Divide and Conquer

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I thought Cobra was the enemy.
"Divide and Conquer"
Production code	#700-03
Season	1
No. in season	6
Production company	Sunbow Productions
Airdate	October 20, 1984
Written by	Donald F. Glut
Animation studio	Toei
Continuity	Generation 1 cartoon continuity
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The Autobots must journey to Cybertron to retrieve a vital piece of technology to save the life of the critically wounded Optimus Prime.

Synopsis

Earth factories are busily preparing weaponry for use against the Decepticon menace. Chip Chase is inspecting one such facility, where the administrators hope he can develop new methods to improve the efficiency of weapons production. The Decepticon Seekers suddenly attack the factory, breaching its walls and landing inside. They begin draining the factory of its energy, but have not noticed Chip, who sends out a distress signal to the Autobots.

Optimus Prime and Spike are on a search mission, fruitlessly looking for any trace of the Decepticon space bridge. Prime intercepts Chip's call for help, and orders the Autobots at the Ark to meet him at the munitions plant. Prime arrives at the scene first, and is outnumbered three-to-one. A stray shot hits one of the massive computer banks, which begins a critical meltdown and overload. Prime attempts to shield the humans from the inevitable explosion with his own body. The blast tears through Prime, and the Decepticons take advantage of his weakened state to nail him. Prime collapses under fire.

Ohhh, that's REALLY gonna leave a mark on the Matrix.

The Seekers hear the approach of the other Autobots, and following Megatron's orders, retreat with the energon cubes. The Autobots find Prime's badly damaged form and take it back to base. Prime's power relays are fused. His mobility limited. His speech... slow... and labored. Part replacement... essential....

Wanting to confirm Prime's condition, Megatron dispatches Laserbeak to the Ark to spy on Ratchet and Wheeljack's efforts to repair Prime. Optimus's electropulse is fading. At Megatron's command, Laserbeak attacks the incredibly vulnerable Prime, tearing into his exposed chest cavity and causing a tremendous explosion.

Shut up, Rattrap.

It's more smoke and sparks than fiery blast, and Prime survives the explosion, though his energy is fading fast. His very laser core is at risk of snuffing out, and Ratchet needs a cosmitron to keep his Prime's energy levels from draining. Wheeljack only knows of one in existence, but it's in his shop back on Cybertron, which the Decepticons had placed under a computerized lock. The Autobots need to get back to their homeworld and pick this lock. Naturally, Chip Chase is the only one of them familiar enough with Cybertronian computers to make this possible.

If I tell you go, then you GO!

Chip uses Teletraan I to do what Optimus could not: triangulate the likely coordinates for the Space Bridge's next appearance. Following Chip's detective work, the Autobots drive into the woods and discover the Space Bridge site. Starscream and Rumble oversee the transport of a shuttle module filled with Energon cubes, with a hapless Reflector-type soldier sent to pilot it across the gulf of interstellar space. With the Autobots' arrival, a fray breaks out–and so does a sudden thunderstorm.

Surprisingly, Megatron (who has been monitoring the battle) orders the Decepticons to let the Autobots win. The thunderstorm has given him an idea, but he does not elaborate. The Autobots—Bumblebee, Bluestreak, Trailbreaker and Ironhide—drive into the Space Bridge and are teleported to Shockwave's base. They blast their way past a shocked Shockwave and into Cybertron's streets. Megatron orders the Rainmakers to destroy the Autobot infiltrators with acid rain.

At Wheeljack's workshop, Chip works his way past the locking mechanism, and Ironhide instantly finds the cosmitron. Outside, a trio of Seekers somehow seed the clouds over the workshop so they produce incredibly debilitating acid rain.

"THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER!"

The acid rain shorts the circuitry of the Autobots, who collapse at the touch of the deadly downpour. Chip is immune to the rain's effects, and implores the Autobots to continue. Trailbreaker musters up the energy to project his force-field, sheltering the Autobots from the rain, giving their automatic repair systems time to kick in. Bluestreak fires some blasts into the clouds overhead, dispersing the rainmaking seekers and the toxic clouds. Rejuvenated, the Autobots return to Shockwave's tower and ride the Space Bridge back to Earth.

On Earth, Megatron recognizes that without Prime, the conquest of the Autobots is a foregone conclusion. He leads an attack on the Ark. The Autobots recognize the hopeless battle up ahead, but Spike musters up his courage, grabs Jazz's rifle, and rallies the troops. He even manages to inspire perpetual downer Huffer to take charge.

An enormous battle breaks out in front of the Ark, just as the Autobot mission returns from Cybertron. Chip and Spike race the cosmitron to Prime. Optimus emerges in time to personally challenge Megatron and soundly beats him, forcing the Decepticon leader to yield. With Megatron down, a self-satisfied Starscream orders the Decepticons to retreat.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"Heh, I wonder if I'll ever get used to that."

—Sparkplug witnessing the Autobots transform

"He's doomed. I know it. I can feel it in my databank."

—Huffer, hoping the best for a dying Prime.

"They sure don't build 'em like that anymore."

—Sparkplug, commenting on the fact Optimus Prime is still alive after his chest explodes.

"Just like Sherlock Holmes with floppy disks!"

—Spike, hopelessly over his head when it comes to computer talk.

"No one's ever really disabled as long as he has courage."

—Chip Chase, and that’s one to grow on.

"My talents are wasted on this project. I should be in sole command of everything!"

—Starscream, not giving up on his dreams.

"I'm sorry, Spike. Sometimes nothing you do makes any difference."

—Sparkplug to Spike, which, if you don't read as the general you, is actually kind of mean and funny.

"We can't go down without trying! Prime would want us to go for it, no matter what the odds! Well, are you with me, or do I fight this battle alone?"

—Spike gives an inspirational battle rally to the Autobots after taking Jazz's gun.

"Is there anyone in the universe who will challenge the might of Megatron?"
"There is one, Megatron! I, Optimus Prime, challenge you!"

—Megatron is scared to death by a now healthy Optimus Prime.

Notes

Production information

• First draft script: 21st June 1984
• Script revised by Ron Friedman: 29th June 1984
• Finalised script: 2nd July 1984
• Official Sunbow Productions synopsis:

When Optimus Prime damages an intrinsic part during a clash with the Decepticons, some of the other Autobots -- with Chip's help -- take the space bridge to Cybertron. There they find a replacement part in Wheeljack's old workshop -- while avoiding the attack of the Decepticons on this alien planet. They return in time to repair Optimus and blow up the space bridge.

Continuity notes

• The episode opens with a short narration by Victor Caroli, describing the humans' efforts to build anti-Decepticon weapons.

• Gadgets and powers:
  • Jet mode Starscream fires lasers right out of his air intakes!
  • Laserbeak deploys yet another video camera. This one's a huge telescoping camera that comes out of one of his air vents.
  • Ratchet once again uses his welding tip arm while fixing Optimus Prime.
  • Reflector can emit a light that shorts out optic sensors.
  • Reflector displays an odd ability in this episode: he can absorb his fellow units into his body. This is due to the original intent that Reflector was one guy with duplication powers; however, every other scene that would have shown his power in action got cut, which makes this look rather out-of-nowhere.
  • Shockwave is once again shown with two hands in this episode. In one scene, he reaches off-screen with a hand, and when his arm returns to the shot, his blaster-arm has taken its place.
  • Ironhide retracts his wrists to reveal another variation of his "water gun" weapon from his full-length bio, firing streams of superheated liquid lead that stick the Decepticons to the floor.
  • Trailbreaker's force field is fired like a stream from his shoulder cannon the first time he uses it; the second time, it just drifts out from behind his back.
  • Autobots have built-in repair systems.
  • Sideswipe briefly flies (albeit with no outward indication he's using his jetpack). He deploys a kind of "fire fog" from his shoulder-mounted rocket while in the air, which was scripted to be a use of his flare gun.
  • Optimus Prime displays the unusual ability to fire energy beams out of his optics... right into Megatron's face.
• This is the third consecutive episode to feature the Space Bridge.
• Skywarp says they've wrung every last "micro spark" of energy from the factory.
• The damage to Optimus Prime includes his "power relays" being fused.
• There's quite a bit of fuss over Optimus Prime's laser core (and the extinguishing thereof), apparently a critical component of Transformer life.
• Optimus Prime has an "electro-pulse" that can fade.
• The Cosmitron is a piece of internal anatomy whose failure can end the life of a Transformer.
• Cybertron has an atmosphere breathable by humans. And this is before it steals a chunk of Earth's atmosphere.
• The tetrahedral seeker jets return; they first appeared in "More Than Meets The Eye, Part 1."
• Once Trailbreaker blocks the acid rain with his forcefield, Chip says the Autobots' "automatic repair systems" will put them back in shape. Handy!
• The Transformers have a personal battle code where customs dictate personal challenges be settled in personal combat.
• This is the only episode where Laserbeak displays any cowardice, a trait described in his original tech spec bio and usually associated with the character.
• The Autobot Matrix of Leadership is nowhere to be found in Prime's chest when Wheeljack and Ratchet are repairing him.

Real-world references

• Star Wars sound effects:
  • X-Wing diving whine: as the jets land and transform inside the factory.
  • A waving lightsaber provides the necessary noise for Bumblebee's headlights.

Animation or technical glitches

So that's why Movie Ironhide is black.

• Coloring errors:
  • Starscream's air intakes are gray instead of red as he and the other two jets dive at the factory.
  • A teleporting Skywarp is mistakenly colored with Starscream's colors, and then Thundercracker's colors.
  • As Ironhide repeats his order to transform, Wheeljack's missing all his orange and much of his green; Trailbreaker's upper cheeks are colored as his eyes (it's his reading glasses look!)
  • Starscream's cheeks are dark gray instead of light gray as he calls in to Megatron.
  • Laserbeak's beak is the same dark gray as the rest of his head as he refuses Megatron's order. It should be light gray.
  • In the shot of him still holding the tree after Megatron tells him to let the Autobots win, Starscream is colored like Thundercracker.
  • Rumble's face is purple instead of light gray as he waves goodbye to "warrior".
  • As Shockwave and a Reflector soldier unload the Space Bridge's shipment of Energon cubes, the Energon is not filled with an illumination effect, and appears as solid black bars.
  • When the Autobot away team races back to Shockwave's tower, Ironhide is painted with Trailbreaker's colors, making him resemble a Diaclone incarnation of his toy.
  • As he scans for the Decepticons, Hound's left cheekguard is white instead of green.
  • After returning to Earth, Bluestreak emerges from the Space Bridge painted as Prowl.
  • In a pan across the defeated Autobots, a prone form of Ironhide is colored with Ratchet's white and red hue (Ratchet's inside Autobot Headquarters at this point) and Sideswipe has Shockwave's colors.

Note the standard issue army hardhats

• Due to a mix-up in animation models, the green-uniformed human soldiers protecting the weapons factory in one shot turn into hard hat-wearing factory workers in another shot.
• Between the first and second shots of their robot modes inside the factory, Skywarp and Thundercracker have switched places.
• Skywarp's voice is off throughout the episode. In the factory, it's more nasal than usual. When he accuses Laserbeak of being "chicken", it sounds like he's channeling Thundercracker (he also has an unusually fat head.)
• Starscream and Soundwave are both missing their insignias as Soundwave transforms.
• Optimus is supposed to be in the same dry canyon where the space bridge first showed up in "Transport to Oblivion"... but the canyon is now about ten feet deep, rather than the 50 or so it was before.
• Wrong transformation noise:
  • Prime gets the ascending pitch noise as he transforms to vehicle mode.
  • Trailbreaker, Wheeljack & co. get the descending pitch version as they convert to robot mode at the factory.

Prime in his seldom-used "aerodynamic" alternate mode.

• Improbable viewpoints:
  • The Autobots get a full-torso view of Optimus as he stands in the middle of empty desert.
  • Megatron likewise gets a full-torso view of Starscream, even though Starscream isn't talking into any kind of communicator.
  • Megatron then gets a tracking shot of Prime running through the factory!
  • Megatron manages to have a camera, with audio, right next to where the Cybertron team happens to fall as the acid rain disables them.

Laserbeak disguised as Brawn's dandruff

• A peculiar design has Optimus Prime's cab face sport a 45-degree slope as he drives into the factory.
• Starscream's voice is not electronically enhanced when he reacts to Optimus Prime barreling into the factory.
• Prime's trailer recedes into a cloud of dust as he transforms inside the factory. As he flies up into the air, the dust cloud flies up with him, and so does the shrinking trailer!
• After Megatron tells Starscream and the others to "gang up" on Optimus Prime, Starscream turns to fire on Optimus Prime running down a room with no doors or other entry points.
• Skywarp mouths Thundercracker's "I'm with you!" line.
• Just for this one scene, Brawn has conveniently gigantic shoulders for Laserbeak to land on.
• Before Brawn enters the room where Optimus Prime is being worked on, he is shown standing inside.
• Wheeljack's missing some of his dark gray as he asks Ratchet for a diagnosis.
• Wheeljack's ears don't flash as he asks how long until Prime's energy drains completely, nor as he examines the cosmitron.
• As Wheeljack pontificates about the Cosmitron, his right "ear" phases through his missile.
• There's a big nasty S-shaped hair in the center of the screen as Wheeljack describes the lock on his workshop on Cybertron.
• The part of Huffers' shoulders that are inside his hood are colored orange instead of purple as he moans about how hopeless it is.

• Prime's damage constantly changes as he lays on the repair table:
  • First shot: his window glass is missing.
  • Second shot: his window frames and grille are neatly removed.
  • Third shot: his grille is missing, and one window is broken.
  • As Laserbeak attacks: the left window has no glass.
  • As Laserbeak fires: the left window is intact, and the right window broken.
  • Prior to exploding: both windows have no glass.
  • After the attack, both cab window frames have been neatly removed.
  • As Ironhide proposes heading to Cybertron, he's back to a broken right window and intact left window, with a damaged grille.
• GAH! Chip has no pupils as he accepts the mission to pick the lock on Wheeljack's lab.
• No insignia on Soundwave as Megatron lectures his troops about the loss of Prime. The same shot has two Starscreams.
• The layering of Rumble's cubes is all messed up as he walks up behind Starscream; part of the cube stack phases through Starscream, and part of it loses its glow.
• Starscream reacts to Rumble dropping his cubes before he's actually dropped them.
• Recycled animation repeats the strange animation error of the space bridge transport vehicle rising, then falling and disappearing.
• As the Autobots come to a halt at the Space Bridge site, the camera pans across the scenery, but a painted foreground tree travels with the move, making it look like the tree is mobile.

When he transforms to drive into the space bridge, Bluestreak turns into this.

• The ramp leading to the space bridge has turned a light blue as the Autobots drive into the receiver ring.
• The nitrogen pack that Ironhide uses in Shockwave's control center is labeled "NITRGEN". In English, sorta. And Ironhide shouldn't have to use a pack anyway, since he has a built in liquid nitrogen projector.
• A strange cut occurs while Megatron is rallying the Decepticons for their assault on the Autobots. This is visible as Skywarp's arm, which he appeared to raise for their cheer, suddenly lowers (he raises it again when Megatron finishes his speech), and both Reflector and Starscream change poses in a single frame.
• When the Decepticons exit their base to attack the Autobots, a fourth Decepticon jet is shown.
• Shockwave's eye-glow doesn't move with his eye as he sets "warrior" free.
• The flashing of Wheeljack's ears moves out of sync with the rest of his body while he reacts to the security alarm.
• Teletraan's screen shows twenty-six Decepticons. There should be about a dozen at most. About fifteen are shown retreating at the end of the episode.
• Reflector's mouths don't move for his "earth germ" line.
• As Bluestreak drives over the horizon to join the battle, his car form floats above the ground.
• Starscream steals Megatron's fusion cannon sound effect as he attacks Ironhide's team.
• Shockwave and Ratchet are both among the defeated Autobots in the wreckage of the final battle.
• Optimus Prime's mouthplate moves when Megatron concedes defeat.
• Starscream's missing his wing stripes as he order a retreat... but for once, they remembered his wing insignia, which have been repeatedly omitted through the episode.
• The remastered DVD releases of this episode use an incorrect closing credits sequence, which overlays the text credits from Season 2 over the animation from Season 1.

Continuity errors

• Shouldn't a weapons factory have better defenses, particularly against the enemy that's the reason they're making the weapons in the first place?
• Soundwave kind of transforms out of nowhere in the factory.
• It is unclear how Chip knows Skywarp's missile is of the heat-seeking variety before it does anything to suggest such.
• Optimus Prime somehow deflects the heat-seeking missile by hitting its warhead with his arm.
• Thundercracker and Skywarp don't seem to know what "gang up" means. In spite of Thundercracker claiming to comply with Megatron's directions instead of his own preference for "one-on-one", both he and Skywarp launch individual one-on-one attacks on Optimus Prime.
• Appearing/disappearing Autobots:
  • Sunstreaker is shown transforming to leave for the factory; however, when the team arrives, Bumblebee has taken his place.
• It sure woulda made a lot more sense for Prime to cover the two humans, rather than throwing himself right in front of the explosive computer.
• Are computers really that explosive?
• Soundwave is shown flying off with the jets, but he's nowhere to be seen during the battle.

Good thing there just happens to be a random thing in Decepticon HQ which does exactly what I can do all on my own!

• Megatron orders Starscream to throw the fight, to allow the Autobots to travel to Cybertron so he can destroy them with acid rain. It sure seems like he didn't let Shockwave in on the plan though, since the cyclops seems surprised at their arrival and determined to stop them.
• Megatron demands proof, not just Starscream's word, that Optimus Prime has finally been deactivated. Yet he's very quick to switch off the viewscreen and conclude that "four of their number have been vanquished on Cybertron." Maybe it's just because it was Starscream...
• Megatron's order to let the Autobots win really makes no logical sense. If his soldiers had beaten them, they'd have been just as out of the way, and if they didn't he could still try his acid rain plan.
  • It sure seems like in however many millions of years the war has been raging, the Decepticons never before thought to do this acid rain thing on the ground-restricted Autobots.
• Ironhide grabs some sort of extinguisher device off the wall and uses it to spray liquid nitrogen, facilitating the Autobots' escape. This was scripted as a use of his "water gun" weapon, but the script gave no indication as to how Ironhide was meant to spray the liquid, suggesting the storyboard team devised the wall device to make the scene work.
• Ironhide pointedly comments that they can't let the acid rain hit their circuits... so why not just duck back into the shelter of Wheeljack's workshop, which is still right behind them?

• Superhuman Spike Chip:
  • Chip somehow knows how to find the Space Bridge better than Optimus can, since Chip thinks to use Teletraan I, a tactic that somehow escaped Prime.
  • Chase can crack a Cybertronian lock (apparently by just punching in every possible four-digit code combination until he stumbles on the right one.)
  • Chip is immune to Cybertronian acid rain. And so is his wheelchair.
• Superhuman Spike:
  • Spike rather effortlessly hefts Jazz's six-foot-long metal gun around.
  • Spike survives being tackled by Ravage, the first of his many clashes with him.

Rhino DVD release

• The panning shot of the Autobots transforming has a strange black bar at the bottom of the screen in the broadcast version that is missing in the DVD version.
• The shot of Optimus saying "Losing...energy...rapidly..." has a "heat" effect in the DVD version that is not present in the broadcast version.
• The glowing effects of the energon cubes are different in several shots.
• Shockwave's eye is missing its glow in one scene.
• Rumble disappears for a single frame when he says "Trash 'em!"
• The rain effects are missing in several shots.
• Starscream is miscolored as Thundercracker in one shot.
• The acid rain effects are different in several shots.
• The chapter stops on the Rhino DVD version of this episode are Opening / Weapon Factories / Off to Cybertron / New Age of Decepticons / Fight For Optimus / Optimus Saved!

Trivia

"Hey Reflector, want this candy bar?"
*tosses it to the ground and stomps on it.*

• The Reflector-type Decepticon warrior that Starscream forces to pilot the Space Bridge transport has an oddly sympathetic and very human-sounding voice.
• Brawn really is a dumbass to not notice Laserbeak sitting on his shoulder.
• Due to the fact there was no original dialogue script of "Divide and Conquer" on any of the original Transformers cartoon DVD sets, the actual spelling of Optimus Prime's Cosmitron was unknown until a copy of Don Glut's script made its way into the fandom's hands. However, the true spelling had in fact been previously suggested by the French title of the episode, which was "Le Cosmitron".
• Speaking of, the script originally referred to the device as a "Cosmitronic Transformer", but the rest of the device's name was consistently blotted out with pen in all the dialogue. This was presumably done so the kiddies watching Transformers, the show, wouldn't be confused.

Foreign localization

French

• Title (European French broadcast): "Diviser pour régner" ("Divide and rule")
• Title (Canadian French broadcast & European French DVD release): "Le cosmitron" ("The cosmitron")
• Original airdate: ?

• About the European French dub:

• Henry Djanik is absent from the dub of this episode. This is one of the only episodes in which he does not voice Megatron. Edgar Givry tries his best in his shoes.
• Wheeljack first refers to the cosmitron as "comistron", but at the end Spike says it the original way, "cosmitron".
• For some reason (still to avoid names!), Ratchet says he will stay with "le bon gros" to guard Optimus Prime, which can be translated by "fat boy".
• Despite the voice actors constantly switching roles between episodes, this specific episode also contains a lot of role-switches from one scene to another.

Hebrew

• Title: "Anti Hómmer" (אנטי חומר, "Antimatter")
• Original airdate: ?

Italian

• Title (dub 1): "Un ricambio per Commander" ("A Spare Piece for Optimus Prime")
• Original airdate: ?

• Huffer is called "Piedone" ("Big Foot") in this episode, despite his Italian name being Turbo.

• Title (dub 2): "Dividi e conquista" ("Divide and Conquer")
• Original airdate: ?

• When Spike and Chip say "Cybertron?" in unison, Spike's voice is heard twice, overlapped with itself, while Chip doesn't talk.
• When Sparkplug asks "Where's that gizmo?", his voice has the same filter applied to Transformers.

Japanese

• Title: "SOS! Cybertron" (SOS! サイバトロン)
• Original airdate: August 10, 1985
  • In the scene where Skywarp teleports and is mistakenly colored as Starscream, he is dubbed in Japanese with Starscream's voice, meaning that he is the one teleporting in this version, not Skywarp. Considering Thundercracker was mistakenly dubbed teleporting in the Japanese version of "More than Meets the Eye, Part 3" as well, it would seem that teleportation is a natural trait of the Seekers in the Japanese version of the show. Either that, or they just did a real shoddy job on the dub.
  • Cut: After Chip orders the Autobots to "Transform and roll for his life", the scene is cut short with the removal of the transitional wipe across the screen. The following scene of Shockwave freeing Reflector, the Autobots barging in, his firing at them and their escaping over the Space Bridge have also been cut. The sequence resumes at the pan across space followed by the shot of the Earth Space Bridge receiving the Autobots.
  • In true anime fashion, when Reflector fights the Autobots at the Space Bridge, he yells out the name of his special attack: "Flash Beam!"

Mandarin

• Title: "Fēn ér Zhìzhī " (分而治之, "Divide and Conquer")
• Original airdate: ?

Brazilian Portuguese

• Title: "Dividir e Conquistar" ("Divide and Conquer")
• Original airdate: ?

Russian

• Title: "Rasdelyai i vlastvuy" (Разделяй и властвуй, "Divide and Conquer")
• Original airdate: ?

Serbian

• Title: "Zavadi i vladaj" (Завади и владај, "Divide and Conquer")
• Original airdate: ?

Latin Spanish

• Title: "Dividir y conquistar" ("Divide and conquer")
• Original airdate: ?
  • The Latin Spanish dub had the tendency to change some lines, mostly keeping the same point of the original dialogue. However, in this episode in particular, when Megatron orders Laserbeak to infiltrate in the Ark, Laserbeak actually speaks, asking "Do you want me to go alone?"

Toys inspired by this episode

Like the yellow generic Seeker from "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1" who subsequently grew to prominence as the neo-G1 character Sunstorm, Acid Storm would also spawn a plethora of additional toys, including his own Masterpiece figure. Later still, the other two Rainmakers would receive toys of their own.

• Acid Storm (G1)#Toys
• Ion Storm#Toys
• Nova Storm (G1)#Toys

Home video releases

More or less antiquated than the TF storybooks that came with records? You decide!

VHS

1985 — The Transformers — Volume 5: "Divide and Conquer" (Family Home Entertainment)
1995 — The Transformers — The Autobots vs. The Decepticons (Malofilm)
1995 — Transformers — Autobots vs. Decepticons (Malofilm) — French audio only.

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 — Transformers — Original Series: Volume Two (Sony Wonder)
2002 — Transformers — Complete Original Series: Deluxe Edition (Sony Wonder)
2002 — The Original Transformers — First Season Collector's Edition (Rhino Entertainment)
2002 — The Original Transformers — Volume Two (Rhino Entertainment)
2003 — Transformers — Collection 1: Series 1 (Madman Entertainment)
2004 — Transformers — Season 1 (Metrodome)
2004 — Transformers — Le Cosmitron (UFG Junior) — European French audio only.
2006 — Transformers — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)
2007 — Classic Transformers — Series One: Part One (Metrodome)
2007 — The Transformers — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)
2008 — Transformers — Volume 01: Stagione Uno Parte Prima (Medianetwork Communication) — English and Italian audio.
2009 — Transformers — Season One (Metrodome)
2009 — The Transformers — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)
2009 — The Transformers — The Complete First Season: 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 — The Complete First Season: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)
2014 — Transformers — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

External links

• Full script as revised on 2nd July 1984
• Model sheets and background layouts