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Before Beast Wars, Hasbro had attempted to relaunch the original toys and animation as Transformers: Generation 2. Hasbro intended another franchise titled Transtech to follow which would've combined Beast Wars and Generation 1 characters and aesthetics, but this was canceled.
Beast Wars: Transformers (titled Beasties: Transformers in Canada) [1] is an animated television series that debuted on September 16, 1996 and ended on May 7, 1999, serving as the flagship of the Transformers: Beast Wars franchise. It was one of the earliest fully CGI television shows. [2]
Dreamwave retroactively revealed Beast Wars to be the future of their G1 universe, [52] and the 2006 IDW comic book Beast Wars: The Gathering eventually confirmed the Japanese series to be canon [53] within a story set during Season 3. [54] Beast Wars contained elements from both the G1 cartoon series and comics.
Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Dinobot (2006) In 2006 the original Dinobot toy was one of the toys selected for the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary toyline. He was repainted in more show-accurate coloring. He came packaged with one of the six pieces used to make the Transmutate toy plus a DVD of his most famous episode "Code of Hero". [21] [22]
Megatron (voiced by David Kaye) is the ruthless leader of the Darksyde crew of Predacons and the main antagonist of both Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Megatron's original beast mode is a purple Tyrannosaurus but he later upgrades into a red European dragon after stealing his namesake's spark. He inherited his name from the original Decepticon ...
The prior Transformer television series, comic books and toys became known as 'Generation 1' or G1 retroactively, and are now officially referred to as such by toymaker Hasbro. Generation 2 was discontinued as the first Beast Wars: Transformers toys began hitting the shelves.
Beast Machines: Transformers is an animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment as part of the Transformers franchise. Hasbro has full distribution rights to the show as of 2011. It was a direct sequel to Beast Wars, taking place within the continuity of the original Transformers series.
After the unremarkable performance of the Generation 2 line, Hasbro aimed to completely re-work the Transformers premise; the result was Beast Wars: Transformers, which featured robots with familiar names and organic beast modes. As per the original toy packaging bios and mini-comic, the intention was originally to have the series be a direct ...