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Monday 13 March 2023

Transformers: Deleted dialogue audio vs storyboards: S.O.S Dinobots

In 2016, the Mapes brothers found an assortment of Marvel Productions cassette tapes containing dialogue recorded in the summer of 1984, principally Season 1 of The Transformers.  Deleted dialogue from those tapes is available on the Transformers At The Moon YouTube channel.

At the time of the recordings being found and made available, only one episode had a complete storyboard set available: Heavy Metal War.  Animatics utilising the deleted dialogue from that episode were created and presented by Chris McFeely for TFNation 2017.

Since then, the number of full episode storyboards available online has grown to seven.  Including a second episode for which a dialogue tape is available: S.O.S Dinobots.

To view the scenes in full context, head to: S.O.S Dinobots storyboard viewing gallery

Below is the video containing deleted recordings, along with the relevant storyboard pages and time indexes.



0:22 to 0:46
Scenes 8-15 cut
Brawn scene 13 dialogue moved to scene 18, scene 14 dialogue moved to scenes 17 and 17A


1:00 to 1:22
Scenes 31 -34 and 36-38 cut



1:25 to 1:40
sc. 44 and 47-50 cut, dialogue laid over long Truck In of sc. 45 and continues through sc. 51



1:52 to 2:11
sc. 56 and 57 cut


4:17 to 4:30
sc. 166-170, 174, 177-180 cut.  Sc. 175 and 176 moved between actions on sc. 173



5:20 to 5:35
sc. 240 to 243 cut



5:40 to 6:06
sc. 272 dialogue cut, sc. 273 visual cut, 273 dialogue over 272 visual.

6:14 to 6:23
sc. 304-306 cut, sc. 303 revised


7:19 to end
sc. 338 dialogue cut, sc. 342-351 cut.
Note - sc. 343-351 scripted to be re-used for MP 700-07 War Of The Dinobots, but deleted from that episode as well