With approximately 30 minutes remaining I thought I would bring you an update on the current prices that the Ron Friedman (one of the head writers for the first two seasons of Transformers Generation One and Transformers: The Movie) auctions over on Heritage Auctions.com are standing at. Jim Sorenson is leading a consortium of bidders to try to buy the entire set and it looks like if they do they will be paying a fair amount of money. Currently the total bids stand at $6170 with individual auctions ranging from $55 to $850.
You can view a high-resolution mirror of all of the images here but here is a break down of the prices
Auction #1- $100
Season 1 Original Scripts for "Heavy Metal War" and "Plague of Insecticons".
Season 2 Original Scripts for, "City of Steel", "Changing Gears",
"Traitor", "Attack of the Autobots", "The Immoblizer", "The Autobot
Run", and "Atlantis Arise".
Auction #2 - $160
Photocopied scripts
for the original "More Than Meets the Eye" mini-series as well as revised drafts of the first 6 episodes immediately
following.
Auction #3 - $55
A ring binder that includes photocopies of the scripts for
episodes #10-16.
Auction #4 - $220
A binder with photographs, designs, and model sheets. This
includes several lists of characters that changed name between the
design and the final drafts.
Auction #5 - $75
Scripts for "Day of
the Machines," "Enter the Nightbird," "A Prime Problem," "The Core,"
"The Insecticon Syndrome," "Dinosaur Island, Part 1 and 2, "The Master
Builders," "Auto Beserk," and "Megatron's Master Plan Part 1."
Auction #6 - $110
A binder including images of prototype Ultra Magnus as well as scripts for "Fire in the Sky," "S.O.S. -- Dinobots," "Fire
in the Mountain," "War of the Dinobots," "The Ultimate Doom Parts 1-3,"
"Countdown to Extinction," "Heavy Metal War," and "Plague of
Insecticons".
Auction #7 - $850
More character design sheets, notes and bios, as well as audition dialogue for the Season 2 characters.
Auction #8 - $475
A 53-page revised story treatment for the 1985 feature film
Auction #9 - $400
Two sets of photocopied character guide pages compiled for the first
season of Transformers, including thirty-eight 8" x 14" color guides,
and another set of eighty-nine 8.5" x 11" black and white pages.
Auction #10 - $500
A set of four large black and white photocopies of Transformers characters including Wreck-Gar
Auction #11 - $325
Transformers: The Movie poster that hung in Ron Friedman's office
Auction #12 - $80
Photocopied scripts for "Transport to Oblivion", "Roll With It", and
"Divide and Conquer" with hand-written changes, from writers Dick
Robbins and Bryce Malek, Douglas Booth, and Don Glut, with revisions
from Ron Friedman.
Auction #13 - $80
Photocopied scripts "Blaster Blues", "A Decepticon Raider in King
Arthur's Court", "The God Gambit", "Make Tracks", and "Microbots."
Auction #14 - $70
A binder that includes various Transformers Facts including
Hasbro notes, toy photographs, a copy of Transformers#3 (guest starring
Spider-Man), scripts for "Desertion of
the Dino Bots, Parts 1 and 2," and "Megatron's Master Plan Part 2."
Auction #15 - $375
This is the final draft for Transformers: The Movie. It included a 179-page revised draft and 17 page character notes
Auction #16 - $200
Transformers: The Movie Revised Final Draft Script (Sunbow
Productions, Inc., 1985).
Auction #17 - $180
Transformers: the Movie Script Group (Sunbow Productions, Inc.,
1984-85). This was Ron Friedman's original unproduced first draft script dated
November 12, 1984 (132 pages), plus two sets of revisions including the
complete revised script dated February 13, 1983 (184 pages).
Auction #18 - $700
The G1 Series Bible. This contains character design pages and information on all of the original character from the show.
Auction #19 - $180
Coloured character sheets for Arcee in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #20 - $375
Coloured character sheets for Galvatron in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #21 - $130
Hand coloured character sheets for Scourge in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #22 - $220
Hand coloured character sheets for Cyclonus in both robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #23 - $80
Hand coloured character sheets for Blurr in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #24 - $90
Hand coloured character sheets for Wheelie in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #24 - 140
Hand coloured character sheets for Kup in robot and vehicle mode.