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Thought the TFormers members might want to see this.  If anyone has production material, or knows someone who does and is willing to scan and contribute, please get in touch.
 
https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/


The Beginning
Marvel Comics original treatment (modern reproduction)
Marvel Comics issue 1 commercial, full storyboard

The Pilot
4023-4024-4025 More Than Meets The Eye full script (revised 13.03.84)

The Interim
MP Internal Correspondence on series development (30.04.84, transcript)
Writer's Bible (Season 1 cast only)

Season 1
01 Transport To Oblivion full script X 2 (revised 08.06.84, final 22.06.84)
02 Roll For It full script X 2 (reconstructed first draft + final)
03 Divide and Conquer full script (final)
04 Fire In The Sky full script X 2 (unedited original + final)
05 S.O.S Dinobots full script (revised Friedman)
06 Fire On The Mountain full script (revised Friedman)
07 War Of The Dinobots full script X 2 (unedited original + final)
08 The Ultimate Doom, part 1 full script (final)
09 The Ultimate Doom, part 2 full script (final)
10 The Ultimate Doom, part 3 full script (final)
11 Countdown To Extinction full script (final)
12 A Plague Of Insecticons full script (final)
13 Heavy Metal War full script (final), full storyboards

Season 2
18 City Of Steel storyboard samples
24 Day Of The Machines full script X 2 (reconstructed first draft + revised Friedman)
25 Enter The Nightbird partial script X 2 (reconstructed first draft + revised Friedman, missing pages 40-42)
26 A Prime Problem partial script (missing pages: Cover, Cast, 1, remaining pages after 34)
27 The Core partial script (missing all pages before 15)
28 The Insecticon Syndrome full script (revised Friedman)
29 Dinobot Island, part 1 full script (revised Friedman)
30 Dinobot Island, part 2 full script (revised Friedman)
31 The Master Builders full script X 2 (reconstructed first draft + revised Friedman)
32 Auto-Berserk full script X 2 (reconstructed first draft revised Friedman)
Series Update circular from Flint Dille (07.02.85)
33 Microbots full script (unedited)
34 Megatron's Master Plan, part 1 full script X 2 (reconstructed first draft + revised Friedman)
38 Blaster Blues full script X 2 (reconstructed first draft + revised Friedman)
39 A Decepticon Raider In King Arthur's Court full script X 2 (reconstructed first draft + revised Friedman)
41 The God Gambit X 2 (unedited original + revised Friedman)
42 Make Tracks (revised Friedman)
60 Cosmic Rust AKA Rust In Peace full script, full storyboard, 1st page of outline
61 30 Seconds Over Megatron AKA Starscream's Brigade full script (unedited)
62 The Revenge Of Bruticus (final)
Dialogue scripts from all 65 episodes (call sheet available for Hoist Goes Hollywood)

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/2019/06/mp700-transformers-1984-1987-sunbow.html

The Movie
Second Ron Friedman outline (28.03.85)
Second Ron Friedman draft script (27.04.85)
Second Ron Friedman draft script revised (02.05.85)
Undated Sunbow revision script
Dialogue script (Walker Edmiston's copy)
Full storyboards (sequences 1-31)

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/2020/01/mp-4034-transformers-movie.html

Season 3
The Eye Of The Beholder (unused premise, transcript)
92 Chaos outline (1st page of Act I, 1st page of Act II)
106 Fight Or Flee full script (final)
110 Grimlock's New Brain handwritten "beats" chart, first page of outline
115 Return Of Optimus Prime, part 1 full script (final)
116 Return Of Optimus Prime, part 2 partial script (final, missing pages 12-18)
Cast list file (01-116)
Synopsis file (01-116)
Dialogue scripts from all 30 episodes (call sheets available on Chaos and Dark Awakening).

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/2019/06/mp700-transformers-1984-1987-sunbow_11.html

General resources:
Production timeline: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TFC7OLnf6RuMh4_8UkFbNjZrp7gp4O4W
Page count/episode runtime: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DjzhdjJa79q_1ZZ_iORFzygV7lgO6OgJ
 
 
 
 
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And that's not all.  I encourage anyone who visits to use the Productions links on the right-hand side.  I've got scripts, storyboards and other material from

  • Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends
  • The Incredible Hulk
  • Dungeons & Dragons
  • GI Joe
  • Defenders Of The Earth
  • Jem
  • Inhumanoids
  • Visionaries
  • Bucky O'Hare And The Toad Wars

and other shows covering from 1981 to 1991.  In theory, if the material became available, the site's remit could stretch from 1979 when the first solo Spider-Man scripts were submitted for DePatie-Freleng.  All the way until 2004 when Sunbow was closed down for good.

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Just a reminder that the archive is still here and is expanding.  Just added storyboard samples from City Of Steel, taken from when the full set was auctioned about three years ago.

Also, if anyone out there has material they would be willing to contribute.  All you need is the item itself, a phone with a camera and Adobe Scan: .https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/mobile/scanner-app.html

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The archive has now been updated to include the handwritten "Beats" chart and first page of the premise/outline for Grimlock's New Brain (titled Creation Of The Technobots). The uncut dialogue for Act I of Chaos has been amalgamated into the existing dialogue script as well as more from the episode's outline:
 
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Been a while since I posted here, so here is what the archive has been up to:

Received a contribution of storyboards from Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2.  Draw by Keith Tucker, this Additional Material section was added to Act III as Don Glut's script ran about 3 or 4 minutes short.

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/mp-700-transformers-part-1-1984-1985.html

 

Additionally, I have a assembled a collection of Toyfair catalogue sections relevant to the shows.  Including a full set of G1 catalogues from 1984-1990.  The full list is as follows:

1982
GI Joe
 
1983
GI Joe
 
1984
GI Joe
Transformers
 
1985
GI Joe
Transformers
 
1986
GI Joe (Pre-Toyfair and main catalogue)
Transformers (Pre-Toyfair and main catalogue)
Jem
Inhumanoids
Robotix (Milton Bradley catalogue)
 
1987
GI Joe
Transformers
Jem
Air Raiders
Battle Beasts
Ninja Warriors
Visionaries
 
1988
Jem (Pre-Toyfair catalogue only)
 
GI Joe
Transformers
Visionaries (toyline cancelled, too late to remove from catalogue
 
1989
Transformers
 
1990
Transformers
 
The full list of links is at the April Update: https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/2021/03/april-2021-update.html

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