Sunbow and Marvel Script/Storyboard Archive (TF sections)

[Greebtron]

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:

 

[Donocropolis]

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]

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

 

[Greebtron]

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?

So close, yet so far

 

[Greebtron]

"Stripes" while we're at it

 

[Donocropolis]

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!

 

[Doghouse Reilly]

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!

Halfway there...

 

[Donocropolis]

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Halfway there...

Nice! Who makes that?

 

[Sabrblade]

Nice! Who makes that?

Name's in the top-right corner.

 

[Donocropolis]

Name's in the top-right corner.

D'oh, so it is. I failed my perception roll.

 

[Greebtron]

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:

 

[Sciflyer]

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]

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]

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]

Took me a while longer than usual, but the storyboard galleries are up:

Misc. storyboards (including the two unproduced intros): https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/transformers-partial-and-misc.html
Partial episodes (MTMTE Part 3, Transport To Oblivion, Roll For It, The immobilizer): https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/the-transformers-partial-episode.html
More Than Meets The Eye, Part 2: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/the-transformers-mp-4024-more-than_5.html
The Ultimate Doom, Part 3: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/the-transformers-mp-700-10-ultimate_5.html
Countdown To Extinction: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/the-transformers-mp-700-11-countdown-to_5.html
Autobot Spike: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/the-transformers-mp-700-16-autobot_5.html

 

[Greebtron]

Across the 22nd and 23rd of November 1983, Marvel Comics writer Bob Budiansky gave names and wrote profiles that turned Takara's Diaclone and Micro Change toys into The Transformers.

The 29 original profiles can be read, via a briefing binder Sunbow Productions sent to Ron Friedman, before being sold off in 2010, at: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/transformers-1984-product.html

 

[Greebtron]

Lots of things coming soon:

 

[Greebtron]

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).

 

[Blot]

She's even got Chip's hair.