Did anybody watch Beast Wars growing up?

[Krutch]

I just bought the first season on DVD for sixtey bucks and havent even begun to watch it. I thought the show was awsome. Good action and well written. Anyone else watch it?

[The Clerk]

i did! Although i didn't like the first season much. Rat Trap and Cheetor were the best!

[MikesPizzaShack]

yes it was so awsome. i watched every ep. i wanna buy the box sets along w/ G! TF box sets. man any remember when (semi-spoiler ahead)
....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
dinobot died???? oh man i cried he was the kewlest lol

[Raven]

i use to watch beast wars all the time, it was one of the best shows on at the time.

[Brodie]

I watched every episode until it went to Beast Machines...

Feral CHeetor is awesome, I still have the toy.

[Stone Ill]

I did.


Why was it called Beasties in the morning and then Beast Wars at night or vice versa?

[MW8979]

Because Beast Wars was the american title, and canadian censorship thought it to be too violent, so that country's version of it was called Beasties. Quite dumb. But yeah, I watched that show too when it was on, except that I was done growing up by the time it was aired.

[CookSux]

I was fairly old when Beast Wars aired. I'm a Transfan at heart, so naturally I watched it all.

[愛]

I watched it, and liked it, but it doesn't compare to old school Transformers.

[Ninjatron]

Beast Wars is the best show ever.

Sayonara.

[Extatique]

Oooh yes, I have a few episodes on tape. I loved the CGI-animation! Before that, only Reboot had that sort of edge back then. It was a cool series, I'm a girl and I was hooked more than most of my guy friends!
I don't really care for the other versions... Megatron as a T-rex/dragon was cool... and when they got back to their home planet and it was all deserted... that season was really good too (ok so sue me I watched it but i didn't pay attention too well! *L*) robots just don't hook my attention.

[ABeraserfiend]

Though I'm fonder of the first-generation show and the more-recent Robots in Disguise, Beast Wars gets props for being the best-crafted Transformers show to date IMO.

And Depth Charge ownz.

[Caster_Troy]

"growing up" Man I am old. I watched Beast Wars when I was 17+. I watched the original Transformers growing up. Damn.

I have to say... the real Dinobot (not the f*cking clone) rocks... and Depth Charge is boss. I mean, he is just... well it's already been said. He owns!
When it changed to Beastmachines, I thought that just sucked.
I mean there were so many plot holes and it just wasn't as cool.

[Storm Wolf]

I LOVED beast wars! i used to watch it like every day after school! i didn't care much for any of the other transformer seris at all....never even attempted to like them like i did beast wars.....,,I like almost all of the characters...the concept of silverbolt was awesome...but i didn't really care for his personality sometimes....cheetor was like my favorite tho! Tigertron and air-razor were an awesome duo/couple!

[Krutch]

I never watched Beast Machines... I heard mixed reactions about it. If it ever comes to DVD i'll probably pick it up since its almost like a 4th season to Beast Wars.

[MW8979]

Season 2 was the best one for sure in BW. Beast Machines was abysmaly pathetic, since the concept of machines who are against the existence of machines is so illogical that it would probably melt down any supercomputer.

[cqb101]

Did I watch it? Pffft.....It's only my third favorite cartoon of all time! :D

[Meeko]

I loved That Show Next to TMNT best show ever

[ZariusTwo]

Beast Wars is one of the greatest Transformers cartoons of all time, and the second greatest MAINFRAME cartoon ever next to Reboot, it was SUCH a great series, with constant references to Genration One, the apperance of classic Generation One characters, and epic storylines such as the "Other" trilogy, and "The Agenda", the greatest three-parter in TF history.

[MW8979]

Absolutely right about that one. They even got the G1 transforming sound correctly for Ravage.

[CookSux]

The funny thing is, is that it wasn't originally meant to be tied in with G1... but constant fanwanks and etc made it go in that direction.

And Beast Machines... it was actually pretty good. I guess you just have to be someone who doesn't just constantly think in the box to appreciate the different directions Bob Skir tried to go in.

[redsai4lex]

Beast Wars was too recent to have been watching while i was growing up

I grew up watching the TMNT

[HorseTechie]

*eyeshift*

I... missed most of that series. But that was cause I was in college then, and I had little time to watch TV (or cartoons). I vaguely remember watching an ep or too here and there, and thout it was an interesting twist.

The scary thing, I prolly watched more of the Beast Machines, than of Beast Wars. :P

But when I got back into TFs last year, I met up with some local fangrrls, and we pretty much watched the whole first season and part of the second in a weekend TF video marathon! :goof: I also ended up liking Rattrap and Dinobot. And Wassspinator.

Now... I need to get my mitts on the third season. I heard that season has all the best episodes. And (to be as vague as possible) that Dinobot's "confrontation" was kind of like the one between Megatron and Starscream in Armada. Mmm....

[MikesPizzaShack]

toy fare mag a yr ago did a huge thing on TF and they did a time line and how things connected and how some story lines like Robots in Disguise(TF 2000 in jap) were not apart of it. i know there was an original BW show in japan. ive seen bootleg tapes of it and in several of them prime and primal were fighting/working/talking together in them. wish i bought them. they had eng sub to....oh well there is always this yr hehehe Wizard World Chicago 04 baby!!!!!

[ZariusTwo]

Now... I need to get my mitts on the third season. I heard that season has all the best episodes. And (to be as vague as possible) that Dinobot's "confrontation" was kind of like the one between Megatron and Starscream in Armada. Mmm....

Hmm... if you mean "Nemesis Part 2" then I have to say it's NOTHING like the crappy Aramda episode where Starsream confrotns Megatron

Armada was only great when it began "The Unicron Battles", and had Starscream turn good and sacrifice himself

[CookSux]

Sorry, Armada is junk no matter how you look at it. Even the Japanese counterpart with the better stories and animation couldn't save it.

It's true Beast Wars S3 is the best of the bunch with the Nemesis story arc, it was truly well paced and Depth Charge... well I won't spoil it for peopl ewho haven't seen it.

The Japanese have a funny way of tying everything together, while here we just categorize everything as seperate universes. You're talking about the Beast Wars II movie where Convoy comes from an alternate dimension to help out LioConvoy. Oh well

[MW8979]

Armada was trying hard to be G1, except it's not G1. The story arc for that show was alright, but the characters were boring, just lost interest in that show quickly.