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| - In Hungary, the movie has two dubs. One of them is ancient and unprofessional, the other more recent and more professional. Fans for hard wear counted a total of five actors in the original version: four men for random characters, while a female actress grants her voice to Arcee, Daniel, and most of Wheelie's dialog. Akin to the original version's cast, they are or were at one time well-known performers, voice actors in Hungary. Yet even their talents could not save the dub. Lip-sync is practically non-existent, the actors continue talking even when another character is moving its lips, certain lines are missing or misplaced (most notably Megatron's "Die, Autobots!" shout), Grimlock rhymes after meeting Wheelie instead of the latter, Cliffjumper and Springer share the same name, Wreck-Gar
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| - In Hungary, the movie has two dubs. One of them is ancient and unprofessional, the other more recent and more professional. Fans for hard wear counted a total of five actors in the original version: four men for random characters, while a female actress grants her voice to Arcee, Daniel, and most of Wheelie's dialog. Akin to the original version's cast, they are or were at one time well-known performers, voice actors in Hungary. Yet even their talents could not save the dub. Lip-sync is practically non-existent, the actors continue talking even when another character is moving its lips, certain lines are missing or misplaced (most notably Megatron's "Die, Autobots!" shout), Grimlock rhymes after meeting Wheelie instead of the latter, Cliffjumper and Springer share the same name, Wreck-Gar calls Hot Rod Unicron once, while Blaster, for instance, changes his voice three times during one scene. Due to the small dubbing cast and the early voice-altering techniques, the dialog of the Junkions is rather easily understood, and it appears the translator actually made an effort to write an occasional Hungarian commercial line or catch phrase into the script. (It is not known where the line was derived from or what it refers to, however, so it is entirely possible that it's nothing more than a spark of individual creativity on the translator's part. Even if that's true, it's a point in the dub's favor). Another problem is that most of the lines got shortened, you could say "dumbed down", and the finished product shows a general lack of knowledge and understanding of the source material. But to be fair, some of the lines that actually ended up being translated are quite witty, so you can tell that, though not much, some effort and care went into the translation process. In fact, most of the problems probably come from the unusually small dubbing cast and bad voice directing. Even so, this first version remains popular, and only those fans who have only recently been introduced to it seem to hate it. As for why the word Decepticon was translated to "Toad", well, that remains a mystery to this day. It may be a tribute to an old German sci-fi TV series, The Phantastic Adventures of Spaceship Orion (Az Orion Űrhajó kalandjai in Hungarian; originally Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Orion [in German]), which was quite popular in Hungary in the late Sixties. In this series, the main enemy alien race was also called the "Toads" ("F.r.o.g.s" in English, "Békák" in Hungarian; but it was translated as "Varangyok" in the Hungarian version). Some fans like to give the nickname "Darth Vader" to Optimus Prime when talking about this dub, as (most of) Prime's lines were delivered by the same voice actor, the late Lajos Kránicz, who supplied the voice of the Sith Lord in the most recent Star Wars dubs. He had also played the part of Unicron in this dub, and later returned in Transformers: Energon to shout "Transform!" as the same character. Interestingly enough, the same could be said about the new movie's Prime as well, for he was voiced by Vader's original dubbing actor. The second and more disliked dub has a reputation among the fans for including more profanities than the original version of the film. Although Spike's "Oh, shit!" line was cut, Ironhide, Galvatron and the Dinobots say terms akin to "asshole" (from Grimlock to Blurr), "jerk", "stupid", "rotten", "ass-wipes" (this one even twice, when referring to the Decepticons), and "candyass" (from Galvatron, regarding Hot Rod). Quite interesting, seeing as the dubs produced in that era have been known for freeing the movies of their swear words. These dubs are also infamous for using untranslated or incorrectly translated names, and random voice actors for random characters with random voice-pacing. These names include Unicornis (Unicron, the first and foremost reason why this dub gets slated so much), Mega-robot (Devastator), Constructors (Constructicons), Deceptors (Decepticons, but only said once), Gettison (Astrotrain, probably derived and mis-interpreted from the line "Jettison some weight."), Astro (again, Astrotrain), and Eject (this refers to no one, it was mistranslated from Soundwave's "Eject" call). Unicron's last line in particular, which translates to "History cannot destroy m-e-e-e!" suggests that the translator had no script to work from, and thus had to rely solely on her hearing. The switching of voices is also common in this version. An interesting blooper occurs during the attack on the Autobot shuttle: Ironhide speaks his final words in Starscream's voice ("Please, have mercy!"), and curiously, the translation of Megatron's "Such heroic nonsense" line corresponds with this sudden change of personality, as he says to (supposedly) Starscream, "Death to all traitors" before blasting him—actually blasting Ironhide, of course. Now this is a foreshadowing of later events. Megatron is just as careless with his voices — he switches them twice during his confrontation with Prime. Though around the middle of the movie, most of the actors managed to settle down on a bunch of "own" characters to give their voices to. A notable exception is Kup, whose voice constantly keeps changing throughout the film. The DVD case has G.I. Joe pictures printed on it, as well as on the DVD itself. Spiffy. It's also worth noting that Bumblebee in the 2007 movie has the same voice he had in the second dub of The Transformers: The Movie. Probably a coincidence, since that guy supplied half of the voices for the cast back then. Both of these versions include the scrolling text and other European edits; the more recent one even has the "gong man".
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