
Quite dark for a kids film I always thought. As a kid I remember being truly shocked after the death trawl on the opening scenes.
( , Wed 22 Aug 2012, 19:50, Reply)

until I saw Optimus Prime die. I wasn't the same little boy for weeks and needed to be told that it wasn't real and if it was, he wasn't really dead. (I guess my mum had access to the scripts of the third series of the cartoon because she was righton both accounts.)
( , Wed 22 Aug 2012, 20:19, Reply)

Amazing to think it all boiled down to just reintroducing new toys, I doubt they had any idea it would have such a devastating effect!
( , Wed 22 Aug 2012, 20:39, Reply)

get wiped out in under 20 minutes...
( , Wed 22 Aug 2012, 20:47, Reply)

did a good job of stretching the grief over an entire show.
( , Wed 22 Aug 2012, 21:05, Reply)

That and the old watership down cartoon.
( , Wed 22 Aug 2012, 21:17, Reply)