I had a chance to talk with one of the Rhino HV reps at WizardWorld this weekend and came away with a couple of exciting bits of Transformers news:

Rhino will be doing a new release of Transformers: The Movie, including previously unreleased bridging material between the movie and the third season.

Rhino has recently decided to tackle the Japanese exclusive Transformers series. While he didn't expand on that answer, presumably, considering how they've been releasing the shows, they would start with Headmasters and continue through the various other series (Masterforce, Victory, Beast Wars 2, etc.) Hopefully they'll subtitle rather than go with the bad dubs that have done the circuit of the pirate dealers.

On this series, I hope they do dub it (along with subs of course.) My 7 year old is a huge Transformers fan, and just can't read well enough to follow sub titles. Since this series is aimed at a younger audiance, I think it would sell better if it were dubbed.

-Videophile

Tom Campbell, I don't post thank-you's for news items very often on this forum, but you have just made my *year* with that bit of info. Thanks so much.

Great information, having never seen the Japanese Transformers, are they any good?

I haven't seen any of the Japanese episodes, but I heard Headmasters wasn't all that good. Personally, I don't care to see them since

yep and so does Galvatron

dubbed anime is the debil

Fixed it for you.

I've seen the Japanese series that includes HEADMASTERS, MASTERFORCE, VICTORY, and the only OVA (Original Video Anime) that was shown Japan titled Transformers: Zone. Don't forget SCRAMBLE CITY which left me in a cliffhanger until now.

Its was aired in STAR WORLD (formerly STAR PLUS) on a local Cable here in the Philippines way back in 1997-1998. Officially first aired in Japan from 1987-1990 in original Jap language.

The dubbing was done by the Chinese in English, and that's the one you people are getting from the pirated sellers. It reminds me of a Kung-Fu movies being english dubbed, and it was really bad but the action is different from the US series.

Its better aimed for kids who saw it way back not the kids of TODAY, who wants to see it. Since those kids of my generation has a different point of view as what I know as "Kid Friendly".

Believe me these series is not for the kids of TODAY, its for the kids who saw it way back in the 80's or 90's. Its was so different that you'll see robots, being blown up every episode and that's one cool factor the Japanese have.

It will be interesting to see what they do with this. I don't think they are too bad as far as voice acting goes. They could've gotten some of the original voice-over cast to do it but it probably wasn't taken into consideration. At least these will be clean copies