1980's Transformers UK TV Toy Adverts.

[@fearlessfoxfilms]

Oh my gosh, they're awesome!

[@bitwize]

UK 80s schoolboys watching the animated G1 series be like "Hang about, wotzis then? Who's that bloke with the cannon-arm? And why is Soundwave subordinate to him? Isn't he supposed to be the leader?"

[@baination782]

I was one of those kids but I was never confused as I watched the beginning of the first season before I saw any toy adverts. Thankfully Hasbro decided marketing a toy hand gun wasn't that bad in the end and got with the actual plot. Thanks for watching!

[@BrillBrix]

​@@baination782 I thought TV-AM didn't air Transformers G1 until 1985 after the toylines release

[@baination782]

@@BrillBrix You could be right as I was only eight years old in 1985 and things are hard to pin point in your memory plus I can't find any record of when the series aired for the first time but I do remember watching it on TV-AM from day one. Thanks for watching!

[@BrillBrix]

@baination782 Did TV-AM only have the rights to season 1?

[@baination782]

I am not sure but I only remember those great episodes from season 1 from those days myself so it would seem! Take care!

[@holleyakers6684]

Idk why but I like these more then the American G1 ads it makes me want to PLAY not COLLECT

[@robertwilson214]

My parents wouldn't stretch to the £18 for Optimus,Megatron.But I was allowed soundwave which I guess would be £12.Everyone wanted Megatron and I knew someone whose father got hold of shockwave in Japan...arguably THE must have.

[@baination782]

I know where your coming from!

[@BrillBrix]

@@baination782 My gran regrets selling my uncle's G1 Optimus Prime at a jumble sale

[@baination782]

@@BrillBrix I know the feeling! I got rid of most of mine back in 2011 as I was moving and had a lack of space but needless to say I regret it now. Take care!

[@COMBOY]

Ad: Scorponok is the biggest Headmaster ever! Fort Max: Hold my Energon Cube...

[@annelouise8525]

Sadly, he never got a UK release. In fact, a number of Transformers. Swoop included, didn’t.

[@ShaneJoshua1980]

I spent many a Saturday morning ....want want want want want want😂

[@reptongeek]

7:20 Describing Menasor as the Ultimate Decepticon weapon isn't really true. Due to the fact the four mini robots both fear and loathe their leader Motormaster, the combined form is a mess of uncontrollable impulses

[@ParaiusPau]

"Orrtobots, transform"

[@jk5335]

Great upload thanks!

[@Darkbotsz5]

Toys comercial Transformers in 1980 Generation 1 toys in 80s Transformers Yeah 1980 yeah.

[@seankelly9541]

01:35 ""Watch out Thrust" He doesnt' even have his weapons attached. These adverts were done with such little regard for the product.

[@notgillcup]

That kid at 0:20 looks a bit like a young Steve John Shepherd ,(Michael Moon from EastEnders) I wonder if it is him!

[@samuelcarrasquillo4590]

I Wonder Simon Furman Is Taking Notes...

[@HenlextheCube]

I want that full version of that s2 intro remix please

[@baination782]

Hi, Thanks for watching! I found it on KZbin. If you type in The Transformers G1 season 2 theme guitar cover you should find it then you will need to download it through something available out there!

[@eshaw2115]

Soundwave is the leader? I didn't get the memo.

[@baination782]

I know! I guess the UK was not sure if they were okay with Megatron being a gun so they just made the whole Soundwave being the leader thing up to sell a few toys until they had made up their minds about marketing a kind of realistic looking hand gun to kids. Thanks for watching!

[@vincentpenilla3322]

Yay Yeah.

[@thespaceram2879]

No fortress Maximus commercial?

[@seankelly9541]

02:52 and the not available in the UK Swoop.

[@ahmedsenussi8232]

That's wrong Megatron was the Decepticon Leader then

[@supahcomix]

The ads changed up little details here and there

[@TheMasterNo6]

@@supahcomix When the line first came to the UK the Advertisers were rushing to get the line out onto the market so they made a lot of mistakes until they corrected things in line with the US mythos Hasbro US had created. Oddly enough, in the UK Marvel weekly Transformers comic, Soundwave does indeed become Deception Leader by the year 2008 as seen in the story 'Space Pirates'.

[@COMBOY]

Megatron was never released in the UK because of his gun mode, which was controversial for UK toy laws. 😔 That's why Soundwave was advertised as the "leader of the Decepticons".

[@tombstoneharrystudios584]

@@TheMasterNo6 the He-Man mini comics that came with the toys didn’t match up with the (later) cartoon either! He-man was merely a Conan expy, the two power swords had to be combined to enter Greyskull & I’m not sure what the Sorceress was like!

[@Davidjagoartist]

The cover of the UK issue one implies soundwave and Optimus are the leaders in battle too

[@dulcinemckinnon5709]

𝐩𝓻Ỗ𝓂Ø𝓈Ｍ

[@davidcozar7075]

Sowndwave îs a beter leader than megatron

[@johnlagan2160]

Transvestites guys in disguise 😂😂😂

[@douglasbrownell2704]

Yabu commercials are good, but the American ones were better.