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• Metrodome Distribution released a 'reconstructed edition' of the movie in September 2005. The film was completely restored from the original film image for this DVD release. Metrodome went back to the original 35 mm (1.33:1 ratio) full frame negative and placed it within a widescreen format of 16:9 by creating an anamorphic transfer that respects the film's full screen format. The result is a side-curtained 1.33:1 image within a 1.78:1 ratio that fully preserves the entire field of potential viewable negative and presents the complete image with the maximum amount of visual detail possible.
  
  
• The end credits are white instead of blue in some versions of the film.
  
  
• The film release included a conversation in which a character responded with "Oh, s***!". It was deleted from the first video releases but recently restored on subsequent releases.
  
  
• The Canadian version that was recently released by B'heivjer doesn't have the scrolling text and voice dubbing but does in fact have Spike saying "Aw, sh*t, what are we gonna do now" right after he and bumblebee destroy Moonbase 1.
  
  
• The Japanese release, including the Laserdisc, included Star Wars-style scrolling text in the title sequence.
  
  
• There were scenes deleted which featured Transformers that never spoke or were never featured in the rest of the movie. Credits for those voice actors can still be seen in the closing credits, even though they didn't speak in the final version of the movie.
  
  
• The Australian Region 4 DVD release from Madman has the Star Wars-esque scrolling text and Spike's "Oh, s*it!" line.
  
  
• The year following the series' cancellation, episodes of Transformers were repackaged for more syndicated releases. Featuring a puppet of Powermaster Optimus Prime and a boy named Tommy, one of these stories was the Transformers movie, shown in syndication for the first time. Broken up into 3 parts, referred to as Days, a lot of time was spent with Optimus in exposition to pad out the time due to edits for television and commercials. In addition, the music video for Stan Bush's "The Touch," a favorite song used in the movie, was also included, again introduced by Puppetmaster Prime.
  
  
• Originally co-produced by Dino de Laurentiis's company, the film's opening logos originally featured the insignia for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group [DEG]. This logo does not appear on the DVD version. Instead, it begins with the Sunbow and Marvel logos that originally followed the De Laurentiis logo.
  
  
• The region 1 DVD released by Rhino includes the original US theatrical cut which includes all the profanity edited back into the film. However, there are voice actor credits in place of the scrolling text and voice dubbing at the beginning of the movie, and the voice dub at the end that foreshadows the return of Optimus Prime (which was present in the VHS version) is absent.
  
  

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