Country: USA
Region: 1 NTSC
Number of Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: None
Catalogue Number: 976070
NOT RATED
The first ever release of Beast Wars on DVD in the USA
Episodes
01. Beast Wars (Part 1)
02. Beast Wars (Part 2)
03. The Web
04. Equal Measures
05. Chain of Command
06. Power Surge
Extra Features
None
Images
INFO PAGE | REVIEW
Release Date: 28th January 2002
Distributor: Maverick Entertainment
Country: UK
Region: 2 PAL
Number of Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles: None
Catalogue Number: SWD134
This was the first release in the UK by Maverick of the original Transformers cartoon series. The DVD contains 5 episodes from the first series of the Transformers.
Episodes
09. Fire On The Mountain
10. War Of The Dinobots
11. The Ultimate Doom: Part 1
12. The Ultimate Doom: Part 2
13. The Ultimate Doom: Part 3
Extra Features
None
Images
Maverick have sent us a copy of the new Transformers DVD, out January 28th, and we’ve got a full review here, plus nearly 50 screenshots!
INFO PAGE | REVIEW
Maverick sent a copy of their new DVD, released January 28th, to us here at TheTF.Net to cast our eye over it. It features five episodes from the first season of the original Transformers series – War of the Dinobots, Fire on the Mountain, and The Ultimate Doom parts 1-3.
So what is the DVD like? The episodes themselves are all classics, particularly War of the Dinobots which features the creation of Swoop and Snarl. The Ultimate Doom is currently available in the US on the Villains DVD, but the other two episodes are not yet available on DVD in the English language.
The episodes aren’t re-mastered in any way, but the picture quality is clear enough and it’s the best quality that you can currently find these episodes in. The menu system is actually quite impressive, and features a scene selection allowing you to choose your episode. I would have preferred a theme running through from the movie DVD in the menu system, or in the cover but there isn’t one.
The cover is something of a let down unfortunately. It seems that all of the best Transformers art either exists in comic form or from fan artists such as Dan Khana, leaving very little for official DVD releases – unless they were to commission any art.
Rhino in the US are releasing a season 1 box set, and I’d hoped to get one here in the UK soon but it seems we may have to wait a while. Maverick still intend to release a season 1 box set but not for some months yet. Before you judge them, don’t forget that Rhino released two volumes of episodes on DVD before announcing that a box set was planned, forcing fans to buy the same episodes twice.
We’ve had so many submissions for hosted sites, it’s been tough to actually decide which ones were for us. A lot of the submissions though were unsuitable for one reason or another.
Quite a few people wanted to upload Transformers episodes, not an original idea but a comendable one. We however don’t have the webspace to upload many eps, if we did we’d have them all up available for download now right here at TheTF.Net.
Others wanted to simply upload loads of pictures that they’d collected from around the internet. Again this wasn’t what we were looking for, posting other people’s work without their permission isn’t really a good idea.
Someone also wanted to make a Transformers charatcer profile database. This was a good idea except they wanted too much space, and we have all of the profiles here anyway, we just haven’t had the time to upload them all.
So what are we looking for? Something original, something unique. If you have your own TF work to show off then that’s what we want, not simply copying other peoples work. Maybe you’re a writer, an artist or a game programmer. If you’re doing something with Transformers that’s unique then give us a shout.
So what of our first hosted site? We purchased the url www.TransformersTheMovie.com and gave it over to a guy who wanted to create a web site in the same vein as many professional film sites.
We certainly think that a professional film site is what he has made, and with the superb artwork of Dan Khanna, TransformersTheMovie.com looks every inch the great website we hoped it would be.
So check out TransformersTheMovie.com and be sure to give your thoughts on it, and if you think that you can make a website like this drop us an e-mail.
For consideration in TheTransformers.Net hosted site plan e-mail: hosting@TheTransformers.Net
Here are the first four covers from Dreamwave. Don’t forget to vote in our poll for which poster you’d like them to produce in July.
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