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'''Kid Rhino''' is the children's entertainment division of Rhino Entertainment, an [[United States of America|American]] record and home video label. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Rhino held the North American video rights to ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' and the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]]. The movie and a few episodes were first released on VHS, branded as ''[[The Original Transformers]]''. Eventually they were released on DVD for the first time (keeping the same branding) and the movie's soundtrack album was rereleased on CD. Rhino likewise issued full DVD boxed-sets for ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', and ''[[Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]''.

In 2002, Rhino remastered the Generation 1 cartoon series for release on DVD, to subsequent controversy. As the original broadcast masters (the tapes used for broadcast) had degraded to an unacceptable level of visual quality over the years, Rhino opted to use pre-broadcast masters that had far superior clarity and picture quality. Unfortunately, as these pre-broadcast tapes used unfinished animation, the episodes included on Rhino's DVDs suffered from animation errors, missing special effects and colouring mistakes that did not occur in the original 1980s broadcasts.

Additionally, Rhino contracted post-production studio [[Magno Sound & Video]] to remaster the monaural soundtrack to a 5.1 surround soundtrack worthy of a DVD release. Unfortunately, Magno's engineers added in some 30 tracks of new sound effects to this new soundtrack<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HNN/is_10_18/ai_110073878/pg_1 BNet article from October 2003 "'Transforming' mono cartoons into multi-channel DVDs"]</ref>, and once again Rhino's DVDs introduced new elements that were largely seen as undesirable. Rhino representatives rather disingenuously attempted to claim that these sound effects were there all along and that fans had simply been unable to hear them before, despite evidence to the contrary.<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/a614b114805c5209 Transformer fan Zobovor explains on ATT how the new sound effects include noises that ''didn't exist'' in 1985.]</ref>

The new sounds include abnormally loud and glossy stock sound effects for lasers, explosions, and swooping jets layered across numerous scenes. The show's [[Commercial bumper|commercial bumpers]] were also altered, with motor, laser, and transforming sound effects added where there had originally been only music and [[Victor Caroli]]'s voice.

==Releases==
===''The Original Transformers''===
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;<big>VHS</big>
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 1: Prime Threat''' (1999)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 2: Revenge of the Decepticons''' (1999)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 3: Programmed for Evil''' (1999)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 4: The Key to Vector Sigma''' (2000)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 5: Return to Cybertron''' (2000)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 6: Evolution Revolution''' (2000)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 7: The Return of Optimus Prime''' (2000)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 8: Evil Experiments''' (2000)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 9: Grimlock the Hero''' (2000)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 10: Megatron's Master Plan''' (2000)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 11: The Decepticon Possession''' (2000)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume 12: Size Matters''' (2000)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — More than Meets the Eye''' (2001)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Heroes: The Rebirth''' (2001)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Villains: The Ultimate Doom''' (2001)

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;<big>DVD</big>
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Heroes: The Rebirth''' (2001)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Villains: The Ultimate Doom''' (2001)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — First Season Collector's Edition''' (2002)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume One''' (2002)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume Two''' (2002)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Volume Three''' (2002)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1''' (2002)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 1''' (2002)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 2''' (2002)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 3''' (2002)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 4''' (2002)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2''' (2003)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 5''' (2003)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 6''' (2003)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 7''' (2003)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 2: Vol. 8''' (2003)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 1''' (2003)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 1: Vol. 1''' (2003)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 1: Vol. 2''' (2003)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 1: Vol. 3''' (2003)
*'''''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 2 & Season 4''' (2004)
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===''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines''===
Rhino's releases of ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' and ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' each included a 5.1 audio track and a handful of special features.
*'''''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete First Season''' ([[August 12]], 2003)
:4-disc box set containing all 26 episodes of the first season, plus interviews with [[Larry DiTillio]] and [[Bob Forward]].
*'''''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete Second Season''' ([[March 23]], 2004)
:2-disc box set containing the 13-episode second season, plus some animation test footage.
*'''''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete Third Season''' ([[September 7]], 2004)
:2-disc box set containing the 13-episode third season, plus a deleted scene and the full animatic from "[[Nemesis Part 2]]".
*'''''Beast Machines: Transformers'' — The Complete Series''' ([[February 28]], 2006)
:4-disc box set containing all 26 episodes of the series, plus interviews with [[Bob Skir]], [[Marv Wolfman]], [[David Kaye]], and [[Susan Blu]].
:Also includes audio commentaries by Bob Skir on the episode "[[Fires of the Past]]" with Marv Wolfman, and the episodes "[[Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall]]" and "[[Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future]]" with [[Steven Melching]].
<center><gallery>
Image:Rhino Beast Wars Season1 DVD.jpg|'''''Beast Wars'' 1st Season'''
Image:Rhino Beast Wars Season2 DVD.jpg|'''''Beast Wars'' 2nd Season'''
Image:Rhino Beast Wars Season3 DVD.jpg|'''''Beast Wars'' 3rd Season'''
Image:Rhino Beast Machines DVD.jpg|'''''Beast Machines'''''
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===''Armada''===
*'''''Transformers: Armada'' — Best Battles''' ([[March 30]], 2004)
*'''''Transformers: Armada'' — Flashbacks''' (March 30, 2004)
*'''''Transformers: Armada'' — Battle for the Mini-Cons''' ([[June 22]], 2004)
*'''''Transformers: Armada'' — Power of the Mini-Cons''' (June 22, 2004)
*'''''Transformers: Armada'' — Best of the Autobots''' ([[August 24]], 2004)
*'''''Transformers: Armada'' — Best of the Decepticons''' (August 24, 2004)
*'''''Transformers: Armada'' — Season One: Part One''' ([[November 9]], 2004)
:4-disc box set containing the series' first 26 episodes: "[[First Encounter]]" through to "[[Linkup]]".
*'''''Transformers: Armada'' — Season One: Part Two''' ([[September 26]], 2006)
:4-disc box set containing the series' remaining 26 episodes: "[[Detection]]" through to "[[Mortal Combat]]".
:Unlike the previous set, the discs of Part Two did not include chapter searches for the individual episodes.
<center><gallery>
Image:Armada Best Battles DVD.jpg|'''Best Battles'''
Image:Armada Flashbacks DVD.jpg|'''Flashbacks'''
Image:Armada Battle for the Mini-Cons DVD.jpg|'''Battle for the Mini-Cons'''
Image:Armada Power of the Mini-Cons DVD.jpg|'''Power of the Mini-Cons'''
Image:Armada Best of the Autobots DVD.jpg|'''Best of the Autobots'''
Image:Armada Best of the Decepticons DVD.jpg|'''Best of the Decepticons'''
Image:KidRhinoTransformersArmadaPart1.jpg|'''Season One: Part One'''
Image:ArmadaDVDPart2.jpg|'''Season One: Part Two'''
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==References==
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==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Rhino Entertainment|Rhino Entertainment]] at Wikipedia
*[http://www.rhino.com/ Official homepage]

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