I remember Hasbro receiving complaints from parents over the green-eyed kids in the early commercials. They were creepy to me as well as ridiculous. I sure miss die-cast figures. Almost as much as metal lawn darts.
They stopped it because kids were putting stuff in their eyes, trying to emulate it, lol. I was a kid when these adverts were on, albeit a very young kid, but I never tried it myself, haha. Think I had most of the transformer released till around 88. The only ones I can't remember having were the insecticons, Soundwave & Shockwave, Unicron & Tripticon. I stupidly gave them all away to my next door neighbour when I started getting into wrestling 😮 Would be worth a few pennies nowadays
Format to pretty much every Transformers commercial... 1. Cartoon segment. 2. Transformers theme. 3. Transforming. 4. (Robotic voice) "Robots in disguise!" 5. "(Decepticon) is attacking!" 6. "(Autobots) will stop them!" 7. "Each sold separately, from Hasbro."
It's so fun to see these all these years later. I was 11 when Transformers premiered on TV in 84, I was immediately a fan. I was all about Star Wars toys and Atari in the years before 84 but once these came out they were all I wanted. I would collect them and put them on shelves and never play with them. Took great care of them for my display. Christmas 84 my parents were so nice they bought me Optimus Prime, Jazz, Prowl & WheelJack. I remember going to Lionel Playworld a month or two before Christmas and I watched some parents fight over some when the stock boys brought out a new box or two from the back. I couldn't believe the behavior of some of them. I wasn't as shocked I guess because of the Cabbage Patch Dolls drama a year or two before which we all knew about back then. It wasn't until Nintendo made it to America that I found something else to be obsessed about. Lol The biggest mistake Hasbro made was killing off all the original characters in the movie just to launch a new toy line, my opinion they could've done it without the movie. I would've preferred a new TV series set in the future that came on after the original show so season 3 would've still been all the original line up. I would've been a bigger fan of the new show had I not lost all my beloved original guys. It's funny to still be upset about it all these years later but I am. I would've loved a movie in 86 that was all about Prime and Megatron that ends to lead into season 3 and then years down the road say 89 or 90 to then put out the movie we got in 86 to show the changing of the guard. I think it all would've remained popular had that happened instead of getting cancelled after season 3. Regardless Transformers are my all time favorite toy line and cartoon, well season 1 & 2, not so much 3. I was pretty much checked out by the time we made it to the headmasters.
i remember having these commericals as a bonus on a vhs of the 1986 transformers movie. used to watch it all the time at my grandma's house. good times.
After all these years I still find it funny that the character of JetFire was modeled after the Valkyrie Class Veritechs from Robotech in particular the Skull 1 Veritech piloted by legendary ace Roy Fokker and later Rick Hunter.
All these classic transformers commercials serves as a bit of a history lesson to me because I knew about most of the transformers from back in the 80s, but I didn’t know that the autobots had triple changers of their own. I knew that the Decepticons had blitz wing as one of their Triple changers and I also didn’t know that the Decepticons had other triple changers too.
The Autobot Triple-Changers came way later, and the Decepticon Triple-Changers got their own focus in a cartoon episode. Plus, Blitzwing was the only triple-changer featured in Animated, which is roughly when transformers went mainstream again.
Man I remember them commercials and still have alot of these in two large 27 gallon containers. Too much to collect as a kid spending my summer job pay checks between this GI Joe, Robotech and MASK.
Hi jenni earn yeah Transfomers toys are the best i Love this Commercials so much and the Classics Always be Cool and i Love Fortress maximus impacting and Scopinok Wow Awesome and the Power Masters Amazing i am a Great Fan of This Transformers commercials Cool
Yeah I thought his whole thing was him being a soldier instead of a leader Realistically, they were probably building up the twist that Hot Rod would be the next Prime.
Part of being an 80s kid was getting your first Transformer toy and being disappointed they didn't make those loud snapping noises when you transformed them.
Beat it Rodimus Prime, we do not need a Brazilian-tuned like Camping Car as Autobot leader! We want Optimus Prime... Or at least Powermaster God Ginrai. And possibly with SUPER MEGATRON as opponent... Not that hysterical incompetent of Galvatron :( Galvatron in commercials had such potential the animators destroyed him with his more than erratic behaviour! And that hateful voice... Commercials one was perfect... Fit for a powerful leader with a touch of insanity. "Scourge is possessed! Stop him decepticons... Even MAIM him... But wipe out the spark of STARSCREAM out of him!"
In the Deviation version... No, Prime doesn't die thanks to Kup's wisdom. Hot Rod instead dies to defeat Unicron... Unfortunately also Perceptor, Jazz and Cliffjumper appear to die along with Ultra Magnus and most of the useless Season 3 characters (Kup and Blurr survive, and so Grimlock, the Dinobots, the Witwickys... And Kranix)
Anyone think they should rerelease some of the titans return or power of the primes and combiner wars figures? Like for example Devasator,Triptacon and metroplex for example? Cause they wouldn’t look too out of place in a siege/legacy collection.
Good to see, but the image quality is terrible - virtually impossible to see some of them! I wish the high quality from Hasbro where still viewable as there is only so much you can do with a VHS (and a low quality one at that) recording
Galactic Man was actually a Radio Shack-licensed version of ToyCo Astro Magnum, and was a Pre-Transformer in 1983. The Galactic Man now has the nickname 'Shackwave'. Hasbro also licensed Astro Magnum in 1985 for Shockwave, now every G1 Shockwave toy has to have a black Astro Magnum colored recolor.
LegoAWC Stopmotioner Actually more the only surviving autobots were bumblebee jazz Cliff jumper blaster and Dino bots however db Suffer the fate worse than death reduced to comic relief
I'm so glad they stuck with the dumb "a child must say 'robots in disguise' in a robot voice" gimmick through almost the entire run of commercials. I bet the adult in the boardroom who threw that idea out to the rest of the adults felt pretty proud every time they saw a transformers commercial.
It was from the UA-cam Editor program back when you can make some videos from it until 2017 where Google killed it off & this was the last video I made from there. I would love to but it depends on when you want to do the documentary.
@@TMNIsaac Thanks. I nixed the documentary, I had another idea for an upcoming series I’m doing with three others. Do you have an email you can be reached? To give you a better idea of what I’d like to do. Thanks.
I remember Hasbro receiving complaints from parents over the green-eyed kids in the early commercials. They were creepy to me as well as ridiculous. I sure miss die-cast figures. Almost as much as metal lawn darts.
I guess parents, even then, didn't have anything to do but complain about nothing smh
I miss die-cast too damn shame all this plastic
@@terrytaylor8431 Even the plastic these days is cheap. It's that soft shit, not the sterner stuff.
@@gunstargizmok.o figures have diecast like baiwei star leader for example
They stopped it because kids were putting stuff in their eyes, trying to emulate it, lol. I was a kid when these adverts were on, albeit a very young kid, but I never tried it myself, haha.
Think I had most of the transformer released till around 88. The only ones I can't remember having were the insecticons, Soundwave & Shockwave, Unicron & Tripticon. I stupidly gave them all away to my next door neighbour when I started getting into wrestling 😮
Would be worth a few pennies nowadays
When the kids say “robots in disguise” they really go hard. Especially 0:50
“DOES PRIME DIE?!”
Just saying that I guarantee made tons of kids cry
In the transformers movie he does the animation movie in the 1980s.
I'm 17 and come on, who else wants the badass canyon playset/ diorama thing that these kids were lucky to play at , my god it's good detail
hellyea
Exactly! My brother had the whole collection, they were metal solid, we would throw them from the third floor to the backyard and not even a scratch.
Diecast. It’s a lost art.
i wish I had one
@@zafool4997Knockoffs are diecast, and a lot of times better than official figures! But they’re so expensive!!! 😭
Transformers are the best!
They are man.
Autobots ,transform and roolout
Jenny Eam indeed they are
I agree
OMG YES!!!!
Format to pretty much every Transformers commercial...
1. Cartoon segment.
2. Transformers theme.
3. Transforming.
4. (Robotic voice) "Robots in disguise!"
5. "(Decepticon) is attacking!"
6. "(Autobots) will stop them!"
7. "Each sold separately, from Hasbro."
You forgot to mention a random kid transforming into a robot or talking like one xb
@@marceloaranibar8802
That's #4
It pretty simple but effective and nostalgic
8. "Cant beat the "_____"!
@@TravTrevTV(optional)
"What could be more terrifying than Kup and Hot Rod, stranded on an alien planet, battling the merciless Sharktikons?"
*cue Wheelie*
Wheelie was the real threat all along
@@superspicy4215 Wheelie say, CONSUME SOULS TODAY
LOL
Oh shit
🤣
6:49 imagine Cyclonus’ reaction to RID-2001 Megatron
“that’s one, Two, three, four, five, six, SEVEN?! EIGHT?! NINE?! TEN!?!? WHAT THE SLA-“
*(Megatron shoots Cyclonus)*
Megatron: “SHUT THE (transformation sounds) UP!”
@2:59 I have blaster when I was 3 as Christmas gift in ‘86. What a memories!
I made Blaster and his cassettes with Lego as well as Soundwave/Soundblaster
It's so fun to see these all these years later. I was 11 when Transformers premiered on TV in 84, I was immediately a fan. I was all about Star Wars toys and Atari in the years before 84 but once these came out they were all I wanted. I would collect them and put them on shelves and never play with them. Took great care of them for my display. Christmas 84 my parents were so nice they bought me Optimus Prime, Jazz, Prowl & WheelJack. I remember going to Lionel Playworld a month or two before Christmas and I watched some parents fight over some when the stock boys brought out a new box or two from the back. I couldn't believe the behavior of some of them. I wasn't as shocked I guess because of the Cabbage Patch Dolls drama a year or two before which we all knew about back then. It wasn't until Nintendo made it to America that I found something else to be obsessed about. Lol
The biggest mistake Hasbro made was killing off all the original characters in the movie just to launch a new toy line, my opinion they could've done it without the movie. I would've preferred a new TV series set in the future that came on after the original show so season 3 would've still been all the original line up. I would've been a bigger fan of the new show had I not lost all my beloved original guys. It's funny to still be upset about it all these years later but I am. I would've loved a movie in 86 that was all about Prime and Megatron that ends to lead into season 3 and then years down the road say 89 or 90 to then put out the movie we got in 86 to show the changing of the guard. I think it all would've remained popular had that happened instead of getting cancelled after season 3. Regardless Transformers are my all time favorite toy line and cartoon, well season 1 & 2, not so much 3. I was pretty much checked out by the time we made it to the headmasters.
brillopad6901 the movie was still one badass film
You know..i have the same feelings as you. After the movie& headmasters/ targetmasters& the poor animation i "lost" interest until Nintendo came out
So you like 49
maybe in an alternate reality.....:P !
Thanks for the memories sir! I only wish I could go back. Life was so much simpler back in those days! Thanks again!
No problem
AWESOME.
SO SOMEOME RECORDED ALL THOSE VINTAGE COMMERCIALS ON VHS ?
WISH I HAD THOUGHT OF THAT AS KID. SEEING ALL THOSE OLD COMMERCIALS WAS COOL
I
I did it! It was crazy trying to catch the commercials as they came on randomly
The animation of all this short videos was epic!
Soundwave is the best decepticon in my opinion.
(Expecting a kid to say
"opinion!?!?!?!? bro opinions are cancelled 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡")
Just found the toy in the first commercial and its still in really good condition
Like Hasbro had a monopoly on overly big teeth kids for commercials back then. So good.
I know right 😁
i remember having these commericals as a bonus on a vhs of the 1986 transformers movie. used to watch it all the time at my grandma's house. good times.
“Autobots, transform and roll out!”
6:48 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Galvatron sounding off Six Shot’s multi forms and Cyclonus marking off the list!
😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
There was nothing like the Transformers….Talk about a great childhood
Who's still watching this in 2020 for sweet memory?
Bruh moment but yes I am
After all these years I still find it funny that the character of JetFire was modeled after the Valkyrie Class Veritechs from Robotech in particular the Skull 1 Veritech piloted by legendary ace Roy Fokker and later Rick Hunter.
Do you notice the fact that those children look like they were possessed by shitty evil spirits?
you're right.
Six shot can transform into six different modes! A laser pistol! A rocket car! A toaster oven! A garbage compactor! A submarine! And a Robot! Amazing!
Lol
but I can't do any... help
Awesome
Sixshot turns on A tool! A toaster! A vacuum cleaner! An English manservant! A fiat 600! And a ninja consultant in trench, ahahahahahah
Transformers are the Best!
All these classic transformers commercials serves as a bit of a history lesson to me because I knew about most of the transformers from back in the 80s, but I didn’t know that the autobots had triple changers of their own. I knew that the Decepticons had blitz wing as one of their Triple changers and I also didn’t know that the Decepticons had other triple changers too.
The Autobot Triple-Changers came way later, and the Decepticon Triple-Changers got their own focus in a cartoon episode.
Plus, Blitzwing was the only triple-changer featured in Animated, which is roughly when transformers went mainstream again.
Never realized that kept changing the theme song’s lyrics to actually fit the specific commercials.
Great retro ads. But you're missing two of the greatest toys. Tripticon & Skylinks
Dang. What happened to the good ol' days😫
Better then any other toy commercial now a days.
True that
The only G1 Transformers that I have is Tailgate, Swerve, Smokescreen and Optimus Prime
Man I remember them commercials and still have alot of these in two large 27 gallon containers. Too much to collect as a kid spending my summer job pay checks between this GI Joe, Robotech and MASK.
‘Call in the Decepticon leader!’
All the Autobots fall over laughing.
LOL
These toys look phenomenal
Computron really just walked into that giant rock Scorponok flung at him lmao
0:18. That poor child. Has some kind of eye disease and Hasbro makes him do a commercial.
LMAOOO
2:58 is my favourite. I just find Rumble (yes Rumble) and Soundwave hilarious in it.
Perfect example of size changing. Rumble is really struttin’ !
My little cousin loves transformers lol
me too, I became a fan thanks to TjOmega of TJ TV
Ha!! "Does prime die??"
I love transformers commercial g1 as young child. I still watching this right now, it my number 1 toys commercial. 😊
The only ones I have are Optimus prime, soundwave and astrotrain, and all the cassettes from 1984
Mine is megatron
My dad used to have a Soundwave toy.
When the triple changers came out I was like it don’t get any better.
Commercial: "DOES PRIME DIE?!"
Every kid ever: 😭😭 shut up man we know. 😭😭
trans formers are awesome 👍 and awesome video 🙂👍
Thanks
you're welcome 🙂👍
5:26 How funny would it be if Cyclonus had said to Blurr "Nobody runs me over like that".
Hi jenni earn yeah Transfomers toys are the best i Love this Commercials so much and the Classics Always be Cool and i Love Fortress maximus impacting and Scopinok Wow Awesome and the Power Masters Amazing i am a Great Fan of This Transformers commercials Cool
Optimus: "The courageous Ultra Magnus is a born leader."
Ultra Magnus: "No, I'm not. Seriously, I'm not. Leave me alone."
Yeah I thought his whole thing was him being a soldier instead of a leader
Realistically, they were probably building up the twist that Hot Rod would be the next Prime.
Shockwave was the best.. had it and optimus prime back in the 80s
2:58 made me crack up
Me too cuz they got Frank Welker to perform Blaster to avoid paying a second voice actor.
Estos si eran comerciales super cooooooooooool1000%
Part of being an 80s kid was getting your first Transformer toy and being disappointed they didn't make those loud snapping noises when you transformed them.
49 and missing my childhood toys today, especially Jetfire!
2:08. Ramjet was on his vacation to Jamaica.
Awww great memories…
4:44 Narrator: Does Prime die?
Anybody who watched the movie: Yes, yes he died and the guy that got him killed became the leader for some reason.
Thanks for the spoiler alert pal!
BlackRonin yeah real nice
Beat it Rodimus Prime, we do not need a Brazilian-tuned like Camping Car as Autobot leader! We want Optimus Prime... Or at least Powermaster God Ginrai. And possibly with SUPER MEGATRON as opponent... Not that hysterical incompetent of Galvatron :( Galvatron in commercials had such potential the animators destroyed him with his more than erratic behaviour! And that hateful voice... Commercials one was perfect... Fit for a powerful leader with a touch of insanity. "Scourge is possessed! Stop him decepticons... Even MAIM him... But wipe out the spark of STARSCREAM out of him!"
In the Deviation version... No, Prime doesn't die thanks to Kup's wisdom. Hot Rod instead dies to defeat Unicron... Unfortunately also Perceptor, Jazz and Cliffjumper appear to die along with Ultra Magnus and most of the useless Season 3 characters (Kup and Blurr survive, and so Grimlock, the Dinobots, the Witwickys... And Kranix)
@@nicopatrizi1953 IN BRAZIL WE DONT TUNE CARS LIKE HOT-GAY-ROD
My friend's father doesn't know these were literal advertisements. My friend's father thinks that the show Transformers G1 was to advertise the toys.
He’s right, G1 was originally created to advertise the toys,and so were these commercials
@@sundowner414 ok. I understand. Then there is my friend whom thinks that the commercials we see here are to be trailers to the cartoon show/movie.
The quality is still better than the quality on store cctv
1:48 what a devil.
Why do the kids look so creepy saying "Robots in Disguise"?! I hate it!
Anyone think they should rerelease some of the titans return or power of the primes and combiner wars figures? Like for example Devasator,Triptacon and metroplex for example? Cause they wouldn’t look too out of place in a siege/legacy collection.
most of these Transformers are now sold like $50 and up today if they are in good condition.
Tell you guys the truth. I've got the classic Autobot Blaster at my home. I used to had the classic Optimus Prime when I was a kid back then.
So many memories
Funny how blaster bigger the OP😂
TRANSFORMERS 40TH ANNIVERSARY 1984-2024!
Dis was when Roger staubach was in a super bowl
Diehard Bayverse fans could never understand lol
The robot filter when they say Robots in disguise is cursed
Good to see, but the image quality is terrible - virtually impossible to see some of them! I wish the high quality from Hasbro where still viewable as there is only so much you can do with a VHS (and a low quality one at that) recording
0:09 Megatron looks weird with the original black head. I'm glad they changed it.
1:19, 1:28 That Grimlock didnt have a robot head!
2:02 I always thought it was weird that they omitted Skids and Ramjet.
Ah Old Times
Family guy has messed this up: now when I hear "Robots in disguise' I think: Shut up meg
I miss these type of ads
Yeah same here
I had the fake Shockwave ,Galaxyman.
That was a licensed version by ToyC , not a fake, sold at Radio Shack.
“Shackwave”
Galactic Man was actually a Radio Shack-licensed version of ToyCo Astro Magnum, and was a Pre-Transformer in 1983. The Galactic Man now has the nickname 'Shackwave'. Hasbro also licensed Astro Magnum in 1985 for Shockwave, now every G1 Shockwave toy has to have a black Astro Magnum colored recolor.
Lol 1:16 lazerbeak just got roasted
Get it?! 😂
Angel Hernandez Yep I Know Right
Sludge: You shoot me Sludge in me ass, you get roasted!
I Hate you AngbrineBR 9081 because your noobish ugly fucker
And. YOU GET ROASTED!
Shockwave is a legend
The kid with green eyes always scares me
Your profile photo is literally soundwave
Wheelie say no robot could be any more gay.
The song at 0:00 NEEDS to be extracted. It's really good.
It’s the second season intro
Isn’t that just the intro to the second season?
I should know, I grew up exclusively watching the second season.
@@CoraCreates oh yeah you're right, I probably posted the comment before I finished watching the whole show lol
Having buck teeth back then: STONKS meme
Put the whole commercial everywhere
It the best of them all is the first because megatron and prime forever in the 84 world because I was 11
These are great :P !
Does Optimus Prime die? No. Optimus Prime AND half the characters die!
Probably like 3/4
Cory Rohs
That seems like a fair estimate.
LegoAWC Stopmotioner Actually more the only surviving autobots were bumblebee jazz Cliff jumper blaster and Dino bots however db Suffer the fate worse than death reduced to comic relief
Cory Rohs
There's a lot who could be debated though. Some had planned deaths that got cut from the final rendition.
I know but they’re pretty much deadAnd please don’t get me started on mis colors
It took a while but i think i finally saw a nonwhite kid.
Jetfire is a Robotech 😂🤣
I'm so glad they stuck with the dumb "a child must say 'robots in disguise' in a robot voice" gimmick through almost the entire run of commercials. I bet the adult in the boardroom who threw that idea out to the rest of the adults felt pretty proud every time they saw a transformers commercial.
I was born way too late
That part where kids eyes glow green can freak out a kid
one shall stand
one shall fall
Uh jetfire was just a hasbro version of a macross valkyrie
A cartoon was created with the sole intent of marketing toys.
6:14 grimlock, swoops thinks this is bad idea...
My favorites were the insecticons, and the dinobots, and constructicons.
Does anyone have any idea what Blurr says in his commercial? Thirty-three years later and I still can’t figure it out.
Now you see me now you don’t
How do you acquire a license to show? Want to do a documentary on the commercials, but don’t see anywhere that I can get licensing to do so.
It was from the UA-cam Editor program back when you can make some videos from it until 2017 where Google killed it off & this was the last video I made from there. I would love to but it depends on when you want to do the documentary.
@@TMNIsaac Thanks. I nixed the documentary, I had another idea for an upcoming series I’m doing with three others. Do you have an email you can be reached? To give you a better idea of what I’d like to do. Thanks.
@@bombwhippie I do but I wanna test something first before you sent me the idea if it's alright with you?
80‘s kids see on 4:44 : we don't accept!!!