Transformers: Season 2 backgrounds and equipment models

 Now up at the Archive are background layouts and equipment models for a number of Transformers season 2 episodes.  While these are edited photos and not full scans, if the opportunity to gain the latter arises, those will replace the current files.

The episodes are:

• Autobot Spike
• Changing Gears
• City Of Steel
• Attack Of The Autobots
• Traitor
• The Immobilizer
• The Autobot Run
• Atlantis, Arise!
• Day Of The Machines
• Enter The Nightbird
• A Prime Problem
• The Core
• The Insecticon Syndrome
• Dinobot Island (sheets designated for both parts)
• The Master Builders
• Auto-Berserk
• Microbots
• Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1

These new additions can be viewed alongside their respective scripts and storyboards at: The Transformers, Part 1

Transformers: Chaos models and backgrounds

 A sizeable number of model and background sheets have been added for the Transformers season 3 episode Chaos.

Models

• Skuxxoid (re-used from Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 1)
• Skuxxoid with Death Crystal Cannon
• Bazooka-like Cannon
• Asteroid Hopper
• Walker Tree
• Ick-Yak
• Runamuck
• Chaos (FKA Mayhem)
• An Orb
• A Shrike-Bat
• Alien Prisoner #1 (unused in Chaos, used in Starscream's Ghost)
• Alien Prisoner #2 (unused in Chaos, used in Starscream's Ghost)
• Mine Cart
• Gigantic Interplanetary Cannon

Backgrounds

• Chaos Cavern
• Mine Entrance
• Queeg Mountain and Swampland of Planet Dread (multi-page panorama)
• Teletraan II

To view them, head to The Transformers (Part 2)

Dungeons & Dragons: Unused story premises

Found on the Internet Archive, and originally included on a 2004 UK DVD release.  The Archive now hosts eight unused story premises, submitted by Rick Merwin for the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.

The stories are:

• Day Of The Dragons
• Spell Of The Ice Wizard
• Master Thief Of Baal-Dur
• City Of The Githyanki
• The Crystal Forest
• The Mines Of Menosia
• Yugol and the Curse Of Stone
• Janapurna and the Stallions of Hokar

Additionally, a first draft of Jeffrey Scott's Beauty And The Bogbeast now accompanies the revised version that originally came from the 2006 BCI Eclipse DVD release.

To read them all, head to: Dungeons & Dragons 1983-1985

G.I Joe: My Favorite Things script

Thanks to Rich Helscher, the Archive now presents the first script from the original G.I Joe series to be made public since 2010.  The season 2 episode My Favorite Things.

Written by Doug Booth and edited by Buzz Dixon, this episode delves into Serpentor's quest to acquire artifacts once owned by the tyrants and conquerors whose DNA was used to create the Cobra Emperor.  Once he has gained possession, the memories and powers of his genetic forebears are at his command.  Meanwhile, the incessant inter-service bickering between US Marine Leatherneck and Navy Seal Wet-suit comes to a head.  As the pair's glory-hogging results in Leatherneck being gravely wounded.

Clocking in at 59 pages - including 3 pages of model and location notes, plus an estimated 7 minutes of deleted scenes - the script can be read at: G.I Joe Part 2 (1986-1992)

Go there at once, THIS I COMMAND!

Deleted storyboards: Attack Of The Autobots

For this roundup of deleted scenes, we take a look at David Wise' debut Transformers episode: Attack Of The Autobots, via the storyboards made available to the Archive recently.

Of general note is that the dialogue written on the storyboard set is completely different to that of the broadcast episode, likely originating from the first draft script.

To view the full storyboard set, head to: Attack Of The Autobots storyboard gallery

Megatron sees all, Megatron knows all, Megatron Is!

Brawn vs Soundwave: The lost round

Skyfire: Terror Of The Air....and Hasbro's legal department.

Those 1980's computers sure have strong password security

Brawn SMASH!

Hey, umm, didn't this room look different before?  (Artist: Peter Chung)

Sorry soldier, Spike outranks you now

How is everyone fitting in here, anyway?

Blockade?  More like an obstacle course.  (Artist: Vincenzo Trippetti)

Beyond good, beyond evil etc.

Where's the kaboom?  There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!