So much for spending 50 on the first season set at frys two years back. The features look cool but I do already own all three seasons so, eh.
Shout Factory just released the specs for their 8-disc, online exclusive complete Beast Wars set (oddly, the video is only for the Vol. 1 set, though). I was pretty sure you guys would want to know.
Die-hard fans further rejoice! Shout! Factory, along with Hasbro, Inc., are set to release the TRANSFORMERS: BEAST WARS - The Complete Series Collector's Edition 8-DVD box set. Jam packed with hours of entertaining content, this Complete Series Collector's Edition contains the entire CG animated series of BEAST WARS and a bounty of stellar extras, including retrospective featurettes, a 12-page book, art galleries, plus a special collectible 24-page comic book TRANSFORMERS Timelines "Dawn of the Future's Past." Originally published by Fun Publications for BotCon, the official TRANSFORMERS convention, in 2006, the comic book is the official prequel story leading right up to the start of Beast Wars and offers valuable insight into all the events that led to OPTIMUS PRIMAL chasing after MEGATRON and PREDACONS! TRANSFORMERS: BEAST WARS - The Complete Series Collector's Edition arrives exclusively to Shout! Factory's official online store ShoutFactoryStore.com on June 7, 2011. Pre-order begins now!You can pre-order it right here for $50 -- less than a buck per episode -- and the comic is a nice touch, too. Go ahead, I'll be here, wondering when my simple copying-and-pasting of a press release will be used as evidence that I'm some kind of deranged G1 lover. Sigh. (Via TV Shows on DVD)
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BEAST WARS! *plays the theme's awesome guitar riff* I already got all the episodes on DvD box sets from S1 S2 and S3. Watching them all back to back is bliss.
I hope they have the 'Dark Mirror' script as one of the special features.BW is/was fantastic. I jumped out of my chair when they revealed Ravage at the start of 'the Agenda'. Out of the freakin' blue- *BAM* big G1 character in the mix.Still cry at 'Code of Hero'. (yeah. big fan of BW Dinobot, who wouldn't be?)
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good. The rest... Is silence." *whickers*
I'll be buying this instead of the fucking star wars box set. Maybe this time I can actually see all the episodes relating to the tiger and the falcon and understand how their falling into a portal => becoming fucking silverbolt.
FYI, silverbolt? Could not fucking STAND that character.
The episode near the end of Season 3 explain they become Tigerhawk. It is pretty obvious if you watch it. I assume that you have not seen it for a long while. Once you do, it will make some sense.
I think there is only one episode that you need to see. Tigertron and Airrazor where absent from the end of Season 2 until that episode, I believe.
I could never get into Beast Wars. To me is was just an aberration that I prefer to pretend never existed. The reason being that I just can't reconcile in my head the notion of robots transforming into animals. (That plus it appeared to have no direct continuity to the G1 cartoon except in fleeting moments). Vehicles, yes. Animals, no. I don't care how good anyone says it was; that to me was too big a stumbling block that would keep me from enjoying it.
I'm guessing that when fanboys complain about the Bay movies, Beast Wars is what they have in mind as an example they hold up as an alternative. That's all well and good, and maybe if I had seen the show as well, my opinion would be different. But again, I'm never going to watch it. So I'll be content in my ignorance, I suppose, and enjoy the mindless action of Dark of the Moon, as that's what I know Transformers as being.
That's the most erudite version of 'TRUKK NOT MUNKY' I've ever read.Watch it. You'll be pleasantly surprised in season 2&3.
I grew up with Beat Wars, and it introduced me to the whole G1 series. This is honestly one of my favorite shows of all time.However, my friend pointed out after reading this that because of Beast Wars, Transformers grew in popularity through all those damn reboots and eventually made it viable for Bay to get a hold of the rights and make Bayformers. So yeah, that kind of made this bittersweet.
That's strange, considering the voice actors and animation studio were all Canadian.
Okay, Scott McNeil is technically Australian, but he was raised in Canada.
Well, at least I only bought the Rhino disc of Season One...
And Rob, don't worry. We know you dig Beast Wars as much as I do - Okay, I dig Beast Wars a lot, but considering you let a dude run a daily list of the best Beast Wars eps, I can tell you love it. You're no deranged GEEWUNNER. You just dislike the movies, which is rather sensible.
FUCK. YES. I have the other sets from several years ago, and the single-disc volumes, but I'm definitely hocking those and buying this mother.
I still think, to this day, that Beast Wars stands as having some of the best writing of any American cartoon. They had actual changes in the status quo, they had a more or less six episode arc at the end of first season/beginning of second. They had actual character development, development of setting, real character deaths, etc. This was a show that demanded that you start from the beginning and watch it in order, and keep up with what happened, not many cartoons in America can boast that. People today rant about how good Avater: The Last Air bender was in regards to arc writing, Beast Wars did it first.
I'd say Gargoyles had BW beat to the arc writing, but that doesn't diminish how good BW was. BW, Gargoyles, and Avatar are some of the best animated series (and TV series, really) ever IMO.
Nothing wrong with being a G1 ("Gee Wun") lover. I for one am kind've tired of the constant reboots. How many more times do I need to be retold the relatively same origin story? Autobots and Decepticons arrive on Earth, 'bots meet human child/children, infodump of characters' backgrounds etc. etc.
A lot. Since it's a children's franchise, there's always a new generation growing into the franchise and one growing out of it (for the most part).
Besides, the toys keep getting better. Can't wait for the Transformers Prime figures to come out. And the G1 homages we've been getting toywise are simply amazing.
Doctor Who began as a children's television program and hasn't changed continuities, same with the Marvel 616 universe and several other properties, and they're still able to gain new fans. Children are alot smarter then people give them credit.
I don't think you'll be seeing TF Prime toys for a very long time (if ever) now that the new movie tie in toys are being promoted.
I actually picked up all the original single season sets (and Beast Machines) a few years back, and aside from the first half of season one it actually holds up quite well. The animation is dated, but once they decided to run with the original mythology connections it got really good. (and compared to the next two or three Transformers cartoons that came out after Wars/Machines, this show is like goddamn Scarface.)
I don't know that I'll pick this set up though, the special features seem light and I don't have a lot of extra scratch at the moment. But if you enjoyed the show as a kid and are willing to sit through the subpar first bunch of episodes I would definitely endorse this set.
Shout! Factory's DVD sets are priced such that there's not much of an excuse to NOT pick them up if you're a big fan of the show. They did a great job on the ReBoot set, for instance.
As for special features, I'm sure there'll be as much as they could get - Brian Ward, the guy at Shout! Factory who was working on this set, was trying to get as much material from the fanbase (good quality toy commercial recordings and stuff for instance) as he could for this boxset. They were even looking at putting the CGI Botcon short "Theft of the Golden Disk" on the set, but there were issues with them being able to use it, apparently.
Yeah, the extra stuff offered in the collector's edition just isn't worth the double-dip from the originals I bought over the years. Plus, I have Beast Machines, too, which really should be included here. It's just an extension of Beast Wars.
Sweet! Too bad I already purchased all three seasons over 7 years ago when they were first released. Such a fantastic show though.
I liked Beast Wars, and I wasn't a huge fan of Beast Machines, but it made up for it with the finale which was one the best beatdowns I've ever seen. Megs hijacking the final form of Prime from Beast Wars and killing EVERYONE but Prime with it was freakin ridiculous. Then adding in a fight between him and Prime for a whole extra episode was icing made of awesome.
Maybe I'm gonna get this. BW had its share of problems, but some of the episodes in the later seasons had some pretty awesome moments.
"Code of Honor", anyone?
15 YEARS?! Good GOD, I feel old now. This was the first exposure I ever had to the Transformers franchise, and my memories of it, while muddled, are mostly positive.
For some reason, I really remember that the Starscream character joined up with the Maximals shortly after the first episode, which went about as well as you'd expect; and that there was some oddly compelling forbidden love between a Maximal and this tarantula Predacon. Kudos to Shout Factory for all the old geek cartoons they're putting out.
Yeah - there was an episode where Starscream possessed Waspinator. And basically played both sides to try and increase his own personal power. It's a fun standalone ep.
Though that's nothing compared to how Season 2 plays out in terms of G1 references. Ravage, the Ark, Megatron killing Optimus Prime... Season 2 is one of the pinnacles of writing in Transformers history, period.
No, I meant how the Starscream type character -a velicoraptor I think- was thrown out by the Megatron of the Predacons, and literally in the next episode, he joined up with the good guys. That blew my young mind; the idea that the heroes could so willingly (or unwillingly, as the case was) join up with a former nemesis to defeat a greater threat.
There was lots of great tension as this snarky, violent sociopath reluctantly threw his lot in with the Maximals, and how he gradually became a valued and trusted team member. That's how I remember it anyway. Finding out as I did later that the Starscream archtype usually betrays Megatron every episode, and that he still remains Lieutenant of the Decepticons regardless made me admire Beast Wars all the more for its slight plausibility.
Megatron finds out his subordinate is plotting against him in episode 1, he beats him within an inch of his life and banishes him from the team. No messing around there!
Dinobot was nothing like Starscream. That comparison is difficult to make. The only thing that they have in common was their insubordination to Megatron, which was done for vastly different reasons.
He's name was (wait for it) Dinobot. He and Megatron fought because Dinobot thought they were on the wrong planet, since there were two moons (it was actually Earth in the past with an artifical moon built by aliens - it's all in the DVD), and so their plan (his and Megatron's) plan to change the past and make the decepticons win the great war would fail.
The animation may have aged, but the plot did not...
"....revolutionized the Transformers" HAHAHAHA are you fucking kidding me?! That show was dogshit terrible! Revolutionize my boner with your lips shout factory haha.
This show paid real tribute to G1 Transformers. While all the other shows were back to back reboots..this one used solid story lines to show G1 was love. Too bad the last episode and transition to Beast Machines were handled so poorly.
Dinobot. RIP.
I couldn't disagree more. Prior to "Transformers: Animated," BW was the one and only iteration of the TF franchise where it felt like most of the characters mattered and actually had individual personalities. They ran with the novel concept that having six guys on a team who were all their own person was far more interesting than having 26 nobodies that were completely interchangeable with one another.
BW proved that TF didn't have to just be mindless, shoot 'em up robots.
I would say that TF's (at least to me) has never been about "mindless shoot em up robots". While not the deepest show ever, there were personalities that stood out for sure, probably the biggest among them being Iron Hide, but there were plenty more. I think the original series and the movie based on it had tons of characters with personality and depth, but again just my opinion. The original series tried to focus on a lot of different characters so it didn't develop them as well per say but thats why I had so much fun cause I could read the TECH SPECS and then come up with my own interpretation of the characters even if in the show they were mostly quiet. For example Skywarp, my fav TF pretty much of all time, didn't really say much of anything but when I read about him on the TECH SPECS and in the comics he turned out to be kind of a badass and a bit of a cocky jerk and I liked that. I let my imagination run with it and I loved him. Like I said, BW didn't resonate with me, it just never got its hooks into me mostly because it looked so bad. I have an aversion to bad animation haha and the shows look put me almost completely off, plus I never liked the idea of the Transformers being animals, that never sat well with me.
I apologize for acting like a dick, but in all honesty, if you're shallow enough to be unable to look past the animation, and you're judging it when you've never even SEEN it for yourself is kind of stupid.
AvatarSango - I wasn't one of THOSE kids cause I've never seen it. Don't cast aspersions my way sir without knowing anything about me and my experiences. People like YOU give me a stomach ache cause you want to attack and insinuate that I am somehow a lesser person by saying things about how I was probably one of those THOSE kids who liked something you didn't and therefore my opinion is somehow without merit and provocation.
Its fine that you like them but it just funny to me that they hold up BW as the yard stick by which to measure all others. I will grant you that Megatron was a fucking pussy but that doesn't discount the entire series cause until he was Galvatron he was sniveling little bitch.
And again on the whole personal attack calling me an idiot you can go fuck yourself you repugnant little internet troll bitchass! You'll notice up until the last sentence all my responses and initial comment didn't call anybodies intellectual prowess or lack there of or sexuality or humanity or whatever into question cause I believe that "Just cause you can be an asshole doesn't mean you have to be one" so have a nice life being a dick on the internet cause someone doesn't hold the same opinion of something as you do, you petty, trite, pedantic little twat!
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Since I cant reply to your comment I'll edit this one in hopes you see it at some point. Classy move on the apology firstly, I appreciate that. Are you talking about the Unicron Trilogy or BW? Or is UT part of BW? Honestly I don't know. I have seen BW, the entire first season and a smattering of the later seasons and it just never stuck. Let me say when BW came out I was 23 and maybe that had something to do with my involvement in the series and not liking the look of it. All the computer animation of the time bothers me with its hurky jerky movements and plastic flat looks it wasn't just BW. I grew up loving traditional animation and when the computer animation came out it was literally the ugliest thing I had ever seen. It was neat that the tech was there but the fact that it was so limited made me feel like why even bother honestly if its gonna be so limited. I would prefer painted backgrounds and hand drawn animation but again just a preference. At the time BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES and SUPERMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES had my attention more than anything else even though it was ending.
I've always been of the mind that if you cant make something awesome don't bother cause its a waste of time and BW felt like that too me. I was actually in school starting out in animation and I ended up dropping that and getting into graphic design cause I hated all the work that went into something that got such limited results so that also influenced how I felt about the show and shows like it.
So yeah theres some insight to flesh out my end of things and again thanks for apologizing, classy move for sure.
Also I probably should have elaborated in the first place but i was kind of awestruck by that line from shout factory so I could definitely been more clear and elaborated more.
"looked so bad?" You sound like some kid who probably thinks that just because the Unicron Trilogy was wnere and was anime, it was better. The Unicron Trilogy was near-unwatchable except for the latter half of Armada and the entirety of Cybertron.
I grew up with Beast Wars, and lemme tell ya something; even when I watch it now, as an adult, it holds up. I love TFA, and I love Prime, but Beast Wars will always - ALWAYS - be my favorite Transformers series. It was well-written, introduced the concept of a Megatron who was actually a competent and threatening villain instead of the shrill-voiced, bumbling Skeletor wannabe of G1's cartoon whose battle cry was "DECEPTICONS, RETREEEAT!" Not only that, but it introduced who is the greatest, most complex character in the franchise. Dinobot. Just... Just watch Code of Hero, and you'll see WHY the fandom picked him for last year's Transformers Hall of Fame. He's a complex, multilayered character, who makes the Sunbow Transformers look as shallow as the cast of the Flintstones.
In conclusion - You, sir, are an idiot.
No way. I loved Beast Wars. However, I never really got into the actual transformers. I really only liked them in concept, rather than in execution.
I beg to differ. Beast Wars started out as a pretty standard problem-of-the-week show (with an incredibly dated look that IMO didn't look very good even back then), but in terms of character development and story-telling it got better and better throughout Seasons 2 and 3.
It's a time and place thing, honestly. 15 years ago, when I was watching this as a kid, it was awesome.
I thought the animation was pretty well done for its time, myself. Still a huge fan of the series - it's what properly made me a Transformers fan.
Hey let me say I don't begrudge anyone liking it, just for me it never ever took hold and I really tried to like it but I just couldn't get into cause the animation was so bad and the characters didn't resonate with me either but yeah man if you dig it right on. You too Oliver, do you man, do you. :D
