Transformers DVD/BR release details for Australia

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Jun-04 Madman Transformers: Prime (Season 3, Volume 1) - Battle for Darkmount Family PG 88 mins MMA4600

Jun-04 Madman Transformers: Prime Season 2 Boxset

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I've always wondered, is the newer Madman re-mastered G1 set the same as the Shout set released in the US?
I wouldn't mind getting the Madman set, but I refuse to buy it if it still has those lame "updated" sound effects from their first release.

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Apparently they are the same as the new Shout Factory ones, but I don't have either to be sure.



Details of the full Season 2 TFPrime DVD set and the first single volume Season 3 DVD - both 4th of June, with just four episodes on the Season 3 Volume 1 DVD (they are really stretching out the last season if that is true, as previous volumes have 5 or 6 episodes).

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I got the Madman version. The G1 episodes are the same as Shout Factory, so no Rhino sound effects. But there are a lot of animation errors in season one because it uses a mix of sharper looking but error ridden footage from the Rhino DVDs and the softer looking but less error ridden footage from the old UK DVDs. Not exactly the best remaster ever.

You do get the Shout Factory bonus features plus some Madman exclusive bonus features on the Madman version.

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Apparently they are the same as the new Shout Factory ones, but I don't have either to be sure.



Details of the full Season 2 TFPrime DVD set and the first single volume Season 3 DVD - both 4th of June, with just four episodes on the Season 3 Volume 1 DVD (they are really stretching out the last season if that is true, as previous volumes have 5 or 6 episodes).

that still only works out to be 3 disks, wasn't season 3 only 12 episodes long? or was it 16.

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13 episodes, plus the 3-part "movie", which they might release on its own.

Considering the price of individual volumes here ($20 each), and since they released the first two seasons as 5 or 6 episodes per volume (see first post), it should have been three volumes ($60) with 5, 5, 6 episodes.... not 4 volumes with 4, 4, 5, and 3 episodes ($80).
I think they wanted the finale story on it's own disc, but it doesn't need it's own disc, as it isn't a new season, and follows on nicely from the 13th episode.
That's like having Gen1 Rebirth released as a separate "boxset" to the other three seasons, instead of with the third season boxset.

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That's like having Gen1 Rebirth released as a separate "boxset" to the other three seasons, instead of with the third season boxset.

Didn't they do that before it was all released together?

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I don't know about the Madman version, but the Rhino version had it paired with Season 3 part 2.