Transformers: The Ultimate Doom and Countdown To Extinction storyboards

Thanks to Ryan King and originally owned by contributing artist Peter "Aeon Flux" Chung, the Sunbow Marvel Archive now hosts full storyboard sets for The Ultimate Doom, Part 3 and Countdown to Extinction.

These storyboards see the moment FIRRIB was born as Frenzy makes his cartoon debut, as well as Jetfire's adventures in his original toy-based design.

To view these sets as galleries, head to: Storyboard Viewing Gallery

Or for downloadable versions, alongside the virtual library of material for seasons 1 and 2, head to: The Transformers, Part 1

The Transformers: weekday series press pack

Fresh off the success of The Transformers' first season on weekends in 1984, here is Sunbow Productions press pack to promote the series going to full weekday syndication in 1985.

My Little Pony: Rescue At Midnight Castle press pack

Featured below are the folder and pages for Sunbow Productions' press pack, promoting the first My Little Pony half-hour special (retroactively known as Rescue At Midnight Castle) to syndicators in early 1984.

In addition to promotion of celebrity guest voices Tony Randall and Sandy Duncan, the pack also contains a synopsis for the story that is somewhat gentler that the actual content of the special.

Transformers: Full CBS Network Pitch material

In February 1984, Marvel Productions' Hank Saroyan and Jeffrey Scott were hurriedly commissioned to create a development bible and pilot script, intending to sell The Transformers as a Saturday morning series to CBS Network.  Now, at last, the Archive presents the paper material that formed that pitch.

Included at the link below are: 

• The initial development bible, written in three days without full reference or character profiles available.
• The revised bible, dated 7th March 1984, incorporating Bob Budiansky's profiles and original characters requested by CBS.
• Outlines and full script for the pilot episode: A Robot's Best Friend Is His Dog.
• Jeffrey Scott's notes file, which ties all the pieces together.  Containing Hasbro product list, notes from development meetings between Scott and Saroyan, along with feedback from Hasbro, Griffin-Bacal and CBS executives.

To read them all, head to The Transformers, Part 1