Transformers 1987 Commercials

[@jermainemorton3752]

No this is when commercials didn't get on your nerves to look at man I miss these days

[@DBWalks2010]

Monsterbots, Duocons, Fortresses Maximus- Great ideas back then!

[@paultreadaway102]

Just this Ad alone beats nearly anything and everything the last 30 odd years or the pinnacle 85-89 for me and just blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

They should've included Hot Rod,Kup,Blurr,Cyclonus and Scourge with the Target Masters Transformers toy line as they became Target Masters too in the 3 part episode 'Rebirth' and with the HeadMasters I wish they could've included Arcee and Daniel as they were HeadMasters too.

[@maximusprime3459]

Look how much effort went into the animation just for the commercials!

[@lordhoganproductions1050]

They pulled the animation from the Japanese Series Headmasters.

[@maximusprime3459]

@@lordhoganproductions1050 Some of it is also original and created specifically for the commercials.

[@Teknokill-jm2ub]

IKR I ALWAYS broke my neck to see them !!!! If I was in another room in the house and I heard it on the tv, I all but came through the wall or practically ran over my mom!! It was about the only way I could see my guys on tv

[@starstuff5371]

And when rebirth came out the animation was crap because that was from Akom

[@maximusprime3459]

@@starstuff5371 😐

[@christopherlockery9629]

My first EVER Transformer was Cromedrome, from when I was 3 or 4 back around 987 or 1988. The reason why I got one due to my (then) hyper fixation (I have HFA) with cars and transport. Now I still like cars and the like, but I'm now more into history and heroes (super and otherwise) plus I enjoying looking into their deeper aspects of the cultures surrounding them and the thinking that all of their creators had/have with regards to their characters and stories. And yes, and it goes without saying, I like G1 and G2 TF toys and media, chiefly the Marvel Comics stuff. For reasons that should be as clear as glass to any (Classic) Marvel fan, like me.... Till All are One

[@suntanironman]

0:36 Oh, wow. I had no idea that the tank toy I always played with as a kid was a Transformer toy. I only remember having the tank. I must have had both (because apparently both toys came together in one pack), but I have zero memories of playing with the jet toy (but many memories of the tank toy). Or (considering these are commercials from 1987 and I was only two in 1987), maybe I got the tank toy separately as a hand-me-down from someone years later and never had the jet. I think I still have that tank toy (maybe in a storage box at my parents’ house somewhere). Wow. Memory of a well-used childhood toy given all-new context. Edit: And now that I’m looking at another video of the toys, it seems mine didn’t have the Transformers stickers/decal logo stuff on it. So I guess it was a hand-me-down after all that had all that stuff removed by the previous owner. Didn’t expect such a trip down memory lane today, lol.

[@venom74799]

Man did they have a way to advertise to us back then.

[@jcjc4164]

Yeah.. a lost art...just infomercials for adult products on Saturday morning tv theses days.

[@gijose83]

i love the animation style here

[@DavidWilson-tr2qj]

Absolutely!! And you wonder why the producers couldn't have used these artists in the 3rd and forth seasons of the g1 show!!

[@ValiantWrestling]

It's a shame they didn't put as good an effort into the writing and animation of the rebirth.

[@jasonelliott7977]

@@DavidWilson-tr2qj Flint Dille writes about the decline in animation in his book.

[@DavidWilson-tr2qj]

Cool!! What's the title of the book?

[@jasonelliott7977]

@@DavidWilson-tr2qj Gamesmaster

[@benlow4791]

Headmasters! We had Highbrow, Chrome Dome and Skull Cruncher. Think I also had a Target Master Blur. Oh when toys were good!

[@raymondj.2351]

As a collectable, Target Master Blur and Target Master Scourge would be the most expensive out of that particular category group of Transformers, easily going from $250.00 and up.

[@benlow4791]

@@raymondj.2351 ah we had target master Cyclonus rather than Scourge.

[@camw6315]

They went all out on these commercials with songs and animation better than the actual show in most cases. Hasbro wanted to sell some toys!

[@iNeverHadMercy]

0:38 I must have “blinked” during my childhood because I don’t remember these Decepticons

[@jermainemorton3752]

I used to have a lot of those toys

[@wildquakeofsrg6147]

I want the kid that becomes Ultra Magnus

[@antonissa8345]

LOL

[@starstudio8402]

It’s out of print bro gonna have to wait until the 1345th anniversary and pray they reprint it

[@ronnyclayton6842]

These were the last of the g1 commercials,by spring 1987 the franchise was dying.I remember coming home from school around the age of 7 or 8 to watch my favorite cartoon and it was replaced by ducktales,and I was like what the hell is this shit.

[@monster-mecha_enthusiast_2002]

Hater

[@girlgarde]

Actually, the G1 franchise hung on until 1991 but yeah, it declined after the cartoon got cancelled thanks to the writers killing off a bunch of characters that the fans liked and replacing the rest with new characters not to mention making the guy who got Optimus Prime killed in the movie the new leader of the Autobots.....

[@Q80Warlock]

The Movie backfire slowly killed the show the same happened with G.I.Joe both shows had great 1st and 2nd seasons but when Hasbro decided to ditch fan favorite characters into oblivion both shows slowly lost popularity. TF S3 felt out of place and the DiC produced G.I.Joe was terrible !

[@girlgarde]

@@Q80Warlock My thoughts exactly about both shows. I get that Hasbro wanted to promote their new lines of toys for both franchises but they didn't have to kill off a bunch of fan favourite characters to do it, just have them share air time with the newer characters like season 2 did when both the Autobots and Decepticons got a bunch of new guys.

[@Q80Warlock]

@@girlgarde In regards to that they didn't even have statistics about who's popular until the reactions to TF:The Movie started bombing their HQ about OP. By that time it was too late and I personally think management went stingy on both projects especially when they changed animation studios.

[@joeblaster8770]

More, much more than meets the eyes.

[@sonicguyver7445]

So many great memories. The series was pretty much done by the time by brother and I were old enough to get it and enjoy as more then "Robots and fighting." One year for Christmas we got the Horrrorcons and those became the core of our Transformer adventures. In our minds the Horrorcons were actually Micromasters that had been remade to be the heads of mindless super robots. Also, since the Horrorcons were the best each one was put in charge of a combiner team. My guy, Apeface, was in charge of the Predicons and my brother's guy, Snapdragon, was in charge of the Terrorcons. That way we could be Prediking and Abominus holding our team leaders. But I have also learned that the Targetmasters were supposed to link to the guns in robot mode, not just hold them. I was so pleased a few years ago when I got the updated Cyclonus and found he could turn each hand around and it would link to the back of his gun. I'm 40 now and driving a truck, sadly not a red cabover like Prime. And as I roll down the road I still daydream and imagine new adventures of the Horrorcons.

[@roccomitchell7938]

I said back in the 80s that Transformers was years ahead of it’s time!!

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I would love to collect them all

[@vassa1972]

So cool I missed those good old days LoL

[@Biscuit1973]

Whoever owned some of these transformer toys , Post a comment because I used to have one of the Headmaster Decepticons known as SnapDragon back in 1987 during the time when I’d gotten lucky and found 20$ on the ground then heading to the former Woolworth department store where these toys once sold over 30 years ago .

[@foxfireinferno3547]

I regret not getting Fort Max when I had the opportunity.

[@scottamann2445]

I had to choose between getting Fort Max or the original NES for Christmas. I went with the NES and don’t regret it, but man, I wish I could have done both.

[@Raleth]

5:16 what unfortunate wording

[@scottjohnson388]

Duocons and Throttlebots were so cheap looking. Terrorcons and Compubots were solid creations though.

[@daiwarner994]

Terrorcons and technobots*

[@DBWalks2010]

I agree with you!👍😎

[@beegsex]

The commercials of yesteryear 😊

[@UPBEATFOREVER]

Think big!from metroplex to fortress maxiumus to Unicron,the enemy robot planet.they get bigger and bigger all the time.

[@johanreyesisahero]

0:12 Transformers, More then meets the eye!

[@josefinasalinas9555]

My stepdad knows how much I 💗 the Transformers franchise that for my 30th birthday he got a seal comic book of the Transformers headmasters issue #1.

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

0:29 A bigger hit in Japan. Animated series by Toei Animation.

[@vassa1972]

so cool I missed those days

[@girlgarde]

I miss the G1 line too. If they were available at the prices they were back then, I'd buy a bunch of the transformers toys.....

[@vassa1972]

@@girlgarde hello and good Saturday morning Ryan from Hamilton Ontario Canada how are you Sir? I can remember getting a odd transformer toy as a kid LoL. Unfortunately I'm 48 years old now and a stroke and cardiac arrest survivor and on disability and can only afford to get the something the odd Time

[@girlgarde]

@@vassa1972 I don't live in Hamilton and I'm sorry about your health issues but why did you bring them up? I was simply saying how much I liked the G1 line for nostalgia reasons and that I'd collect them if they were available and at the prices they were at in the 1980's.

[@vassa1972]

@@girlgarde sorry just mentioned it

[@girlgarde]

@@vassa1972 Don't worry about it, I was quite puzzled is all.

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

5:37 In Japan. Fort Max is referred to as 'Space Battleship'.

[@dennisbarber4980]

Monsterbots!?!?How cool they would of been in season 2 of G1! Them and the Dinobots fighting side by side. Megatron would shit energon cubes.😂🤣

[@charleshale6036]

I love the headmasters and targermasters they are cool

[@tekno647]

The commercials are funner to watch than the actual show.

[@mikedski9698]

Headmaster And Targetmaster Transformers!

[@matthewskudzienski888]

The Transformers Headmasters

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

3:34 In Japan he's Ninja and much deadlier with his own Ninjitsu.

[@devinleber5604]

Was R. Lee Ermy (or someone with a similar voice) in the Targetmasters commercial.

[@CITYGROUPTV]

This is the moment the Transformers Lost me.

[@sebastianbattaglia6330]

lost you and the entire nation hahahahahaha

[@kevbotech238]

Headmasters are cool its the Pretenders and Action masters that lost me...

[@charleshale6036]

I like the preteners but I hate the action masters

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

4:43 Also stop motion animated in Toei Studio huh?

[@LatasiaBrownlee]

Hasbro (1987)🧸🪀🗓️

[@bigdaddygru]

I don't remember the monsterbots for some reason.

[@TuffoftheStars2024]

I wish that Season 4's The Rebirth used the Commercial themes for the intro: Transformers: More *MUCH MORE* Than Meets The Eye!

[@vassa1972]

Still awesome

[@zoeng8447]

4:49 it's that real ?

[@LatasiaBrownlee]

Year: 1987🗓️

[@peteralexvaudelaire4127]

Wow the best tv ads ever i am a Huge Fan of Transformers this is the Kins of Toys i want to own and Fortress Maximus is my Very Favorite and Where can i Find the Theme song of the Commercials yeah that one in the Background is awesome and Fantastic Transformers the best toys of the world

[@girlgarde]

How the mighty have fallen.... Hot Rod used to lead the Autobots as Rodimus Prime but then he got jobbed out to the Duocon Flywheels.

[@aggressiveattitudeera887]

"The base has twin towers and ramp to launch cars." *"Transform!"* "And now, it's a beast with capture claws, and a trainer who becomes..." *"TRANSFORM!"* "...the head of it's robot."

[@roninomega4135]

PILDER OOON!!!!

[@moisesledesma7492]

Galvatron,aka Megatron

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

2:31 Filmed in Toei Studio in Japan?

[@briancurry6602]

nice

[@migatron1]

Wait! Ultra Magnus transforms into an 8 year old kid? Was this G2!?

[@PCGamer77]

5:16 "twin towers" yikes, that didn't age well

[@y_o_oj754]

This js when tf went downhill. Just adding more and more transformers

[@theskyrax670]

Is this from vhs

[@starstuff5371]

Why is Rodimus Prime Leader shouldn’t Optimus Prime be Leader again cause he was brought out of the matrix

[@yellowpete79]

Optimus regained leadership after he was brought back to life at the end of season 3.

[@raymondj.2351]

@@yellowpete79 Yep and the Japanese extended episodes of Season 3 had Optimus Prime die again once he merged the Matrix with Vector Sigma.

[@jeremygray462]

y did they have to have the head drive the car when they can drive themselves. I never liked the headmasters I thought they were lame. same with some of the target masters. they just reselled some of the orginal guys with different guns that transformered into a robot. like hot rod,kup,

[@massivemedia4138]

Ok i have a trivia question thats off subject to transformers but relevant to Gi joe.. Before Snake Eyes who was the more popular Joe in the Cartoon when it was a weekly special before it went into regular syndication and the original arch enemy to Storm Shadow????............ It was Spirit..... The messed up part was Gi Joe never explored Spirit like they should have.... Ijs...

[@great159]

This was the last era of good Transformers chacracters in the U.S. cartoon. The 88 line was trash with Prime's fake chest and garbage looking nebulons compared to 87 nebulons.💯

[@Apple2gs]

Personally, I strongly feel the 1986 line was the last good era of Transformers toys (apart from Computron and the two new Decepticon cassettes, I could pass on most of the '87 line). By no coincidence, it must have been 1987 that Hasbro ran out of Diaclone and Microman toy-molds from Japan to recycle, and were forced to invent their own designs. It didn't help that the cartoon series ended that year too. The '87 line was poor, but I agree '88 and beyond were absolute trash.

[@van-garrettjohnson6012]

No, the 1988 figures are awesome starting with new and advance gimmicks to play with you garbage heartless fucking idiots. G1 from 1984 to 88 are the best, the 89 and 90 are garbage, you cinderheaded domeheaded wretched fucking heartless dull-witted idiots!!!

[@van-garrettjohnson6012]

You all fricking idiots, both 1987 and 88 are the best commercials and toyline of all time to show their creativity. I love targetmasters, headmasters and powermasters, without them, the future of transformers wouldn't exist you fricking idiots.

[@toddmiller5322]

All these Transformers commercials must be coming from people's old recordings on VHS tapes set to SLP. They look like complete shit lol.

[@dominicpaul1]

I used to leap into the bathroom like that optimus prime kid, used to make going for a shit well exciting 😊

[@van-garrettjohnson6012]

Where is 1988 commercials of the transformers, the most fun and awesome iconic toyline to involved transformation in your channel.