

This entire life spark concept was dropped from the final film, although there is a small nod to it Unicron places Megatron's life spark into a new body, creating Galvatron. His life spark then leaves his body, and is found by Unicron. A statue of a previous Decepticon leader falls over and crushes Megatron, shattering him. Megatron pleads for them to place his life spark into an urn, but nobody helps as they are all too busy fighting. In this script, the battered Megatron managed to get back to Cybertron with the other Decepticons, who start to fight over who will be the next leader. Spike is not present, although Daniel is. It is only set 5 years after the first episode " More than Meets the Eye, Part 1", meaning the film would take place in the 1980s. Some of the differences in this script include: This script would be heavily rewritten by other writers (most notably Buzz Dixon) as to make it more coherent and change many aspects that Ron had in mind. The script is dated the 27th of April, 1985. Some fans managed to get this one in 2010. There was also a character called "Tankor" -fans were speculating that this may have been an early name for Ultra Magnus. Very little is known about this script other than there was a battle scene between the Autobots and Decepticons at some kind of power plant. But at the same time, there was another auction for an even earlier script, which the fans unfortunately didn't manage to get.

In 2010, there was an auction for a script by Ron Friedman, which fans managed to buy. This page has a look at some of the known ones. There have been several early scripts made available to the public for Transformers: The Movie. Early script differences -RQ87'S Transformers: The Movie coverage
