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If you want to watch about 1.5 hours of highly entertaining Transformers action with the same overall plot, just watch The Ultimate Doom. I have the 25th anniversary G1 cartoon DVDs and they'll play multi-part episodes and only show the beginning and end credits once, so it's like watching a movie. Then the next episode after The Ultimate Doom is a self-contained episode, but it ties into the events of The Ultimate Doom, so that makes it closer to 2 hours of really great Transformers action, not that weak 2.5 hour movie that they released this past year.