Review by Jeffrey M. Jacobson
Transformers is ™ Hasbro and Takara. Transformers Program content: ©Sunbow Productions, Inc.
This set seems to be mostly free of the errors that plagued Rhino's Season 1 set as far as I can tell. (See my season 1 set review for more info on that.) Apparently for about 3 minutes of "The Core" there is a camera shaking effect missing. (According to a post by Zobovor on alt.toys.transformers) The video quality (sharpness, etc) is good.
There is an episode title mistake: "The Master Builder" is supposed to be "The Master Builders. But they fixed an episode title mistake in "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court". Originally, Decepticon was incorrectly spelled as "Deceptacon".
Rating 3.5/5
Unfortunately, Rhino is still adding in sound effects that were not present in the original episodes. Just like the Season 1 set, all of the 5.1 audio tracks contain extra sound effects.
Many of the episodes' 2.0 tracks do not have the extra effects. But not all of the 2.0 are intact. On Disc 1, the 2.0 audio tracks for "Changing Gears" (#17), "City of Steel" (#18), "Attack of the Autobots" (#19), and "Traitor" (#20) have extra sound effects that are not supposed to be there.
Rating: 2/5
Some guy points out some mistakes in the series (mostly from Korean animated episodes), and gives some information on how the glowing effects (e.g., glowing eyes, Wheeljacks ears) were created.
This voice actor was not actually in the original Transformers series, so I'm not sure why this interview is included on this set. He was the voice of the fire truck Optimus Prime in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, the English-dubbed version of the Japanese Transformers spin-off series Car Robot. It is evident from some of his comments that Kaplan thought he was doing an interview for a Robots in Disguise DVD.
Michael McConnohie was the voice of Cosmos and Tracks in The Transformers, and also did work on Robots in Disguise.
Two-part episodes are spread across different discs.