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Family Home Entertainment (also known as F.H.E.) is an American home video distributor that released a number of Generation 1 episodes on video (both VHS and Beta) during the 1980s, and was also responsible for the first home video release of The Transformers: The Movie. In addition to Transformers, F.H.E. also released home video collections of other Sunbow cartoons, including G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.

The company changed its name to International Video Entertainment in the mid '80s, and then again to Live Home Video in 1990, but all the while kept the F.H.E. brand working for them as a sub-division of the larger company. In 1991, Avid Home Entertainment, another imprint of Live Home Video (dedicated for releasing budget titles from the archives of Live/IVE, Vestron Video, Carolco Pictures, and ITC Entertainment), released their own VHS of The Transformers: The Movie. The company then changed its name again in 1995 to Live Entertainment, then in 1998 to [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Artisan Entertainment|{{#if:||Artisan Entertainment}}]], and was eventually folded into [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Lionsgate Home Entertainment|{{#if:||Lionsgate Home Entertainment}}]] in 2003.

Perhaps the most memorable thing about the F.H.E. video releases was that the back of each box featured a comic strip summarizing the episode rather than a one paragraph plot description. With the strips being so extremely truncated, their coverage of the episode's plot was sometimes downright perplexing if the reader had no knowledge of the episode's content ("Why is Ravage mauling that guy in the wheelchair?"). They also had a memorable logo for all their video releases, featuring the company's "child's handwriting" logo and an INCREDIBLY LOUD "bwaaaaannnnnnnng" noise followed by a series of tones.

You can own all these character models on VHS, for the low price of $24.95!

Releases

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  • Volume 1
    Volume 1
  • Volume 2
    Volume 2
  • Volume 3
    Volume 3
  • Volume 4
    Volume 4


  • Volume 5
    Volume 5
  • Volume 6
    Volume 6
  • Volume 7
    Volume 7
  • Volume 8
    Volume 8


  • Volume 9
    Volume 9
  • Volume 10
    Volume 10
  • Volume 11
    Volume 11
  • Volume 12
    Volume 12



Notes

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  • The VHS releases of Volumes 3 through 11 came in two different types of packaging. The first releases came in larger red and black boxes which were close to the size of a plastic clam shell case, typical for early VHS releases. Later on the packaging was changed to a light gray sleeve with shrunk down versions of the front and back panels from the corresponding earlier box. At least one tape, "S.O.S. Dinobots", even has a third version with a black sleeve that has the artwork and comic strip taking up the entire front and back panels.
  • Volumes 1 and 2 display an "Award of Excellence" from the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Film Advisory Board|{{#if:||Film Advisory Board}}]], an organization which, by its own admission, does not judge the quality of material, looking instead for "family-friendly" fare (most other FAB award winners are direct-to-video).
  • The VHS box art and comic panels were pencilled and lettered by Steve Vance and inked and colored by Bill Black.
  • F.H.E. actually produced one of the first official crossovers between Transformers and G.I. Joe in the form of a mini-comic advertisement, in which the Autobots and Joes team up to protect a shipment of VHS tapes from Cobra and the Decepticons.<ref>Transformers/G.I. Joe mini-comic via PG_TOYS on Twitter</ref>

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