Transformers - Some DVD Extras Revealed by Shout! for the 25th Anniversary Season 1 Set!

As you already know, Shout! Factory has picked up the rights to the original "G1" animated Transformers series, and is preparing a June 16th release for The Transformers - The Complete 1st Season: 25th Anniversary Edition on DVD. We've known that they had ambitious plans for bonus material on this release, to accompany the first 16 episodes of the show (including the original 3-part miniseries, "More Than Meets the Eye."

Now we've learned from Shout!'s official website that the extras will include Original Hasbro Toy Commercials, a Featurette titled "A Look Back at Hasbro and the Origins of The Transformers," and Concept Art...at the very least, anyway. That might be the full list, but we've heard that the studio is still recording various material. It could be that it's meant for future releases, though, if we're being realistic.

We're also still waiting on answers to questions we've passed along to Shout! from fans, wondering about whether these releases will be the original broadcast edit (video and audio), and whether the original broadcast order will be preserved on all of this studio's releases. For now, we can give you the track listing supplied at Shout!'s site, listing the order that they will come in for this package:

• Disc 1:
  1. More Than Meets The Eye, Part 1
  2. More Than Meets The Eye, Part 2
  3. More Than Meets The Eye, Part 3
  4. Transport To Oblivion
  5. Roll For It
  6. Divide And Conquer
  7. Fire In The Sky
  8. S.O.S. Dinobots
• Disc 2:
  9. Fire On The Mountain
  10. War Of The Dinobots
  11. The Ultimate Doom, Part 1
  12. The Ultimate Doom, Part 2
  13. The Ultimate Doom, Part 3
  14. Countdown To Extinction
  15. A Plague Of Insecticons
  16. Heavy Metal War

If that list is accurate, then it's the same order as Rhino's first season set, which agrees with the order at the Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB.com). However, it's different than the order seen at other websites, such as TV.com, EpGuides.com and WikiPedia (which each give original broadcast dates to support the order they show...but each has different ones, and different orders). Well, we'll bring you the official press release, with all the finalized details, once Shout! and Hasbro finish hammering that out, and are ready to distribute it to the world. Stay tuned!