Beast Wars - Talk Up!

[SentaiRider]

Waspanator cracks me up:laugh:

 

[CaptainB_Money]

I'v been watching the eps Via Websites. god i miss this show.

 

[Gryphman]

i'm gonna even go out on a limb and say that beast wars was the series that revitalized interest in transformers

Na, you're not going out on a limb. It did. Beast Wars brought it back. It kind of wavered a bit with Beast Machines and RiD. Armada put it into the top tier, where it's pretty much stayed ever since. It usually shifts around within the top 5 now.

 

[Mega Ranger]

Problem with a series that REVITALIZES a franchise is then it's very hard to top that. and they have yet to do anything that tops Beast Wars on the whole.

 

[Impulse87]

that's because beast wars introduced a very fresh concept, instead of cars, it became animals, then when people began to tire of simple animal transformations, they upped the ante with transmetal, fuzors and finally transmetal 2 before tigerhawk, optimal optimus, and dragon megatron came along, the three best designed bots in the entire series,

the writers kept it simple, a small cast equaled better character focus and development unlike now where we can easily have twenty plus autobots versus at most 8 decepticons, we just don't see their growth that well, we don't see their progression as bots and as warriors unlike in beast wars where we see dinobot go from an overly aggressive soldier to a noble warrior who gave us one of the best episodes in the series, or how we see cheetor literally grow from a young kid who is desperate to prove himself to the team to the most reliable maximal on the team (complete with a little beard) :laugh:

 

[Mega Ranger]

Ehh, I'll disagree with you about Dragon Megatron....that toy SUCKEd, and there was no G1 megatron in him unlike Optimal Op, but I digress.

 

[ForeverRed]

Beast Wars = AWESOME. That's all.

There are only 3 seasons, 52 episodes.

Rattrap was hilarious. SilverBolt was amazing.

 

[OverdrivePrime]

While I grew up on G1 transformers (back in fourth grade for this ol' codger), I think it's no kind of exaggeration to say that Beast Wars was even better. I loved G1 for Optimus Prime, Hound, Ironhide and the lessons they taught me. I loved the animated move, and it's still in my top 15 movies. But Beast Wars did everything, from scripts to character development, in a more mature and well-handled way.

Silverbolt was always my favorite - guess I've always been a bit of a paladin at heart. :thumbs:

 

[Skyknight]

So did G1's third season

 

[JustAnotherBlueRanger]

that's because beast wars introduced a very fresh concept, instead of cars, it became animals, then when people began to tire of simple animal transformations, they upped the ante with transmetal, fuzors and finally transmetal 2 before tigerhawk, optimal optimus, and dragon megatron came along, the three best designed bots in the entire series,

the writers kept it simple, a small cast equaled better character focus and development unlike now where we can easily have twenty plus autobots versus at most 8 decepticons, we just don't see their growth that well, we don't see their progression as bots and as warriors unlike in beast wars where we see dinobot go from an overly aggressive soldier to a noble warrior who gave us one of the best episodes in the series, or how we see cheetor literally grow from a young kid who is desperate to prove himself to the team to the most reliable maximal on the team (complete with a little beard) :laugh:

That wasn't the writers, that was the actual budget for show according to all involved. They didn't have the money to use all of the characters/toys Hasbro created so they kept it to a few main characters.

BM damn near killed all of the good will BW created with it's final few episodes (Thank you Bob you crackhead).

RiD I liked more then BW because it was complete and like NS it made just enough fun of the whole franchise while telling its story that ANY Transformers fan could watch and 'get it'. I hated the Unicron shows for many reasons.