As for the Predacons, while the bulk believe they are here just to acquire energon to take back to Cybertron, Megatron had a secret, ulterior motive for coming to this specific planet at this specific point in time - the true identity of the planet and why Megatron came here serve as big reveals in the second season. The plan is that if they can subdue the Predacons, they can turn their attention to repairing their ship or finding a way to contact Cybertron. The Maximals want to go home and let the proper authorities deal with Megatron, but the hope for rescue is slim, as their ships had trans-warp engines that let them travel through space and time, so they could be anywhere, any time, in the galaxy. During this time of peace, the Transformers were reformatted into smaller, more energy-efficient bodies the descendants of the Autobots are known as the Maximals, and the Decepticons have become the Predacons.Īgainst this backdrop, the Beast Wars between the Maximals and Predacons begin. After the war ended with an Autobot victory, an uneasy truce has existed on Cybertron for many centuries. " TRUKK NOT MUNKY!" was a common cry of its detractors of the time.īeast Wars takes place in the far future of the Transformers: Generation 1 franchise, though it never refers to enough specifics to figure out which Generation One ( cartoon, comics or something else), and the events of the "Great War" are Shrouded in Myth. Hugely controversial at the time among purists for the massive changes to the Transformers formula, most prominently the change from vehicles and electronics to animals.
It was produced by the now-bought-out Mainframe Entertainment, hot on the heels of its predecessor, ReBoot (in fact, its' first season aired as part of the syndicated "Power Block" (distributed by Hasbro's Claster TV firm) alongside ReBoot, G.I.
The series that revived the Transformers franchise after a years-long recession, note In terms of television that is, both the toyline as well as the comics had remained popular way into the 90s Beast Wars was a fully CG-animated series that premiered in 1996.
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