About a month ago, Ron Friedman, one of the writers behind the original 1980's Transformers cartoon, put a bunch of items up for auction. Animation sheets, scripts, notes, etc., were all available to fans, much of it for the first time ever. Needless to say, Transformers fans with money to spare (that doesn't include me, I'm afraid) happily bid on these previously unknown relics. The Allspark, following a pattern set earlier in the year, organized a donation drive, any excess from which would go to charity. As a result of these efforts, many of these items were obtained for the express purpose of making them available online so that fans everywhere could have access to the new bits of historical data that could be obtained.Perhaps one of the most exciting finds from this group of auctions was an early draft of the script to the 1986 Transformers: The Movie. Jim Sorenson, author of some pretty cool books and blogger at Disciples of Boltax, was the recipient of the physical copy of this script and has now scanned it and placed the link on his blog. Rather than steal his thunder, I'd rather send you to his blog so you can see what he's been up to. This version of the movie really is significantly different than what we ended up seeing on screen, and is worth taking some time to look through (full disclaimer: I've only had a chance to skim parts of it all, myself, but hope to spend more time with it this weekend, when I'm not trying to juggle job concerns, as well).
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