Transformers 80s cartoon storyboards & scripts

[Greebtron]

Thanks to an ebay store selling off a handful of scripts by writer and then-Sunbow Producer Doug Booth, I've managed to win and add the full script for season 2 episode Sea Change to the Sunbow Marvel Archive.

As Doug notes in his covering letter, the finished first draft runs 57 pages (down from 71). So we're talking a rough runtime of 28 minutes. 6 or 7 minutes of deleted scenes lie within.

With thanks to Jim Sorenson for storage and scanning.

[Greebtron]

With thanks to Marco Van Leeuwen, the Sunbow Marvel Archive now hosts the storyboards for G1 episode City Of Steel. This copy was previously owned by show director Nelson Shin and sent to his notoriously low-budget studio AKOM to be animated. Are the boards visually superior? You be the judge at:https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot...-of-steel.html

[kovert]

I wonder how quickly they did these rough sketches. In particular, the perspective and shading on Devastator is impressive.

[Greebtron]

Hot on the heels of the City Of Steel storyboard set come two more to the Sunbow Marvel Archive. Sold from the collections of Marvel storyboard artist Brian Ray and Sunbow producer Doug Booth respectively.

With thanks to Ryan King, Rich Helsher and Jim Sorenson.

First up is the season 1 episode S.O.S Dinobots. Clearly a rush job, requiring six artists (David Russell, Doug Lefler, Gerald Moeller, Lindsay Dawson, Bob Smith and Brian Ray). This 141-page set chronicles the construction of the Dinobots and their subsequent rescue of the Autobots after an attempt to stop the Decepticons stealing hydro-electric energy goes wrong.

Next up is Sea Change, Doug Booth's story of love between Seaspray and the alien mermaid Alana. Drawn by the mysterious "K", this massive 160-page set is packed with deleted scenes, carried over from the first draft script added to the Archive earlier this month. Those of you who have read the first draft script may be disappointed (or relieved) to learn that Baby Bumblebee and his parents will not be making an appearance in these boards.

To view both, head on over to: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot...-sets-sos.html

[KELPIE]

I'm loving all this.

such great content, great work.

[Greebtron]

The Summer of Scripts starts here, as the first five of an eventual nineteen episode scripts are now live at the Archive. Two of a set of seven binders sold off by story editor Bryce Malek in 2008, stay tuned for updates as the scripts are scanned and contributed by their owner. New additions to the Archive will be marked in bold below.

Come view what is available at:
The Sunbow Marvel Archive: MP 700 The Transformers, Part 1 1984 - 1985 (Sunbow Productions/Marvel Productions)


Volume 5

MP#700-36 Desertion of the Dinobots – Part One
MP#700-37 Desertion of the Dinobots – Part Two
MP#700-38 Blaster Blues
MP#700-39 A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur’s Court
MP#700-40 The Golden Lagoon
MP#700-41 The God Gambit (Previously available at the Archive via other sources, included for completeness)
MP#700-42 Make Tracks
MP#700-43 Child’s Play
MP#700-44 Quest for Survival
MP#700-45 The Secret of Omega Supreme

Volume 6

MP#700-46 The Gambler
MP#700-47 Kremzeek!
MP#700-48 Sea Change
MP#700-49 Triple Takeover
MP#700-50 Prime Target (formerly: Welcome to My Parlor)
MP#700-51 Auto-Bop
MP#700-52 The Search for Alpha Trion
MP#700-53 The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
MP#700-54 Hoist Goes Hollywood

[KELPIE]

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Woo!!

[Greebtron]

We won...

[KELPIE]

We won...

Woo, thank you!!

Amazing with all those changes, they still left the Powerglide error in.


It's clear that someone in the writing team, (Flint Dille?) worked to remove all the dialogue that spoke down/idiot proofed the script.

[Greebtron]

Things have been moving so fast, I haven't had time to update. Now up to 13 scripts, from Childs Play to Auto-Bop added.