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Rhino Entertainment is an American record label and home video production and distribution company. Their children's entertainment division is currently known as Rhinomation, having changed its name from Kid Rhino in 2001.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Rhino held the North American video rights to The Transformers: The Movie and the 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 re-released on CD. Rhino likewise issued full DVD boxed-sets for Beast Wars, Beast Machines, and 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. The vast majority of these issues affected Season 1 episodes.

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>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>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 bumpers were also altered, with motor, laser, and transforming sound effects added where there had originally been only music and Victor Caroli's voice.

Despite several of these errors being corrected in Shout! Factory's releases of the series, the Kid Rhino versions of the episodes have continued to be used for streaming sites such as YouTube and Tubi (though with the audio tracks restored to their original form outside of 1 or 2 episodes).

Releases

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The Original Transformers

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VHS
  • 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 (2000)
  • The Original Transformers — Dinobots (2000)
  • The Original Transformers — Heroes: The Rebirth (2001)
  • The Original Transformers — Villains: The Ultimate Doom (2001)
DVD
  • 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)


The Transformers: The Movie

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VHS
  • The Transformers: The Movie (October 5, 1999)
  • The Transformers: The Movie — Special Collector's Edition (November 7, 2000)
DVD
  • The Transformers: The Movie — Special Collector's Edition (November 7, 2000)
Includes an exclusive interview with Vince DiCola.
  • The Transformers: The Movie 1999 VHS release
    The Transformers: The Movie 1999 VHS release
  • Special Collector's Edition VHS release
    Special Collector's Edition VHS release
  • Special Collector's Edition DVD release
    Special Collector's Edition DVD release


Beast Wars and Beast Machines

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VHS
  • Beast Wars: Transformers — Volume 1 (January 29, 2002)
Contains episodes 1-3: "Beast Wars (Part 1)" through to "The Web".
  • Beast Wars: Transformers — Volume 2 (January 29, 2002)
Contains episodes 4-6: "Equal Measures" through to "Power Surge".
  • Beast Wars: Transformers — Volume 3 (August 13, 2002)
Contains episodes 7-9: "Fallen Comrades" through to "A Better Mousetrap".
  • Beast Wars: Transformers — Volume 4 (August 13, 2002)
Contains episodes 10-12: "Gorilla Warfare" through to "Victory".


DVD

Rhino's DVD releases of Beast Wars and Beast Machines each included a 5.1 audio track and a handful of special features.

  • Beast Wars: Transformers — Volume 1 (January 29, 2002)
Contains episodes 1-6: "Beast Wars (Part 1)" through to "Power Surge".
  • Beast Wars: Transformers — Volume 2 (August 13, 2002)
Contains episodes 7-12: "Fallen Comrades" through to "Victory".
  • Beast Wars Volume 1 DVD
    Beast Wars Volume 1 DVD
  • Beast Wars Volume 2 DVD
    Beast Wars Volume 2 DVD


  • 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. Also included as an Easter egg is the 2002 short film Agent 12, an amateur spy movie directed by Forward and starring his son Angus.
  • Beast Wars: Transformers — The Complete Second Season (March 23, 2004)
2-disc box set containing the entire 13-episode second season, plus some animation test footage. Also buried on Disc 1, not accessible from any menus, is... uh... a mute version of the 1957 [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Sid and Marty Krofft|{{#if:||Sid and Marty Krofft}}]] TV pilot "[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Here's Irving|{{#if:||Here's Irving}}]]"? That's... probably not supposed to be there.
  • Beast Wars: Transformers — The Complete Third Season (September 7, 2004)
2-disc box set containing the entire 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.
  • Beast Wars 1st Season
    Beast Wars 1st Season
  • Beast Wars 2nd Season
    Beast Wars 2nd Season
  • Beast Wars 3rd Season
    Beast Wars 3rd Season
  • Beast Machines
    Beast Machines


Armada

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  • Transformers: Armada — Best Battles (March 30, 2004)
Contains the episodes "Metamorphosis", "Base", "Confrontation" and "Decisive Battle".
  • Transformers: Armada — Flashbacks (March 30, 2004)
Contains the episodes "Prehistory", "Trust", "Past" and "Past II".
  • Transformers: Armada — Battle for the Mini-Cons (June 22, 2004)
Contains the episodes "Chase", "Tactician", "Rescue" and "Mars".
  • Transformers: Armada — Power of the Mini-Cons (June 22, 2004)
Contains the episodes "Soldier", "Jungle", "Desperate" and "Runaway".
  • Best Battles
    Best Battles
  • Flashbacks
    Flashbacks
  • Battle for the Mini-Cons
    Battle for the Mini-Cons
  • Power of the Mini-Cons
    Power of the Mini-Cons


  • Transformers: Armada — Best of the Autobots (August 24, 2004)
Contains the episodes "Carnival", "Palace", "Alliance", and "Union".
  • Transformers: Armada — Best of the Decepticons (August 24, 2004)
Contains the episodes "Swoop", "Overmatch", "Remorse", and "Puppet".
  • 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.
  • Best of the Autobots
    Best of the Autobots
  • Best of the Decepticons
    Best of the Decepticons
  • Season One: Part One
    Season One: Part One
  • Season One: Part Two
    Season One: Part Two



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  • Official website
  • [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Rhino Entertainment|{{#if:||Rhino Entertainment}}]] at Wikipedia
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