Release Date: 26th June 2004
Distributor: Maximum Entertainment
Country: UK
Region: 2 PAL
Number of Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English
Subtitles: None
Rating: PG

The first release from Maximum Entertainment featured the first 8 episodes of the 2001 series Transformers: Robots In Disguise. The volume was originally announced with only 5 episodes but was bumped up to 8. This volume was meant to be the first of a series comprising the entire series but due to unexpectedly high sales, brought on by the fact it was the first time RID had been released on DVD in the world, future volumes were cancelled and 2 boxsets were released.

Megatron and his evil Predacons arrive on Earth with one goal: Destruction! This causes a secret force of goodness to emerge: the heroic Autobots, led by Optimus Prime. They have hidden their existence by taking the forms of vehicles, but now they reveal their true nature to fight Megatron and protect Earth. They are Transformers: Robots In Disguise!

Episodes
01. Battle Protocol
02. An Explosive Situation
03. Bullet Train Rescue
04. Spy Changers to the Rescue
05. The Hunt for the Black Pyramid
06. The Secret of the Ruins
07. Side Burn’s Obsession
08. Secret Weapon: D-5

Extra Features
Character Profiles by Chris McFeely

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Release Date: 22nd June 2004
Distributor: Rhino Home Video
Country: USA
Region: 1 NTSC
Number of Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles: None
Catalogue Number:

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Another compilation of Armada episodes, this time focusing on the Mini-Cons.

Episodes
05. Soldier
06. Jungle
29. Desperate
30. Runaway

Extra Features
None

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Release Date: 22nd June 2004
Distributor: Rhino Home Video
Country: USA
Region: 1 NTSC
Number of Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles: None
Catalogue Number:

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Another compilation of Armada episodes, this time focusing on the Mini-Cons.

Episodes
24. Chase
25. Tactician
35. Rescue
36. Mars

Extra Features
None

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Release Date: 3rd May 2004
Distributor: Metrodome Distribution
Country: UK
Region: 2 PAL
Number of Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 & Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0
Subtitles: None
Catalogue Number: MTD5150

May 3rd 2004 sees the release of the Transformers season 2 Part 2 DVD for the first in the UK.

Episodes
41. The Golden Lagoon
42. The God Gambit
43. Make Tracks
44. Child’s Play
45. Quest for Survival
46. The Secret of Omega Supreme
47. The Gambler
48. Kremzeek!
49. Sea Change
50. Triple Takeover
51. Prime Target
52. Auto-Bop
53. The Search for Alpha Trion
54. The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
55. Hoist Goes Hollywood
56. The Key to Vector Sigma: Part 1
57. The Key to Vector Sigma: Part 2
58. Aerial Assault
59. War Dawn
60. Trans-Europe Express
61. Cosmic Rust
62. Starscream’s Brigade
63. The Revenge of Bruticus
64. Masquerade
65. B.O.T.

Extra Features
Exclusive Character Art From Marvel Comic’s Andrew Wildman
Transformers Comic “The Beast Within” by Darren Jamieson & Dylan Gibson
Atari Game Trailer
Extended Quiz
Fan Art Gallery
Character Profiles
Easter Egg
Complete Scripts On DVD Rom

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Release Date: 21st April 2004
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Country: Australia
Region: 4 PAL
Number of Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: None
Catalogue Number: MMB070

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The first half of season 2, containing 24 episodes

Episodes
17. Autobot Spike
18. Changing Gears
19. City of Steel
20. Attack of the Autobots
21. Traitor
22. The Immobilizer
23. The Autobot Run
24. Atlantis Arise
25. Day of the Machines
26. Enter the Nightbird
27. A Prime Problem
28. The Core
29. The Insecticon Syndrome
30. Dinobot Island: Part 1
31. Dinobot Island: Part 2
32. The Master Builders
33. Auto Berserk
34. Microbots
35. Megatron’s Master Plan Part: 1
36. Megatron’s Master Plan Part: 2
37. Desertion of the Dinobots Part: 1
38. Desertion of the Dinobots Part: 2
39. Blaster Blues
40. A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur’s Court

Extra Features
None

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Release Date: 30th March 2004
Distributor: Rhino Home Video
Country: USA
Region: 1 NTSC
Number of Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles: None
Catalogue Number:

NOT RATED

The first of two compilations, with episodes that focus on flashbacks.

Episodes
18. Trust
12. Prehistory
31. Past, Part 1
32. Past, Part 2

Extra Features
None

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Release Date: 30th March 2004
Distributor: Rhino Home Video
Country: USA
Region: 1 NTSC
Number of Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles: None
Catalogue Number:

NOT RATED

Another compilation of Armada episodes, this time with the “best battles” from the series.

Episodes
02. Metamorphosis
03. Base
09. Confrontation
21. Decisive Battle

Extra Features
None

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Release Date: 9th March 2004
Distributor: Rhino Home Video
Country: USA
Region: 1 NTSC
Number of Discs: 4
Audio: English
Subtitles: None
Rating: –
Catalogue Number:

Rhino are releasing the three Season 4 episodes together with the second part of Season 3 in this DVD boxset.

Episodes
Ghost in the Machine
The Dweller in the Depths
The Nightmare Planet
The Ultimate Weapon
The Quintesson Journal
The Big Broadcast of 2006
Only Human
Grimlock’s New Brain
Money is Everything
Call of the Primitives
Burden Hardest to Bear
The Face of the Nijika
The Return of Optimus Prime: Part 1
The Return of Optimus Prime: Part 2
The Rebirth Part 1
The Rebirth Part 2
The Rebirth Part 3

Extra Features

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Originally known as: Transformers Armada: Prelude to Energon

Publisher: Atari
Developer: Melbourne House
Released: 7th May, 2004 (Europe), 11th May, 2004 (North America)
Platform: Sony PlayStation 2
No. of Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T for Fantasy Violence
Pegi Rating: 7+

The success of Transformers Armada meant Hasbro was able to sell merchandise ideas to other companies based on the series and luckily, one of them was with Atari for a Transformers video game.

The game was first announced in July 2003 at E3, the world’s largest games expo. Initially entitled ‘Transformers Armada: Prelude To Energon’, the game was due to come out at around the end of the Armada and beginning of Energon, the sequel to Armada, in early 2004.

The game was developed by Atari’s own in-house team, Melbourne House, based in Australia. With very little time, the game was created for the Sony PlayStation 2 console only and was designed to be a single player only game.

On 2nd September 2005, Transformers Director’s Cut was released exclusively in the UK. It was completely the same as the original game but included a “making of” documentary on a bonus disc.

View the game’s official website from Atari here

Interview with Andrew Carter, Vice President of Development at Melbourne House
We managed to beg a little time with Andrew Carter and the Melbourne House team developing Transformers Armada: Prelude to Energon for the PS2. Naturally we quizzed them on Transformers, and it turns out they know a thing or two, being fans themselves. (More).

Versions
Transformers – Europe – 7th May 2004
Transformers – North America – 11th May 2004
Transformers Director’s Cut – UK – 2nd September 2005

Press Releases
ATARI TO BRING TRANSFORMERS ARMADA: PRELUDE TO ENERGON TO PLAYSTATION©2 – 17th July 2003

Atari & Universal Motown Records Group Announce Joint Marketing Relationship – 12th April 2004

Released in 1985 by Ladybird books these were a series of short stories that were sold as individual books, and in sets with accompanying tapes. The first set of three books included Autobots’ Lightning Strike, Megatron’s Fight for Power and Autobots Fight Back.

Written by John Grant
Illustrated by Mike Collins and Mark Farmer