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"Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1"
Production code	#700-86
Season	3
No. in season	1
Production company	Sunbow Productions
Airdate	September 15, 1986
Written by	Flint Dille
Animation studio	AKOM
Continuity	Generation 1 cartoon continuity
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In the wake of Unicron's defeat, the battered Decepticons struggle to survive, and the Autobots enjoy a period of peace and celebration. But peace never lasts...

Synopsis

The closing scenes of The Transformers: The Movie show us the destruction of Unicron and the Autobots' escape, along with their victory celebration on Cybertron.

It is the year 2005. Autobots have reclaimed Cybertron while the Decepticons, now squabbling with each other for energon, retreated to the planet Chaar. Astrotrain returns to the planet with a pitiful number of energon cubes, resulting in a tussle as the Decepticons fight for their share. Cyclonus realizes that to return the Decepticons to fighting form, they need drastic measures.

Blurr would have that not-Jazz eat his vapor trails... instead he gets a date with rhyming boy.

Somewhere else, the first Galactic Olympics are being held. Blurr is griping about being stuck in a mission with Wheelie when he wants to join the events. But Perceptor wants them to go to Autobot City on Earth, to deliver the new transformation cog for Metroplex, as his old one was damaged during the battle the year before.

Meanwhile, the Galactic Olympics are being sabotaged. A Skuxxoid detonates the Olympic flame, raining smoke down on the area and allowing a group of Sharkticons to land. The Autobots fight back, but in the confusion, Spike, Kup and Ultra Magnus are kidnapped. Rodimus Prime immediately suspects Decepticon shenanigans and orders the planet quarantined, but they are unable to prevent the Skuxxoid's spaceship from taking off. Arcee and Springer set off to find a spacecraft of their own so they can pursue it.

Cyclonus is looking for free porn.

Cyclonus, Scourge and the Sweeps sneak into Unicron’s head, still orbiting Cybertron. They're able to access Unicron's memory banks and watch footage of Rodimus's battle with Galvatron, culminating in the Decepticon leader being flung into space. Cyclonus then does some fast calculations and works out that Galvatron would eventually have reached the planet Thrull. There they see their leader soaking in the hot lava pools.

On Earth, Blaster and Outback go to the Federated Republic of Carbombya to investigate EDC reports of Decepticons in that country. Despite the country's ruler, Abdul Fakkadi, claiming that they would never harbour such criminals, the Autobots land. Outback, equipped with a "Decepticon detector", then flushes out Dirge and Ramjet. The two Autobots get the coordinates of Chaar from them... which they report to Rodimus Prime who wants to go there to investigate.

Oh, boy, kill'em! Kill'em all!

Arcee and Springer, meanwhile, have pursued the Skuxxoid to an asteroid, which he ducks behind. The Autobots follow, only for their ship to be seized by a huge claw. They evacuate the ship, only to find that the "asteroid" is actually a disguised spacecraft. Springer hijacks it from the Skuxxoid, who escapes in his smaller ship and then calls his benefactor to confirm that the Autobots indeed suspect the Decepticons to be behind the disruption. The tentacled, egg-shaped benefactor listens to the report and then tunes out as he sees their prisoners, Spike, Kup and Ultra Magnus, being led by a Sharkticon.

"It's probably just the Energon talking... but I love you, man."

Cyclonus, Scourge and the Sweeps return to Chaar, where the rest of the Decepticons are convinced that the solution to their problems is to have a strong leader again. They cheer when they hear that Galvatron lives, and are desperate enough that they give their remaining scraps of energon for reviving him. Rodimus Prime and Grimlock are spying nearby. Rodimus almost pities them, while Grimlock finds it funny (giving a rather possessed-sounding chuckle). Rodimus realizes that the Decepticons are too down on their luck to be the ones responsible for the kidnappings. Their cover suddenly gets blown and the Decepticons attack.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"Let's do it!"
"Didn’t you want to say something about concord and tranquility in the galaxy?"
"Aww, give me a break. Start the games!"

—Rodimus Prime and Ultra Magnus open the Galactic Olympics

"Ah, Rodimus is missing a few chips."
"Nah, I was the same way until I got blown apart a few times."

—Ultra Magnus and Kup

Perceptor and Rodimus watch as Grimlock does a jaunty jig on the enemies' heads.

Cyclonus: There’s nothing to fear; Unicron is dead.
[They hear a groan]
Cyclonus: Must be the wind.
Scourge: There is no wind in space.
Cyclonus: Quiet!

—Cyclonus and Scourge learn that daddy's still home.

"Our charts don’t show any planets in that sector—no, wait. Here it is. I thought it was a smudge on the screen."
"Yeah, that fits their description of Chaar."

—Rodimus Prime and Outback

"Ah, the old hyperdrive-past-the-asteroid trick."
"You'd think he'd do something more original!"
[A giant claw grabs and crushes their ship.]
"You got any snappy last words?"

—Springer and Arcee are suddenly and dramatically broken out of their cynicism.

"I say we pulverowderize the Autobots! I say we powderulverize 'em!"

—Rumble's inspirational rally.

"If we surrender our energon, we're doomed."
"If we don't, we're doomed, too."
"Face it. We're doomed."

—Dead End and Breakdown realize they're screwed.

"These guys are hurtin'. I never thought I’d feel sorry for the Decepticons."
"Me Grimlock, not feel sorry. Me Grimlock laugh!" [snickers]

—Rodimus Prime pities the Decepticons, while Grimlock mocks them with a disturbing chuckle.

Season 5

"Gettin' real sicka yer shit, Tommy."

Powermaster Optimus Prime arrives in the barren wasteland looking for Tommy, but he's nowhere to be found. Suddenly, Tommy climbs up on Prime's shoulder and screams, surprising the Autobot. Optimus is not happy with the joke, warning Tommy that he could have mistaken him for a Decepticon. Tommy doesn't understand Prime's attitude and asks if he's ever been surprised before. Prime says that few have ever tried to surprise him. However, he does recall "a time when the Autobots faced surprises at every turn". It was shortly after the war with Unicron...

Tommy finds the cliffhanger distressing and Optimus does nothing to calm his fears, promising that Rodimus and Grimlock were going "to get the electrons knocked out of them". Even worse, he warns Tommy that soon Rodimus would learn the startling identities of those who kidnapped Kup, Ultra Magnus and the others. Tommy begs Prime not to leave him hanging in suspense, eliciting satisfaction from the Autobot, who says he thought Tommy liked surprises. Prime then promises to tell him the next chapter of the story tomorrow, when he returns to transform Tommy's day into an adventure. He then sets Tommy back down in the barren wasteland and rocket-boots away into outer space.

Notes

Production information

• Miniseries outline revised: 18th February 1986 (edited by Steve Gerber)
• First draft script submitted: 4th March 1986
• John Moschitta pickup session: 24th March 1986
• Main dialogue recording: 25th March 1986
• David Mendenhall pickup session: 9th April 1986
• Ted Schwartz' Rodimus Prime dialogue replaced by Dick Gautier ADR: 24th April 1986
• Additional dialogue pickup session: 28th August 1986

Continuity notes

• Cyclonus laments the Decepticons "scrap like slaargs" over a few Energon cubes. The Arcadroids represent the Nalva System in the Galactic Olympics. Thrull circles the red giant star Hydran.
• This episode picks up an unspecified amount of time after The Transformers: The Movie (which had played in theaters during the summer preceding this episode's debut), and draws directly on many of its events. References include the Battle of Autobot City, Unicron's head orbiting Cybertron, the loss of Optimus Prime, the rise of Galvatron and his lieutenants, the defeat of the Decepticons, and the Autobots regaining control of Cybertron.
• The episode even opens with some of the closing scenes from the movie. The scenes were re-soundtracked with the cartoon's standard background music for television airing. A second movie excerpt, also re-soundtracked, is used to show the end of Rodimus's battle with Galvatron.
• First appearances: Outback, Octane, Tantrum (who probably shouldn't be here yet) and Abdul Fakkadi.
• This episode also introduces the transformation cog, which would become a recurring element of Transformers physiology in modern-day stories.
• Dirge's "Death comes to he who crosses me," line is a slight paraphrase of a line cut from the original Transformers: The Movie script, "Death comes to anyone who crosses me." It was to be delivered aboard Astrotrain as the Decepticons squabbled over leadership. Another iteration comes in the later episode "Starscream's Ghost" ("I know, I know - 'Death comes to anyone who hides behind my marker!'"), though Dirge is not mentioned by name.

Real-world references

• The Galactic Olympics are, obviously, based on the modern Olympic Games, including the opening parade of "nations" and the Olympic torch presiding over the events.
• Middle East tensions in the 1980s resulted in the extremely racist spoof called Carbombya.
• In one scene, Blurr asks why Metroplex's new transformation cog wasn't shipped via Galactic Express, an allusion to the fact that John Moschitta had previously appeared in a series of Federal Express commercials.
• Star Wars sound effects:
  • Kickback and Shrapnel fly in with Millennium Falcon engine whine, and take off with the ship's engine burst noise.
  • Ramjet and Dirge get the TIE Fighter engine sound as they lose control amid Outback's explosive. Some Millennium Falcon engine whine can be heard as well.

Animation and technical errors

Animated by the low-budget animation house of AKOM (with assistance from fellow Korean contractor Sam Young Studio), "Five Faces of Darkness" features a lot of substandard artwork, which becomes even more obvious against the interspersed scenes from the Movie; it is one (five) of the most notoriously error-plagued episodes in the entire series. Brace yourself...

• Continuing their grand tradition, AKOM somehow wound up with incorrect color models for a variety of characters, which appear across the entire 3rd season. Among them are:
  • Most of the new characters introduced in the Movie have the inside of their mouths colored based on their exterior colors: the inside of Magnus's mouth is blue (or red), Wheelie's is dark orange, Blurr's is blue, Arcee's is pink, Springer's is green, and Cyclonus's is purple.
  • Cyclonus (sometimes) has dark purple eyebrows.
  • Rodimus Prime carries a red gun, which should be black. The indentations on his shoulders are colored the same burgundy-red as his arms, when they should be white. The "windshield" details on his pelvis are white, when they should be a lighter burgundy, and there should be a trapezoid of the same color in the centre of his pelvis.
  • Many Movie-based characters are intermittently drawn with their discarded preliminary character models instead of the correct "second-round" revisions. The Sweeps, for example, show up with their robot mode heads sticking out of the top of their vehicle modes. This will be a standard feature of AKOM episodes for the rest of the season; in particular, Rodimus Prime will constantly switch designs at random, from scene to scene.
• Quite a few Transformer voices appear to be processed with a very heavy bass end in this episode, including Rodimus, Arcee, Outback, and Springer.

• Chaar's moon and sun are bizarre. If the opening animation is to be believed, the moon takes about 20 seconds to orbit the planet (with the sun going in the opposite direction!), yet when we see it again later, it's just sitting there. The moon also appears to set with the red dusk sky behind it. The sky is a red dusk despite the sun having passed overhead in the opposite direction. The red dusk sky is also visible along the horizon in all directions. Maybe Chaar sits in a nebula?
• Long Haul is missing when the Constructicons combine.
• After he knocks Astrotrain away from the energon cube, Devastator's mouth does some lip-flapping, but there's no dialog to go with it.
• Menasor's "hi-yah!" sword grunts aren't in his voice. He sounds more like an unprocessed Astrotrain or Bonecrusher. When he finally speaks a non-grunt line, he suddenly goes to his own voice, right after a generic-voice grunt.

• Devastator goes from his usual eyeband, to two large separate eyes as he grabs the energon cube, to two small separate eyes as Menasor whacks him apart.
• Menasor's first sword strike clearly knocks Devastator into his components (well, some components, anyway; none of them look like actual pieces of Devastator.) Devastator then re-forms with no transformation noise.
• When Menasor smashes Devastator apart the second time, only Bonecrusher, Scavenger, Hook and Long Haul are shown. Bonecrusher shouldn't be there (he didn't "have the energy to hang on"), and Scrapper and Mixmaster are totally unaccounted for.
• As a shot hits the energon cube next to him, Kickback grunts with the same generic voice that Menasor had earlier.
• Kickback is drawn with the more toy-centric version of his insect mode, wherein his robot face is clearly visible on the bottom of his insect head; he even visibly emotes and looks around with it. Most episodes portray him with his robot face concealed in his insect mode.
• As Cyclonus and company approach, Astrotrain finally completes his transformation to robot mode, but with no transformation noise.
• The first Sweep to transform and land is also missing his transformation sound.
• Coloring errors:
  • As Warpath and Bumblebee watch Ultra Magnus on-screen, Magnus's microphones are colored as part of his chest.
  • As Jazz races towards the finish line, the Autobot symbol on his hood is colored in reverse (it's white with red inlays).
  • The center piece of Rodimus's spoiler is yellow instead of orange as he watches Springer and Arcee leave the stadium.
  • As Perceptor tells Rodimus to take Grimlock with him to Chaar, his Autobot symbol is all-gray (it's usually red with a slim gray outline).
  • The Skuxxoid's ship is white when it leaves the Olympics planetoid, but light orange as Arcee and Springer pursue it through space.
  • Drag Strip has a gray optic visor during the "I'll think of something" line. It should be red.
  • The final shot has Soundwave colored mostly in purple instead of blue. Also, his chest door disappears for a moment.

• Jazz is shown winning the first race in the Galactic Olympics, but a few seconds later an announcer declares that "the winner is Munka Spanka of the Orgenon Cluster." It's possible a generic character was intended for use in the scene and Jazz was mistakenly picked at random; however, given Jazz's prominent survival of the movie, it seems more likely that an editing mistake failed to portray the passage of time (and other races) after Jazz's win. Fans also have speculated that this was an intentional name change, prompted by the fact that Scatman Crothers, Jazz's voice actor, had recently passed away, though why this would be necessary for a non-speaking part is unclear.
• The Quintesson monitor shows Magnus and company against a blue sky, when they'd been standing against an orange wall a second earlier.
• Improbable viewpoints:
  • How did the Quintessons get that footage of the Autobots, anyway?
  • Okay, maybe Unicron can monitor and record events within his own body. But does he really have a camera outside himself to show things like Galvatron flying out of him and off into the distance?
• In addition to lighting up, the button that the Quintesson pushes changes shape when pushed.
• One of the scrambling Olympians walks right through a column during the torch attack.
• Arcee and Springer's "cooking my sensors" lines carry an echo that shouldn't be there, as if they were in a soundproof room.
• When Rodimus starts shooting, he gets the second half of Optimus Prime's laser rifle sound effect. A second later, he gets the whole sound effect. Later, his rifle has the standard Autobot laser sound. Later episodes would generally give his rifle the full Optimus Prime sound effect, though not very consistently.
• How are the Sharkticons so consistently in shadow when everyone else is not?
• Rodimus is missing the "age lines" on his face as he threatens to trash the Decepticons, which basically makes him Hot Rod.
• Cybertron's appearance has changed a LOT since the movie. The first shot shows it looking like one of its own moons, with almost no detailing. The second shows it with much more detailing, but still very different than its previous appearance.
• Cyclonus is far too large as he stands on Unicron's face, taller than Unicron's eyes. He should be a speck at that distance.
• One of Scourge's helmet rims is white instead of blue as he says the "no wind in space" line.
• Unicron's snoozing groan is recycled as Scourge spots Galvatron's hand on Thrull. Is Scourge supposed to be hearing Galvatron snore from across millions of miles of space?
• The first time we see Blaster, his left eye has a line through it.
• The helmet rim around Outback's eyes is consistently colored blue instead of light gray. This could be an alternate model sheet, given its consistency. Later episodes would show him with his eyes the same color as the rest of his face.
• Rodimus's "smudge on the screen" is a sharp, glowing, blinking dot. He's also shown wiping it, but is too far away from it in the subsequent shot to have been able to reach it.
• In an odd moment of humanizing, Springer and Arcee clench their eyes shut when their ship is grabbed by the claw.
• Springer and Arcee's ship is clearly shown facing to the left of the claw before the commercial break, but afterward it's facing to the right.
• A repeat of the establishing shot of Chaar includes its moon (which, by the by, is a recycled Cybertron moon design.) This time, instead of warping around the planet, the moon is hanging in the sky, stationary.
• Two different pans across the assembled Decepticons show quite a few robots that don't correspond to any actual character. The characters are distant enough that the animators probably figured we wouldn't notice.

• Dirge is with the Decepticons on Chaar as they debate leadership. How'd he get back there from Earth? In the same shot, Soundwave's shoulder button is blue instead of white, and Blast Off's forehead is colored as though it were an optic visor.
• Cyclonus has consistently had three Sweeps up to this point, but as they return to Chaar there's suddenly half a dozen of them.
• The subsequent shots of cheering Decepticons are infamously screwed up. The first one features:
  • Tantrum well before the Predacons have actually been introduced to the series. To be fair, the Predacons' later introduction is so ambiguous that it might not be a genuine screwup to have one of them present.
  • An off-model non-conehead Seeker in Dirge's colors
  • Octane also makes his inauspicious debut here, without any sort of explanation or introduction, though it doesn't actually contradict anything to have him there.
• The second cheering shot has Soundwave with a malformed, half-colored visor.
• When Motormaster throws down his energon, Hook and Long Haul are standing nearby. When he falls over in the subsequent shot, they've both been replaced by generics in the same pose. Also, after the Energon is thrown, Motormaster's mouth moves without us hearing any dialog.

Yeah! We're going to save that guy on the left from the deadly lava pools of Thrull!

• The third cheering shot ("Giiiiive till it hurrrrts!") features two more made-up Seeker models, a random blue guy, and Galvatron himself cheering for his own imminent rescue.
• As the Decepticons rally to attack Rodimus and Grimlock, two Motormasters run past the camera.
• When Cyclonus fires on the rock outcrop, some guy in Fireflight's colors is behind him. The subsequent shot of charging Decepticons includes several made-up guys.
• The line of charging Decepticons at the end includes a Seeker in Silverbolt's colors.

Continuity errors

• Most of the character screwups on Chaar are probably just cheap/lazy/screwed up animation; in fact, all the off-model and made-up designs could really be excused as generic Decepticons we've never met before, if one is so inclined (and one is prepared to accept that for some reason, we never see them again, either.) However, Kickback and Shrapnel have a whole sequence dedicated to them landing, trying to munch an energon cube, and then fleeing, which is far too long and explicit not to be a scripted appearance. Both characters were supposedly reformatted into Sweeps during Transformers: The Movie.
• Why does Astrotrain wait until he's landed to gobble some of the energon he's struggling to reach?
• So why didn't Menasor grab and eat the energon cube he just fought so hard for?
• Perceptor's description of the transforming cog is rather confusing. He introduces it as Autobot City's transformation cog, but then says "it controls Metroplex's ability to transform". This begins an ongoing trend of the cartoon dialog treating the two as if they were one and the same, despite the animation showing them as two distinct (though sometimes related) entities.
• "How we gonna find the Decepticons? It's like looking for a needle in a haystack!" It would be, Blaster, except that they conveniently left their Decepticon insignias in place for you to see.
• How do Arcee and Springer hear the Skuxxoid's voice? He's inside a space ship, and they're on the outside. Does the ship have its own external atmosphere?

"What is our chance of defeating the Autobots, when we can barely remember what our own voices sound like?"

• Voice consistency for the show's more obscure characters took a nosedive after the movie, starting with this episode:
  • Ramjet has nearly the right voice, but it lacks the clipped mannerism that characterized his speech throughout the second season. Instead of sounding like an enforcer, he sounds... cheerful. In fairness, he occasionally lost that mannerism during Season 2.
  • Onslaught's lines, beginning with "I admire your passion, my friend...", are provided by Terry McGovern in this episode, as opposed to his regular actor, S. Marc Jordan. Jordan would later be replaced again by Steve Bulen for Onslaught's final line of the series in "The Rebirth, Part 3".
  • Terry McGovern tries on a brand new voice for Wildrider's two lines. He'll also develop a hick accent that he didn't have before in "The Burden Hardest to Bear".
• We never do find out why Cyclonus is carrying around a big black box, but the script reveals it's meant to be a *literal* black box salvaged from Unicron's head, with records of Galvatron's continued existence. Regardless, it's not present in the next episode.

Trivia

• In an interview with Flint Dille, he said that the Quintesson origin story came from "The Secret of Cybertron," an aborted script for the movie by him and his fellow writer, Jay Bacal.^[1]
• This episode establishes Grimlock's new role as a prominent recurring character in the cast, complete with a friendlier, goofier personality whereas he had previously been depicted as a slow-witted but fierce warrior.
• Sparkplug Witwicky is mentioned in the Sunbow cast list for this episode—and the relevant dialogue script reveals that he was indeed supposed to make an appearance! He would have been with Outback and Blaster aboard the E.D.C. shuttle sent to investigate reports of Decepticon activity in Carbombya. His one line—"How're we gonna find the Decepticons? It's like a needle in a haystack."—was reassigned to Blaster in the final cut of the episode.
• When originally aired, this and the other four parts of the story all had a unique set of opening credits. Unfortunately, the DVD release of the mini-series only includes this opening on parts 3 and 5.

Foreign localization

French

• Title: "Les cinq visages du mal, partie 1" ("The Fives Faces of Evil, Part 1")
• Original airdate: ?

• This episode is one of those that has never been released on DVD in French.
• Concerning the European French dub:

• For the beginning of that new season, Francis Lax is the only member of the classic team to be back for now. He is joined by new temporary members including Éric Etcheverry, Michel Barbey and several unidentified actors.
• The opening dialogue between the Decepticons during Astrotrain's crash is absent from the dub.
• For some reason, Cyclonus' line "Land, Sweeps! And beware of treachery!" is replaced by "Look! I think we arrive in time!".
• Cyclonus' shot saying "We must take desperate measures" was cut.
• For the commentator of the Galactic Olympics, Francis Lax provided some pig noises between the phrases.
• The dialogue between Bumblebee and Warpath during Jazz's performance is missing.
• The Quintesson's line "We must learn what makes these humans live and what makes them perish" is missing.
• Arcee's line "Wait! You'll need a gunner!" is replaced by "Wait! You'll need a navigator!"...
• Cyclonus' phrase "Show me the last visual appearance of Galvatron" was translated in the wrong way, kinda meaning "Show me how Galvatron looked, last we knew", which sounds pretty strange.
• When Springer's and Arcee's ship is seized by the claw, Springer says "C'est ce qui s'appelle se faire pincer !" ("That's what's called getting pinched!"), a French idiomatic expression meaning "To get busted".
• Cyclonus' line "He shall lead us again!" was cut.

German

• Title: "Die fünf Gesichter der Finsternis, Teil 1" ("The Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1")
• Original airdate: June 26, 1990

Japanese

• Title: "Arata Naru Tatakai" (新たなる戦い, "The New War")
• Original airdate: November 14, 1986
• In Japan, season 3 was rebranded as a new series titled Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010. As the title implies, the year was changed from 2005 to 2010.
• The Transformers: The Movie was not released in Japan until 1989. In order to keep the kids at home up to date, the events of the movie were summarized in the pages of TV Magazine.

Italian

• Title (first dub): "I cinque volti del male, Parte 1" ("The Five Faces of Evil, Part 1")
• Original airdate: ?
• Title (second dub): "Le cinque facce dell'oscurità, Parte 1" ("The Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1")
• Original airdate: ?

Mandarin

• Title: "Wǔmiànguài (1)" (五面怪 (一), "Five-Faced Monsters (1)")
• Original airdate: ?

Brazilian Portuguese

• Title: "A Desforra, Primeira Parte" ("The Rematch, First Part")
• Original airdate: ?

Russian

• Title: "Pyatj likov tjmy (Chastj 1)" (Пять ликов тьмы (Часть 1), "Five Faces of Darkness (Part 1)")
• Original airdate: ?

Home video releases

Boy, I sure did love that part in "Five Faces of Darkness" where Powermaster Optimus Prime, Mainframe, Cloudburst and Rev fought a giant floating Quintesson head.

VHS

1990 — The Transformers — Five Faces of Darkness (Family Home Entertainment)

LaserDisc

1990 — The Transformers — Five Faces of Darkness (Family Home Entertainment)
1999 — The Transformers: 2010 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.

DVD

2001 — The Transformers: 2010 — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.
2002 — Transformers — Complete Original Series: Deluxe Edition (Sony Wonder)
2002 — Transformers — Five Faces of Darkness: Parts 1-5 (Sony Wonder)
2003 — The Original Transformers — Season 3 Part 1 (Rhino Entertainment)
2003 — The Original Transformers — Season 3 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment)
2004 — Transformers — Season 3 and Season 4 (Metrodome)
2004 — Transformers — Collection 4: Series 3.1 (Madman Entertainment)
2006 — Transformers — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)
2007 — The Transformers — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)
2009 — Transformers — Season's Three & Four [sic] (Metrodome)
2009 — The Transformers — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)
2009 — The Transformers — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)
2010 — The Transformers — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)
2011 — The Transformers — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory)
2014 — The Transformers — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)
2014 — Transformers — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

References

External links

• Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle
• IMDb's page for this episode
• Full episode script