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In honour of one of the most beloved Animated movies of all time here are some pieces of trivia about Transformers: The movie (1986) for the week of its 40th anniversary cinema re-release.
Because both movies were animated by Anime studio Toei and the animators liked to include little references to their other works and in-jokes there is a blink and you'll miss it re-use of a background from the Fist Of The North Star movie (released the same year) in the scene where Unicron is devouring the planet Lithone. If you look to the left when the debris is being sucked inside Unicron you can see skyscrapers taken from a shot in the film.
The UK print of the film screened in cinemas in 1986 had an altered opening which featured a Star Wars style scrolling credit sequence that has been preserved on certain DVD and Blu Ray releases. it occurred just before the rock version of the iconic theme by Lion. Apparently UK distributors were worried if people hadn't seen the TV series they wouldn't understand the factions or premise.
The UK print also had one more extra narration line with TV series/movie narrator Victor Caroli assuring kids that "Optimus Prime will return" accompanying the shot of Unicron's head floating through space.
Apparently the reason for Spike's famous "Oh Shit, what are we gonna do now?" line was due to the fact that films with PG ratings in the US at that time were allowed more daily screenings so they could attempt to squeeze a bit more profit out of the movie.
Orson Welles health was so poor during the recording of his dialogue as Unicron that many of his voice lines were considered unusable by director Nelson Shin and story consultant Flint Dille. Shin had to put Welles lines through a synthesiser to even be able to use most of them which resulted in the more ominous tone heard in the finished film. Welles died 5 days after completing his dialogue on the film.
Inferno's voice actor is credited on the film yet he doesn't appear. Apparently footage was created but cut and the voice line wasn't recorded but the crew forgot to remove his name from the credits.
During the scene where Hot Rod and Kup are imprisoned by the Quintessons the jail cell contains the destroyed remnants of former unlucky prisoners. Amongst the wreckage you can glimpse recoloured repurposed designs for the Rick Dias and RX-782 Mk II from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. It's assumed that some of the animation staff were fans of the show and snook them in as a little homage. It's also possible someone at Toei assisted Sunrise on Zeta in an uncredited capacity and had the reference materials on their desk to draw from.
Cybertron's third moon which is attacked by Unicron's hand and damaged in the film still bears his claw marks when it reappears over 10 years later in Beast Wars in a cool piece of continuity.
For whatever reason Snarl is absent from most of the film and there's never been an official confirmation as to why. The script lists four of the five dinobots, Snarl can be seen briefly in some shots and has seemingly been included by accident not having a role in the story. Toei, Takara and Hasbro have never offered any insight into this but it's clearly a continuity error.
Anime legend Satoshi Urushihara is not credited on the film but contributed some mechanical design, promo art and also worked on key animation.
Images: Left - The Epic UK quad poster. I had a poster magazine replica of this on my childhood bedroom wall.
Middle - Japanese cinema poster art by Yoshiyuki Takani
Right - 35th Anniversary Lobby card by Matt Ferguson (2021)
Final - 2011 art by Tim Doyle for a screening at the Blue Starlight Drive-in
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