Original Series 1980s cartoon on Hasbro Pulse youtube for free

[griffin]

The Hasbro Pulse youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/hasbropulse/videos) has just uploaded the first season of the original cartoon (16 episodes), for free viewing.

Since the episode order is all jumbled up on the youtube channel, here are two viewing orders, according to tfwik...

Production order...
More than Meets the Eye, Part 1
More than Meets the Eye, Part 2
More than Meets the Eye, Part 3
Transport to Oblivion
Roll for It
Divide and Conquer
Fire in the Sky
S.O.S. Dinobots
Fire on the Mountain
War of the Dinobots
The Ultimate Doom, Part 1
The Ultimate Doom, Part 2
The Ultimate Doom, Part 3
Countdown to Extinction
A Plague of Insecticons
Heavy Metal War

First airing order...
More than Meets the Eye, Part 1
More than Meets the Eye, Part 2
More than Meets the Eye, Part 3
Transport to Oblivion
Roll for It
Divide and Conquer
S.O.S. Dinobots
The Ultimate Doom, Part 1
The Ultimate Doom, Part 2
The Ultimate Doom, Part 3
War of the Dinobots
Countdown to Extinction
Fire in the Sky
Heavy Metal War
Fire on the Mountain
A Plague of Insecticons

It's good timing for those in lockdown who don't have these episodes in some form already.

I can't imagine the episodes would be up for too long, or if they will put up all of the rest of the episodes, unless they don't currently have a license-holder to sell copies (physical or digital), as that business wouldn't be too happy about it, especially if you have an add-on program that can download the episodes.

[griffin]

The second season (of 49 episodes) is now up on the Hasbro Pulse youtube channel (main link in first post above).
The playlist link to just the second season is here (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD3dCMp2WHizDuYwURcwk1VhvsPQo_Fx8).

[Jay-Tron]

Hell yeah! I've been watching a few of these last week or so. Good to be able to just switch the TV to youtube and watch some episodes when there's nothing but crap on TV. Now three of my four favourite 80s cartoons are on youtube to watch whenever I want. Transformers, Voltron and He-Man. Maybe one day the 80s Incredible Hulk cartoon will be uploaded as well.

[griffin]

The 3rd season is now up on their youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp7qxd3c31s&list=PLD3dCMp2WHixI37GR775SsxS70SupKT62)... and the rest might be up on the weekend.

[griffin]

More Transformers cartoons on youtube by Hasbro, this time on their Official Transformers channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/transformersofficial/playlists), of the second season of Transformers Prime (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7VEq3tXc6hs5baIonPpReqmuvFiOmxJ6).

[DELTAprime]

I wonder if YouTube, YouTube Premium and YouTube Kids revenue is greater for this older stuff than selling it exclusively to Netflix?

[Bidoofdude]

I wonder if YouTube, YouTube Premium and YouTube Kids revenue is greater for this older stuff than selling it exclusively to Netflix?

Surely there’d be some interest to be made with a Netflix deal. Young adult Transformers fans seem to be at an all time high in online spaces like Reddit and YouTube, and many wouldn’t be super acquainted with some shows like BW. I think chucking them all on there would be very useful for the franchise.

If your franchise or shows are excessively hard to find online, no one is gonna take the time to go looking for them.

[KELPIE]

TF Prime only recently departed Netflix.

[Paulbot]

TF Prime season 1 is on Stan... but seasons 2 onwards aren’t...

[griffin]

Apparently a new streaming TV channel through the Pluto TV app from Paramount (https://pluto.tv/) will be non-stop Transformers episodes... starting from June 13th (https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/05/30/pluto-tv-is-launching-a-new-transformers-channel-457498).
I don't know much about the app or if it is geo-locked to just US people, but if it has global access, it would allow people here as well to view episodes that may not be currently available from other streaming sites or youtube. The benefit is that it should be a free service, as it will have advertising inserted into the programs, while the only difference to other streaming/hosted sites is that you would probably be stuck with what ever the broadcast schedule is, and not be able to select the episodes or series yourself.


Welcome into the world of Transformers TV, a world where everything is…More Than Meets the Eye. A universe where shape-shifting, sentient robots in disguise hide in plain sight, and battle with the future of their world – and ours – at stake. Transformers TV will include series such as Transformers: Cyberverse, Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Robots in Disguise and many more all day, every day.

[griffin]

The PlutoTV streaming app for Transformers cartoons is apparently now running (https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/06/14/pluto-tv-transformers-channel-live-now-458562), but I haven't tried to access it to see if it is available to people in this part of the world.
It is apparently a division of "Paramount Global", so it would be a bit annoying if it isn't available globally.

[DELTAprime]

A bit of a follow-up to Hasbro Pulse having the full G1 series available for free on their YouTube channel.

Transformers Official has full episodes from other Transformers series on their YouTube channel. Why Hasbro didn't just put it all on the one channel, I don't know. But we have a bunch of Beast Wars, Transformers Prime, RID 2015 and the online-only shows to watch. Not every episode has been uploaded yet as they are uploading them one at a time.

Best of all for me is they just uploaded Animated Season 1 Episode 1 and it's in 1080p HD. Now if Hasbro can work something out with Disney to bring the OG RID to YouTube that would be awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/@TransformersOfficial