The wave one toys feature Optimus as a giant bat and Megatron as a crocodile. Since no one but the people on the show could read it, and giant nerds like you and me who looked it up online years later, the writers hid cheeky messages and easter eggs in a lot of the Cybertronix writing. Throughout most of his life, he has always been an object of fear and hatred by other an… Interestingly, these versions of Optimus and Megatron were considered to be the original Optimus Prime and Megatron, though this too was changed. It's handy they keep getting beast modes that match their names. Up ahead are 20 little facts, bits of trivia, and fun stories about the creation and legacy of one of the best-realized shows for kids ever made, plus details on character creation, lost episodes, and the craziest Japanese spin-offs you've never heard of. So, no, Transformers didn't make a big impression on me. The craziest change, however, is director Iwanami Yoshikazu's love for improv, which gets so out of hand that the characters keep speaking even when they're mouths aren't moving. Yes, even the one you thought was super original. A stasis pod with the spark-soul of a robot inside lands on Earth. While the plot of this cut episode, Dark Glass, was likely unnecessary in the grand scheme of the season, it would have been another example of the serialized storytelling the show was known for. A spark from the ancient warrior Starscream takes control of Waspinator's body. Dinobot was a dark horse candidate who was not expected to win, as he was the only character not from the 1980s. There's an arena-based fighting game, similar to Power Stone, that has the same Energon surge limitation. The cartoon was produced in Japan and the episodes were broadcasted a months after the first broadcast in North America. The best of the bunch seems to be a 2D fighting game for the GBA, but it was only released in Japan. The event that kicks off the whole series is Beast Wars Megatron, a descendant of the original, G1, giant gun Megatron, steals a mysterious artifact from Cybertron that has clues to some vast treasure coded on its surface. I don't know why I thought Transformers, GI Joe, and He-Man, were stupid but Power Rangers was worth my time, but there's no accounting for taste when you're under the age of ten. A mountain containing the mineral Energon is discovered. There are people in Hollywood whose entire jobs are creating languages that look, and sound, real. If you're not familiar with ReBoot, you open up a new tab right now and you watch that show, and you better not watch the new one on Netflix, because it does not count. Following the announcement on February 16, 2018, that Hasbro will be taking over Bandai America as the master toy licensee for Power Rangers from 2019 onwards, Power Rangers Beast Morphers was announced during Hasbro's panel for the New York Toy Fair 2018.On May 1, 2018, it was announced that Hasbro had purchased the Power Rangers franchise outright from Saban, making Beast Morphers the first Hasbro-era season. Despite his menacing appearance, he has a very gentle heart. Greetings Seibertronians! Rhinox observed that neither Maximals nor Predacons had built it. Eager to extract the beast's secrets for military gain, Palpatine orders his lead scientist to examine, and subsequently, kill the monster. power rangers beast morphers season 2 episode 10 pop uk dailymotion, Power Rangers isn't going to stop airing anytime soon, and we now have a new show on our hands, and it's called Power Rangers Beast Morphers. As another season of Halloween Wars begins, six teams comprised of a professional cake artist, pumpkin carver and sugar artist try to out-scare the competition. Cartoons Transformers/Beast Wars. It was the first series in the Western part of the franchise since the The Transformers that was entirely made up of new animation. The fans narrowed their selection down to Jazz, Soundwave, Grimlock, and our boy, Dinobot. … New allies! An explosion at the Predacon base appears to have wiped out the enemy. When Hasbro wanted to introduce a new character called Wolfang who was, obviously, supposed to have wolf as its beast mode. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Robot Chicken wants to expose the monster in its pocket; Megatron goes too far in Beast Wars; Wile E. Coyote sees if he can Get Away With Murder. The Energon forces the newly arrived Transformers to take on protective beast forms to shield themselves from the ambient Energon radiation. Here are 25 awesome things only true fans know about the iconic show! Mainframe decided they didn't have the budget or the time in the schedule to create a whole new model and animate it, so they repurposed the Cheetor model and called the new Maximal Tigatron. While his 3rd person speech and "why me?" 300 years later, the Predacon Megatron would steal the golden record off the Voyager space probe (more on that later). ReBoot pushed the possibilities not only for computer graphics but for storytelling in children's entertainment. Beast Wars opens at an unspecified time and place, where two warring factions of robots have crashed on a strange planet populated by animals like those on Earth. The main character is Legoshi the Gray Wolf, a member of the drama club. Creating a cartoon, even a CGI one, is much like creating any other film: you need to build sets and props and costumes, but you also need to make actors. The Golden Disc is, in fact, the golden record contained on the Voyager space probe. The first is a third-person shooter that limits how long you're allowed to stay in robot mode, a nod to the limitations of the series that makes a lot more sense as a narrative device than a gameplay one. Twenty years ago, Beast Wars, a creature of a sloth, transformed into a robot. Rattrap's prank causes the Maximal ship to turn on its residents and he must reboot the system. When they both crash-land, they establish themselves upon the planet and clash, commencing the Beast Wars. Beast Wars may have been a major pioneer in CGI graphics on television but the late nineties were a very awkward time for 3d graphics in video games. The Beast Wars cartoon changed these forms to gorilla and T-Rex in an homage to King Kong and the toy continuity was retconned. It's not as good as Beast Wars but it's way better than Revenge of the Fallen. Just like everything else in American entertainment. In fact, I'll confess right now, I always thought Transformers was kinda dumb, as I was raised on grown-up video games and Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Beast is a series that is currently running and has 1 seasons (13 episodes). Scorponok tries using a virus to render Optimus a coward. The Maximals and the Predacons battle for control of a floating island. A mountain containing the mineral Energon is discovered. Rhinox and Cheetor are called upon to battle Predacons. Beast Wars Beast Machines Robots in Disguise Armada Energon Cybertron Alternators Animated Japanese Transformers. While the show is well-respected for adding drama and gravity to a show about robots that can turn into bugs and dinosaurs, there is still a ton of comedy, mostly provided by Rattrap's sarcasm played against the earnesty of Rhinox. Transformers: Prime is a computer animated television series which premiered on November 29, 2010, on Hub Network, Hasbro's and Discovery's joint venture, which began broadcasting on October 10, 2010, in the United States.The series was also previewed on Hub Network on November 26, 2010, as a one-hour special. NO CROSSOVER CHARACTERS ALLOWED. Hot off the success of their groundbreaking show ReBoot, Mainframe proved to the world that computer graphics could be used exclusively to power an animated series, not just to support the special effects. Rattrap is suspected of being a traitor and is sent on a mission to prove his loyalty. The original cartoon, and the movie "The Movie," chronicles a series of battles that would eventually lead to an Autobot victory and the imposition of heavy sanctions against the Decepticons. Beast Machines is a direct sequel to Beast Wars and sees the Maximals and Predacons returning to Cybertron. Thanks to fellow Seibertronian Sabrblade for letting us know of a sneak peek IDW provided for the upcoming Beast Wars comic. attitude would eventually endear him to the fans of the show. Well, it worked, and Beast Wars was a huge success in Japan, spawning two sequels that are even crazier than the English dub. It's time to kick the Beast Wars up a notch! Shortly after arriving on prehistoric Earth, the Maximals noticed a strange formation of rocks. The series first aired on January 15, 2009. Production Designer Clyde Klotz said "It's great to know the judges are looking beyond the surface of what is already, by default, a visually stunning new medium to recognize that Beast Wars is more than just eye candy.". The only thing you need to know about it is that it was made with traditional animation and stars "Lio Convoy" who is both a truck and a lion. Beast Wars forgoes the modern-day setting of the "G1" Transformers for a prehistoric location later revealed to be Earth. A band of benevolent Maximals follows a pack of power-seeking Predacons to a new planet. COLLECT OVER 100 CHARACTERS Construct the Space Bridge to summon classic heroes Optimus Prime, Grimlock and Bumblebee through to infamous villains Megatron, Starscream and Soundwave. Uxibeasts were hair-covered mammalian herbivores native to the planets Tython and Voss. The in-development Transformers spinoff Beast Wars will reportedly be similar in scale to Avengers: Endgame. An evil clone of Dinobot runs dangerously among the Maximals. According to Megatron, it also holds the map to a vast store of Energon, because Sagan was way ahead of his time. Their tweet shows the the Tripredacus council will be featured. Dinobot remembers everything, including his honour, and refuses to destroy the Maximals pursuing them. On pliocenic Earth, the heroic Maximals and the evil Predacons battle for survival against each other and against a violent planet. A band of benevolent Maximals follows a pack of power-seeking Predacons to a new planet. Episode 9 - Ext. The re-emergence of Dinobot's personality isn't a huge mystery but there is evidence that there was an episode written for season 3 that would have seen Rattrap finding Dinobots original personality matrix in a crashed pod. People hated everything about it: the redesigns, the new graphics, the plot, everything. Over the centuries, the Drexls, flying predators native to Dxun, learned that they could use this "oxygenbridge" to … While the movie from the 80s had some notable fatalities, the new show would be ending every season with the possible elimination of its entire cast. The IDW comics do their best to connect Beast Wars to the larger Transformers continuity, linking the creation of Predacons and Maximals to the destruction of Unicron and chronicling their surpassing of the original Autobots and Decepticons. Dinobot mostly quotes Hamlet, especially his last line "The rest is silence" which is also the last line of the Danish Prince in that play. Roaming open pastures on the mountainous world, the uxibeast's horned body posed a danger to anything caught in its path when agitated. It turned it way up. While many, many people look back fondly on the original series in the 80s, it was never a critical darling. 1 Background 1.1 Development 2 Appearances 2.1 Beauty and the Beast 2.2 The Enchanted Christmas 2.3 Beauty and the Beast (2017) 2.4 Once Upon a Time 3 Trivia 4 Gallery Philippe was originally named Orson in the 1989 screenplay. By: KaliAnn. In a fun nod to the wacky continuity of Beast Wars, the IDW comics include characters and events from the bonkers Beast Wars II and Neo Japanese sequels, including the extremely hilarious decision to include Big Convoy in the events. The anime naming convention: 2 - Neo - Evangelion. Tigatron considers abandoning the Beast Wars after losing a close friend in battle. Cheetor becomes trapped in Tarantulas's net of deceit and torture. Then there was Beast Wars Neo which is a sequel to Beast Wars II and follows the anime naming convention. Creating a working, animated model for a new character is costly and time-consuming. While most translations of American cartoons are a direct one-to-one adaptation of the source material, the director of the Japanese dub of Beast Wars turned up the humor. Beast Wars: Transformers (titled Beasties: Transformers in Canada), is a Canadian-American computer animated television series that debuted in 1996 and ended on March 7, 1999, serving as the flagship of the Transformers: Beast Wars franchise. Waspinator became an unlikely breakout star of Beast Wars, even making it to the Transformers Hall of Fame in 2011. When Hasbro wanted to end the character for season 2, DiTillio and Forward had to admit that Waspinator was too popular with the online fan base and convinced Hasbro to keep him alive. While Mainframe's redesigns of the characters were worked into the toy line and other elements created for the show would influence Transformers continuity going forward, like the concept of the Spark and the swear-word replacement, 'slag,' the show was ultimately a complicated commercial for toys. Terrorsaur discovers a souce of Energon and controls the Predacons. Beast Wars is full of computer terminals and objects with text written in Cybertronix, which actually has a complete alphabet. For whatever reason, Megatron keeps rebuilding him and the writers kept putting him into episodes. The 'Golden Disc' is a major plot point in Transformers continuity but it has humble beginnings. Join millions of players in the battle for Earth! Rhinox is tainted with an Energon-depleting virus. The first few seasons were pretty straightforward action, with the occasional X-Files parody episode, but later seasons went full-serial, eliminating and imprisoning characters for years. The Vancouver based studio Mainframe was a major player in early CGI cartoons and did a lot to move the art form into the 21st century. (More on that later.) The Maximals are leaderless when Optimus Primal is kidnapped; the Predacons launch an attack. This wiki is dedicated to everything which is related to the franchise from economical backgrounds to fandom. Megatron captures Rhinox and reprogrammes him as a Predacon. At the beginning of season 2, Terrorsaur and Scorponok are eliminated, and Rattrap, Cheetor, Megatron, and Tarantulas, get shiny new toy...er, bodies! Literally, the technology to make these shows was only possible in the late 90s. The original plan was to give them four transformations each, but budget and reality got in the way. With Beast Wars, Mainframe Entertainment was given a lot of creative freedom to expand on and deepen the mythology of the franchise. This is also part of the reason why the original two-beasts concept for Optimus and Megatron was scrapped- much easier to keep things simple. February 18th, 2018. To that end, it wasn't enough to introduce new characters every few episodes. Dinosaurs > Trucks > Turning Everything Into A Gun. As of January 19, 2021 at 06:35 we have gained 67 articles, 4,773 edits and 258 files since January 29, 2013 and we want your help. Watching it now, I don't see where all the hate comes from. So, some people take Transformers pretty seriously. About cookies. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. They were dedicated to "the Project", which consisted of enigmatic, sometimes contradictory plans for the planet. They don't know how they go there due to that most overused of dramatic devices: amnesia. Series writer Larry DiTillio has given conflicting statements about why the episode was cut and what it contained, though fans have pieced together info from various interviews describing the above plot. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are one of the best-known comedy duos of all time, and their famous bit, "Who's On First?," is a classic example of comedic dialogue and misunderstanding. Mainframe took that same approach to Beast Wars, maturing the franchise along with its fan base. Beast Wars: Transformers (TV Series 1996–1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. A Predacon attack sends a Maximal squad into darkness. While Beast Wars features dinosaurs, giant mammals, and stone age humans, as background to its robot battlin', the show is actually set in the future of the "G1" Transformers timeline thanks to the wonderful narrative device of time travel.. So they blew him up as much as they could to avoid writing dialogue for him. If you've been nursing fond memories of Beast Wars since the 90s like I have, you will be pleased to know that, due to the massive popularity and influence of the series, IDW has published a ton of comics that continue the story of Beast Wars. Links. The partnership between the Burns and the Rescue Bots is almost perfect. The Maximal ship pursued Megatron through a warp portal and both crash-landed on an unknown planet that was eventually discovered to be Earth. The brainchild of astrophysicist Carl Sagan, the golden record contains information about Earth and humanity, as well as mathematical proof of our species' sophistication and knowledge. The Beast Wars were the product of the unusual relationship between Onderon and its moon Dxun: the moon orbited in such a way that once a year the atmospheres of both bodies would connect. Forest - Day. S01:E02 - Beast Wars, Part 2. "The most dangerous beast is the beast within." Star Wars: The Clone Wars has ended its seven-season run, clocking in at 133 episodes and one feature film. Episode 12 writer Larry DiTillio created the concept of the Spark, the energy matrix that serves as the soul of a Transformer. BotCon is a Transformers convention held every year at Disney World and in 2010 Hasbro created the Transformers Hall of Fame. When a threat beyond their knowledge arrives on Griffin Rock, the team are in need of some out of reality help. You can also watch The Beast on … For the adolescents of Cherryton Academy, school life is filled with hope, romance, distrust, and uneasiness. While originally created to sell a new line of toys for Hasbro, for which it suffered a heavy online backlash, the show eventually grew into a beloved pillar of the Transformers universe. This episode also introduces Airazor, so, home run DiTillio. Beast Saga Wiki is an encyclopedia about Takaratomy's and d-rights' latest craze to get animated that anyone can edit. In this way, Beast Wars manages to be both a sequel and a prequel to Transformers, which is both super cool and so stupid, just like Transformers itself! The design of the Maximals and Predacons, as well as their spaceships/bases, earned the team an Emmy award for Best Production Design in 1997. Where do I stream The Beast online? We discussed earlier the ridiculous over-the-top improv comedy of the Japanese dub of Beast Wars, an effort to make the darker show appeal to the younger audience of Transformers in Japan. To accommodate the possibility that Hasbro would demand brand new characters every year, each season of Beast Wars ends with the cast in some kind of stasis or cliffhanger peril, like at the end of season one where Optimus is blown up and the planet is showered in Death Star debris. The series will be heading to Nickelodeon soon, and in this post, we'll be discussing everything that we know about it. Before Mainframe started development on the show, Hasbro released the 'first wave' of Beast Wars toys, along with a mini-comic. When creating a science fiction or fantasy world, one of the questions you get to ask yourself is "What is my made-up language going to look like?" 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