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.

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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 )

* Transtech-this toyline was to follow Beast Machines, but was canceled.

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.

Optimus Primal is a fictional character from the Transformers toyline, and the leader of the Maximal forces and the main protagonist in the Beast Wars television series.

: Although released in the " Mega " size class, the solitary Beast Machines Megatron figured released in the American toyline is in fact smaller in stature than the next size class down, a Deluxe.

: Although designed to be part of the Beast Machines toyline, this figure of Megatron's fortress / spaceship body was aborted, and then revived for the Robots in Disguise toyline in 2002, where it was reimagined as a new body for that universe's Megatron.

Rattrap is the name of a fictional character from the Transformers toyline that appeared in the Beast Wars and Beast Machines series.

: The transmetal Rattrap toy was one of the toys selected for the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary toyline.

: In 2006 the original Tarantulas toy was one of the toys selected for the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary toyline.

: In 2006 the original Dinobot toy was one of the toys selected for the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary toyline.

In the Beast Wars toyline, Snarl was the name of a Maximal who transformed into a Tasmanian Devil.

In the Beast Machines toyline, Snarl was the name of a Maximal who transformed into a technorganic lion.

In early sketches for the toyline ( then called ' The Fighting Foe Men '), Beast Man ( then called Red Beast ) was at one stage planned to be the line's main villain, but this role ended up being given to Skeletor ( prototype name Demo-Man ), with Beast Man as his main sidekick.

Machine Wars was Hasbro's first attempt at returning to vehicle-formed Transformers after it had revolutionised the toyline with Beast Wars, where all toys had animal alternate modes.

This template was to be followed in many subsequent campaigns, including Fungi from Yuggoth ( later known as Curse of Cthulhu and Day of the Beast ), Spawn of Azathoth, and possibly the most highly acclaimed, Masks of Nyarlathotep.

This animal, initially given the name the Elmendorf Beast, was later determined by DNA assay conducted at University of California, Davis to be a coyote with demodectic or sarcoptic mange.

The real Xavier is shown in prison on Alcatraz and slowly being stripped of his telepathic powers while in psionic contact with Beast, who was arrested earlier for his part in the anti-mutant riots.

Monsters, spells, and magic items used in the game have been inspired by hundreds of individual works such as A. E. van Vogt's " Black Destroyer ", Coeurl ( the Displacer Beast ), Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky " ( vorpal sword ) and the Book of Genesis ( the clerical spell ' Blade Barrier ' was inspired by the " flaming sword which turned every way " at the gates of Eden ).

The last book Thompson finished was Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law ( 1993 ).

It would be turned into a hit for Warner Bros. in 1931 ; the following year, Burnett was hired to write dialogue for Scarface, while Beast of the City was adapted from one of his stories.

She was a special guest at the 70th Academy Awards, where the show's host, Billy Crystal, introduced her as the " Beauty who charmed the Beast ".

Tentacle rape was not present in the Urotsukidoji manga, but was featured in a series that he would publish years later called Demon Beast Invasion.

* The poem was used as the title of one of the final episodes of the 1987-1989 television series Beauty and the Beast.

Originally, the Iceman / Beast friendship was one of the cornerstones of the X-Universe, but has recently been ignored by writers.

Additionally his film work includes the role of Dr. Hank McCoy ( also known as the Beast ) in X-Men: The Last Stand, and he was the voice of Snowball in the live-action film adaptation of the George Orwell book Animal Farm.

Loglan was mentioned in a couple of science fiction works: Robert A. Heinlein ’ s well-known books The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and The Number of the Beast, and Robert Rimmer ’ s utopian book Love Me Tomorrow ( 1978 ).

* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.

One, titled The Beast of the Black Bog Tarn, was set in a ( miniature ) haunted house.

However, others believe the Book of Revelation was written after Nero committed suicide in AD 68, and identify the Beast with another emperor.

Simon hears the pig identifying itself as the real " Beast " and disclosing the truth about itself – that the boys themselves " created " the beast, and that the real beast was inside them all.

This feature does not appear in stories about werewolves before the 19th century ( the claim that the Beast of Gévaudan, an 18th-century wolf or wolf-like creature, was shot by a silver bullet appears to have been introduced by novelists retelling the story from 1935 onwards and not in earlier versions ).

This was much to the dismay of other members of the X-Men, such as Beast, who left the team in disgust.

( Curly's cameo appearance was recycled in the 1953 remake Booty and the Beast.

In 1995, a big cat usually described as a lion ( but sometimes as a lynx ) was dubbed the " Beast of Funen " by numerous eye-witnesses.

The Beast of Gévaudan was a creature that terrorized the general area of the former province of Gévaudan, with nearly identical borders to today's Lozère, in the Margeride Mountains, in the general timeframe of 1764 to 1767.

Linda Carroll Hamilton ( born September 26, 1956 ) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in The Terminator and its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globes and an Emmy.