When they both crashland, they establish themselves upon the planet and clash, commencing the beast wars. Before looking at the combined mode, we address the individual bots. New netflix animated series reportedly in development. The transformers film series may be on the ropes, but beast wars could. Revenge of the fallen 2009, while the third, transformers. Beast wars, part 1 after travelling into the distant past via a transwarp drive, the maximals battle the predacons in outer space, but both ships crash land on a mysterious planet. Spelling was clearly not a priority when putting together the packages. Transformerland transformers beast wars collectors guide. Transformers in canada, is an americancanadian computer animated television series that debuted in 1996 and ended on march 7, 1999, serving as the flagship of the transformers.
Bantor is a basicsized beast wars figure and, as such, has very little to complain about in terms of posability and detailing. The first of many series in the transformers franchise, it was based upon hasbros transformers toy line itself based upon the diaclone and microman toy lines originally created by japanese toy manufacturer takara and depicts a war among giant robots. This time i look at the transformers beast wars maximal combiner named magnaboss. Apr 05, 2017 the original transformers is a fantastic series, but shows like transformers armada and transformers energon are also fantastic adventures.
Its focus was realistically styled animal alternate modes a far cry from the vehicles and robotic beasts rendered previously. Memorable characters, great narrative and equal parts epic and fun. The beast wars tv series was the first transformers series to feature computeranimated. Transformers revamp planned with two films in development, one may be beast wars its unlikely that any of the original cast will return to the series revamp. Beast wars revolutionized everything about transformers toys. When larry ditillio passed away on march 16th, 2019, he left behind a huge body of beloved work. An official transformers license, it features ten characters adapted from the tv series, including megatron, optimus primal, and. Jan 26, 2018 this feature is not available right now.
Gearhomies transformers beast wars hoodies and tees are here. Transformers in canada is a cg animated television series made by mainframe entertainment in which two opposing factions trapped on a primitive planet, the maximals and the predacons of transformers, a race of sentient robots, fight over its precious energon. After dreamwave filed for bankruptcy in january 2005, the license for all transformers comics, including beast wars were picked up by idw publishing. Rattrap and cheetor wake up from the explosion and find themselves mutuated with a new look of transmetal.
Many of the characters were changed into new incarnations of characters from generation one and beast wars, and it remains notable for its numerous vague reference to characters and events from other series, making it difficult to place in. Jul 21, 2017 having such a legacy and impact, its not hard to imagine that there are more than a few mysteries and hidden facts about this classic series, so were here to help you out with this list of the 15 things you didnt know about beast wars. This is the first episode that confirms that the maximals and predacons are both descendants of the autobots and decepticons from the original transformer series. Let that get sorted out before throwing beast wars into the mix. Every transformers movie ranked from worst to best including. Top 5 beast wars transformers toys of show characters. They could do much more to make kids acquainted with beast wars, which would only help sell the new toys when they eventually do a bw toyline.
Articles for fanmade media related to the transformers series franchise of mecha based films and television series by hasbro. Throw it out as a cgi series, like transformers prime. Rattrap complains about all the fuss over the golden disk, but optimus primal reminds him that the disk is cybertrons most closely guarded relic, a guide to a major source of energon, which is why megatron stole it. Beast wars fans have a lot to celebrate this month. Beast wars has a very high standard here and bantor fulfils it quite nicely. Beast wars was a spinoff initiative launched by hasbro in the 90s as part of the larger transformers universe. The series is set in the future of the original transformers franchise, after the events of the transformers, and features the maximals and predacons. Thats been a completely forgotten section of the transformers lore to me, yet despite that and thanks to the third michael bay movie, shout. Beast wars took the idea of robots in disguise and added an.
Bumblebee served as something of a soft reboot and was a modest box office success, and a sequel is. Transformers film series trans fanon, the transformers. Transformers masterpiece mp48 lio convoy to include beast wars ii artemis figure. Dual transformers movies in the works at paramount deadline. Loved the series as a kid, when i heard the whole series was on dvd knew i had to have. Transformers, babylon 5, the real ghostbusters, and heman and the masters of the universe are just some of the many series he wrote or story edited in his many years in. Two new transformers movies are being developed by paramount, including another addition to the spinoff bumblebee series. Robots in disguise is a transformers franchise that launched in the year 2000. In the past, a few fans have referred to him as megatron ii to distinguish him from the original character of the same name. List of the transformers 2018 netflix series episodes. Idw publishing will publish a followup to the firstever beast wars miniseries, the gathering, by the same fanfavorite creators. While its position in the transformers continuity has. It is known best as an animated series that ran for three seasons from 1996 to 1999. The original transformers is a fantastic series, but shows like transformers armada and transformers energon are also fantastic adventures.
And so, 2016 has drawn to a close and 2017 has dawned. Beast wars sourcebook simon furman, ben yee, matt frank, don figueroa, guido guidi, jake isenberg, dan khanna, robby musso, marcelo matere, frank milkovich, nick roche, james raiz, rob ruffolo, jamie snell on. It was an american port of 2000s japanese transformers series car robots. Beast wars is scheduled to make its return in late 2018 as a netflix animated series. The toys spawned a fullcg animated series set in the transformers universe, produced by mainframe entertainment of canada. Two new transformers movies are being made, including beast. Beast wars, which was an animated series that aired in the 1990s, is being adapted into a movie. Mar 21, 2017 easily the most polarizing transformers animated series among fans, beast machines is a lightning rod of controversy on multiple fronts. Beast wars laid the ground work for having complex characters and story arcs for transformers cartoons.
Transformers is the sequel series to the original cartoon. Watching the series now, on shout factorys new complete series dvd collection, i can see why. Beast wars which first premiered in the year 1996 and ran for three seasons until 1999 was the first transformers television series to. Two new transformers movies in development including beast. This article is about the animated television series. I would recommend this product to any transformers fan. Then again, takara calls the series generation selects on the outer box, but generations selects inside the lid. Beast wars is an imperfect but fun 3d overtheshoulder shooter. Transformers combiner wars movie prime cut edition. Netflix recently dropped a jawdropping trailer for a new transformers animated series called war for cybertron, featuring the. Beast wars the complete series on dvd for all of us.
The term generation 1 covers both the animated television series the transformers and the comic book series of the same name, which are further divided into japanese and british spinoffs, respectively. Combiner wars is an internetbased animated series, based on the g1centric toyline of the same name, and created by machinima, inc. The rocket pack mounted on his back in beast mode allows him to travel up to. Usually however he simply referred to as the beast wars megatron.
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 first two were directed by michael bay, including transformers 2007, and transformers. Enraged by the apparent failure to land on earth, dinobot challenges megatron for leadership of the predacons, but. The other movie will be a reboot of the beast wars franchise, which. Soon they discover that there are other forces at work on the planet a powerful alien race that. The beast wars are the melodramaticallynamed battles between optimus primals maximals and megatrons predacons on prehistoric earth. Transformers film said to be beast wars transformers news. Every transformers animated series ranked screenrant. Jan 31, 2012 this is my last beast wars episode in stereo. The game is an official transformers license, with eight initial.
The beast wars series featured all three characters. Its core is all of the fiction published under the original the transformers franchise, which got off to a bifurcated start in 1984 with the marvel comic and sunbow cartoon, two distinct universes starring the same cast of characters. Beast wars which first premiered in the year 1996 and ran for three seasons until 1999 was the first transformers television series to feature computeranimated characters. The generation 1 continuity family is the biggest, oldest, and longestrunning family in the transformers canon. It aired from august 2, 2016 to september 20, 2016.
The detailing is also very nicely done, torso and legs are covered with sculpted and painted details. Meanwhile, the maximals are surveying the land around them and cleaning up the wreckage on the axalon. Beast wars, known as beasties in canada, is a 1996 animated television series animated by canadian studio mainframe entertainment to accompany the toy line of the same name. According to new reports from deadline, the reboot is reportedly based upon beast wars, the computeranimated transformers series that ran for three seasons in the late 90s. Articulation is superb, no complaints at all, including ankle tilts, twisting wrists, double elbows, and rotating hip. Transformers is a series of american science fiction action films based on the toys created by hasbro and tomy. Jan 27, 2020 the vanderbilt project, from what i heard, is based on transformers spinoff beast wars which are robots that transform into robotic animals like cheetor cheetah, optimus primal gorilla, rhinox. Figure king magazine scans including galaxy force live convoy. I would argue that it has some of the best character development of any transformers series. Anyway, spinister is an excellent deluxeclass figure. Beast wars is an imperfect but fun overtheshoulder shooter along the lines of alone in the dark, mdk, or broken helix. Transformers masterpiece mp48 lio convoy to include beast. Two new transformers movies in development, one may be beast wars. Takaras telemocha line a combination of the words television and omocha, the japanese word for toy was much the same as hasbros go, being sprucedup versions of the original molds packaged with dvds of key episodes.
Thus the robots take on the beast forms of recognizable animals including mammals, birds, fish. Two new transformers movies are being made, including. Cho seimeitai toransufoma, literally beast wars ii. Beast wars is reportedly one of the two transformers. While many revile 2016 for reasons outside of the fandom, within the transformers fandom there has been a lot of things to get excited about, including big developments in the comics, a very big development in the toys, michael bay upsetting people before the new movie even comes out, and not one, not two, but three cartoons for fans to enjoy.
They scan for beast forms to protect their robot forms from the planets large amount of energon. Robot masters series, he was named beast megatron for this purpose. Super lifeform transformers refers to the 1998 japanese transformers television animated series, and the movie and toyline that resulted from it. New transformers reboot reportedly based on beast wars series. A fourissue beast wars mini series, titled beast wars. Beast wars is an entertainment franchise from hasbro, and it is part of the larger transformers franchise. Gameplay transformers beast wars transmetals clones and crimps from the stylebook of virtual on and power stone, but the skimmed surface gameplay here. Placing transformers after the name was quite symbolic of how far this series wandered from the paths beaten by the robots in disguise. Based on the wildly popular hasbro toyline, transformers enjoyed a string of successful films by director michael bay before the bottom fell out with transformers. Hobby japan beast wars generations tfw2005 the 2005. The combiner wars series from machinima is presented in a complete, seamless movie with additional scenes included as well as a much more. Animated is really good also, it just needs to be approached with the proper mindset.
Beast wars beasties in canada was a line of toys under the transformers banner, released by hasbro between 1995 and 1999. It has humor, dark reality, story and emotion through the length of the shows 3 seasons and a good buy for transformer fans with a multiregional dvd player. However, bumblebee which was expected to be a rejuvenation of the blockbuster series was the. Beast wars is an american animated television series. Top 5 beast wars transformers toys of show characters every two weeks, brings you a top 5 list related to all things transformers written by me, your fellow editor. Beast wars was the first transformers series to include deaths in the television episodes the original 1980s. Paramount pictures is reportedly planning two new transformers films.
Beast wars was one of the first completely cgianimated series and saw the maximals and predacons, the descendants of the autobots and. The beast wars tv series was the first transformers series to feature computeranimated characters, and was produced by mainframe entertainment now known as rainmaker studios of vancouver, canada. Sequels followed, such as the generation 2 comic book and beast wars tv series, which became its own. Jan 28, 2020 however, deadline has now gotten word vanderbilts script may in fact be based on beast wars, a semisequel to the original transformers animated series. The tv series had a fairly short run but 60 new transformers figures were launched under this brand, including the. From air hammer to wolfgang and beyond, and featuring allnew art from. Generation 1 continuity established by the 1984 series and animated film. Waspinators body get possessed by the spark of decepticon starscream. It takes place 500 years after the events of generation 1the original series,but takes place on prehistoric earth. In robot mode the baboons head forms his right shoulder and includes an extension gimmick, that gives him a powerful punch. The series debuted in 1996, as a sequel to the original transformers which debuted in 1984 as both a television series and as a comic book series. In the wake of bumblebee, deadline reports tonight that paramount is working on two new transformers movies, one of which will reportedly bring beast wars.
Two new transformers movies in development including beast wars. From air hammer to wolfgang and beyond, and featuring allnew art from a host of the greatest transformers. Transformers, the hit animated series beloved by fans that ran from 19961998 featuring transformer factions maximals including the likes of optimus primal, rattrap. The transformers war continues in an older time, through a new generation. Beast wars is back new netflix animated series reportedly. Galaxy force and beast wars returns dvds, kabayas hyper series nontransforming galaxy force. Beast wars rumored to be other new transformers movie. Transformers news and info related to the beast wars cartoon and toys including the new beast wars masterpiece toys. Even to this day beast wars remains the best the transformers franchise has to offer. It ignores the continuity established by the japanese transformers series, though this franchise would have two exclusive japanese series of its own. Two new transformers movies in development, one may be beast. Originally an isolated conflict between the stranded maximals and predacons over territory and energon, the conflict gradually became an event that would affect not only the future of the transformers, but also the very fabric of space and time. Beast wars was followed by beast machines season 1 episodes.
This is a list of video games based on the transformers television series and movies, or featuring any of the characters transformers games have been released for the sinclair spectrum, commodore 64, family computer, family computer disk system, microsoft windows, mac os, playstation, game boy color, nintendo 64, playstation 2, mobile, ios, android, webos, blackberry os, and virtual console. Two new transformers movies are in the works, including. After an accident involving the transmetal 2 driver, cheetors body mutated into a new form. The beast wars is hailed as one of the best transformers stories made, and this spin off of the 1980s tv series lives up to that.
A band of benevolent maximals track a pack of powerseeking predacons to a mysterious planet. Shamus kelley apr 9, 2019 for the cast of netflixs shera, the impact of sheras cocreator still resonates. To confuse things even more, as well as the beat machines line hasbro continued shipping cases of beast wars assortments, which consisted of redecos to newmold mutant beast wars figures and rereleases of transformers 2 figures. When were the transformers beast machine figures released. Transformers is an emmy awardwinning sequel to the original transformers series but features an entirely new cast said to be descendants of the original characters, so its helpful but not necessary to know the back story in order to understand whats going on. The transformers is an american animated robot superhero television series which originally aired from september 17, 1984 to november 11, 1987. Apr 28, 2000 beast wars is an imperfect but fun overtheshoulder shooter along the lines of alone in the dark, mdk, or broken helix. Oct 27, 2019 transformers news and info related to the beast wars cartoon and toys including the new beast wars masterpiece toys. The transformers film series may be on the ropes, but beast wars could be the key to reinvigorating the franchise.