RANDOM ACTION HOUR .:. Transformers: season 1

Season 1

by Galvatron and Ragey

More Than Meets The Eye, Part 1	More Than Meets The Eye, Part 2	More Than Meets The Eye, Part 3
Transport to Oblivion	Roll For It	Divide and Conquer
Fire in the Sky	S.O.S. Dinobots	Fire on the Mountain
War of the Dinobots	The Ultimate Doom, Part 1	The Ultimate Doom, Part 2
The Ultimate Doom, Part 3	Countdown to Extinction	A Plague of Insecticons
Heavy Metal War

Season 2

by Galvatron

Autobot Spike	Changing Gears	City of Steel
Attack of the Autobots	Traitor	The Immobilizer
The Autobot Run	Atlantis, Arise!	Day of the Machines
Enter the Nightbird	A Prime Problem	The Core
The Insecticon Syndrome	Dinobot Island, part 1	Dinobot Island, part 2
The Master Builders	Auto Beserk	Microbots
Megatron’s Master Plan, part 1	Megatron’s Master Plan, part 2	Desertion of the Dinobots, part 1
Desertion of the Dinobots, part 2	Blaster Blues	A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur’s Court
The Golden Lagoon	The God Gambit	Make Tracks
Child's Play	Quest for Survival	The Secret of Omega Supreme
The Gambler	Kremzeek!	Sea Change
Triple Takeover	Prime Target	Auto-Bop
The Search for Alpha Trion	The Girl Who Loved Powerglide	Hoist Goes Hollywood
The Key to Vector Sigma, part 1	The Key to Vector Sigma, part 2	Aerial Assault
War Dawn	Trans-Europe Express	Cosmic Rust
Starscream's Brigade	The Revenge of Bruticus	Masquerade
B.O.T.

Season 3

by Ragey and Galvatron

The Five Faces of Darkness, part 1	The Five Faces of Darkness, part 2	The Five Faces of Darkness, part 3
The Five Faces of Darkness, part 4	The Five Faces of Darkness, part 5	The Killing Jar
Chaos	Forever Is a Long Time Coming	Fight or Flee
Thief In the Night	Starscream's Ghost	Ghost In the Machine
Surprise Party	Madman's Paradise	Nightmare Planet
Webworld	Carnage In C-Minor	The Big Broadcast of 2006
The Quintesson Journal	The Ultimate Weapon	The Dweller in the Depths
Only Human	Grimlock's New Brain	Money Is Everything
Call of the Primitives	The Face of Nijika	The Burden Hardest to Bear
Dark Awakening	The Return of Optimus Prime, part 1	The Return of Optimus Prime, part 2

Season 4

by Ragey

The Rebirth, part 1

The Rebirth, part 2

The Rebirth, part 3

Oh, mercy. Strap yourselves in, folks.

Season 1

Rhino released the season in the US as both individual volumes and a full box set with bonus feature disc. There's some extras on the remastering process, pointing out of animation errors (ANIMATOR'S HAIR), some dubbed clips from Masterforce and Victory, bumpers, the script to Transport to Oblivion and footage of BotCon 2001. It's pretty expensive.

Madman Entertainment released their own version of the season in Australia, and it is downright impossible to actually find out if it contains anything more than that.

Metrodome's UK release has different extras, such as a quiz, footage from BotCon 2004, character profiles, episode scripts and a "hidden Easter egg" that the site's description promises. What a mystery! Though it bugs me how the term "hidden" Easter egg is used. An Easter egg is meant to be hidden. At least, they are in the States. Over here you walk into a store and there they are!

There's also a ton of VHS tapes which are a lot cheaper than the American box sets, but they only contain like one or two episodes, so why bother?

Amazon US: Rhino DVD

Amazon UK: Metrodome DVD

Season 2

Since season 2 is nearly fifty episodes long, this causes a bit of a hullabaloo when it comes to DVD releases.

Metrodome's UK release is surprisingly simple, just splitting it into two three-disc box sets and plopping on some extras like scripts, quizzes, convention look-ats and a mini-comic in the second part. The menus kind of look hideously amateur, though, but not much to be done about that.

The US releases, however, look to be a huge jumble of complication. Instead of just releasing the boxsets, volumes of seven (or so) episodes each come out, of which there are about eight volumes for each half of the season. And then there's also boxsets compiling all those volumes together in a demonstration of actual intelligence, albeit delayed. Since Amazon's search engine is so wonky, it actually took me a few tries before seeing that there were boxsets at all, but obviously I recommend getting them over the individual volumes because honestly who would want those

Amazon US: Part 1 | Part 2

Amazon UK: Part 1 | Part 2

Season 3 + 4

Rhino's US release of the season is in two volumes, the second half containing season 4's three episode, as well as an interview with David Wise, the writer of the final season.

Metrodome's UK box set of the season also includes season 4, plus a few unexciting bonuses such as a look at a Transformers convention through the eyes of a heavy-accented Brit named Overlord, a quiz, character biographies, postcards of both official art and fan art, plus the second half of a mini-comic that really didn't help in not confusing me, what with this box set being my first intended entrance to the Transformers franchise.

It's also much, much cheaper to get than Rhino's versions. $140 for half of a season? Bollocks.

Amazon US: Part 1 | Part 2

Amazon UK: Metrodome DVD