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: Transformers ( 1996 – 1999 ) ( 1997 – 1998 ; 1999 – 2000, Japan ) ( released as Beasties in Canada )

** 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 )

These include the appearance of a number of figures and images which have become important in Christian eschatology, such as the Whore of Babylon and the Beast, and culminate in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Yeats's description of a ' rough beast ' has more in common with The Beast ( Revelation ) than the Christian concept of the Second Coming of Christ.

* Artemis ( Transformers ), a character in the anime series Beast Wars Second

Starscream first appears in episodes # 1 of Beast Wars Second, called " The Birth of a New Army.

Beast Wars Second Starscream had two toys produced exclusively in Japan.

Many Maximals were not included in the Canadian TV series ; some of them did appear alongside other Maximals in the Japanese series Beast Wars Second and Beast Wars Neo.

In Beast Wars Second, Lio Convoy used his Matrix to create Lio Junior.

Most unique among the characters named Galvatron was the main villain of the anime series Beast Wars Second, who was not a former Megatron, but instead a unrelated Predacon who named himself after the original Galvatron.

Magnaboss appears in the Beast Wars Second movie, " Lio Convoy Crisis ".

* Beast Wars Second Magnaboss

* Shooting-Only plays Beast Busters: Second Nightmare

* Tamanian Kid in Beast Wars Second

Many Maximals were not included in the Canadian TV series ; some of them did appear alongside other Maximals in the Japanese series Beast Wars Second and Beast Wars Neo.

* Scylle in Beast Wars Second

: This toy was later redecoed into Beast Wars Second Santon.

Beast Wars Second Galvatron, Megastorm and the technorganic Predacon Waspinator appeared together in the story Wreckers: Finale Part II by the Transformers Collectors Club in 2007.

The Seacon toys received their first repaint when they were revived as new characters for 1997's Japanese-exclusive animated series, Beast Wars Second.

The Seacons appeared in episode # 21 of Beast Wars Second.

: In the Japanese series, Beast Wars Second, the Trypticon toy was recoloured, remolded into Gigastorm.

The name ' Dirge ' was revived for used by a Predacon in the Beast Wars Second toy line, a Japanese-exclusive series.

* Beast Wars Second Dirge ( 1998 )