Transformers: Scramble City
Seen it?1986 | 22 min | Animation, Science Fiction, Action
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With a box office flop and little lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Aimed squarely at anyone who likes their monsters enormous and anyone curious about anime. The scale is huge: humanity is very much the underdog. Shelve it next to Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone. Made in the anime tradition: bold, emotional and willing to go dark.
- The mood
- Feel-good.
- The pace
- Lean, with little time wasted, at 22 min. An easy one to fit in on a school night.
- What might put you off
- No age rating on record, so check it first for young kids.
- It's in Japanese, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
- Skip it if you can't get past animation (your loss).
Taking place after the Second Season of Transformers, Scramble City is a story in which the Cybertrons have built a secret lab hidden inside a mountain to build a new super robot, Metroplex to be a mobile base for them. As Ultra Magnus prepares it the Destrons find out its location and attack it. The Cybertron and Destron teams duke it out over the mountain then Metroplex comes out and beats all the Destrons but then out of the water comes Typticon! Can Metroplex defeat Trypticon???
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
Awards data unavailable, so this isn't counted
- Reach & staying powerWeak
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far
- Buzz & cultural impactBelow par
About 8K people sought it out in the past year, and interest is climbing
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Yûji Endô
- Tessyo GendaOptimus Prime (voice)
- Osamu SakaWheeljack (voice)
- Tomomichi NishimuraSilverbolt / Superion (voice)
- Keiichi NanbaBlaster (voice)
- Banjo GingaUltra Magnus (voice)
- Seizo KatoMegatron / Devastator (voice)
- Hirotaka SuzuokiStarscream (voice)
- Yu ShimakaBruticus / Onslaught / Thundercracker (voice)
- Ken ShiroyamaRatbat / Skydive (voice)
- Koji TotaniMotormaster / Menasor (voice)