''Beast Machines: Transformers'' is an
animated television series
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produced by
Mainframe Entertainment
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as part of the
Transformers franchise
''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the Autobots and the Decepticons, two alien robot factions at war that can transform into other forms, suc ...
.
Hasbro
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has the full distribution rights to the show as of 2011. It was a direct
sequel
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to ''
Beast Wars
Beast most often refers to:
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* Monster
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'', taking place within the continuity of the original
''Transformers'' series. The show ran for two seasons, airing on
YTV and
Fox Kids
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from 1999 to 2000. Of the Transformers animated series produced in
North America
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, ''Beast Machines'' was the only one to have been completely conceptualized and outlined in advance, lending it a more serialized and linear storyline than the others. Prior to ''
Transformers: Prime'' in 2010, ''Beast Machines'' was also the last, and second only entirely computer-animated ''Transformers'' series produced, along with its predecessor ''Beast Wars''. The ''Beast Machines'' intro theme was "
Phat Planet
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", by
Leftfield
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. It is also the final installment in the ''Generation 1'' cartoon era.
Synopsis
Following their victory in the Beast Wars the surviving
Maximals
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–
Optimus Primal
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,
Cheetor
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,
Blackarachnia
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and
Rattrap
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– finally return to
Cybertron Cybertron may refer to:
*A fictional planet, the homeworld of the Transformers and the planet form of their creator Primus
*The English dub name for "Tobikage", a small robotic ninja in the TV series '' Ninja Senshi Tobikage''
*The Japanese name fo ...
only to discover that their people have vanished, and the world is now ruled by the mindless
Vehicons
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. To make matters worse, the quartet are trapped in their beast forms without any of the upgrades they gained during the Beast Wars – and they are swiftly losing their memories of anything but each other. Forced to retreat deep underground, the Maximals discover the Oracle, a powerful supercomputer that reformats their bodies into new, even more powerful techno-organic forms.
The Maximals soon learn that their old enemy
Megatron
Megatron is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the ''Transformers'' media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy. Megatron is the cruel and tyrannical leader of the Decepticons, ...
– who managed to break free and return to Cyberton before them – is the malevolent intelligence behind the Vehicons. Megatron has declared war on both beast modes and free will itself, imprisoning the sparks of Cyberton's entire population. With the odds stacked against them, the Maximals set out to free the sparks of their people, discover what really happened to their allies
Silverbolt
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and
Rhinox
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, and bring organic life to Cyberton once more.
Cast
*
Garry Chalk
Garry Chalk is a British-born Canadian actor. He has provided the voices for Optimus Primal of '' Beast Wars: Transformers'' and '' Beast Machines'', as well as Optimus Prime in the anime English dubs of '' Transformers: Armada'', '' Transform ...
as
Optimus Primal
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*
Scott McNeil
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as
Rattrap
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,
Silverbolt
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,
Waspinator
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*
Ian James Corlett
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as
Cheetor
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*
Venus Terzo
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as
Blackarachnia
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*
David Kaye as
Megatron
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,
Savage/Noble
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*
Christopher Gaze
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History
Born in Guildford, Surrey, England, he trained at the Bristol Old Vic The ...
as
Diagnostic Drone
*
Brian Drummond
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as
Jetstorm
*
Paul Dobson as
Tankor
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,
Obsidian
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Obsidian is produced from felsic lava, rich in the lighter elements s ...
, Diagnostic Drone
*
Jim Byrnes as
Thrust
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*
Alessandro Juliani
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as
Nightscream
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*
Richard Newman as Tankor/
Rhinox
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*
Kathleen Barr
Kathleen Barr is a Canadian voice actress. She is best known for voicing Marie Kanker and Kevin in ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' and Trixie Lulamoon and Queen Chrysalis in '' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic''. She also voiced Henri Richard Maurice D ...
as
Botanica
*
Patricia Drake
Patricia Drake is a Canadian actress working on TV and in animated shows, mostly with Ocean Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Filmography
Anime roles
* ''Black Lagoon'' as Balalaika
* '' Dragon Ball Z'' as Android 19 (Ocean dub)
...
as
Strika
Production
According to commentary of the Beast Machines DVD, the series was initially to be called ''Beast Hunters''. The character Jetstorm was initially called Skybolt, but the writers changed the name to make it harder to theorize Silverbolt's connection to the Vehicon. The first five episodes of the series were filed with the name Skybolt, and later edited to reflect the change. At one point, Thrust was going to be carrying Silverbolt's spark, but the writers, on a whim, decided to have him carry Waspinator's spark instead. In the episode Home Soil, the character Thrust made a gesture similar to the middle-finger to Optimus while racing to the crashed ship and in the episode "Savage Noble", Thrust also made a gesture similar to the middle-finger to Cheetor when they briefly banded together to search for Savage. In the flashback featuring Waspinator, the heads of Inferno and Quickstrike make cameo appearances, as do the pre-humans Hammer, Jack, Una, and others.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (1999)
This season picked up a short time after the events of the
third season of ''Beast Wars''. Four of the six main characters from the previous series/season, Optimus Primal, Rattrap, Cheetor and Blackarachnia, are on Cybertron with no memory of how they arrived there and why they are being pursued by hostile Transformers. These characters try to discover what happened to themselves and to Cybertron and what the ancient computer the Oracle has in store for the characters. There are noticeable information gaps and characters missing from the previous series that are addressed throughout the season. New characters are brought into the cast.
Season 2 (2000): ''Battle for the Spark''
This season was subtitled ''Battle for the Spark''. Season two picked up right where season one ended in a cliff hanger. The season saw the exit of Rhinox, the return of an ally, a bug bot, the appearance of new Transformers from Cybertron's history, and the ultimate demise of not only Megatron, but Optimus Primal as well.
Home releases
''Beast Machines: Transformers (Episodes # 1–5)''
* Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
* Language: English
* Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
* Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
* Audio: 2.0 Dolby Surround
* Number of discs: 1
* Rating: PG in Canada
* Studio:
Anchor Bay Entertainment
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Canada
* DVD Release Date: August 10, 2004
* Run Time: 107 minutes
Canada / United States
''Beast Machines: Transformers – The Complete Series''
* Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
* Language: English
* Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
* Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
* Audio: 5.1 Dolby Surround & 2.0 Stereo
* Number of discs: 4
* Rating: Not Rated
* Studio: Kid Rhino Entertainment
* DVD Release Date: February 28, 2006
* Run Time: 700 minutes
Canada / United States
''Beast Machines – Transformers: Series 1''
* Format: Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL
* Language English
* Region: Region 2
* Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
* Audio: 5.1 Dolby Surround & 2.0 Stereo
* Number of discs: 2
* Classification: PG (Parental Guidance)
* Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* DVD Release Date: 16 July 2007
* Run Time: 264 minutes
''Beast Machines – Transformers: Series 2''
* Format: Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL
* Language English
* Region: Region 2
* Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
* Audio: 5.1 Dolby Surround & 2.0 Stereo
* Number of discs: 2
* Classification: PG (Parental Guidance)
* Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
* DVD Release Date: 19 November 2007
* Run Time: N/A
UK
''Beast Machines – Transformers: Season 1 – Volumes 1 & 2''
* DVD Release Date: 20 June 2007
* Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
* Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
* Region: Region 4
Classification: PG (Parental Guidance)
''Beast Machines – Transformers: Season 2 – Volumes 1 & 2''
* DVD Release Date: 23 October 2007
* Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
* Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
* Region: Region 4
* Classification: PG (Parental Guidance)
US / Canada
''Beast Machines: Transformers – The Complete Series''
* Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
* Language: English
* Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
* Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
* Audio: 5.1 Dolby Surround & 2.0 Stereo
* Number of discs: 4
* Rating: Not Rated
* Studio: Shout! Factory
* DVD Release Date: September 2, 2014
* Run Time: 690 minutes
Other information
Written into a special edition comic book was a character by the name of
Primal Prime
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. Appearing only in this book, he is a side character to the ''Beast Machines'' story and was later written into the toy lines of both ''Beast Machines'' and ''Transformers: Universe''. In the ''Universe'' story line, he eventually gains a new body, which combined with
Apelinq to create Sentinel Maximus.
The head writers used to post and answer questions on a message board known as Bottalk.
Toys
The Hasbro toys for ''Beast Machines'' are infamous for the fact that many bear little resemblance to the characters on the show, in both shape and color. They were also scaled out of proportion to each other. The reason for this was that although basic concept sketches were made of the major characters, the show creators and toy creators developed the characters independently from that point in the first year. After the first year of toys was released, a number of slightly more show-accurate toys were released.
Many of the characters created as toys never made it on the television series, although some did appear in the comic books. Oddly, the transforming plant Botanica from the television series was not made into a toy for any of the related toy lines.
Another characteristic of this toy line was its packaging. Unlike other Transformers lines, wherein each toy had a photo or illustration of themselves on the front of the packaging, almost all ''Beast Machines'' packages had an illustration of Cheetor on the front – regardless of character or faction. The one exception was Nightscream.
TFW2005.com – Ultra Jetstorm
– See gallery for box packaging
The toys released in the ''Beast Wars Returns'' (a release of ''Beast Machines'' in Japan) toy line by Takara were recolored to more closely resemble the show colors. Molds from the drones in the Vehicon Army, which bore more resemblance to the Vehicon Generals, were recolored and used as the Vehicon Generals instead in the ''Beast Wars Returns'' toy line.
A line of simple McDonald's ''Beast Machines'' toys was sold which did look more like the show characters, and this line was recolored for release in other countries by other fast-food restaurants.
Non-show groups
A number toy sub-groups didn't make it into the animated series, but had small stories on their toy boxes.
* Beast Riders
:Two deluxe sized vehicles that resembled heads of animals and could be ridden by larger figures. Both were redecoed once each, but their boxes remained unchanged.
* Deployers
:Three sparkless Maximal drones that turn into weapons usable by larger toys. All three were redecoed in new colors, but their boxes remained unchanged. The dark blue recolor of Rav was used to represent the character of Chro in the 3H Comic series, which the three Deployers in their original colors also appeared in.
* Dinobots
:A set of Maximals, all recolors of older toys from the ''Beast Wars'', ''Beast Wars Neo'' lines. Commanded by Magmatron
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and T-Wrecks, members included Airraptor and others. Like the Deployers, they appeared in the 3H Beast Machines comics.
Non-show characters
A number of characters appeared in the ''Beast Machines'' toy line who didn't make appearances in the television series. These included:
* Blastcharge – A Vehicon who turns into a six-wheeled missile truck. The character does appear in the Wreckers comics.
* Buzzsaw – A Maximal who transforms into a wasp. The character does appear in the ''Transformers: Universe'' comics.
* Battle Unicorn – A Maximal who turns into a unicorn.
* Che – A Beast Rider whose form is a cheetah head. The character was to appear in the un-produced Wreckers #4.
* Chro (Name given to purple Rav repaint) – Appears in Wreckers comics.
* Dillo – A Maximal Deployer who turns from an armadillo into a weapon. The character does appear in Wreckers comics.
* Geckobot
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– A Maximal who transforms into a flying lizard.
* Hammerstrike – A Maximal who transforms into a hammerhead shark.
* Longhorn – A Maximal who turns into a bull. The character was to appear in the un-produced Wreckers #4.
* Mechatron – A Beast Rider whose form is a dragon head.
* Mirage
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– A high speed Vehicon race car. The character appears in Apelinq's War Journals, his drones appear in Wreckers comics.
* Mol – A Maximal Deployer who turns from a mole into a weapon. The character did appear in Wreckers comics.
* Nightviper – A Maximal who transforms into a cobra.
* Primal Prime
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– A repaint of ''Beast Wars'' Optimal Optimus. The character does appear in the Wreckers comics.
* Quickstrike – A Maximal who transforms into a wolf. The character does appear in the ''Transformers: Universe'' comics.
* Rav – A Maximal Deployer who turns from a bird into a weapon. The character does appear in the Wreckers comics.
* Scavenger
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– A Vehicon Demolitions expert. The character does appear in the Wreckers comics.
* Skydive
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For ...
– A Maximal who turns a pterodactyl. The character was to appear in the un-produced Wreckers #4.
* Snarl
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– A Maximal who turns into a lion. The character does appear in the un-produced Wreckers #3, and the ''Transformers: Universe'' comics
* Spy Streak – A Vehicon stealth jet. The character does appear in the Wreckers comics.
Transtech
After ''Beast Machines'' ended, Hasbro planned a follow-up series called ''Transtech''. The series was supposed to bring back some of the characters who died in ''Beast Wars'' along with some characters from the original 1980s cartoon, all in new, organic-looking bodies, with vehicle alternate modes instead of the animals used in ''Beast Machines''. Many concept sketches and even a few toy prototypes were made, but Hasbro scrapped the idea, bringing '' Car Robots'' to American markets as a placeholder until '' Transformers Armada''.
Concept sketches or prototype toys have been seen for Blackarachnia, Cheetor, Depth Charge
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, Megatron
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, Nightscream, Optimus Prime
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, Scavenger
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, Shockwave, Soundwave, Starscream
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, and a new character called Immorticon. There were also rumors of a ''Transtech'' Dinobot.
It is generally believed that the concept for ''Transtech'' Cheetor
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inspired the design of '' Transformers: Cybertron'' Brakedown
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based upon Hasbro's Transformers (toy line), ''Transformers'' toy line. T ...
and the concept for ''Transtech'' Megatron inspired '' Armada'' Megatron.
Transformers: Universe
The storyline of ''Beast Machines'' is continued in the short-lived comic book ''Transformers: Universe'' by 3H Publishing, which has stories taking place during the second season of ''Beast Machines'' (In the ''Transformers: Wreckers'' comic) and after the ''Beast Machines'' story (in the ''Transformers: Universe'' comic).
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