Transformers: Beast Wars

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This article is about the Beast Wars franchise. For the animated television series in the franchise, see Beast Wars: Transformers.
"Beast Wars" redirects here. For other uses, see Beast Wars (disambiguation).
"Fuzors" and "Fuzor" redirect here. For the Zoids, see Zoids: Fuzors.

Transformers: Beast Wars is an entertainment franchise from Hasbro and is part of the larger

Transformers: Car Robot
series, internationally known as Transformers: Robots in Disguise.

Beast Machines

Beast Wars was succeeded by Beast Machines, a new series with a new creative team in charge of production. The Maximals find themselves back on Cybertron, malfunctioning and trapped in their first beast modes (the ones they had at the beginning of Beast Wars). They were without memory of what happened previously, and fighting for survival against mindless drones called Vehicons. These were created and controlled by Megatron. With the whole planet empty, and all of the Transformers missing, Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rattrap, and Blackarachnia begin a new crusade, this time to free the entire planet.

Beast Wars in Japan

The Japanese series

Transformers: Car Robots in the following new year, in which several unused Transmetal 2 molds were used as Destrongers (Predacons).[citation needed] Beast Machines was also imported to Japan in 2004 under the title Beast Wars Returns, though it did not gain very much popularity.[citation needed
]

Comic books

Officially, the Beast Wars and Beast Machines series exist as the future of Generation 1 universe, and not specifically the original cartoon series or Marvel Comics series. The writers of the series adopted this position in order to pick and choose the best elements of the discrete Generation 1 continuities.

BotCon comics

In the BotCon comics, two particular Beast Wars storylines are tapped.

In the Omega Point storyline, several events lead up to a tremendous battle against Shokaract, a Predacon fueled by the Dark Essence of

Windrazor
, Sandstorm, Antagony, and Cataclysm.

In the Primeval Dawn story, Tarantulas comes back from the dead alongside Ravage, Spittor, Iguanus, and Razorclaw to complete the mission he set out to do, while the Vok create

Primal Prime
to stand in his way; Primal Prime teams up with Airazor, Tigatron, and Ramulus, who have come back from the dead as well.

Dreamwave Productions

Wolfang
. The comic had a survey as to whether Dreamwave's new comic would be Robots In Disguise or Beast Wars. Beast Wars won.

Dreamwave Productions had plans to release a Beast Wars comic in early 2005, which would have been done by the War Within creative team of Simon Furman and Don Figueroa. Brad Mick and Adam Patyk were originally planned to write the series until they left Dreamwave after not being paid for several projects. However, although some cover art did appear on the internet, Dreamwave entered bankruptcy before one issue could be published.

IDW Publishing

Main article: Transformers: Beast Wars (comics)

A mini-series takes place parallel to the third season of Beast Wars and introduces characters who are not shown in the original series such as

Razorbeast, and Injector. Other characters who appear are Grimlock
in his Beast Wars body (a recolored Dinobot toy) and Ravage in his Transmetal II "Tripredacus Agent" incarnation.

The mini-series focuses on Magmatron, sent by the

Tripredacus Council
to capture Megatron after Ravage's failure. However, Magmatron has his own agenda - to create his own army from the stasis pods the Axalon ejected in the pilot episode of Beast Wars. His scheme is partially thwarted by the Maximal double-agent Razorbeast, who ensures the shell program used reconfigures many of the protoforms as Maximals rather than Predacons. The two sides clash in an attempt to stop Magmatron from returning to Cybertron with a captured Megatron, with some unexpected aid from Grimlock ensuring Magmatron is sent back to Cybertron empty handed. However, Razorbeast's Maximals and many Predacons (led by Ravage, resurrected in a Transmetal II body) are left on Earth, opening the way for future series.

Video games

There have been two Beast Wars video games. The first game, simply called

bam! Entertainment. Most of the cast members from the show reprised their roles. A third game was in the works for the PlayStation 2, but was scrapped in pre-production, without any official word as to why, or how far the project was before the plug was pulled.[2]

Media

Video games

Television series

  • List of Beast Machines episodes
  • Beast Wars II: Lio Convoy, Close Call!
  • List of Beast Wars II characters
  • List of Beast Wars Neo characters
  • Beast Wars Sourcebook

Film

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "The History of Transformers on TV". IGN. June 27, 2011. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
  2. ^ "Beast Wars: Aftermath Episode Trivia - TV.com". Archived from the original on 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
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