Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

Beast Wars was a show I originally didn't like. However, it was all part of the same continuity as Hasbro would have. I didn't understand the concept of contracts and adaptations as a 12 year old. I used to think that Beast Wars was merely having the OG cast become the cast. I heard that was the plan BUT that was THANKFULLY changed. The Maximals and Predacons are successors to the OG factions of the Autobots and Decepticons. I wonder why Hasbro decided to create two new factions. What's funnier is that Predacon was also the name of a Decepticon sub-group. There was some element of familiarity needed. Which was probably why the leader was called OPTIMUS PRIMAL and we have Beast Wars Megatron. I always find it confusing whenever fiction decides to pass a title -- such as how Tekken passed the King mantle to another person in Tekken 3  or how the Robin mantle got passed from Dick Grayson to Tim Drake. Dick became Nightwing after some time. It was good to name the new Optimus P...

IGN Sea Beast Wars was definitely a 1990s revival of the Transformers franchise by Hasbro. There was the toy line and there was the television. The toys don't always match up with the television series such as G1 Megatron was released as a TANK when the 1980s series made him a handgun. Later, G1! Megatron's tank mode was used in future series such as Transformers Armada . Apparently, Hasbro makes the toys first before any series was made. I mean, try to think of the initial prototype of Beast Wars had the following... Transformers Wiki The original toyline (as planned) had Optimus Primal as a bat (which is funny) and BW! Megatron is a crocodile. However, all that was changed in the TV series proper and later toys when Optimus Primal was a gorilla and BW! Megatron became a tyrannosaurus - an animal more befitting the Beast Wars . The toyline was born with a TV series. However, you may notice that a couple of toys NEVER made it into the original TV series at all. There were toy c...

Whether you like it or not but Beast Wars may be an entirely different group of characters but it's still part of the Generation 1 (G1) Continuity . How the Maximals and Predacons are supposedly descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons isn't explained. Robot biology anyone? What was certain is that Beast Wars Megatron simply took the name after the original Megatron. I wasn't ready to accept the new era of Transformers until I realized it was all part of the same universe. Why Hasbro decided to make Beast Wars part of the G1 Continuity rather than its own continuity kind of bothers me. But I'd like to give some praises to a series that actually deserved its praise. Trying to actually have a different set that managed to differ even more from its predecessor While Beast Wars is indeed part of the G1 Continuity but takes place sometime later (though they landed on a primitive Earth which may have disrupted the G1 timeline - go figure). I really love how the cha...

Nobody can deny that Transformers and its sequel series Beast Wars (which takes place 300 years after the original ended but they got stranded on pre-historic Earth) are both successes. But for every successful franchise -- there's the tendency for a black sheep or flak to appear. Do you remember how the highly successful Kamen Rider Black got succeeded by the failure that's Kamen Rider Black RX? Beast Wars was succeeded by Beast Machines which really didn't last after 26 episodes. Beast Wars had 52 episodes which proved it was a success. Beast Machines tried to ride on the success of Hasbro's Beast Wars but only resulted in how Black RX ended -- a failure! I may not be a fan of Transformers Season 3 but at least Season 3 had some development you can enjoy. I know I've hated (to a certain extent) how Galvatron went all the way from a scary, cunning leader from the movie to a greater idiot than Starscream ever was. However, Galvatron's insanity made him more i...

This was during the late 90s and we know Transformers was pretty much a late 80s thing. Hasbro had its rather ambitious remodeling of Transformers but not exactly a reboot. It's pretty much trying to cover up what could have happened generations later after previous Generation-1 Continuity series which covered the first three seasons of Hasbro's Transformers. What always got me to my mind how I thought "Transformers jumped the shark." or how I usually preferred the old school Transformers for its civilian involvement. So what's going on? Instead of Autobots and Deceptions -- you've got Maximals and Predacons. Okay, don't confuse the Predacons here to the Deception sub-group that was introduced after Transformers: The Movie. The whole situation has the Maximals and Predacons were sent to the time of the dinosaurs -- so where did Cobra-La enter in eventually? Hmmm Hasbro has a lot of explaining to do! The series obviously look from elements from its own ...

When I remembered Beast Wars, I always wanted to draw inspiration for the Beast Wars cartoon with the Transformers G1 cartoon. Although the Maximals and Predacons are a new generation of Transformers, not the original Transformers modified, you cannot deny how there's some inspiration of characters that were quite similar. Both Hotrod and Cheetor were pretty similar in terms of personality as both are young, boastful, and impulsive. If you remember the Transformers movie, the newbie character Hot Rod starts off as a newbie character. In the final scene, he becomes the new Autobot Commander, Rodimus Prime with the power of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. The very act also destroyed Unicron's body only leaving a living head. I always expected the same to happen to Cheetor... becoming Cheetorus Prime but I guess writers had learned from the mistakes of the original Transformers. It's unknown if Beast Wars is a sequel to Transformers (Hasbro) or the Japanese Animated s...