Beast Wars: Transformers (titled Beasties: Transformers in Canada), is
a Canadian-American computer animated television series that debuted
in 1996 and ended on March 7, 1999, serving as the flagship of the
Transformers: Beast Wars franchise. The series is set in the future of
the "original" Transformers franchise, after the events of The
Transformers, and features the Maximals and Predacons, descendants of
the Autobots and Decepticons respectively. While engaged in battle,
small teams from each faction crash land on an unknown planet, and
must find a way to return home while continuing their war.The Beast
Wars TV series was the first Transformers series to feature
computer-animated characters, and was produced by Mainframe
Entertainment of Vancouver, British Columbia; its story editors were
Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio. The production designer for the show,
Clyde Klotz, won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual
Achievement in Animation in 1997 for his work on Beast Wars. All three
seasons were released on DVD in the USA and other Region 1
territories. In Australia, to coincide with the show's tenth
anniversary in 2006, Madman Entertainment released all three seasons
in Region 4 format. These boxsets include commentaries and interviews
with the voice actors. It is also the second installment in the
Generation 1 cartoon eraA sequel television series, Beast Machines:
Transformers, aired from 1999 to 2001. Additional Beast Wars limited
comic book series have been released by Dreamwave Productions and IDW
Publishing.The two main factions of "Transformers" in Beast Wars are
descendants of the two main factions in the original cartoon: the
Maximals are the descendants of the Autobots and the Predacons are the
descendants of the Decepticons. (In the sequel series Beast Machines,
the process during which Autobots and Decepticons became Maximals and
Predacons is referred to as "The Great Upgrade.")
a Canadian-American computer animated television series that debuted
in 1996 and ended on March 7, 1999, serving as the flagship of the
Transformers: Beast Wars franchise. The series is set in the future of
the "original" Transformers franchise, after the events of The
Transformers, and features the Maximals and Predacons, descendants of
the Autobots and Decepticons respectively. While engaged in battle,
small teams from each faction crash land on an unknown planet, and
must find a way to return home while continuing their war.The Beast
Wars TV series was the first Transformers series to feature
computer-animated characters, and was produced by Mainframe
Entertainment of Vancouver, British Columbia; its story editors were
Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio. The production designer for the show,
Clyde Klotz, won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual
Achievement in Animation in 1997 for his work on Beast Wars. All three
seasons were released on DVD in the USA and other Region 1
territories. In Australia, to coincide with the show's tenth
anniversary in 2006, Madman Entertainment released all three seasons
in Region 4 format. These boxsets include commentaries and interviews
with the voice actors. It is also the second installment in the
Generation 1 cartoon eraA sequel television series, Beast Machines:
Transformers, aired from 1999 to 2001. Additional Beast Wars limited
comic book series have been released by Dreamwave Productions and IDW
Publishing.The two main factions of "Transformers" in Beast Wars are
descendants of the two main factions in the original cartoon: the
Maximals are the descendants of the Autobots and the Predacons are the
descendants of the Decepticons. (In the sequel series Beast Machines,
the process during which Autobots and Decepticons became Maximals and
Predacons is referred to as "The Great Upgrade.")
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