Seasons 3 & 4 To Be Released In April

The final DVD box set of the original Generation One adventures of the Transformers is due out in April of 2010. This is exciting because all 98 episodes of the original series have been remastered with corrected animation and fixes to the sound that was butchered in the Kid Rhino releases. Also, this set will be available at a much cheaper price (until the announcement of this release, the season 3 part 2 set was running close to $90.00 on Amazon at the cheapest), and fans will be able to get the entire third season and the three episode fourth season/ U.S. series finale in one box set with a host of new bonus features. Kid Rhino had broken the season up into two parts. Shout! Factory has done an excellent job with their re-issues of the original series, and if you are a fan, you shouldn't miss out on this last box set.

It was drastically different from the first two seasons and it picked up directly after the 1986 movie. Optimus Prime is dead and Megatron has been recreated by Unicron as the mighty Galvatron. Rodimus Prime is the new leader of the Autobots, and he is uncertain of his own role or leadership abilities. Also, the series was thrown twenty years into the future in the far off year of 2005 (we still don't have hover cars or an Earth Defense Force, and it's 2010). It threw off a lot of fans as most of the characters that fans had grown to love (Prime, Ironhide, Brawn, Starscream, etc.) had been killed off in the movie, and the adventures of the Transformers were now on different planets and Cybertron with a host of new characters. However, there were so many new elements in season three that added to the overall story (i.e. the real origin of the Transformers, the Quintessons, Starscream's ghost, the Headmasters, etc.), it was hard to not like this season/ series. Also, Optimus Prime would return by the end of the series, which made a lot of parents happy. If you can get past the big changes and the terrible animation for the first half of the season, you are bound to find the last great Transformers series until 2008's Transformers: Animated. I have always found it best to think of season three as an entirely different series because, let's be honest, it sure felt like one. In fact, in Japan it was treated as a separate series.