LaserDisc

LaserDisc is a home video format. Released in 1978, it did not gain popularity in the United States for various reasons, but gained a strong foothold in Japan, enabling the release of disc sets of television shows, including Transformers. It is from those masters used for the initial LaserDisc releases that many Japanese Transformers DVDs and Blu-rays were born.

LaserDisc releases

United States and Canada

Family Home Entertainment (1990)

• The Transformers — Five Faces of Darkness (1990)

Japan

Takara

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers — Convoy Set (March 5, 1994)
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers — Megatron Set (1995)
• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: 2010 Set (1995)
• Transformers: The Headmasters Set (1996)

Pioneer LDC

• Beast Wars: Transformers — Maximal Edition (March 21, 1998)
  • Three-disc set containing episodes 1-13
• Beast Wars: Transformers — Predacon Edition (July 24, 1998)
  • Four-disc set containing episodes 14-26
• The Transformers — Autobot Edition (December 10, 1998)
  • Nine-disc set containing episodes 1-35
• Transformers: The Movie (December 22, 1998)
• The Transformers — Decepticon Edition (March 10, 1999)
  • Nine-disc set containing episodes 36-63, "Exciting Transformers!", and "Scramble City: Mobilization"
• The Transformers: 2010 (July 9, 1999)
  • Nine-disc set containing all 30 episodes and "The Rebirth"
• Beast Wars: Transformers Special (September 24, 1999)