Transformers Revenge aka Micro-Commando Diatron-5 aka Space Transformers has never looked this good for a very good reason. I uploaded and and corrected this version from the original master that was meant to be the theatrical release. When movie went straight to TV the color was destroyed, it was drastically shortened and chopped up for ads. Now the Restored HD Full Theatrical Version has the deepest blacks reddest reds and deep blues yellows oranges and purples! The story line, well it is still all over the place, here is the best I could figure out what happened to this mess below for your reading enjoyment. A little history, a little speculation and a little tung and cheek jokeing to lighten the experience. Enjoy the vastly improved sound and visual as always in Cartoon Crazys channel and do not forget to subscribe and hit that bell! "So basically, it's The Fantastic Voyage but with giant robots and Robin Hood's Merry Men." — An archive.org user summarizes Micro-Commando Diatron-5, better known as Space Transformers, is a perplexingly insane and incredibly low-quality pseudoanime straight from South Korea. The plot focuses around a Cyborg woman named Ivy, who defends the entire universe from enemies with her built-in evil-sensing computers. The enemy infects her with a virus. Now the only one to save her is Diatron-5, a Humongous Mecha shrunk down to microscopic size that goes in to fight the bacteria. Two kids, a battle station called the "Star Wars" and Diatron's inventor join her in the battle against evil. Evil being an androgynous woman named Mary, her brother with blue skin who looks suspiciously like Spock and their fleet of robots and forest green demon-like aliens. It was dubbed twice; first with an American-sounding cast under the name Micro-Commando Diatron-5, which can be viewed here, and later on under the name Space Transformers with a British-sounding cast (some being from Space Thunder Kids as well), released by infamous producer Joseph Lai, that can be downloaded here. Bits and pieces of the film were redubbed and incorporated into Space Thunder Kids by Joseph Lai, in the same manner as the Godfrey Ho Ninja Movies. What are the details of this original film as it was origionally scripted, not as TV re-edited it and destroyed it: (First let me admit, though the first 2 acts are great, as they say in show biz, they lost me in the 3rd act completely lol) • UR Base belongs to the good guys • Apocalypse Maiden: Ivy • Art Shift: The animation ranges from extremely poor to half-decent. (Best I can tell from my research, this is because they simply ran out of money and filled with what they could to finish it, this is most obvious at the end where the film simply ends) • Artistic License – Biology: So many instances. one example, people do not have small galaxies inside their bodies – or do they? • Battle of the Still Frames: There's a beautifully crappy example of this (sans the battle) towards the end. A good 1 minute sequence of nothing but a handful of completely still frames of the titular mecha panning around the screen to make it look like it's flying in space, to the tune of a visibly improvised and trippy BGM track. There were absolutely no attempts to make the backgrounds loop evenly or even sync properly with the robot, at one point it just pans through a completely still robot + BG image, and in other, Diatron-5 starts inexplicably flying backwards. (we also have the full series of Space Angel on this channel, Cartoon Crazys, some say that animation is minimalistic, or evey “crappy” but really, look at parts of this film and other poorly finished anime and tell me Space Angel was not pretty darn good for a made for afternoon TV low budget daily cartoon made in 1960!) (That said there are parts of this film that are truly excellent and deserve a close look, had the full budget come to fruition, this may well have been a classic movie) • Batman Can Breathe in Space, and my old argument with almost all space animation with the exception of Space Angel, space ships should not be banking in a vacume!!!!! • Bloodless Carnage: The red soldiers are shot down by Checker/Crackle, yet no wounds appear. Their clothes aren't even torn! However, this is probably due to the cheap animation rather than censorship. There are quite a few obvious deaths in this very violent movie. • Gasp! (restored in HD, some of this looks so good, but some really comes out BAD) • Hong Kong Dub: Two of them! Both with different Dub Name Changes. (I kept it English other than the song at the end, it worked much better than the junk the American version had in there, it is Korean after all) • Ill Girl: Ivy • Incredible Shrinking Man • Literal Ass-Kicking • OK Lots of info, but there you have it! Thomas R Reich PhD
