My favorite was Chip Chase standing up to catch some macguffin in an episode. I have a personal theory that he's secretly a superhuman.
How do you figure that’s an error? It’s not like he got up and walked around the area he just braded and push himself up, Many people and chairs can do that
Well, that's certainly a hugely longer lead-time than Transformers but I can't imagine it was standard for the show... It was always odd that Joe didn't go into syndication until '85, while Transformers got turned into a full-length series a year ahead of it, in '84. Wonder what the story there was?
if anyone wants a good pick me up laugh today just head over to TFWIKI and read their section on "Carnage in C-Minor". TFWIKI has got to be the funniest TF fan site around.... Carnage in C-Minor - Transformers Wiki EDIT: That said, I loved the scene of Ultra Magnus smashing Hook and Scrapper together. That was golden! DOUBLE EDIT: This one here was DEFINITELY NOT an animation error. Swindle was simply being paid by the Protectobots to be on guard. You know. Because he likes money.
I'm always made room for the possibility that Papa Smurf Optimus wasn't an animation error. Maybe he was changing color because he was dying.
More Than Meets The Eye turns out a lot better when you find out that a lot of the errors - outside of colouring errors - have only become errors due to the huge amount of deleted scenes. Thanks to the teleplay and deleted dialogue recordings coming to light. Big example is when the Decepticons raid the rocket base in part 3. "Our weapons are totally ineffective. There's nothing we can..." The reason for the abrupt cut-off is that Starscream, having shot the soldiers on the ground with it, then shoots the tower with his null ray. Freezing all the humans inside. Naturally, someone baulked at having the Decepticons freezing and seemingly killing a bunch of humans. So they added two explosion sound effects to the next shot, where Megatron flies in, whereas the scene is originally supposed to be quiet and still.
FWIW, I watched "Carnage in C Minor" for the first time in a few years and my opinion on the episode has completely changed. I think, if anything, it is about one of the BEST episodes of G1. Why ? Because it is the one episode that looks like it was made while on LSD, LOL!! Yeah, it's terrible - but dammit to hell it is funny as shit and cheesy. It is like the writers and animators made the episode while pulling an all-nighter smoking some Kona Gold while staving off the munchies (Kona Gold is supposedly the best pot in the planet. It grows on Kona Mountain in Hawaii. Talk Show host Michael Savage, who used to live in Hawaii, has made references to it and how tourists would ask him where they could score some, lol...)
What's hilarious is the TFWiki page for SOS Dinobots, where I got the image, has another image from the same episode and the caption referred to it as "Yomtovian" The first time I ever saw a TF comic was at a US military commissary in Germany (my cousin, who is in the Army, got us in, but I don't remember what city it was in) and I remember the awful artwork and coloring are what made me put the comic right back down again. I've since learned it must have been Yomtov (IIRC, for you comicphiles, the issue was the one with Powerglide's profile. I only remember that and something going on in a city...)
Did you photoshop that? Nice job. I’ve often wondered if fans could take it upon themselves to fix some of the errors in the toon. Unfortunately, that just opens up a litany of legal issues.
Just a simple recolor, thanks. Looking through this thread, there are definitely some things that could be easily fixed. Honestly, it might make for a cool fan art project.
