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We were getting a lot of nasty notes about it. “We heard about people leaving the movie. “Kids were crying in the theatres,” Dille recalls. We just thought we were killing off the old product line to replace it with new products.” “We didn’t know that he was an icon,” Dille says, still seemingly baffled by the response. In a brief documentary on Transformers: The Movie’s 20th anniversary DVD, story consultant Flint Dille expresses his surprise at the level of grief the event provoked. In fact, Hasbro had completely failed to predict how kids – not to mention their exhausted parents – would react to Prime’s shock death. What better way to do it than in the Transformers’ big, expensive debut movie?įor kids who loved Optimus Prime, however, the Transformers robot massacre was akin to, say, Walt Disney shooting Mickey Mouse to death in the middle of Fantasia.

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In a scene that no doubt left its mark on entire theatres full of wide-eyed kids, Prime died on an operating table, the Matrix of Leadership falling from his hands and his once vivid red paint fading to a sullen grey.įrom toy maker Hasbro’s standpoint, killing off all these characters came down to simple economics: Prime, Ratchet, Prowl, and their compatriots were all part of the original 1984 Generation One line, and Hasbro wanted to replace them with shiny new toys like Kup, Blurr, and Rodimus Prime. But then something shocking happened: Megatron shot Prime repeatedly in the chest.īy the end of the fight, Megatron and Prime are both left in a crumpled heap on the floor. But as the fight wore on, there were odd signs that things were about to get nasty: Prime is stabbed in the abdominal area first with what appears to be a huge piece of shrapnel, and then a laser sword.

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At first, it looked like the kind of confrontation we’d seen in the TV series a dozen times lots of cool-sounding mottos (“One shall stand, one shall fall!”), punches and stray laser blasts. In the midst of a pitched battle which saw Autobots struck down left and right, Prime engaged in a brutal fight with Megatron. But it was as nothing – nothing – compared to the shock of what happened to Optimus Prime.

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It was fairly strong stuff for an animated movie at the time. Read more – The Quirky Brilliance of Transformers: The Movie The duplicitous Starscream, who’d planned to usurp Megatron for years, eventually got his comeuppance: he was repeatedly blasted until his body turned to ash. Even the Decepticons didn’t walk away unscathed Megatron and two of his fellow villains were mortally wounded and magically changed into the new, more futuristic-looking Galvatron, Scourge, and Cyclonus. Other Transformers who met their demise in Transformers: The Movie included Brawn, Ironhide and his ambulance doppelganger Ratchet, Windcharger, and Wheeljack. On a personal note, I still recall seeing the film at the age of about nine, and being slightly stunned at the sight of Prowl – he was the one who could transform into a police car – being shot in the chest, causing a gout of fire and smoke to issue from his eyes and mouth. In Transformers: The Movie, a number of much-loved characters were not only shot and killed, but occasionally died in surprisingly graphic fashion. It’s worth bearing in mind, first of all, that the Transformers TV series, which had been running for two years by that point, had never killed off any of its characters – even though they often engaged in protracted brawls and laser battles. But in the feature-length spin-off from the hit Hasbro toy-line and accompanying TV show, the spectre of death was everywhere one early scene alone saw the evil Decepticons hijack an Autobot space shuttle and execute all the heroes inside. When parents took their kids to see Transformers: The Moviein 1986, they probably weren’t expecting quite as much death and mayhem.

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