Between the second and third seasons of the TransFormers series, this film came out and didn’t just shake up the status quo, but oblitterated it.  Many of the existing characters were killed off with new ones introduced, a move that makes sense now looking back, as the point of the cartoon was to sell toys.  As a fan of the cartoon, comics, and toys, this movie was a groundbreaking event.

I didn’t see the movie when it first came out, so my first exposure to the new characters was the new season of cartoons, along with the movie adaptation comic from Marvel.  I eventually found a VHS copy of the film at Sears of all places, and still have that copy to this day.