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The cover art of Metrodome’s Transformers Victory has already been revealed, but Metrodome have released a more finished version of the cover.
It matches up with the Headmasters and Masterforce sets, so will look good on your shelf. The only change that will be made is the BBFC logo in the bottom left corner will not be PG but U.
The British Board of Film Classification has finally rated Metrodome’s Transformers Takara Volume 3 – Victory DVD. The set has received a U (Universal) rating, unlike Headmasters and Super-God Masterforce, which received PG ratings. There is 805m 24s worth of material, or over 13 hours.
The 4 disk set contains 32 episodes (There are 8 episodes per disk) with commentary on episodes 1, 16 and 32 from Chris McFeely and is released on 26th December in the UK.
The full details, including the translated episode titles, can be found here.
Metrodome are releasing Transformers The Complete Generation One Collection for the 4th September (aka tomorrow), priced at £99.99 RRP in the UK. The set can be found for £70-75 at many online stores. It will contain all 98 episodes and Transformers The Movie Reconstructed on 14 disks.
It will also have all the same extras as the 4 seasons and Reconstructed DVD sets that Metrodome have released, except the 2 part comic, The Beast Within Parts 1 and 2, that came with the “Season 2 Part 2” and “Season 3 & 4” sets. It does however come with a free double sided Movie poster.
The boxart can be found below
Chris McFeely has written his review of the Super-God Masterforce DVD released by Metrodome today. He has also provided the box art of the Transformers Victory DVD, due out on 7th September!
Forum member Nemesis Scourge has confirmed that Metrodome’s Super-God Masterforce DVD, released on Monday in the UK, containing all 42 episodes, is REGION 2. A likely reason for this is that Sony BMG is now producing Transformers DVDs in North America (region 1) and does not want Metrodome making their DVDs available for people outside Europe.
On this slow news day, we have the Deal of the Week. Blitzwing of thetf.net has spotted that Amazon.co.uk is selling Transformers The Movie Reconstructed on DVD for £4.97! So support Metrodome by buying this and Super-God Masterforce that is out on Monday.
This DVD is formatted in region 0 but requires a PAL DVD Player.
Metrodome’s Super-God Masterforce DVD, originally due for release on 24th April, has been confirmed as being delayed again to 3rd July. Here’s what Chris McFeely had to say
Right, well.
Metrodome’s Lousie Brand says it’s true.
We’ve just had this email from Jezz Vernon, at Metrodome:
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 – although I guess most people will be looking on amazon.co.uk or play.com for a discounted price.
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 of the movie 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
According to Play.com, the release date for the Transformers Takara Volume 3 – Victory DVD has been pushed back to 31st July. This seems like a more accurate date than was originally stated (3rd July).
Just to refresh people, the set is going to be a 4 disk set with 32 episodes.
Metrodome are planning on releasing all 98 episodes of The Transformers and TFTM Reconstructed in one box set. This set will be exactly the same as the 4 seasonal boxsets and Reconstructed DVD. The only difference is that it will come with a double-sided movie poster featuring the UK and USA artwork. Play.com are listing it for £74.99, due for release on 4th September.
So, if you’ve never bothered picking up any of the sets, here’s your chance to get them in one go. However, you can probably pick up the individual seasons and TFTM for a cheaper overall price.
For all of you who are interested in the Japanese series, Super-God Masterforce is now due for release on 29th May and Victory has a release of 3rd July, but this is likely to change. The set is also probably a 4 disk set with only 32 episodes, according to Chris McFeely.
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