In 1997, Systems & Control students at Bodmin College constructed Roadblock, a robot which entered and won the first series of Robot Wars and was succeeded by " The Beast of Bodmin " ( presumably named after the phantom cat purported to roam Bodmin Moor ).

* September 16 – Beast Wars first airs and becomes a milestone in the Transformers franchise through the use of CGI.

* Transformers: Beast Wars The Predacons capture the Decepticon flagship Nemesis and use its tractor beam to attempt to destroy the Maximals and the Ark.

* On the CGI animated show Beast Wars: Transformers, Cheetor, one of the main characters on the Maximal faction, had the beast form of a cheetah.

* Beast Wars — PS, Windows, Macintosh

The Saturday morning animated series ReBoot won a large cult following among adults ; it was the first of a number of CGI-generated animated series, including Beast Wars, War Planets, and Roughnecks.

* In the Transformers spinoff Beast Wars, one of the discs is a key plot point that sets the series in motion.

The Predacon leader known as Megatron from the Beast Wars and Beast Machines animated series is a separate character from the original Generation 1 Megatron.

However, this was not the original intent for the character, as the original pack-in mini-comic and biographies released with the earliest Beast Wars toys indicate that the character was supposed to be the original Megatron, in a new body.

With the advent of the animated series, however, the fiction of Beast Wars was re-imagined and eventually applied to the toy line, establishing this Megatron as an independent character.

Generation 1 Megatron in Beast Wars

Observing how Primal boosted his own strength and form by holding the spark of Optimus Prime within his body, Beast Wars Megatron made the same move, purloining the spark of his ancestor and taking it into his own body, transforming as a result into a monstrous dragon.

As a result, during his cameo appearance in Beast Wars, Generation 1 Megatron was voiced by series regular Gary Chalk, who also provided the voice of the heroic Maximal leader Optimus Primal.

In the Beast Wars future in which the story takes place, the greatest Autobots and Decepticons have passed on to J ' nwan, where they can finally live in peace.

The Transformers included Generation 1 Tracks, Ariel, Cosmos and Megatron, Beast Wars Tarantulas, Robots in Disguise Sky-Byte and Beast Machines Tankor.

Due to the interference of Ravage ( the same future Ravage who appears in the Beast Wars ), most of the events of the original animated feature do not transpire ; most importantly the Battle of Autobot City does not occur, and Optimus Prime and Megatron do not have their final showdown, meaning that Optimus Prime does not die, and Megatron is never reformatted into Galvatron.

** Beast Wars Super Lifeform Transformers ( 1997 – 1998, Japan )

** Super Lifeform Transformers Beast Wars Metals ( 1999 – 2000, Japan )

* Beast Wars II Super Lifeform Transformers ( 1998, Japan )-A. K. A.

" Beast Wars Second "

* Super Lifeform Transformers Beast Wars Neo ( 1999, Japan )

* Beast Machines: Transformers ( 2000 – 2001 )/ Super Lifeform Transformers Beast Wars Returns ( 2004 – 2005, Japan )

Beast Wars: Transformers had to be renamed in some countries, particularly Canada, because of concern over the word " war " in the title.

Long-time Transformers fans noticed the prominence of the words " Beast Wars " over " Transformers ", the latter appearing in small type under the former.

The Transformers's fan base splintered into two groups as a direct result, with the one enjoying Beast Wars for what it was and the other refusing to accept it as official canon in the Transformers mythology.

Like Beast Wars, the name Transformers was used only as a secondary title.

While still a success, the storyline and direction borne by Beast Machines was questioned and criticized by the most ardent fans who knew the previous history of the Transformers.

The faction made their first appearance in the Beast Wars toyline and animated series, and have been represented in various Transformers animated series, comic books and toylines since.

It would be a year before new episodes aired on YTV due to Mainframe's involvement in Transformers: Beast Wars ( known as Beasties in Canada ) and Shadow Raiders, and the third season aired only on YTV at the time.

* Beast Wars, a Transformers toy line and TV series

* Moon ( Transformers ), a character in the series Beast Wars II

While Mulan outgrossed the two Disney films which preceded it, The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 film ) and Hercules, its box office returns failed to match those of the Disney films of the early 1990s such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King.

The tradition was revived in the mid 1990s to publicize contemporary Disney feature animated films: Beauty and the Beast ( 1992 ), Aladdin ( 1993 ), The Lion King ( 1994 ), Pocahontas ( 1995 ), Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 ) and The Little Mermaid ( for its re-release, 1997 ).

Melton Mowbray itself had six recorded crosses the construction of which spanned several centuries: ( i ) Kettleby Cross, ( close to the present Total filling station near the junction of Dalby Road to the Leicester Road ), ( ii ) Sheep Cross, on what was Spital End, ( now Nottingham Street / Park Road Junction, ( iii ) Corn Cross at the Swine Lane / Spittle End junction, ( reconstructed and reinstated on the Nottingham St / High St junction in 1996 as a memorial to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps ), ( iv ) Butter Cross or High Cross, at the west end of Beast Market ,( again reconstructed from partial remains of the original Saxon cross in 1986 / 7 in the Market Place ), ( v ) Sage Cross, at the East end of the Beast Market close to Salt gate ,( on Sherrard Street opposite Sage Cross Street ), and ( vi ) Thorpe Cross at the end of Saltgate ( near the junction of Thorps Road and Saxby Road ).

* Transformers: Beast Wars ( 1996 – 1999 )

* The Beast ( 1996 film ), made for TV movie based on the 1991 novel Beast

One advertisement depicted Sparty carrying gymnast Kerri Strug in the manner of Beauty and the Beast — or, more to the point, Béla Károlyi, who carried the injured Strug to the medal platform to accept her team gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Conversation with the Beast ( 1996 ) was his first film as director.

Beast Wars: Transformers, titled Beasties: Transformers in Canada, is a CG animated television series that debuted in 1996, serving as the flagship of the Transformers: Beast Wars franchise.

* " Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast ," Suzy McKee Charnas ( Asimov's Science Fiction, March 1996 )

In 1996 Cuban-born composer Jorge Martin and librettist Andrew Joffe with the American Chamber Orchestra produced Beast and Superbeast, a group of four chamber operas based on stories by Saki, including " Sredni Vashtar ".

As a college basketball player, Morgan competed in the 1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and has appeared in American Gladiators under the pseudonym Beast.

* Harvey and the Beast of Bodmin ( 1996 )

#" Beast " ( 12 November 1996 )

* Beast Wars Basic Optimus Primal ( 1996 )

* Beast Wars Ultra Optimus Primal ( 1996 )

* Beast Wars Basic Optimus Primal vs. Megatron ( 1996 )

* Beast Wars Ultra Megatron ( 1996 )

The term first appeared in episode one of Beast Wars in September 1996.

In 1996, Barton returned to Vienna, where he took over the part of the Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

Released on parole fifteen years after being taken into custody by the Wrarth, Beep sought revenge in The Star Beast II ( published in the 1996 Doctor Who Magazine Yearbook ) but the Fourth Doctor used black star energy to trap him inside the children's movie For the Love of Lassie.