Polyband

Polyband is a German home video distribution company that released a handful of episodes of the Generation 1 Transformers cartoon on VHS in 1987.

Dubbing

Polyband was also responsible for the german Dub of all 39 dubbed Generation 1 Episodes. Originally Transformers wasn't supposed to air on german Television, so Polyband only dubbed 6 episodes, which they released on VHS in 1987. When RTLPlus, a german TV Station, acquired the License to the Series they hired Polyband to dub more Episodes. Instead of dubbing the Show starting with Episode 1 they started with Episode 4 & 5, after that they jumped straight into Season 2 and dubbed 4 more episodes and then they jumped into Season 3.
You could arque that RTLPlus must have noticed that, but they didn't: When Transformers started to air on their channel they started the broadcast with "Nightmare Planet", followed by "The Return of Optimue Prim Part 1 & 2", then all Three Parts of "The Rebirth" and finally showed the 6 dubbed Episodes from Season 1 and 2 as well as one more episode from Season 3. German Fans speculate that RTLPlus organized the episodes that way to give the Impression that there were two seperate Wars against the Decepticons: First Optimus Prime fighting them on Earth after he was resurrected and Rodimus Prime fought them in Outer Space and on Cybetron.
Also almost all Voiceactors involed in the dubbing process swapped Roles every other Episodes. That way Soundwave got 4 different Voiceactors, Air Raid got 5 and Astrotrain even got 6. They kept the original names but spoke them in a broken english mixed with german accent, however Laserbeak became Laserbreak in some episodes.
It is speculated that Polyband dubbed more than just those 39 episode, some evidence were found over the Years:

• The german Panini Sticker Album, which was released in 1989, featured german episodetitles to most Season One Episodes.
• In an interview Willi Röbke stated that he dubbed many episodes in the Role of Optimus Prime instead of just 10 which were aired.

However it has now been more than 20 years since the Series premiered in Germany and the Show was never reaird on another TV Station, so no real evidence can be found.

Releases

• 95601 — Transformers — Die Rückkehr von Optimus Prime (Erster Teil)
• 95602 — Transformers — Die Rückkehr von Optimus Prime (Zweiter Teil)
• 95603 — Transformers — Die Wiedergeburt (Erster Teil)
• 95604 — Transformers — Die Wiedergeburt (Zweiter Teil)
• 95605 — Transformers — Die Wiedergeburt (Dritter Teil)
• 95606 — Transformers — Der Alptraum-Planet

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External link

• Official website (German)