Forty years ago, The Transformers: The Movie changed everything.
Optimus Prime fell. Megatron became Galvatron. Starscream finally got his coronation, although that didn't exactly go according to plan. Unicron arrived. Hot Rod inherited the Matrix. And an entire generation of kids learned that their favorite Autobots weren't guaranteed to make it to the end credits.
With The Transformers: The Movie returning to theaters for its 40th anniversary, Ultimate Mayhem is back and we're starting with one of the wildest animated movies of the 1980s.
In Episode 1, we're going back to the Battle of Autobot City and looking at the death of Optimus Prime, Prime versus Megatron, the arrival of Galvatron and Unicron, the rise of Rodimus Prime, that gloriously excessive soundtrack, and why this movie still means so much to Transformers fans four decades later.
This isn't a Cybertronian history lesson. That's what Shadows of Cybertron is for.
This is about the movie, the memories, the absolute chaos, and the day Optimus Prime died.
Welcome back to Ultimate Mayhem.
The mayhem continues.
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