Beast Machines

TF@TM dropped by our 2005 Boards tonight to let us know that they have a gallery up of the Lucky Draw Cheetas figure, part of the "Beast Wars Returns" line (aka Beast Machines).

Check out the gallery by clicking here!

Hey everyone. Remember Beast Machines? Well, if you do, you'll be interested to know that Japan Toys'R'Us stores have just released the third wave of the series including the figures Noble Savage, Megahead Megatron, Vehicon Strika, and Vehicon Obsidian.

Check out the images, as well as any ordering you'd like to do of the figures, over at FanToFan!

Thanks to Nevermore of our 2005 Boards for the heads up.

Takarand's Official Website is now promoting the Beast Wars Returns TV Show (aka Beast Machines). you can check out the official page for the show by clicking Here.

Thanks to Autobase Aichi for the news.

Takara has added a questionnaire to their G1 Section. The questionnaire deals is asking how much each participant liked the Beast Era shows, if they purchased the toys, etc. You can see the questionnaire, in Japanese, Here.

The questionnaire can be translated rather well by Babelfish.

Thanks to Autobase Aichi for the news.

EDIT:
PopCulturePooka has also let us know that they have added info on the Transformers Innovation event. Pictured in the page are a Beast Machines Blast Punch Primal, a slightly shadowed out G1 Predaking and a silhoutte of an unkown figure. See it Here.

Charle5! and Raijin Optimus of our 2005 Boards have let us know that Beast Machines will begin airing in Japan in 2004. Click Here for more info.
, According to Raijin Optimus:

1. Some kind of new personal broadcasting service will go live in 2004. Takarand is hosting this site, expecting to have 66 channels, bet some other providers will be joining this service too.
2. Basically you buy a terminal (likely portable slim screen) and pay a monthly subscription to access the programs indoor or outdoor.
3. Beast Machines is call Beast Wars Return in the show listing.

Napjr. of our 2005 Boards has informed us that Cartoon Network in Mexico is having a vote for a 3 hour series marathon. Beast Machines is one of the choices. So click Here to help your Latin American friends out by voting for Beast Machines.

This is a bit of a stretch, but cool if it pans out. Today was the series premiere of the 3-D animated Spider-Man cartoon on MTV. This show is being animated by Mainframe, the company responsible for Beast Wars and Beast Machines. In the second episode, it featured a man who collected animals and showed a room full of them in cages (he wanted to capture Spider-Man, yadda yadda). For a quick second from the back, we see a cheeta, which bears a striking resemblence to version 1 of Beast Wars Cheetor in beast mode. If anyone out there can get a screen cap to verify, please post it up on the 2005 Boards or email us using the feedback form! Otherwise, be on the lookout for that episode, Im sure it will be on 400 times this week.

ICv2 has an article up on the upcoming Beast Wars Boxset. The highlight of the article was the mention of another Beast Wars Boxset in the works, as well as a 52 episode Beast "Masters" Boxset. This is most probably a Beast Machines set. Read the full article Here.