City of Steel (episode)

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"City of Steel"
Production code	#700-18
Season	2
No. in season	3
Production company	Sunbow Productions
Airdate	October 17, 1985
Written by	Douglas Booth
Animation studio	AKOM
Continuity	Generation 1 cartoon continuity
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The Decepticons invade New York City.

Synopsis

Where will you be... the Day after Tomorrow.

Over New York City, Laserbeak flies into the Decepticons' underground base. The Constructicons are digging a hole in the ceiling and the Autobots don't have a clue. After hours of digging, the Constructicons manage to sink the Empire State Building underground.

The Autobots finally get wind of this and head to the city. Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Bumblebee and Ratchet plan to meet the rest of the Autobots at Central Park. However, Laserbeak spots them and reports back to Megatron. He plans to give the Autobots a surprising welcome.

At Central Park, the Autobots are ambushed by Soundwave and his crew, whilst underground the Constructicons inform Megatron that they're directly underneath Optimus Prime. Megatron orders them to dig while Optimus Prime is fighting Soundwave. Taken by surprise, Prime falls into the Decepticons' underground base where Megatron severs his motor relays, making him powerless. Megatron then threatens the remaining Autobots that unless they leave he will melt the Autobot leader down to scrap. He also shows them his master plan, which is to rebuild New York into New Cybertron. The Constructicons raise the Empire State building back up, but now it looks like a Cybertronian fortress. Forced to leave the city, the Autobots are gloomy until Spike comes up with a plan to get into the city undetected.

"Aquaman calling all sea creatures!"

Seemingly victorious, Megatron gloats over Prime's still body. However, Megatron is still worried that Optimus Prime might try something and orders Hook to disassemble him, which he does with a handy energy blade. After Optimus is turned into a pile of parts, Megatron picks up his head and reactivates Optimus so he can gloat. Prime responds that even though he's in pieces he will still fight. Prime then activates his arms and trips up Megatron. Megatron orders the Constructicons to dispose of Prime's remaining parts how they choose, but he gets to keep the head.

Spike, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Hound and Mirage enter the City through the sewers in the hope of rescuing Prime undetected. Elsewhere, the Constructicons are very pleased with themselves for what they did with Prime's left over body parts. They have special plans for his right arm and weapon.

"What is it, Aquaman?"

While scanning for Prime, Hound is confused because his scans show Prime was behind them when before he was ahead. Mirage then spots a giant robot alligator seeming to be made of Prime's body parts (dubbed the Alligaticon) and the Autobots run away. They trap it in a train and send it and the train packing. When they reach the underground base they find Prime's head and reattach his circuits so he can speak. Prime then activates his legs remotely to come to him and the rest of the Autobots figure out that the Alligaticon was made up of Prime's parts. After capturing it, Ratchet reassembles Prime, minus the right arm. Now that Optimus is safe, the Autobots attack. The Decepticons have turned half of New York City into New Cybertron, complete with killer taxis, and they're using Prime's arm as a weapon on top of their fortress. The taxis go for Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker, but Prime runs them down.

Of course you do...

After breaking through the Decepticon defenses, Optimus Prime, Ironhide and Ratchet plan to scale the fortress to reclaim Prime's arm. Bumblebee and Spike plan to help by distracting Megatron and Soundwave, even going so far as to insult Megatron. Megatron orders an air strike, but when Starscream is downed, the Constructicons become Devastator and he follows Prime's team up the building. Meanwhile, Spike and Bumblebee manage to sneak in and annoy Megatron, by calling him Megaklutz, and tricking him into destroying the device that controlled Prime's arm. Outside Devastator captures Prime and knocks Ironhide and Ratchet into the fortress. Wheeljack then comments that the whole thing reminds him of King Kong as he tries to assist with his remote controlled helicopters. Spike then informs Prime that his arm is no longer controlled by Megatron, and Prime takes the opportunity to use it against Devastator. After Devastator gets hit Prime falls but is saved by Ironhide and Ratchet and as usual the Decepticons retreat.

Now the city is saved, Prime is back together and Bumblebee got a souvenir (an 'I ❤ NY' bumper sticker). The Autobots roll out and return home.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"I didn't join this outfit to be a dump truck!"

—Long Haul, commenting on his alternate mode.

"I feel like I'm in some messy swamp, not under the biggest city in North America."

—Ratchet, trudging through the sewers of New York.

"It sickens me to say it, Reflector, but this one time I have to hand it to Megatron. The place is finally starting to feel like home."

—Starscream agrees with one of Megatron's plans, which heralds the coming of the apocalypse.

"I may not have a weapon, but I can still transform and roll!"

—Optimus Prime, preparing to crush the battle taxis.

"O-hoo-hoo-hoo, here they come! Auto-Auto-Autobots!"

—Mix-Mix-Mixmaster!

"Say 'uncle' or I'll shove your nose in your afterburner!"
"Uncle, UNCLE!"
"Gee, I didn't know Decepticons had uncles!"

—Sideswipe lovingly deals with Starscream. He's obviously been practicing his jet judo.

"You'll never catch us, Megaklutz!"
"Megaklutz! You dare to insult me in my own command post?!"

—Spike Witwicky daring to insult Megatron in his own command post.

"It will take more than your puny arm to stop Devastator!"
"Right. Which is why it's lucky the hand at the end of that arm... is holding a gun!"

—Devastator reels as Optimus Prime points out the single flaw in the combiner's otherwise brilliant tower-climbing plan.

Notes

Production information

• First draft storyboards completed: 17th October 1984
• Storyboards revised: 2nd November 1984
• Storyboards slugged: 8th November 1984 by John Walker
• Dialogue recording: 12th November 1984

Continuity notes

• Megatron mentions the Constructicons nagging each other like "hyper-driven Chatteroids". Sideswipe calls Laserbeak a "nosey nogoodnikon". Megatron threatens to melt Optimus Prime into paperclips if the Autobots interfere "one minicon". Hound's sensors say that Optimus Prime is ten "mechano-meters" in front of them. Optimus Prime refers to the Alligaticon as a "Reptilicon".^[1]
• Powers and gadgets:
  • Wheeljack and company all use their hydrofoils to cross New York Harbor.
  • Hook uses a lightsaber laser sword to disassemble Prime.
  • Hound displays his tracking sensors.
  • Then of course, there's Prime's bizarre telekinetic limb control, something he evidently shares with a far less fortunate bot.
  • Ironhide deploys a grappling hook from his arm, with rappelling lines attached to it.

Real-world references

Let the hate flow through you.

Giant: check. Empire State Building: check. But no beauty.

• Star Wars sound effects:
  • Laserbeak uses a whole series of Star Wars effects as he rockets over Manhattan, including a Millennium Falcon engine noise, the TIE Fighter engine roar (several times), the TIE Fighter ambient cockpit noise, and the sound of an X-Wing diving to attack the Death Star.
  • Hook's lightsaber laser sword ignites with the sound of Luke deflecting the seeker ball's bolts aboard the Millennium Falcon.
• Devastator climbs the Decepticons' "improved" version of the Empire State Building, very similarly to King Kong, as Wheeljack rather heavy-handedly points out.
• The Alligaticon is likely an allusion to the persistent rumors of alligators living in New York City's sewers.
• Various New York landmarks are seen and/or mentioned: the Twin Towers, the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, the Woolworth Building (visible as the first Autobots leave Manhattan), the Brooklyn Bridge. Hound mentions Park Avenue, Madison Avenue, and Lexington Avenue.
• Scrapper invites the Autobots to "Take the A Train".
• The final shot in this episode shows Bumblebee with an "I ♥ NY" bumper sticker, part of a famous promotional campaign.

Animation or technical glitches

As a Season 2 AKOM episode, "City of Steel" features the standard character model oddities:

• Soundwave's backpack is gray instead of blue.
• Megatron's gun barrel is dark gray instead of light gray.
• Prime's backpack is white.
• The "disk" on Bumblebee's back is dark gray instead of yellow.
• Devastator retains his color scheme from Heavy Metal War (purple window on upper chest, purple top of chest plate, green crotch), rather than the revised color guide used by other studios starting in Season 2.

As an AKOM episode in general, "City of Steel" features an absurd number of straight-ahead animation mistakes:

• Coloring errors:
  • Laserbeak's beak is the same dark gray as his head as he flies through the sewers.
  • Laserbeak's beak is dark gray (again) as he reports the Autobot sighting. He also has a little bird tongue!
  • Scavenger's cab window is green instead of white as he rides the scissor lift.
  • Bumblebee's fists are light gray instead of dark gray as Prime orders the Autobots to transform.
  • The back of Soundwave's legs are white instead of blue as Prime picks him up during the Central Park fight.
  • Ironhide is dark gray instead of red as the Autobots cross the Brooklyn Bridge.
  • When Optimus activates his dismembered legs, his head crest is colored entirely in dark gray instead of light gray and blue.
  • As Megatron gloats over Prime's dismembered bits, Mixmaster is colored like Bumblebee.
  • The first shot of Frenzy driving the train shows him colored like Rumble.
  • As he rams the Constructicons' position, one of Prime's headlights isn't colored white. Of course, it shouldn't be there at all, being part of the arm he's missing at this point.
  • Two Laserbeak cassettes (red details) leave Soundwave's chest during the battle at the end. One should be Buzzsaw, with gold details. The condors don't get a transformation sound effect as they convert to robot form.
• It's not without precedent, but Soundwave usually has to push his shoulder button to open his chest compartment. As Laserbeak returns, it opens of its own accord. In the same shot, Soundwave's shoulder button is dark blue instead of light gray.
• As Scavenger rolls past Soundwave, he starts growing larger before he even begins to climb the ramp that's supposed to be bringing him closer to the camera's point of view. At the end of the same pan shot, Hook's head is green instead of black.
• There is no way in Hell's Kitchen that dinky little scissor lift is strong enough to support the weight of the Empire State Building.
• Wheeljack's team is vastly oversized as they cruise past the Statue of Liberty.
• For some reason, Prime's voice is muffled as if it's a radio transmission as the Autobots drive along the highway.

Baby Bluestreak watches in horror as Giganticus Prime commences his rampage.

• There appears to be a total of ten Constructicons working on the Empire State Building.
• Soundwave's shoulder cannon is red and Megatron's face is a darker gray than usual as Megatron laughs about his "terminal welcome" joke.
• Frenzy's mouth isn't moving as he says "Can be hazardous".
• As the Autobots transform, a layering error results in a tiny Bluestreak standing in front of a normal-sized Ratchet and Ironhide, next to a Devastator-sized Optimus.
• Ironhide doesn't so much get knocked down by Frenzy and Rumble's earthquake attack as he does just walk along and randomly fall over. His back is colored light gray instead of dark gray in the sequence.

• When Scavenger is beating the bucket of his vehicle mode against the ceiling below Central Park, a misplaced cel means the cracks that are supposed to be forming in the ceiling appear in front of his arm instead.
• As usual in the cartoon universe, metal cracks, splits and crumbles just like rock.
• In a long shot of the Autobot/Decepticon battle in Central Park, Bumblebee is inexplicably grappling with Bluestreak while Ratchet fights Reflector.
• In the Central Park sequence, Scavenger's vehicle mode is huge, towering over Megatron and with a bucket significantly larger than Optimus.
• Prime falls a long way into the Decepticon base, but in the previous shot, he was standing on Scavenger's shovel. When Prime finally lands on the base's floor, Scavenger is there waiting for him.
• Prime's "motor relays" are right there in his stomach-grille? Wha? (AKOM shows Jazz having critical circuits in his car mode grille in "The Core", as well.)
• Soundwave's shoulder button is blue again as he presses it to communicate with Megatron. The sound effect that plays is usually reserved for an opening hatch or door. And Soundwave doesn't usually have to push that particular button to radio someone.
• The shot of the submerged Empire State Building is recycled from the earlier scene (ten Constructicons, remember?) Two of the tiny figures shown are supposed to be Megatron and Soundwave, but they're both shown to be on the surface by that point.
• The scene freezes for several seconds as the rebuilt Empire State Building is about to be raised above ground, complete with non-moving clouds of dust and smoke. After the building is raised, the same shot is recycled, showing it back down in the ground.
• Spike says "take a left", but the Autobots take a ramp that goes right.
• A layering error has Megatron's hand passing in front of Prime's smokestack, which is much closer to the camera. Result: a visually microscopic Megatron.
• Prime's eye-flashes don't quite line up with his optics.
• Scrapper's mouthplate isn't moving as he carries Optimus Prime's arm.
• For all their reaction to the Alligaticon, the Autobots sure aren't in any hurry to get away from it. They stroll away at a very leisurely pace.
• When Bumblebee and Spike exit the subway car to escape from the Alligaticon, a misplaced cell makes Spike and 'Bee appear in front of the Alligaticon.
• Scrapper has Sideswipe's voice as he says the "riding down their own grave" line.

• Starscream has only one wing insignia as he admires the cityscape.
• What the heck were Prime's legs supposed to be, anyway? Part of a crypt or something? They're just standing there in a tunnel when Prime summons them.
• Ratchet's voice is more like Gears' as he says the "don't let go" line.

"This episode is dumb and stupid!"
"From the looks of the animation, I'd say a little of both."

• One of the series' most infamous dialog screwups happens as the Autobots wrestle with the Alligaticon. Mirage and Ratchet say, in perfect sync, "This alligator is big and heavy!" Prime then responds with the sage observation: "From the looks of it, I'd say a little of both." The scene appears to be the result of an editing and directorial snafu. Prime should be responding to the Autobots' previous lines: "Now we've got him!" "Or should I say, we've got you?" "I'd say a little of both!" And the combined Ratchet and Mirage line was likely intended to be a series of ad libs as the Autobots struggle with the Alligaticon, rather than a straight line delivered before Prime's line.
• Prime's telekinetic waves change from wide circles, to a narrow band. The narrow band finds its way to.... nothing. It then snaps off with a really loud sound effect.
• Ratchet's mouth disappears for a split second as he finishes repairing Prime.
• One of Prime's chest windows, and one of his exhaust stacks, are among the leftover parts as he stands up.
• Wheeljack's ears aren't flashing as he says "This sure isn't little old New York anymore".
• As Megatron and Soundwave zero in on the Autobots on their monitor, Prime has both his arms.
• Appearing/disappearing Autobots:
  • Jazz suddenly shows up for a single shot as the Autobots scatter from Prime's rifle fire.
• Hound and Bluestreak get two sequential transformation effects as they change to car mode, with a slight pause between them, instead of one continuous sound.
• Don't Hound and Bluestreak look where they're going when they drive? There's this huge hole in the street and they just drive right into it.
• Scrapper's voice comes out of nowhere to say the "A train" line to Hound and Bluestreak.
• The car mode Autobots just kind of float over the battle taxis. How'd they do that?
• How long's it take for the animators to forget that truck mode Prime is missing an arm? Only one shot! He's intact for his entire ramming sequence against the taxis and the Constructicons. Only when he rolls up to Ironhide and transforms is his bumper/arm missing again.
• Lots of missing Seeker insignias as the Decepticon jets launch their attack.
• Is Megatron supposed to be touching the blue button on his belly to radio Scrapper? 'Cause he totally misses it.
• Scrapper's voice is a bit off as he gives the order to combine. It's not quite as bad as before, but still not the correct hoarse rasp.

And now he's broken his 20th Anniversary Prime toy.

• Devastator's scale is always an issue, but he's really oversized here, smashing an entire multi-story building aside with a single blow. Man, Dreamwave must've really loved this dorky episode, huh?
• Devastator has two eyes instead of an eyeband as he holds Optimus, and again as he fends off the helicopters.
• Why is Wheeljack upset? Devastator didn't manage to touch his helicopters!
• Does Prime really have to telekinetically control his rifle? Wouldn't pulling the trigger suffice?
• As is normal when a good guy's life is at stake, Devastator (holding Optimus) falls for an absurdly long time. He's moving incredibly slowly as he passes Ironhide and Ratchet.

Continuity errors

• Laserbeak's shoot-to-enter door system seems rather improbable, or at least pointlessly complicated. In particular, how does the manhole cover know to land right back on top of the entrance?
• Let's not even get into the plausibility of lowering a thousand-foot building into the ground, rebuilding it for beings several times the size of a human, and then rebuilding it again into its original form. Ditto for the rest of Manhattan, actually.
• The TV newscaster is heard saying "...meanwhile, officials are baffled as to the cause of the disappearance of the world-famous Empire State Building." Aside from the fact "officials" should be able to just look down the giant hole to Megatron's operation, why is this no higher than second in newsworthiness? The episode precedes the now-ubiquitous 24-hour news cycle, but what could possibly have been more notable than the disappearance of an entire skyscraper? It should be all they can talk about for the entire broadcast.
• Prime apparently keeps fragile vital circuits right out in front on his tummy, where one poke from a cyber-doojit can totally disable him. Lucky nobody tried that move on him ever again!
• With all the freaking huge cannons that the Decepticons installed, it's Prime's firearm that's the big cause for panic?
• Megatron, ensconced in his headquarters, responds to a comment of Spike's while Spike is riding down the street inside Bumblebee. How could he possibly hear what he said?
• After Prime dispatches the battle-taxis, there's a scene transition, followed by a shot of Ironhide standing still and not doing anything. Prime rolls up to him and declares "That's the way to cool it, Ironhide!", which strongly indicates that Ironhide was supposed to have been doing something with his liquid nitrogen that got cut out, even though Prime's response didn't.
• Why on earth do the Decepticon jets just fly right through their own building? If the idea is that the Autobots shot them and made them lose control, the animation completely fails to show it.

"I would have waited an eternity for this. It's over, Prime!.... I should probably kill you right now, shouldn't I?"

• Spike's "Now, Bumblebee!" line is ridiculous filler. The elevator door opens, they step into Megatron's headquarters, Megatron and Soundwave are right there in front of them... when else were they going to enact their brilliant plan? And how come Megatron's HQ has no security system to keep them out to begin with?
• While it might be true of Spike, it's kind of weird that Megatron refers to both Spike and Bumblebee as "Earth pests."
• Where did Wheeljack find two missile-equipped helicopters?
• Megatron retreats, saying "The Autobots may have destroyed our city of New Cybertron"... but the Autobots really have done nothing of the sort.
• Why didn't the Constructicons find the Matrix when they took apart Prime?
• Even more curious, how is it that Optimus can survive being reduced to a talking head, when the much lesser damage he took in The Transformers: The Movie was enough to kill him? Is this because he was supposedly "disassembled", for the most part, rather than damaged?
• Wouldn't it have been a good idea to take three minutes to reattach Optimus Prime's arm before getting to work on putting the city's buildings back to normal, so that he could have maybe helped? Rather than doing it as the very last thing before they leave? The restoration itself appears to have been completed astonishingly quickly, despite the Autobots not having construction specialists (yet) and the Cybertronian conversion requiring a team of six.

I Love New York errors

• The opening pan from the Hudson River shows the Chrysler Building south of the Empire State Building. It should be north. Both buildings are way too far south relative to the Twin Towers.
• "Meet us in Central Park" is an incredibly vague order, considering the size of the place.
• The Autobots don't really stop in Central Park; there's buildings on two sides of them. No traffic or pedestrians, though. Or sidewalks.
• As the Decepticons prepare to raise it back into position, the Empire State Building is drawn as if it borders a park.
• The Brooklyn Bridge is more than just three lanes wide. It also does not have an exit ramp at mid-span.
• Oh, man. Spike went swimming in the East River in 1985? He is a super-human.
• It could just be chalked up to Hound's optimism, but most subway tracks don't end at a river.

Trivia

• Along with "The Core" and "The Autobot Run", this episode is one of a trio animated by AKOM, showcasing the Constructicons and featuring distinctively bright and "cartoonish" art and animation, lots of use of stock poses, a somewhat more juvenile plot and script than normal, and a common set of animation model oddities (listed above).
• Though it is widely regarded in the fandom as his normal way of speaking, this is in fact the only time Mixmaster's speech oddity ("Right right right. Mega Mega Megatron!") ever shows up.
• This episode's dialogue script reveals a deleted scene: the Autobot group waterskiing into the harbor were to use their powers in a fight against Skywarp, Starscream, and Thundercracker (where Mirage was to reference Starscream as a "sitting duckatron" for blasting Hound's hologram instead of the real one). It makes the Autobots' worrying immediately afterwards about Laserbeak reporting them kind of silly, as they'd already fought some Decepticons on the way in! As it happens, the fight isn't referenced again anyway, making the removal seamless.
• When Megatron warns the Autobots against interfering with his plans, he refers to a "minicon" as a unit of measurement. This term would be later used as the name for the Mini-Cons, a race of small Transformers (primarily) from the Unicron Trilogy.
• AKOM avoids screwing up Devastator's combination sequence by not actually showing it. The pieces of Devastator just fly in from off-screen, already formed.
• Prime's vehicle mode gains toy-accurate cab stripes and his trailer has the additional blue stripes from the toy.
• This was one of several episodes subjected to the MSTF treatment at BotCon 2000.
• City of Steel has the honour of being the final episode of Transformers: Generation 2 when the G1 cartoon was rebroadcast in the 90s under the G2 banner.

Foreign localization

French

• Title: "La cité d'acier" ("City of Steel")
• Original airdate: ?

• This episode is one of those that has never been released on DVD in French.
• Some voice actors switch characters for this episode (well, more than usual). For example, this is the first time Soundwave is not dubbed by Albert Augier despite the latter being present to dub other characters.
• Georges Atlas is absent, which does not help. Consequently, it breaks Skywarp's streak, who was the only "regular" character with Optimus Prime and Bumblebee keeping the same voice actor since episode 1 until now.
• The whole dialogue between Bonecrusher and Long Haul during the opening scene ("I didn't join this outfit to be a dump truck!") is absent from the dub. This results in 10 seconds of a frozen shot of a dump truck with catchy music, until Megatron finally asks them what they are waiting for.
• The anchorwoman is dubbed by a man, the French cast being 100% male at this time of the dub.
• Optimus Prime's line "Sparkplug, tell Wheeljack and the others to meet us at Central Park" is not dubbed. This results in a sequence of Autobots driving, the interior of Optimus Prime's truck and a shot of Sparkplug in front of Teletraan-1 without context, before the logo transition.
• The whole sequence of the Autobots sliding on water is not dubbed. All we can do is watch them slide in music while being spied on by Laserbeak.
• Scrapper uses the word "modification" to give the order of transforming rather than "mutation" often used by the Decepticons in previous episodes.
• As usual, the line in which Megatron asks Soundwave to launch Laserbeak and Buzzsaw is not dubbed in order to avoid pronouncing difficult names.

Italian

• Title (dub 1): "La città d'acciaio" ("City of Steel")
• Original airdate: ?

• The first lines are not dubbed.
• The Alligaticon is simply called an alligator.
• Instead of saying that the Alligaticon is made with Optimus's pieces, Spike and Bumblebee say that those pieces are inside it.

• Title (dub 2): "La città d'acciaio" ("City of Steel")
• Original airdate: ?

Japanese

• Title: "Steel City" (スチールシティ)
• Original airdate: December 13, 1985

Mandarin

• Title: "Gāng zhī Chéng " (钢之城, "City of Steel")
• Original airdate: ?

Brazilian Portuguese

• Title: "Cidade de Aço" ("City of Steel")
• Original airdate: ?

Russian

• Title: "Gorod iz stali" (Город из стали, "The City of Steel")
• Original airdate: ?

Toys inspired by this episode

This toy's box is big and heavy!

• Masterpiece MP-21G Bumble G-2 Ver. (TakaraTomy, 2015)

A redeco of Masterpiece Bumble (Bumblebee) with a metallic gold finish based on his Generation 2 toy (which is unrelated to this episode) that includes an "I ♥ NY" license plate decal based on the bumper sticker he sports at the end of this episode.

• Masterpiece MP-45 Bumble (TakaraTomy, 2019)

A completely new mold with more show-accurate robot and vehicle modes, among his accessories includes a "I ♥ NY" license plate/bumper sticker that attaches to the front of his altmode front grill.

• Ultimates! Alligaticon (Super7, 2022)

A 10-inch-long non-transforming figure made to emulate the creature's cartoon model, with multiple "City of Steel"-themed accessories, including a tower with Optimus's arm attached to it.

Home video releases

VHS

1999 — The Original Transformers — Volume 1: Prime Threat (Rhino Entertainment)

LaserDisc

1994 — Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers — Convoy Set (Takara) — Japanese audio only.
1998 — The Transformers — Autobot Edition (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.

DVD

2001 — The Transformers — DVD Box 1 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.
2002 — The Original Transformers — Season 2 Part 1 (Rhino Entertainment)
2002 — The Original Transformers — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment)
2003 — Transformers — Season 2 Part 1 (Metrodome)
2004 — Transformers — Bumper Collection Special (Metrodome)
2004 — Transformers — Collection 2: Series 2.1 (Madman Entertainment)
2006 — Transformers — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)
2007 — The Transformers — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)
2008 — Transformers — Volume 03: Stagione Due Parte Prima (Medianetwork Communication) — English and Italian audio.
2009 — Transformers — Season Two: Part One (Metrodome)
2009 — The Transformers — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)
2009 — The Transformers — Season Two, Volume One: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)
2009 — The Transformers — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)
2011 — The Transformers — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory)
2014 — The Transformers — Season Two, Volume One: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)
2014 — Transformers — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

References

External links

• User:repowers rips this episode to tiny pieces in a September 2000 review
• Episode dialogue script
• Model sheets and background layouts
• Gallery of full storyboards