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In Beast Wars and Beast Machines, the Maximals were first introduced as the crew of the starship, Axalon ( led by Optimus Primal ), pursued the Predacons ( led by Megatron ) to prehistoric planet Earth.
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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 )
Beast and Machines
* Savage, the dragon mode of Savage / Noble, the only fully organic Transformer, from the Beast Machines series
" Phat Planet " was also used in the animated television series Beast Machines, the simulation racing games F1 2000 by EA Sports and Racedriver GRID by Codemasters.
* Transtech-this toyline was to follow Beast Machines, but was canceled.
The success of Beast Wars and the change in storyline resulted in its second phase: Beast Machines.
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.
While Beast Machines was still running in Canada, Japan's Takara made a bid to return to the familiar vehicle-transforming robots concept.
At the same time, they distributed a CGI version of Transformers known as Beast Wars until 1999, and its sequel Beast Machines from 1999 to 2000.
* " Endgame ", the closing story arc of the Beast Machines series
( In the sequel series Beast Machines, the process during which Autobots and Decepticons became Maximals and Predacons is referred to as " The Great Upgrade.
She went on to direct voices in Beast Machines, Transformers: Animated, and Transformers: Prime as well, making her the longest serving Transformers staff member.
Of the ten characters that appear in episode one, only six survived the entire series, and out of these, only three survived to the end of Beast Machines ( Cheetor, Rattrap and Waspinator ).
Even in Beast Machines Waspinator survives, albeit in a new body and identity, as Thrust.
Waspinator went on to become the only Predacon to survive both Beast Wars and Beast Machines ( not counting Blackarachnia, who defected in season three of Beast Wars ).
This CG series and its sequel Beast Machines used the G1 cartoon as a historical base.
Beast and Maximals
The two main factions of " Transformers " in Beast Wars are descendants of the two main factions in the original cartoon: the Maximals are the descendants of the Autobots and the Predacons are the descendants of the Decepticons.
* Transformers: Beast Wars: Flying Maximals after Dinobot's death ( Code of Hero )
The Maximals from Transformers: Beast Wars are also known as Cybertrons in Japan, but in North America they are called Maximals and are descendants of the Autobots.
The one exception was Beast Wars, by which time most Autobots had been retrofitted into Maximals.
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, the Maximals were referred to as Cybertrons ( the same title used for " Autobots " within Japan ) in the Japanese series.
In The Reformatting, the first episode of the Beast Machines TV show, the Maximals discover the remains of Iacon on Cybertron, deep beneath the planets current surface.
This foreshadows the smaller, more energy efficient bodies of the Maximals and Predacons in the Beast Wars TV show in comparison with the much larger bodies of the Generation One Transformers.
In Beast Wars, The Maximals and Predacons on earth adopted organic shells and animal forms because of the high amounts of natural energon on the planet.
A notable occurrence of this happening is Optimus Primal taking the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, and Optimus Prime's spark, during the Beast Wars on prehistoric Earth while Teletraan I and other Maximals were repairing the incredible damage to his body.
One of his first major battles on Earth was a duel with the renegade Predacon Dinobot, whose life Primal then saved — grateful, Dinobot joined the Maximals, and Primal dubbed the ensuing conflict for control of the energon on earth as the " Beast Wars ".
With all the other Predacons dealt with, and Megatron finally their captive courtesy of Rhinox's quickly strategised intervention, the Maximals clamped him to the hull of the Autobot shuttle, and, with the Beast Wars finally concluded, headed back at last to Cybertron.
On the Maximals return trip to Cybertron after the end of the Beast Wars, Megatron was able to break free and exited the timestream, returning to Cybertron before the Maximals.
A recent interview with writer Tim Seeley indicated that the use of Teletran-1 by the Maximals and Predacons during the Beast Wars imprinted itself on the computer, allowing the information to be passed down to other Transformers.
However, despite being the most " show-accurate " version of BM Primal, the figure is not particularly compatible with other toys of the Beast Machines line as the very large figure is grossly out of scale with his fellow Maximals.
At the start of the Beast Wars series two Transformers factions, the Maximals and Predacons, land on an Energon rich planet, which is later established as being Earth.
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