Your childhood just got an IMAX upgrade, baby.
This special cinema experience takes audiences back to the very beginning as the original voice actors team up for the first time in decades to revisit their characters and recreate the enduring magic of The Transformers. An exclusive behind-the-scenes table read appears on a split screen with the pilot episode, More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1, followed by the next three episodes in the first series. Experience the original Saturday morning cartoon for the first time on the big screen and relive its evolution over the years with a sneak peek of the new season of Transformers EarthSpark.
Acting
Peter Cullen and Frank Welker reunite. Legends only.
Direction
Split-screen table read is genuinely clever meta-commentary.
Production
First theatrical release of 1984 pilot, finally.
Director
John Gibbs
Frank Welker
Megatron / Mirage / Rumble / Skywarp / Soundwave (voice)
Gregg Berger
Cliffjumper / Narrator / Spike Witwicky / additional voices (voice)
Peter Cullen
Optimus Prime / Ironhide (voice)
Arif S. Kinchen
Jazz (voice)
Dan Gilvezan
Bumblebee / Shockwave (voice)
Michael Bell
Prowl (voice)
Victor Caroli
Narrator (archive audio)
Paul Eiding
Hound / Ratchet / Teletraan 1 / Thundercracker (voice)
Corey Burton
Spike Witwicky / Shockwave / Brawn (archive audio)
Don Messick
Gears / Ratchet (archive audio)
John Stephenson
Huffer / Thundercracker (archive audio)
Scatman Crothers
Jazz (archive audio)
Christopher Collins
Starscream / Wheeljack / Laserbeak (archive audio)
Casey Kasem
Cliffjumper / Bluestreak / Teletraan 1 (archive audio)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Cullen based Optimus Prime's voice on his older brother Larry, a decorated Marine who told him 'don't be a hero' before Vietnam.
The 1984 series was literally a toy commercial disguised as entertainment—yet it built mythology so rich that grown adults still cry at robot deaths. Capitalism, but make it art.
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