Optimus Prime Awakens in a Dark New Chapter for G1 Transformers Created for the 40th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie, Optimus Prime: Awakening is an approximately 12-minute animated short that revisits one of the most defining and, for many fans, traumatic moments in Transformers fiction: Optimus Prime’s death. This is not a lightweight nostalgia piece. It is a serious, visually impressive, and occasionally strange new story that explores Optimus Prime, the Matrix of … View the full Transmission on SEIBERTRON.com.