Sunbow and Marvel Script/Storyboard Archive (TF sections)

Greebtron

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Now up at the Sunbow Marvel Archive are early storyboards for The Transformers The Movie. Covering the initial third of the film before jumping to Unicron's transformation. Working from a slightly earlier version of the script, they include more brutal deaths for the shuttle crew, as well as the confirmed death of Mirage (layout simplification on the final version makes it ambiguous).

The boards can be viewed via the storyboard gallery index, along with their finalised versions.
The Sunbow Marvel Archive: Storyboard viewing gallery

Below is an animatic I put together of the somewhat different cassette battle:

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Donocropolis

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Now up at the Sunbow Marvel Archive are early storyboards for The Transformers The Movie. Covering the initial third of the film before jumping to Unicron's transformation. Working from a slightly earlier version of the script, they include more brutal deaths for the shuttle crew, as well as the confirmed death of Mirage (layout simplification on the final version makes it ambiguous).

The boards can be viewed via the storyboard gallery index, along with their finalised versions.
The Sunbow Marvel Archive: Storyboard viewing gallery

Below is an animatic I put together of the somewhat different cassette battle:

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Love it. Your Animatic is fantastic.

Cubbie and Bolts are just early names for Steeljaw and Eject/Rewind, and we've gotten several Stripes over the years. When are we going to get a cassette-bot Stinger?
 

Sciflyer

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Really digging that animatic, nicely done! Yeah, now I want a Stinger cassette-bot too.
 

Donocropolis

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I had no idea that Stripes was supposed to be a sabre toothed tiger! Get on both of these at once, Hasbro or third parties!
 

Greebtron

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Added to the Sunbow Marvel Archive this month is a plethora of G1 cartoon material, with storyboards from the following:
  • Unproduced pilot miniseries/Season 1 intro sequence
  • More Than Meets The Eye, Part 2
  • More Than Meets The Eye, Part 3
  • Transport To Oblivion
  • Roll For It
  • The Ultimate Doom, Part 3
  • Countdown To Extinction
  • Unproduced Season 2 intro sequence
  • Unproduced commercial bumper
  • Autobot Spike
  • The Immobilizer
Additionally, a quartet of story premises, written by storyboard artist Wendell Washer during early Season 2, have also become available. Along with the early version of the 1985 New Product briefing he was given for reference. Three of the unused stories focus on Omega Supreme (then under the working name of Fortress Maximus), and a fourth focusing on Seaspray.

All of these can be viewed at https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/mp-700-transformers-part-1-1984-1985.html

Below is an animatic, edited by me, of the unproduced season 2 intro sequence:

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Sciflyer

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I really like that unproduced Season 2 animatic, Greebtron! I love the group shot at the end. It would have been a very cool intro.
 

Stepwise

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Ah. Omega Supreme was getting the Fort Max name for the moment. I read through those synopses - I wondered which toy model they were referring to.

Funny how they included a 'reset' to the status quo with the Autobot ship, too.
 

Blot

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Yeah, someone at Hasbro REALLY liked the name Fortress Maximus because it was the working name for both Omega Surpreme, Autobot City, and Metroplex.
 

Greebtron

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The Doctor Is In

(Quietly posting episode model sheets to the Archive as I get them. Not gonna make a big fuss until everything is in place).
 

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Greebtron

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Gradually receiving and uploading storyboards and models to the Archive. Would like to put an appeal out there. If anyone has the one model sheet pack missing from this collection and is willing to help complete the set, please drop me a DM

700-35 to 700-42 Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2 to Make Tracks
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